Even with hours of school work and trying to manage a social life, some students still manage to juggle it all while also having a job.

“It’s definitely stressful,” says junior Grant Wells, who is a part of the culinary team at the Chick- Fil-A on Riverside, which means that he carries many duties. Some of these duties include making fries, making sandwiches, bagging food, and breading the chicken.

Although it can be difficult trying to maintain relationships, social life with friends, and school, he says that “the paycheck and reward from all my hardwork is worth it.”

Not only does junior Brittany Gentry juggle taking advanced classes, but she can also be found working at the Subway in Chatham in the evenings and on the weekend. She’s been employed there for the past three years.

Her favorite part about working is being able to interact with the co-workers that surround her, although she finds the often rude customers a disadvantage of working in food services. She stays sane by doing her school work as soon as she gets home and making time for friends when she’s not working her typical 15-20 hours a week.

“Since I am taking co-op, most days I leave school and go straight to work. I don’t find it very stressful because I enjoy the responsibility,” says senior Kristin Landrum who has been a cashier at Target for the past five months.

Even though she is sometimes up until past midnight doing homework, Landrum realizes that it is helping her prepare to be a hard worker in the future. She plans on staying at Target until finishing nursing school at DCC. Her strive for success is her motivation to keep working hard even in the midst of school work, graduating, and applying for college.