I'm not gonna be able to watch it live because I'll be at a wedding.

But have you Connor fired?

Just gonna be amazing.

Personally, I think that.

And that's why I think he's gonna win personally.

But that's not what this video is about.

I could go on and on talking about that all day, but that's not the focus of this video today.

We're going to be talking about working full time alongside your computer science degree.

And in all honesty, if you're not pursuing a computer science degree, this can be applied to any college just working full time while going to school full time.

And as you know, I like to talk about my personal experience.

And let's talk about the back story of how I work full time while I pursued by computer science degree.

It all started when I graduated high school.

I wasn't even planning on going to college.

In all honesty, I had a job essentially lined up.

I just need to wait for a particular opening because, you know, they can't just hire me if there's a spot open.

But in the meantime, I got this in between job, whereas that company got acquired by a bigger company.

There's a whole lot of semantics there that we're not gonna go into.

But I got promoted to this title of technical sales specialist, which allowed me to travel all around the Eastern Seaboard selling this industrial equipment.

There were a lot of lessons learned in that job, and I am forever grateful for that opportunity that was given to me.

However, I decided, somewhere along the road that I wear, they want to go to college.

So when a date is enrolled in online classes at the local community college, I had a full time course load.

Meanwhile, I was traveling and working this full time job.

I was doing this for about a year and 1/2 until I finally started taking computer science courses over ot you.

I started off online there because I was still working, and then I finally transferred over and had just a blanket full time student on Lee semester over a toady you.

And although I mentioned being a full time student and a full time worker, I'm not going to really compare those because I was just doing general study classes.

However, for almost half of my computer science career within OT you I worked a full time job, and after I discuss my experiences working alongside school, we're gonna compare the few because I've experienced quite a few different scenarios with, Well, we'll get into it.

My very first job during ot you was my NASA internship when I was full time at NASA.

It was a summer, and I took to either six or 12 week accelerated courses.

As you know, normal courses are generally 16 weeks, so it really means that you have to focus in if you take one of these 68 or 12 week courses.

Manassas schedule was kind of leaning.

It's sort of like 8 to 4, so typical hours.

And then I also had to drive to the H R B T to NASA and home from NASA.

So that was like 45 minutes each way for the commute, which, you know, that equates to an hour and 30 minutes.

So if we tally that up, I'm at work for about eight hours.

I'm in the car for about an hour and 1/2 and then when I come home, I have to work on all of my school work in those accelerated courses.

Obviously, it's not the whole entire summer, since it's only six or 12 weeks.

But it was still a lot of work to get done in that short period of time, and in all honesty, I didn't really find it that difficult.

The main reason for this was because when I worked at that NASA internship, they had a particular set of jobs for me to complete over the three month internship and after the first week, also on track to complete that, not in three months, but in three weeks.

So they essentially pulled me aside and said, Slow down there Their lingo, their motto was, since you don't work yourself out of a job and I didn't want to work myself out of this internship, so that's what it is.

I slowed down, but I don't like to work slow.

So what I did was I worked in sprints and no, not like those typical agile development sprints that everyone knows and loves.

I worked in like literal sprints where I would work, work, work and then I would take it easy and then I work, work, work and then I would take it easy because like I said, I don't want to just do everything slow.

Whatever may be a lot of the work I was working on servers and whatnot, so I didn't want to just work real slow.

I wanted to get the work done, maybe work on one and then get that done and then sit back and do whatever I wanted.

So what I could do was do my schoolwork, and that was that just made things so much easier because instead of working a whole entire eight hours than an hour and 1/2 for the commute and then work on all my schoolwork at home, I could just do it in between those sprints.

And I could essentially have all or most of my homework done by the time I get home.

And to be honest with you, I had so much free time.

That's when I actually started my YouTube channel.

That was in the summer of 2016.

So now let's fast forward to the end of summer where I said farewell to my team and I hopped directly into my fall classes as well as my fall Coop Coop at Norfolk Southern.

However, this time around I had 5 16 week courses, and although they aren't accelerated courses or more stretched out, it was a much heavier course load and what I found out by the end of the semester, much harder classes and I took the previous summer when I was at Norfolk Southern.

I work from 8 to 5, and it was generally 30 minute commute each way.

So that's an hour and all of my classes, except for one.

We're online.

Where that exception was a night class you don't like at NASA.

I had to work every single minute while I was at Norfolk Southern, which I like because I don't like to be bored at work.

But this also meant less time during my work hours for my school.

Work it to make a long story short.

I'm just going to read essentially what my daily schedule was.

I would wake up a seven, get ready for work, leave by 7 30 get to work by eight, work until five get home around 5 40 because traffic in the afternoons were worse.

Some days go to the gym, then work on schoolwork in YouTube.

Afterwards until 1 to 2 a.m. Sleep for 5 to 6 hours and do it all again The next day it completely drained me.

I barely any free time on the weekends.

I had a little bit more, but I said I'd be conscious of all my schoolwork.

And if you go back to the videos I made during the fall of town 16 you can see just how tired I was like in my face, how I looked and how I spoke.

That was due to that schedule.

Now let's fast forward to the spring semester.

I was still in school.

I decided to not work anything and just focus on school work and focus a bit on YouTube.

And during that semester, Norfolk Southern actually invited me back.

That's how a lot of these co ops run where you'll go work for them from one semester, go to school for one semester, worked for them for one semester, so on and so forth.

In this time around, I wasn't going to make the same mistake as a false Messer and thinking I can handle full time work and full time school on really difficult courses because I know just how difficult these courses will be.

So basically, what I did is I took the two previous work experience is and massing together.

So at NASA, I had to accelerated courses online in Norfolk Southern.

I knew I wasn't gonna be able to do any of my schoolwork during the actual work day, so I worked 8 to 5.

And then after work, I worked on YouTube, and I worked on those two accelerated courses when they were in session.

And although this wasn't as easy as the NASA semester, it was much easier than the first Norfolk Southern semester, and it made for a decent balance for how much work had to be done.

And I only tell you all of these stories, because I want to show you that I've experienced all different types of working full time while going to school.

Which brings me to my question for you And that is, does this sound like something that you can or what to handle?

I mean, I gave you three different semesters.

One was a breeze, the other took over my whole entire life, and then the last was like it was a fine balance for what it was.

My personal conclusion is, if I needed to work full time and be a full time student, I would take the minimum amount of courses, which is generally 12 credits, which that'll equate generally to four courses.

I would do my best to make sure all four of those courses aren't the most difficult courses I've ever had.

I would try to have a least one or two easier courses in the mix, and then I would hope for a job that gives you a little bit of leeway.

So you may be able to work on your schoolwork during the actual job.

A lot of jobs actually say, Yeah, we know your students, so go ahead and work on it.

My conclusion for you is undetermined because you know your situation.

Schedule discipline much more than me.

So you should do your best to be realistically self aware and determine what you can and can't handle.

Maybe don't know what you can't handle.

Sometimes you risk it to see where your threshold is between, you know, having a well balanced semester into having a semester that is absolutely taken over your life and a lot of times.

A result of that will be one of two things, if not both poor work experience.

In other words, you're not doing your work to the best of your ability, which doesn't give a good taste in the company's mouth, because you seem to be slacking.

But in reality you're just exhausted or failing your classes.

And although those two don't sound like ideal situations at all, just know that from negative experiences you're able to learn.

So if you do have to risk it and maybe you fail one class here or something, of course that's not ideal.

At least you will learn from it, grow from it and then you'll know better for the future.

Good luck in your future endeavors.

I hope you found something valuable out of this video till next time.

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