School/Job Overload?

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So I am back in school for Network administrator taking 9 credit hours. I spend half an hour commuting to campus. Every morning I have to wake up early to make sure I beat the highway traffic.
I work about 32 hrs each week at my job,which I love, right after class to which I have to commute another 1/2 hour back. I don't have much down time to read until after work Feeling burnt out my first week back.
The classes have assignments, which are all to be done in class, but a fair amount of reading.


Is it just the stress of the first week or am I over stretching myself working 32 hours , going to school for 9 credit hours, waking up really early and commuting an hour each day. The problem is I only have until Friday to drop classes to get the full refund. It is difficult to gauge how much work I can really manage until the first month of school. Thought I could manage it because it's IT stuff which is easier for my concentration of focus on but am I doing too much?

Last edited by Mitrovah on 27 Aug 2014, 9:30 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I don't know about you but that would be way to much for me.

It's true that sometimes to be successful you have to work/study beyond your comfort zone but on the other hand overwork could affect the quality of of your school work.

It totally depends on you and what you can handle. I know you're early in so it's hard to gauge without much data.


When I did my AS, I worked full time and went to school part time. That was doable.

When I did my BS, I worked full time and went to school full time. It was SOOO stressful, no lie. BUT, I wanted to finish in 3 years, not 8, so I plowed through it. Yes, my grades were lower than they would have been otherwise, but, it was worth it just to put the effort behind me. As long as I passed, I knew a future employer would never care about my grades, and, as long as I took good notes and kept my readings, I'd have content to refer back to when I needed it at work.

One tip I can give you on the readings, which made my last year of college soooo much easier... I got an e-reader. Each class, I'd scan the handouts, my notes and print any online readings to a pdf, and combine them all into one document that I loaded onto my Kindle. I'd carry that thing with me everywhere and go back and forth over my readings until I was familiar with them. (we also did quizzes online, so searching a single pdf for answers or reminders was way faster than flipping through paper.)

Best of luck, no matter what you decide to do.