How students today view college

JHS
Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:18:41 +0000

My family’s experience was very different. Neither of my kids was eligible for work-study. My older kid got so many university jobs – at one point, four simultaneously – that she was cut back because she had technically qualified as a full-time employee. These ranged from being a barista in a campus coffee shop to interviewing subjects for an oral history project to handling soup-to-nuts production of the college course catalog (which, given her then-interest in publishing, was actually career-related). My other kid got a job closely tied to a favorite extra-curricular activity. He worked 25-30 hours/week and got paid for 10, but he also was able to freelance on other projects, so he didn’t do too badly. This was a campus with far fewer than 35,000 students, however.