<p>DD had work study for her first year but not now. Her student ambassador job is not work study. Her college has a LOT of jobs on campus for students who do not have work study.</p>
<p>I was recently doing project for school where we had to find a job and then budget a life around our wages. It was eye opening to say the least (especially shopping for insurance...).</p>
<p>The imaginary job that I took was being a tutor for a private test prep company (the job couldn't require a college degree). The only requirements were standardized test scores in the 95+ %tile. Hours were flexible, between 2-20 hrs. a week, evenings or weekends and the pay was great ($18-28/ hr depending on the specific company). All of this was off actual job listings from craigslist and there were test prep listings in every major city. Seems like the perfect job for a smart college kid.</p>
<p>davnasca, why bother with that, if you can get $75 an hour to tutor football players? I WANNA be a tutor. I'll give up my current job and MOVE to tutor football players. Where is this undergraduate job garden of eden?</p>
<p>Me too! I can tutor football players......</p>
<p>My d gave tours and also has been a paid notetaker for a couple years. I believe her school has about 10% hearing impaired students and these students have the choice to register for deaf classes or mainstreamed classes. They are provided sign language interpreters and notetakers - fellow hearing classmates who take notes, allowing the hearing impaired students to watch and listen to the teachers, without having to look down and take notes. My d gets paid to attend her class(es) and take notes - something she should be doing anyway... She also gets paid to work at tailgate parties, which she would be attending anyway.</p>
<p>My son hasn't gotten an official job yet because his school gives freshmen scholarships to cover their work study freshman yr, so they can acclimate to the college environment. BUT he managed to get paid to be part of a study that follows freshman weight gain. He gets weighed several times a yr and gets paid for his trouble ($50). I believe he's looking for a tutoring job or research position for next yr.</p>
<p>S worked as a community service officer - working with the university police department. Duties varied and included patrolling the campus, sitting at the security desk of a library (got a lot of studying done), serving as security at big campus events (saves the money of buying tickets), and even standing guard at a crime scene (dead body found in a parking garage).</p>
<p>D has tutored and is now an RA for a professor in her major field of study.</p>
<p>None of these jobs were work-study.</p>
<p>Oldfort: Yes, usually nude.</p>
<p>I had some awesome campus jobs: cook in a kosher kitchen (got to plan menus, organize volunteers, order supplies from a wholesaler and go grocery shopping, plus cook and serve the food), reunion ambassador (accompany 90-somethings around campus), and research fellow (learn about an area of interest and eat lunch every week with other students and faculty working on related projects). All these paid about $8 an hour. Also, while it wasn't an official college job, I really liked babysitting and dogwalking.</p>
<p>Another popular job where I went to school was working in the on-campus day care center or campus elementary school (teacher aide, crossing guard, lunch monitor, etc.)</p>
<p>Office/Clerical Assistant - Invaluable skills that translate over into the working world. Pay is usually on the higher end at most colleges and universities.</p>
<p>My daughter is a first year and works in the rare books collections of her university library. She has handled Vonnegut correspondnce and Bach written music, among other documents. The other assistant is a female (spouse of a graduate student) who has been a roller derby pro.
My daughter gets paid $11 and change per hour.</p>
<p>danas: Awesome job, especially the Bach.</p>
<p>D works in Provost's office and enjoys meeting the professors and mucky-mucks on a casual basis.</p>
<p>I worked cataloguing the Yeats archives that had been donated. What a headache. Thousands upon thousands of xeroxed papers in no special order in hundreds of boxes.</p>
<p>I always worked as a nude model. My first time I thought, "What if I take off my robe and I'm not supposed to?" It was a very difficult job because the model cannot interact with the students at all; it is very objectifying and I was glad to give it up when other work arrived.</p>
<p>where did i find my football tutoring job? a girl from my sorority used to do it, but since she's graduating it opened up and i had a few great rec letters.</p>
<p>thank you to the taxpayers from my state and to an up and coming college sports team for paying!! :)</p>
<p>oh, and the cute boys aren't so bad either.</p>
<p>Good for you for being game and brave re: the modeling, mythmom.<br>
And for moving on.
I've always been impressed with people who have pushed the envelope from the feminist perspective. By that I mean acting in ways that would split advocates of feminism into supporters and detractors.
Perhaps this has something to do with my daughter being an accomplished ballet dancer. Not exactly politically correct. Yet athletic and empowering just the same. It is a visual art form, where beauty counts. Talk about controversial in today's environment.</p>
<p>danas: With you. Have a D who is an avid feminist, ballet dancer and flutist! She picked the flute and always said, "I wish I'd taken up the drums."</p>
<p>She also always wore pink as a girl! Still a feminist!</p>