No experience, how can I get a job? - Page 2

So true. If you get an interview, pretend you already know how to run the place.

network network network ... harass all of the professors who like you... they should have some sort of 'in' to get your resume to the top of the pile

Huh? that's what I was saying.

First, nothing is a crappy as retail.

Some suggestions for the college undergrad looking for a job:

(i) Work for your school - it will be a slack job (meaning you can study on the clock) and will pay well above minimum wage. Library assistant, lab assistant, language lab monitor (if that kind of thing still exists), or even be the sleazy ticketing guy who walks around ticketing the hundreds of illegally parked cars that blanket every urban campus. I used to monitor freshman labs as an undergrad, and made about triple minimum wage.

(ii) Tutor for the Athletic Association - you'd be sickened at how rich your Athletic Association is, and how stupid the athletes are. If you're good at something - Calculus, say - approach them about tutoring. I made $20-30 an hour tutoring for my school's Athletic Association, and that was in the late 80s.

(iii) If you scored top 5% on the SAT, work for Kaplan or Princeton Review as an SAT tutor; they start at about $18-20/hour, you set your own hours and schedule, AND you'll learn strategies which will help you on the GRE/GMAT/LSAT later. Win all around.

(iv) The best paid college students I've ever met were... strippers. It's an option.

(v) If your school has a co-op program, it's hard to beat that - it's a REAL job in your field, with actual wages, gets you actual industry contacts (read: recommendations), and possibly even gives you a job out of the gate. It does take an extra year to graduate, but that's a modest sacrifice compared to the benefits.

That's five way-better options than clothing retail!

DH