<p>My friend did this and got a job out of it but she goes to a very small college and there were only like 15 people in the class of the professor she "work studies" for. All of my classes next semester have at least 100 people, except for my speech class has 40. Should I even bother asking, or do you think professors will already have somebody helping them if they even need it (since it is 2nd semester).</p>
<p>How else can I go about finding student employment? I applied to work in the library and at a ticket booth but the positions were already filled :(</p>
<p>Professors don’t need help in their “offices,” but they may need help in their research/scholarly lab. Your friend’s technique will work regardless of the number of students in the class - students at big schools do this all the time. But you have to be willing to do some sort of research or scholarly work; most of the time, professors don’t hire work study students simply to do administrative work (although few professors do have labs big enough for this).</p>
<p>Doesn’t your college have a database of work-study jobs? Ask the work-study coordinator at your school.</p>
<p>Work-study is a specific term referring to campus jobs associated with a financial aid award. There are rules and limiits on the number of hours you can work. Not all campus jobs are work-study, so you might be able to find something privately funded. Unless a prof has a lab/grant, it’s unlikely they will have funding for an employee, unless they want to pay out of pocket for a helper. The department may well have positions (probably work-study) for students to do clerical work, answer the phone etc.</p>
<p>Go through the websites of the professors in your department and look at what their areas of research are. If there are any that you are strongly interested in, consider talking to the professor to see if they need research assistants. Sometimes professors will state that they are looking for RAs on their website.</p>
<p>You could try that for other departments that interest you too.</p>
<p>Go to their office hours, do well in the class, and they’ll remember you when they’re in need of help to meet a publishing deadline or they know someone who does. In a huge class, you could also accomplish this by spending time with the grad student TA. This is how i landed research work. ORNCKG, i don’t know what you mean by this. Work-study is paid. I’m going to reach the limit on work-study funds at just 12 hours/wk. The only diff is the fed pays for most of it, which professors jump at.</p>
<p>Total misrepresentation of work-study. There are a variety of positions available. All it means is that the government pays some of your salary and the place you work at pays the other part. It’s a win-win for everyone. The student gets a job that doesn’t count against their financial aid at at least minimum wage and the employer only has to pay a few dollars per hour.</p>
<p>I actually really like my work-study job and most other students I know who also have work-study like it as well. My university offers work-study in every area from the Theatre department to office assistants to volunteering to teach kids how to read.</p>
<p>At my job, if there’s down time (which there’s a lot of), then I can do homework. They schedule around my class schedule and if I need to leave early or come in late because of a school break or a test or a project or a meeting or whatever, I can.</p>
<p>Call your school’s financial aid office and ask them for a list of available jobs.</p>