re: Did anyone else have a "Campus Job" while at LSU? Do they still have them?

Was an RA in Hatcher Hall for one year. Hated it.

I worked a semester of my freshman year in the Hatcher Cafeteria. I basically did busy work. Lived in Hatcher, also.

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Officiated basketball games and umpired softball games in the intramural leagues - paid $4.00 / game. Hourly rate for other campus jobs was less than a dollar.

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In my junior year, I officiated intramural soccer games -- for one night. The first game with a couple of frat teams playing was easy, but the last two with a bunch of foreign/Hispanic student teams was brutal. They acted like babies: flopped, whined, claimed a ball didn't go in the net, and eventually after the last game ended those two teams got in a bit of a fight-- not really a brawl, but a lot of shoving and pushing and yelling. I quit after that; not worth it.

A better job was my senior year when I was a general student worker at LSU Press, which at that time took up most of the 2nd floor (and some of the 1st floor) of the French House. Just general stuff; moving lots of books, cleaning up, filing, copying, emptying trash, running errands, etc. Nothing big. Usually worked a couple of hours a day for 3-4 days a week. Just enough for gas /weekend going out/pocket money.

It was cool to work there at that time; LSU Press was on a roll-- they had published the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Confederacy of Dunces a few years earlier in 1981, and while I was there in 1986 they got their second Pulitzer with The Flying Change, a book of poetry by Henry Taylor. There were several days when I'd go to work and there was a party or author-hosting event and I wouldn't actually have to work but just get to hang out and mingle with the editors and staff at those events.

I worked at Pleasant Hall in the continuing education department from 1994-99. Best campus job ever! Set up computers. Drove the cars to various locations off campus to set up workshops. Got minimum wage, but it was a great job. Helped with any extras I needed.

In the mid '70s I worked in the listening room in the bowels
of the Library, Music majors would come in, reserve a booth and request music albums that I would put on the turn tables for their assignments. I also had control over the music that was played all over campus "elevator music". My boss would leave me a playlist every night before he departed for the evening. When I was sure he was off campus I would put on albums I liked rather than the boring selections he selected. Jimi Hendricks, The Byrds, The Animals, The Beatles etc. were played with regularity. After several weeks, my boss called me in and said he knew that I was deviating from his list. People had called him.
They called to thank him for changing the format from boring music to more popular selections they were enjoying. From then on until I graduated, he let me pick the albums played from 6-9 m-f. Good times!!

Worked at the PERTT lab, or "well facility" we called it.

Was great for gaining experience in the oilfield and building a network as many service companies did research out there for various things.

Got paid $800/mo. tax free to be an IM supervisor in the 70s, that was big money back then, plus it was a fun job

Worked for the LSU Fireman Training program for a couple semesters.

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The best part was when I would got to take the department car

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This. To bring and pickup mail all over campus. Would swing by the house for lunch, drop people off for class, and brief gf visits. But not overboard.

Late 2000's; Had student work Foreign Language Lab (~$15/HR for 20HRs/Wk) and then Grad Assistant which paid for Grad School tuition and provided about $1,200 bi-weekly pocket money.

I was at LSU in the mid-70s and worked in the cafeteria as a server in Broussard Hall. No pay but got to eat at the Athletic Dorm all 3 meals, 7 days a week. Just had to work 1 meal each day. As you would expect, the food was really good. Got to know a lot of the athletes.