<p>Let's see, I had three on-campus jobs, one as an undergrad and two as a grad student:</p>
<p>CS 1 Tutor: I tutored the introduction to programming for non-majors course. Even though I was a Political Science major, the CS teacher and I got along great so he hired me. I spent a couple of quarters sitting in the main computer room underneath an "ICS 1 Tutor" sign twice a week. In the entire time not a single person ever asked me for help. I was paid to do homework. The job ruled.</p>
<p>ICS 1 Teaching Assistant: I had my own section of 20 undergrads taking the same course I tutored the year before. My job was to review the professor's lecture and give specific lab assignments. This is where I learned that I have a real knack for teaching and I did a really good job. Even my student assessments were good. The prof who hired me, though, didn't teach every quarter and the other profs only wanted ICS grad students for their classes. Oh, well.</p>
<p>Graduate student reader: I graded papers for the first-year graduate course in systems analysis and design in the Graduate School of Management. This was a great job, especially during fall quarter. I would sit on the floor of my apartment watching college football on television and grading papers. It was a lot of fun trying to figure out a process that would provide the best grading results (the ones my professor agreed with) with the least work.</p>
<p>Looking back on this, I should have stayed for PhD and become a professor, but I didn't want to be an assistant professor, and I didn't want a divorce. Ask a PhD about the divorce rate among PhD candidates sometime...</p>
<p>I had a fun-filled 6-month internship in graduate school with a county government, but I doubt that what this thread is about.</p>
<p>I also worked at Radio Shack, which paid for most of two college degrees for me. I never let anyone insult Radio Shack in my presence -- they were a lot more reliable source of college money than any other organization I dealt with.</p>
<p>As a freshman, S=1 worked in the college theater department carrying lumber around for students building sets as part of their coursework for department productions.</p>
<p>From sophomore to senior years, he found that the nearby synagogue needed teachers. They actually scheduled school on Sunday afternoons, not morning, in order to attract college student teachers. It was a responsible, demanding job with some outside preparation required, but his pay tripled. He loved those l0-year-olds, and continues this as a side job now after graduating. Although he's not fluent in Hebrew, he can teach kids younger than age 13 at an afterschool (not day school) setting. He's a natural teacher. I recommend this job for Jewish college students who are sincere, dedicated, willing to prepare lessons on their own time, and pleasant. My H did this as an undergrad, but early on Sunday mornings with an hour commute by car with others to a rural location. Since he partied plenty every Saturday night, he said the hard part was making up sleep in noisy dorms every Sunday afternoon, until he moved off-campus senior year. You do what you gotta do. </p>
<p>S-2 (freshman) just heard he can be an RA starting sophomore year, and is thrilled. The savings for us on housing are huge, and he gets a single room. They expect him to conduct orientation workshops and be attentive to resolve all kinds of conflicts. I hear from others it is time-consuming and potentially stressful, but he has a good skill set for this situation. The university will provide training during the coming semester. Value: $12K. We were astonished.</p>
<p>I have fond memories of working in the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association, where we planned, cooked and served our own meals and cleaned the dorms (sort of). It was an option to save our parents money, and had no concern whether or not we were already on Financial Aid. This alternative has grown since the l960's when it began as 4 houses, and is now 8 or 9 houses, I believe. At Oberlin, if one doesn't want to co-op, the regular housing/dining plan is available for the majority of students. I worked 8-l0 hours per week baking bread, a lifelong skill I enjoy today, except I now use that little machine in my kitchen.</p>
<p>One of my cousins had what she called the easiest campus job ever. On Saturdays she handed out vacuum cleaners to people on her dorm floor and got paid to do this!!! This was a perfect job for her as she is a somewhat relaxed person anyway and from what she said it required minimal effort.</p>
<p>My other cousin worked in the computer lab during college. Again she said her job pertained mostly to signing people in and out and she basically surfed the internet all day and did homework. Pretty sweet from what she said.</p>
<p>D worked in the library at ASU while an undergrad,then transferred to the Science library which was quieter and where she got lots of time for studying/homework/free computer usage.
When she started Grad School and wanted to supplement her fellowship $$ she easily got hired at the Music Library as a cataloguer.She essentially makes her own hours. Its a skill she could take anywhere to any library system apparently.</p>
<p>i have suggested being an RA, but S says it's the worst job ever. His concept is that all the RA does is get other kids in trouble. ....Not what I remember our RA's doing, but his mind is made up!</p>
<p>Working in a lab or other research facility with a professor is a good one (and one that I did). Being a TA is good if you can get it. I enjoyed being an admissions blogger, but only some schools have those. A lot of people I knew worked desk for their various dorms, which was nice because they could study while they were working.</p>
<p>When I was in college in the late 60s and early 70s, I had the best job ever. I spent 15 minutes a day sorting the mail in my residence hall and putting them in the mailboxes, putting notes in for packages, etc. and got free room and board! Since all the kids in my dorm were friends, if I wanted to go away for the day, I'd just leave a note saying the mail would be sorted later!</p>
<p>My favorite on campus job was driving the double decker buses at UCDavis. I worked around my schedule and it was great exercise. (Back then even the single deck buses didn't have power steering...)</p>
<p>As a chemistry major I worked Res Halls food service, a nonchem major had a different prof- she got to study moon rocks for her lab job! There was a downside, eons ago there weren't the laws regarding har... It was a time when there were waiting lists for food service jobs, now they advertise them in the dorm literature. The downsides of working foodservice were made up for by working with fellow students (we got yelled at by the nonstudent supervisor for singing Chrismas songs too loudly on the scrape line...). As any needy student will tell you, the best job is the one you can get and that helps pay the bills. I can list many jobs that are true motivators for staying in school.</p>
<p>sort of depends on what you want/need: money or convenience/quiet. I worked at a rarely-visited university musuem ions ago -- I sat there reading and occasionally glancing at entering visitors' ID cards. The pay was minimal campus wages, but it certainly was hassle-free. That job still exists, and when I visited the campus recently, I met the person doing it. A pre-med student who appreciates the quiet and ease: gets a lot of studying done.</p>
<p>I work at the Rec Center in what is called the Operations Center. We have two locations and I often work the smaller one. We were busy last night, but normally it is pretty quiet down there and I get to do homework. It's minimum wage, but it's minimum wage to do homework!</p>
<p>My friend works at the front desk of our main residence complex. He also makes minimum wage to sit there and do homework. He says he watches a lot of movies on the computer there. He worked the midnight shift last semester on Saturday nights so he said he enjoyed watching all the drunks come staggering in.</p>
<p>Minimum wage wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that the minimum wage is lower in Missouri than it is in Illinois by almost a dollar! And then he and I both make 50 cents more than the Illinois minimum wage.</p>
<p>$75/hr to tutor the basketball and football players at a big state school (hey, we were even #1 for a week!) isn't so bad. especially when it's all class i've already taken.</p>
<p>One of D's best friends is a campus tour guide. She gets paid well, but particularly well when she give a tour to an athletic recruit. I think she said she gets a little over $40 for one of these athletic recruitment tours - pretty good money for a college student for about 90 minutes work, more or less. She loves to talk and is very peppy, so this role is perfectly suited to her.</p>
<p>So maybe we need to look into these types of jobs when we complain about athletic budgets? $75/hr for a tutor?!? $40 for 90 minutes to do a tour?</p>
<p>I worked in the campus bookstore--great discount! DS works as a tech aid, which means he runs videos, AV equipment, sometimes does sound for visiting musical groups or lectures. The pay is good, and he sees a lot of extracurricular events he probably wouldn't go to. It also is a pick-and-choose-type job, based on your availability.</p>