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Message: <blockquote data-quote="orbitalfreak" data-source="post: 1258044" data-attributes="member: 1669">Best, Worst, and Only:  Student worker at the university tutoring fellow undergrads in math: algebra, trig, statistics, and calculus.  We have a room set up, and about four tutors are working at any given time.  The students that need help can just walk in; no scheduling, no fees, very informal. Pay is decent.  When it's slow, me and the other workers just goof off (translating the phrase "Please raise your hand if you have a question" into a dozen different languages, including Chinese and binary ASCII <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />).  And it's fun helping others, showing them "how stuff works;" all in all, a very fulfilling job that I know will help me in the future, since I plan on becoming a professor. Then there are the idiots....  People who have no idea what they're doing, who shouldn't be near a math book, and just can't get things done.  I understand that math (like any subject) isn't for everyone, and I know that there are people who take those courses because it's required for them to do so.  But some people amaze me... Had one woman who was looking at her book and said "Where's problem 23?  It's usually right between 22 and 24, isn't it?  I don't see it here."  "Ma'am," I replied, "you're looking at the answers in the back of the book."  And she had just turned there to look at an answer.  And forgot she was in the back of the book.   This same person shut her calculator off after every single problem.  For the next problem, she would pick up her calculator, push a few buttons, ask why it wasn't working, and I would point out that it was turned off.  She works the problem, shuts off the calculator and repeats the process.  Every time, I had to tell her to turn the thing back on. People who think they know everything in math, but they can't do any of it.  Had someone taking a trig class who needed help with solving some equations.  With something like 5x+3=2x (literally a problem of that little magnitude) he couldn't grasp the concept that he needed to subtract 2x from each side as the first step.  One of the basic solving tools of algebra, a course required for advancement into trig, and it took ten minutes to explain to him how to solve an equation. One old guy, in his late 50's, was trying to hit on another tutor, and she wasn't even 20 yet.  Then there are those who ask you "Will you just do my homework for me?"  People who stop you in the halls or cafeterias asking for help because they recognize you as a tutor, and they don't care that you're off the clock or that the tutoring lab is open with others ready to help; they want you to help them because you're right there. Despite all that, I love my job.  Love it enough to work triple my regular hours during finals week (starting tomorrow), the busiest week of the semester.</blockquote>

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