I was just hired onto the senior staff of the local teen center... Very convenient as it is a 3 minute bike ride from my classes, and 10 from my apt...
The pay though, is ussury (sp?). As a 21 year old with 4 years (supervising) experience with recreation, I felt a bit insulted when 7.50 came as a SECOND offer for my pay-rate. Turns out there are no higher positions open there, and they are paying me a hair under what the shift manager will be making... but still. The shift manager has been working there for several years, and I can't believe he accepts that kind of pay.
Now I realize I may sound whiney to complain about a local economy which pays most starting people at under 8 bucks an hour, but this is California, not Iowa, (sorry Iowans), and I was making more than this at the age of 17 when I lived in San Francisco. San Francisco (actually just outside, in Brisbane) is the best paying municipality in America, and one of the richest areas in the world, but I don't live far from there now, and the city where I live still has very high cost of living.
Maybe this isn't the best way to go in, not the best mindset for my new job, but I felt a little dissapointed that this was the accepted going rate for a supervisory position- I won't be sitting at a desk typing dictation after all.
Still the locale and hours are really agreable, and I think this all go fairly well for me. Part of the job will be mentoring local teen bands who want advice on their music and guitar playing, which is one of the reasons I was recruited for the job, so I will enjoy that part of it.
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
Is it part time? Is the teen center a nonprofit? 'Cause those two factors tend to point toward shoddy pay.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
There are (Edit) nothing but part time jobs there because it is only open 30-35 hours a week, and most city workers are "at-will." So yah, that's just an excuse to pay 3 young people what you might once have paid 1 older person.
The TC is run by the city Parks/Rec services so it is non-profit.
The thing is you can't walk down the street in this town without dodging a meter maid giving a heafty ticket to an out of towner who doesn't take the 90 minutes limit seriously. We are responsible for the bulk of yellow chalk production on the west coast, and apparently very little of that money actually gets spent on people who work for a living
[ May 05, 2006, 03:50 PM: Message edited by: Orincoro ]
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
Eh, I'd say just be glad it's a cool job (or so it sounds to me).
-pH
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
Yah, alot of students get riding a desk at a computer lab, or data entry at an aggy research facility (its a big agriculture school). I could be picking up horse poo or something.
What I'd like to do as well is get a nice cushy job working at the music dep. listening library, you just fetch cds from the collection, and hardly anyone ever visites.
Posted by Launchywiggin (Member # 9116) on :
I had the music library job--it was great. I spent most of this year with a really cool project that we're almost finished with. I ripped every single CD in the music department library and the school library into Itunes, and students will be able to access it and download anything they want onto Ipods, which the music department is now *requiring* for all music majors. Cool eh?
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
Yah, you must have a pretty limited music library to do that though, our library contains 19,000 seperate albums. Somewhere around 30,000 cds.
Ipods are virtually required for us as well, because the benefits of having them have become so huge. Still, the official department streaming site doesn't allow you to capture the mp3s for a player, you have to capture them using a 3rd party program, then put them in your own itunes, very inconvenient.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
Launchywiggin: I don't know where you go, but there're quite likely some extreme copyright issues in there.
My school is doing a project called Variations 2 ( http://www.dml.indiana.edu/ ) that supports many useful tools for music pedagogy, such as being able to move to places in sound files based on location in the score, listening drills, annotations, in-piece bookmarks, et cetera.
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
I'm surprised music majors are even interested in mp3 technology. Were you ripping them to mp3 or into a lossless format like ogg? I'd think musicians to be consummate audiophiles.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
I am.
I can hear the difference between a 192 bit and a 128 bit mp3 file, and the difference does bother me. However the benefits of mp3s are enormous, and at 192 bits I still have over 30 gigs of music, and I am nowhere near satisfied with the selection.
I have been told some can't hear the sliding, slightly off-kilter pitch and speed transitions in an mp3, but I always hear them and it does annoy me.
edit to add: Not as if a Cd is a lossless format in itself. At 44mhz your already reducing what most digital recording setups can produce. I have a 15 year old digital recording deck that can record at twice cd quality, and pro recording equipment records at higher quality still. And once youve heard a recording at 96 mhz or higher, you'll realize that 44 is not the end all be all.
Fugu: We don't do that, because I'm told it is a copyright problem, (the mp3s I mean) however we have similar less agressive resource programs at work at my school. The other thing to consider is that when dealing with an educational system, the practical chances of there being a problem are less, but still there.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
PC: ogg's not lossless, its pretty comparable to mp3 and m4a. There is a popular lossless codec called FLAC that's somewhat associated with xiph, the people who make ogg.
Orincoro: yeah, the way they keep it legal here is restricting the number of listeners for a particular piece to a certain minimal number at a time, only allowing streaming, and requiring an IU network IP (people can use it at home with VPN, of course).
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