Evening part-time jobs?
DjArcadian
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So I'm planning on quitting my job in January to start up my own company. I'm worried that those initial shaky first months might cause me to burn through my savings too quickly so I'm looking for some evening part-time jobs to supplement my income until my company starts making enough money to pay for all my bills. My problem? Well, I jumped into business right out of high school years ago so I never really paid my dues sotospeak. No waitering experience. Nothing except business experience and office experience. I'd just get a part time office job but I need my days free to concentrate on my new business. So what type of evening jobs can one get with little or no experience? Looking for anything that would pay about $10 an hour.
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Most focus group facilities run the bulk of their groups at night, from 6-10. My shifts would start between 4:30-5, and both places I worked at were pretty understanding that they were getting people with a second job. Work could be busy, but it wasn't too bad- lots of downtime on the internet, usually you got fed, maybe some leftovers to take home. Pay was around $15/hr, and it paid for a lot of records.
Office experience is a key; play that up. Let people know you are good with people, and comfortable dealing with clients. Any questions on how to sell yourself, or names of companies, PM me.
In addition....the benefits are amazing. My roomate drives for Fed Ex and they really take care of their workers. If you want to swing 4-5 days a week you could get hooked up while you get your own thing established.
If it's not happening, find a restaraunt of some sort and talk your way in. Some of them like people with no experience so they don't have to deal with all the Applebee's migrants (non-racialist; migrationalist) with bad corporate practices.
Is this gonna be a one man operation or do you plan to eventually have employees? I applaud you taking to task, i think self employment is underrated and underestimated.
or if not that, barback at a nice club, they should pay you decent and all you do is walk around, look at chicks, and pick up drink glasses. i know lots of folks who do that as a second source of income.
Co-sign to the above, plus know that a lot of chain restaurants will hire and train to wait tables because you don't have a bunch of bad habits from previous places.
Night Manager
Just dawned on me as a passing thought. There are enough sinister minds and real experience on this board to open a club. Designers, DJs, Service Industry, etc. Wouldn't that be an evilly great sounding endeavor.
I really want to quit my current job because it's been way too stressful for the pay ($15/hr, no benefits), so I can focus on music and spend more time helping out at the studio I've been informally interning at. I live in NYC and bartending sounds like it would be perfect for my current situation, but I've got zero experience and don't know shit about making a Tom Collins or Sex on The Beach... Should I just bullshit my way into it, or spend the money on one of those courses?
DO NOT take the courses. Get in at a place and work your way up to it. The courses are a waste of money and are a turn off to lots of bars. i'm sure this will be co-signed. Get a job backing or even serving somewhere and let them know your intentions. When they see that you're a good worker and can be trusted with cash and their booze they'll get you back there.
Depends how my marketing works out. For right now, no. No employees. I'm really doing this to make more money and plan on saving up cash to dump into another venture I want to do. I'm also feed up working for other people. My job now is pretty cool but there's no ladder to climb.
i am on the cusp of a gameplan (for longterm work, not my own business), but still not there yet. Paying the bills with one job and having fun at / getting cash for records, the bank, etc at another.