Category: Working Through College

A current employee at the Rockland BOCES Tappan Zee Elementary Schoolspeaks to her numerous positive experiences, despite the facility being under-funded. My older cousin Ryan is severely autistic. He was adopted from a really neglectful household.He couldn’t speak until he was seven when he was able to get proper services. He started withsign language, then…

After working at a private school in Poughkeepsie as a Camp Director, Isabella Staniscia makesthe move to a job in hotel reception after years of stress and problem solving. I learned to be patient. I’m a lot more sure of myself because most things can be solved— andsometimes, choices just need to be made. They’re…

Ava Pacariello, age 20, explains her experience of interning for an ad-revenue driven newsroomorganization in Manhattan, NY. I interned for Cheddar News this past summer three days a week, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. inManhattan. Sometimes, you feel like the journalism industry is competitive and that’s somethingI was really worried about. At school, sometimes, people…

Jessi Smith, age 20, explains her experience of working as a farmer in Mid-Hudson, NY.  People died in the fields. It’s haunted. I had a paid internship over the summer at a farm in Mid-Hudson, NY, back home.  They used to have people who had just moved to America come and work there. It was…

Ashe Mattison, age 18, explains her experience of working as a camp counselor over the summer  in Staten Island, NY.  Over the summer, I worked as a camp counselor at a summer camp specifically specializing in creating a safe space for queer kids ranging from five all the way to 13. It’s part of a…

From verbal assault to thievery, Grace Coury shares her experiences working at Spencer’s  Unfortunately, because of the nature of the store, there are a lot of people who come in and the majority of them are not always the best. I work at Spencer’s at the Galleria Mall in Middletown, New York. I just recently…

 Paul’s jam-packed experience working at Dunkin’. Paul, age 20. Former shift leader at Dunkin’. I’d get there at 3:30 a.m. to take all the doughnuts out of the freezer. Do the morning bake, which is croissants, bagels, everything like that. Brew up all the coffee. Prep by sweeping and mopping the floor and then we’d…

Robert Drost shares his summer work experience at the NCG Cinema, located in the Hudson Valley Mall I’m a student here at SUNY New Paltz, and like a lot of other people that go here, I have to take out loans. Whatever else is left, I’m on my own. That was where NCG Cinema came…

Even at a magical place, Jayden Cunningham faces all work and no play. One of the best things about working at an amusement park is being in such a wondrous place. Looking at pictures of excited little kids coming off the roller coaster like it’s their first ever experience on one. Seeing all those cool…