Premlesh Machama, MD, CareerBuilder India tells you four effortless ways to balance work and study
Be it an additional professional course to develop a new skill along with working or be it a part-time job with evening college or an evening job with morning college. Or correspondence with a full-time job, there are many people who are trying hard to keep up balance between work and studies. All degrees come with exams and tests for which one needs to prepare for, irrespective of where you are placed. Thus, you will have to balance both the things in a fine fashion, so as not to let yourself fall in any of them.
Here are some tips which will help you to achieve that perfect work-study balance.
Understanding the syllabi
The topics, projects and subjects that would be taught in the particular semester should be gone through, so as to understand where you’ve to concentrate the most. Don’t forget to mark the dates of submissions and papers to prepare and plan in advance. There might be papers where you will have to concentrate more, so accordingly plan and match your work schedule too.
Enter deadlines
Make a notebook or download a cool reminder app plus notes app in your phone. Flesh out all the deadlines on them and plan how to go about both the work and school deadlines. If by any chance, some of them happen to coincide, then one has to be done in advance. Envisage a proper way of going about it.
Be a taskmaster
There are always tasks defined when it comes to your work, be it writing an email, meeting clients or answering important call. In a similar way, you need to define your studies too. Don’t make it a mass of books, divide them into chapters and make it a point to complete small tasks daily.
Weekend usage
All huge school work like making a project or submitting an assignment and many others should be put on the weekends and worked on ceaselessly as they require long hours of skillful work and deep focus. Accommodate these submissions ahead of their time, so as to save yourself from some awkward all-nighters.
Balance it out well!