Spec me a job!

[Jonny]

Hi there!

I'm back! For anyone that noticed I was gone.

Anyway, with a month to go til uni, I need a job fast! I'll do anything, as long as it pays.
Seriously, I'm happy to swim in poo as long as it gets me money!

I have a decent CV, but for a quick job I'm not sure that matters.

What is there I can do?!

Cheers,

Jonny

Yep, and I've already predicted the stupid responses such as "PRON STAR TBH!!!!!!!!!!111!1oneone!!! LOLZ"
But they'll make me laugh anyway.

[TheAnimus]

Where do you live?

Seasonal short term work at the moment is abundant in UK holiday hotspots. Works crap but you can get £10 an hour as a cleaner. 6 Years ago i used to get paid almost £7 an hour to clean dishes. Used to be out of my skull on vokda drinking orange juice to survive the whole helish ordeil. But sitll the money is great for a no responsibility job.

[killkoy]

PRON STAR TBH!!!!!!!!!!111!1oneone!!! LOLZ

round us alot of people have work in garden centres (people around my age) as a part time job
Also do you have any waitering experience? that would probably make it alot easier to get a short job.
(it might not however be a good idea to tell them that you will lbe leaving in a month. just take the job then quit when the time comes, if an employee knows that you'll only be availiable for a month, in most jobs you wont stand much of a chance)

Another idea is to look for seasonal work, I probably will be working in a toffee apple production place(whatever they're called). in a month or twos time untill bonfire night, when no-one wants toffee apples any more.

[Jonny]

I live in Solihull/Leamington/Stratford.
Nope, no waitering experience.

Cleaning sounds good, I would happily clean toilets all day for £10 an hour, where do I go about looking these things up?

Toffee apple type effort is also good, can I just like pack stuff into boxes for 18 hours a day and earn some money? Seriously, I really want some money....

: /

[TheAnimus]

Jonny such menial tasks are advertised at the job center + post office windows very regularally.

Also if there are any hotels (leamington spa must have plenty) which don't have polish immigrant workers (who really are fantastic value for money) then you can try them, a fair few need cleaners at quite bad hours and will pay quite well for this. People doing so called "carvan cleaning" in newquay will easyily get £80 for the day of about 7 hours, but that is seasonal (supply + demand, not enough supply for the summer tourist season demand).

If possible get jobs through a friend or someone you know or by you calling them. But job center + local papers + post office windows are a great place to start.

Cleaning toilets is also better than cleaning plates, because cleaning plates made me feal sick at how dirty we were leaving them!

[Jonny]

Yep, been checking the job sites and local papers, was just wondering if people had any brilliant schemes that were a bit out of the ordinary (e.g. Medical Testing type crazy stuff).

It looks like I'll just have to keep scouring the papers and put a couple of ads in offering work.

[TheAnimus]

medical testing isn't really that great, i've done candy bar testing at the uni myself, got like £50 a week, for a few hours. It was only really worth it because i was on campus, and could do some work whilst i was there (would be feed a candy bar... hmm so many crunchies, then have my blood sugar levels tested for the next 5 hours).

Again these do tend to be advertised!

I would try the job center, if you go down and speak to someone, prove to them that your, smart hard working and dedicated to your goals, that you just want some temping, they will probably know a good boss who needs some good workers.

Have you considered a temping agency, do you have any CLAIT certifications?