Student job, desperate

tomlad123 · 26-02-2013 1:42am #1

Im a student and I need a job, been looking for months. Any advice other than 'keep looking' 'give up' 'emigrate' 'prostitution'

Unregistered. · 26-02-2013 1:45am

tomlad123 wrote: »

Im a student and I need a job, been looking for months. Any advice other than 'keep looking' 'give up' 'emigrate' 'prostitution'

Start your own business.

mud · 26-02-2013 1:49am

Do you drive? Ask your local food establishments if they need a delivery driver.

admiralofthefleet · 26-02-2013 1:58am

hang around the phoenix park after dark

Yakult · 26-02-2013 1:58am

Try harder!

orestes · 26-02-2013 1:59am

Have you tried fast food places? Burger King, McDonalds, Eddie Rockets, Supermacs etc, handy jobs for students since it's nights and weekends for part time staff. Cinemas are worth a try too. Bars used to be till so many of them started going bust so unless you have experience they aren't great for part time work anymore unfortunately.

7 7 12 · 26-02-2013 2:00am

You could give up but I would keep looking, have you considered prostitution or emigration perhaps?

spankysue · 26-02-2013 2:05am

Door to door handjobs? It's not prostitution.

eoins23456 · 26-02-2013 2:06am

grinds

kowloon · 26-02-2013 2:06am

spankysue wrote: »

Door to door handjobs? It's not prostitution.

Could call it bob a job.

7 7 12 · 26-02-2013 2:08am

spankysue wrote: »

Door to door handjobs? It's not prostitution.

I'll take one please ( if OP goes with your idea)

Faith+1 · 26-02-2013 2:15am

And you decided to ask in After Hours? Big mistake OP, they're all nuts here.:pac:

Dean820 · 26-02-2013 2:15am

If you're based in Cork, PM me. I know a company hiring.

spankysue · 26-02-2013 2:15am

7 7 12 wrote: »

I'll take one please ( if OP goes with your idea)

Lots of people I know doubted that would be a good business venture.

See ma, I have my first customer already!

minidazzler · 26-02-2013 2:18am

Where are you living?

orestes · 26-02-2013 2:18am

spankysue wrote: »

Lots of people I know doubted that would be a good business venture.

See ma, I have my first customer already!

Is your ma pimping you out to give door to door hand-jobs to strangers on the internet?

It's so nice to still see family businesses succeeding in the current climate.

7 7 12 · 26-02-2013 2:20am

spankysue wrote: »

Lots of people I know doubted that would be a good business venture.

See ma, I have my first customer already!

Great but is it you or the OP who will be providing me with satisfaction this evening.?

(love the direction this thread is going in)

tomlad123 · 26-02-2013 2:23am

minidazzler wrote: »

Where are you living?

Dublin

Boombastic · 26-02-2013 2:24am

I know people, who know people who could use a gofor, if your interested

7 7 12 · 26-02-2013 2:24am

tomlad123 wrote: »

Dublin

Yummy,same here

Scruffles · 26-02-2013 2:25am

checked out cleaning jobs?

there are usualy always many of those going,a lot of people think theyre above cleaning things but its a job that people can put a lot of pride in.

mum did it almost all of her life before retiring-she still gets impulses to go back to it again,the best cleaning job she ever had [from our/the kids view anyway] was when she worked at kellogs as she used to get given bags and bags full of crappy kids toys that got put in the cereals.
she had worked in the trafford centre,schools etc,just a shame its so underpaid in a lot of places.

there is always looking for work as a support staff-will never ever run short of jobs in this area,and in many places they do not require experience as they train staff.
our place [a residential centre am living in] wont take anyone under twenty and they have to be experienced to be taken on at twenty to twenty five, but in less challenging areas such as elderly or community based mental health living will find it easier to get into.

Dean820 · 26-02-2013 2:27am

http://www.dublinjobs.ie/main/index

humbert · 26-02-2013 2:42am

Prostitution isn't the only option, you've got pickpocketing, burglary, drug dealing, smuggling.

Perhaps your area study opens up even more possibilities? Chemistry: Drug manufacture. Economics: charge the unemployed for poor betting tips. Arts: back to prostitution.

Sobanek · 26-02-2013 1:40pm

I'm a student and I was looking for a part-time job since July :< No luck here either. We're foocked.

Jet Black · 26-02-2013 1:47pm

Dixons Dublin airport were/are looking for flexi/part/full time staff. It was on the notice board in the airport last week, haven't checked it since then. Give them a call and see if they're still hiring.

spankysue · 26-02-2013 1:47pm

Sobanek wrote: »

I'm a student and I was looking for a part-time job since July :< No luck here either. We're foocked.

You should team up with tomlad 123 and the two of ye do door to door handjobs. Ye could call yourselves Double Trouble, one works the shaft while one does the balls, but always charge extra for a sneaky finger

danslevent · 26-02-2013 1:49pm

Go to your career guidance (it's generally free in college) and get them to have a look at your CV. I did that and I have a part-time job, booshhaakklaaaccckkkaaa!

danslevent · 26-02-2013 1:52pm

In my house in college we all have jobs and so do most my friends. It seems it more professional jobs you can't get, rather than just little part time jobs that pay little.

Just persevere. I handed out over sixty CVs, not including the ones I did online. Ask to meet the manager, introduce yourself etc. I don't see myself getting a job with my degree in Ireland when I'm done, but easily enough serving behind a counter....

Also, lie a little on your CV. Till work is the most important really. Say you know how even if you don't, it's not exactly that hard to catch onto...

Drakares · 26-02-2013 1:59pm

Where are you living and what have you studied?

whitewave · 26-02-2013 2:02pm

Sign up to mystery shopping online. It's not that frequent, but it's a handy 20 quid every now and again, and very little skill needed - basically you need to be able to go into a shop, ask questions and not tell them you're a mystery shopper, before writing a report on the experience.

The Gibzilla · 26-02-2013 2:03pm

Dean820 wrote: »

If you're based in Cork, PM me. I know a company hiring.

Is it "Langer's Massage Parlour?"

mawk · 26-02-2013 2:06pm

Post your cv. Even if you take your name and contact off. It will A, been seen a lot and B you will get advice.

Cv gets you an interview. Interview gets you a job

shoos · 26-02-2013 2:08pm

tomlad123 wrote: »

Im a student and I need a job, been looking for months. Any advice other than 'keep looking' 'give up' 'emigrate' 'prostitution'

Abrakebabra has a big "staff wanted" sign up in their window in Donnybrook.

Go, go go!

flanders1979 · 26-02-2013 2:19pm

I pity any teenagers looking to make a few quid to take some pressure off their parents.
The only way to make money these days seems to be by milking cows which isn't too common in Dublin I hear.

Menas · 26-02-2013 2:47pm

Fair play to you OP. The best advice is to keep trying.
When I was a student back in the 80s/90s the best idea I had was to 'borrow' my dads car, head down to the local hire shop and hire a ladder and lawnmower and then hit the estates and knock on doors offering to cut the grass, do weeding, clean windows or gutters etc.
I honestly made a lot of money (relatively speaking) from that. But now a days that may be a more difficult proposition as people are weary of cold callers.
Still though, if a decent trustworthy looking young fella knocked on my door and had a big ladder I could give him a couple of hours work.

26-02-2013 2:49pm

Unregistered. wrote: »

Start your own business.

Provided you have the capital investment and solid business plan of course this could also be an option?

Plazaman · 26-02-2013 2:59pm

flanders1979 wrote: »

The only way to make money these days seems to be by milking cows which isn't too common in Dublin I hear.

I dunno, nightclubs lately are proving the fact that you don't have to be at the races to see a horse. But then thats the whole "milking cows" vs "milking cows" scenario which is probably different and brings us back to the prostitution thing again.

Get on yer bike OP, theres a niche in the market for sandwich deliveries to offices (why don't we have food trucks/streetcarts like the UK/US?)

Lumen · 26-02-2013 3:02pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Provided you have the capital investment and solid business plan of course this could also be an option?

You don't need a business plan to run a business.

You just have to sell stuff for more than you paid for it.

Anyone · 26-02-2013 3:03pm

Lumen wrote: »

You don't need a business plan to run a business.

You just have to sell stuff for more than you paid for it.

How much more?

Kolido · 26-02-2013 3:12pm

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Fair play to you OP. The best advice is to keep trying.
When I was a student back in the 80s/90s the best idea I had was to 'borrow' my dads car, head down to the local hire shop and hire a ladder and lawnmower and then hit the estates and knock on doors offering to cut the grass, do weeding, clean windows or gutters etc.
I honestly made a lot of money (relatively speaking) from that. But now a days that may be a more difficult proposition as people are weary of cold callers.
Still though, if a decent trustworthy looking young fella knocked on my door and had a big ladder I could give him a couple of hours work.

:eek:

Sobanek · 26-02-2013 3:13pm

flanders1979 wrote: »

The only way to make money these days seems to be by milking cows horses which isn't too common in Dublin I hear.

FYP.

intellectual dosser · 26-02-2013 3:16pm

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

hang around the phoenix park after dark

Go home Emmet, you're drunk!

Wompa1 · 26-02-2013 4:53pm

Would need to see your CV. What is your previous work experience?

Jen Pigs Fly · 26-02-2013 5:05pm

Chugging, all students seem to do that

MurdyWurdy · 26-02-2013 5:05pm

Last time I was in Penneys in Dundrum they were looking for part-time staff to work evenings and weekends

cloud493 · 26-02-2013 5:11pm

Babysitting. I paid a babysitter 45 quid last night :mad:

muppetkiller · 26-02-2013 5:21pm

Go into a Bar and ask can you work for free for a week to get the experience. Then leave with your newly found experience and get a paid bar job.
Barmen are never out of a job in this country.

stevenmu · 26-02-2013 6:13pm

We need more information in order to help you OP. It would help if you told us what types of jobs you have been applying for, what types of jobs you have done in the past, what you are studying for and any other qualifications you may have, what your interests are, what you availability is etc. Also what general area you are.

From this we can evaluate your skill set, determine what opportunities may be available, how competent and capable you are, what type of roles may suit you. And then from this we can then calculate exactly how much you should be charging for handjobs.

Shzm · 26-02-2013 6:21pm

odesk.com
elance.com
fiverr.com

You should be able to make some cash on any of the above sites. How much is up to your skill set and/or imagination.

anncoates · 26-02-2013 6:22pm

eoins23456 wrote: »

grinds

Mentioned already earlier in the thread:

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

hang around the phoenix park after dark

7 7 12 · 27-02-2013 12:39am

Hi OP, 7 7 12 here, just thought of an idea earlier while showering there and thought I would post up, my idea that is - would you ever consider giving door-to-door handjobs?

Student job, desperate

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