While college students across the country scramble to find summer employment, Marie Getz, an art therapy grad student at Naropa University in Colorado, gets paid to sit in the living rooms of senior citizens and discuss life. As a part-time caretaker for Home Instead Senior Care, a nonmedical elderly services network, she works four days a week providing companionship to seniors and helping them with simple tasks like grocery shopping, meal preparation, and household chores. The job is far from glamorous, but it bends to fit her school schedule, giving Getz the reward of giving back while footing hefty tuition bills. "I'll have $60,000 in loans when I graduate," she admits. "If I didn't have this job, it would be a lot more."
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