<p>dining hall server–also worked banquets on weekends–met Billy Graham!
waitress at Frisch’s Big Boy (80 cents/hour + tips)
receptionist/file clerk at medical lab
hostess at Ponderosa Steak House
runner/researcher at law firm
did research for a couple of professors in law school (best job by far–paid well & could work in a/c library)</p>
<p>on campus:</p>
<p>SAGA employee (food service)
usher for the arts and lectures series …LOVED that !!!
towel, equipment and ewwww jock strap hander outer/collector at the field-house</p>
<p>Off Campus</p>
<p>The Gap Sales Clerk
Bus person
restaurant hostess
weighing pear boxes in the packing sheds…this paid the best but ugh!</p>
<p>Working as a nursind assistant in a state geriatric/psychiatric hospital. Had to wear a full white uniform including slip (if wearing a dress) and stockings…not air conditioned, old, narrow brick hallways and “wards”. It was brutally hot and incredibly hard work. But it paid very well, for then.</p>
<p>On campus:
School newspaper --I used a huge old machine that printed the addresses of alumni on the papers, did layouts, wrote a little.</p>
<p>Off campus:
secretary at an oilfield supply co.<br>
bartender-- a great way to make a living while in school</p>
<p>Forgot about grad school:
worked in a law firm library, updating periodicals
collected delinquent property taxes
clerked at a law firm</p>
<p>High school-
Loading watermelons
High dollar mens clothing store
Road construction in Miami (waaay underage)</p>
<p>College-
Worked in the cafeteria pens - truly hideous
jeans store (my best job ever)</p>
<p>Law school-
still at the jeans store (it was like stealing)
runner/clerk/gofer/printing press operator for my current law partner (He owned an insurance company at the time.)
Legal Aid</p>
<p>on-campus: food service (dishroom!), admissions office, PR office.</p>
<p>off-campus (summers, holiday breaks): waitress, tele-marketing researcher.</p>
<p>These jobs gave me respect and generosity toward people in the food-service and telemarketing industry. I now tip generously (I know they are making about $3 an hour, salary, and often problems are the cook’s fault…) and never rudely hang up or yell at telemarketers (as some of my friends do–I realize it’s just some college kid, not a rep from the corporation to whom I’d be ‘sending a message’).</p>
<p>On campus - recreation supervisor
Off campus - waitressing, banquet waitressing, teaching swimming</p>
<p>On campus:
Messenger for administrative offices
Filing for career services office (then called “vocational planning and placement”)</p>
<p>Summers:
Federal government clerk/typist (three summers)
Insurance company clerk/typist (one summer, and it was horrible)</p>
<p>It was the 1960s, and I was a girl, so I typed ;)</p>
<p>Waiting tables.
Cleaning the football stadium after football games. 75,000 LSU fans on Saturday night, and I get to clean the bathrooms on Sunday.
Donating blood plasma (technically not a job, but surprisingly good money)
Answering phones after hours at a realty company</p>
<p>I started working while I was still in HS, so I’ll list those jobs too:</p>
<p>HS Jobs:
salesgirl in dept store - 1 yr
waitress at resort - summer and weekends during school year
law firm - clerical/messenger - 3 months (left for more fun job)
educational toy company - clerical/messenger/“actess” for educational films/checked kits returned to company for defects/took sample GED tests from books they were publishing so they could cross check answers to find mistakes - 6 months pt + summer before college</p>
<p>College
on-campus
administrative work/tutor - (work study job)</p>
<p>off-campus
receptionist/customer service
administrative
babysitter</p>
<p>summers
receptionist at health club
camp counselor
administrative</p>
<p>Also, I worked for temp agencies during my school breaks - usually as a front desk receptionist, but sometimes typing or assiting on special projects. Usually, those were nice, easy jobs for decent money.</p>
<p>OK, I’ll show my age here, but I’ll bet I’m the only CCer who did this during college:</p>
<ul>
<li>switchboard operator.<br></li>
</ul>
<p>and, while attending school in Germany:</p>
<ul>
<li>hat check at a Hilton Hotel</li>
</ul>
<p>OK, top that.</p>
<p>I can probably come close. Does a PBX machine count? I also worked at a soda fountain in high school. I made old fashioned sodas, milkshakes, vanilla cokes, cherry dr. peppers, etc.<br>
What a shock the first day was to my 15 year old self— standing on my feet for 8 hours, dipping ice cream, etc.</p>
<p>High school summer - punched Fortran cards (my mom was a statistics professor at the state U in town and got me the job) - how’s that for dating myself?</p>
<p>Also high school summers - typed envelopes to send mailings to upcoming freshmen (my dad was the Hillel director on campus).</p>
<p>College summer jobs - movie theater (saw every part of The Longest Day about ten times) then Dairy Queen the next two years - a yummy job.</p>
<p>College - freshman year - mailroom in the dorm.</p>
<p>Sophomore year - started as a waitress at the Delta Restaurant-Pizzeria; quit at Thanksgiving since I couldn’t get time off; was the only one still working who had started in the fall (yes, that bad). Then I worked in the fancy student union restaurant where I learned to serve flaming Chateaubriand and to debone fish; worked there the next year too.</p>
<p>Forgot…probably I pushed it out of my memory…day camp counselor at a very pricey camp. I swore I’d NEVER have kids.</p>
<p>summer jobs:</p>
<p>lifeguard at swimming pool - This was more fun than work, but didn’t pay very well.</p>
<p>aerosol paint can factory assembly line - Dangerous, messy work that paid well. Cans regularly exploded, and I had many tiny dots of different color paint in my long hair. The factory had a huge explosion a couple of years later when I wasn’t there anymore. </p>
<p>different factory assembly line attaching plastic spigots to plastic bags meant to hold milk at cafeterias. This was safer, and I earned quite a bit of money. The regular FT workers worked at lightning speed because the more pieces that you finished, the more you got paid. </p>
<p>Going back to college always looked so good after this kind of work.</p>
<p>I was a co-op student start to finish, alternating 12 weeks of work & 12 weeks of school for 5 years. I worked in a manufacturing headquarters, so had assignments in engineering, maintenance, production, public relations, material control, finance, sales, marketing, etc. Some assignments were boring, but some were pretty cool. All in all, it was pretty sweet.</p>
<p>I am paying my dues now, after taking so many years off to stay home with the kids. I have had crummier jobs in the past few years than I had when I was young! The worst? Cleaning houses. HARD work!! And then I had to go home & clean my own.</p>
<p>During school year: pizza cook</p>
<p>Summers: green chain operator in a sawmill (where trees turn into lumber - Noisy, HARD HARD HARD dangerous work. Glad I don’t have to work there anymore!)</p>