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Where did you work during you college life.

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First job out of the military/first year of college was installing field engineering changes/updates to the backplanes of Sperry knockoffs of IBM 3330 17 platter disk drive units. After that I worked the next 3 years as a bank teller.
 
Hardware store for 2 years.
Then I went to just working during the summers. Worked the night shift at a hotel one summer, and then did work at a tool and die shop for 2 more.
 
I'm in college now, doing IT for the govt full time. It's good experience and they work around my schedule, it was advertised as a full time student position, so I work basically whenever I want within reason. And being a govt job you don't work too hard so I lurk here and do homework and a little of whatever and get paid decent.
 
xanis said:
I have 0 sympathy for you. If you cut back on the weed, you'd have a lot more money.

I do freelance web/print design, and I also work full-time for the summer season at a local amusement park. I also worked at a Genuardi's (Safeway) for a while too.
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I dont spend money on drugs.I don't have the money to spend
 
First two years of college I worked in the golfshop of a local country club, last two years as a staff accountant for a local CPA firm.
 
First year got a job a pizza hut. Summer stint with roofing, then custom kitchen install (assistant to the carpenter). From then until graduation worked summers and holidays doing asbestos abatement (completely certified, using protective equipment). Couldn't work while in med school, so borrowed about 150k for tution and living expenses.
 
IceBergSLiM said:
bouncer turned bartender? Skinny bouncer or fat bartender which one applies?
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At the specific bar where I worked, EVERYONE started at the Door and then progressed up the ladder. So basically it was Door Staff first, then to Bartender/Wait Staff depending on your size.
 
during the school year - after school child care for at-risk elementary students through the city school district. great job, though paid crap

summers - IT intern, nothing flashy but paid much better
 
well im off to another shitty day at work. I think i have a severe case of depression and i need to get some help.
 
When I worked at the Campus Pub, I sometimes had to work the door, too. One time a freshman from my dorm handed me an ID of another (older) friend of mine. It sucked for both of us, but, since I knew the girl in front of me, her age and the girl who owned the ID, I did not feel comfortable letting her drink (Minors could enter, but only those with wrist bands could drink alcohol).

Not worth my job (and possible criminal issues and school discipline) to let her drink. Later that night we all drank in her dorm room (no pics).

MotionMan
 
called the freshmen follies.

provider of high end entertainment;

ran specials at computer lab on Friday nights.

ka ching!
 
Heller said:
being a full time student at FAU, i still require a job for car insurance (i bought my car outright) thats $300 a month, living expenses (food, bs stuff) usually another 100 a month and im working at cvs in the pharmacy mon-thurs 3-10pm.

what did you do in college to survive? god i wish my parents were not disabled and actually had some sort of income, life's stressful and every day it just seems harder and harder to get by.
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I've worked in a lot of academic labs. Physics, Botany, Zoology. I've also worked as a color printmaker (where the dark room was completely dark). I've also done armed security on a shipping pier.

But, I have probably made more money tutoring than anything else. In fact, I tutored so much one year that it paid for a trip to Europe. Tutored in Physics, Chemistry, Math, Photography, Astronomy, Engineering and the like. Also authored Physics solution guides and made a ton off of short-selling the competition. 😀
 
During my first year...I worked as a Best Buy Salesman and a life guard. The first summer I got an internship/co-op position. From that point forward I worked as a part-time programmer for that company along with some freelance stuff for other companies that I had contacts with (mostly for web applications).
 
Speaking from someone who is in about the same siutation as you (my dad is disabled and has to take handful of pills to function), I would say keep moving forward. You can only help them by helping yourself, as I'm learning this very fast. Even if you have to take a monetary hit/loan, getting out or distancing yourself from the drama/situation is much more healthy than to deal with being/becoming poor, or your families issues. I was middle class until my dad went without payment for 10-12 years of disability, were just paying our loans off now.

Basically I realized I could sit and become depressed over it, OR I could overwork myself and become equally depressed that way, and it seems to be sliiightly working. At least I won't be depressed and poor.
 
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Hmm, 20 years ago . . . Nabisco Factory (Union job, people got pissed if you worked too fast) (Cookies are really quite delicious when they are freshly made as opposed to 12 weeks later on the store shelf) Ice Cream factory (again, fresh ice cream bars rock!) waiter and newspaper delivery. Good times . . .
 
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