[....] to teach in a secondary school it will be a nest of vipers. [....]
If you are under your parents' authority you are bound to obey them. Once you no longer are under their authority, you can ask for their advice but are not bound to take it. [....] So attempt to prepare for independence asap
In this instance, embedding the quote from ‘Nadir’ above does indicate my
endorsement.
[...] keep in mind that 1 crucial short-term goal for you is to untangle yourself from your parents' purse-strings.
Using the Internet, it's vastly easier than ever to acquaint yourself with the
academic interests and leanings of your school's
faculty, and gravitate toward those who provide the most congenial fit. If it's a school in which faculty are required to publish research as a condition of career advancement, descriptions of research interests can not only help identify the faculty with whom you'd be most compatible, but also the faculty that
might have on-campus
paid assistantship jobs to offer to undergrads
[*].
I was blessed or fortunate to arrange one, decades ago; it was formally only 1/2-time, its hours officially limited by the school so it didn't use up all of an undergrad's potential studying time. But it
was adequate to pay my minimal state-U.
tuition,
housing,
and frugal
living expenses (with only a bicycle for transportation, not a car).
Don't overlook
adjunct faculty, many of whom have "real jobs" off campus, although they might only be able to offer barely-paid or unpaid
internships[**].
Alas, college costs have reportedly risen so disproportionately (relative to currency inflation) that money that sufficed for frugal undergrads in my generation might only put a dent in costs for your generation.
Footnotes follow. As a student at a university, you need to stop fighting them like the typical adult United-Statesian (assuming that you haven't already stopped doing so), and embrace them for the additional information & commentary they provide.
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Note *: Asssuming that the school provides or allows
assistantships to undergrads. Beware that work assigned to paid undergrad
assistants might be so tedious that it evokes tears (because by definition, you're not expected to have the knowledge of your field that'd be necessary to apply any actual
judgment or make
decisions on your own initiative), but it would get you a regular paycheck. How this would fit in with the
scholarship I believe you claimed, I have no idea. Nowadays, I'd expect your school's Dept. of Student Financial Aid to have the necessary info on the Internet, but if not, visit its office. Useful info about how things really work in your
major dept. might also become available by socializing with the clerical staff in its main office, at least eventually
[†], and then maybe only when the chair of that dept. is out of the office
[×]. Altho' I confess that undergrads are at a substantial social disadvantage with faculty & staff, so undergrads might be more effectively advised to seek a sympathetic grad student, and then take care to heed their office hours.
Note #: An
internship off-campus might unavoidably incur expenses (e.g., off-campus commuting) that eats up all of whatever financial compensation it provides, which over at least the short term, would be counterproductive to "untangl[ing] yourself from your parents'
purse-strings". Be that as it may, it could eventually be a great source of useful contacts for short-term jobs, or maybe even an agreeable career.
Note †: Success might require you to develop your social skills to include a sociably gregarious & genuinely charming personna. I suspect that I'm not the only
CathInfo reader who's perceiving the anonymous writer to be a
loner most comfy inhabiting a Catholic chapel enclosed by a bunker. Perhaps adopting the personna of the stereotypical confused freshman would be an unchallenging but effective first step.
Note ×: Except that the "nest of
vipers" quoted farther above might also be a fitting metaphor for the departmental environment in which you
train for
teach[ing] in a
secondary school". I'm imagining a modernist "Catholic" university at which its
education faculty, including its dept. office, is disproportionately populated by feminist "nuns on the bus". Without divine intervention, prospects might be quite grim for extracting practical info by socializing with them.