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Preparing a taco at Romeo's Mexican Restaurant is Senior
Jeff Moriarty. (ph oto by T. Scholz)

Money Main Incentive'

• ' ' A ttention shoppers: it is now ten week. Many students found that these hours
o'clock and our store is closed. interfered with their social lives and homework
Please bring your items to the time. "Sometimes it was hard to get homework
customer service or a check-out counter." This done," admitted Senior Shurie Graeve. "It
announcement sounded all too familiar to those seemed I always got scheduled when I needed to
who had to work around them every day. be off," claimed Barton. Some jobs were more
However, there were reprieves. "It was a flexible than others, though. "Usually I could
fun and easy way to make money while making schedule around it or take time off," said Riley.
friends ," said Junior Mark Riley about his job. On the job there were other challenges.
Although students found their jobs and co- Almost everybody had something that they
workers fun , all people interviewed agreed their disliked about their job. Sophomore Troy Nelson
main reason for working was for the money they said, " I hated closing because you had to do all
earned. Starting pay ran from $3.35 (minimum of the extra jobs that hadn't been done after the
wage) all the way up to $5.00, depending on the rest of the people had left." Some of these extra
job . jobs were washing dishes, scrubbing the floor , and
Even though most students holding jobs cleaning the bathrooms.
really enjoyed the people they worked with and Even though they sometimes didn't like their
their jobs in general, a few did not. " Sometimes jobs, the money was enough incentive to encour-
it was awful, but I didn't quit because it paid well ," age employees to stay on. Most people hated
remarked Junior Amy Barton. making money but loved spending it. I
Most students worked about a 20 to 30 hour t I 25 ~
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