Job Suggestions?

[ibanezmonster]

Does anyone have any ideas for me?

I'm looking for a job that is like this:
1) 30-40 hours a week
2) Working alone (more or less)
3) If possible, in an office, where I can put on headphones and listen to music all day
4) At least $1000 a month earnings

I could easily get a job doing pizza delivery, but would rather work do something like 3).

[Brahmsian]

Does anyone have any ideas for me?

I'm looking for a job that is like this:
1) 30-40 hours a week
2) Working alone (more or less)
3) If possible, in an office, where I can put on headphones and listen to music all day
4) At least $1000 a month earnings

I could easily get a job doing pizza delivery, but would rather work do something like 3).

How about an office job, like in accounts payable or receivable?  That is likely what I'll be doing when I re-enter the work force.

[david johnson]

headphone tester   

[ibanezmonster]

How about an office job, like in accounts payable or receivable?  That is likely what I'll be doing when I re-enter the work force.

Good one... thanks for the suggestion. But is this the same things as "accounting?" In that case, you need experience/school, though...

[Scarpia]

Good one... thanks for the suggestion. But is this the same things as "accounting?" In that case, you need experience/school, though...

What he is suggesting is not "accounting."  Accounting means you maintain and analyze the financial records of the company, which requires training.  He is suggesting sounds like a clerk who performs rote entry of data into a computer.  Data entry is a common form of low-skill job. 

The pay scale you say you want would be below minimum wage and illegal. 

[Brahmsian]

Good one... thanks for the suggestion. But is this the same things as "accounting?" In that case, you need experience/school, though...

With accounts payable and receivable, you may not necessarily need any prior accounting experience if it is an entry level position with mostly data entry.  If you are required to do any coding of invoices and such, it might require a Level 1 accounting education, or bookkeeping course.  Most companies though, for an entry level accounting position, will allow you to "train" and educate as you work, and pay for any accounting related courses.  It's one option, and for any entry level accounting position, they will likely pay at the very least $3 or $4/hr over minimum wage.  I'm really just guessing, but it will certainly be more than a retail cashier/clerk is making, with ample opportunities to advance.

Plus, most accounting jobs will have you work at your own cubicle, and you'll be able to listen to music as you work for a good portion of the time.

[ibanezmonster]

What he is suggesting is not "accounting."  Accounting means you maintain and analyze the financial records of the company, which requires training.  He is suggesting sounds like a clerk who performs rote entry of data into a computer.  Data entry is a common form of low-skill job. 

Data entry is something I would like to do, though I'm not sure how you'd find such a job out here (no luck using Internet).

The pay scale you say you want would be below minimum wage and illegal.

Not sure about that where I live... Florida minimum wage is $7.25. I make ~$8.60 after 3 years with Lowe's. Everyone there is poor and has to live with someone else just to pay for rent, with the exception of the store owner (who is rich) and some other people, who have either been there forever or the managers, who only get by because they work 50-60 hours a week (not getting paid much more per hour than me).

I would get paid maybe $1000-1100 a month if I worked their full-time (39 hours a week), so it's not much of a difference, I guess...

[ibanezmonster]

With accounts payable and receivable, you may not necessarily need any prior accounting experience if it is an entry level position with mostly data entry.  If you are required to do any coding of invoices and such, it might require a Level 1 accounting education, or bookkeeping course.  Most companies though, for an entry level accounting position, will allow you to "train" and educate as you work, and pay for any accounting related courses.  It's one option, and for any entry level accounting position, they will likely pay at the very least $3 or $4/hr over minimum wage.  I'm really just guessing, but it will certainly be more than a retail cashier/clerk is making, with ample opportunities to advance.

Plus, most accounting jobs will have you work at your own cubicle, and you'll be able to listen to music as you work for a good portion of the time.

That would be perfect for me to get me through school... how would go about finding such a job?

[Scarpia]

I would get paid maybe $1000-1100 a month if I worked their full-time (39 hours a week), so it's not much of a difference, I guess...

40 hours a week, four weeks a month, 160 hours a month.  $1100/160hours = $6.87 per hour, which is below minimum wage.

[ibanezmonster]

40 hours a week, four weeks a month, 160 hours a month.  $1100/160hours = $6.87 per hour, which is below minimum wage.

I think it's because I'm accounting for taxes and what I pay for insurance (medical + vision + dental). All that together tends to make it nearly a dollar less per hour.

[Brian]

It's looking like I'll very soon be turning my Master's degree in history and fairly surprising history of published writing loose on the world looking for a "real-world" job. My ambitions are slightly higher than Lowe's, or my previous employment at Walmart, but not that much higher. Not sure what specifically, as long as it interests either my writing or research side and keeps me out of poverty.

[Luke]

When I saw this thread title, my first thought was on these lines....

[ibanezmonster]

It's looking like I'll very soon be turning my Master's degree in history and fairly surprising history of published writing loose on the world looking for a "real-world" job. My ambitions are slightly higher than Lowe's, or my previous employment at Walmart, but not that much higher. Not sure what specifically, as long as it interests either my writing or research side and keeps me out of poverty.

You majored in history? Good luck... 

[Scarpia]

You majored in history? Good luck... 

He's living in London.  Sounds like he's making his own good luck. 

[ibanezmonster]

Tomorrow, I will be from doing some work delivering food for a Chinese restaurant from 11-1pm. I'll just be trying out the job for now, since I don't even usually drive around the neighborhoods of the area that I will be driving to. If I like it and get good at it after awhile, I'll likely be doing this instead of Lowe's.

The only thing keeping me from knowing if I will make much more are 3 things:
1) hourly pay... should be about minimum wage, which would be good enough. I think it's only waiters that get paid less than minimum wage, not drivers- at least, hopefully.
2) Do they pay anything for gas? If not, that would be ~$500 a month if I worked 30-35 hours a week. If gas got up to $5 a gallon, that would be ~$700 a month.
3) Health insurance. I'm not sure it would be worth it or not if I have to pay $200-300 a month, despite being possibly the cheapest example of a person to cover.

I would probably average about $1500-1600 a month before expenses working 30 hours a week.

If it worked out fine, I could potentially make enough (or almost enough) money to pay off a college loan all at once after graduating and not have to worrying about wanting to shoot myself in the head constantly because of I hate my job so much.

[ibanezmonster]

I just tried out the delivery thing from 11-1 today. Most stressful two hours of my life.
It's hard to imagine the difference if I did it compared to if I had GPS, were used to delivering, and actually had music in my car (my CD player doesn't even work).
However, even with that, they just don't pay enough because they don't pay for gas. He paid me $7 an hour today, but said he would only pay $5 an hour for awhile because I'm new, until I got good- then he'd pay me about $7.50 an hour. I made $23 in two hours, but most of that would be going towards gas.

I just didn't like it, but I was grateful that the guy gave me a chance to just "try it out." He said to call if I want to do this on the side and make a little extra money in my free time. I won't be calling back, though.

[karlhenning]

If you've got to plough all your earnings into the gas tank, forget it!

[Scarpia]

Makes me question why "delivery boy" for a Chinese restaurant is such a high-presige, highly sought-after job.   

[ibanezmonster]

I'm going to have to call Vortex tomorrow. That is the company I did programming work for. Long story (I know this sounds weird), but hopefully I can convince him to let me work full-time (or even part-time).

This is the only way out I see at the moment. I had some very disturbing thoughts tonight, and I just don't want that any more. I don't want to make my family sad.

[Scarpia]

This is the only way out I see at the moment. I had some very disturbing thoughts tonight, and I just don't want that any more. I don't want to make my family sad.

If you are having disturbing thoughts you should understand that they are not caused by having an unpleasant job, and that you need psychiatric help.