Okay, Yes, I’ll Still Be Working!
If you’ve known me even just for a year, you know I always have my hand in several jobs or projects. I’m closing or pausing many of those chapters to pursue graduate school, but you know, I still had to think about ways to get more involved at City, University of London and in London!
After getting accepted, I immediately went into action to start setting up my finances to make this possible. For me, that looked like trying to get a part-time campus job to cover everyday expenses and looking into resident assistant roles to cover housing. Thankfully, the same week I got accepted, I came across a job opportunity for a Student Communications Assistant. I had a really lovely interview and was offered the job!
It’ll be an opportunity to engage deeper with student activities and resources at City by helping to share those things to the greater student body through its communication outlets. In college, I was always hopping around between events and sharing about them online so I’m excited to add this into my student experience and contribute to the school in this way.
Since I’ll need my student visa first to legally work (you’re allowed to work up to 20hrs/week on a student visa), I’ll officially start in August 2021 and working 10hrs/week. I’m looking forward to keeping you all posted on this!
In the meantime, I’m waiting for information to come out about the Residential Life Counselor roles so that I can apply for it. I would absolutely loveeeee to do that, especially since I had a great time being an RA in Boston at an international campus for Japanese students. Plus, this would definitely relieve a major financial burden of having to cover the cost of housing. Fingers crossed this all works out too!
Before pursuing graduate school, I knew I would have to be careful about how many other responsibilities I took on so I could do my best in my studies. I’m really glad the U.K. already puts those restrictions on work for their student visas so I quite literally can’t do more than 20 hrs/week. I’m also really glad that I can pursue these opportunities that are a part of the school because it gives that added bonus of being able to have a more enriching, dynamic experience as a postgraduate student.
Sidenote: I also found out that Rover operates in London too so if I want to keep on pet sitting or whenever I’m in need of some pet love, I have that option too!
Til the next work-related update.
