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Where did you work in college?

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I had a football scholarship (not at OSU) so I didn't have to worry about tuition room and board. My first summer I tried telemarketing, but got fired after a week. My second summer I worked for Home City Ice. That was a hard job, but it was fun and I can think of worse places to be than the back of an ice truck in the middle of the summer. The next summer I had an intership in a computer consulting firm that paid me well pretty much just to sit there. I got really good at Yahoo Euchre that summer. My fourth summer I worked at Autozone about 20 hours a week. I worked at three different stores because they all liked having me around when the truck shipment arrived. I learned a lot about cars that summer. After that I had a Graduate assistantship, which paid for grad school and paid me a little over $600 a month.
 
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At OWU, I worked for three years for the book review section of a journal called "The Historian." (If you're a Phi Alpha Theta member, you probably receive it.). During the summers I worked for Cumberland Gas in Mt. Vernon (painting gas meters) and then my last two summers I worked at Oakhaven Golf Course in Delaware (beer bitch and server in their bar & grill).

In grad school I had an assistantship in the history department. For that I edited a journal called "Documentary Editing" and did random editing for the department.
 
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At school I worked at WBNS and the intramural department reffing games. I also worked some junior high games for Upper Arlington and Worthington schools.

Back in Dayton I worked at Delco Products and Inland Manufacturing where I gained a healthy respect for factory workers and labor unions.

I could make enough money in 8 weeks in a factory to pay for school, my car and fraternity. Too bad such opportunities don't exist today. Coming out of school with a huge mound of debt really puts you behind the 8 ball.
 
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I did the plasma donation thing twice a week for about a year. Donating one liquid to get enough money to buy some other liquids. My vein still looks bad from getting stuck about 100 times in the course of a year.

One summer I was lucky enough to get a job in a fiberglass factory. Worked all 3 shifts, but inside the room where I worked you couldn't tell if it was night or day. The room was directly beneath a huge furnace, and the molten glass would stream through sets of holes in the ceiling called bushings. So there are a couple hundred thin threads of orange-hot glass coming though a section about 4 inches by 18 inches. My job was to take the molten fibers in my rubber gloves, and place them on a winding machine that's waist high. You'd pull on them, wind them around the end of a spinning cylinder, and then after the threads were caught on the spinning part, you'd grind the part you were holding on the end of the cylinder to break it off. In an 8-hour shift, you'd do this about 500 times, creating spools of fiberglass. There were about 6 guys inside the room that was full of these machines, right underneath the big furnace.

Cold water was constantly sprayed on the glass after it dripped through the holes. If the temperature of the glass was off by 5 degrees, it caused problems. Every day I got long thin pieces of glass that went through the rubber gloves and into my fingers. After I went back to school, I was still pulling glass fragments out of my hands several months later.

But it paid very well for a college kid, and it convinced me that I didn't want a factory job for the rest of my life.
 
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I got a job as a freshman working in the finanacial aid office. My boss was the Police cheif's wife, so I was set if I encountered any minor legal problems. I stayed there until I graduated for a few reasons. 1. They encouraged me to study while on the clock, as long as the work was done. 2. No nights, no weekends. 3. Lots 'o females working in the office.
 
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NJ-Buckeye said:
see fellas... not just OSU alumni do this stuff for its FB players ..:)
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It wasn't quite like that. They were basically paying me for a summer so that I could learn what they do and work there after I graduated. Unfortunately for them I had an extra year of college and then went straight to grad school. The company was definitely anti jock. Their computers sucked though. :p
 
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Lets see...
Animal testing labs at Sisson Hall (cleaning up dog, cat, and rat shit - that lasted all of two days.)
Cop-ez @ Tuttle
Beach Manufacturing (summer job back home, making side-view mirrors for semis)
Fairborn YMCA (also a summer job, running the concession stand for the nighttime softball leagues - drinking on the job!!!!!:cool: )
Livingston Seed Co.
Capital University Admission Office (this one actually lasted for my last two years of undergrad, and gave me the impetus to go into my current grad program)
Standard Parking @ Polairs Ampitheater
McGraw-Hill
 
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In the kitchen of a sorority house, four hours a week... didn't pay any money... I did get free meals Monday-Friday though (and got to eat with the girls... over the years several of them became good friends)...

I also worked at the old rec. center at OU (Grover Hall)... I was a building supervisor. I had a key to the building and made sure the other workers were doing their job (and showed up for work)... I basically sat in an office and did homework for a few hours a couple times a week... not a bad gig at all!!! :biggrin:
 
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