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| *Ostroff, Fair and Company>>>Marketing & Sales |
Where is a good place i can get a job at 15.. or 16? |
need a job any good ideas to start off as.. no McDonalds! Although you cannot be employed traditionally, due to US child labor laws unless you're working for a family member, you can make money through more creative means. Some great ideas are gardening/lawn maintenance, babysitting/pet sitting, cleaning houses, or tutoring other kids (if you're a good student). With all of these options, you can set your fee and your schedule, so the job is flexible. This will help out when school starts back next month. Recently, my 16-year-old nephew started doing graphic design for local bands, school groups, etc. and is making pretty good money with it. Good luck! Source(s): 10 years in sales. Go to the job service or Department of Economic Security and get working papers since you are under 18. They can assist you best with a good line up of job offers. Some companies will hire people that age...and bigger companies are more willing to give younger people a chance...pick out some companies that YOU would like to work for...and try and get in touch with someone in the Human Resources Department...you can probably find a contact name or number on the company's website, or just call then up and ask for that department...tell them your situation, try and prepare some reasons why you think you would be a good employee for their company and what you can offer them, what benefits they would get from hiring you...they will love that sort of thing from someone your age...they will be happy to give someone like that a job! Try a law office or a medical office. I am always looking for kids to work part time in records or phones etc. and am willing to train, and work with their schedules. I am an eye doc, and I got my first job at 16 in an optical place, and they trained me. I also worked for the college, and they always worked with my schedule. I never waited tables or worked in the fast food joints. Too messy and smelly and the hour sucked. Be more creative and it will get you further later. There is always the mall if you're into fashion, but the hours suck too. Here's a short list of 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. 8. Why not become a paid feeder servicing the disabled at nearby nursing, convalescent, assisted living/care centers and hospitals. It involves feeding food to patients who are unable to feed themselves. The starting rate is $8.00 per hour. The only downside is that one has to take precautions to wash one's hands after each feeding. A posting of your services [by a business card or flyer] on a reviewable bulletin board would be enough to generate customers. The paid feeder position is one of the fastest growing occupation at this time. Good luck! You can easily bring in a lot of legitimate cash completing free offers on GPT sites. GPT (Get Paid To) websites are a good and easy way to make fast and free money online. A good site to learn about them is http://www.gptcentral.net/. |
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