In my last post, I started talking about the jobs that are available to you, as a Michigan State student. As also stated in that post, the benefits of these jobs are excellent, in that it lowers the need for loans, and well, and that means less interest… Which is superb, any way of looking at it.
Anyway, here are some of the other positions in the residence hall:
Night Receptionist – These people have the job of working shifts between midnight and eight A.M. Basically, they are the people that check you in if you were out past midnight any day of the week. This is likely a security measure, as all other entrances to the dorms stop working at midnight. What they do is check your ID, ask your room number, and check that your ID matches the name on the room number. If you have a guest with you, you also have to help them fill out a guest pass request form. It isn’t an overly involved job, so during the off times where people aren’t there, it’s a good opportunity to play games, or to catch up on homework, or to just do some facebooking. Obviously the hard part to this job is staying awake through the third shift hours. I personally like that, as I’ve always slept weird hours myself... But I also acknowledge that I’m quite the opposite of normal.
Another set of positions in the residence halls, are the positions inside the cafeteria. There are all arrays of jobs in there, be it the ones who wipe tables, wash dishes, cook food, or swipe your card. I really don’t know much about these jobs, except they are some of the most social jobs, and probably the easiest to get, as there are so many positions for these available in every hall on campus. Odds are, if you try, you can get into one of these with relative ease. I’m not saying these aren’t good jobs, or respectable jobs, as I firmly believe any job is respectable, but if you’re a freshman, or anyone really, with no credentials, here would be a good place to start building your foundation on your resumes, and can also provide good sources of references in the future.
Another position, that might get overlooked on occasion is the that of a Teaching Assistant. I had the opportunity to talk to one of the teaching assistants (TAs) in my Intro to Engineering class. Basically, what a teaching assistant does is assign and grades all the work that a higher up professor tells them to do. There’s more to it than that, at the TA and Professor’s discretion, but that’s a bulk of it. They get paid around fifteen dollars an hour… Or at least the one in my engineering class did. It probably varies, dependant upon a lot of things. But who cares… Being a teacher’s TA is almost a guaranteed letter of recommendation when you’re getting ready to start applying for jobs. If you do a good job at being that TA, you’ll probably get an even better letter of recommendation, which really can make the difference between getting a job or not. You do have to put up with a bunch of students, and answer questions frequently, and it does take a chunk of time out of each day of yours grading shit, but it definitely has perks. I think there is a portion of college credit you get for being a TA, but I’m not sure… It’d kind of make sense if there was, though.
The last common job I know of are the people that work the desks in each of the residence halls. These people often have to work on weekends, and their main job is to answer questions about the hall, and various other things on campus. Other duties involve e-mailing people when packages arrive, sorting mail to people to make sure it gets put in the right box, and stuff like that. They also have to give you toilet paper when you’re in need of a roll… Hey, free toilet paper!
That’s all of the common jobs I think of that students normally do on campus. There are undoubtedly more, but I find these the most abundant, and most interesting.. Feel free to detail others that you know of!
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