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Everyone has horror stories relating to summer jobs??struggling with recalcitrant campers and bug bites, or braving manic customers at the local mall. Kurt L. Chauvière ’04 had it a little better in one sense. As he puts it: “The dead don’t complain...
...start date in August might require students to return to Harvard immediately after summer jobs??preventing an opportunity to relax and recuperate between the end of internships and the beginning of the school year. Many students also enjoy the transitional week between move-in and registration, which would be impossible if classes started much earlier...
...employees, we are tired of stuffing our complex new lives into the simplistic old career structures that still dominate most jobs??a phenomenon I call “career taxidermy.” We want a life. We want families. We want the flexibility to control our own time. In other words, as individual economic citizens, we want more than just goods and services, paychecks and promotions. We want a “support economy,” an economy in which we can live our ever-more complex lives as we choose. And in return...
Despite these concerns, Saunders, bound for Teach for America, says the attitude still exists both inside and outside the College that many public service jobs??such as teaching—are “the kind of jobs Harvard students shouldn’t be doing...
...organization,” he says. “He’s a smart publisher, he’s personable, he’s accessible, and he runs the company not at a distance but benignly, at least fair-mindedly. He expects his managers to do their jobs??he doesn’t do their jobs...