Community Service & Schedule Rigorousness

Meteora
Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:52:43 +0000

Sorry but I couldn’t find a forum this would fall under, and I don’t see an Other/Miscellaneous forum so I apologize beforehand about this.

I wanted to ask what exactly determines if a job (paid or unpaid) qualifies as “community service”? I am guessing it is something you do that benefits the community, but…what kind of job doesn’t do that? Every job I can think of benefits the community in some way, to some degree. I’m just wondering what guidelines there are, if any, that determines if it is.

My second question is regarding the busyness of one’s schedule. When applying for a job after graduating, do employers factor in how busy your college semesters were, or does it not matter, for example, if one person took 20 semesters of 6 credits as opposed to taking 10 semesters of 12 credits. Reason I ask is, I consider being non full-time (while not working), and I just don’t want this to hurt me later on if employers consider how busy my semesters were and not simply how much work I’ve done. I hope they only care about how much has been done, and not how quickly it was done.

The reason pretty much that I’m not full-time is that it’s so hard living with a family of 5 in a small house, and they’re not just ordinary family members, but people (some of those 5) who make it hard to study and do well in general. I considered moving out to a dorm or apartment, but the cost on average is $10,000 a year and that’s to dorm at my university. Apartmenting is higher. I’d have to get loans to pay back and all of this because some people here are a burden? I’d do that if said burdens (1-2, but one person is far greater of one, and the home-owner doesn’t want to kick him out even though he’s freaking 28 years old) would pay that money. Otherwise I would rather just be part-time and do well.

I’m perfectly fine with employers caring about your grades (like for an Information Systems major like me) but there would be a problem if they were trying to find out how many credits per semester I was taking, and they see that I’ve been taking 6-7 credit semesters as opposed to 12. I hope they don’t typically do this, neither do I think they’ll care about the above reasons if they check this. If they do, I’ll see if my last few semesters can be done full-time when years later this house is hopefully less full of ruckuses, arguments and other crap. Studying elsewhere (like at a library) I’ve also tried before. Very inconvenient and lots of time is wasted (for several reasons) as opposed to just studying from the greatest location yet for me, which, unfortunately is my room in this house.

Thanks for the help and sorry again that I couldn’t find the right forum for these…