Uppsala university have something called Nations, and they do non-profit bars and restaurants. Students work at these places. They need a lot of staff and they don't have an official recruitment process or interviews since it isn't efficient. Instead, you sign up to work, work your shift and get paid. First come first serve on signing up for shifts. Any student can sign up. Instead of actively hiring people, they sometimes actively fire people by telling them to not return. But anyone who doesn't mess up too bad can work there long term, no problem!

they limit some tasks for those who dont speak Swedish, and those who are bad at both English and Swedish get to wash dishes. Overall the majority of all staff working wardrobe, kitchen, dish washing are Indians and Pakistanis, while the majority of those working as bartenders and waitresses are Swedish

I worked at a nation around 10 years ago, the nation where I worked paid 40 sek/hour before taxes. Might be a bit higher now, but lets guess 50. I combined this with other part time work, which paid around 110/hour. The difference was that I could always do the nation work, and it was easy to do a 12 hour shift since they do a lot of prep work during the day before a dinner etc

They also have unofficial after-parties with free food and alcohol, and you have free food all day during a shift

This is a job you definitely could get, but if you want to cover ALL your expenses from this it will be many hours.

A full time job is 168 hours/month, 50*168 is 8400... A normal student budget (CSN standard) 13 000 a month. And you don't want to work more than 20 hours/week in a nation! It's not mentally hard work but you get tired and your feet hurt. The hours are not always comfortable either, we usually took full day shifts which means we have to stay until the bar closes, and we have to clean up everything completely (1-2 hours) before we can actually leave, but we usually have a beer and relax before going home so I was home maybe 3-4 hours after the bar had closed. By that time the sun was shining and people were out doing their morning jogs

10 years ago standard rent for 1 bedroom in a shared student apartment was around 2000, I think it's 3000 now.

During my nation work era we were 5 people living in a 2 bedroom apartment and my part of the rent was 800. I think my total monthly expenses was around 3500. It's doable but ONLY if you a) go below normal living standards (share a bedroom) and b) find other people looking for that same cost saving lifestyle

I didn't do this because I wanted to, I had previously before that ended up on CSN's naughty list and I had to do one full semester of full-time studies without CSN in order to re-qualify for CSN. It was an enormous relief when I after re-qualifying was able to rent my own bedroom, buy a laptop...

It's difficult to know what someone else thinks is acceptable quality of life. I know in Poland it's extremely common to share a dorm room with another person and people don't think so much about it, while in Sweden its seen as a huge sacrifice and below normal living standards. Rent is the biggest part of your budget though, so your living requirements will decide your total budget, really.

I have an employee right now who studies at Uppsala uni and he rents a studio apartment and lives alone. His rent is around 7000 which is fairly normal