i need help, i work at the mall, and id get paid very well and i cant make my bills, what job pays real good $

Question

i want something you can sit down and type. i am really good at that. only problem is i am not 18 yet. i am 17, i turn 18 in october. i have a car payment, cell phone bill, i give my mom money for food, and stuff around the house, and also a credit card bill, that my mom got me. i work at Papaya in the mall and it diff sucks. please help. :)

Answer 1

Well, I doubt anyone will pay you to sit and type away; unless you are a good writer and you can write some darn good stories and poems and win contests or get them published, I doubt you can get a career in that at 17. If you ARE a talented writer, however, send your work to local contests, I won over $2,000 dollars in one high school semester by entering contests, and that was a while back, too.

From experience, health food stores like Whole Foods and Trader Joe's tend to pay a dollar or two over minimum wage, much better than places like Dominick's (Safeway).

Also, you can be a pharmacy assistant at Walgreens or CVS for about 9 dollars an hour. You can also try for department store jobs (Bloomingdale's, Lord &Taylor, Carson Pirie Scott, etc), behind-the-counter work at the perfume counter or shoe department sometimes gets you nice sales bonuses and even 12, 13 dollars an hour to start as a teen.

You can also try for lesser-known, but rewarding jobs like photographer for a JC Penney or similiar store, they start between 8 - 10 dollars an hour to photograph children, and you get reviewed and given a raise about every year or so, and if you stick with it you can make some decently good money. They usually allow themselves to hire inexperienced people; when I was 19 I worked for quite some time at a JC Penney photo studio and I had no previous experience.

However, you can certainly get better-paying jobs once you're 18. If you're smart and persuasive enough, you can pull in loads of cash in a sales environment. When I was 18 I tried telemarketing and I failed miserably, but an acquaintance of mine made close to 80,000 dollars in one year just in telemarketing alone. At 18, more places might consider you for work like receptionist work, internships at businesses, etc. Though experience and/or a college education are prefferred, I had another friend, who at 20 was a receptionist at a lawfirm that hired him simply because he was a very proficient typist and could multitask well, and he made $15/hr.

Answer 2

Maybe you need a second job for awhile. If you're already making good money, a typing job might not pay more than you're already getting - that's not a real high-paid career.

Quit using the credit card - that could help.

Good luck.

Answer 3

You can get an office job if you KNOW SOMEONE who will hire you to gain at least a year experience. If you don't know anyone who knows sombody who works in an office, then you are stuck in retail. Temp services won't help you either unless you worked in the office/admin before.

Answer 4

try a budget, and to get rid of some of the unnecessary items you spend your money on. (like eating out, video games, etc.)