Working in college

[slsmnaz]

For 1.5 years I worked baking bagels from 11pm-7am, 4 days a week. It was great cause I could get all the 8am classes everyone hated. Class til about 12 then asleep by 4pm. When friday night rolled around I was always the last one to bed. Also bartended for another 2 years and worked in a boat warehouse for 1 year.

 

[goatjc]

Tech support for about 18 hours a week @ $10/ hr. It was on campus, rarely busy etc. Best story was some guy jamming a phone cord in sideways into the ethernet port to "make it fit." My response was "I'm not sure if it'll work once I pull it out." Sure enough, I was installing another NIC. Also had a guy buy ram and jam it into the floppy drive to install it and wanted us to fix it once it was not working anymore.

 

[jmcoreymv]

For the first 2 years, I did 2 summer internships. For the second 2 years, I did 2 summer/fall coop's.

 

[2Xtreme21]

I work for an IT company with a bunch of people that have already graduated with degrees in IT, live on their own, have transportation available, and have nothing to do all day BUT work, yet I manage to keep up with them while juggling classes (9:00-2:00/3:00 each day) and other stuff. I don't get as many hours as I could get as I'm limited to nearly exclusively remote work, but that's definitely OK in my book. The only part that sucks about it is that I'm responsible for checking and reporting clients' backups each morning at 8:00, and when you're up til 2:00-3:00am each night either working or writing a paper or what not, you end up running on exclusively caffeine the day after.

 

[HN]

1st year worked at the on-campus restaurant/cafeteria.

-1 guy ordered 6 scrambled egg whites every morning

-1 girl always asked for extra lettuce on her sandwich. I wasn't a lettuce nazi so i stacked her's 3x high with lettuce. i think she loved me a little.

-pressure hoses for washing dishes were powerful. i'd get bored sometimes and spray the other guy with it, it was great; not so great when the favor is returned.

-turkey sandwiches were popular i suppose. people coming at the end of the day would order a turkey sandwich and i'd already be out of turkey by then so i have to say "sorry, we're out of turkey." And they give you this downtrodden, depressed look like you ruined their week. and a lot of times it's the same people.

3rd year i got a job in a lab in the basement. discovered agn3d and pretty much went downhill from there

 

[Chaotic42]

I woke up at 6:30
Left for school at 6:50
Got to school at 7:55
Had class until 14:15
Left for work
Got to work at 15:15
Worked until 23:45
Got home at 00:00

Every weekday for two years. I worked as a geospatial analyst.

 

[Wreckem]

One semester I delivered newspapers to the Texas A&M campus.

330 newspapers, 27 dorms. All told 150 flights of stairs, and 8 miles a walking per day. Started at 2am and I finished when I was done, typically 7-8am, 9am on Sundays. Sundays were a bitch. I made $1000/month, totally wasnt worth it but no one else would hire me. I lost A LOT of weight.

I did this for two semesters. However the second semester I picked up another job. A fry cook at a chicken place. I worked 6 nights a week. As a cook I made $800-1000 a month

During the first semester I worked ~40 hrs a week, during the second i worked about 80.

My spring 2005 looked like this.

2am-8am paper route
8am-12pm sleep
12pm-4pm classes
4pm-11pm work
11pm-2am sleep

Yeah it sucked arse.

The next year I was just a fry cook, still working 7 shifts(one double and 5 night shifts), which was ~40 hrs. I was promoted to manager, at which point I was working 55hrs a week. As a manager I made ~$2400 a month.

Got a full tution scholarship for the remainder of my undergrad and said good bye to working for a year(19 hours fall/18 hours spring/studying for June 2007 LSAT). Ill be working my senior year to pay for summer classes for an MBA, I'll hopefully be doing a MBA/JD program, and want to get it done in three years, and want the second summer to intern at a law firm.

 

[NuclearNed]

When I was in college in the early 90's, I sold electronics at Sears on commission. It was a sweet job - at the time we were the only major electronics in town. Most of the other salespeople knew very little about electronics, and I quickly gained the reputation as the guy to see. I was clearing about 24k a year (which 15 years ago was a huge amount for a college student).

 

[Turin39789]

When I went the first time I worked doing tech support for the math science department, running odd jobs for the full time staff, hours flexible around my classes. Fast food in the summer(Panera). Second year I made it without a job for awhile(parents were paying for tuitionand dorm), then ended up working as a dishwasher 5-midnight during the week.

I eventually dropped out, I'm going back now working full time as a claims adjuster. I get up at 6:45, let my two of my dogs out, kiss my girlfriend(she's working full time and going for her masters), take out the three puppies we are fostering for the humane society, leave by 7:30. Work from 8 - 4:30, go home and take care of the dogs again and go to class from 6:00-7:15 monday - thursday. Go to the gym afterwards unless I have a meeting or test to study for or paper to write. Get home and cook dinner, play with dogs study etc.

 

[Riverhound777]

Worked on campus. $8.50-9 per hour. 20 hours a week. several diff jobs. First job I just watched over an art gallery and kept count of the visitors while doing homework. Really sweet job but boring as all hell.

Second job was for less money but more hours, and I was working with computers editing web pages.

Third job was creating web page fliers and doing web editing, computer support. Got really boring towards the end, but it was ok.

 

[EagleKeeper]

For the 3 years out of 5, I did data processing at a bank on the night shift (5PM until done)

For that I received $225/wk + overtime after 8 hrs. (Note min wage at the time was $1.85). We also had an open account at a local pizza shop for when we went into OT.

during the last year, also interned at the DOT doing simulations. on week-ends

 

[NatePo717]

I work part time for the place I intern for out of my apartment about 18hrs a week for $18/hr.

 

[chambersc]

I'm going to school from 8am - 2:45pm m-f then I work from 5pm - 9pm sun-thurs. I make $8.


meh, it gets me by.

 

[SP33Demon]

I worked as a dishwasher in the late 90's making $4.75/hour, and had to wash 300 kids' nasty trays and dishes. By the end of each shift I'd have half eaten food stuck in my hair and all over my clothes and smelled like grease. I would get like $40 checks to help pay for gas for my 1979 Cutlass Supreme with bullet holes that my friends nicknamed the "Animal Thug". LoL. Good times... :beer:

 

[Insomniator]

I work at the university relations building in the photo department. Last year the photographer would take me along on shoots and have me set up the lights and other photo stuff along with handling the pictures (digital or slides).

This year I all I do is burn compact flash cards of photos to cds and dvds or stupid office work like making copies.

I'm on schedule for 6 hours a week, two 3 hours days but usually I work for an hour and she tells me to leave and signs me out for
the full three hours anyway.

7.25 an hour.. but since I never work more then 2-3 hours a week its closer to 14 which isnt too bad! Too bad its only 3 hours..

 

[wheresmybacon]

Originally posted by: S Freud
I go to class from 10am till 4pm and then usually work from 5pm till 11pm or 12 am. I am a cashier or "checker" at Winco groceries, its a pretty good job, benefits and nice people.

I make $7.63 an hour.

What did you do while you went to school for money, odd jobs, work full time, collect pop cans?

I delivered pizzas for a Dominos a few blocks off campus. I usually worked 5pm - 12am or so a few times a week. They didn't have company cars so we would deliver the pies in our own cars with one of those ridiculously huge lit signs on top. It was actually pretty laid back and fun as far as crappy jobs go. Plus every night I'd come home with cash from tips + mileage.

 

[Slammy1]

I did different things. Moved furniture, stocked groceries, was an accounting clerk for a while. The worst period was when I needed a car and my main job wasn't enough, so I took a second for a semester and paid it all towards the car. Those were some rough times. I remember working 60+ hrs/week plus school full-time, I'd get maybe 4 hrs/night sleep. At the time I motivated myself in that I was working for a future and that I wasn't going to be doing it all of my life. Looking back I have to say, it wasn't worth it.

 

[PHiuR]

I work 30-40 hours weekends once or twice a month taking pictures at youth sports tournaments. Usually hockey, lacrosse or soccer. All I do is stand there and snap away..However, not everyone can do it, gotta have timing.

 

[alexjohnson16]

Currently going to college (well, community college).

I work 25 hours a week as at the local newspaper in the sports department. Most of the time I'm in the office fielding calls from local teams, but every once in a while I get to go cover something.

Wouldn't give it up for anything in the world at the moment. Been here 2 1/2 years and love the people and the job.

 

[Jeff7]

$7/hr work study job on campus, working at the media center. Some jobs include tech support for projectors, video cameras, and some computers. I also might have to deliver papers or brochures around campus, and sometimes fold a few hundred brochures, fliers, or mailings. It's mostly mindless work, but there are also some days with very little to do = getting paid to do homework. I work around 14hrs per week.

 

[imported_Imp]

Made minimum wage (~$7) working once a weekend as receptionist. Worst part was having nothing to do and waking up early while having no time to sleep during weekdays. Then found a $20 an hour job during the summer, made more in 3 months than I did in the past 2 and a half years, so I quit the dump. Now I'm unemployed, but too lazy to find a new job (not like I need it, but budgeting hurts).

 

[Deeko]

I work about 30 hours a week at my previous internship. I make very good money for a part time job. I also have class, and I head one student organization and am involved in another. I also drink 5 nights a week.

 

[thirtythree]

I work in a campus computer lab. Scheduled for 20 hours a week, usually get 25-30. $10/hour. I'm switching to a salaried computer support job, also on campus. Full-time, 30k + benefits. I'm in grad school, actually, and my classes are in the evening.

 

[SWScorch]

I work in the computer lab as well, 9pm to 1am, three nights a week. I put the print-outs into the proper shelves for two of the hours (an untrained monkey could do that) and then sit at the help desk for the other two hours and answer questions like "Where are the bathrooms?" and "When it asks me for my username and password, so I put in my username and password?"

 

[BZeto]

Worked the floor at Office Max for a while. Helping customers, stocking shelves, etc. Met some really cool co-workers. In the end the job just got too boring and I felt unchallenged. Only paid $7.50 hour.

After that I started working as a rep for HP at Best Buy. It was a fun job that was a lot more laid back. The Epson rep and I pretty much just chatted all day because it wasn't a very busy store. That job paid $15 per hour for basically doing nothing.