Housing Dept. Employee - Resident Assistant Texas State Employee Review

3.0
Jan 26, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Free housing as an RA Work with and befriend a large variety of people Make lifelong friends Gain experience managing students similar to managing apartments

Cons

Your voice/feedback falls on deaf ears You will NOT be appreciated or seen as valuable to Housing; you are expendable in their eyes You are on the front lines handling students, ensuring they're safe and comfortable, working on-call nights and weekends, and likely responding to emergency situations (trespassers, suicidal ideation, domestic violence to name a few possibilities) It is very difficult to separate yourself from the job; you live where you work where you study

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Pros

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Cons

Make no mistake: they do not care about you. You can give them 10 years of your life and they can dissolve your 'contract' on a whim. You will be working outside your contract ~1 month/year if you want to actually do your job. The benefits package is worthless, there aren't even any doctors in network within a 50 mile radius except some holistic practice and one guy with awful reviews. Most people you work with will be incompetent (many of the teaching faculty), and if you are good at your job you will wind up doing theirs too.

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