Hard to say without knowing anything about your situation. Seems I can infer from your posting that you're not married with kids or anything, so that leaves plenty of room for working like a beast. And you mention school, which also inflates the $$$money$$$ priority. So the only thing holding you back is pretty much exhaustion and burnout. If you're working at something where it'd be dangerous to yourself or others to be too tired, I'd consider giving it a miss. And of course you know your own body's limits before you really break down. But if you can handle going on no sleep for a while, and you're not a firefighter or something, I say go for it. Just make the money count, don't squirrel it away on something silly like credits. Unless you're giving the credits to me 
Something to remember is this: Your body needs sleep. Just so you understand, your body NEEDS sleep. In fact, it'll quite happily accumulate a sleep debt and REQUIRE you pay it at some point. Thats right, there's no easy way out of it. You'll have to pay it back.
So yes. You can work long long hours and get more more pay. But you'll have to eventually pay it back. And when you do, you'll either be sleeping during your recovery/recreational time (eg weekends), or you'll end up sleeping during work time and losing money.
Something interesting to note: you need less sleep as you get older. Or, at least, my Psychology textbooks seem to indicate this is a general trend.
So yes. You can work long long hours and get more more pay. But you'll have to eventually pay it back. And when you do, you'll either be sleeping during your recovery/recreational time (eg weekends), or you'll end up sleeping during work time and losing money.
Something interesting to note: you need less sleep as you get older. Or, at least, my Psychology textbooks seem to indicate this is a general trend.
A guy I knew was working 70-80 hours a week this summer, managing the pizza shop I used to work at. I don't know, I think if you know this is going to go on for a really long time, you should see if you can't work out a different schedule. But can I ask what you do for a job? I think different jobs leave people tired in different ways. I only work 5-6 hours max for a shift at night, but I stand in one place (counter girl, not much to do but stand) so it kills my knees, especially my right one which already has problems, and makes it horrible. But where I used to work I could do 10-12 hour shifts standing the whole time and feel great.
But personally if I knew I was leaving soon, that'd be more incentive to just work hard and make as much money as possible because you'll have such a long break soon.
And also, you should never be guilt tripped into going in to work for someone. I remember someone once called me and had this HUGE elaborate story about how they broke a glass and cut themselves and had to rush to the hospital to see if I could work with them. I already had plans, and despite feeling bad said I couldn't, because I knew the people at work could handle it
. I remember my one manager would call me multiple times and plead with me to come in, and sometimes I'd come in only to realize that the only reason I had to go in early was because -he- let someone leave early. *mutter* I stopped answering calls from him then.
But personally if I knew I was leaving soon, that'd be more incentive to just work hard and make as much money as possible because you'll have such a long break soon.
And also, you should never be guilt tripped into going in to work for someone. I remember someone once called me and had this HUGE elaborate story about how they broke a glass and cut themselves and had to rush to the hospital to see if I could work with them. I already had plans, and despite feeling bad said I couldn't, because I knew the people at work could handle it
. I remember my one manager would call me multiple times and plead with me to come in, and sometimes I'd come in only to realize that the only reason I had to go in early was because -he- let someone leave early. *mutter* I stopped answering calls from him then.QUOTE(Veonira @ Aug 18 2005, 10:27 AM)
A guy I knew was working 70-80 hours a week this summer, managing the pizza shop I used to work at. I don't know, I think if you know this is going to go on for a really long time, you should see if you can't work out a different schedule. But can I ask what you do for a job? I think different jobs leave people tired in different ways. I only work 5-6 hours max for a shift at night, but I stand in one place (counter girl, not much to do but stand) so it kills my knees, especially my right one which already has problems, and makes it horrible. But where I used to work I could do 10-12 hour shifts standing the whole time and feel great.
But personally if I knew I was leaving soon, that'd be more incentive to just work hard and make as much money as possible because you'll have such a long break soon.
And also, you should never be guilt tripped into going in to work for someone. I remember someone once called me and had this HUGE elaborate story about how they broke a glass and cut themselves and had to rush to the hospital to see if I could work with them. I already had plans, and despite feeling bad said I couldn't, because I knew the people at work could handle it. I remember my one manager would call me multiple times and plead with me to come in, and sometimes I'd come in only to realize that the only reason I had to go in early was because -he- let someone leave early. *mutter* I stopped answering calls from him then.
But personally if I knew I was leaving soon, that'd be more incentive to just work hard and make as much money as possible because you'll have such a long break soon.
And also, you should never be guilt tripped into going in to work for someone. I remember someone once called me and had this HUGE elaborate story about how they broke a glass and cut themselves and had to rush to the hospital to see if I could work with them. I already had plans, and despite feeling bad said I couldn't, because I knew the people at work could handle it
. I remember my one manager would call me multiple times and plead with me to come in, and sometimes I'd come in only to realize that the only reason I had to go in early was because -he- let someone leave early. *mutter* I stopped answering calls from him then.168148
Yeah, my manager makes the schedule, and then wonders why we're totally screwed over when one person calls out (really, with how many people we have working there, one callout shouldn't cause more than 1-2 hours of shortage).
I really think things would be easier if they'd replace that damn floor, but as is, it's death on the feet/legs/knees/back. I typically have lower back problems (ever since I was 12).
