I'm currently employed in retail, and while I enjoy the people I work with and the money, it's a bit stressful and I'm not really *happy*. I don't want to just quit, but I've been thinking...what sort of part-time job is good for someone who wants to be a novelist? Or at least a writer in general? Is there something that I, as a student, could do that would help me gain skills in the areas I'm interested in?
2006-10-25 04:44:12 · 5 answers · asked by Morwen 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
Find a job that involves writing of some kind. Internship at a newspaper? Write documentation or procedures for a corporation? Write reviews for magazines, newspapers or other journals?
Beyond employment, I would write editorials and submit them to the newspaper, write poetry or short stories and enter them in contests online, edit college papers for a professor, journal for yourself, record your families history, write, write, write!
2006-10-25 05:05:27 · answer #1 · answered by kkirby45 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe work for a newspaper or magazine as an editor, writer, or reviewer. go for an internship if necessary
work for a publisher like mcgraw hill or something to get some inside knowledge of the publishing world
work for some type of public or private library
-get several different crazy jobs with crazy people so you can use their creativity to fuel your ideas for a novel
2006-10-25 05:03:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
$25 / hour? I don't think so. Please, please, please do not go to those sheets of paper posted throughout the campuses saying p/t work and paid well. You're selling something, either canvassing door to door or going on the phone doing a hard sell. I think your best bet is to pound the pavement on campus and get an on-campus job. The pay not be really really great, but they are flexible with hours and you can keep it through your studies. I worked in the library when I was an undergraduate student and it paid my bills! And this was when minimum wage was $3.35!
2016-05-22 12:54:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would get out of retail while you can. Because part time will become full time. Money will get better hours will increase. I dont know what you could do to further your career as I writer, but I do know this, if you do not get out of retail now you never will. Sounds like you work for Kohl's.
2006-10-25 04:54:38 · answer #4 · answered by rji714 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Librarian!Good luck.
2006-10-25 04:46:02 · answer #5 · answered by MaryBeth 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋