Hello everyone,
For reasons I won’t get into here, I’m looking for a minimum wage job where I would still have enough downtime to self-study an online course I’m doing. I’ve been thinking something like this might be possible in a receptionist style scenario. Has anyone done this before? What sorts of jobs are good for this? I’m gessing it’s probably jobs where they are looking for a person to pay just to have someone on-site and on-call…
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I’ve known people who worked at their school’s library and it wasn’t only just accepted that they studied while on the job, it was encouraged.
My nephew does that and loves it. He gets to scan old materials to preserve them.
Ooh this is a great idea! I might even be able to get into a university library because I’m student age.
I was grading seed at a grain processing/storage facility for a few years and it had enough down time during the evenings to do any schooling. I managed a full-time pre calculus to shore up my post secondary education requirements. My coworker ended up going back to college for programming and did a lot of his work on the afternoon shift. Our schedule was a 6am-2pm with little down time, and then an afternoon shift from 2pm-10pm with way more free time.
In my case, you didn’t have as much down time as some other quieter jobs but they paid ~$30 an hour so there’s value if you are looking for some extra cash. No prior experience required.
There was a 12hr night/day rotation for other parts of the facility where you’d swap every few days and get a week off somewhere in the mix but that schedule wasn’t for me.
Data entry is always a good field for this. Work from home (mostly), can figure it out easily, pays decently.
Hmm I guess. How many hours did you have to do this a day to scrape by? Did it get too repetitive?
It gets very repetitive, but if you’re solely using it as a means to an end for schooling, then it’s manageable.
And even a full time 8x5 or 4x10 truly only takes maybe 2-4 hours to get things done, so then you have the rest of the time to study.
My career is in a sort of glorified data entry (GIS for a utility company), and it’s super relaxed most of the time.
I worked awake overnight shifts in group homes before I got into my current line of work.
Plenty of time to study as the work is a little cleaning, a little paperwork, and some dealing with clients.
Most people just watched TV all night.
