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Students find reliable work for month of cash
Ally Summers
Issue date: 12/6/07 Section: TruLife
While many students will head back home for the holidays, one student is opting to spend her break in Kirksville to earn extra cash.
Senior Megan Knoche works for Chad Davis State Farm Insurance in Kirksville. Knoche said she started working there toward the end of her sophomore year and that she works about 15 to 20 hours a week.
"I pay for my rent and groceries and bills," Knoche said. "My benefit is that I can pay for all of this, and I have extra spending money most of the time to do what I want. I don't have to ask my parents for cash. I'm independent."
Knoche said she got her first job when she was 15. She started working her second year at Truman when she moved off campus.
"I made a deal with my parents that I would start paying for more and more on my own," Knoche said. "So my parents just wanted to teach me financial responsibility, and I wanted to stay out of debt as much as possible."
Knoche said she stayed in Kirksville the past two summers to work instead of going back home to Lagrange, Mo.
"I only live an hour away, so it's not that big of a deal to stay here," Knoche said. "I have a job that I know I can work 40-plus hours a week at guaranteed."
Knoche said she keeps a very organized planner and makes choices about what's important to her as far as what she can schedule herself for.
"I haven't had to give anything up," Knoche said. "I'm involved. I get good grades."
Knoche is licensed in auto and property casualty and is working to get her life insurance license.
"It's interesting, and it's a real job," Knoche said. "It's not working at a restaurant, working at a store, all of which I have done. It's something to fall back on if I needed to, and I get to make my own hours. I can schedule them around my classes and tests."
Professor of Finance Jason Lin said working during the break would bring some additional money, besides just the month's salary, to students.
"I believe that one benefit would be that if they are working during the break, it keeps them connected with the merchant or business," Lin said. "In the summertime or other occasions when they have to work those connections still remain intact."
Senior Megan Knoche works for Chad Davis State Farm Insurance in Kirksville. Knoche said she started working there toward the end of her sophomore year and that she works about 15 to 20 hours a week.
"I pay for my rent and groceries and bills," Knoche said. "My benefit is that I can pay for all of this, and I have extra spending money most of the time to do what I want. I don't have to ask my parents for cash. I'm independent."
Knoche said she got her first job when she was 15. She started working her second year at Truman when she moved off campus.
"I made a deal with my parents that I would start paying for more and more on my own," Knoche said. "So my parents just wanted to teach me financial responsibility, and I wanted to stay out of debt as much as possible."
Knoche said she stayed in Kirksville the past two summers to work instead of going back home to Lagrange, Mo.
"I only live an hour away, so it's not that big of a deal to stay here," Knoche said. "I have a job that I know I can work 40-plus hours a week at guaranteed."
Knoche said she keeps a very organized planner and makes choices about what's important to her as far as what she can schedule herself for.
"I haven't had to give anything up," Knoche said. "I'm involved. I get good grades."
Knoche is licensed in auto and property casualty and is working to get her life insurance license.
"It's interesting, and it's a real job," Knoche said. "It's not working at a restaurant, working at a store, all of which I have done. It's something to fall back on if I needed to, and I get to make my own hours. I can schedule them around my classes and tests."
Professor of Finance Jason Lin said working during the break would bring some additional money, besides just the month's salary, to students.
"I believe that one benefit would be that if they are working during the break, it keeps them connected with the merchant or business," Lin said. "In the summertime or other occasions when they have to work those connections still remain intact."
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