Except online classes pile on the work like there's no tomorrow.

Actually, online classes can add to the workload. I took some last year and it was really difficult to keep up with everything. Professors don't really care if their work overlaps with your other classes.

Online classes don't always increase the work load. I find them much easier. You can do them on your own time (deadline Friday? Perfect. Can't sleep on a Monday or Wednesday? 4 AM reading sesh) and it tends to just be minimal reading and Q&A. I have had some heavier courses online as well and even they aren't too bad. It all depends on the course.

The first decent comment I'm reading. I'm from Belgium, so university doesn't cost that much, but I still wanted to work in the weekends to share in the expenses. The first year, my mom wouldn't let me because if I failed then, we wouldn't know if it was because I had too little time or if I just couldn't do it. I passed. Now I work 10 hours each weekend. It's still 'hard' because I don't have too much free time, but it's doable. But really, even having a job working 60 hours a week is a lot. That's time for work, eating and sleeping. It was very much to be expected that you'd fail, unless you're a genius. An average uni week I spend about 45 hours going to classes and summarizing them, and I have one extra course I'm going to catch up with in the last few weeks. But I'm still running a bit behind due to having been ill for a week. So honestly... working 60 hours, it was to be expected.

In the USA, tuition is very expensive and if you take out loans you'll have high interest. So OP needing a job isn't unheard of, but what they're trying to accomplish isn't possible. I go to school full time and have a part time job, my first year of school I didn't work. There is no way I would be able to make grades if I worked full time. OP is going to dig themselves a hole if they aren't careful.

I work 50 hour weeks, go to college full time, and have a daughter. It is feasible but you will absolutely be sacrificing something. For me it is sleep, I'm lucky to get 25 hours a week, and by Gods good graces I get a little down time at work to do homework. But I'm finishing up my first year now. It is a nightmare and I literally can't wait to be down, but when you need a better life bad enough you will do what you need to.

Jess - Good suggestion but not all classes are offered online. My program for example won't allow online equivalents to be taken.

Neither will mine, but most will allow the core classes like math, or English. In some cases they'll even allow the credits you need for BoK

I put in 4 fifteen hour shifts a week and one 5 hr shift after my Wednesday classes and have a 3 full days of classes and one online class. You can do both, it just sucks balls.

And from lack of sleep you become a master of run on sentences. Sorry about that.

Excuses are like assholes, everyone has one

I agree. Excuses.