muttleynfelix
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Post by muttleynfelix on Sept 20, 2012 8:23:51 GMT -5
Apparently my experience is not typical (I also graduated 8 years ago, so not super recently), but it was super easy. I worked the front desk at the Res Hall for a year and a half. I spent a year as peer tutor in the fluids learning center and I graded papers for a class for a semester for a department that supports other departments (so no majors and no grad students). All of my friends who wanted jobs on campus, got them with no problems. Granted my peer tutoring and grading papers was not time consuming at all. Peer tutoring was 4 hrs a week and grading papers was maybe 5 hrs a week. Working the res hall front desk meant working some crappy hrs and you had to be work every other weekend.
ETA: I did not have work study.
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Post by saveinla on Sept 20, 2012 8:27:43 GMT -5
Thanks everyone for the responses.
muttley,
That was what we were told when we went to look at the college my DS is looking at. The tour was conducted by students and they said that there are a lot of on campus jobs and it was easy to get them.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2012 9:08:44 GMT -5
But there are jobs around campus. Bars hire bartenders, servers. Restaurants hire as well. So do retail stores. Plus, if you get the kids on board with the fact that they will have to help pay so half of their paychecks when they start jobs will go into their savings account, then they are prepared as well. I always made my kids five me half their paychecks which I deposited into their accounts. Now that paid their car insurance in high school but they didn't work as many hours in high school as they could in college. DD works 32 hours a week and it isn't stressful work. She takes 12 hours of classes. you need to be 21 to be a bartender (DD will turn 21 first year of vet school), 18 to be a server (a month into her sophomore year), driver's license and car to deliver (no license yet), retail stores may or may not accomodate classes/exams/etc, and if something isn't on the bus route, you're screwed. I got work study during my college years and had a nice cushy job in the financial aid office. Without work study it isn't anywhere near as easy.
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Post by steph08 on Sept 20, 2012 9:19:49 GMT -5
Apparently my experience is not typical (I also graduated 8 years ago, so not super recently), but it was super easy. I worked the front desk at the Res Hall for a year and a half. I spent a year as peer tutor in the fluids learning center and I graded papers for a class for a semester for a department that supports other departments (so no majors and no grad students). All of my friends who wanted jobs on campus, got them with no problems. Granted my peer tutoring and grading papers was not time consuming at all. Peer tutoring was 4 hrs a week and grading papers was maybe 5 hrs a week. Working the res hall front desk meant working some crappy hrs and you had to be work every other weekend. ETA: I did not have work study. My experience was the same as Mutt's - I did not have work study and I had absolutely no problem finding jobs on campus. The first semester (maybe the first week) of my freshman year, I got jobs on the theater crew and at the Conferences & Events office. When I studied abroad for a semester in my junior year and the C&E peeps decided to replace me (without telling me), it was easy to find another on-campus job when I returned. Our intranet site listed all available on-campus jobs. I also babysat for my professors, which was an easy job to get at a small college like mine, might be harder at a large university.
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Post by zibazinski on Sept 20, 2012 9:23:06 GMT -5
Wow, where do you live with rules like those?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2012 9:29:33 GMT -5
Wow, where do you live with rules like those? are you referring to my post? pretty sure it's the rule everywhere that you have to be 21 to serve alcohol.
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Post by zibazinski on Sept 20, 2012 9:40:09 GMT -5
Not in Florida. Thank GOD.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Sept 20, 2012 9:41:07 GMT -5
In Iowa you have to be 19 to serve and sell alcohol, Nebraska 18.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2012 9:44:30 GMT -5
ok, I checked. you have to be 18 to serve, 21 to be a bartender. so pretty much what I wrote in my original post is correct. she can't bartend, she can't work at any delivery places (no driver's license), has to be on bus route and has to work with schedule. so yes, she could work as a server if she could find something that fit.
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Post by giramomma on Sept 20, 2012 9:56:02 GMT -5
For people who have gone to college recently, how easy is it to get a job on campus? It depends on where the school is. Some of our state schools are in a city of 11K. Campus is rather small (a few blocks) and you need to have a car to get off campus. There's generally one wal mart, one mcDonalds, one or two grocery stores, etc. Just not much opportunity for employment, period. My school is in a city with a population of 250K and a really good public transportation system. (Students get a bus pass for the whole year, it's part of their student fees.) There's a ton of opportunity for working. Because of student workers, unemployment in my city usually runs 3-4%. It's been sitting at 5% since 2009.
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Post by 973beachbum on Sept 20, 2012 10:30:44 GMT -5
Dark if you really want to scare yourself just think of what will happen to your auto insurance rates when they get their drivers lisences with or without a car of their own. Trust me I did it yesterday when my DD got her DL.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Sept 20, 2012 10:32:37 GMT -5
You have a son too right 97? Wait until he gets his driver's license. My dad nearly had a stroke when my brother was put on his insurance. It went up when he put me on but it was NOTHING compared to putting a teenage boy on the policy.
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Post by muttleynfelix on Sept 20, 2012 10:40:42 GMT -5
Umm that pretty much describes the town I went to school in and on campus or off campus everyone who wanted one had a job. Granted the school was only 6k students and the town is THE major hub for anyone up to 90 minutes south, 30 miles north, 30 miles east, and 30 miles west. One of my coworker's has a brother that commutes an hour to work at the Lowes in the town I went to college in. There is also some industry there as well.
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Post by t-dog on Sept 20, 2012 10:49:05 GMT -5
And putting the kids on your policy ties them to all your finances. If you put them on their own insurance and NEVER let them drive your car (get them a beater) then all you are responsible for in CA is the parental liability limits of 15k/30k. Yes policy is more expensive for a teen but it does limit the extent to which your finances are at risk.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2012 10:58:50 GMT -5
And putting the kids on your policy ties them to all your finances. If you put them on their own insurance and NEVER let them drive your car (get them a beater) then all you are responsible for in CA is the parental liability limits of 15k/30k. Yes policy is more expensive for a teen but it does limit the extent to which your finances are at risk. depends on your state. Here in MD you can't put them on their own policy if they live with you.
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Post by giramomma on Sept 20, 2012 11:04:18 GMT -5
Umm that pretty much describes the town I went to school in and on campus or off campus everyone who wanted one had a job. Granted the school was only 6k students and the town is THE major hub for anyone up to 90 minutes south, 30 miles north, 30 miles east, and 30 miles west. One of my coworker's has a brother that commutes an hour to work at the Lowes in the town I went to college in. There is also some industry there as well. See, in my case, the small town is 20 miles away from a larger city (60K folks) and 50 miles away from my city (250K). It's not a major hub.
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Post by 973beachbum on Sept 20, 2012 11:10:46 GMT -5
And putting the kids on your policy ties them to all your finances. If you put them on their own insurance and NEVER let them drive your car (get them a beater) then all you are responsible for in CA is the parental liability limits of 15k/30k. Yes policy is more expensive for a teen but it does limit the extent to which your finances are at risk. depends on your state. Here in MD you can't put them on their own policy if they live with you. You can't do it in NJ if they live with you. The other problem is they can't even buy their own policy until they are 18. It went up more than I thought it would considering she doesn't even have her own car. She is just listed as a driver in the household. I don't think my heart can take thinking about what the premiums will be after putting DS on the insurance.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Sept 20, 2012 11:13:58 GMT -5
My dad found it was "cheaper" for us to have our own cars and be listed as primary driver rather than be listed as driving his car.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2012 11:19:44 GMT -5
My dad found it was "cheaper" for us to have our own cars and be listed as primary driver rather than be listed as driving his car. again depends on the state....In MD (and probably NJ - that's where I grew up), all drivers in the household are insured for all vehicles in the household. If number of drivers exceeds number of cars I'm pretty sure you don't have to make a teen a primary driver, but if number of drivers equals number of cars a teen has to be primary on one....and it's not always best to put them as primary on an old beater.
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Post by midjd on Sept 20, 2012 11:22:43 GMT -5
With my mom & me on the policy (2 cars) it was about $60/month. When she added my brother (3 cars) it jumped to $220 And these were all 5-15 year-old vehicles, nothing fancy. Then he got a speeding ticket!!
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Post by 973beachbum on Sept 20, 2012 11:23:36 GMT -5
My dad found it was "cheaper" for us to have our own cars and be listed as primary driver rather than be listed as driving his car. again depends on the state....In MD (and probably NJ - that's where I grew up), all drivers in the household are insured for all vehicles in the household. If number of drivers exceeds number of cars I'm pretty sure you don't have to make a teen a primary driver, but if number of drivers equals number of cars a teen has to be primary on one....and it's not always best to put them as primary on an old beater. You have a good memory! That is almost word for word what the agent said.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2012 11:29:21 GMT -5
again depends on the state....In MD (and probably NJ - that's where I grew up), all drivers in the household are insured for all vehicles in the household. If number of drivers exceeds number of cars I'm pretty sure you don't have to make a teen a primary driver, but if number of drivers equals number of cars a teen has to be primary on one....and it's not always best to put them as primary on an old beater. You have a good memory! That is almost word for word what the agent said. well I'm getting ready to live it in MD.....hopefully DD will finish up her driving hours when she's home over Thanksgiving and then take her road test over winter break.....DS2 (17) has been promised his learner's if his interim grades (come out on the 28th) meet my standards.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Sept 20, 2012 13:33:38 GMT -5
LOL! Yeah... how's the politically correct way to put this... the military and I just aren't a great a fit. I found out my ability to tolerate pointless bullshit only goes so far. Besides, I can't afford to take a pay cut that big. After the damn kids bleed me dry with cars and college, I've still gotta figure out how to retire.
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