Coolest on-campus job you've had or heard of?

Walrus hunter.

On-Campus intelligence officer for a certain undefined intelligence agency running intelligence gathering operations on suspects of a undefined opposing country.

Are you 21? You're at the stage of your life where becoming a bartener is 'cool' you get good money and meet lots of chicks.

Begging

I don't know if you're good at writing, but I write study guides for SparkNotes and get paid about $500 for every one I write. I don't know if I'd call this job cool though.. it's actually pretty exhausting.

I was a private language coach & teacher. Was a good job while I had the time (no thesis or difficult exams to prep for) and met really interesting folks. At one point I even had a small class.

other jobs I had during university: waiter (high tips), bartender (lower tips than waiter in my case), croupier (good tips, but tronc is shared), ebay powerseller, car mechanic, PC fixing service, cell phone unlocking services (back when it was possible with a simple data cable and software), coding software at the end but then had professional jobs

Bartending is something I would try my hand at if I were you. You'll learn a bit, meet hot chicks, and more importantly, learn the art of self-control.

there are no cool on-campus jobs. get an internship

I was student government president and got a salary for the position. It was pretty cool, as I would have done everything I did with the position anyhow if I did not get a salary.

I also wrote articles for websites targeting college kids and got paid $25-$50 per article. Often these were dumb and didn't take longer than 20 minutes. Still easy to make a lot of money while hungover or bored in class.

Ideally you want to leverage this for more than just cash.

Here's two avenues I'd suggest. First one, get a job at somewhere like a golf club that's great for networking. You'd be surprised how handy some of those connections come in handy later (secondhand knowledge, I don't play golf myself).

Other option is find something that will teach some soft skills. Bartending has been mentioned, but also don't overlook just getting a weekend job you can start now at a local car dealership or something. Sales experience is useful no matter what business you go into and this will be doubly true for something client facing like IB. Even if they don't train you're still more or less getting paid a stipend to practice your rap.

Try looking for some hourly temp work. When I was in undergrad I basically did some temp administrative work for a local consultant paid on an hourly basis. It was hooked up through my college career center (semi target right outside of a major city). I'd get paid $15/hour or so to do expense reports, organize files, scan and annotate documents, etc. It was good prep for lots of the mundane parts of ib and decent money.

Because you asked about "on-campus" jobs..

I had a job freshman through sophomore year working as the assistant to the assistant to the Dean of the School of Management. It was a cool job, did my homework at work and met a ton of professors before ever taking their classes which was great for brownie points early on in the semester with professors. I did get this through FAFSA financial aid as a student worker position, made $10 hr flexible schedule. Summers I did internships and eventually quit to intern at other financial firms throughout the school year.

I worked at a ticket booth for some event presales. I never worked at the actual games since I preferred to tailgate, but the booth was great since we just sat there and played on the computer. I studied most of the times with netflix on the background.

Notable mention is lifeguard. Nothing better than watching the hunnies through the shades while trying to flex the entire shift. ;)

The guys at my school who make the most money are the ones who start their own business to fill a whole on campus. Do independent delivery for a restaurant. Or run an overnight laundry/dry cleaning service. Deliver mail. Handle rides to the airport. Etc.

i was a photographer at high school dances on the weekends (my brother got me the job). paid $27/hr, not bad

I used a food delivery app to make easy money. You just post that you're going somewhere and people can send you orders that you want. Probably made $20-30 / hour.

I'm kind of envious of the interns at a startup I'm a part of - they work on their own time and remotely for a biweekly stipend throughout the school year.

My buddy did promotion for a UHaul rent-a-car thing. Dude got $12/hr for 15hrs a week and basically hung a couple posters around campus every couple of months!

Zamboni driver

When I was at NYU, a few girls were sugar babies on the side, mainly Friday/Saturday nights. You'd see them get picked up by guys in Ferraris, S8s, S63s, etc.
Not a bad gig considering the effort/reward ratio, although not quite the definition of an "on campus" job.

I've held some really cool jobs, being a TA, doing research etc. but (and I'll say this erring on the side of sounding like a complete douche) the best job I had was bartending at my fraternity.

Hands down the easiest way to meet people at a large university, and literally everyone loves the bartender. You pour some drinks, you drink some drinks, you invite a female bar back behind the bar to assist you.

Oh lord, I'm reminiscing about college... someone please stop me!

If you live in an affluent area I would tutor middle/high school kids at private schools. I live in minor US city think Mobile, San Antonio, etc size & can make $40/hr.

I can give you a remote job that pays well and looks good on a resume if you're up to it. I want to help- I know what it's like to be in your shoes. PM me. You'll need a secure or private internet access and you have to be a U.S. citizen (sorry if that is not you).

Apply for openings at the most popular bar on campus. Ideally, try to become a bartender.

Hours will suck, your friends will be getting hammered while you're essentially a salaried pledge, but at least you will make a killing in tips. Since you've locked down a SA job, classes frankly don't matter anymore - so you don't need to devote your nights to studying / grinding it out on the recruiting circuit.

Plus, you will come away with fascinating stories to relate in the future (fodder for future networking purposes)

I was an energy drink rep in college. Awesome job that pays well and requires minimal effort. I would attend greek parties and sports events, pass out a few cases and take some pictures. If you are social and have a broad campus network (greek life helps here), this is one of the better gigs you can get. Not to mention all of the energy drinks/chasers you need.

I had a few on-campus jobs. Some were cool, some sucked. Ones I had were:

• Working as a TA / Tutor for some management and econ courses;
• Working in my the financial group of my University's IT division, it was cool because I got to open all the brand new high-end tech that my school was irresponsibly purchasing for the arts students (Great ROI on that investment I'm sure);
• Working in my school's media lab to fix/upgrade/install all of our fancy campus equipment that broke down (pro-tip: Don't turn projectors on and off several times within the span of 5 minutes or else the bulb will explode and rain molten glass on students);
• Also worked at a bike shop for a bit which was fun and I got some discounts on parts.

Honestly the campus tech support kids had the coolest jobs. They would find all kinds on porn on professors' computers, and they would take materials from shitty old PCs to throw together Frankenstein "computers" made out of decade-old parts with 32 gb of ram and graphics cards out of old macs. These pieces of shit could play Skyrim on full resolution.