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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I served breakfast in the university cafeteria from 5am-10am 3 weekday mornings plus 2 weekends per month. I'd often stay out at parties until it was time to go home and change for my shift. Nothing like meeting a cute guy at a party then serving him breakfast in the cafeteria line 2 hours later with my hairnet on.[/quote]

Another U food service here. I didn't think it would be humiliating going in since I'm a hard worker and it was a journey to get to college, but serving spoiled college kids and seeing your professors come through... it was more humiliating because of how they probably perceived me.

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Also did food service at college as my work study job.  Made 3.35 / hour, and signed over my entire paycheck back to the school.  That was maybe the hard part.

It turned out I was kinda good at it - fast, efficient, hard worker.  Became a student manager.  Not ever really humiliating - I have the kind of personality that just rises above.  It is what you make it.  There were some hard things.  Many of my friends starting working in the cafeteria for extra money.  It was hard that for them it was a side job that earned them spending money and for me it was tuition money.  Part of the job was working the tray line as the trays came in, scraping off the half eaten food, loading the perpetually running dishwasher (it was an enormous beast, like a cash wash, you loaded the plates and they ran through like a car wash with someone on the other end to constantly unload what you were constantly loading.  I didn't mind it.  But then every once in a while there'd be another student who was there for community service - generally a fairly cool, popular person who was probably cited for partying or whatever, and they would never put that person up front, they'd always put them on the tray cleaning line.  The kid was always nice/fine in my memory, and I think they mostly felt embarrassed to be there, but for some reason I found it embarrassing to be working with them.  I mean they probably found it humiliating to be cleaning gross half eaten plates for community service and for us to know they had done something wrong.  But it was also, I don't know.  They got to do their service and then escape, and this was my regular job.  That paid for me to be in school with them.  The person never made me feel like I was beneath them, but for some reason, more than my friends working there for fun and quitting when it was hard or they decided they'd had enough, or serving professors, or burning my fingertips, or whatever, working with them was the only time i felt weird about it.

I do think teenagers should all do hard jobs at some point.  I learned a lot - mostly that 1) I was a good worker, and my attitude could carry me through a lot, and I'd never be unemployed if times ever really got tough and 2) I wanted more and never wanted to work that kind of job again.  Good lessons.  [/quote]

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