<p>My D’s classmate, a film major at Barnard, volunteered to be the film critic for Columbia University TV. Her duties include attending three new movies each week. She gets two tickets to each. She took DD to see Pride and Prejudice, which ironically was the work of fiction DD used for her application essay.
Anybody else find some college jobs or ECs that were not around when we were there?</p>
<p>One job my older son found while a junior in college, and continues now that he has graduated, is translating over the Internet. He works through a translation company that forwards him files from Japan, which he either translates or edits, if they are already translated. It is a part-time job, which he usually works on late at night, since he is a night owl.</p>
<p>Certainly could do that when I was in college, since there WAS no Internet!</p>
<p>My S has a job recording concerts and recitals at Juilliard. Attends for free, and gets nicely paid, for setting up the equipment and watching the concert.</p>
<p>When I was in college (early 70’s) I got a summer job as the second-tier music reviewer at the local paper, where I worked days as a copyboy (yes, that was the job title) (I was the first female copyboy they had). No one else wanted to work nights and review the small clubs (and the pay was $10 for the review, if I remember). Got to see Jackson Browne and Wynton Marsalis–both at tiny clubs that sat fewer than 200. The jobs were out there, just didn’t pay anything! Saw some truly dreadful acts as well.</p>
<p>Jobs that did not exist when I was in college: tech support. Most slots are filled by students.</p>
<p>my d works in computer services- I wager those jobs weren’t around 30 years ago
BTW while poking on her CUS website I ran across this
*Recently it was announced that many bicycle locks can be opened with a 12-cent Bic pen. CIS has discovered that the same approach also works on some laptop lockdown cables, including some cables that we provided for use with College-owned laptops. We have successfully (easily, in fact) used a pen to unlock several of these cable locks.</p>
<p>Photographs of vulnerable and non-vulnerable locks are shown below. DO NOT TRUST VULNERABLE LOCKS TO PROVIDE ANY SECURITY. You should keep your computer physically secured by other means, such as in a locked office or a locked drawer. If you aren’t sure if your lock is of a vulnerable design, please bring it to the Help Desk during business hours so we can look at it with you.*
<a href=“http://web.reed.edu/cis/news/locks.html[/url]”>http://web.reed.edu/cis/news/locks.html</a></p>
<p>I read an article about students used in a double blind test for viagara. $15 an hour for doing what many do naturally at that age. Popular science mag…lists human lab rat as number 1 worst job in science…UCSD students were paid to have a nerve agent/pesticide sprayed in their eyes. hmmm.</p>
<p>When I was in school I was paid to read. They hooked up lasers toward my eye to measure how my eye moved across the page as I read from a screen. It turns out they didn’t move across the page, they moved down the center.</p>
<p>Tech suppport jobs at MIT in the early '70s were certainly the domain of students. I can remember bringing “Stan the Geek” (who was a wonderful guy) homemade cookies at 3AM so he’d run my stack of cards in front of all the other overnight compilations! (Normally, you submitted your card stack and got it back the next day, but I discovered that Stan was bored and lonely–he ran the computer from midnight to 6AM for his work study job–and that he could be talked into a few runs every shift.) </p>
<p>I also made money as a human lab rat, testing varieties of nutritional yeast and soy bacon. Many of my friends made money that way. It was a great job, because they provided food as well as cash, which really cut down on the expenses! (The soy bacon was dreadful, and we had to eat 4 slices at breakfast and 4 slices at lunch for 8 weeks!)</p>
<p>Dmd:</p>
<p>My college days must be well before yours! My H remembers those IBNM punch cards. I don’t remember anyone helping him with those.</p>
<p>Oh, Marite, you’ve brought back memories. My H (then boyfriend) had a job while we were college students with those awful punchcards. I remember helping him one weekend and swearing that I’d never do it again!</p>
<p>mardad, I worked as a reviewer when in college, too, so that one isn’t new! My D does the same thing now for her college paper, only she reviews plays which is even better, in my opinion. Comps for any show she wants reviewed is a pretty good deal!</p>
<p>My roommate worked as a keypuncher, a skill her mother insisted she learn so that she’d always be able to support herself.:)</p>
<p>Did there used to be student-run businesses? My kid works for the student-run bartending agency and mentioned possibly spending the summer writing for the student-run guidebook, which would get him lots of free tickets and free meals as well as a good salary. (He has to pay for housing, though, so it might not happen) </p>
<p>He also just played his first paid jazz gig since he’s been in college – nothing new about that, I guess, except that a jazz musician getting paid something is always cause for celebration. My cousin used to play in a country western bar while going to Brandeis, an image that always made me laugh.</p>