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多種多様な学生向けアルバイト
大学は学問だけの場所じゃない!?実は絶好のアルバイトの場でもあるのです。200以上の建物が建つ広大な敷地に5万人の学生が在籍するオハイオ州立大学には、アルバイトの機会があふれています。これまで3つのアルバイトを経験した飯島さんが、キャンパス内の仕事を紹介してくれます。
So many students, so many jobs
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図書館の一角にある警備員の詰め所
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Due to its large student population and campus size, Ohio State University (OSU) is not only a seat of learning, but also one of the largest sources of part-time employment for students. Part-time workers are needed in the more than 200 buildings that are on campus, most of which are filled with academic departments, offices, libraries, athletic facilities and other service desks. I have had three jobs on campus: dorm front-desk clerk, dorm resident advisor and library assistant.
Libraries constitute the largest source of student employment. By itself, OSU has more than 20 libraries, and has probably the largest library collection and network among American colleges. The main library, in which I worked as a library assistant in the East Asian Language Department, has 11 floors and a basement. My job included re-shelving reference books, sending books and periodicals to the bindery and storage sections, writing titles in Japanese in newly bound books and so on. There are many other student jobs in the library, such as coding books, desk work for checkouts and returns, re-shelving and finding requested books, and even being security guards.
Dorms too have many positions available for students. Resident advisors, upperclassmen who take care of younger students in residence, deal with most of the problematic situations in dorms, such as underage drinking and taming young, noisy and spirited students. Residents are employed at the dorm front desk, where their duties are signing out keys to residents who lock themselves out, distributing mail and such.
In addition to regular college-owned businesses such as cafeterias, OSU has its own hospitals, hotels, airports and even golf courses, located only five minutes away from campus, and all these facilities need part-timers. Since Columbus has developed around OSU, which has a population of approximately 50,000 - it is the second largest college in the United States - there are many businesses around campus that also need part-timers.
On-campus jobs have some great pros. The best is location: You can work until 30 minutes before your class begins, or even between morning and afternoon classes. Also, it is close to home as well as to school since most undergraduate students live within a 10-minute walk of campus. When I worked at the dorm front desk, I lived in the place of my work, a minute away from my room.
Another pro is that in comparison to stressful jobs in profit-oriented businesses outside of campus, student jobs on campus are relaxed. It does not mean that students do not take their work seriously, but the working environment is friendly and tolerant. When I worked the night shift at the dorm front desk, all I did was to check the ID of people entering the building and sign out spare keys. Most of the time, I sat there and watched TV or chatted with my co-workers.
However, the biggest con of most on-campus jobs is the wages. The minimum wage is 5.15 dollars (¥618) per hour, and the wage for most on-campus jobs stays close to the minimum. That said, the pay and benefits of a resident advisor are exceptional. The actual payment is not huge, but the room and board is waived, and my practical salary was about 8,000 dollars (about ¥1 million then) for three quarters of the year, although the work was very stressful and ate up a lot of my time.
To me, an on-campus job is ideal because of the convenience of its location, its relaxing atmosphere, and money is not the most important objective for me as a student. Most students focus on studying during their school time, and instead, they work full-time in summer. Studying is so hard and intensive that they do not want to add too much stress to themselves.
Shukan ST: April 11, 2003
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- student population
- 学生数
- seat of learning
- 学問の府
- sources of 〜
- 〜の供給源
- part-time employment
- アルバイトの仕事
- are filled with 〜
- 〜が占めている
- academic departments
- 学部・大学院関連の施設
- athletic facilities
- 運動施設
- dorm front-desk clerk
- 寮の受付係
- resident advisor
- 寮の相談役
- library assistant
- 司書助手
- constitute 〜
- 〜である
- collection
- 蔵書
- basement
- 地下
- re-shelving 〜
- 〜を棚に戻す
- reference books
- 参考図書
- periodicals
- 定期刊行物
- bindery and storage
- 製本・保存書庫の
- newly bound
- 新たに表紙を付けられた
- coding
- コードを付ける
- checkouts
- 貸し出し
- returns
- 返却
- security guards
- 警備員
- 〜 available for 〜
- 〜向きの〜
- upperclassmen
- 上級生
- deal with 〜
- 〜に対処する
- problematic situations
- 厄介事
- underage drinking
- 未成年の飲酒
- taming 〜
- 〜をおとなしくさせる
- spirited
- 元気いっぱいの
- are employed
- 雇われる
- duties
- 仕事
- signing out 〜
- 署名して〜を貸し出す
- lock themselves out
- 部屋から閉め出された
- distributing 〜
- 〜を配る
- and such
- その他
- college-owned
- 大学が経営する
- located only 〜 away from 〜
- 〜からわずか〜のところにある
- part-timers
- アルバイト
- Columbus
- オハイオ州立大学がある町
- has developed
- 発展してきた
- approximately
- 〜およそ〜
- On-campus
- キャンパス内の
- pros
- 利点
- location
- 立地
- 〜 as well as 〜
- 〜にも〜にも
- undergraduate students
- 学部生
- in comparison to 〜
- 〜に比べて
- profit-oriented
- 営利目的の
- do not take 〜 seriously
- 〜を真面目に考えない
- working environment
- 労働環境
- tolerant
- 寛容な
- night shift
- 夜勤
- ID
- 身分証明書
- chatted with 〜
- 〜とおしゃべりした
- con
- 欠点
- wages
- 賃金
- minimum wage is 〜 per hour
- 最低賃金は時給〜だ
- That said
- とは言っても
- benefits
- 特典
- exceptional
- 特別な
- room and board
- 寮費と食費
- is waived
- 免除される
- practical
- 実際の
- three quarters of the year
- 1年の4分の3(秋・冬・春の9ヵ月)
- ate up a lot of my time
- 自分の時間をずいぶんとられた
- ideal
- 理想の
- convenience
- 便利さ
- atmosphere
- 雰囲気
- objective
- 目的
- intensive
- 集中的な