Time = Everything

A good news for this semester, I got a full time job in this economy downturn. However, goods' always come with price.

Being a full time student as well as a full time employee at the same time, it means I have no free time for my family, friends and church.

Here is my schedule:

Monday & Wednesday: 4 classes, from 10am to 9pm
Tuesday & Thursday: 2 classes in the morning, from 8.40am to 12.25pm;
Then work from 1pm to 7pm.
Friday to Sunday: Work from 12pm to 7pm.

As a result, I don't have any dayoff technically. I'm occupied by work and study. Every time I back home, my parent, brother and sister are all in their beds. I am always working in weekends so that I can't hang out with my friends. I'm always the one who miss out all gatherings. Make it worse, my boyfriend and I run conflicting schedules. When he has free time, I am either at work or shool. When I get off work, he's having evening classes at the other school. Again, it's impossible for us to spend even one quality afternoon in summer weekends. For my religion, I feel sorry about it. I am a christian, but always late for Friday Fellowship and miss out all Sunday Worship on Sundays because of my job.

This time management problem is driving me nuts. I can't afford to lose my job, since I need to support my family with rent. We all know that how difficult it is to get a job these days. How can I ask for more? But all relationships need time to develop. Can anyone giving me any suggestion that I can balance between work, study and relationships? I cannot afford to lose neither of them.

Hi everyone,

alright, let's do some boring stuff first ( as it is required =P )

my name's Chui Pik, Wong .. for some reason CUNY makes it Chui, Wong which i hate the way it is. But I believe i'm not the first nor the last chinese encountering this kind of problem. I prefer others call me Avery, so next time when you see me in class, please call me Avery =)

As I mentioned, Im a chinese and come from HK, been to NY for 2 years and half. The first impression of this city was, WHERE ARE PUBLIC RESTROOMS??!! it took me 2 hours on the street looking for restrooms.. it wasn't a pleasant experience in the first weekend of my new york life. Well, fortunately it was summer night. Never expected this would happened in my life, since public restrooms are like everywhere in HK. But that's also a fun part of life, full of unexpected. =)

This is my junior year in Baruch, if i want to be a CPA, i still have 3 more year to go though.

It's nice to see all of you in this class, wish we will all have a fruitful semester =)