Work De-Tox

To whomever it may concern,

Recently I've started my clinical rotations for my last year of pharmacy school. This means I am basically working as an unpaid intern for credit at different places 6 weeks at a time. Each place is supposed to be geared specifically to a place where pharmacists have a role (i.e. hospital, retail pharmacy, ambulatory care, etc). Before rotations, I worked around 18.5 hours per week and thus had a pretty steady inflow of reasonable income (for a student at least). With rotations taking up 8 hours per day (8am - 4pm) and night classes taking up around 4 hours more Monday through Thursday (6pm - 9:45pm), the number of hours I work has dropped drastically. It doesn't help that the pharmacy I work at closes at 7pm on weekdays and 6pm and 2pm on Saturday and Sunday respectively. This leaves Saturday (9am - 6pm) and Sunday (9-2pm) as the only two days I have available to work. I personally chose to work Sunday since I wanted Saturday to relax from a long week. I can't work both Saturday and Sunday since other people need hours at my pharmacy as well (I can't hog all the hours). This leaves me with a total of 5 hours of paid work per week. You can also say that it is around a 75% decrease in income per week.This immediate change in income inflow is leaving me with money withdrawal. It's ironic that I happen to be spending a lot more money now compared to when I was actually getting more money. It's pretty depressing to think about how long it would take me to make back what I spent now compared to how long it would take to make it back back when I was working more. In another perspective, something that would have taken me one week to make back, now takes me 4 weeks to make back. Anyway, enough of my rant. This income/work de-tox is really leaving me some quite serious withdrawal symptoms. I either get used to this now and learn to understand that I won't be able to spend as much money as frequently (since rotations will be going on until May 2014) or I just continue on with my life as usual and find myself broke very soon. I'd say I should go with the former, but for some reason I feel like the latter is most likely to happen. Wish me luck.

Sincerely,
A Soon-to-be-broke College Student