Research Blog 3

A couple class reading that we used are part of the resources that I'm using for my paper. "Students are Already Workers" and "How to Graduate from Starbucks," by Marc Bousquet and Amanda Ripley respectively are pieces that involve college students who also have part-time jobs. In the cases of both articles, we have students and people that privatize themselves from opportunities that the job provides for them. For example, in "How to Graduate from Starbucks" there is a woman who is scared to take the opportunity that Starbucks is providing for her and her co-coworkers (Starbucks is willing to help pay for college for their employees) because she was scared of something that might come back to bite her if she decided to opt for it. She privatized herself from an opportunity that would have benefited her; it's something that we expect to see a college do to student, not the other way around (or a variation  of that in this case).