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A few of his friends found jobs with the Town of Oakville; a very few landed plum positions in Toronto with accounting firms, banks, and medical labs. Quite a number of university and college students have had to take jobs on a dayâ€"toâ€"day basis in warehouses and factories through a temporary employment agency. They do heavy or tedious work, mostly for minimum My older son, who is planning to go into his second year at Guelph University in the fall, was lucky enough to find a job in Oakville offerâ€" ing 30 hours a week which he suppleâ€" ments with another partâ€"time job. Neither of these positions offers an outstanding hourly wage, but comâ€" bined with helping his buddy bring in the hay and round up the cows on the farm, he‘s kept himself busy and mostly out of trouble this summer... so far. "The employment situation has _ been a tenuous one for many folks over the past four years â€" and young people have been particuâ€" larly hard it â€" though it must be said the worst appears to be over. Certainly, that is the hope. Still, with restructuring and streamlining, the reality is many of the larger corporaâ€" tions, oil companies, public utilities, insurance companies, for example, have all cut back on the number of students hired over the summer months. Competition for summer wages is fierce. PROFILE What I did on my summer vacation The bad news, I guess, is that monâ€" etary compensation is usually miniâ€" mal. The good news is there are jobs. And there is intrinsic value in having a job. It is my lot in life to accentuate the good news. To that end, I made a (nearly) random search of the commuâ€" nity and plucked out three university or college students who did find jobs this summer. One is a tourist advisor for the Oakville Chamber of wage. Or they do McJobs, as the author of "‘Generation X" has aptly dubbed them, at fast food restaurants. Some clerk in stores, pump gas, or cut grass. Kathy Barnes He says he read the ad in the Beaver early this year, applied, and got an interview. He was offered the job which runs from midâ€"May to Richard Warren â€" a 21â€"yearâ€"old combined history and political science student at McMaster â€" will be going into his third year in the fall. He landâ€" ed one of the four tourist advisory positions at the Chamber of Commerce, reserved specifically for university students. Commerce; one is a clerk in the Pro Shop at Glen Abbey Golf Course; ar one is a "grill man" at Stoneboats Restaurant in Bronte Harbour. All three were delightfully coâ€"operative, wellâ€"spoken, and candid. and Labour Day weekend, and he took it Unfortunately, it‘s only a 30â€"hour workâ€"week. "Of course, I‘d rather have a full 40â€"hour week," said Warren, "so I supplement my earnings with odd jobs." Is he learning anything this sumâ€" mer? Absolutely. "I‘m learning some (The kid must be almmo for the diplomatic corp!) The most fun, however, according to the student, is talking to the tourists things about how an office runs and a little bit about the accounting system; also, just how a Chamber of Commerce functions in a communiâ€" The Income Tax Specialists Income Tax School starting soon See Page 12 for further details Call 681â€"8006 ext. 102 for more information (See ‘Summer‘ page 12)