Utah State University

When you're looking for a job when you first get to campus, I would recommend looking for on-campus rather than off-campus positions because they're usually more flexible and understanding about scheduling. I worked for the parking and transportation department for most of my time at USU and it was a great experience, great people to work with, and I learned a ton. You could also check out Aggie Handshake and the Career Center down below the University Inn are both great options for finding opportunities. And if there's a program or office that you're interested in, just pop in and ask if they're hiring students that semester.

Check out the Student Sustainability Office on campus. They are really inclusive and I worked there for a few years when I was in my undergraduate and I would highly recommend working there. It's really fun and being an intern you get to choose your own hours and choose what projects you want to work on.

I have been a TA in the public speaking program. The only prerequisite is to take and pass public speaking. It's absolutely the best job. It pays ten dollars an hour which is pretty good for an on-campus job and it's it's really part-time. I usually work less than 20 hours during a pay period which is two weeks so it's usually between like six and nine hours each week and I just love it. I love working with students and it is so much fun so I definitely suggest if you have the opportunity to be a TA in any capacity, take it.

All of the food courts hire students. All of the custodians working in the dorms are students, for the most part. People working in the computer labs are students. So, I mean, and even some of the offices have students. So, I mean, there's plenty of jobs. Now, there's a lot of students competing for those jobs, so being early to that party is important. But if you really want a student job, it's possible. Oh, and same thing for the ARC and other kind of sports complex and recreational buildings. They're also staffed by students most times. So,

One of the easiest ways to find a job while staying at Utah State is to use their Aggie Handshake. Through there you can submit your resume and you can see all the job openings that are available on campus and just within the area.

While being here, the best student job that I had was being a parking booth attendant. It's definitely a job that no one really thinks about, but you honestly just get to sit in the booth and do homework. You're going to watch Netflix, just kind of like if you want to use the time to wind down. You help people throughout the day, but other than that, it's really not time consuming and every job on campus is more than likely going to work with your school schedule, which is really nice. So I feel like if you can score a job on campus in general, then you're just going to soar through college and it'll be a lot easier.

Most weirdly helpful experiences that I had at Utah State was working at the marketplace, and it was just kind of like a cafeteria setup, and so I mostly just served food. But it was close enough to the Utah State kitchens that sometimes we got to either see the actual chefs preparing things and occasionally could help out. And I learned a ton about cooking and food prep, and that has like sparked this real hobby interest of mine for cooking, and I'm really grateful that had that experience. So it's just like a fast food job, and it doesn't seem that sexy, but I got so much out of it and cannot recommend it highly enough if you were looking for an on-campus job.

I had a job with the grounds crew at Utah State and would mow lawns and every day you'd do a different section and then by the end of the week you'd done the entire campus and I cut my finger on a mower and I had to be rushed to the emergency room but all in all it was a good job.

So places to work at Utah State, or Logan in general, there's so many places to work. You will find a job if you look for one. I worked as an undergraduate teaching fellow for one of the classes that I took when I was a senior. So basically, you are the TA as a senior, and you help to run the classes sometimes, or take role, or whatever the professor asks you to do. So that's fun and pretty easy. I also worked at Coldstone off campus for a while. That was really fun, and the tips are really, really great. My husband worked for the Space Dynamics Lab. He's a computer programmer now, but he was a software tester at the Space Dynamics Lab, and that was a really good job. So if you're into computers, or engineering, or computer programming, computer science, that's a good route for you too. So lots of jobs to be found.

I know that there are sometimes jobs available on campus, but in terms of off campus, being situated in Logan means that as long as I've been here, I've noticed that there are always jobs available. One of the employers that I know is keen on recruiting people from USU is Conservice, and they're based down near Riverwoods, and there is a bus that drops people to there from the main depot.