" He smiles contentedly and declares, "I may have a part-time job, but I have a full-time life.

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He added the college did not take into account projected earnings from students who aim to have a part-time job during their studies.

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That doesn't include folks who have had to accept part-time jobs or, in some cases, have given up finding a job altogether.

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Also I enjoy writing, and have written one book, and manage to hold down a part time office job, but working can prove difficult too at times because typing with extremely sore hands is quite a painful process.

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For example, if there are two well qualified candidates for a job who each have disabilities and can only work part time and a manager has only one full-time opening, does that manager have the authority to make a decision to create two part-time positions in lieu of the one full-time position so that the two people with the disabilities can share the job?

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And the measure of unemployment that takes into account people who have stopped looking for work but still want a job, as well as those working part-time because full-time work is unavailable, increased to 16.5%.

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Plenty of folks have given up looking, or are working part-time when they wish they had a full-time job, which means that the true number of unemployed in America is much higher.

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You will have low overhead, insurance and medical costs, especially if you are keeping a part-time or full-time job.

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