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Quick, advice needed in next couple minutes

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OK, I have ten minutes to make a decision.

I work and also go to grad school. For the past several months I've been applying for teaching assistantships. Extra work, I figured, but having an assistantship means that tuition is covered. 

Last week I was offered two assistantships. And also, I found out that there's an opportunity at my day job to take on a project that would get me in the faces of the big bosses--in other words, it might reap rewards later on. The project might require travel, though. Or it might not. They can't tell me now.

If I'll need to travel, it wouldn't be fair for me to take the assistantships. If I need to back out of the assistantships, I need to do it right now.

Would you take the assistantship, which will reap financial rewards right now. Or raise your hand to take project at work, which pays nothing extra but may reap rewards later. Keep in mind, it's still possible that I won't get the project.

Or would you try to cram both in, at a time when you're planning to do IVF. That would be crazy, right? Trying to do both, plus classes? Even if I could convince the professors to be OK with my maybe/maybe not travel, it would be like 80 hours a week. At least. That's nuts.

Help. 

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Re: Quick, advice needed in next couple minutes

  • Nikki1007Nikki1007
    I would go with the assistantships. I am all about instant gratification.
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  • Mainer-in-TexasMainer-in-Texas

    I would not do both. That sounds way to stressful to me, but, some people thrive on stuff like that.

    As far as which of the two, it depends on how much you need the extra money from the assistanceship. If not very much, and you think the project has a great chance of reaping rewards, I would take the project. But, getting free school would be a hard thing to pass up!

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  • Mrs_LibertoMrs_Liberto member

    I would take an assistantship. Purely from a monetary standpoint, free tuition seems like a much better/more sure bet than maybe getting your big bosses to notice you.

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