Summer Jobs

Student Lounge College Life
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<li>What is your job?</li>
<li>What is your salary?</li>
<li><p>How did you get your job? Through a parent? A friend? Your school's career counseling office? etc.</p></li>
<li><p>Lifeguard at Childcare Network</p></li>
<li><p>$10/hr (I've been working there for three summers now)</p></li>
<li><p>I went onto my state employment website. I believe nearly every state in the US has it. In North Carolina, it's <a href="http://www.ncesc.org%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.ncesc.org&lt;/a>. Once I registered and stuff, I clicked "Find a Job" and applied for up to three jobs a day (the maximum I could). I got several emails back, showing interest, but the lifeguarding job caught my attention because they were REALLY in need of a guard. I was already certified, so I simply renewed my Red Cross CPR and First Aid certificates, went in, filled out W-2 and W-4 forms, and started in early June. They didn't even give me an interview, and the hours are fantastic.</p></li>
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<p>They asked me back the next summer, and then they asked me back this summer as well. I work about 5 hours a day, with at least an hour break. It's an outdoor pool, and the hours are broken up into the groups of children who come. I never have more than twenty in the pool at a time, and I've gotten an excellent tan, plus all the sunlight helps with my bipolar disorder.</p>

<p>The only drawback is the extreme humidity, although it does help me drop weight.</p>

<p>My parents and I have an agreement. While I was at community college, I paid for my own tuition, bought my own books, cover charges to clubs, food, clothing, all of it. The only thing I didn't pay was rent or insurance.</p>

<p>My job this summer is to earn as much cash for spending money as I can, now that I'm headed to uni. I'm only going to make about $500, because my hours keep getting cut, due to the extreme humidity (it's not safe for kids to be outside in 100 degree index weather).</p>

<p>Still...depending on your state...run a google search and put in your state's name and the words "employment agency" and see what you get.</p>

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<p>My jobs this summer:
What is your job?
job 1: file clerk at my doctor's office
job 2: waitress at a sort-of nice restuarant
2. What is your salary?
job 1: 7.50/hr, 40hr/wk it really sucks...i calculated after taxes i make 46 dollars a day (mon through fri) but what can i do? it's REALLY easy and i can alwasy take time off if i want and its steady
job 2: haha 2.13/hr + tips. i always work saturday/sunday morning and usually make between $10-30 in tips. i also work 2-3 nights a week and usually make between $50-80 in tips
3. How did you get your job?
job 1: it's MY doctor. he knows my family and im going to princeton and i think he was impressed. so he offered me a summer job
job 2: i just went and applied...hired on the spot.</p>

<p>2 summers ago i worked at chuck e. cheese (for 5.50/hr...BAD CHOICE) and i worked at the public library for about 6 months during my junior year (7.50/hr...easy and relaxing. i liked it.)</p>

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<p>Wouldn't everything just be more expensive if the minimum wage got raised.</p>

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<p>No. Things produced by robots would stay the same price.</p>

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<p>Yes, everything will become more expensive if it is raised. Businesses would pay their employees more and would have to compensate by raising prices. Result: same situation as before except now there is inflation.</p>

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<p>No. The only goods that would directly increase in price are those whose costs are 100% USA labor.</p>

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<p>I work at a bakery with $6.50/hour, about 20 hours a week. How'd I get it? I went in and applied. Just take the initiative.</p>

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<p>I work at the Service Deli at a grocery store.<br>
$7.55 an hour and for the last 3 weeks I have been working 48 hours, which is fine with me.<br>
I saw a help wanted sign, so I appiled. Easy. I still have not joined the union though.</p>

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<li>my job- tennis instructor</li>
<li>pay- 6.50 - 7.00, i get about 18 hours/week</li>
<li>how'd i get it? I'm friends with about every tennis player in my community, plus i played the number one sigles position for my high school, so when it came time to look for a job, tennis was an obvious choice, plus it's really fun!</li>
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<ol>
<li>usher</li>
<li>$7/hr</li>
<li>Went there asked if hiring</li>
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<p>I was a Woodwind Instructor getting paid $10 per 30 minute lesson. I had that job from Nov 2005-June 2006 (quit because the commute wasn't worth what I was getting paid...and other reasons). She called me and offered me the job so she could advertise the whole State thing to draw new students in.</p>

<p>I worked for my mom at $5/h doing household stuff. I did that until recently when I got an interview with Dillards. I applied there early June. </p>

<p>Well, apparently I didn't get the job because I still haven't heard anything from them and the interview was two weeks ago. I would have made $8/h plus $2 per person I could get to apply for a store credit card, though...oh well. I'm still holding out hope that they'll hire me for August since it's a busy month for department stores, but I know it won't happen :( . </p>

<p>I also applied to Best Buy, Old Navy, RadioShak, Books-a-Million, and Alltel. I tried to apply to Sitell about the same time as I did the others, but couldn't because I hadn't graduated HS at that point...it was only a week before, and I was looking for summer work, anyway. I figured working for a company that dumb would be hell, so I never went back. By that time, I was sick of dealing with applications and junk.</p>

<p>My main problem with getting a job was that all the ones I applied to required people to be 18 to work for them, and I applied when I was 17 (June birthday). They'd pretty much already filled all the summer positions by time they'd even think about interviewing me. Sucks.</p>

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<p>meh, i have a september birthday so i never got any of those retail jobs (thank god, after i realized working retail sucks).</p>

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<p>hostess/busser at a resteraunt
$7 dollars an hour
i went in and asked if they were hiring, they weren't but they would be later towards summer, and i called back in mid-may and they were!</p>

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<p>library student worker
$11.50/ hr
shelving, working at desk, check in n out stuffs
I was volunteer there and they liked me so they hired me</p>