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Good people, fun work, extremely low pay - Educational Leader Michigan State University Employee Review

3.0
Jun 5, 2022
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Pros

The experience is great. You learn a lot, plus get access to MSU job postings before non-employees do. You get to educate schoolchildren about scientific topics.

Cons

Other than it being a fun job through MSU, it's not that good of a job. Pay is EXTREMELY low. Requires a college degree, but only pays 15-16/hour (for reference, Aldi's in the area starts at $16/hour. I cannot stress enough how low $15-$16/hour is for Novi.) Job averages at about 20-29 hours per week. At $15-$16 per hour, that's $1200-$1856 per month (pre-tax). Average cost of rent in Novi is $1200-$1500/month. A company that won't even pay for its employees to live in the surrounding area is scummy. I don't care how good of a learning opportunity it is; it's scummy and exploitative. MSU can do better. I know they can do better.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

The HPC facilities (HPCC, ICER) offer excellent access for research affiliates colpaborating with university researchers, with Slurm job scheduling and a well-managed site-specific wiki.

Cons

Annual account renewal can be a bit bureacratically clunky at times, and the Research Affiliate may have to coordinate with multiple departments and the associated PI if a system update breaks part of a legacy system.

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