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What Jobs did Students Take on This Summer?
Ariane Rasmussen Staff Reporter
Issue date: 9/22/05 Section: Perspectives
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Ever wondered where SHU students were this summer? Based on the students interviewed by The Spectrum, most were busy working one, two, or even three jobs covering anywhere from 10 to 60 hours a week and averaging 40 hours. Amongst these students, job functions varied as greatly as the type of experience they had. While some jobs were directly related to the student's major, others were not.
"I worked at John Winthrop School as a camp counselor. I loved being able to work with kids from different backgrounds, financial statuses, and connecting with the Bridgeport community. The worst part was that the long morning academics were strenuous for some of the kids," said junior, Social Work major Taneisha Cantare from Suffern, N.Y.
Biology major sophomore Michelle Mortali, Hamden said, "I worked as an orientation leader and in an ice cream parlor back home. The best part about being a SHU orientation leader was meeting, working with, and helping new people. The worst part was sometimes working from 5 a.m. to 2 a.m. and then having to get up the next day and do it all over again."
"My job was to help a lady who owns a small movie store in the center of my town. The best part about working there was that she let me take home free movies whenever I wanted to. It was pretty cool to give people my opinion about movies because they took it seriously," said sophomore Jay Gagliardi, Northford, Media Studies major.
Some students had to deal with special circumstances at work like sophomore Heidi Marine majoring in Social Work (Trinidad, Wis.) who "started the summer off watching two kids and ended up having about 11 kids" with only two of them actually paying her to which she said that she "loved playing with them but hated feeding them."
Physical Therapy graduate student Suzanne Bastos, (Naugatuck) also loves helping people and said, "This summer I worked at St. Vincent's Medical Center as a CNA. The best part of it is the patient-care, but the worst part of it is the profession I am in right now. We do not get enough respect from other health-care professionals."
"I worked at John Winthrop School as a camp counselor. I loved being able to work with kids from different backgrounds, financial statuses, and connecting with the Bridgeport community. The worst part was that the long morning academics were strenuous for some of the kids," said junior, Social Work major Taneisha Cantare from Suffern, N.Y.
Biology major sophomore Michelle Mortali, Hamden said, "I worked as an orientation leader and in an ice cream parlor back home. The best part about being a SHU orientation leader was meeting, working with, and helping new people. The worst part was sometimes working from 5 a.m. to 2 a.m. and then having to get up the next day and do it all over again."
"My job was to help a lady who owns a small movie store in the center of my town. The best part about working there was that she let me take home free movies whenever I wanted to. It was pretty cool to give people my opinion about movies because they took it seriously," said sophomore Jay Gagliardi, Northford, Media Studies major.
Some students had to deal with special circumstances at work like sophomore Heidi Marine majoring in Social Work (Trinidad, Wis.) who "started the summer off watching two kids and ended up having about 11 kids" with only two of them actually paying her to which she said that she "loved playing with them but hated feeding them."
Physical Therapy graduate student Suzanne Bastos, (Naugatuck) also loves helping people and said, "This summer I worked at St. Vincent's Medical Center as a CNA. The best part of it is the patient-care, but the worst part of it is the profession I am in right now. We do not get enough respect from other health-care professionals."