Here's mine. I'm currently scanning all 500 some odd pages of "Petticoat Government" by Baroness Orczy as part of a project to preserve women's authors books. At least I get paid I suppose.
That's pretty bad, Nomar... Don't know about worst, but the best job I ever had in colllege (or ever now that I think about it) was playing bongos for the modern dance class 4 days a week. 15 bucks an hour to watch chicks dance in leotards. I was the only guy in the building. Good times...
I used to make tacos at Jack in the Box, so don't even TRY to whine about having a crappy college job...
I worked as a floater for an after-school care company, organizing athletic events for kids after school. I also worked in the mail room at the UT Alumni Association, and I also worked as a test subject for hearing tests.
Oh yeah, I used to manually masturbate caged animals for the purposes of artificial insemination... Oh wait, you're talking about BAD jobs!
Not a college job -- they wanted someone with a college degree if you can believe that -- but a job I had applied to right after college and later thought better of was this: You had to go from law firm to law firm and change out the sheets in their law code binders to put in new sheets whenever they changed the law. A little boring. Don't talk to any of the lawyers in these firms, or anyone at all if you can help it. You must hold a pencil in your right hand to flip the pages with the eraser, catching the individual sheets you counted out between your index and middle finger of your left hand. Do the reverse in putting the new pages in. 20 minutes for lunch, $10 an hour, no benefits. My interviewer was offended when I asked why they wanted a college degree for this. In my experience, it isn't so much the job they ask you to do but the environment they want to put you in. Scanning books doesn't have to be so bad if you have time, comfort and some companionship. I had a job that had some work that was usually pretty boring -- reading 10(k)s and legal documents, shifting through boxes and boxes of random paper and whatnot. But the office was very nice, artwork, had good coffee, had intelligent young coworkers, had a 7-hour day, plenty of downtime, and (when there was overtime) would buy you dinner and a cab home. So, even when the work was crappy, the job was great.
In college, I didn't haven any money, so I worked as a scrub loading crates into planes from 4 a.m. - 8 a.m., went to school and then waited tables at Pappasitos (which was the great part)... Needless to say, that only lasted a month...
I was injected with radioactive isotopes to see how my brain worked when under stressful situations. It also tested my personality and showed my brain wave patterns. they also had to draw a pint of blood everytime i went in, which was about once a week for a month. On the bright side, they paid 175 per visit. Not bad to sell my soul for 175 bucks
Um. Whoa. Mine were silly little experiments done by PSY grad students. You really, really, really like beer, huh?
Speaking of being a lab rat for $$$.. Has anyone here ever sold plasma? How much did you get for it? Was it worth it to you?
At UT? I think now they don't pay since they make all 301 students do it. I'd say working in the cafeteria as a server would suck.
Mr. Gatti's near UT - yes, that one - a long time ago, so I doubt any of you have seen me there. Making the pizzas was OK, but I also had to: put up with psycho-sadistic managers (probably why there was such a high turnover there) refill things in the salad bar that were 9/10 full already just to look busy clean up after the little kids who ate free on Monday nights and got more pizza on the floor than in their mouths and clean bathrooms, including the men's. And the Rockets were in the middle of their first championship run, but I got in trouble if I hung around the TV for no reason, even when there wasn't anything to do. The managers could watch the game without anyone to yell at them.
I was thinking about that too. There is an ad on tv here in College station that is offering a couple hundred bucks. I was wondering how it is. I am thinking of going and doing it.
Yikes, Isabel. Must be something in the tomato sauce. In high school, I delivered pizza for a ma and pa pizzaria on Grant road. The manager threatened me with a knife once when I dropped a pizza. One of the cashier chicks was always hitting on me and grabbing my ass. I was 16, she was in her 50's...and ugly.
You can get something like 150 bucks for plasma.... I cant remember... It's in the UT paper all the time, but I can't give plasma, so I ignore the ad. UT makes PSY 301 students do at least 5 hours of experimentation by different grad students for god knows what kind of reasons by the end of the semester (or a research paper) or you don't get your grade, and the class is considered incomplete. Worst job? making pizza at Jester Pizza. I loved that stuff living in the dorms, now I can't look at it without getting sick. But now I work at a charter school 3 days a week for 13 bucks an hour.... So yeah. good times for me. I might actually come out with some money at the end of the semester!
Oh yeah, and about the plasma, you can give plasma once a week, I believe... maybe it's once every other week.... but whatever it is, its more often than you can give blood. So if you're thinking of doing it, go for it. All you have to lose is an hour or two of your day and a pint of bodily fluids.
