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Trah's better than that. Anything rats is dude3's thing.

This post has been edited by *saXxy*: 23 July 2005 - 09:17 PM

Okay, then he could use staplers.

Hmm.... With blue staples maybe...

*saXxy*, on Jul 23 2005, 05:10 PM, said:

You don't get paid for it, so if anything it'd be "mandatory volunteer work".

I got paid once for completing a huge essay.

As bnb knows, I sold kitchen knives for two weeks.

Did you attack anyone with them.

Jesus... get jobs, folks.

Noo!!!!! Never!!!

Ok, not "never." Just not now.

Nuh-uh! If you can avoid getting a job in any way, don't get one! Go to uni to put it off for longer! Take up a sport that involves intensive training and travelling!

I'm 18 and I do have a job, but then I guess it pays about $30 an hour and I only do it for like 8 hours a week. But that's just luck. I don't need the money, I just put it in the bank and leave it there. I don't have time to spend the money, nor do I have time to work a regular job.

Not yet. Everyone in my family now has another scar though.
I'll be working at McDonalds in a few days.

lotsofblackflags, on Jul 25 2005, 04:19 PM, said:

Not now, I have more important things to do.

Don't say that unless you're building EVIV, or AII.

Avatara, on Jul 24 2005, 04:06 PM, said:

I did...$2 for every A and $1 for every B and if I improved in something. $5!!!
That includes citezenship!

They gave up on paying me for grades. MEanies.

my grand plan for joblessness:

No job in college. Age: 22

No job in grad school(masters). Age: 23

No job in grad school(Ph.d). Age: 25/26

It'll be tough in grad school to not get a job. Most places don't provide housing to grad students. I could try and get my parents to pay, but thats just weird in your 20s.

i was supposed to get paid...but it never happened.

Trah, on Jul 25 2005, 09:44 PM, said:

I don't quite get where you're going with that, I've never heard of any school simply giving housing away to undergrads either.

In any event, at grad school you should be able to (if you're not required to) get a job being a graduate TA, RA, or GI in whatever department you're in. It's not a real job and it shouldn't screw up your study time, but at least you're underpaid accordingly.

-Pufer

The quality of being a TA really depends on the department, though. Science TAs have to run lab sections (which I imagine is a nightmare). Math TAs have to run recitations, which sounds correspondingly un-fun. Pretty much all TAs have to grade homework and exams.

Personally, I'd take being a comp sci or linguistics TA. Partially because they're the only departments I know enough in to _be_ a TA, and partially because in those, the TAs get to do the bare minimum of work.

The Apple Cøre, on Jul 25 2005, 07:38 PM, said:

I am working on a good TC for EV Nova, so it is close enough.

Excellent.

Which one?

Pufer, on Jul 26 2005, 12:11 AM, said:

Well, housing is included in "college costs" which my parents pay, but grad school is a grey area. My parents would pay for the schooling, but housing?

Hopefully I will be required to be a TA, then I can kind of claim never to have had a job.

Pallas Athene, on Jul 26 2005, 12:39 AM, said:

What you say is true, but occasionally having to grade papers is a lot better during the school year than actually having to do something in the open market. As to the Science TA's, it really depends on which science you're dealing with. I hear that Chemistry TA's really have a hell of a time with having to teach their labs, but Geology labs, in contrast, really aren't particularly involved and are quite easy to teach from what I've seen in the ol' E&PS department at UNM. With Math, the coursework involved in such a course of study is horrifying enough to me, I dare not consider what the TA's have to do. In any event, regardless of what the TA is actually doing, there really isn't all that much guess work going into their job, just monotony.

In any event, the only time I've ever been approached with an offer to TA came from the UNM Psychology Department. Evidentally they were having a hard time coming up with TA's who would be willing to TA for a class of around 1000 people, to such an extent that they began cold calling Sophomores in different courses of study who happened to have done well when they had previously taken the class. I already had my cushy government job so I didn't take the position, but would have considered it if I hadn't already been employed.

-Pufer

The Apple Cøre, on Jul 26 2005, 07:49 PM, said:

EV: Genesis