<p>I’m hijacking another thread but I’d like to know what we grownups when we were in college for work study and what it paid.</p>
<p>Not me. I had a real job all through undergrad.</p>
<p>Dh cleaned bathrooms as a freshman. Another boyfriend worked in the library. I don’t know what either were paid. I wasn’t work study, but I got $2.65/hour for shelving library books - I think with a series of raises it was eventually upped to $3.10. I also corrected calculus homework one term. My recollection was that I was paid in a lump sum. When I worked out the time it took me to do the corrections I got less per hour than I did shelving library books.</p>
<p>I waited tables in the freshman dining hall (that lasted a total of three weeks). I worked at both bookstores in town (neither operated by the college). I taught in, and later headed, a Hebrew school in the next town. I prepared boys for their bar mitzvahs. I translated an Israeli survey about dental care from Hebrew to English for the Roper Public Opinion Center. Other than the first job, none of it was officially “work study” - it was all “real jobs”, and I was just making the ends meet.</p>
<p>Cooked and baked in the dining commons at UCSB for 3 years, including summer alumni camp!</p>
<p>I worked at the university library in the media retrieval department, checking out cassette tapes and record albums to other students. I don’t remember what the pay was, but I do remember it wasn’t a lot.</p>
<p>When DD was in kindergarten, she came home talking about this machine her teacher had that played “big black CD’s.” LOL!</p>
<p>Not work study,but worked in the Registrar’s Office, back when registration was done on batched punch cards and carried to a mainframe computer the size of a room!!!
Earned whatever minimum wage was at the time…3 something an hour?Learned everything I could and was hired to work there (A City Univerity of NY branch) after I graduated, which led to other student service positions.I was taken under the wing of one of the Assistant Registrar’s.
Spent most of my career in Higher education-Student Services,winding up in Financial Aid.
Future H worked alongside me back then, was hired full time at graduation to work in the growing Info Services office,and has been in that field ever since.Also taken under the wing of the Info Service Director to whom we delivered those punch cards.</p>
<p>I worked 20 hours a week at a Sears department store three of my four years as an undergrad, as well as my last two years of high school. I actually enjoyed it.</p>
<p>Not work study, but I worked 20 hours a week as a secretary freshman year. Sophomore year I worked at a fast food restaurant about 25 hours/week. The next year and a half I worked in the pharmacy of a drug store, 30-35 hours/week. Summers I worked full-time for a government agency as a secretary for 2 years, then worked at the pharmacy the last summer.</p>
<p>Friend and I changed all the sheets in our fraternity (threw the dirty ones in laundry bags for pickup…we didn’t do the actual washing). I’m hoping it was once a week but memory tells me it was every other week, whether they needed it or not!</p>
<p>It wasn’t a pretty job but we got a (small) reduction in our food bill.</p>
<p>Went to Cal State schools which were really inexpensive for in-state. Worked nights and weekends for an inventory service, averaged 20 hours a week. Was part-time but hours could vary from 10-35 hours/wk depending on when they need me.</p>
<p>Lived off-campus in small apartments or rented a room.</p>
<p>Became addicted to coffee. 7 a.m. Tommyburgers (#1 place for chiliburgers here in LA) were a treat. Ate a lot of spaghetti and rice.</p>
<p>Worked as a researcher for a non-profit advocacy group and as an assistant in a federal agency. Good deals paying at least double minimum wage.</p>
<p>Work study jobs: Freshman year: stacked plates and trays prior to going thru the dishwasher. Also had to wipe down tables and THE WORST JOB OF ALL clean up the cafe after food fights. Ugh, it was the '70s! Sophomore-Senior year: Library Front Desk/Reference Desk. I worked 10-20 hours a week checking out books and shelving periodicals. Loved it when I filled in for the Ref. librarian on weekends, because I got paid a lot more!</p>
<p>Break/summer jobs: Lifeguard in summer. A variety of office jobs on winter and spring breaks through a temp. agency.</p>
<p>My work-study was in the college library, add to that a few hours each week helping my favorite Economics prof with research and also going home to work at the local hospital as an admissions clerk every weekend plus holidays while the “trust fund kids” partied back at campus. And I still had loans on top of that.</p>
<p>Needless to say my D’s won’t be applying to my alma mater since I can’t afford it…</p>
<p>I worked in the University Career office. Back then, representitives from various companies would come there and do on campus interviews with seniors. I did a lot of gopher work, typing, making copies, answering phones, getting the interview rooms set up and getting coffee and snacks for the real office workers. I’m pretty sure I made minimum wage.</p>
<p>In the summers, I worked at a small hospital in my hometown doing EKG’s.</p>
<p>I lived with a paraplegic woman who had advertised for help. Another girl and myself got free room and board, and in exchange we took care of her (in every way) alternate nights and weekends. It was hard work, great benefits, and an unbelievable experience.</p>
<p>Freshman year: food service, including putting pudding slop in little bowls or loading the giant industrial dishwashers. AWFUL job.</p>
<p>Soph-Senior years: various libraries around campus, including the completely empty (read BORING) geography library…!</p>
<p>Junior Year: Worked in the Classics Department answering phones, mimeographing, collating, etc. Easy job. Probably minimum wage.</p>
<p>Senior year: Worked in the fabric and notions store near campus, all day Tuesday and Saturday, about 8 hours each day. Hard job. Probably minimum wage.</p>
<p>Not work study… but I did occasional overnight babysitting for, I think, 50 cents an hour. (That does include sleeping time, at least.) I also got occasional temporary jobs through the student employment office. I had one that involved changing the bedding in the cages of laboratory rats at the med. school. I think it may have paid $2.00 an hour.</p>
<p>Waited tables occasionally in the dining halls when the cash was running low(minimum wage); junior and senior years I was a teaching assistant for several courses (much better pay than the dining halls, but I don’t remember now what it was per semester).</p>