Generic part-time jobs

[Warudo Ecksu]

dont work retail. having to be nice to complete assholes sucks

[Hitoshura]

Worked a GameStop after I completed my R.O.P class until I turned 20, still in school, became a Security Guard for more hours and better pay. Get payed to drive around in a truck, play DS, study and listen to music since I am by myself patrolling.

[Norelco]

If you dont mind lifting heavy loads a good job is Furniture delivery. The place I filled in at in college was a pretty high end store. You got paid commision so the more they sold the more you made. I worked on the weekends from 12-6ish. I could easily pull in $500 on a good weakend and on the off weekend I would get more around $200. And then most customers would tip on top of that. Another perk was most costomers were buying new to replace 3 year old furniture. After 6 months I had outfited every one of my friends houses with funiture.

Sorry to make this off-topic, but are you supposed to tip furniture delivery guys? On 3 separate trips I had a some guys deliver my HDTV from CC, and then a bed and couch. I wasn't sure whether to tip them or not, especially since I paid for delivery on all 3 items, and it didn't seem like they were expecting a tip because they pretty much bolted after they set everything up.

Was I being a douche?

[Takeno]

I work for verizon doing customer service over the phone. I guess it's alright

[SephYuyX]

Work some where that gives you freebies, like a movie theater.

[Isiolia]

I've done a number of different things. I'd second the notion to use your weekends for something other than a part time job.

Join a club, take up a sport, find a new hobby, take some classes, etc.

The main thing I see with getting a job like that is that, from their side, you're just another part time employee. How many places really only want someone to work when they're bored on the weekend? More likely, they'd want you to work more, at least after a time. Cover for people, maybe on holidays, etc.
At least, that's the pattern of nearly every part time job I've had since I was 15.

[Lexa]

I've had a ton of those. 7-11, grocery store cashier, etc. My favorite one was at Subway, simply because my boss there was awesome. Best boss I've ever had. Then the owner (not my boss, whom was actually the manager) sold the place, and the new owner started coming in and was a giant dickbag, so I quit. You'd think I'd get sick of having free subs for lunch every day, but I didn't. >.>

[Einherjar]

Do not ever get a job working in a kitchen at a restaurant. You make less money, get treated like shit and even if front end staff screw up, it becomes your fault and you suddenly have to bust your ass to fix their fuck up.

[Creeps]

I'm going to second whoever said golf course. You're outside, it's a nice environment and if you live near a city that has a sports team like I did, you might get to see a sports star every once in awhile. I lived near a golf course where some of the Angels had houses and saw a few of them, they also tipped ridiculously well. I think once we got a $300 tip split between 3 of us that were working the evening.

Also on tournament days, you get an assload of free stuff (shirts, food, golf balls, hats, etc).

[Tormentormike]

Tend bar. Highly social, good pay, weekend hours. And it gets you laid. What more could you ask for in a job?

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I worked at Radioshack for a while and hated every moment of it. Manager was a complete douchebag, and hated that I didn't clock out for a 5 minute break when he never did either. I wanted to work in the stock room (which was a complete shit hole) but that position was taken so I was stuck with being a sales rep. Didn't have fun when he was there (99% of the time he was) but on the off chance he wasn't there it was fun as hell because we would all sit around and treat it as more of a hangout.

Best experience there was when someone came in and cursed out the manager (thank God someone did) and another time when I guy came in expecting another GPS because someone stole it. Yeah...

[Woozie]

I've had three telemarketing jobs in the past (yes, that was me who called you at 8am, then called you again during dinner even though you told me to never call back. Sorry ) and another call center job (for cox communications, so this one wasn't telemarketing). I lost the telemarketing jobs because I talk really fast.

I wouldn't recommend ever doing outbound calling (though inbound is fine). It can get really really really really frustrating. Especially when you call old people.

I remember one occassion where I called some old lady and asked for her husband and she said "Oh, he's been deceased for five years, can I take a message for him?" She then got pissed because I wouldn't leave a message for her dead husband (how the hell did she plan on giving it to him?).

I had another occassion where this old lady yelled at me for 5 minutes that Jesus hates telemarketers and that we're all going to hell because of it. That's what I get for not reading the fine print under the 10 commandments

On one occassion I called someone from the Kansas City Cheifs. He really wanted the card and wanted to do balance transfers. Then, this big tough football player gets into an argument with his wife. I could hear the entire argument. He was getting bossed around like a little biotch, and based on the way they were talking, she does that a lot. He should just wear a freakin dress on a football field, because that guy was a real pansy. He got back on the phone and said "Sorry, I'm not allowed to get this card" and hung up.

For the most part, you're just getting cussed out and hung up on all day. You also have idiotic people who hang up for stupid reasons. Like some people will say "I wont give out my SSN because I don't trust you" but then give out their bank account numbers. If you don't trust me, why did you just give me all of your bank account numbers? Some people will go through the entire application, then when you ask "May I submit your application", they'll say "no" (even after giving you their SSN and bank account/creditcard numbers). Some of them just hang up on you while reading the disclosure. Some of them will wait until you're done, then ask really stupid questions for 10 minutes. Some of them will go through the application just fine, and even say okay to the disclosure, and then say "I don't speak any English" (at which point it's illegal for us to submit the app).

Seriously, I think telemarketing is how serial killers are born. I definetely wanted to go strangle a few random people every day after work.

[Tyche]

I loved loved loved my telemarketing jobs. Both were inbound calling centers, so it made it a bit easier.

First one I worked for, I started at 16 years old. We started out as a small, independantly owned directv sales center with about 10 people taking calls. After a year we became the largest independant directv sales company in the U.S., oddly, with less than a 50 person crew. We had tons of marketing execs come into the center on occassion to throw us parties. HBO had this crazy hot marketing executive that I met. Super cool folks. Huge golf outings. We make a Keg cart that was fabricated to carry a keg around a golf course. Worked off hourly wage, which was a bit above minimum wage, as well as a $5 a sale commission, with $5 if you sold a tivo, as well as $2 more if you sold insurance. Potential for $12 a sale, and on a good day, with TV ads, I'd hit 50 or so sales with about 80% of those going through with install (center had about a 25-30% cancel rate, which was apprently normal). Made a ton of dough, but quit and went to school. When I came back, the center had almost turned belly up.

Other tele-job was a couple of customer service jobs in summers between semesters. Didn't like those so much, as you always go people whose shit wasn't working properly and you was the person they were calling to bitch at. Not fun, but the bosses were really lax, we were allowed to bring in small televisions and playstations to our cubicle during downtime. Break room had a DDR system set up, basketball courts, and other shit. Was pretty cool during breaks and downtime, but the work sucked.

Golf Courses definately the coolest summer job though. I love to golf, so I'm a bit biased.

[Aerin]

I've had a couple part-time jobs most of which sucked ass.

IKEA - Was kind of fun when you weren't dealing with retarded people and a crying baby, which was never. I worked there as a cashier and a CSA in rugs/textiles. The most annoying thing is when someone pulls down a hanging rug that's 40lbs+ walks all over it with their dirty shoes, then just walk away.

American Eagle - Was actually a lot of fun, only thing I didn't like was really having to push sales. You're generally with better looking people at clothing stores too. Met my current gf there and we've been going out for 2 years now.

Lowe's - I live near Seattle which has a lot of diversity, yet rednecks still seem to find me here every single day. And if you are wrong, or not sure of what you're talking about they will flip out.

[Woozie]

I loved loved loved my telemarketing jobs. Both were inbound calling centers, so it made it a bit easier.

Yeah, inbound is sort of relaxing. I did a bit of inbound for capital one and MBNA, as well as being inbound only for cox. But outbound for capital one/MBNA/Bank of America/a bunch of political fundraising/fundraising for other non-profit organizations was so frustrating.

[Penthesilea]

lol this is old but fucked up and has ties to fast food industry

http://youtube.com/watch?v=QqUm-Zk3_Ws

[Athas]

Never work at a retail store ever.

That's all I'll say about that.

[burrito]

Avoid retail if you lack a strong sense of self control/people skills. GameStop gave me a renewed hate for humanity.

Best part time job I've had was beer wench at ren fest. Horrible pay, seasonal work only, but really amusing to see the expressions of potential employers when my application has beer wench as a previous job.

[Rafike]

Hmmm lifeguard maybe? Seasonal job get to be outside (may or may not be a good thing). Could suck if it is just brutally hot whereer you are, but get to work on your tan plus thunder = free time!

[Nuketwig]

Places that suck: a restaurant. Maybe it's better if you're waiting on people, but I was bottom of the totem pole in the back, which meant that anytime anyone was in a hurry they dumped their shit on me and expected me to play catch up for them. Never again.

Job that was actually kind of fun: delivering flowers. Basically getting paid to cruise around listening to music, and all it required was map reading skills and the ability to be courteous to people for 30 seconds - 4 minutes at a time. However, holidays suck, and sometimes people can real pissy about their damn flowers.

[Khamsin]

Hmmm lifeguard maybe? Seasonal job get to be outside (may or may not be a good thing). Could suck if it is just brutally hot whereer you are, but get to work on your tan plus thunder = free time!

Seattle is a bit like an old Apple ][e computer screen. It's either raining or it isn't. And it's cold drizzly rain that lasts all day, not big fat warm droplets accompanied by brief thunderstorms before the sun comes back out. I didn't even know something like that existed until I took a trip to the east coast once. I had no idea rain could actually be warm, or come and go within minutes.

And it's never brutally hot or cold, it's just... cool. Sometimes just cool enough to snow in the winter months for a day or two here and there, and sometimes just hot enough in the summer to make you sweat, but for the most part the temperature consistently falls within a relatively tight range year round.