Well, shit a kudzu brick...

[veracity]

So, how the hell does a person get a job when they a) hate people, b) only likes animals, c) can't work in a kennel just yet, but has no receptionist experience, and d) would be a terrible waitress/sales clerk/fast food work? I mean, I have like no experience really. And I'm not a morning person; as in I don't function properly until about noon,

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[heylittleriver]

Kitchenhand/Back of house? No requisite at all in that to like people. (Nor in front of house, it's just good if you can fake it. *g*)

Um. Cleaner. Somewhere in a hotel in a non-customer servicey roles. Storeperson. Factory hand. Entry-level office admin. Medical typist. Stablehand. Dog-walker. Pet groomer. Nightfill.

If I can think of more, there may be random comments.

[veracity]

Kitchenhand? What's that? I mean, I like people, but I don't necessarily like to talk for more than say 10 minutes. Then I start to imagine stabbing people in the eyes. It's a problem. I'm very open, but not

[heylittleriver]

Kitchen hand is someone in a restaurant who works in the kitchen and isn't a chef. I think in fancier places they tend to do a lot of prep (cut up stuff) and make the easier stuff - desserts, starters maybe. Depends on the place - my restaurant's entire kitchen staff (apart from the boss) would fall under 'kitchenhands' because they're mostly teenage boys - no chefs at all. So they make everything.

The thing with office admin and such is that people seem to require lots of experience.

Really? I'd say it's about half and half over here. (Well, maybe 3/4 and 1/4.) They sometimes want experienced people, but a lot of the time, if it's just filing, photocopying, mail sorting etc. they don't give a stuff, and often you can work up to the other bits.

Postie mail delivery? Parcel delivery? Courier?

...Bank teller? You'd have to deal with people, but you'd get rid of 'em quickly.

[veracity]

Kitchen hand is someone in a restaurant who works in the kitchen and isn't a chef.

Oh! I know what that is. I just hadn't heard that term for it. They do the less complicated tasks, yeah? I always think of them as the support staff with chef being the head of the kitchen.

They sometimes want experienced people, but a lot of the time, if it's just filing, photocopying, mail sorting etc. they don't give a stuff, and often you can work up to the other bits.I just looked at those type and even they want experience. Of course, the predicament being you have experience without getting it. There aren't many mail clerk jobs close to where I am now, and I can't get anywhere in Atlanta early morning. I'd be following the main traffic back ups. I'd have to get up at 5am to get somewhere by 8, at least. We have a shitty public transportation system, so most people have to commute. Which means we have about 3 hours of just traffic, to and from

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[anonymous]

By the way that feral cat is now a proud momma of 6 kittens, born on 1 aug. I have her and the kittens inside in a spare bedroom. And no I am not hitting on ya. I have no idea on male/female but they are in several colors 2 are white/cream? 2 are gray and 2 are dark with stripes... wow that momma was a ho. Rich

[rosedemon]

Suggestions:

Kelly Temps. You may be able to pick up work on a part-time basis with them. They try to fit the person's availability with the job. Friends of mine are picking up 20-25 hrs per week that way.

Wallyhell. We all hate them, I know. But at this time of year they are hiring extra stocking help at night. You could go in at 11 pm be off by 3 or 4 am. It might be part time and it is working for the corp monster, but I see it as taking from the man and stocking your pantry.

Food service? You might be able to pick up a prep job in the morning. Or maybe get a hostess job. Your schedule would put you into a breakfast-lunch place. You would be on your feet, but not for that long.

[veracity]

Kelly might be good, the only problem is that when I was temping, I'd get calls at like 7am to be across town in an hour. I love the idea of 20-25 hours, though. Enough for living expenses. I have the rent and school money taken care of it. It's just the whole eating and utilities that might be a problem.

After working at Wallyhell once, never again. I walked out on them after 2 weeks. I was so physically sore I couldn't move and they wanted me lift those heavy shelves. Added to it, they're as tall I am. When I told them that I couldn't move after 8 hours of that for nearly 2 weeks, they just waved it away. I kinda said no more after that.

I wonder if I could get a hostess job in the evenings, or on my days off. Mondays I don't even want to work because I have to be at school for like 8 hours (with my longish break between, to eat and do homework). Wednesdays I wouldn't mind before class. Mondays would just be too much. I'd be too tired to do my Astronomy lab. And I have to have that to graduate.

[gina_r_snape]

What about stockroom? You could probably pick up a few hours p/t at most big stores doing stock.

Or you could be a maid. That's ideal for people who don't like people!

What do you mean your insulin is making you draggy? Are you hypoglycemic? Type 2 diabetic? Just curious, as I'm a Type 1.

[veracity]

Physically I can't do the stock work. Daddy works in a box plant and I know I couldn't handle that. Woefully out of shape, I'm afraid. Hence the need for my trainer. Stockroom is just as physically draining. And I'm concerned about my sugar, too. If I do something like that for long amounts of time, my sugars drop sharply, like to the 30s. My last attempt at the kennel, I was the jack of all trades other than vetting, and it was very exerting. Because of it, I noticed my whiter than normal skin and low 30s

[heylittleriver]

I'm totally butting IN but

I might just buy a cheap condo to live in, since it'd be cheaper than renting. (Cheap being 90k or less.)

You can FIND places for that little?

[veracity]

Do a Google on the Atlanta condo market. A lot of the formerly 300k condos are selling for at least 100k less, or renting for like 950/month. All this for studio or 1/1. I've found a fabulous studio for around 84k and another for 79,900. There are several in the 84k building since it's near one of the major campuses intown. We were saturated before the recession and the kicker is they have to finish the ones that were contracted before the market fell.