Comments on: Work: a way to make a living? http://www.nouse.co.uk/2007/10/26/work-a-way-to-make-a-living/ Award-winning University of York Student Newspaper Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:19:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Sid Nightly http://www.nouse.co.uk/2007/10/26/work-a-way-to-make-a-living/#comment-52894 Sid Nightly Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:25:27 +0000 http://www.nouse.co.uk/2007/10/26/work-a-way-to-make-a-living/#comment-52894 It wold have been beneficial to the article if you had interviewed some students who do work during term time. It wold have been beneficial to the article if you had interviewed some students who do work during term time.

]]> By: The Charles http://www.nouse.co.uk/2007/10/26/work-a-way-to-make-a-living/#comment-44839 The Charles Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:32:11 +0000 http://www.nouse.co.uk/2007/10/26/work-a-way-to-make-a-living/#comment-44839 We appreciate your comments about how working can be detrimental if you are forced to work for financial reasons, but we feel there are a lot of positive aspects of working that you have overlooked. For instance, it takes you outside of the University bubble, especially if you live on campus! It can also be a way to make new friends, not drift away from your housemates as you seem to assume. Working, especially in a pub, is really a very social thing! And, even if there is some truth to the fact that working can affect your degree, it is also valuable experience. Many employers would be hesitant to hire a person who had no work experience at all! And we do not have years to pull pints, with a little bit of luck, we will have proper jobs! Well done for the social responsibility Nouse and for highlighting the issue, but a more balanced article next time please... We appreciate your comments about how working can be detrimental if you are forced to work for financial reasons, but we feel there are a lot of positive aspects of working that you have overlooked.

For instance, it takes you outside of the University bubble, especially if you live on campus! It can also be a way to make new friends, not drift away from your housemates as you seem to assume. Working, especially in a pub, is really a very social thing!

And, even if there is some truth to the fact that working can affect your degree, it is also valuable experience. Many employers would be hesitant to hire a person who had no work experience at all!

And we do not have years to pull pints, with a little bit of luck, we will have proper jobs!

Well done for the social responsibility Nouse and for highlighting the issue, but a more balanced article next time please…

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