*hates on work study*

[mousapelli]

Somewhere on this campus, there must be one department looking for a student who is not work study. Damned if i can find it, but it must exist.

After talking to the third secretary in a row who was like "well, you aren't work study" i finally asked exactly when this whole work study fiasco draws to close. Apparently this goes on until mid-october. And that is when Sara, who had been up since 7 and already had two classes today that she has clearly outgrown, nearly had a crying jag right in the middle of the Human Resources office.

I don't want to go back to the library and talk to the guy for the fourth week in a row about whether he is going to hire me or not. I have talked to him four weeks in a row, and i don't want to talk to him anymore. if he would just say "i'm not hiring you, please stop bothering me and by the way you're ugly" i would send him a thank you card because i would not have to talk to him anymore.

I'm so frustrated, because i am flat broke and because I am bored in my classes, that I am starting to wish that i was the one temping, because then at least i could cheer myself up by buying myself legos or something.

but i cannot, because i am not work study.

Comments

[florahart]

You'll be happy to learn this whole thing is frustrating as fuck for the people hiring as well. In my case, my budget for student payroll has shrunk by ~10% each of the last two years and thus I cannot afford students who don't have work study without being willing to sacrifice hours I don't *really* have to spare--I pay a quarter of WS wages, and 100% of non-WS. This means I have students who utterly rock, who have WS as freshmen, and then lose it the next year who I can't keep which KILLS me, and students who sort of show up most of the time and work slowly who keep having work study their entire career. SO irritating. One year I literally had to let go my four best employees. One of them was the single best worker I've ever had the privilege to supervise, and considering I have had a different student who was among the ten who won the big award for best student employees on campus (of 20K students), this is saying something. Killed me. This year I think I luck out in that regard--not that anything is finalized for another month and a half--but this in no way makes of for the years of suck.

How'd you not get work study, anyway? That bites.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

can grad students even get work study? even if they can, i've never had it. It's never been a problem before because i was always an RA during undergrad, and i was a tutor in the classics department as well.

but here i don't know anybody, so i can't even figure out who i should be asking if they need people in the first place. I miss F&M...

[florahart]

Yes, they can. It's part of federal financial aid, just like loans and grants. Go talk to the financial aid office; I bet they have a decent idea of what goes on where. If they don't ...student services? academic advising?

Here, the big employer of students that don't have work study is housing--the cafeterias and catering and stuff--followed by the student union. The libraries and academic departments are mostly work-study.

Boo to no work study. :6

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Have you looked for work off-campus in cafes and bookstores? They tend to pay more and are usually hungry for students to work for them this time of year...my senior year my workstudy wouldn't cover my bills so I got a job bartending part-time at the local bar and grill just off campus.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

i was hoping to keep things on-campus, just because i have huge blocks of free time in between my classes, but it honestly doesn't look like it's going to work out. *sighs*

heh, not to mention that putting me in a bookstore on a daily basis is really just asking for trouble...and you, bartending? haha, RPG imitates life!

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

*laughs* how do you think I knew how to serve all those drinks? :D

[fantomeq.livejournal.com]

*Hugs.* The same thing happened to Jeff in undergrad. Then he couldn't get an assistantship in graduate school, so he worked minimum wage in a bookstore.

Also, I used to be a college librarian, and the workstudy students got paid more than I did! That didn't seem especially fair.

If you only had Legos, Mulciber could feature in a film of himself destroying Lego City. That's what my husband always did for fun. :D

[hetaira9.livejournal.com]

*pets*

You will find something. In the meantime, mooch off of the newly-employed Ellen. That's the best advice I can give you. Oh, and gorge yourself on L&O dvds.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

heh, well, we've already tried applying L&O to the wound. you shouldn't even ask how many hours of the DVDs and the real TV ellen and i watched even before the marathon on monday...

[sociofemme.livejournal.com]

Yes. It would.

[rooneytunes.livejournal.com]

So totally understand. I have been looking for a job too and don't qualify for work study. It totally sucks. Try off campus employment at a place that students often go to cause they are better with working with your schedule. Good luck