Jobs and Sorority Life - Is it possible?

[Aerylle]

Originally Posted by RaggedyAnn

I had two jobs through most of my sorority career, held offices, got good grades, went to almost every event and had a social life. If you work at it, you will learn great time management skills. My biggest pieces of advice is to limit your time on social networking sites, limit TV watching and get a great planner.

I recently got a tablet laptop so I'm using that as my planner. :]

Thanks for the advice. I'm already starting to limit my internet usage (Lol @ how I have youtube open in one tab, and I'm typing this in another).

Originally Posted by MUSK81

Heck yeah, it's possible! Just about every girl in my house who had transportation had a job. When I first pledged, I was working at Wendy's, then got a job at Kroger about three weeks later. It was perfect - 15 -16 hours per week, never past midnight and the head cashier liked me, so he scheduled me around my sorority activities . I left there to do my required internship summer between junior and senior year, then worked at JCPenney until I graduated. I was also a journalism major, which is very time-consuming. But my sisters were very understanding; work was considered a legitimate excuse to miss an activity, although you were expected to be at chapter meetings if at all possible.

ETA: Hang in there, Aeryelle! I wish we'd had GC (heck, the Internet!) when I was in college. Life is so much easier now in some ways ...

Thanks! I'll try! Ha ha. How often are chapter meetings? I mean, it probably varies by chapter but.. on average?

Originally Posted by MaggieXi

It's totally doable, but learning to manage your time will be important to balance everything.

Yeah, that's what I need to work on. I never had to do that in high school so it was never an issue (not that I was bad at it, I was actually very good. Did my homework as soon as I got home and was finished before dinner. Then it was "play" time then off to bed.) but now with college and an amazing first job opportunity coming up, I'd really hate to let one ruin the other.

Originally Posted by pretty-in-pink

Aerylle, seriously? I was about to make this exact same thread! haha twin

Lol! That's so funny! Looks like great minds think alike, eh?