On Campus Jobs

redlightbulb
Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:37:49 +0000

I’m a student who both runs a club with paid staff and works a position for a department.

Pomona is amazingly work friendly, and while it does limit the amount students can earn (changes from student to student, but has been historically a little less than $2000 a year for non-work study non-financial aid) there are ways to change this or get around it.

The recent change in work allotments (now a little less than $1000 a year for the above group) is a hopefully non-permanent one. The change comes from the college trying to reduce overall expenses to insure it’s not put in a bad position form the economy. The change has been one of the more controversial (and one of the more visible to students) but as before, there are exceptions and ways around it for many student’s I know.

The impression I’ve gotten is that the college tries to balance 1) The need for students to earn money and 2) the need for them to be students first, employees second.

Generally, while some toes are step on now and then, people who truly need this or that tend to find a way to get it - There always seems to be a readily available kind ear at this school.