What do you try to make in a week, a month? How much do you average?
How many days a week do you work?
I am waitressing again, and my goal is $2000 a month.. about $100 dollars a day..
But I might go back to dancing..




What do you try to make in a week, a month? How much do you average?
How many days a week do you work?
I am waitressing again, and my goal is $2000 a month.. about $100 dollars a day..
But I might go back to dancing..


I just got back to dancing after a 6 month break, but I'm going to go back to my old goal, which was always 1000 a week, working 3 shifts per week, 4000 per month. Sometimes I fall a little short if it's a bad week, but in general when I worked I always made in between 3500 and 4500 per month if I stuck to working 3 days a week. There were a couple months where I pushed it and worked 4 nights per week and made 5-6,000 and a couple months where I slacked and would only work one or two and just made living expenses (2K). I try to shoot for the happy medium of 3x week, 4K/month, 48,000 a year and by this time next year my goal is to have 20,000 in the bank, because my living expenses are exactly 2K/month including fun stuff/incidentals and that leaves me 4,000 for my travel savings fund![]()




Thats awesome... I have been thinking alot about pharmacy too!
I love the medical field.. When I started college, I was going for ultra-sound, they start off at about $45-50K a year, which is like $36K after taxes.. So I am thinking I am just going to finish this degree and then Ill be an ultra-sound tech while I go back to school..
I hoping that make 36K I wont disqualify me for financial aid..




ya, If that does happen I am still going to try to go to school after that.... My mom has always wanted me to be a doctor or something like that, and my mom will be getting some money in the next few years so hopefully she will help me..




I wanna make 1000/week. Ill be cool with that.





(snip)"To qualify for a Pell Grant, a student must demonstrate financial need. The amount of the award is based on the Expected Family Contribution, derived from the information on the FAFSA. In the 2005-06 school year, students with family incomes of less than $20,000 accounted for 57% of Pell Grant recipients. 35% of these recipients attended public two-year colleges, and 42% attended public four-year colleges.[3]I hoping that make 36K I wont disqualify me for financial aid..
The National Postsecondary Student Aid Study found that during the 1999-2000 school year, students from families making less than $41,000 accounted for 90% of Pell Grant recipients.[4]
Students may not receive Federal Pell Grant funds from more than one school at a time.
Financial need is determined by the U.S. Department of Education using a standard formula, established by Congress, to evaluate the financial information reported on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and to determine the family EFC. The fundamental elements in this standard formula are the student's income (and assets if the student is independent), the parents' income and assets (if the student is dependent), the family's household size, and the number of family members (excluding parents) attending postsecondary institutions. The EFC is the sum of: (1) a percentage of net income (remaining income after subtracting allowances for basic living expenses and taxes) and (2) a percentage of net assets (assets remaining after subtracting an asset protection allowance). Different assessment rates and allowances are used for dependent students, independent students without dependents, and independent students with dependents. After filing a FAFSA, the student receives a Student Aid Report (SAR), or the institution receives an Institutional Student Information Record (ISIR), which notifies the student if he or she is eligible for a Federal Pell Grant and provides the student's EFC."(snip) from Wiki
The bottom line is that student grant / loan eligibility is tied to a formula that includes not only the income and 'assets' of the student, but also the income and 'assets' of the parents ( and for that matter any other members of the household ). This linkage to 'family' income is extremely difficult to break as long as the student is under the age of 'automatic' emancipation ... which is now age 24. However, the 'automatic' emancipation age may increase to age 27 as the result of the new national health care law ( since it is also tied into the maximum age of children that can be insured under a parent's health insurance coverage ).
I would also point out that another aspect needs to be considered i.e. the parents 'losing money' as the result of their daughter earning a significant amount of dancing income. This has to do with the dancer daughter earning more than 50% of the money used for her total support. If that happens, the parents are no longer able to claim the daughter as a dependent on their own tax return, which will significantly increase the parents' total amount of taxes due on the same amount of parents' pre-tax income
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