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Let's start with the good, if you are in need of gaining professional experience, FSU is a good place to do that. The benefits offered here were pretty good considering they are a public entity. You do get plenty of exposure to a wide array of diverse population of staff and students. Working in IT, I was exposed to health care, industrial, hospitality and business type work environments. Working here, I was able to grasp a lot of knowledge outside of my main focus of IT. Coworkers were great to work with and daily tasks were fair and manageable. 

Now the bad. Pay. Being a public entity, don't expect to be compensated as you would be working for the private sector. If you hope to climb the ladder working here, good luck! I tried numerous times to promote within and was denied at every attempt. Management does not respect you and will micromanage you to death. They will find every attempt to write you up or discipline you in any way they can. It seems if you are not a "bulldog", you will be frowned upon here.   

Working at Media Supply at Ferris State University is extremely laid back and relaxed. You just sit around (work on homework, play games, listen to music) until someone comes in needing help. Typically one person works at a time and occasionally you have to do inventory for certain equipment. 

Although the environment is extremely laid back, many things often get overlooked and often other employees tend to not do their job the way they are supposed to. This leads to others needing to pick up the slack or fix other peoples mistakes. Management overlooks these problems rather than fixing them. 

You learn and get hands on experience with television equipment and get to use your time to do what you need. The hardest part of the job is working around other employees who do not take the job seriously. The best part would be how relaxed the job is.

A typical day would consist of serving customers and making each order customer-specific, maintaining a clean working area, refilling food as required, and doing prep work for the next day.
I have learned to perform tasks quickly and efficiently with an end product that is of a great quality condition.
Management is very on top of things, while maintaining a friendly composure; you could definitely form good friendships in the hierarchy of this company. 
Co-workers are mostly compliant with company protocols and also offer an enjoyable type of companionship.
The hardest part of the job comes when there is a rush of people all at once, and you simply don't have enough hands to keep everything  in the best condition presentation wise.
The lows and highs concerning people count provides a nice variation in business throughout the duration of a shift.

A typical day would include either a tour with at least one other tour guide, and about ten to ninety students and parents attending the tour. We were also required to do communication center hours where we would do outgoing calls, put together information pack-ups, and enter information from surveys into a system. These ranged between 3 and 6 hours a week. I learned how to be more confident with my public speaking, how to communicate well with others, and how to answer difficult questions. I liked both my co-workers and my manager because we all worked together well, and were respectful. The hardest part of the job would have to be dealing with difficult people on tour who were either negative or generally dissatisfied. The most enjoyable part was seeing people being excited about attending Ferris and enjoying the tour. 

My duties include developing technical lesion plans in automotive technology including auto service, engine machining and engineering technology. I learned how to work with and motivate people from different backgrounds in both the classroom and out of school activities. I also work as an acting Chair for the SAE West Michigan Chapter. I enjoyed working with my colleague's and other administrative personnel in the education system. The hardest part of my job was working with limited founds and dated equipment for lab activities and the slow pace of change in the education system. In all it was a great experience with many opportunities to further expand my technical education and experiences.

A typical work day would be to basically show up like a student athlete. Although we weren't the ones playing on the court, we were doing everything leading up to that. I learned how to cut game film and how to scout opponents each and every week. I also learned how to manage a College basketball team and all the recruiting, strategy, NCAA rules and game planning. It was a great environment to work in with a family vibe. That made it hard to want to be away from this environment when i graduated and was no longer a manager for the team. The team and the coaches made each and everyday an exciting experience. I volunteered my time as we weren't paid or even considered interns. That's what made this the most enjoyable experience I ever had because we helped the team because we wanted to.

A typical day at work involved opening the office, creating documents for distribution, filing paperwork, distributing mail to the correct coaches, helped with printer errors, did odd jobs that other employers needed help with, counted money from sporting events and completed respective deposits (transported money to university facilities and to banks)

The hardest part of the job was getting jobs given to me at the last minute, and having to rush to get them done. Also being misinformed about the whereabouts of university staff. 

The most enjoyable part of the job was the people that I worked with!
I learned a lot about teamwork and responsibility.

For a job on campus, it is one of the best in my opinion. Decent wages and being interested in the job means there is no dreading to go back to work the next day. A typical day was show up when I have a break in my schedule and homework and run through the programs and then look at the tool wear under a microscope to measure the wear on the tool. Some of the biggest draw backs of the job were there is only one machine we can use for the testing and when other classes needed to use it, we had to give it up thus needing to set up the machine every time we needed to do testing. The other biggest drawback was between the instructor and I both having very busy schedules, it would be hard for us to meet up to get anything done.

Worked as a project assistant within a grant funded program. A typical day consisted of seeing students on an appointment basis for academic advising, class scheduling, financial aid advice and guidance and recommending support services.

Being a grant funded program, it was necessary to gather and analyze quarterly data of the given population stated within the grant.
Annual data evaluation of progress achieved was required in order to determine eligibility for the opportunity to continue the program or possibility to adopt the program as a permanent model.

The Ferris State University copy center may look like a nice place from an outward prospective but, having worked at this establishment I wouldn't recommend it to my worst enemies. The place is crowded overstaffed and is terribly managed. during a typical work day most people would be sitting around doing nothing due to laziness or lack of work. Scheduling was not in-forced and people come and go as they please with out being reprimanded or penalized by management. overall it is a terrible and unproductive place to work with horrible never increasing minimum wage compensation.

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