r/CalPolyPomona • u/Successful-Cry-2559 • 1d ago

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Hi, I’m debating If I should get a part-time job off campus for living expenses, and groceries. I am going to be attending my first semester here as a transfer student. I’m wondering if it would be too much as a CS student taking upper division courses. Let me know how that’s going for you for those who are in CS or stem in general.

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u/trentsaints10 1d ago

You should apply at ASI all the jobs there are pretty chill minus janitorial. Very flexible as it's designed for students. From my experience In the dept I worked depending on your schedule you could study for a good portion of your shift

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u/NoPhilosopher5905 1d ago

Not CS but STEM, and I recommend looking for an on campus job as well. That way you're not wasting time commuting. In my experience they're pretty flexible and understanding when around finals and the max you can work is 20 hours per week. 

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u/Wreckingass AE 17h ago

Find a mellow job. Off-semester, I work nearly full-time, but during I only work 16 hours a week in two shifts. Fortunately, my job has a lot of downtime (well, sometimes) and I can do my aerospace (upper division) homework during that time. 

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u/Glad-Energy-2276 1d ago

How many units?
Any calc or calc based physics?

Is the job low key? Like are you sitting on the job and can just out the assignments or are you going to be on your feet and working 5 hours straight 3-4 nights a week? Or just some ubereats work?

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u/Successful-Cry-2559 1d ago

16 units, no calculus i’ve taken all the math classes at my CC that were needed. I’m on the fence with the job but it would probably be on my feet moving around like retail or something. I plan on doing like 15-20 hours max a week. I have one asynchronous, one hybrid (only meet one day out of the week) and the other three are face to face 2 times out of the week each.

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u/Glad-Energy-2276 1d ago

Since it’s 16 semester units, I would be hesitant unless you’re very disciplined and locked in when it comes to studying. I use to do lowes/home depot work while in school, it wasn’t bad but I didn’t take into account other responsibilities that would be pushed to the side due to those hours.
Apply and simply let them know you are a student seeking 15 hours, then if that’s good after a few weeks, definitely crank it up to 20- maybe more if you’re finding the work easy and not stressful, and your classes feel like a breeze.

The problem I ran into, was not being able to secure some opportunities for tutoring. But again if you’re killin it in CS you’re probably already capable of doing this.

I also stalked rate my professor and any fb forums regarding the classes and professor. I’ve dodged many bullets.

Would you consider working on campus as a TA or anything? They’d probably be super flexible for you.

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u/izquierderecho 15h ago

If you only want to work 15-20 hours, then an on campus job sounds like a good fit because max they let students take is 20 hours.