<p>Do a lot of students hold campus jobs? What are some of the jobs offered and is the pay good?</p>
<p>There are a lot of opportunities, either through Financial Aid or otherwise. For example, now the Orange Key guides (tour guides) are paid. There is also paid work for tutoring. It depends on what you mean by “good” … above minimum wage, but not dramatically so.</p>
<p>You can find a lot of the information you need here: [url=<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/pr/aid/se/book_0708/]Princeton”>Princeton - Student Employment Handbook, 2007-08]Princeton</a> - Student Employment Handbook, 2007-08<a href=“some%20the%20information%20is%20out%20of%20date%20though,%20like%20the%20hourly%20wages”>/url</a></p>
<p>Most of my friends who have jobs work either in the dining halls or in libraries, and a few work various jobs in Frist. It’s definitely not uncommon for a student to have a campus job.</p>
<p>Is it hard to balance schoolwork and a job?</p>
<p>Most people work 6-8 hours per week. I haven’t known it to be a problem for anyone as far as getting schoolwork done is concerned.</p>
<p>Most students work about 8 hours, like FightTheTide said. I don’t think anyone has much trouble balancing school / work, though time is time. I work in tech support and it’s great, but most people do the dining hall or various positions in the libraries. Other common jobs include tutoring, etc. If you want a job, try emailing people in charge EARLY. Also, many jobs are designated for work-study students.</p>
<p>Im assuming this is for everyone, but the budgeted Financial Aid money one needs to earn by working is the first thing to go when you get scholarship $$. Not that you wouldn’t be great at balancing work, study and play, but you may want to write a few essays to decrease your working hours. (I think the second thing to go is your own contribution, then Pton’s, then finally your parents’s)</p>
<p>Wait, to clarify:</p>
<p>If you earn scholarships, does that decrease Princeton’s financial aid or does that count towards your family contribution?</p>
<p>Also what are work-study students–students that are required to do campus jobs in order to pay their way through college?</p>
<p>Also, are there opportunities to have off campus jobs? My son’s been a math and physics tutor for several years as well as a violin teacher and violinist. It would be great, were he to attend Princeton, if he could continue one or several of these jobs in some capacity. How does one look for such jobs ahead of time? He’s used to working 15 hours a week but I’m sure he’d want to work no more than 8-10 at Princeton.</p>
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<p>If you have received the pretty Princeton folder, I am quoting the subheading “Other Outside Scholarships” in the “Terms of your 2012-13 Financial Aid Award”:</p>
<p>“If you are awarded non- government outside scholarships, first your term-time job then your summer savings expectation will be reduced by the amount of the awards. Once these work expectations are eliminated, any additional outside scholarships will replace your Princeton grant.”</p>
<p>So I think I got it a little wrong th first time, and that you cannot reduce either your parent’s contribution or the share of your own assets without first getting rid of all of Princeton’s grant. The packet also says that you can negotiate the number of hours you work, so maybe you can help your parents by getting scholarships to eliminate anything you can and still getting a job (but maybe not for 9 hours a week, unless you want to).</p>
<p>Also, the campus dining hall pays $12 an hour, plus 75 cents in paw points, so you don’t need to work as much as you think you would.</p>
<p>Haha, just curious: can anyone get a job in the admissions office, perhaps helping with sorting out papers, etc?</p>
<p>“Also, are there opportunities to have off campus jobs? My son’s been a math and physics tutor for several years as well as a violin teacher and violinist.”
Used to live in NJ while back 
As far as I remember, Princeton is very suburban so it is hard to get in/out of the campus without a car. Also the course load is so heavy that it is hard to balance off campus jobs. I am sure he could get a job at a local tutoring center that tutors school kids…but getting there may be a challenge without transport…</p>
<p>Also note that if you have “too much” money in scholarships you should be able to put some of it towards, say, a computer, rather than decrease your grant. I had enough outside scholarships that in my freshman year, they replaced my work expectations and my summer earnings, and the scholarships were also going to displace part of my Princeton grant. Then I spent ~$2000 on a laptop and got to retain my Princeton grant. Talk to financial aid about this!! If you buy your computer through SCI it’s really easy but otherwise you have to show them receipts, etc. Also look into asking your outside scholarship organizations if they could maybe spread your award across multiple years or delay it by a year or something like that. (I got a bunch of one-time small scholarships.)</p>
<p>Re: finding jobs - once you have a student netID you can find some jobs at princeton.edu / se.</p>
<p>I have an off-campus job (I teach math, the building is just a short walk from campus), and I know that the math department gets a lot of requests for math tutors (which they forward to math majors). I’m sure many would be willing for the tutoring to happen on campus or somewhere in walking distance (like the public library). There are also a lot of opportunities to be paid by the university to tutor other Princeton students.</p>
<p>This is very good news, stlk! My son would be a math major (possibly physics but more likely math). Thanks for the input. This is what he would love to continue to do since it’s such a big part of his life.</p>
<p>Is it possible to get a job in the admissions office as your campus job? I’ve looked through the student employment handbook and there wasn’t something about it. However, I can imagine that they would probably need all the help they can get. Is it possible?</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of someone working in the admissions office. I think they like to keep that separate…though who knows, it could happen.</p>