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get a
job
blew your loan in the
first week on take-
aways, a guitar,
several kilos of jelly
belly and a river
of sambuca? then
you’re going to need
to find some work.
Nothing seems quite so unjust as Ed Bov has spent much of his second admirable, perhaps, is exotic dancing.
having to pay for your food and bills and third years of study diving Really though, it seems fairly logical
as well as trying to have the time of head-first into the field of promotion that female students turn to exotic
your life. Living expenses are the around his local haunts. ‘To start off, – it’s stripping, let’s just call it strip-
concerns of fully-fledged adults and I did little jobs for venues around ping – to make some cash. Girls are
we as students – though not quite town gaining experience and slowly never likely to be as skint as they are
there yet – are suddenly burdened made my way up to having my own during their years as students, and
with serious-looking letters asking club nights. It took a lot of work, and the vast amount of cash to be made
for money, and the prospect of having it still does. Promoting can be very is enough to make you wish you were
to live without help-me-mum fiscal risky, but when it pays off – it really born female. Neale Parker, manager
assistance. It’s a tough undertaking does pay well, and it’s very reward- of popular Cardiff strip-club For Your
for students; the deadly combination ing.’ Eyes Only, states that up to 20% of
of having way too much time and a his dancers are students studying in
temporarily free load of money is there’s plenty of South Wales. “Why work hours and
often too much for many to bear, and hours a week for minimum wage
financial ruin lies only a Lidl-trip ways to scrape when girls can earn a damn sight
away. more dancing? Obviously it takes a
However, the sudden realisation that together some certain type of girl, but the hours
‘actually, money’s quite valuable isn’t are flexible and the girls are fully self-
it?’ is no reason to despair! There’s extra cash employed.”
plenty of ways for a student to scrape Whether it’s a conventional or slightly
together some extra cash in South Students talk of cash-in-hand jobs more adventurous undertaking,
Wales, both conventional and deeply like flyering as favourites - flexible, students in South Wales are making
unconventional. After having a poke straightforward tasks with little ac- money in all manner of ways; all it
around some students’ sideline countability or restrictions – as well takes is some drive, and a little imagi-
activities, there’s been both com- as one-off work days made available nation. Whether it’s small website
mendable and alarming responses in by university job shops. These are or graphic design jobs, cash-in-hand
equal measure – the latter I’ll leave simple ways of keeping your bank bal- favours (steady now) or just busking,
undocumented, eBay scams and ance afloat without being tied down there’s a whole plethora of things a
benefits fraud are not methods we’d too much with regular shifts and student can do to make cash whilst
recommend. hours that might inconvenience you. avoiding the tedium of bar or shop
First off, the more proactive side of One method of money-making work. Everyone hates commitment,
the bunch: Cardiff University student that’s initially startling and slightly right?
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