<p>So, what are the best and the worst? And are they usually all mininum wage?</p>
<p>I work at the writing center. It’s minimum wage but it’s so fun. You get to help people with their papers and feel really accomplished at the end of the day, but if no one comes in you get to do homework and hang out. It’s the best.</p>
<p>I think one of the worst jobs is in the cafeteria because you’re constantly working and doing boring jobs like doing dishes. I have friends that work in the library and all they do is walk around and clean while getting yelled at constantly by their supervisor. So I would think the worst jobs are the ones with the worst bosses!</p>
<p>Library is not bad.</p>
<p>Depends on what you believe constitutes “good.” </p>
<p>IMO, good jobs are those that augment your resume, rather than pay well. Thus, I would rather have a minimum-wage internship (or research position) than a job at the campus gym making $10/hour.</p>
<p>Just about any job is a good job though - it shows future employers that you can do more than just study.</p>
<p>Stay away from campus security jobs. Low pay and putting your life on the line for ungrateful students. You’d also have to put up with the mall cop/mall ninja wannabes.</p>
<p>It really depends on the job and school.
I’ve had two off-campus jobs through the U. Neither were minimum wage and I loved them. It seems that generally the less skilled the job (checking out books, dishing out food vs working as a tutor or something) the lower the pay.</p>
<p>Teaching is a good and fun job (if you like it)… Lab assistant is also a good one, as it gets you in to a research position later. However, these jobs are reasonably demanding - If you’re looking for a “cushy” job, anything involving the library and/or computer lab administrator should be easy.</p>
<p>I’m a freshman, so not depend on me…these are from some of the people I’ve met in summer and orientation.</p>
<p>Good- Residential telephone person. Sit in a room with AC and a fridge nearby, and you can bring a laptop with you to work.You pick up and answer the calls, and if you don’t know the answer…you transfer the call to the appropriate department! You don’t need to run errands or anything, just answer phone calls that’s made to the Housing office. Boring, but quite simple. Flexible times, decent wage, and you get 5 credit hours for “college services” (4 credits is the max if you take normal classroom academic classes).</p>
<p>Bad- Campus student traffic director. You stand near the entrance to the campus, directing the cars to go to either the “with permit” lots or the “guest” lots. Work in the sun from 8am to around 2pm, with just a cold bottle of water to last you all shift. You work rain or shine, and we have 14 student traffic directors at 12 parking lots around campus. Pay is great, as compensation for the work and pain…but not worth it according to some.</p>
<p>You can get credits for working? What a waste of credits.</p>
<p>This doesn’t qualify so much as an “on-campus” job (unless you’re an editor really) but I write for my school’s newspaper (sports section) and it’s really nice. They assign me a beat (usually a specific team) and I write previews/recaps for that team. The good thing is that I only write when they have tournaments (which is usually one every week or two) so it’s relaxed and doesn’t take up too much time. Plus, I get paid in the form of honorariums, although it’s basically a salary because every few weeks they send out checks based on how much you’ve written during the time period that just passed.</p>
<p>But yeah, it only becomes a really big time commitment if you’re an editor or you write many articles for news/opinion but it’s not too bad and the pay is nice.</p>
<p>I’m not really sure about the “worst” jobs. From what I can tell, a library job seems kind of boring since you mostly just monitor people, check ID’s, that sort of stuff. At my school they have library monitors who sit near the entrance (just to check people coming in/out) and most of the time they’re all just socializing and doing homework or getting bored. I guess it’s nice if you get paid and you don’t care what you’re doing really.</p>
<p>Best: Paid research</p>
<p>Worst: Dishwasher</p>
<p>Best I’ve had was office aide. I would fax and scan stuff, answer phones, and work on reimbursement. Occasionally I’ll clean the break room, but that is about it.</p>
<p>Worst was concessions, which is similar to a caf job but more travel and no set hours. The boss people were just jerks (I got yelled at because I said I was having a real issue getting somewhere because the buses didn’t run that far on weekends and it was a good 30 walk). You were never allowed to sit down or look at your phone (there were no clocks in some places). They would cancel your shift with no notice (I had a shift canceled as I walked to it). I ended up quitting because they refused to factor in the fact I had an online class into how many hours I could work, I ended up having about 45 hours of homework over the summer but they didn’t buy it. I had been told during football season people work two 13 hour shifts with about 5 hours of sleep between them during home games.</p>
<p>Tracy, I just applied to the Student Parking Assistance Job at my school. I’m a referee so Im used to those conditions as well as being hated by everyone :p</p>
<p>Pay is also better than the other on-campus jobs so it shouldn’t be too bad</p>
<p>The worst on campus jobs are golden compared to cleaning bathrooms somewhere else.</p>
<p>I worked in the dining hall for a semester. For all of it, I was a cashier but for about two weeks, I was a food server. I HATED being a food server with a passion. It was hot as hell, people would be total pricks, and I hated having to scrape burned on cheese off the grill for an hour a night. Plus, I stayed sick a LOT during the first part of the semester and felt icky about working around food that closely when I had to cough or blow my nose every 5 seconds.
So, I quit the food server shift and was just a cashier. It was really boring because all I did was stand there and swipe cards for a four or five hours at a time. But it was easy and I learned all 196 countries doing that. I felt semi-productive in my boredom.</p>