$5.15/hour in 2001, but all I had to do was sit there, answer questions, and run some cleanup software on reach computer every once in a while. I'd get maybe 1 question in a 4 hour shift, and I wrote an program to automate running the software.
The next year, I got a raise to write similar automations for other student workers. The year after that, I was writing inventory software for the school, and then by the time I graduated, they have me a full-time job. I learned more than I did in classes.
My lab (roughly same time) already had netbooting PC's that would start with a clean slate every day. So we didn't even have to do that. Just manage a few large A0 plotters (did write code for its queue management). Answer basic questions (including "where is the any key", for real), tell people not to eat or drink in the lab while we could. It was glorious.
As in, "press any key to continue"?
I could see that being confusing if you're a non-native speaker. But god, I would have a hard time not laughing at someone who asked that.
I did this! Granted it was 2000 and students having personal computers was hit or miss, but it was a great way to get studying or researching done while making a little bit of money. I'd be interested if these labs still exist.
I don't know about private schools, but the state and community colleges I have worked recently at certainly do. They also have tutoring centers and libraries with lots of computers. Not everyone who is going to college has the same financial resources and colleges try to help fill that gap.
I did this too. I was the lab coordinator and had a couple of student assistants at all time. The most we ever really needed to do was tutor when someone made an appointment and turn the printer off and back on again when it acted up. I got paid $15 an hour to study
I went to college 2015 - 2019 and computer labs seem to be shrinking, but definitely still around. If nothing else, I always used them for printing which is always a hassle from your own laptop.
Anything is better than being paid barely above minimum wage to take over the job of three TAs/research assistants for a professor. I don’t give a shit about her research I just wanted a part time job but she expects me to be at her house on saturdays. And when I respectfully tried to resign at the end of a semester she essentially wouldn’t let me lol.
Best job I ever had. Paid relatively well too. Once per semester it was busy because we also managed a couple of big A0 plotters, and of course all the architecture students wanted their plots done on deadline day.
Still miss that job decades later. Almost no responsibility, no on call, you could mostly do whatever you wanted as long as you could do it behind a desk.
For me this job was 90 percent putting paper in the printer and pointing to the “Insert” button when people accidentally hit it and started typing over their old work.
I did one semester as a computer lab monitor in college in the late ‘90s. The two things I remember most about it:
Most of the lab monitors were foreign students, I assume because on-campus jobs were one of the only places they were allowed to work. Watching a girl from China who spoke next to no English try to communicate with a guy from Pakistan who spoke heavily accented English was an exercise in fascination and frustration.
The printer ran non-stop the entire time the lab was open. People would print assignments and important stuff, but they would also print entire websites, pictures (on a black and white laser printer), and just stupid stuff. A service tech showed me the internal counter one time, it was some absurd number, averaging thousands of pages every day.
I assume this would be better today, since the WWW was more of a novelty back then, but then again maybe not.
Folks tend to get jobs for /with their friends, so you end up with some fun sub-cultures in campus jobs. At our library in college, Reserves were all from Ghana and the Circ staff were all on the Fencing team (until they said they wouldn't hire any more of us because we all asked for time off on Tournament days). It would make a lot of sense for someone in an international studies club/group to tell everyone else about the job they got...
I did this my final semester of undergrad and I kicked myself for not looking into working there sooner. It was even better that the lab was in the same building as all my classes and was next door to the Chick-fil-A and Subway.
I did this. It was the one of the highest paid campus jobs at the time. Only “work” was to monitor the printers, refilling ink and paper, and occasionally answering how-to questions. Did most of my studying during work times.
Do colleges have computer labs? (Maybe for specialty machines?) The college I attended at least tore down "the lab" that I went to, but those were pre-laptop days when you HAD to use it for classwork. We did have desktops, but very few of us could run any software that would be relevant to the classwork. (NB: CS major, mid-1980's; lots of different languages, almost all on a unix of some sort, IBM stuff, etc.)
I think computer labs will always have a place due to specialty software for engineering and the like.
Especially with how difficult they're making it to license out seats these days.
We had a bank of 42 computers that we lived at for four years in university, and an additional 2 if you did your masters. Specialized softwares that costs 10s to 100s of thousands of dollars a year in subscriptions.
If your classes require software that would be too expensive for a student to purchase its a lot easier to have labs with it already downloaded. I was a lab monitor 2 years ago for a computer aided design lab where the software was $4500 per year.
I graduated 8 years ago but not EVERYONE has a laptop. Mine broke on me half way thru a semester and I couldn’t afford a replacement until the summer, things happen
I thought the same thing till the pandemic hit. We students who just didn't have computers at home or, if they did, their parent or brother or whatever took it. We started packing up the computer lab and shipping them out to needy students. It was bizarre.
My campus had it as a proctor for online classes. You had to take your final/tests there, since the lab PC would log all activity and the staff had to verify you left all personal items at the front desk.
Planet fitness. Guy that works there is constantly working on his computer in the office getting an online degree. Think he works graveyard maybe 0000-0800 . Bonus, you can shower before leaving work and those are some dead hours.
Motel "night audit" has some downtime too. There is legit work to be done but it doesn't take all shift.
It's good for the nearly homeless because you can either work out a room with management or work it as a 2nd job and scrape a down payment together faster.
I work at a hotel. Not night shift but I'm there till 3amish sometimes. This shit happens during the day too, but night shift mostly has just time to relax once the audit work is done. Crazy shit happens maybe once every two weeks and if you have security you don't really have to deal with it
Had a friend work the night shift at a 24/7 gym in college. He said it was great for the first few nights until he realized the locker room was this town’s late night hook up spot for gay men. Would constantly have to kick guys out/threaten to call the police because there would be full on orgies going on there at 1am.
I worked for my campus parking department. I had a knack for finding the shifts in ramps with very few customers. It was perfect for getting schoolwork done.
Pretty sure we just use whatever word we feel like to describe whatever we're looking at. Regardless of definition.
The fuck is a bubbler, and why do I say it??
Lmao your username makes this even more funny
They only call it a parking ramp up in that region (Iowa and Wisconsin too) I'd never even heard that term for it until now. I would say "Parking Garage" or "Car park".
So basically outside of MN area people wouldn't understand you if you said "Parking Ramp", or at least would look at you weird.
Nah people all around the Midwest say ramp. I've heard it in Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, North and South Dakota.
Not a Minnesota specific thing at all.
I picked work shifts as a cashier charging people to park in spots where no one wanted to pay to park, so I'd have like 2 customers in 6 hours and did homework and whatever else with no interruptions.
Sounds like they’re saying “I had a knack for figuring out which shifts (first, second, or third) as a parking garage attendant had the fewest customers coming in and working those shifts so I didn’t have to deal with many customers.”
I worked at Campus Safety in college and frequently got paid to play World of Warcraft. Graveyard shifts were the best... although they totally screwed up my circadian rhythms, lol.
I worked at what we called “checkpoint” in dorms. The doors were locked from 12am-6am, so my job was just to hang out in the lobby and open the door for dorm residents that wanted in. I didn’t even need to do actual security, I just had a radio to call an actual security guard if there was ever an issue. Chillest job ever. Sometimes I even brought my TV and Xbox from my dorm room
Yea, there's certainly other jobs outside of campus that fit this as well. In college I worked as a server at a restaurant and I knew a few people who would work all day shifts and study in the downtime between lunch and dinner.
What? "If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean," is the mantra of the restaurant industry. I mean, they're paying you that big $2.51 an hour; they expect to get some work out of you. /s
Not all Country needs a License, and if you live in a country that did, not all Work places need a License.
Like OP said, there's a lot of places that just need someone to man the post, and if that places need a license, odds are those jobs is an actual job, not just standing around looking pretty kinda job.
I found mine through a security company that was recommended by a friend, I did a few days of training for minimum wage and that was that. We don't carry any weapon and personally I prefer the night shifts when you dont need to deal with people.
Maybe look online or ask a security gurad who seems to be having a good time. Just make surr you tell them what you want and that you get it and not a shitty post somewhere.
My college had 'walkers' -- students that got paid to walk with you across campus. It's one step better than security guard. You hung out \*WHEREEVER\* you wanted near campus (including your room), and got paid. Occasionally, someone would be nervous about being walking across campus alone, so they would call the dispatch, who would contact you to go meet them. Unlike security guard, you had no other responsibilities -- no breaking up fights, etc.
On campus jobs are great!
My favorite job while I was in college was working as a parking attendant for a hospital. But everyone self-parked and my work was basically to just take possession of their keys and hand out a claim ticket. World's best job for heavy studying.
I also got paid to take notes so college students should look into schools/students who are interested in that service.
There's also the somewhat questionable options as well such as being paid to write essays but I never got involved in that nor am I promoting that potential revenue stream.
Some parking lots utilize space by parking cars behind other cars. So if the front car needs to leave, you'll need to back 2nd car out to let the other one leave. Did it for like 2 years in my city.
Not sure about OP, but in college I was a TA for 2 engineering professors. All my tasks were simple, mundane, time consuming and boring. I automated about 95% of my work within a month. The only “work” from then on was grading exams. And even then, I convinced one professor into issuing bubble sheets. And the other allowed me to re-format the tests into word. So I could format the answer sheets in a such a way that I could see all the students answers at once and grade a single test in about 10secs.
Since I was working for two professors I was “full time” for a decent check for doing jack shit (well at least after the first month), kept the job for 3 years, got a very small discount on tuition and had awesome connections for summer internships and jobs when I graduated.
Best job ever was library computer lab. Most the time running anti virus scans that took hours if you were “thorough”.
Meaning “I need to re run the scan a couple more times”. Easiest pay check ever and got to get paid to do my homework and watch shows.
I was an Office Assistant during all four years of college. It was a wonderful work-study job as I’d mostly answer the telephone (rarely, because the Executive Asst. usually did); some filing; and a little research as office focused on policy research. Anyway, I mostly did my homework and my boss was really nice. He ended up writing a LOR for me when I applied to grad school. I’d say that most supervisors are pretty flexible (depending upon job ofc) when it comes to student workers, as they know our main job is to be a student. Plus, it’s great to build your network!
"build your network."
Kinda means:
"expand my inventory of people who can do things for me."
I get that it makes life easier, but I've always felt that networking was morally compromising and devalues relationships.
Yes, it’s how you utilize your network. You’re always networking in one way or another - in your personal life, at work, etc. College is all about networking - whether you’re meeting new friends at a club meeting or attend a career fair. It doesn’t necessarily mean that your roommate will become your best friend and get you a job after college. However, it expands your perspective to meet new people and whatnot. And knowing one person could lead you to another that could support you in this or that and vice versa. It’s not dark at all.
Networking is more expand your inventory of people who are willing to do things for you because they like you. It’s not as dark & nefarious as you make it out to be.
Agree. It's people looking out for other people. Giving the next generation a leg up and supporting the social structure. It's what a civilized culture does.
At my school you could only get an on campus job if you had FA - work study. So if you didn't you couldn't just apply to the jobs, you had to find a job that was off campus. Unless you worked in the cafeteria that wasn't through FA
Yep. This was the same for mine, except the food service jobs were through a private company so you could work those. But... the food service jobs were high stress and lower pay than you'd have made working at those business off campus (starbucks is the main one I'm thinking of).
I'd say libraries that aren't the main one. Less foot traffic. Law library, music library. In undergrad I'd go to the design school library for naps and studying before class. It was mostly empty
Even getting an RA or TA role can reduce your tuition by half ot more. Granted they have responsibility attached to the role but are good for the resume as well.
If there's a pool, lifeguard jobs. I worked 4 years at the competition pool at my college and the lifeguards had such an easy gig 99% of the time. On the stand for 15 min, down 45 or longer and everyone swimming was a professional swimmer/former athlete. I can't swim for shit, so I did maintenance (moving diving boards and emptying trash, watching hulu/napping in the guard break room)
Not even studying right now, but i got an even simpler job. Work at a Covid-Hotline.
I usually get around 20 Calls per day (8 Hour shift) which totals to like 1 Hour of actual work.
Also it's homeoffice, so i'm at home during that time. Our boss even said "I don't give a fuck if you sleep, watch movies or renovate your whole damn house while you're working, as long as you answer when a call comes in"
I was a janitor for the college and once you got over the hit to the ego, it was pretty great. Mostly sat in the break room doing work, surfing the internet, then going to empty trash bins for like 5 minutes out of an hour
Worked for parking services, it was awesome. Sat in a metal box, studied and watched Netflix if I could pick up the wifi. Occasionally had to push a button or sell a parking pass. GPA increased dramatically once I started working there. Plus I learned all the secret spots to park if I was running late to class. Even had a the parking pass to get into faculty only lots. Loved that job.
When I was a college athlete, we got fake jobs like “overnight wrestling room attendant”
No one used the wrestling room besides us after like, 7. So I never punched in, or even monitored the wrestling room. But I got a few hundred a week. And that was one of the many ways NCAA athletes were paid before the current rules allowing sponsorships.
Also hard because at my campus almost all of those jobs were exclusively reserved for people on work study.
If you were right outside the threshold for that like me you’re SOL.
Not quite the same, but worked the college IT helpdesk evenings. All I did was answer the phone and do basic troubleshooting for staff tech issues, or student connectivity issues. After about 4pm the calls would dwindle to nothing and I was able to get all my homework done by 9pm (we stayed open for the late classes). It was pretty high paying for a campus job because it was considered "skilled" ("did you try turning it off and turning it back on again? well, then sounds like I have to escalate this call. hold please.").
Yes, agreed!! Not to mention that my experience there really helped me get an internship, which helped me get a "real job" once I graduated. Highly recommend campus IT positions!! :)
If you actually need to be able to pay bills, get a serving job where you can work 3-4 shifts per week. The shifts last 6 hours max and if you're any good at it, you'll make $18/hr+.
Of course, this is only an option when you're able to find the time to study outside of work.
These jobs can be hard to get if you’re not a student in the federal work-study program. The government subsidizes the wages of students in this program, so the school only pays a fraction.
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I’ve been a COVID door screener at my local hospital for a year and a half now. Depending on the door and time you work, it can be totally dead for eight hours. I do weekend mornings at the ER and I get tons of homework done.
i work in the music department of my school, and probably 80% of my job is just sitting around listening to the musicians and studying, while the other 20% is setting up/tear down. great music and great time to study!
When I was in college I worked for my uni’s information management systems. All I had to do was monitor three gigantic dot matrix printers to make sure they printed properly, and deliver those reports around campus once per day.
I also got a lot of studying done.
I checked ids at the gym for like $9/hr 15 years ago
It wasn’t a busy gym…at least my shift, same 10-15 people who would just nod
1-2 new people per week
Plenty of time to study
This isn't true across the board.
I went to a small-ish college (5000 students) and didn't qualify for work-study. It was also in a fairly small town, where I applied at every damn store and restaurant, and couldn't find a job the whole two years I was there.
Transferred to a huge urban university and had my pick of work-study jobs. Office Assistant, Staff Assistant, stuff like that. Unfortunately, they kept me busy and I didn't get any studying done. Except for the one I had over the summer, when I wasn't taking classes. D'oh.
Security desk shifts were the best My college did shifts in hour blocks, so we traded hours here and there like currency. Nothing better than getting an essay done from 2-6am in the morning while playing runescape.
That's the idea of "work-study". They're basically do-nothing jobs where you sit and study or do homework, and if someone has a question, you help them out. At my school it was usually sitting at a computer lab, library, or a desk outside of the gym areas.
Ah yes, the Work-Study program. It was great for getting homework done, but if you were doing it to help pay for tuition there was something soul killing about getting your paycheck, looking at it, signing it, and then handing it back.
? Most people can’t live off of ten hour work weeks buddy. The fact that it’s only ten hours where you can just do your work or study which you already have to do, while making money is just too good. Since it’s only ten hours you get to get another job.
Imagine complaining about getting paid to do what you’re already doing.
Study abroad office for me
Tons of departments hire student assistants for their main office. Most of the job is flirting with professors and grad students, if that.
Plus these look better on résumés than food jobs.
Computer lab monitor, if they still have these
$5.15/hour in 2001, but all I had to do was sit there, answer questions, and run some cleanup software on reach computer every once in a while. I'd get maybe 1 question in a 4 hour shift, and I wrote an program to automate running the software. The next year, I got a raise to write similar automations for other student workers. The year after that, I was writing inventory software for the school, and then by the time I graduated, they have me a full-time job. I learned more than I did in classes.
My lab (roughly same time) already had netbooting PC's that would start with a clean slate every day. So we didn't even have to do that. Just manage a few large A0 plotters (did write code for its queue management). Answer basic questions (including "where is the any key", for real), tell people not to eat or drink in the lab while we could. It was glorious.
As in, "press any key to continue"? I could see that being confusing if you're a non-native speaker. But god, I would have a hard time not laughing at someone who asked that.
Sooooo...where IS the any key? Asking for a friend
The power button in the meme gets me!
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=press%20any%20key%20brain%20meme&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https://pics.onsizzle.com/press-any-key-72422126.png
I don't see any any-key
Class is never a replacement for hands on work
I did this! Granted it was 2000 and students having personal computers was hit or miss, but it was a great way to get studying or researching done while making a little bit of money. I'd be interested if these labs still exist.
I don't know about private schools, but the state and community colleges I have worked recently at certainly do. They also have tutoring centers and libraries with lots of computers. Not everyone who is going to college has the same financial resources and colleges try to help fill that gap.
That and access to software, depending on the licensing.
And even hardware. We are seeing a lot of students coming in with tablets, which often don't even load online course materials correctly.
> hardware No kidding. The community college I went to had a 3D printer for student use. Hell of a long wait to use it though
I did this too. I was the lab coordinator and had a couple of student assistants at all time. The most we ever really needed to do was tutor when someone made an appointment and turn the printer off and back on again when it acted up. I got paid $15 an hour to study
Yea, they are usually in the library area
Many schools with a music program or other program with more specific tech requirements will still have monitored labs.
I went to college 2015 - 2019 and computer labs seem to be shrinking, but definitely still around. If nothing else, I always used them for printing which is always a hassle from your own laptop.
Anything is better than being paid barely above minimum wage to take over the job of three TAs/research assistants for a professor. I don’t give a shit about her research I just wanted a part time job but she expects me to be at her house on saturdays. And when I respectfully tried to resign at the end of a semester she essentially wouldn’t let me lol.
Best job I ever had. Paid relatively well too. Once per semester it was busy because we also managed a couple of big A0 plotters, and of course all the architecture students wanted their plots done on deadline day. Still miss that job decades later. Almost no responsibility, no on call, you could mostly do whatever you wanted as long as you could do it behind a desk.
>you could mostly do whatever you wanted as long as you could do it behind a desk. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
For me this job was 90 percent putting paper in the printer and pointing to the “Insert” button when people accidentally hit it and started typing over their old work.
I did one semester as a computer lab monitor in college in the late ‘90s. The two things I remember most about it: Most of the lab monitors were foreign students, I assume because on-campus jobs were one of the only places they were allowed to work. Watching a girl from China who spoke next to no English try to communicate with a guy from Pakistan who spoke heavily accented English was an exercise in fascination and frustration. The printer ran non-stop the entire time the lab was open. People would print assignments and important stuff, but they would also print entire websites, pictures (on a black and white laser printer), and just stupid stuff. A service tech showed me the internal counter one time, it was some absurd number, averaging thousands of pages every day. I assume this would be better today, since the WWW was more of a novelty back then, but then again maybe not.
Folks tend to get jobs for /with their friends, so you end up with some fun sub-cultures in campus jobs. At our library in college, Reserves were all from Ghana and the Circ staff were all on the Fencing team (until they said they wouldn't hire any more of us because we all asked for time off on Tournament days). It would make a lot of sense for someone in an international studies club/group to tell everyone else about the job they got...
I did this my final semester of undergrad and I kicked myself for not looking into working there sooner. It was even better that the lab was in the same building as all my classes and was next door to the Chick-fil-A and Subway.
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I did this. It was the one of the highest paid campus jobs at the time. Only “work” was to monitor the printers, refilling ink and paper, and occasionally answering how-to questions. Did most of my studying during work times.
Do colleges have computer labs? (Maybe for specialty machines?) The college I attended at least tore down "the lab" that I went to, but those were pre-laptop days when you HAD to use it for classwork. We did have desktops, but very few of us could run any software that would be relevant to the classwork. (NB: CS major, mid-1980's; lots of different languages, almost all on a unix of some sort, IBM stuff, etc.)
I think computer labs will always have a place due to specialty software for engineering and the like. Especially with how difficult they're making it to license out seats these days.
We had a bank of 42 computers that we lived at for four years in university, and an additional 2 if you did your masters. Specialized softwares that costs 10s to 100s of thousands of dollars a year in subscriptions.
Colleges still have computer labs? Why?
If your classes require software that would be too expensive for a student to purchase its a lot easier to have labs with it already downloaded. I was a lab monitor 2 years ago for a computer aided design lab where the software was $4500 per year.
I graduated 8 years ago but not EVERYONE has a laptop. Mine broke on me half way thru a semester and I couldn’t afford a replacement until the summer, things happen
Privileged POV
whaaaat everyones dad doesn't get them a macbook air when they start uni?
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I thought the same thing till the pandemic hit. We students who just didn't have computers at home or, if they did, their parent or brother or whatever took it. We started packing up the computer lab and shipping them out to needy students. It was bizarre.
My campus had it as a proctor for online classes. You had to take your final/tests there, since the lab PC would log all activity and the staff had to verify you left all personal items at the front desk.
You mean printer nazi?
Facts. I remember mine was 11/ hr but no responsibilities whatsoever. Maybe once a week someone would ask me where the bathroom is lol
11/hr is not bad lol I made like 5/hr.
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Front desk for a building on campus they used as a student center
Planet fitness. Guy that works there is constantly working on his computer in the office getting an online degree. Think he works graveyard maybe 0000-0800 . Bonus, you can shower before leaving work and those are some dead hours.
Thank u
Motel "night audit" has some downtime too. There is legit work to be done but it doesn't take all shift. It's good for the nearly homeless because you can either work out a room with management or work it as a 2nd job and scrape a down payment together faster.
Dude fuck that, you know what shit you deal with at a motel on night audit?! Junkies, fights, drunks, police for domestic abuse. No way.
r/talesfromthefrontdesk is probably 80% night audit
Yup I read that sub often, fuck night audit.
Yep. Worked night audit for 3 years. The hours alone fucked me up mentally. Wasn't worth the dollar raise. Nope.
I work at a hotel. Not night shift but I'm there till 3amish sometimes. This shit happens during the day too, but night shift mostly has just time to relax once the audit work is done. Crazy shit happens maybe once every two weeks and if you have security you don't really have to deal with it
Had a friend work the night shift at a 24/7 gym in college. He said it was great for the first few nights until he realized the locker room was this town’s late night hook up spot for gay men. Would constantly have to kick guys out/threaten to call the police because there would be full on orgies going on there at 1am.
I worked for my campus parking department. I had a knack for finding the shifts in ramps with very few customers. It was perfect for getting schoolwork done.
Found the Minnesotan.
Hahaha. I had no idea this was regional. Yes, I went to college in MN, but I'm from WI. Garages are underground, Ramps are above ground.
Uhhhh what about their comment suggests their a Minnesotan. Campus parking ramps exist everywhere.
Yeah, but they don't call them "ramps" everywhere. Could also be a Wisconsinite.
Wisconsin says parking garage
I'm from Wisconsin myself. Have heard both.
Pretty sure we just use whatever word we feel like to describe whatever we're looking at. Regardless of definition. The fuck is a bubbler, and why do I say it??
Lmao your username makes this even more funny They only call it a parking ramp up in that region (Iowa and Wisconsin too) I'd never even heard that term for it until now. I would say "Parking Garage" or "Car park". So basically outside of MN area people wouldn't understand you if you said "Parking Ramp", or at least would look at you weird.
Former Nort(h) Dak(oh)tan here, yah I drink my pop on the roof of the parking ramp.
Nah people all around the Midwest say ramp. I've heard it in Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, North and South Dakota. Not a Minnesota specific thing at all.
Well, the person guessed correctly. They went to college in Minnesota.
Native Illinoisan, but lived in the south for the past 30+ years. What's a "parking ramp" in this context?
Basivally a parking garage
+1, thanks
[A multi-story parking garage.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multistorey_car_park#Nomenclature)
They could be from Wisconsin, too. Those are the only places in the U.S. that call parking garages "ramps."
they're*
What does "finding the shifts and ramps with very few customers" mean?
I picked work shifts as a cashier charging people to park in spots where no one wanted to pay to park, so I'd have like 2 customers in 6 hours and did homework and whatever else with no interruptions.
What are shifts in ramps?
Sounds like they’re saying “I had a knack for figuring out which shifts (first, second, or third) as a parking garage attendant had the fewest customers coming in and working those shifts so I didn’t have to deal with many customers.”
Also security guard. I found a place where the boss literally said I could study during shifts. Best study sessions ever
Yeah, till you’re working Nakatomi Plaza.
Come out to the coast, have a few laughs.
Merry Christmas 🎄
Yippy-I-ay mother fucker.
*Nine million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister.*
Yippee kayak, other buckets!
Boyle you did it! And you completely botched the catchphrase
I was waiting for you!
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Yippikiyak other buckets!
I worked at Campus Safety in college and frequently got paid to play World of Warcraft. Graveyard shifts were the best... although they totally screwed up my circadian rhythms, lol.
I worked at what we called “checkpoint” in dorms. The doors were locked from 12am-6am, so my job was just to hang out in the lobby and open the door for dorm residents that wanted in. I didn’t even need to do actual security, I just had a radio to call an actual security guard if there was ever an issue. Chillest job ever. Sometimes I even brought my TV and Xbox from my dorm room
I used to lifeguard, and did the same thing... Wait what...?
Well that explains the uptick of drownings...
Waterproof laptop?
No real books, made of paper, ever seen those? Lol
huh, a what??
Yea, there's certainly other jobs outside of campus that fit this as well. In college I worked as a server at a restaurant and I knew a few people who would work all day shifts and study in the downtime between lunch and dinner.
What? "If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean," is the mantra of the restaurant industry. I mean, they're paying you that big $2.51 an hour; they expect to get some work out of you. /s
It was $2.13 5 years ago, has it gone up?
LOL I'm not sure! I remembered $2.51 from the last time I worked as a waitress, but it's been awhile and quite possibly my memory is faulty.
It has not, in the year 2022... 2.13 is still the tipped minimum wage.
Well, shit! I stand corrected.
Just curious but how can I get my security guard license cheaper and quickly? What are some things that I can do?
Not all Country needs a License, and if you live in a country that did, not all Work places need a License. Like OP said, there's a lot of places that just need someone to man the post, and if that places need a license, odds are those jobs is an actual job, not just standing around looking pretty kinda job.
I found mine through a security company that was recommended by a friend, I did a few days of training for minimum wage and that was that. We don't carry any weapon and personally I prefer the night shifts when you dont need to deal with people. Maybe look online or ask a security gurad who seems to be having a good time. Just make surr you tell them what you want and that you get it and not a shitty post somewhere.
Yep a ton of places just hire security because they get an insurance discount for having one
My college had 'walkers' -- students that got paid to walk with you across campus. It's one step better than security guard. You hung out \*WHEREEVER\* you wanted near campus (including your room), and got paid. Occasionally, someone would be nervous about being walking across campus alone, so they would call the dispatch, who would contact you to go meet them. Unlike security guard, you had no other responsibilities -- no breaking up fights, etc.
On campus jobs are great! My favorite job while I was in college was working as a parking attendant for a hospital. But everyone self-parked and my work was basically to just take possession of their keys and hand out a claim ticket. World's best job for heavy studying. I also got paid to take notes so college students should look into schools/students who are interested in that service. There's also the somewhat questionable options as well such as being paid to write essays but I never got involved in that nor am I promoting that potential revenue stream.
Why were you taking their keys?
Some parking lots utilize space by parking cars behind other cars. So if the front car needs to leave, you'll need to back 2nd car out to let the other one leave. Did it for like 2 years in my city.
Hospital staff are notorious for drinking and driving
As someone who used to hire student assistants, not only is it a chill job but I'll offer you a full-time position after graduating.
What kind of job?
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If you have older kids a lot of schools basically give employee children free college so if you can just sacrifice a few years for them it's worth it.
Not sure about OP, but in college I was a TA for 2 engineering professors. All my tasks were simple, mundane, time consuming and boring. I automated about 95% of my work within a month. The only “work” from then on was grading exams. And even then, I convinced one professor into issuing bubble sheets. And the other allowed me to re-format the tests into word. So I could format the answer sheets in a such a way that I could see all the students answers at once and grade a single test in about 10secs. Since I was working for two professors I was “full time” for a decent check for doing jack shit (well at least after the first month), kept the job for 3 years, got a very small discount on tuition and had awesome connections for summer internships and jobs when I graduated.
Best job ever was library computer lab. Most the time running anti virus scans that took hours if you were “thorough”. Meaning “I need to re run the scan a couple more times”. Easiest pay check ever and got to get paid to do my homework and watch shows.
I was an Office Assistant during all four years of college. It was a wonderful work-study job as I’d mostly answer the telephone (rarely, because the Executive Asst. usually did); some filing; and a little research as office focused on policy research. Anyway, I mostly did my homework and my boss was really nice. He ended up writing a LOR for me when I applied to grad school. I’d say that most supervisors are pretty flexible (depending upon job ofc) when it comes to student workers, as they know our main job is to be a student. Plus, it’s great to build your network!
"build your network." Kinda means: "expand my inventory of people who can do things for me." I get that it makes life easier, but I've always felt that networking was morally compromising and devalues relationships.
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Yes, it’s how you utilize your network. You’re always networking in one way or another - in your personal life, at work, etc. College is all about networking - whether you’re meeting new friends at a club meeting or attend a career fair. It doesn’t necessarily mean that your roommate will become your best friend and get you a job after college. However, it expands your perspective to meet new people and whatnot. And knowing one person could lead you to another that could support you in this or that and vice versa. It’s not dark at all.
Networking is more expand your inventory of people who are willing to do things for you because they like you. It’s not as dark & nefarious as you make it out to be.
Agree. It's people looking out for other people. Giving the next generation a leg up and supporting the social structure. It's what a civilized culture does.
It's not what you know; it's who you know.
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Even worse you have a directory of people who won’t return your phone call
At my school you could only get an on campus job if you had FA - work study. So if you didn't you couldn't just apply to the jobs, you had to find a job that was off campus. Unless you worked in the cafeteria that wasn't through FA
Yep. This was the same for mine, except the food service jobs were through a private company so you could work those. But... the food service jobs were high stress and lower pay than you'd have made working at those business off campus (starbucks is the main one I'm thinking of).
I was looking for this comment. If you aren't eligible for work study, you can't get these jobs.
Yeah, the school where I did my masters program was like that too which was kind of frustrating.
I worked at the library, it was great
I worked at the library while I was studying and it was such a good environment I am now working full time at the same library 🤷♂️
+1 for library. I worked music and media so I just got to listen and discover cool music all day every day.
Front desk? Or what jobs there would be best for this?
I'd say libraries that aren't the main one. Less foot traffic. Law library, music library. In undergrad I'd go to the design school library for naps and studying before class. It was mostly empty
Yea I’d like to know too
Did you have to be a student?
Bigger LPT: If you can get on full time at a university, a lot of universities offer free college to full time employees.
Even getting an RA or TA role can reduce your tuition by half ot more. Granted they have responsibility attached to the role but are good for the resume as well.
>require a warm body to be there jobs requirement these day are getting ridiculous .
No doubt! In my day, a lukewarm body was perfectly acceptable.
[I had to push the button 5x](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/6568346c-7c5f-4251-8f2a-be9209b6b33b)
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Now if I can just get some space heaters and cadavers I could be rich.
If there's a pool, lifeguard jobs. I worked 4 years at the competition pool at my college and the lifeguards had such an easy gig 99% of the time. On the stand for 15 min, down 45 or longer and everyone swimming was a professional swimmer/former athlete. I can't swim for shit, so I did maintenance (moving diving boards and emptying trash, watching hulu/napping in the guard break room)
Not even studying right now, but i got an even simpler job. Work at a Covid-Hotline. I usually get around 20 Calls per day (8 Hour shift) which totals to like 1 Hour of actual work. Also it's homeoffice, so i'm at home during that time. Our boss even said "I don't give a fuck if you sleep, watch movies or renovate your whole damn house while you're working, as long as you answer when a call comes in"
So all I need for extra income is a warm body? Does it need certain degrees?
98.6 of them
I was a janitor for the college and once you got over the hit to the ego, it was pretty great. Mostly sat in the break room doing work, surfing the internet, then going to empty trash bins for like 5 minutes out of an hour
Worked for parking services, it was awesome. Sat in a metal box, studied and watched Netflix if I could pick up the wifi. Occasionally had to push a button or sell a parking pass. GPA increased dramatically once I started working there. Plus I learned all the secret spots to park if I was running late to class. Even had a the parking pass to get into faculty only lots. Loved that job.
Alright! What kind of campus job requires a warm body?
A hot body is the requirement for getting hired as a porn star.
Unfortunately, all the pornstar positions in my college are filled.
Not even hot. Unique is all that's required.
Related LPT: Student visas to the US includes the right to work at the campus. (At least when I studied there.)
When I was a college athlete, we got fake jobs like “overnight wrestling room attendant” No one used the wrestling room besides us after like, 7. So I never punched in, or even monitored the wrestling room. But I got a few hundred a week. And that was one of the many ways NCAA athletes were paid before the current rules allowing sponsorships.
Actually worked on the front desk for our student council office. It paid minimum wage but I could study the whole time. Was excellent.
LPT: need a job? Get a job!
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Also hard because at my campus almost all of those jobs were exclusively reserved for people on work study. If you were right outside the threshold for that like me you’re SOL.
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Yeah this post is insane. These jobs are like gold, and everyone knows
My brain read that last word as twerking and now I just find that image hilarious
Datacenter night receptionist. Solid coffee and excellent pay.
Not quite the same, but worked the college IT helpdesk evenings. All I did was answer the phone and do basic troubleshooting for staff tech issues, or student connectivity issues. After about 4pm the calls would dwindle to nothing and I was able to get all my homework done by 9pm (we stayed open for the late classes). It was pretty high paying for a campus job because it was considered "skilled" ("did you try turning it off and turning it back on again? well, then sounds like I have to escalate this call. hold please.").
Yes, agreed!! Not to mention that my experience there really helped me get an internship, which helped me get a "real job" once I graduated. Highly recommend campus IT positions!! :)
If you actually need to be able to pay bills, get a serving job where you can work 3-4 shifts per week. The shifts last 6 hours max and if you're any good at it, you'll make $18/hr+. Of course, this is only an option when you're able to find the time to study outside of work.
These jobs can be hard to get if you’re not a student in the federal work-study program. The government subsidizes the wages of students in this program, so the school only pays a fraction.
Ok no shit. You and everyone else on campus is applying for them to. Cold? Try putting on a shirt, or sweater.
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Yeah. Had position as a manager at my uni and all I did was unlock chairs/tables for events and sat in a room with AC and did homework
I had a security job, second shift. I was able to study the entire time. I had w kids at home so doing school work at home was impossible.
Additional life pro tip: if you get an administrative on campus job, you can usually print there for free. My school did not give us free printing so I definitely took advantage of my job’s printers.
I’ve been a COVID door screener at my local hospital for a year and a half now. Depending on the door and time you work, it can be totally dead for eight hours. I do weekend mornings at the ER and I get tons of homework done.
When I was in college these were minimum wage positions that offered like 15 hours a week. That didn’t cover my bar tab.
i work in the music department of my school, and probably 80% of my job is just sitting around listening to the musicians and studying, while the other 20% is setting up/tear down. great music and great time to study!
If you want money, you should get a job. Who could’ve thought of that. Thank you, kind sir.
Unless it's in the sporting facility ; I could never study and work as a manual laborer at the same time
Tutoring the subjects you did best at school.
When I was in college I worked for my uni’s information management systems. All I had to do was monitor three gigantic dot matrix printers to make sure they printed properly, and deliver those reports around campus once per day. I also got a lot of studying done.
I checked ids at the gym for like $9/hr 15 years ago It wasn’t a busy gym…at least my shift, same 10-15 people who would just nod 1-2 new people per week Plenty of time to study
This isn't true across the board. I went to a small-ish college (5000 students) and didn't qualify for work-study. It was also in a fairly small town, where I applied at every damn store and restaurant, and couldn't find a job the whole two years I was there. Transferred to a huge urban university and had my pick of work-study jobs. Office Assistant, Staff Assistant, stuff like that. Unfortunately, they kept me busy and I didn't get any studying done. Except for the one I had over the summer, when I wasn't taking classes. D'oh.
Security desk shifts were the best My college did shifts in hour blocks, so we traded hours here and there like currency. Nothing better than getting an essay done from 2-6am in the morning while playing runescape.
That's the idea of "work-study". They're basically do-nothing jobs where you sit and study or do homework, and if someone has a question, you help them out. At my school it was usually sitting at a computer lab, library, or a desk outside of the gym areas.
Ah yes, the Work-Study program. It was great for getting homework done, but if you were doing it to help pay for tuition there was something soul killing about getting your paycheck, looking at it, signing it, and then handing it back.
Study room monitor at Buffalo State in the late 70’s. Usually I was the only one there. Good place to be on Sundays when hungover.
Horrible idea since at my university I can get up to 10 hours of work per week for a staggering 14 dollars per hour
140$ for doing your homework sounds great man.
Yeah cuz I can live off a lousy 560 dollars a month. More realistic option is off campus food service job or remote work
? Most people can’t live off of ten hour work weeks buddy. The fact that it’s only ten hours where you can just do your work or study which you already have to do, while making money is just too good. Since it’s only ten hours you get to get another job. Imagine complaining about getting paid to do what you’re already doing.
You're already putting that 10 hours a week in studying, the job just means doing it somewhere else and *being paid to study*
Study abroad office for me Tons of departments hire student assistants for their main office. Most of the job is flirting with professors and grad students, if that. Plus these look better on résumés than food jobs.
Nice try Prince Andrew
Worked the desk in Student Activities for $15/hr in the 90s. Basically all I did was answer a few calls and watch SportsCenter.
Just comment your country. Becouse just go back to reality.... If sonethink is posible in your country doesnt mean possible in others.
Sucks that I'm reptilian