1 - I babysat starting when I was 11, mostly for Marianne Larsen. When I started babysitting for them they had 4 kids, ages 0-4. Now they have 8 kids between 3 and 14 with a baby coming in May. I watched their kids once or twice a week, and for a few other people on weekends too. My most memorable babysitting experience has to be a night I did with Madison Egli. We watched the Larsens (they had 5 at that point) and their cousins- a 2 year old and twin babies. Yikes. There was never a moment where there wasn't a baby crying for 2 hours straight. Luckily we got paid $25 each for 2 hours of babysitting. That night was crazy.
2 - Piano lessons! I started teaching piano when I was 14 years old from my house. I was really hesitant to teach; I didn't think I was qualified to teach beginning students something I was still learning myself. Once I started, however, I learned that I actually really do love to teach! I loved the funny things my students would say, watching them have those "ah-hah!" moments, getting hugs from the little ones, and learning myself. There was one student, Hailey Ostler, that I always knew would keep me on my toes. She was so excited to learn, but had way more energy than I knew what to do with. And she was right after school, so she was always hungry during lessons and would ask for pretzels. I still teach now and it is different now that I'm not as much their peer and more of an older, mom-like figure, but it is still mostly fun and I still learn every time I teach.
3 - Reffing for the Rec League basketball. This is my least favorite job I've ever had. I thought in the beginning that it would be fun, and a good use of my otherwise open weekends. Little kids running around chasing a basketball is cute, right? Well, the kids might be cute, but their parents are terrifying. Who would have thought that parents have so much invested in teams of 5 year olds? I was so relieved when that basketball season was over, and I will never do that again.
4 - Online Music TA. I got this job my 3rd semester of college for my Sight Singing professor, Sister Duerden. I was the TA for one class, World Music Cultures, and it was all online. When I accepted the job, I had this picture in my head of me doing all my work from my nice comfy bed in my PJ's eating ice cream. Sadly, they actually wanted all the TA's to work from the Online Department office, which worked out once I got pregnant, because it was air conditioned and my apartment was not. But my job was basically just to grade everything, answer emails from confused students, monitor quizzes, and organize the chaos that was the documents folder. Sister D, as wonderful as she is, didn't really put Music 102 as a top priority in her teaching career. She graded midterms and finals and that was pretty much it. By the end of that job I was ready to not be the teacher anymore.
5 - Music Theory Tutor! This was a job I enjoyed a lot more than I thought I would! Brother Kammerrer, my Theory professor, approached me about it when I was in my 4th semester at BYUH, and I was very hesitant to accept. I passed Theory with an A, but I didn't feel like I was necessarily the best there was. But I actually found that the more I helped tutor the students in Music 100-115, I became much more competent myself! Funny how that works. I learned to enjoy talking about leading tones, the best way to double in choral writing, augmented 7th chords... Not to mention that if no one came in for tutoring that day, I got paid for practicing piano or doing my own homework. It was a sweet job!
6 - Chauffeur. For the last year-ish, Marianne Larsen has paid me to drive 4 of her kids to and from clarinet lessons/marimba band/steel drum/choir/math lessons/etc. It's the perfect job for a single mom! I can take Jasmine with me in the car if she's awake, hang out wherever they're going or come home, and when they go to Marimba Band or Steel Drum, I help teach the class with Mr. Hampton. It's great!
7 - PT Aide at Dad's clinic! In the summers after I graduated high school, I worked Mon/Wed/Fri in the mornings at Columbia Physical Therapy as an aide. I got the best job of all: sticking electro-pads on hairy bums. Hooray! Seriously, I got paid to put sticky pads on lots of bums and chests and shoulders and legs. I also helped patients with their exercises and did cleaning around the clinic. Sometimes if Belen was gone, I filled in as a receptionist. I didn't think I'd enjoy it as much as I did, but I loved working with people and talking to everyone who came through.
3 - Reffing for the Rec League basketball. This is my least favorite job I've ever had. I thought in the beginning that it would be fun, and a good use of my otherwise open weekends. Little kids running around chasing a basketball is cute, right? Well, the kids might be cute, but their parents are terrifying. Who would have thought that parents have so much invested in teams of 5 year olds? I was so relieved when that basketball season was over, and I will never do that again.
4 - Online Music TA. I got this job my 3rd semester of college for my Sight Singing professor, Sister Duerden. I was the TA for one class, World Music Cultures, and it was all online. When I accepted the job, I had this picture in my head of me doing all my work from my nice comfy bed in my PJ's eating ice cream. Sadly, they actually wanted all the TA's to work from the Online Department office, which worked out once I got pregnant, because it was air conditioned and my apartment was not. But my job was basically just to grade everything, answer emails from confused students, monitor quizzes, and organize the chaos that was the documents folder. Sister D, as wonderful as she is, didn't really put Music 102 as a top priority in her teaching career. She graded midterms and finals and that was pretty much it. By the end of that job I was ready to not be the teacher anymore.
5 - Music Theory Tutor! This was a job I enjoyed a lot more than I thought I would! Brother Kammerrer, my Theory professor, approached me about it when I was in my 4th semester at BYUH, and I was very hesitant to accept. I passed Theory with an A, but I didn't feel like I was necessarily the best there was. But I actually found that the more I helped tutor the students in Music 100-115, I became much more competent myself! Funny how that works. I learned to enjoy talking about leading tones, the best way to double in choral writing, augmented 7th chords... Not to mention that if no one came in for tutoring that day, I got paid for practicing piano or doing my own homework. It was a sweet job!
6 - Chauffeur. For the last year-ish, Marianne Larsen has paid me to drive 4 of her kids to and from clarinet lessons/marimba band/steel drum/choir/math lessons/etc. It's the perfect job for a single mom! I can take Jasmine with me in the car if she's awake, hang out wherever they're going or come home, and when they go to Marimba Band or Steel Drum, I help teach the class with Mr. Hampton. It's great!
7 - PT Aide at Dad's clinic! In the summers after I graduated high school, I worked Mon/Wed/Fri in the mornings at Columbia Physical Therapy as an aide. I got the best job of all: sticking electro-pads on hairy bums. Hooray! Seriously, I got paid to put sticky pads on lots of bums and chests and shoulders and legs. I also helped patients with their exercises and did cleaning around the clinic. Sometimes if Belen was gone, I filled in as a receptionist. I didn't think I'd enjoy it as much as I did, but I loved working with people and talking to everyone who came through.
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