What are some not so well known, but common and easy to get jobs?

IchTuDerWeh · 3 months

Overnight awake shiftworker, 13 bucks and hour and all you do is go on reddit all night

hawaiiandave · 3 months

Treeplanting, pinecone collecting, soil sample collector, all those jobs will eventually pay 300+ a day but are hard as hell. No experience necessary. You can also go to literally any farm and they will always have work. It will be minimum wage, but if you go in the spring/summer you can do the berry - or whatever they are growing - picking and make like 200 a day or so depending on how hard you work.

Edit: To clarify, it's minimum wage, BUT berry picking is piece rate. Which means if you work your hardest, you can pull that kind of skrill. I know this stuff because I experience it first hand every year, not because I'm talking out my ass.

WeaponGrade · 3 months

Overnight janitorial work. A lot of Americans forgot about this line of work. And the part-time extra income is a blessing in this economy. The companies that steer away from janitorial services and hire individuals would love a young English speaking person.

h0ser · 3 months

I know a guy who went door to door with a drill in his pocket. He'd knock on the door and when someone would open up he'd pull out a drill and say "What if this was a gun, wouldn't it be nice to have a peep hole so you see who is out here before you open up. For fourty dollars and five minutes of your time I'll put a peephole in your door that will give you added security and peace of mind for the rest of your days." He had his own business a few years later is is living large today.

razpotim · 3 months

Aiding disabled, a lot of people wont do it because some of the stuff you have to do is "gross".

I don't quite know how it works in other countries, but in Denmark where I live you can easily get this kind of job, and if you're really lucky you get one person who needs 24/7 help, so you only need like 6 watches a month to make a full sallery (that's my job btw, and the disabled person also happens to be my best friend).

Most of the time they don't need you if they are just physically handicapped, so you can browse, read, watch movies, whatever the fuck you want, it's a jolly time for all.

Pomguo · 3 months

English Teacher in a large city in China (Beijing, Kunming, Xi'an - not Shanghai). Go to any one of these cities with a 90 day tourist visa and enough money to pay for a few months rent at an apartment there, and the jobs are disgustingly easy to find.

No qualifications needed, no experience needed, no actual talent or ability for teaching English needed. You can be earning $30 an hour for unqualified teaching in a country where a beer costs 50c (closer to $1.50 in a bar), and the living cost can be as low as you want it to be.

Caisey · 3 months

Advice from an old science teacher of mine: Certain oil rig jobs don't need experience and pay a shitload, think 50k-58k a year for painting/scaffolding/admin. Good if you want to rough it for a while then buy a house or something. However they tend to hire from within the industry but once you're in you're in.

rrauwl · 3 months

It's weird that I find cause to repost this twice in 2 days, but I guess these things go in trends. :)

No experience required, just logical thinking. If you're fairly internet savvy, AKA you can spot simple bugs, sign up with a reputable bug testing firm like uTest.

Take a sandbox course and see if you like it. If so, you can go through the crash courses and learn more about the kind of testing that you might be good at.

I believe the average 'grinding' tester gets around 9 bucks an hour worth of bugs, payable via Paypal or a rechargeable Visa card. After you get a decent record of bugs on minor tests, you'll start getting invites to more high profile (and better paying) tests.

You won't pay for anything, any tools you use can be open source, and at minimum you'll learn something about how web sites are tested. Best of luck.

Fair warning: I'm biased, I worked with these guys for a year and a half, I wrote a bunch of those crash courses, and they took me out of obscurity when I was awarded one of their Tester of the Year awards. :)

Edit 1: Updated with link to Sandbox info, since people have been asking.

battledanny1 · 3 months

English teacher in Taiwan. Seriously all you really need is to be from a native English speaking country. The visa is the only difficult part.

INukeAll · 3 months

Fedex and UPS, working as a sorter or packer, or if your lucky loading aircraft.

VelAwesomeRaptor · 3 months

Make friends with the employees of the places you frequent. I work in a coffee shop, and we've hired several regulars that we all were fond of that were in need of work. I've also left the company and come back and so have a lot of the other employees. Managers like to hire people they know well and/or like being around.

SuperSaiyanNoob · 3 months

Working on the ramp at an airport. You don't need to know shit about planes, just lifting a bunch of bags over and over, you'll learn everything else. Edit: I guess I should mention the pay is pretty shitty, so there's a high turnover rate and big airports are almost always hiring people. There is seriously a ton of jobs at an airport that you wouldn't expect and almost all of them have nothing to do with actual airplanes. Mostly the managers/supervisors deal with that shit. They wouldn't even come close to trusting a new guy or even people who have been there a while in the positions they're in with most of the actual dangerous stuff and stuff that you could fuck up pretty hugely.

ColonOBrien · 3 months

Karaoke host. I've been doing it for 8 years, and we're ALWAYS looking for people. It seems no one can deal with the stress of it LOL. And believe me, it can be stressful as fuck.

venther · 3 months

UPS Night Sort: Full Coverage Insurance for my whole family. .80cent a year raise. Paid vacations. It's not a job, it's a work out, I lost weight in my first few months. We cuss alot. After five years you're 'vested' with the Teamsters Union and working towards retirement. If you actually manage to reach thirty years of service (I've seen one guy do it, he was boss) you'll rake in $3,000 a month in retirement. You can buy class A company stock, and they have a 401k. You could retire like a rich raven working four hours a night at a job that requires no education.

jumalaw · 3 months

911 dispatch was a fairly easy job for me to get in to. There's fairly standard requirements, although computer proficiency, competence multitasking, and an ability to remain calm under pressure are definitely required. It's not really a job that many people seek out, I think, and it's not really given thought until someone is calling 911. For anybody looking to branch out in to EMS, police, or fire it can definitely be a good stepping stone. Overall, the pay is good, the benefits are usually stellar, it beats punching buttons on a register or stocking store shelves, and it's got to be way better for a resume than unskilled labor. Since there's no degree that directly relates to emergency dispatch (as far as I know), you won't find any positions for dispatchers requiring degrees. The only non-standard barrier would be a thorough background check for some agencies, which can be lengthy and/or very thorough. When I applied, I was told that 40% of applicants failed on the spot due to the drug test, so maybe /r/trees should avoid this one.

As a college student, I'm incredibly lucky to have this job. Working overnight, I can get nearly all of my homework done on the clock during slow hours and leave me with a life outside school and work. Anybody looking to get out of a normal office routine I'd recommend checking out dispatch, but don't expect to walk in to CSI or Die Hard or anything.

AgentGlaze · 3 months

I was at a employment agency a few days ago, apparently you need 1 year worth of education to even get a job as a cleaner.

eyeliketigers · 3 months

Go to a temp service. They usually pay more than minimum wage and a lot of the other people applying are bottom of the barrel, so it's easy to look like a good candidate by comparison. The jobs are temporary most of the time, sure, but sometimes companies who use temp services end up hiring permanently. Even if it is a temporary job, you're likely to pick up a new one through the temp service afterwards anyway.

bgugi · 3 months

If you're willing to wipe ass, Nursing Assistants are usually in pretty high demand. about 120 hours of training, and depending on the state/facility you get hired in, you can be reimbursed for even that. It's a three-shift job, so you can fit it around more education for whatever.

If you're willing to go to school (probably for a few years), You can get an A.S. as a laser technician, where a graduating class of 8 will have more than 200 job offers before graduation, and salaries start in the 40k range.

bigh124 · 3 months

Entry level jobs? They don't exist anymore.

luddite75 · 3 months

Throwaway, but this needs to be said -

While most of you were playing Pokemon, the dot com bubble burst in 2000 - the same year I graduated college with a degree in UI / UX. Needless to say, the interviews I did manage to land were absolutely futile. One of my favorites took place in Boston at a pretty high profile firm I won't mention (ever read The Art Of Innovation?). It took place in a large, seemingly abandoned office full of Areon chairs, iMacs, toys, bean bags, PS2's etc... typical late 90's design studio. We just sat looking out over the city pondering the future. I had made it to the top, only to get a peek and have the door closed in my face. Cue a sad Enya song / pan in on single tear as it runs down my cheek.

Time goes by, I dabble in alcoholism.

A family friend gets me in on a construction job. I reluctantly take it. It's funny how your student loan officer is like a rich uncle while you are in school, after you graduate he becomes and angry drug dealer - and you owe him money.

I show up for my first day in dress attire. Everyone gives me funny looks. They give me the tour of the building, put a set of drawings in front of me and basically leave me alone. The superintendent leaves at 3:30 and so do I. This pattern continues for about a week and then I get "the talk". The superintendent lets me go. He says that I'm not pulling my weight and theres no room in the budget for me to sit around. Understand I received absolutely NO direction from day one. I was pre-programed by my lifetime of institutional schooling to show-up everyday and wait for direction from my superiors.

This was my Tyler Durden moment. My education didn't matter here. My past didn't matter here. I was nobody, anonymous. No one expected me to do anything. The looks I got on the first day were the same looks that a dozen other privileged white boys with college degrees got on their first day. I was useless and I didn't matter. I was told to leave...

For some reason I showed-up the next day. I still don't know why. I was in kind of a daze. I wore jeans and a t-shirt this time. I brought a few tools that I borrowed from my dad. The superintendent wasn't there, so I headed in to the building, found the foremen (who somehow didn't know of my dismissal) and he put me to work. He hated me.

My first job was outside pumping water out of a ditch with a Venezuelan guy who spoke no english in the rain. It was back breaking, filthy and (at the time) beneath me. I was too good for this, but I kept at it.

Today, I have seen more sunrises than I have seen sunsets in my lifetime. I make 65K a year (southeast USA dollars). I own a house, drive my dream truck and I payed off my angry drug dealer. Not to brag, but I'm in pretty good shape too.

I have tons of more anecdotes, but my point here is that the construction industry has a deficit when it comes to smart people. Mostly because we fear hard work in this country. I wish more people would join up. Once you get your bearings, it's a great way to make an honest living.

Pixelpaws · 3 months

Truck Driver. It's probably not as easy to get as some jobs here, but once you have your class A license you'll ALWAYS be able to find work.

xafimrev · 3 months

Telephone sanitizer.

MyNameIsFuchs · 3 months

I just had the most confusing last 5 Minutes ever. I read 'jokes' instead of 'jobs' and tried to make some sense of the top comments...

HGNIS · 3 months

Hustle.

Any place you go, apply for a job. If you don't have a job spend 8 hours a day looking for a job. Go online, apply to literally every job you see. Even if you don't think you want to do it, even if you think you aren't qualified or overqualified, apply. Talk to your friends/family, ask them if they know anyone who is hiring. If you still can't find anything and need money, go door to door and offer to shovel snow, do landscaping, do repairs, anything. If you have a drive to work, you can find a job within a month's time.

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[deleted] · 3 months

Ice Cream Truck Driver

I literally opened up the yellow pages (that's how long ago this was), found the local company that does it, drove to the warehouse, walked in and said to the first asshole I saw 'I want to drive an ice cream truck'.

He handed me an application and some forms. Filled them out. He told me to show up the next day for training.

arbitraryentry · 3 months

Prostitute.

MyCatsReallyLikeMe · 3 months

This is gonna get so buried, but be a model at your local art school. Call their main line and ask who hires models, and then go see that person. It doesn't matter if you've had any prior experience, and you don't even have to be good looking (artists love drawing fat and strange looking people.) There are clothed classes and heads and hands classes if you don't want to take your clothes off. Pay is around $19 an hour, breaks every 20 min, and they usually hire you as an independent contractor so technically you're working for yourself.

OpportunityBox · 3 months

Amazon runs a per task job site called Mechanical Turk. You can rate images or write short 150 word articles or other random tasks for small money per task. Anyone can post a task they need completed that's too hard for a computer to accomplish. Do a bunch while you're sitting home watching TV at night and you can make around $8 an hour from your couch after you get some practice.

consonantsexpound · 3 months

Bus driver. City or charter.

Several agencies around my area are almost always hiring and will give you the training to get a CDL.

happilythree · 3 months

If you're a current student, running for a law firm or accountant's office is a SWEET gig. They usually try to stick to students though. Other types of companies have these positions too.

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