Grad student, work part-time at a gas station (which doesn't cover nearly all my bills. Some saved up tax returns cover the minor monthly shortfall of my income versus rent and student loans, while my parents pay my gas, which is negligible at about 24 miles a week, and my food, which is more substantive, but they want me to eat well so it works out).
Grad school itself is funded in part by scholarship (so far, free ride for the first semester), in part by a small inheritance from my grandparents.
Gas station work isn't bad, as long as you find the attitude that strikes just the right balance between caring enough to do the job well enough that your boss will never balk, but that you also aren't so invested that the work itself (rather than the mere fact of having to go to work) becomes a source of stress. Because it will become stressful fast if you let it.
Fun fact is that i've been on the job 8.5 months (though i transferred locations within company 2 months ago), and this is the longest contiguous job i've held in my life so far :/

Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.







