graduate assistant

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research assistant

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Ohio University

Working as the Broadcast Engineer for AVW Presents: Hockey was one of the most rewarding yet stressful things I have done. A typical day for me was getting to work at 9 AM on Friday and Saturday mornings and starting the setup process. I as well as the rest of the crew would move all the broadcast equipment to the ice arena and begin setup in either a Uhaul we used as a production truck, or an empty locker room, depending on the arena schedule. I managed the crew by assigning them setup jobs. Usually I would assign one person per camera station of which there were 4. While my crew would setup the cameras and run cables from the patch panel, I would setup the control room. I would unpack all equipment and start powering on the capture, playback, graphics, streaming, video switcher, audio console, and patching everything together. I would typically be by myself or have 1 person assist me in doing this, as it was imperative that nothing got setup incorrectly. Once I finished the control room, I as well as another person would run our audio snake and BNC loom from the patch panel to the appropriate equipment in the control room. Once everything was setup I would then begin walking around and testing and ensuring the operation of all equipment as well as making sure we would be live on TV and online stream. During the actual broadcast I would fix any issues that arose, and assist the director with anything they needed.

I learned more form this job than any other job I have had. Because of this position, I know how to setup and operate an entire live sports broadcast control room as well as troubleshoot a wide variety of issues. I also learned how everything works, and what purpose it serves as a part of the whole production.

I was considered one of the ones in charge, specifically in charge of setup and tear down of equipment. While I was there I worked with 2 different producers and 3 different directors, all of which did there job very well.

My co-workers were wither good people who were bad about showing up, or the small amount of amazingly dedicated and patient people I worked with.

Hardest part was lack of crew and long hours. Most days I would work 14 hours straight with a small break to eat. My crew was very small, we often times barely had enough people to fill all positions, which the producer and I found ourselves filling in for these positions often times.

The best part was the experience and knowledge I gained. I never imagined learning so much through a student organization, and yet these skills are the most valuable and relevant I have acquired

At Ohio University Event Services I work two positions. One as an Event Technician where I setup and operate all audio/visual equipment of events across campus. Typical Event Technician shift would consist of me setting up projectors, PA systems, microphones, simple lighting and audio setups with console, and  working with Crestron software to manage the majority of spaces. Typically I setup and ensure client satisfaction of multiple events at once throughout multiple locations on Ohio University' campus. Certain shifts require me to work directly with one event as their personal technician, these usually consist of weddings, movie screenings, high profile speakers, etc... My second position I serve as and Audio 2 where I work with local and touring acts to setup audio systems and run audio consoles at Memorial Auditorium specifically. A vast majority of the client base include Internationally touring bands, off-broadway shows, and comedians. Along with setting up and running audio during shows I do installations and general maintenance on equipment at Memorial Auditorium. Rare cases as an Audio 2 might require setting up a outdoor concert (approx. 2 - 3 times a year).

Ive learned vast amounts about live event production, concert managing, and troubleshooting technology. Working as an Audio 2, I get to meet a lot of people on the tour circuit, and work with a lot of great equipment.

Management for Ohio University Event Services is incredible. The majority of managers and supervisors are all very down to earth real people who I can not only connect with on a work level, but be able to connect with outside of work on a social and personal level. Ohio University Event Services is a giant family.

The hardest part of my job is managing multiple events at once. Constantly running around assisting people with a variety of things all at once can get very hectic and distracting. The best way to eliminate this is to stay on top of your work and keep a good attitude about things, that's what has always helped me cope with this aspect of my job.

The most enjoyable and rewarding part of my job is the satisfaction and enjoyment I get when an event or show runs smoothly. I love the feeling of accomplishment I get after a big event when everyone walks away enjoying the experience.

This job was made for graduate students (masters and Phds) to work as job experience as an alternate to teaching if they were selected. I was hired on as an undergraduate at the end of my fifth year, but because the job wasn't built into my workload, and I was already taking a great deal of classes for the semester, I wasn't able to work as much as I would have liked. I only needed to work 5 hours each week, and I was allowed to pick my hours. I came into the vital lab and worked for two and a half hours for two days a week in the morning before classes. My job was to create a virtual chemistry experiment for an educational video game that took place on a boat which traveled along the Ohio River. I created models if we didn't have any in Maya, such as scissors, a colorimeter, and test packets. I was supposed to program the lab, so when the user walked in from the boat, they would be facing a table with all the lab equipment on it and they would get a popup window explaining the overall purpose and instructions for this lab experiment. I didn't finish the entire experiment since I wasn't able to work very long on it. I wish I had more time, but I was also trying to graduate and six advanced programming classes plus this job made my time vanish very quickly. All the people in the lab were really nice, but unfortunately, I had class during the weekly scrum meeting, so I was unable to meet a lot of the people who worked on the project. I did however stay in contact with my teacher regularly and he kept me up to date on the weekly meetings and checked in regularly to make sure I was meeting my goals. My teacher, the director of the project and the person who brought me on was very patient and understanding with my little progress since I wasn't able to work on the project as much as I would have liked to. This was a good experience for me and I was very happy to have a job where I could actually program using 3D Unity and Maya.

As a teaching assistant, I need to prepare the samples for the undergraduate students one week early before they come to the lab. During the lab, I answer the questions they have and help them on the experiments when they have some difficulties. After the lab I need to maintain the lab room and grade the students' reports and upload the grades to my professor. I don't think there are any hard part of the job because I can handle all the situations even though sometimes the students broke the instrument. The most enjoyable part of the job is that I can recall some knowledge when I teach the lab class. Before each experiment I need to do it by myself so that I can find out which part of this experiment might be difficult for the students and then I can prepare some questions and ask them during the experiment. 
As a research assistant, I need to do my own project in the daytime. Everyday in the beginning I need to make a plan what I want to try today and start to prepare the solution and calibrate the instrument. In the experiment time when the results are not good I need to think about how to improve them. Sometimes I try a different concentration and sometimes I try a different but similar reaction to see what will happen. In the free time I usually find some literatures related to my project and learn some useful from the publishers. 
I also need to help my professor to review some articles which will be published by other groups. Usually I read it several times and try to find out which part is good; which part needs improved and the overall of the article. one of the hardest part of this job is literature searching. This is very time consuming and it needs patience and scientific knowledge to read and understand different papers from different scientists.  The most enjoyable part is that I have learned a lot as an RA. I run different instruments and do have a lot critical thinking during the research. The research experience is very useful and I believe it will help me in my career too.

While OU is very alluring to folks who want to live in Athens (a beautiful community), it hardly supports its workers, who are across the board underpaid and overworked. Annual raises range from dismal to nonexistent, and you will not have success requesting one outside of the ones the University may or may not provide at the end of each fiscal year (this year, 1.5%; at best you'll see 2%, and in 4 of the years I worked there, no raises at all). The union just *fought* for a clause to ensure folks working here for 18 years make at least the 50th percentile of their pay grade, which in many cases is only a few dollars/hour above the bottom of the scale. (Side note, I worked as a temp in a position here for over a year, got nothing but positive feedback, and was told I could not even interview for the full time position when it was posted unless I first agreed to take the minimum pay offered. Pay commensurate with experience my foot...) It is alarmingly common for people to make the same money in their tenth year that they did in their first. This is the case for me, as I've moved around three different departments over 12 years. It might be a nice job for a spell, as vacation time is ample (good luck requesting off anywhere near the entirety of it) and people are well-meaning and kind, but it won't support you long term. There are systems in place to ensure that you are not compensated for good work, and eventually that burns you out in a serious way.

I feel that I wasted three years of my life working for OU for seriously low wages that were far lower than those paid by peer institutions. What made this worse, is that admin holds everything in secret. There is literally no way to find out your actual pay until you're looking at your award a few days before the start of your semester. Other peer institutions don't do that- you will know your pay and duties well before you move your life to the school so that you can make an informed decision. OU won't do that, and you will suffer for it. They will give you piecemeal information that never answers your question, no matter who you ask. There were so many things the administration could have done to ease the burden on graduate students who are also employed by OU, but they instead did the opposite. Incredibly low wages, no subsidy of health insurance, no paid family leave, no sick leave, you will not be treated with respect by your department, etc. I could go on, but suffice it to say, if you have ANY other opportunities to be a graduate student and work for your university, please take those other opportunities.

Working at Ohio University was a unique experience. The opportunity to be involved with a large, research based institution that provides an extraordinary amount of support to the surrounding community is  both rewarding and enjoyable. 

Working in student affairs provided me with opportunities to gain a lot of hands on experience. Furthermore, it was exciting to get to work with people who have an unbelievable amount of dedication to student development and the institution. 

The downside of Ohio University is its continuing struggles to establish a solid financial foundation to be successful. While a lot of this is likely attributed to an uncertain state budget, it is apparent that some of the challenges come from some poor financial management in the past. 

It is also unfortunate that the institution, like many others across the country, continues to employ some people who do not appear to be totally dedicated to furthering the experience of college students. 

Nonetheless, I would recommend Ohio University to anyone who is looking for an experience in Higher Education in a rural setting at a large institution. 

The University was full of work experience for students, however they often overworked their employees for menial pay. As a Resident Assistant I learned the importance of remaining organized, otherwise it would be impossible to keep up with the dense work load. The amount of work varied from day to day. A week would usually have 3-4 meetings related to my job, I would be on duty 1-4 days a week, in which I was responsible for the entire building, I would plan organize and supervise programs on a weekly basis. I was also responsible to manage any type of conflict or living issues that residents had. My co-workers were very easy to work with an extremely helpful. When the job became overly stressful we would meet together and come up with ways to relieve our stresses. Without them my job would have been much more difficult. I prefer to work in groups as I feel people in a group are capable of accomplishing more than they would be able to complete individually. What truly made this job challenging was the standards that you were held to. As an RA you were responsible to do what was right 24/7 and if you slipped up you could easily be fired. The most enjoyable aspect of this job was all the amazing people I got to work with, and the Residents I was able to help through their first year of college. 

Working here feels like having your truck stuck in the mud.  The harder you try to climb the deeper you sink.  Your covered in mud and the only thing that you want is to go higher but you can’t.  You start canvassing the hillside and there is literally nothing to pull yourself up. Not a single tree much less a root.  Just mud.  You start yelling and waving your arms trying to flag someone down but no one hears or sees you.  You pull out your cell phone but unfortunately there is no service.  Day turns into night and night turns into day but it just keeps raining.  Your hungry but you just keep grinding just hoping that someone will see you. Finally it stops raining.  Everything is washed out except for that one place on higher ground.  Then in the distance a brand new polished truck emerges with out of state plates and parks on that piece of high ground.   Yet you go unnoticed.  That truck parked there some time has their plates changed to Ohio.  It won’t be long though 2-3 years and that truck will be replaced by another truck with out of state plates.  Yet your truck is beat up, worn, and dirty while still being stuck in the mud.

A typical day at work is spent managing the student employees and advancing events within the department's event spaces. The actual job responsibilities are very easy and not hard. The biggest place for growth in this position is within the management sphere. Managing 20+ student employees flexes one's management style muscles. The department management leaves much to be desired. There's not much direction or accountability which means big projects don't always get completed and no one seems to care or follow up as to why. Meetings are concluded with no real conclusion of what the next steps are, who needs to do it, or when the follow up on the project will occur. As for the culture, it's not positive. There's is very little trust between employees and no one seems to get along. The hardest parts of the job would be managing the manager and dealing with unhappy customers. The job is not difficult, but for some reason, people don't understand the workflow which causes more issues for this position. Also, we have limited spaces to share with the campus community and the city community and it can be difficult to fit everyone's events into a calendar year. The best part of the job is working with the students and mentoring them to achieve their dreams.

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