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Graduate Secretary of PBH Greg A. Johnson '72 says students are hired for menial and clerical duties around the House and as counselors in summer camps and tutors in after-school programs such as Keylatch and Mission Hill. There are now 26 work-study students employed in a variety of positions ranging from staff assistants and fund raisers to directors and supervisers...
...destroy his negatives and sometimes those of others. But it was in his eyes that his talent lay. He knew very little of the technical side of photography, but his ability to catch stunning images was evident from the beginning. He joined a photo agency where he did mostly menial work until he was allowed to have an assignment or two during busy seasons...
Emphasize the positive in an interview. One employer told students never to apologize for their concentration. Stress the value of your liberal arts education--you have learned to think, to communicate, to analyze problems and pose solutions. Don't downgrade any menial work experience you may have had. Some work experience is better than none; and at the very least, you have been part of an organization and learned how it functioned. If you worked your way through Harvard, that effort in itself will win the respect of many employers...
...many cases, these were menial positions, tasks performed without public credit. But no matter how prosaic (geraniums planted by...), aesthetic (pigeons released by ...) or majestic (jetpack flown by . ..) the chore, the 9,000 performers who fashioned the splendor seen on television last Saturday saw themselves as putting together something of first importance-sappy as that may sound. But when was the last time you saw a casually tossed cigarette butt snared by a youthful groundsman before it hit the sod? "My job is to keep this area clean," he said, walking away with the dirty object in the empty yogurt...
...grade school in Miami during the 1960s. The Cubans left behind everything they had. When they arrived in Florida, they did not "steal" jobs from the blacks, as Black Radio Announcer Les Brown asserts. The jobs were there for the taking, and the Cubans took them, however menial. In a few years, the Cubans were starting their own businesses and were adding a colorful international flair to the city...