<p>4 hours at a donut shop, not invited back, not sorry</p>
<p>5 years as a bagger and then grocery clerk in a union grocery store. Good money at the time.</p>
<p>Goaliedad, I’m glad I made you chuckle! Don’t mind me, I take everything so literally!</p>
<p>I was a campus bookstore clerk, pizza maker, YMCA childcare counselor (and one blissful year abroad where I didn’t work at all but took out a loan to cover some costs).</p>
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<p>Actually Goaliedad, the servers could be under age…but <em>I</em> was mixing the drinks!! But back then the drinking age was 18.</p>
<p>So you got to mix 'em eh Thumper? Unfortunately, we only had a wine/beer permit. But to this day, I can get any keg to pour with the right amount of foam. And I don’t even drink the stuff.</p>
<p>What I’ve noticed so far is that we have a hard working bunch of folks here. Nobody here started at the top. Setting a good example.</p>
<p>Salesgirl - full time during the summer and school breaks
Mopped floors after school sponsored beer parties with a few other students - payment was a crisp $5 bill
Assistant in the career advising office</p>
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<li>Gofer in the university PR office.</li>
<li>Regular babysitter for a kid from 6 mo. to 2 years old.</li>
<li>Groundskeeper in a cemetery.</li>
<li>Intern at a Wall St. bank (very well paid - it was great!)</li>
<li>Summer cop on Martha’s Vineyard</li>
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<p>High school summers - sort of a combination of maintenance man’s assistant and garbage man at a vacation resort. Had a wide variety of duties. First learned how to drive by driving the garbage truck.</p>
<p>College:
Telephone sales -miserable job cold calling people to try to sell them tickets to the circus.
Cannery - working on the line canning green beans. Hot, noisy, steamy, mind-numbing work. After a while my high potential was recognized and I got promoted to beets. Only the elite got picked for the beet line. I got 7 cents more per hour for beets too.
Painter/Maintenance man - worked in the US Public Health Service clinic at an Indian boarding school.</p>
<p>Psychiatric hospital, Nurse’s Assistant - highpoint: sat with patients watching Neil Armstrong’s first walk on the moon.</p>
<p>H1 was a nightclub bouncer during the school year and worked construction (operated a jackhammer) summers.</p>
<p>H2 sandblasted the inside of chemical rail cars (full hazmat gear) in the summers and tutored athletes in math during the school year.</p>
<p>I can’t believe I actually forgot one of my jobs: working in the Univ cafeteria helping the chef for breakfast during my freshman year. He did the cooking and I did everything else since not many kids got up for breakfast. I actually picked this job because it forced me to have some structure in my life and I was getting really off track before then. Since I had to be at work at 6 (or even earlier) it meant I couldn’t party all night.</p>
<p>The chef and I became friends and I recruited several friends of mine to work all night at a chicken farm “moving” chickens (4 in each hand at a time) from one set of cages to another to make room for a new delivery of chicks (which never showed up). Since we had free time while we were waiting, we got to run the egg sorter machine and weigh by hand every egg the sorter classified as jumbo. Only one night, decent money and definitely memorable. Friends weren’t enthralled.</p>
<p>Security guard at a ceremony- graveyard shift no pun intended- also had a very cool job in junior and senior year. Worked at all the HYP alumni clubs as a floater in NYC with the local union. Worked at the Princeton, Harvard , Yale, University Clubs and the coolest club the Yacht Club! I learned a tremendous amount but learned a valueable lesson. That the typical sterotype of HYP grads was not true. While some may have gained admission due to legacies the majority were very nice very bright people. I learned that there was a reason why they were accepted to the HYP schools and I was not!</p>
<p>Paid jobs only (although some just paid a stipend, which occasionally worked out to less than minimum wage):</p>
<p>Undergrad (during school year):
babysitter
dog-walker
research assistant for professor and policy organization
reunion ambassador/housekeeping
dishwasher
cook/business manager for a student-run kitchen
treasurer for co-op house</p>
<p>Undergrad (summers):
administrative/pr work for a bond ratings company
data collection/analysis for a federal statistical agency
intern at an affordable housing development company</p>
<p>Grad (during school year):
babysitter
religious school teacher
editor/indexer for a professor
teaching assistant</p>
<p>Grad (during summer):
clerk at nonprofit legal clinic
clerk at law firm</p>
<p>During school I worked in the student bookstore (work study job–great!)</p>
<p>And then there was the Summer–one summer I worked as a security guard for a company that provided security for summer concerts–state fairs etc. I always worked backstage because I was a girl and not enormous. I got to touch Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) and was a hero to several boys in my dorm. </p>
<p>To counter THAT fun-filled summer, the next year I sorted bottles in a beer warehouse. Ewwww, much chewing tobacco on toes. But learned to drive a forklift. But, ewwww, those bottles…those were the days before rubber gloves, shudder.</p>
<p>I know there were more jobs, but those stand out.</p>
<p>Before college I did retail sales and was a receptionist in a real estate office.<br>
During college I had a dream job for summers and college breaks. I was one of the fortunate ones selected to work at Disneyland. There I was a “Greeter”, worked in Fantasyland, Main Gate and special events. The pay was generous and I learned great lessons in marketing.</p>
<p>during school … washing dishes at the dining hall</p>
<p>summers …
before freshman … convenience store and lifeguard
after freshman … NAVY ROTC tour and convenience store
after sophomore … short order cook and 2nd job as video parlor attendent (at beach resort)
after junior year … worked in student loan department of finance company and 2nd job as painter
after senior year … summer intern in operations research major </p>
<p>nothing too exciting … but got lots of hours and paid the bills</p>
<p>I was an older commuting college student with a family of my own. One winter quarter I was a nanny for a single dad who worked 4 ten-hour night shifts in a hospital. My husband was farming and had more down time in the winter to care for our own two kids. I would leave home Monday at 6 AM for 8:00 class 95 miles away, then spend the rest of the day in the library or computer lab and go to my nanny job a little before 8 each evening, got the two kids ready for bed and then studied for a few more hours before sleeping on the sofa…up at 5:30, prepared myself for the day and made breakfast for the dad to share with his kids when he got home; I dropped the girls off at school on my way to class, and their dad slept until time to pick them up. It wasn’t something I would have wanted to do long-term, since I was away from home all week and didn’t really have a place to call my own, but it was a good solution for both families, giving that single dad maximum at-home and awake time with his kids, and I earned some money rather than paying for all the extra gas commuting plus hotel costs when the roads were just too bad to be safe.</p>
<p>Hmm, I’ve got a varied list as I’ve worked since the age of 12 for pay but here goes…</p>
<p>Junior High/HS
-Babysitting jobs
-Ice cream shop (my first real paycheck-made $2.15/hr)
-Worked childcare for summer migrant program
-Administrative Assistant for migrant program director
-Nurses Assistant at MR/DD facility</p>
<p>Post HS/College
-Cleaned boats at city yacht club (shores of Lake Erie)
-NA at same MR/DD facility (first yr when I came home)
-Dept. Teacher’s Assistant (TA)-UC group facilitation
-Personal Asst in a spinal cord injury ind. living comm.
-Orderly/lab runner at Children’s Hospital
-Orderly/lab runner at University Hospital (was in an elevator with a dead body once when power/lights went out and unexpectedly came back on after about 5 minutes)-the morgue was in a building with gargoyles on it
-Valet Parking at University Hospital-once parked Dave Thomas’s (Wendy’s CEO) car- he tipped me $20.
-Another job at MR/DD facility in college town vs. home
-Tutored for Office of Disability Services (one of my dyslexic students went to the Olympic trials in swimming) </p>
<p>Bunches of other volunteer positions during summers- Special Needs Arts Festivals, Special Olympics, local Physical Therapy dept, Wheelchair Games, Big Brothers/Sisters</p>
<p>Walked through acres of soybean fields taking soil samples. Two hot summers of this for the State of Illinois.</p>
<p>Delivered three different newspapers on campus soph thru senior years, and was manager of newspaper delivery service senior year.</p>
<p>Pluses (or negatives depending on yr pov): </p>
<p>Done by 7:30 am every day
Excellent exercise (no elevators in dorms)</p>
<p>Negatives (or positives depending on yr pov):</p>
<p>Had to put up with male student who timed his trip to bathroom in his birthday suit to coincide with my arrival on his (all-male) hall</p>
<p>Had to suffer through compulsory dinner at the Playboy Club in Boston where New York Times salesmen were trying to persuade their college reps (all male except me) that the NYT needed to be marketed.</p>