Word: jobses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There exists among the majority 17-to 21-year old college population a small minority of undergraduates who have already worked day jobs and paid utility bills--all before receiving their Harvard diplomas.
More than one potential hero has been crushed by the crowd of pretenders to the throne. They get shoved aside in political primaries, dumped in the circular file at the offices of various publication, passed up for professorships and passed over for jobs. And the "heroes" who do make it...
"It's hard to offer pairs of people jobs,"Muirhead says. `That's put a kink in the oldHarvard formula."
PAUL LEE HAD NO INTENTION OF FOLLOWing his father into the restaurant business. He remembers, "I didn't want to be here in the beginning. I wanted to give the 9 to 5 grind a try...I went to Clarkson College and studied computer science. I had jobs lined up...
"[Teachers] are constantly castrated for notdoing their jobs when they're spending hours uponhours doing extra work," she says. "They've gottenno credit and they've gotten constant bashing."