All three phonathons also use students in higher paid supervisory positions.

Get Cultured

Student life at Harvard is all about multi-tasking-reading while you eat, using extracurriculars as social opportunities, catching up on sleep during class-so what could be better than getting paid to attend performances as an usher?

"We use students as ushers for just about every event that happens in Sanders Theater," says Brian S. Yankee, production manager for the Memorial/Lowell Hall Complex.

Ushers take tickets, hand out programs, help performance goers find their seats and usually get to see the event. They may also sign up for jobs setting up and striking stage equipment.

Hours are flexible with most opportunities occurring nights and weekends. Students sign up at Yankee's office for events they would like to work. Although this probably isn't an ideal job for students who need a consistent source of income, ushering does pay $8 per hour.

Study Hall

Library jobs are the meat and potatoes of campus employment. And if you're looking to turn work time into study time, house libraries are the place to start.

"It's a very comfortable, nice job-low stress, few demands and you can even study a bit at the same time," says Franklin Liu '98, head student librarian at Quincy House who worked previously as a desk attendant.

Unlike jobs at main campus libraries, house attendants don't handle much circulation work and generally are responsible for maintaining an environment conducive to study.

But house library jobs are not the easiest to come by. Like other house jobs, these positions are generally limited to work-study students.

Visual Appeal

Get paid to go to class. Sign up as a media aide and you'll learn the wonders of overhead projectors, slide carousels and videotape.

Audio Visual Services (AVS), located out of the Science Center, employs about 30 students each year. Students may be assigned to videotape a class or provide technical support for a given professor throughout the semester.

"We try to let students pick classes they're interested in," says Amy Thompson, manager of AVS.