Campus Employment

Jrock
Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:04:22 +0000

Okay, while it’s a great thing to have a job where you can study, it will not always happen. The important thing for me is making money, and ENJOYING the job, but of course, in real life, enjoying the job is not always the case. Also, it could be pretty rough first semester trying to get a job.

I’m not on fin aid, so it was really tough getting a job first semester because I certainly needed extra cash. Applied for a number of positions without success. I finally got a job at the music dept as an event manager, which was sometimes labor-intensive, but I enjoyed the activity, however, it wasn’t a steady, scheduled thing. Last spring, I worked for a total of 88hrs. In a way, it was good, because if I had a workload crunch one week, I could stay off work - it was that easy, and again, most of the concerts and stuff were on weekends, so that worked great.

Winter study, I worked as gallery monitor in Chapin Library. I did practically nothing, except sit and read, and I was bored to death. You don’t want that in a place like Chapin Library - well, I didn’t like it that much.

But next year, I’ll be an MSRC tutor and an Art TA, but will still retain my position at the music dept and will be on hand for stuff from time to time.

There’s a whole slew of options. You could work at Weston in dungeon [library] or at the front desk, doing “nothing”. But the less you do, the less you’re paid. I think I was on a high wage scale for a freshman.