<p>I didn't get any financial aid or work study program at Duke. HOwever, I want to have a job @ Duke (about 10hrs) so I can just have some extra spending money on hand.</p>
<p>Is it easy for freshmen to get jobs? what kind of jobs are available? and is it ok for me to get one starting out first semester? (i'm a person who is more productive when I have a job... weird i know, but it forces me to be productive instead of wasting time on facebook and such :D )</p>
<p>I have 2 jobs next year: Undergraduate writing tutor, and doing research. The first I was recommended for and as for the 2nd, my teacher asked me if I would do it. These jobs came to me, and I was very lucky and am looking so forward to them! I have another friend who is going to be an undergraduate writing tutor as well.</p>
<p>I didn't look for a job freshman year since I didn't know how I would handle the workload yet. But my best friend works at the Duke Coffeehouse a million hours a week because she loves it. I know a few people who have jobs there, it's kind of like working at a cafe and a concert venue and a disco even, if you know how to work the discoball, haha :)</p>
<p>I have a lot of friends working in the various jobs in the cafes around campus, and they applied for the job early on in the year (first semester freshman year).</p>
<p>If you know you work better when you have a lot to do, including a job, then definitely explore your options as soon as possible. Get to know your professors well by the end of each semester, because that's how my opportunities came to me. Do keep in mind though that you might not be able to adjust to your Duke workload as easily as you imagine (some of my friends who had jobs right away ran into that problem), depending what you have in schedule for yourself, so I personally would see how much time I need for studying before choosing any particular job.</p>
<p>it's easy -- there are tons of archived threads asking this same question, so if not everyone replies to this, search for them to see all the suggestions.</p>
<p>anyway, in the beginning of each year there's an undergraduate work and opportunities fair in the bc. the libraries always need students to work (great job - paid to do hw), there's research opportunities which may be harder off the bat, there's working in campus box office, duke coffeehouse, trinity cafe, whatever the old beanery is named now in mcclendon tower (those two are also coffeshops), working in the lobby shop or shop underneath the marketplace, selling snacks or tickets for movie showings on the weekends, office type work in any of the major offices, duke reunions/alumni affairs office, and there's always the telemarketing job at the duke annual fund which makes good money but isn't for everyone.</p>