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<p>Does having a student status increase the chance of getting a job at Costco? If it pays that much I’m guessing maybe the competition might be really hard to beat?</p>
<p>I have no idea if being a student makes any difference at Costco.</p>
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<p>Thanks for this suggestion too.</p>
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<p>I would look into boosting my GPA (i wonder about the part of boosting GPA a lot at the end, unless one is repeating D classes with A’s and the school does not consider the D at all (some average repeats). Do the math to make sure you understand how A’s (best case) will impact final GPA.</p>
<p>As for Costco, we’ve been going to the same store for a decade since they opened (and every one we run into while on travel - inside family joke -) and the store near us has the same workers for most of these years. Full time pay is very nice. Costco is a very ‘socially responsible’ company, check them out. I wish other companies could learn from them.</p>
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<p>Thank you for this information about internships.</p>
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Thank you for this suggestion. What would be the advantages of non-profit jobs? I guess I could shadow office workers too if I can’t get internships?</p>
<p>OP, how many threads are you going to start asking the same question? You keep getting the same answer.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately, it seems like the OP is a ■■■■■.</p>
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<p>To pay back 4k loans as soon as possible, the best I can think of is to become a room attendant at a hotel. With the tips I think the pay could average to about 10 dollar per hour and with that I could earn 2k per month. But it may take time to get a job as a room attendant. Maybe it could take 1 month to get it. Or maybe even more, who knows. So in 3 months or more maybe I might be able to pay off this 4k. So it could be that I might not even have my diploma by end of this semester if I dropped this semester, if I don’t manage to earn the 4k necessary to pay off loans for this semester. If I finished this semester the advantage would be that the 4k would be just lumped with the rest of the loans so that I could pay it all back slowly month by month without having to pay a certain large amount to get my diploma.</p>
<p>When I mentioned this to mother she said that the 4k loans don’t have much of an interest and if I had that money I might as well help pay other debts that have 30 percent interest rates. But if I help them with paying the bills then in effect I would be helping pay off what they shouldn’t have spent on in the first place. For example my mother allowed my spoiled brother to lease an expensive car unnecessarily when we couldn’t afford it a few years ago.</p>
<p>So a little problem with saying “I’m done with classes now and will be getting my degree in December” would be that I might not have earned enough money from whatever jobs to pay back the loan to get my diploma by then.</p>
<p>But then I guess I’ll be saying that to get the “I’m basically a graduate” (and for this purpose I might show them my unofficial transcript showing that I have taken enough credits to graduate) to get hired and might not matter that much once I get hired and they don’t ask for the diploma right at December?</p>
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<p>Well I wanted to work at a non-profit and Idealist only posts non-profit jobs – so if you are not interested in working at a non-profit, it’s not such a useful database for you.</p>
<p>I don’t know if I am interested in non Profit or not because I don’t know how it’s different from regular companies.</p>
<p>If I ever choose to go to Masters, would raising the GPA to 2.8 in this semester worth it?</p>
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<p>This sounds like good idea.</p>
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<p>I wanted to work somewhere that had a mission that I cared about and goals that were not about the bottom line profit. Non-profit organizations (not companies) do not make profits and generally have some kind of a mission that their work supports – examples are the Red Cross, animal shelters, most hospitals, museums, schools, etc. I’m not saying you should want to work at a non-profit, just that Idealist is a really useful job database if you do but not if you don’t.</p>
<p>OP–It’s hard for me to believe you are a senior in college. Based on some of your posts regarding earning money, it sounds as though you’ve never held a job. If you have a salary of $500/week, you are not going to save $2,000/month. I hope you realize quite a bit of money gets deducted from each paycheck (Fed. Tax, State Tax, FICA, union dues, etc.).</p>
<p>With a less than stellar GPA, no job experience, no internship experience, no networking or connections, and no official transcript noting the completion of your degree, you are going to have a heck of a time gaining employment in a professional type field. I’m not trying to be a “Debbie Downer”, but it’s best that you know the reality of the employment situation today.</p>
<p>Based on previous posts, money in your family is an issue. The fact that any parent would want you to hand over your loans to them so they can use it to pay off their own debts is disturbing to me. You may have to work 2 low paying jobs to be able to sustain your living expenses while attempting to pay off your loans. It is not going to be easy. In the immediate future, you have to be willing to suck it up and work your butt off at any job offered to you just to get some money coming in. In time, you can be more picky about the jobs.</p>
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<p>I did withdraw from the term and now I’m applying for Costco. For the heading under education, should I put 4 years of university for “how many years have you completed” and not choose the “Bachelor” option and instead choose the “none” option under “Degree” because I don’t have my degree yet?</p>
<p>No, you have completed 4 years of university and under degree put Bachelor’s, then in the comments section you write “I have completed my course work and the degree will be awarded in December 2012” or whatever the most accurate description of your situation is.</p>
<p>Uh oh. I already submitted the form seconds ago before I saw your reply. Should I call the store to correct this information?</p>