Working and stydying at University at the same time abstract

Working and stydying at University at the same time

ABSTRACT

This study explores how the student creates ways to maximize their time in working and in studying. The said study also aims to investigate and identify students' experiences while working. They are starting at how difficult their situation. Next, the problems they encounter. Then, how they deal and cope with such difficulties. The purpose of this study is to investigate the experiences of working while studying. In this study, a qualitative study is used. It is a subjective report which made utilization of a phenomenological way to deal with accumulating important information. The method that is used in the process of making this part of the study is the Snowball technique. Based on the participants’ responses on their perceptions on working while studying, it is confirmed that financial support, self-development and internal motivation to integrate theory and practice are among the driving forces of working while studying at university. The findings also show that the participants have happy feeling and good time management. Moreover, it shows that the effective ways of overcoming the problems they encounter is through good time management and self-reflection. The last research question intended to ask the participants their suggestions and recommendations for students who have similar condition. Among the suggestions are the students who decide to work while studying must be first of all committed and disciplined.

Keywords: student’s experiences, problems, financial support, self-development, internal motivation, self-reflection.

INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

Working while studying is driven fundamentally by budgetary need: to cover setbacks in different types of understudy bolster; to top up salary to give a superior understudy understanding, or to help towards future objectives. It additionally empowers understudies to share the duty regarding meeting the expenses of their examination, furnishes them with a feeling of monetary autonomy, and creates abilities in overseeing accounts. This new work expands on discoveries from the SIES to pick up a more profound comprehension of the motivations to work, the nature of work undertaken, and the difficulties and advantages of working while studying in higher education (HE) (Williams, 2014). A study led by Endsleigh (2015), showed that eight out of ten (77%) understudies are now working part-time to help them in their financial needs in school. Being a working student is stressful most likely in balancing your social life, time for family, school, and work. Figuring out how to manage the pressure that pursues with being a working undergrad, and ensuring you have no less than one night off a week, can bring down your stress levels ten times (Mitchell, 2016).

Filipino students are still able to support themselves financially through working although they have financial problems. According to The Working Student (2016), to set down the job options of Filipino working students namely online jobs, paid corporate internship, fast-food crew, and school jobs. Filipino students are struggling because they have to meet the standards in their work so that they will not lose their job and maintain academic performance so that they will not get a failing grade. Around 216,000 understudies in the Philippines are right now juggling school and work, the most recent information from the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). About 8% out of the total number of college students in the Philippines is a working student (ABS-CBN News, 2010). According to CHED (2010), only half of the employed students can finish college, as many cannot concentrate on their studies, while others have poor health, and other give up because of financial problem.
In Davao Region, the low rates of the study accomplishments are the central concern of the Department of Education (DepEd). The study of Ramento (2011), states that the low educational attainments of the students in the City of Davao were due to a low salary which leads the students to combine working and studying. Thus, the students that have financial problems are spending more time working than studying, and because of this, they attained poor grade and poor performance in school.
According to the findings of the study conducted by Williams (2014), the reasons why students work is due to budgetary need, meet a quick or basic necessity, and to help the understudies in their future objectives. This was supported by the study of Furr and Elling (2002), where the reason why the students work part-time is due to financial problem. Aside from these reasons, there were also consequences of working while studying and that is according to the findings of the study of Darolia (2014), where understudies take fewer attributes in school because of work duties. As a result, the students' lost confidence to enroll and are dropping out and started to find a stable job. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2013), found 34.1 percent of high school students that graduated between January and October 2013 are now part of the workforce.
Researches about working students are mostly conducted at universities in developed countries, but those researches lack knowledge about how working students face their everyday lives and how they conquer every problem they encounter. According to the study of Ruhm (1997), it is necessary to understand the effects of working students in society because as the rate of working student reached an abnormal state, job-hiring started to show the negative impacts that were attributed to it since it lessens instructive fulfillment and scholarly execution particularly among youthful laborers without school training. On the other hand, if working at a young age proves to be a favorable aspect of the economy. Then the high rate of working student could add to profit gaps observed later in life. Since there are many possible conclusions, the researchers have to see the lapses of this work so that the researcher will be able to explore the experiences of the working students and to be able to understand fully what a working student is.
This study explores how the student creates ways to maximize their time in working and in studying. The said study also aims to investigate and identify students' experiences while working. They are starting at how difficult their situation. Next, the problems they encounter. Then, how they deal and cope with such difficulties. Finally, to provide a solution that might help the working students shortly.