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I was an assistant to the Grant board. In order to garner more grants for the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, I talked directly with many of the scientists on the field about their research, then wrote that up and communicated this additional information to the Grant board. The first year more grants were awarded than ever before, directly linked to "more information" about exactly what these scientists do in various countries globally.

I learned I did not have to be sitting in a chair on the campus of UAF
in order to do a great job for UAF. I am experienced in talking to people either on phone of by Skype. I loved this job! I found it extremely interesting to make the link between the customer (Grant board) and the scientists.

I worked directly with J. Weir, assistant for the Chancellor. She would give me the assignment and would take it from there. I had no problems  working with this person and others on her staff. They trusted me to get the job done.

A typical day for UAF would be talking with several scientists on location in isolated places around the world, then write all my information and send this info directly to UAF.

There really was no hard part of this job. I had deadlines sometimes but working for a newspaper gave me the discipline to meet deadlines.

I worked via phone with three other people and soon felt a part of the Grant committee. I never felt like an "outsider" and actually made good friends with my Alaskan co-workers.

Depending on the job, you can find yourself very happy, very stressed, or a mix of both. 

As a student caller, I worked later in the evenings for five days out of the week. This fit my class schedule well, and hours were flexible; I simply chose to work every day I could. My boss was personable, my coworkers well-adjusted, and the job manageable. Some nights would be like a rock concert, callers picking up donations left and right, while other times it would be slower than a snail in molasses. Those days get rough, but the management never put too much pressure on us, and was always friendly. 

With Residence Life as a Resident Assistant, I found myself overwhelmed. It's a make or break situation, and it all depends on your RD. If you're looking to work here within the next couple of years, and the RD's haven't changed too much, get Erica Hunt as your supervisor. Request her specifically. She is a bubbly, fantastic woman to work with, extremely supportive emotionally and very real. The major issue I had working there was the level of moral policing that some of my coworker's chose to enforce, to a point where a college experience was borderline impossible for some other residents. Alongside that, living where you work, and working where you live can be extremely stressful. There feels like there's no real place to escape it.

I worked for a professor as her student assistant while attending University of Alaska, Anchorage (UAA).  My job was challenging, which I enjoyed immensely.  As a Federal Work Study job it had to be outside my field of study, and it was. I was an English major and the department I worked in was related to the Nursing program.
 My job was to assist the professor with grading papers, formatting tests, filing, grade recording, etc.  I learned enough about how to read the subject matter and summarize to be able to create tests myself which I then gave to the professor for a final approval.  I found a system that made this very efficient and the questions range from very easy to difficult.  As far as management goes, the professor I worked with was the sweetest person in the world and a very good teacher.  
The most enjoyable part of the job was working one-on-one with some of the students who were having problems working with some of the computer programs necessary to do their coursework. Their gratitude was a tremendous reward.  
The hardest part of the job was spell-checking scientific words, you might have it spelled right, but one letter is off and it means something totally foreign to your subject.

This can be a great place to work, especially if they don't require you to live in Sitka. However the current director does require living in Sitka and it's very expensive here, especially for food and gas. 

The current director needs to be willing to be more confrontational regarding issues faced by employees and this campus of the University of Alaska. The campus is governed by the Juneau main campus and frequently technological issues are not the same between the two campuses, but are still decided by Juneau, which does not work.

The people here are great, but there is a lot of favoritism. Be careful, your supervisor may be a supervisor in name only. Also, whatever UAF is doing is what most of the campuses will be doing. If you want to be creative and use out of the box tools/methods this is not the place for you.

The pros for working here do not outweigh the cons!

I gave an overall 3 out of 5 stars. My immediate supervisor was my saving grace for a challenging but rewarding workplace. Customer Service is always challenging when the customers are stressed out for an  exam that I had to proctor for them but rewarding to know that someone fairly passed an exam. The upper echelons of management provided obstacles rather than enabling us to effective accomplish our daily tasks. Budget cuts created a cutthroat environment around the university amongst the employees. No room for advancement for staff with only a Bachelors degree.  Immediate staff can make or break anyone working there for the first time. However, I have worked in much more toxic environments. I believe a 3 of 5 is fair.

All the firefighter/EMT's are paid and live in a dormitory.  We would service mutual aid to any of the local volunteer fire departments and most areas in the greater borough area.  The captains, and chiefs were amazing people who wanted to support our growth into adulthood as most of us started there at around 18 or 19 years old.  There was a lot of training, but when we had calls, I never felt underprepared for what we needed to do.  We knew our job.  It was a little challenging at times to be only one of two females in the entire fire station.  Some young men were egocentric and didn't enjoy working with a woman, and that was something significant we had to manage living and working there no matter how great we did at our jobs.  The staff were exempt of this attitude and I was given additional responsibilities as I proved I could manage them such as being charged with training a new hire, or managing motor vehicle accidents without a staff supervisor.

I enjoyed working as a computer lab aid as it was a first step into the career field I desire. I was in charge of maintaining the computer and network systems of three separate classrooms at the University of Alaska, Anchorage and ensuring that they were all fully functional for daily classroom usage. This position allowed me to apply the information that I had received in my classes toward on-the-job tasks of maintenance and troubleshooting. I was the only lab aid during the year that I was employed, but I was given excellent guidance by my supervisors, which were the professors of the university. The hardest part of my job was also the most enjoyable part of my job, which was to try and discover methods of fixing issues in the classroom networks on my own. This allowed me to be more independent in my work and helped me to become more confident in my abilities to solve problems on my own, knowing that I had support from my supervisors if I truly needed it.

The U is the most family oriented employer that I have ever experienced. When my children were young they allowed me flexibility to change my schedule when there was an activity, school function, sporting event that I had to get my children to and allowed me to make up any lost work hours on days off so my paycheck would never be short.
I process 8 - 12 expense reports daily and work my hardest to be extremely accurate and proactive for the traveler along with following the Rules and Regulations of the University.
I have always enjoyed the travel industry, I have worked in it for many years with a few different companies and have always went right back to it. I love travel from processing it for others to play or for work/research it keeps me active in the world and my travelers come back from their trips and tell us about their journey, experience and a research, it is all very interesting to me.

Typically we discussed the future plans for upgraded video capable classrooms with campus/department directors and/or professors about what they wanted in their classrooms to communciate to the other campuses. then design and install the system and trouble shoot problems with other systems & users. 

I learned much about broadacast, closed networks, GUIs, and AV equipment. 

Aside from the disparagement from inept (possibly insecure) management we were in charge of the wonderfully complicated upgrading of web based A/V smart systems statewide. The primary environment left little to be enjoyed. Maltreatment of staff (I witnessed more than suffered from) made the overall office demeanor poor.  So this was the management and hardest part of job to tolerate. 

I loved the challenging technologically on the edge class room builds.

Typical class is facilitating students who are learning Spanish as a second language, things like vocabulary and its pronunciation, grammar and how to form sentences....I learned that second language learning communities and their individuals each have different learning styles and paces....and every change of school location has clearly reminded and confirmed. The hardest part of my job is relating cutural aspects of the language with the actual words of some idiomatic expressions.The best part of the job is experiencing the joy and satisfaction that students in my class get when they leave each class having effectively learned something new.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Adjunct faculty 6 salaries reported	$1,687 per month
Student assistant 5 salaries reported	$14.75 per hour
Reporter 3 salaries reported	$14.12 per hour
Tutor 1 salary reported	$15.26 per hour
Office assistant 1 salary reported	$15.50 per hour

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