I want a summer job. What are some good jobs for a person who is starting to work?

Question

Well i reall want a job but i don't know what's a good job! Please Help!

Answer 1

Here is a short list of summer jobs which you can create to generate income:

1. Learn calligraphy so that you can provide handwritten invitations and thank you notes to prospective wedding parties, birthday celebrations, etc. Seek out clients through wedding planners at nearby churches and temples. A starter calligraphy kit usually runs around $20 and anyone can easily pick up this skill. The going rate is usually $1 per hand addressed item.

2. Become a "poser" who assists wedding photographers in setting and arranging various individuals in group and single photographic positions. "Posers" carry around a sketch book of various sitting and standing poses which consists of onion skin overlays of various wedding pictures bound in albums. Again, contact local wedding photographers and wedding planners, accordingly. The hourly pay is around $10-$12 per hour and you are often invited to attend all dining activities.

3. Seek from your neighbors a gardner position which involves planting, weed removal, plant/tree trimming, light brush clearance. You will be using the neighbor's equipment and tools. Again, do not represent yourself as a lawn mower since there are any number of safety issues involved. A door-to-door solicitation of surrounding neighbors is required and you can charge between $6 to $9 per hour.

4. Offer policing/removal or clearance of trash services to surrounding neighbors which involve trash pickup within nearby residential area. Limit the extent of pickup to small areas and be aware that there are no hazardous terrain or elements involved in this process. Again, a door-to-door solicitation of neighbors is in order. You can charge between $6.75 to $7.50 per hour.

5. Acquire a set of window cleaning tools [a bucket, liquid window cleaner, sponge, squeegee, handle with an extension and a small step ladder] and solicit local businesses for your window cleaning services. However, be careful to limit the height of the window cleaning to no higher than one story. Charge $1 per window panel.

6. Become a proxy/stand-in for neighbors to allow delivery of goods and packages to your home/apartment. Acquire the authority to sign any receipt of incoming packages as an accepting neighbor. Charge $1 per each package handled by you.

7. Consider becoming a restaurant-cafe customer liaison by using your cell phone at restaurants-cafes to coordinate with the hostess to keep track of waiting customers. Whenever there's a very long period of time to activate a waiting list, you want to offer the restaurant your services so that customers do not have to stand around for any lengthy period of time. And when their name/assigned number comes up; you can call the upcoming customer's cell phone to tell them that they can return to the restaurant and be served. The call back fee is usually around $0.50 cents on a per head basis. For example, a couple would be charged $1.00 while children under 6 would not be charged. Placement of a plaque which outlines your fee schedule near the hostess station is sufficient to garner attention of prospective customers who will value your services since they can do other activities outside of the restaurant -- often beyond the range of any inhouse paging system. You realize that everyone has a cellphone and why not take advantage of the connectivity to make the diner's experience worthwhile. The restaurant will also appreciate the added service you are providing as a customer liaison.

Good luck!

Answer 2

Two tips here for what they are worth.
1 Always be in employment in an area that you are interested in, whatever that may be. To be doing something that you don't find fascinating, or even enjoy doing is soul destroying and ultimately pointless.
2 Have fun. we can't all be astronauts or whatever, but the knowledge of a job well done is worth as much as the pay.

I took acouple of summer jobs when at Uni.
One was to stick rubber toy tyres onto plastic toy tractor wheels. In a week I managed to fit 2000 of the jiggers on the wrong way round, so collected my pay, as the next job was to take them all off again, jumped on my motorbike, and spent the rest of the summer hols driving a fork-lift in a grocery supply wharehouse. Bumped the prongs of the thing into a huge pallette of sugar. That, mixed with the lake of cornflour oil someone else created made for interesting high speed cornering.
No, I trust I am not hopeless at stuff, got my M.Sc and have not been near a fly-press or fork-lift since I was 18-odd.

Ah, just try your hand at whatever you fancy doing. It is often amazing how high-up employers notice, and promo upon promo can arrive quickly.

Got my own companies now. and will be the first to give someone a shot at a top job if I see that they are intersted in what they are doing.
Slackers that grumble, and would be rather elsewher end up just there, P45 in hand.

The working life should not be a drudge anymore in the UK, although it can be for some. Have high hopes, and put youself forwards in an area of employment that you want to be involved in.
Heck, if they say "nay", then no worries. Go somewhere else.

I've got an upcoming vacancy for someone to drive the boat and book riverside hotel rooms for potential clients in the power generation industry.
Sort of a nautical P.A. thing.

Mustn't grumble at about £600 per week.
Think BIG.
Well, better than stacking shelves in Asda.

All the best ,
Bob the Boat.

Answer 3

If there is an Aldi near you then try them - the rates of pay are really good. Shopwork will keep you indoors so be prepared to miss the sunshine - or a lot of it- during the summer but, you will be able to add 'customer relations experience' or 'Customer Service' on your CV and this is considered a key competency by many employers- if you can get a shop job you might be able to do a GNVQ so ask at school!

Answer 4

Places like Lowe's, Marvin's and maybe Home Depot usually hire summer help in the gardening area.
Also you might try a daycare or summer camp program working with children ....or even a Pizza parlor. I wouldn't reccommend "pizza delivery" because of the present gas prices.

Answer 5

Retail - clothing stores and Restaurants are places that usually will hire people without experience. One of my first jobs was working at a concession stand at the beach all summer. It was great!

Answer 6

as a teenager I used to hate working at fast food joints so I won't be recommending any of those. I think a cool job to work at as a teen is in the mall at a clothing store b/t it doesn't necessarily have to be in the mall. Here are my recommendations:

Clarie's it's an accessories store
Forever 21-retail
Macy's-retail Juniors section
Sears's-retail Juniors section
Baker's-shoe store

Maybe even payless...good luck with a summer job.

Answer 7

get yourself a job at festivals littert picking is good you get in free but you must stay after as it's really bad form when people promise to work then leave straight after. It makes it harder for the genuine people who do stay

Answer 8

Baskin Robbins<--- that was my first job, and it was kool!! you'll like it its a good starting spot

Answer 9

fast food, or retail stores are usually very willing to give young folks there first job. Good luck.

Answer 10

Volunteer to cut your neighbors lawns. They will thank you and maybe offer you a glass of tea or soda water. It's a lot of fun to.