Depending on what you're doing for grad school. If you are pre-professional, okay. If it's academic, if they aren't paying your tuition they don't really want you.
debt free is one thing. walking out with 70K of debt is quite another. the former isn't realistic anymore if you are getting zero parental help and not living at home, the later shouldn't' happen if someone has a work ethic and is living on the cheap.
community college for two years, working 30 hours a week, and then transferring to a state school and still working should get you out fairly low. even better if you can live at home for part of the time.
I never got very far down that path. After I worked as an intern, school got a lot harder to stay in.
Yes. Surprising though. 1/2 (thickness) glass was the worst to cut you. It was so thick, the "cutters", actually scored the glass and bumpers broke them apart, didn't do a great job. The edges were often angled into sharp points. Get a finger between a lite of 1/2" with one of those edges and a roller, a finger is gone. !/2" was great working speed, very slow so you handled fewer pieces. Plus it's very tough, but if you grabbed a piece with a defect that caused it to break, there was enough weight cut off fingers arms, legs, whatever. Single thickness (less than 1/8") was *******s and elbows type work. It broke much more often than thicker glass and is responsible for more cuts, but usually relatively minor cuts, maybe a few stitches. That 1/4" to 1/2" was responsible for more serious injuries. I did have a fork truck driver that wasn't paying attention about dump a full "A" rack load of 1/4" uncuts on top of me. Uncuts are very large pieces of glass where companies that want to cut their own sizes with their own equipment. You have to use air operated suction cranes to get them off the line. The smallest size we usually ran was 60"X72" but went up to 144"X204". An "A" rack, think the trailer of a tractor trailer with steel in the shape of an "A", holds 2 slings of glass per side that is 3 slings deep. A sling usually contained 5-10 pieces depending on the thickness. She dumped one entire side. It all started when I was bellied up to the "A" rack trying to guide the sling out from under a load just placed on the rack. She was talking and started lifting before she was clear. Caught one of the 6X6 wood blocks the glass sat on and down she came. Believe it or not, I was quick back in the day. I was glad I was, otherwise, I'd be dead right now. Wasn't fun.
This place paid 75% full-time pay for college help. I thought I was in high cotton making $12-$14/hour back then.
I did almost shoot myself in the right testicle when the nail gun I was using to build pallets malfunctioned and started shooting the nails out all cattywompas. Shot a 20 penny nail about 2-3 inches into my right thigh. Was waaaaay too close for comfort.
I made $13.85/hr the first semester as an intern and 14.91/hr the second time. The internship included subsidized housing as well. You'd never seen like the college students blowing through money. I saved a thousand out to go along with what I had saved for years for an engagement ring for my wife and put the rest aside for school outside of a set of tires for my truck. The most I ever made through the temp agencies was $7.00 an hour.
This was in 1990-1994. A Fortune 500 chemical company in my area only paid $6-$7/hr. Every dime I made went in the bank, or I wouldn't eat during the coming school year.
Yeah, in 93, I made $5/hr, $6hr in 94, and $7/hr in 95. I wound up in school in 96 for half the summer, and unpaid the other half. I was broke on Christmas break when I interviewed to intern in 97. I had part time jobs off and on during school.
I made better than that. I probably would have made comparable to what I do today with overtime. That's sad.
