Friday, April 1, 1983
Daily Nebraskan
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gisEoe to job taotag
There are live weeks lelt in the semester, and you're
slugging through each week, living for FACs, weekends
and warm weather. But suddenly you come to one of the
harshest realities of all of life - there's no such thing as
a free summer. That means just one tiling; you must go
out and play the game you've played since high school -Go
Find a Summer Job.
STONEVS GUIDELINES FOR FINDING A
SUMMER JOB
1. Don't join the Marines. Six weeks in Quantico, Va.,
is no one's idea of a job, a vacation, or free travel (I
don't care what the recruiter said). Keep in mind that
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you don't have your own refrigerator in the services,
and that means longer walks for your beer. Make sure you
get your priorities straight.
2. Don't start looking for jobs too early. Lining up
summer jobs during Christmas break is the easy way
out; that's something anyone can do. Add some risk
and be a real student; wait until the week before you
want to start work. If you can start that 25 -page English
paper the night before it is due, you can certainly pro
crastinate with your jobiunting.
3. Define exactly what you want in a summer job.
You need to know things like what time you want to
wake up in the morning, how hard you want to work,
how long a lunch break you'll need, the size of your
office, your minimum pay requirements, whether or
not you want a WATS line and what benefits of lesser
importance to consider (like sports clubs, travel, company
car, etc.).
After you have listed what you want in a job, the
rest is easy. All you have to do is find some employer
that has a job that fits all of your requirements. It's a
piece of cake.
4. Make the job title appropriate for the job. Assum
ing that you have trouble finding a job to match your
requirements, or you're too good at procrastination,
you may have to settle with any job you can get. But
that's OK you can still use it on your resume if you
revise the title a little bit. Even the most menial job
can look impressive. To revise a job title, you must follow
one simple rule: use several big words with many syl
lables. Study these examples of new titles and adapt them
to fit your own job.
-Food Systems Handler for the Socially and Econ
omically Disadvantaged: A cook at the City Mission
-Safety and Sanitation Processing Assurer: Person
who puts plastic -wrap on bathroom glasses in motels
-Traffic Control Systems Engineer : Person that
figures out how long to keep a traffic light red
-Women's Softball Coach: What really happened in
Oklahoma?
-Director for Sports Propaganda and Public Apol
ogies: Women's Athletic Director
-Sequential Number Processing Applicator: Person
who stencils house numbers on curbs
-Historical Archivist and Public Relations Director :
Tour guide in Juniata.
-Low Altitude Air Traffic Accident Preventer : Person
that continually turns the light switch on and off for
the red light at the top of the State Captiol
-Homo Sapiens Refuse Vessel Reconditioner : septic
tank cleaner
5. If you still don't have a job, it's time to start worry
ing. As I see it, you have three choices. You can go to
summer school (that's the easy way out). You can learn
how to play the harmonica and play for donations at
the corner of 13th and 0. Or you can still join the
Marines.
Letters
RHA must shed political affiliation, forge ahead
It appears that Dave Edwards could not resist deliver
ing a parting shot to the retiring RHA administration,
and a condescending shot to the new one. His letter
(Daily Nebraskan, March 30), demonstrates his lack of
understanding of RHA's workings and shows an absence
of interest in its effectiveness.
Initially, a difficult job lies just ahead for the new
executives: they must shed their party viewpoints, and
act on the realization that they now represent all the
students of the residence halls. It is understandable that
Edwards, Progressive's campaign adviser during the
election, would continue to treat RHA's nev leaders
like a simple political party. However, it is cisastrous
for this viewpoint to be held by the member:, of what
was formerly the Progressive party, those who are now
RHA's executive members. RHAs job is to work with
students and the UNL administration. Unless President
Bob Wolz and his executives realize this vital fact, they
will find themselves an embattled minority, facing the
opposition of RHA representatives.
Secondly, Edwards seems intent upon maligning the
departing administration with unfounded criticism. His
rhetoric such as "the decadence of the retiring RHA
administration was ridiculous" lacks any factual basis.
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Weekdays 7:00am - 6:00pm
RHA was hardly "dragged out of the closet" when this
year's elections "rolled around." All of RHA's members,
including its executives, worked throughout the year to
substantially improve the organization's credibility. Also,
their results are evident in areas such as housing rates,
the new finance system, the food fast, the friends of
foreign students program, and the ASUN debates. We
should be pleased with the past administration and look
forward to equally constructive action by RHA in the
future.
Finally, by attempting to draw a distinction between
the "old" RHA and the "new" RHA, Edwards exhibits
his misunderstanding of the nature of student govern
ment. Continuity is the fundamental problem with such
groups in the eyes of many students and nearly all Univer
sity officials. All too often, the previous administration's
actions are ignored and criticized by the "new" leaders,
months of work is destroyed, and valuable time is need
lessly lost. RHA should build upon its past work, and
new leaders must realize their importance within this
framework and contribute to this process, this is the
true challenge of student government.
David Jensen
sophomore, mechanical engineering
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