affiliate network
My freshman year my dad didn't want me working because he thought it would get in the way of my school work and he told me that anytime I needed money I could just call and ask. I felt bad though after the hundreds of times I called for money. I spent so much on 'necessities' like movies, bars, going out to eat, and I felt like I should start making money on my own. At my school we have a website called cardinal view jobs, where all of the campus jobs are listed on that website and you write down the job number and we bring in our school ID and they give you a referral. So I wrote down a few and ended up going on 3 or 4 interviews. Two of the jobs my school schedule didn't work out with and one was way too many hours, but the last one was perfect. It was nine hours a week and it was three hours at a time and you got to pick the days. So I took on this job and found out I was really not cut out for it. Basically what we had to do was reach out to the affiliate network of Ball State and ask for donations. We would talk to alumni about homecoming games and upcoming events and then slyly ask at the end it they wanted to donate money to the school. I felt like I was betraying them. I was trying to be their friend at the beginning of the conversation and then by the end I was asking them for all of their savings. Other affiliate networks to Ball State included famous alumni (David Letterman), who just donated a building to the school and made an appearance, and different companies and schools, like nursing schools in the area or the high school nearby that has a special program for gifted students with us. We would call each one and then try to get them to be 'friends with us' and then go in for the kill. I had such a hard time with it. I don't like to ask people for things and I'm kind of o the shy side with strangers. Needless to say I didn't stay with the job very long, but I did get to meet a lot of new people and it helped me to get out of my shell a little and experience new things.