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Finding a job in this wintry economic climate

Saeros

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Alrighty, I need to find a job with minimal 'people contact', low-skilled (i'm practically retarded :) ), decently paid, not requiring past experience, not requiring high motivation. any ideas?
 

JONTON

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I presume you just want "a job" and not "a career" at the moment.

Don't limit yourself to certain jobs from the start. Take what you can get. Challenge yourself to be more sociable. Use your contacts -- family and friends.
 

kantor1003

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Shame the title "unemployed" fail to satisfy the "decently paid" criteria... as I think that probably would be right up your alley.. it surely satisfy all your other demands.. well, I guess you can't have it all :)
 

s0nystyle

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be a pirate! You make loads of cash (or boats), require little to no experience or motivation

Bonus points for being a "butt pirate"
 

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Play online poker. However that takes a decent start-up time and skills. But my INTJ brother can make $10/hr doing it.
 

kantor1003

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Play online poker. However that takes a decent start-up time and skills. But my INTJ brother can make $10/hr doing it.

low-skilled - no
decently paid - I wouldn't say so
not requiring past experience - it does to get anything out of it
not requiring high motivation - it requires HIGH motivation

I don't think that's what he's looking for. Anyways, poker seems pretty dried up these days.. too many multi-tabling nits.
 

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Stock shelves at a grocery store.
 

Saeros

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I was pretty much joking about these three: "low-skilled (i'm practically retarded :) )(this one not so much), decently paid, not requiring past experience, not requiring high motivation." But i'm pretty much unwavering on the "minimal people contact" point.

Shame the title "unemployed" fail to satisfy the "decently paid" criteria... as I think that probably would be right up your alley.. it surely satisfy all your other demands.. well, I guess you can't have it all :)
Brilliant! I should try this one.

Stock shelves at a grocery store.
Yea, i could try that, i guess.


And before anyone suggests it, nobody's looking for a puppeteer in today's wintry economic climate :)
 

Vrecknidj

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"Decent" varies considerably with region. My house would cost ten times (or more) what it does if it were in NY or CA.

How much more than minimum wage do you need?

Washing dishes is often good. Other people are around but they mostly ignore you.

Dave
 

Saeros

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"Decent" varies considerably with region. My house would cost ten times (or more) what it does if it were in NY or CA.

How much more than minimum wage do you need?
I guess i'm really just hoping to find a job that pays more than I currently get at mcdonald's :)
Washing dishes is often good. Other people are around but they mostly ignore you.

Dave
Washing dishes sounds ok, i'll have to look into that.
 

drachenchen

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Night janitor. Hel, even day janitor. Nobody wants to talk to someone carrying a bag of garbage, or pushing a wet mop around. After you get the routine down, every night is a chance to let your mind roam while your body does the scut work. Try applying at hospitals; the medical industry is going great, compared to most. You might even get some benies that way.

Security guard, especially night shifts. Better still if you can get work guarding some closed factory or other giant, empty monolith. Avoid front gate posts at actual working factories with heavy traffic, especially ones with lots of actual security.

The Post Office, or one of the parcel delivery services. Yeah, technically you have to deal with people, but in real life, most of the UPS/FedEx/etc. delivery people that I've seen are pretty brusque, and will just drop a package even if they are looking right at you. Even if they need to get a signature, how much interaction does that take?
"Sign here." "OK" "Thanks. Have a good one!" DONE!

I feel sad that I can't recommend a job in a REALLY LOUD industrial setting, due to the class war shipping jobs overseas. There's nothing like having to scream at people who are all wearing hearing protection to really limit conversations to the absolutely necessary ones.

BTW, I hate spiders. That pic is absolutely disturbing and wrong. Well done! I haven't figured out how to post a pic, myself. Did I miss some kind of instruction that was right there in front of me? Thanx.:cat:
 

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Peep show facilitator, fancier, busker, musuem curator, or taxi driver? Oh, wintry economic times, you must be south of the equator, in that case santa claus impersonator or independent plow business!
 
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