<p>Delivered newspapers and was a research assistant.</p>
<p>When delivering newspapers, it took me until Thanksgiving to realize that it would be better to take all of the newspapers to the top floor of a tall building, and work my way down, rather than the reverse.</p>
<p>One of the more interesting jobs I had was translating a book about indigenous housing in Senegal from French into English for one of my professors.</p>
<p>First time around, I worked at the Electrical Engr office doing photocopying for the profs and I also had a job watering plants in the greenhouse. Second time around, I worked in the computer lab and the writing lab.</p>
<p>I played a lovely grand piano all day every Saturday in a department store called the Bon Marche (finally bought out by Macy’s a few years back). I earned $10 an hour and thought I had struck it rich.</p>
<p>I worked 15 hours/week in the admissions office, mostly filing. There was a LOT of filing. Light typing, and the addressograph machine–remember them?</p>
<p>Another work/study job was, I guess, “receptionist” in the office of an interesting guy who had a lovely library which I was free to use when I wasn’t doing anything else. That was the best!</p>
<p>I worked in a bar and cleaned suites on campus. So much for the “study” part of “work -study.” ;)</p>
<p>In graduate school, my H waitered at a very nice restaurant. They were very nice, and he had some wonderful free dinners there. It was not work/study though. On breaks he painted homes.</p>
<p>Not work study - I worked for BofA for 3 years, about 20 hrs./wk. in a great OLD building in Westwood. Opened new accounts, ran the proof machine to cancel checks, filed cancelled checks, stuffed the statement envelopes with cancelled checks, operated the phone switchboard (ala Lily Tomlin’s Earnestine). The manager eventually promoted me to assistant student loan officer processing FISL loans (Stafford today). I don’t remember the max amount, but I do recall more students requesting loans for trade schools than for the university.</p>
<p>My work-study job (after freshman year) was to staff the front desk and kiosk at the Student Center. This involved getting up and onto campus from my off-campus home at 6am most mornings, bringing in the bundles of newspapers and magazines and sorting them, selling tickets and cigarettes (!) and bulk candy and handling the register, and answering the phonecalls and in-person visits from students and others asking about times and locations and availability of specific magazines and munchies. :)</p>
<p>Two favorite memories about that job:
– Sunday mornings, showing up in the mist on campus at 6am, birds just beginning to chirp, bringing in the Sunday paper and assembling and laying them out, grabbing a copy of the Sunday crossword and turning on some soothing music, sitting back in the desk chair to sip my morning coffee and watch the campus slowly come alive.
– The bulk candy in the back half of the kiosk was tempting. Our very smart manager told us when we were hired that we could snack all we wanted. Within 2 weeks, I never wanted to see candy again in my life. (Well, that’s what it seemed like at the time, hah.)</p>
<p>We were paid minimum wage for that job; it was probably $2.50 an hour at that point, perhaps less. It was a great job for a gregarious person who wanted to be in the center of things.</p>
<p>Worked for food service mostly checking people in to the dining halls and collecting money. Also did work in the science labs - everything from washing test tubes to conducting research for faculty. Did a lot of real babysitting and worked in the on campus nursery school. I used to occasionally type papers for people as well.</p>
<p>The work-study jobs on campus were at the Deli in the Student Union. I would pre-weigh portions, take orders or run the register, Anpther year I worked in the Library processing in new acquisitions. This entailed typing up catalog cards, putting protective covers on the dust jackets and affixing the catalog number labels before the books were put into circulation.</p>
<p>Future H, other friends and I also did some work for a temp agency; jobs like overnight inventory at K-Mart, factory line work on the third shift to help the company meet a deadline.</p>
<p>Summers I went back to the same job I had in HS–keypunch operator- putting data holes computer cards. The little family run business I worked for entered the results of the famous ‘Harris Surveys’ polls.</p>
<p>My on-campus job was working in the dishroom at the dining hall … for 2 years … pretty good motivator to get my grades up!</p>
<p>You didn’t ask for advice but I’ll throw some out there … there were more interesting jobs available including some I would have considered great … but those (few) jobs went to the kids who were either the most assertive seeking them out (I love this library, will there be any jobs here next semester?) or, even better yet, were assertive in talking someone into creating a new job (Ms. Athletic Director … it would be great if our sports media guides were available on-line … I could work 10-15 hours a week on that project next semester).</p>
<p>I worked behind a bar (sloshing beer/wine), for the athletic dept (typing address labels), at an attorney’s office (Friday afternoons… catch-up typing), cleaned the house once a week for a woman who broke both her legs skiing, and as a pool lifeguard one summer session. I made $$ anyway I could (well, not ANY way, but MANY ways).</p>
<p>My workstudy job for 3 years was working in the Financial Aid office, mostly filing. Might be why I hate to deal with paper now…Senior year I was the office assistant in the college owned student apartments. Basically, unlocked doors for those who forgot their keys, did my homework, watched soap operas, and called my Mom on the school’s dime most every day.</p>
<p>I don’t think it was work study, but: Undergrad, worked as a lab helper in the cancer research lab (washing test tubes, cutting up dead mice, lab stuff.) A zillion part time jobs - furniture mover, yard work, psych experiment subject, bought & sold cars and motorbikes - you name it. Law school - shelving books in the law library (updating loose-leaf binders - ugh!) A couple of gigs as a research assistant for law professors (research for articles and working on briefs for pro bono litigation) TA’d for undergrad classes in business and poli sci. It was fun.</p>
<p>For 18 months I worked in a lab and was paid while I also received credit. We skinned rats and made ‘rat frappes’ for whole body analysis studies. We also did some biochemical analysis work and other lab things. I say we because I did it with 2 friends and it was terrific. For the next 2 years I worked in the freshman section of the dean for student affairs office. While there my ‘boss’ (current H) and I (grand and chief petty bureaucrats by job title) planned freshman orientation, matched students with advisors, and generally supported the professional Dean’s Office staff as they did all the freshman-related work. Eventually my (now)H became emeritus and I took on the GPB role. In med school I taught Stanley Kaplan SAT and MCAT prep classes, of course. There is no ‘work-study’ in med school but I had no money so had to do something. </p>
<p>I liked working while I was in school. It was a chance to use parts of the brain that would have atrophied otherwise…</p>
<p>I don’t remember having the option of work study but I did work in production for a typesetting/newspaper company, which was a fine fit with my major of graphic design. Later I co-oped and worked at wonderful design firms in 3 different cities.</p>
<p>I got better grades in college as soon as I started working.</p>