Michigan Stadium hiring ushers, ticket takers, etc.
Info and application link here: http://www.mgoblue.com/facilities/stadium-team.html
I've been an usher for the past three years, and it's a good time. It is a big amount of work and a huge time commitment for laughable pay, but getting to be there is worth it for me, and probably some of you... You have to show up 2-3 hours early for each game, and you will be standing the entire time. You will also miss large portions of the game, as you're there to work.
The athletic department hires every summer, to the best of my knowledge, because of the high employee turnover rate. A lot of people don't understand the time commitment part until they've spent three straight Saturdays standing in a crowd of 100,000 people for 8 hours. It's not for those who can't stand and be outside for that long... But I would recommend applying if you don't have season tickets and are willing to work a bit to fix that.
but how much do you get paid per game, just want to know if it wil cover a 120 mi trip
Somewhere in the ballpark of $20. The pay is the experience, really. You get a paycheck in late December for around $150... Extra Christmas money is the way I look at it.
Twenty Dollars per game? Is that even legal?
Apparently. They also feed you and give you cool Michigan garb. And they let you into the game for free! All of those things are probably also considered "pay" to make it legal.
If you are techically a volunteer and the "pay" is either seen as a "bonus" or a "stipend," it sounds legal to me. Besides, there is no way the University of Michigan wouldn't have their butts covered legally.
Also other questions...if you are a ticket taker how much game can you watch and when? Ushers how much of the game can you watch?
On of my buddies ushers ND games and he is so lax. He does the student section and if someone is very very drunk he goes to his friends and says to his friends if he cant straighten their friend out then he will have to leave, and says I am not going to anything, but I could get someone who will, I am here to watch the game.
I would just hate getting called down to make some attempt to calm the "DOWN IN FRONT" guy.
Student section is the worst. -_- (I've been in it and out of it in different seasons.) As an usher, you have to take care of everything from moving people to their right seat when someone complains to breaking up fights to radioing for the Red Cross when somebody pukes or passes out... You get to watch a good bit of the game, but it you'll miss the majority of the first quarter, usually.
I dunno a lot about the ticket takers. They come join the ushers after halftime, so I know they miss the first half of the game. The second half is usually much more laid back, so it's probably safe to assume you'd be watching most of the second half as a ticket taker.
Yes, I did it last season, and will be doing it this season. Mostly because I'm a recent Alumnus who can't quite afford season tickets yet (with the way the economy is). Season tickets for hockey are much higher on my priority list, anyway.
Yeah, the pay is kind of a joke. At the orientation, I must've misheard, because I thought they said $50 a game, and not $15-20, which is what it really is. Basically, as soon as I can afford, and/or get on the waiting list for season tickets, my ushering days will be over. Or when I take a job offer in another state. Whenever that might be.
want you could always work in the suites as a server or food runner for Sodexo. The pay is a little bit better and you have to be at the staduim 6 hours before kick off, but you're inside for the entire game for the most part. i did this last year and it was awesome. the hardest part is the setup before the game and clean up after the game, but in between you can stand in the hall way outside a suite door and watch the game on one of the TVs. I was a food runner and i made ok tips but the servers made sweet tips depending whose suite they had. the alro steel suite was kind of cheap when it came to tips but that was because al glicks one son signed for everything at the end of the day. You also can work the team dinners and other events at the staduim. if anyone is interested go on craigslist to the ann arbor section for food and beverage, thats how i found it.
I am thinking my chances are slim but I'm not sure about the age situation
Sounds like one of the worst jobs ever.
If you have hundreds of dollars extra to throw at being at the games, it probably would be.
For those of us who can't afford that, it's an amazing opportunity.
wow that job sucks. No wonder the ushers are always in a pissy mood.
Is there a certain age that you have to be?
where I sit, the ushers (all wonderfully friendly, capable guys) all seem to have a fair amount of time to enjoy the game, mostly because everybody in that section sort of knows the routine, and we don't usually need the ushers. I asked the guys once, how long they all had been ushering. I think the youngest/newest guy had been ushering for 22 years, and the oldest guy had been doing it for something like 41 years. Sort of like season ticket seniority.