Campus jobs
There are different types of jobs on campus. For your viewing pleasure is a list of various places to work on campus, with individual reviews of each office.
PLEASE ADD INDIVIDUAL COMMENTS ABOUT JOBS WORKING IN VARIOUS OFFICES UNDER EACH HEADING!!
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[edit] Campus Dining Services
Jobs at CDS started around $7.40 in 2007, making CDS one of the best-paying employers on campus for unskilled labor. Some students hate the work due to its obvious messiness (unless you luck out and get a job as a card swiper); some students love the work, possibly because of the benefit of free food on your shift.
[edit] Entry-Level / Office Work
Many offices on campus (academic departments, etc.) employ students to do simple office work, often starting from minimum wage (currently at $6.85, but indexed to inflation, so it may increase next year?).
It definitely helps to have a neatly filled out application in early for a lot of "entry level" type jobs at Oberlin. These would include jobs at any of the libraries, Philips Gymnasium, and lots of other places that other people can list.
[edit] Wilder Student Union
People work in Wilder, giving out keys, answering questions, selling tickets and being useful. Also under the umbrella of the Student Union are jobs at the Cat in the Cream Coffeehouse, the 'Sco, the bowling alley, etc.
[edit] Grader / TA
After a couple years at Oberlin, if you've kicked butt in a couple courses, especially courses where the professor knows that you plan on majoring in their department, you may get the opportunity to grade other students' work as they go through some course you've already taken. Sometimes you even get to grade 100-level and lower courses that you didn't even take. Grading is a good way to refresh your memory, and pick up some new information about an interesting subject. Most departments pay their graders quite well, and most students who grade are happy to do so.
A handful of courses have a large number of students, and employ student TAs. Again, these are students who kicked butt and took 100s when they went through, and they're usually even helpful.
[edit] Faculty Research
Most professors are active researchers and writers, though this is especially true of younger professors still trying to get tenure. Many professors, especially in the sciences, run labs in which students can be research assistants. Most professors have webpages that you can check for such information, or you can ask around and see what other students know, or you can ask the professor. Be advised that if you ask a professor if they have a spot in their lab for you, it's kind of implied that you'd accept a spot if they offered it to you, so you should usually be pretty sure that you want to work for/with this person before asking...
For some ideas about faculty research, check out the OCCaM website.
[edit] Admissions
The Office of Admissions has various jobs available to students.
[edit] Tour Guide
Tour guiding is the happiest 7 dollars per hour you can earn. Good parts are the incredibly conscientious staff and having a job with a point, poor areas are the weather and caps on hours. You can't really earn too much as a guide, but it's great fun.
[edit] Campus Visit Host
Anyone can be a campus visit host. The pay is abysmal — $10 per student — so many people signed up to be hosts don't host often. Freshmen tend to be the most common hosts.
[edit] Libraries
Each library employs many students at several different levels and with different tasks, such as operating the circulation desk, shelving books, or for more experienced students, acting as a reference assistant.
[edit] Other
Many jobs on campus are open to students with special skills—such as operating the Living Machine in the Environmental Center, or working for CIT doing geeky things.
