{"id":59,"date":"2017-03-29T00:38:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T00:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/commons\/?p=59"},"modified":"2017-05-15T15:54:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T15:54:49","slug":"making-it-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/commons\/2017\/03\/29\/making-it-work\/","title":{"rendered":"MAKING IT WORK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Georgia Murray, ’19, <\/strong>College of Arts and Science
\nJordan Barone, ’16,<\/strong> College of Arts and Science<\/p>\n

\"Georgia
\u201cOh, you work at the Pub, right?\u201d Second only to \u201cAren\u2019t you the British one?\u201d this is the greeting I\u2019m most used to when I meet new people on campus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cOh, you work at the Pub, right?\u201d Second only to \u201cAren\u2019t you the British one?\u201d this is the greeting I\u2019m most used to when I meet new people on campus. Honestly, I hadn\u2019t expected these two little facts to become such fundamental pillars of my identity at college, but there you go.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t notice a huge difference between campus dining workers and other students day to day, but I do think my experience has been a little different in a few ways – there probably aren\u2019t many other people on campus who can tell you someone\u2019s Monday night dinner order and not their name.\u00a0 Sometimes it can be a little hectic; one week I realized I\u2019d scheduled my shift the same night that I had a performance with my a cappella group. I don\u2019t think the experience of trying to fit in work with everything else that\u2019s going on can be summarized better than it was then: running to Sarratt Cinema to sing and making it back just in time for the end of my break.<\/p>\n

While time management is one challenge I\u2019ve had to learn to tackle in my work at the Pub, the true challenge comes from the fact that student workers are a minority at Vanderbilt. It didn\u2019t bother me that my friends didn\u2019t have jobs of their own but spending twelve hours a week behind a bar can make it seem like everyone who isn\u2019t an employee has a lot more time on their hands. The realization that I would feel left out every time they went to dinner or hung out while I was on the clock definitely got to me.<\/p>\n

Despite the chaos, I\u2019m so glad that campus dining is such a big part of my Vanderbilt experience.\u00a0 I\u2019ve become more confident in my abilities to adapt and learn in new environments. I\u2019ve even made some of my best friends through work who understand the importance of having a job and I\u2019ve gained an appreciation for the staff members who work to make Vanderbilt the community it is.<\/p>\n

I have so much respect for students who work on this campus, and I urge you to think deeper before dismissing student workers and their campus jobs. (Look us in the eye. Say please, and thank you and remember – the Pub is not actually a real restaurant!) Whether the students serving your Commodore Tso\u2019s chicken or your pub fries are working to pay their own tuition or just trying to make some extra pocket cash for all the concerts they want to attend in Music City, they are learning life lessons that can\u2019t be taught inside a classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Georgia Murray, ’19, College of Arts and Science Jordan Barone, ’16, College of Arts and Science \u201cOh, you work at the Pub, right?\u201d Second only to \u201cAren\u2019t you the British one?\u201d this is the greeting I\u2019m most used to when I meet new people on campus. Honestly, I hadn\u2019t expected these two little facts to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[16,32,14,27],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-wellbeing","tag-college-of-arts-and-science","tag-mvov17","tag-vu2020","tag-vu2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/commons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/commons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/commons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/commons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/commons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/commons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/commons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/commons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/commons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/commons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/commons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}