Students must balance school and work

CSUS students have to make choices when it comes to balancing work and school. CSUS student Raul Mejia, 24, is looking for a new part-time job. He had to quit his full-time summer job because it interfered with his class schedule. His employer could not cater to his scheduling needs, so Mejia made a choice that many students have to make every semester.

The majority of classes offered at CSUS fall between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., and many classes only offer one section a semester. Many employers in the sacramento only offer positions from the typical 9:00-5:00 business hours.

The conflict between the hours available to students for both work and school leave them with choices that they have to make.

Students like Jose Villalobos, CSUS graduate student, have had to quit their jobs because they cannot work and attend classes at the same time. Villalobos is "living off of student loans right now" because it is "too hard to fit both in and still get A's."

Other students choose to work odd hours just to be able to attend school.