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WORK Continued from page 12 At Kennesaw, Dr Gunn said, “it has been quite evident that more students than ever are carrying a full load of classes and a fulltime job at the same time.” When students become too run-down to make it through even one more day of double duty, he said, they usually will choose to go to work over class to pay the bills. Consider Korchi, 23, who scrambles each week to keep her life in balance. She attends Kansas City Kansas Community College, but next year she will pay much of her own way through Pittsburg State University — about $12,500 a year if she lives on campus. Born the eighth of 10 children to immigrant Hmong parents, she is the first in her family to attend college.
Sleep Her father died, disabled, in 2010 after a stroke. Her mother, who doesn’t speak English, moved to California to farm after her husband died. Korchi lives with a brother in their father’s home. While taking 12 credit hours at college, she works four nights, 28 hours a week, at a Wal-Mart store from 3 to 10pm. When she’s done at the store on Friday nights and also Saturdays, she changes out of her blue Wal-Mart shirt and into an entirely different outfit. She puts on heels and a T-shirt or a form-fitting dress to work crowds as a model and hostess in Westport or the Power & Light District until about 2am, recruiting pretty and personable young women for CQC Promotions. The Olathe home-based company provides models and party hostesses to companies. Korchi, who is studying fashion merchandizing and wants to be a model and designer, is featured in an ad for an upcoming California car show. For her, the job offers modelling credit and fun
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‘It was so exhausting, she said, that she urged her two younger sisters... to do everything they could in high school to get great grades and scholarships.’ along with the $20 to $25 an hour she makes to help save for college. She uses her Wal-Mart money to pay for her car, phone, food, gas and utilities. “When I first started going to college, it was really hard for me,” Korchi said of working full time and studying. “I never got any sleep at all. I had to work almost as much as I went to school just to pay for school.” It was so exhausting, she said, that she urged her two younger sisters, Pachia and Seenhiam, to do everything they could in high school to get great grades and scholarships. “I didn’t want it to be as hard for them,” Korchi said. She said Pachia, 22, is now in her third year at St Catherine University in Minnesota. Seenhiam, 20, is at the University of Central Arkansas. Both, she said, have scholarships that have saved them from her work schedule. Working has costs in terms of time, psychology, social life and, for many, grades. But not for Quentin Savwoir, who has a 4.0 average as a senior at Rockhurst University. Quentin, 26, of Kansas City works full-time and attends school full-time too, See WORK, page 21