i opened at starbucks full time t-sa 4-1230p, worked at a juice bar 1-5p 4x/week and i went to school on campus full time in the evenings from 5:30-10 3-5x/week. it was honestly one of the hardest things i’ve ever done. it lasted about 6 months before i had to quit my part time job. i was sacrificing the 5 hours of sleep a night for homework/studying and that just wasn’t worth it. i had a day off like once a month and it was usually spent catching up on school. i wish i could say it was worth it, i’m just glad to be alive tbh haha.

I was in your spot two years ago. Ready to move out, was only at starbucks and duh it’s not enough. For a year I killed myself doing a full-time job and starbucks and it’s not worth it if you are safe and comfortable at home

If you want to do ASU, please note that each class takes about 18-20 hours a week of work (at least in my experience as an English major. I imagine something in the sciences is more taxing). I barely made 35 hrs and 2-3 classes per session work. Everyone's threshold is different, but consider either focusing on working 2 full time jobs or doing Starbucks and ASU before adding more work.

I’ve had times where I was working that much and trying to do school and it was awful. My grades were terrible and I wasn’t even doing that well at work because I was exhausted. I really wouldn’t recommend it. It isn’t sustainable, your mental health and grades are going to take a nose dive.

What eventually put me in a good spot was working 30-40 hours a week while also transferring to ASU. The good thing with ASU is that you can take as little classes as you want and there’s a lot more flexibility since it’s online. I found online school a lot easier than in person, but that’s something that’s different for each person/major.

Ultimately it’s up to you and you can definitely try working that many hours and see how it goes. The good thing about food/retail jobs is that it’s easy to decrease your hours if you need to while taking a difficult class or something. If you want to go that route definitely look into and take advantage of any resources provided by starbucks or ASU, there’s a BUNCH and they’re all free.

It could be too much but honestly why don’t you just give it a try? Worst case scenario you make some extra money for a bit and save up and then end up quitting one of the jobs, whichever you like less. It CAN be done, but it really depends on a lot of things like the jobs, how easily you get burnt out, etc. Let me just say I’m in a very similar situation as you and I feel you 😭😭😭

I did for about 5 or 8 years, with a 2 hour commute at two different points.


I could now (I need the $) but between the pandemic and the fact I'm now 50+ at one job and seasonal at another...yeah, no.

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What I really want is for rent to choose where it will be. The one thing worse than high rent is climbing/unknown rent. We currently pay $\`16/m for a crummy 2-bed that was $850 in 2014 and overpriced even then, never the same not even close) one lease to another-- and I'm over it.

I got a new job, it’s a night 12/h a day but I work either 60 hours a week or 24. I’m still at Starbucks for 1 day a week and am putting in my two weeks soon enough.