(CNN) -- Michelle Asci dreamed of capturing life through her camera lens. Asci had her sights set on being a photographer as she graduated with a bachelor of fine arts degree from Georgia State University in December.

But the 23-year-old is not working as a photographer. She's at a concession stand, selling popcorn or ushering people into their respective theaters before the midnight screening. Asci's been working part-time at the same Atlanta movie theater since 2005.

"It's going on to be eight years of this," she said. But working part-time at a movie theater was not what she saw herself doing with her degree, and she is not alone.

Last month's surprising drop in U.S. unemployment rates from 8.2% to 7.8% gave many hopes that the economy is improving, and the lower rates even beat the expectations of some economists. But a breakdown of the latest jobs report shows that more than half of the jobs added this month are part-time.

This leaves people like Asci wondering: Is the new American job part-time?

From law dreams to data-entry

Every day, Dolores Casillas holds her breath as she walks into the Chicago bank where she works part-time doing data entry. It's a temporary position, and she's heard her boss say time and time again that there might not be a job for her one of these days.

"There was someone at my job who was working for only three weeks, and she came in one day and didn't have a job. It's nerve-wracking," she said.

1. How old is Asci?
2. How long has she been working at the Atlanta movie theatre?
3. Does she work full time?
4. Does she have a degree?
5. Where did she get it?
6. What did she want to be?
7. What did the unemployment rate drop from?
8. to what?
9. What did people hope that meant?
10. How many jobs added were part time?
11. where does Casillas work?
12. Where?
13. full time?
1. 23
2. eight years
3. no
4. yes
5. Georgia State University
6. a photographer
7. 8.2%
8. 7.8%
9. economy is improving
10. more than half
11. a bank
12. Chicago
13. no