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The Best (Laziest) Jobs on Campus
Rejected by the Rose? Can’t find a prof who needs an assistant? Mortified at the thought of a hard day’s work? I’ve got a treat for you. If you can fog up a knife (and in some cases cash a federal work-study check) you can slum your way through these, the laziest jobs on campus.
5. Event Security- This is that thing you’re always getting emails about before basketball games and big parties. It pays twelve bucks an hour and is incredibly easy. You just stand in front of stuff and make sure people come in the entry and go out the exit. If you can’t figure this job out you are deeply unprepared for college. Downsides: you have to be fast to get a slot doing this. Have fun skipping the biggest parties of the semester to stand sober (?) in the cold all night long.
4. LTA- Lab techs make something just above minimum wage (but hey it isn’t work-study) to sit in the computer labs and do their homework. Seriously have you ever seen them do real work? I thought so. When I asked my esteemed Forum colleagues about lazy jobs this was the immediate consensus. Downsides: sometimes you have to go get new printer paper; sometimes a dumbass freshman breaks a computer or something.
3. RTA- This is what every LTA dreams of one day growing up to be. “Work” from your room, help idiots figure out the difference between a phone jack and an ethernet jack, schedule visiting hours at seven in the morning on a Saturday. And it looks good on a resume! Downsides: I’m sure I’ll hear these in an angry anonymous post by an RTA.
2. Campus Escort- The jackpot. Seriously, this is the best job on campus. Any campus. Ever. It’s a work-study dispenser where you’ll endure ordeals like sitting in the hub watching basketball, sitting in the library napping, and, toughest of all, forgetting a shift and realizing nobody noticed because you were the only one who’d been going to begin with. Downsides: None.
1. Forum Fellow- I just got paid 25 dollars to write this. No kidding.
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Wyatt MacKenzie
Wyatt MacKenzie, like Venus, was formed spontaneously from sea foam and emerged carrying an IBM Selectric. He is physically incapable of producing anything but the most perfect reporting imaginable and has won seven Pulitzers for his work investigating CMC cafeterias. He hopes one day to report a story so hard that it stops ethnic conflict in the third world.
6 Comments
2009-03-06
22:23:35
hilarious and so so true.
lta :: rta
as
joe biden :: barack obama
someone should make a music video about the secret lives of ltas and rtas
-onedayi'llbeanrta
2009-03-06
22:31:33
You're forgetting the best job on campus... get approximately $12,000 to hang out with freshmen for a couple weeks and feel superior to the rest of the school
2009-03-07
01:37:21
I can't believe reading room "proctor" and hub store "worker" are not on this list.
2009-03-07
11:39:22
Since when do you get paid $25 an article?
2009-03-07
20:27:01
gym supervisor should also be on this list
2009-03-08
09:30:49
Though as an RA you do get paid nearly $12000 and get to hang out with freshmen, your phone also rings off the hook with lockouts, alcohol issues, noise complaints, and people generally doing stupid stuff that you have to deal with at all hours. It's definitely the hardest job on campus. Good luck!