I need a job

[nick > jesus]

Any suggestions?

I'm 17 and no longer down for god awful bitch jobs (washing dishes etc.)

So, what bitch jobs don't suck too much?

[squatch]

Find a higher paying bitch job?

Learn a worthwhile skill?

[FJ62]

Shave, dress up, try to look adult, and go to a temp agency. You'd be surprised how much you can make working at some dismal factory or behind some horrid cubicle. It'll make you miss the fun socialization of the dish washing.

When I was 17 I was put to work at a cyclone fence factory through a temp agency. Great hourly wage at the time ... I lasted about four hours. Who knew cyclone fences were largely built by hand?

[jibij]

Dood. Bitch jobs are the greatest thing in the world for a 17 yr. old. You've got more years than you want to imagine of "real" jobs ahead of you. Someday, you'll miss the no-stress, "I can walk outta here without blinking an eye" bitch jobs of your teens.

Otherwise, forget about getting a "job" and get entrepreneurial.

[AdironRider]

OK Ill bite. I did this stuff in high school on breaks/summer. Requires minimal time and effort, but of course there are tradeoffs.

Look around for sleep studies done at local universities or big hospitals. These can range anywhere from 4-40+ days, and have several different variations; however, for the most part they put you in a room with a bunch of cool toys/beds/whatever with no access to anything that could tell you the time or what day it was. A couple of the ones I did (usually the shorter ones) even put you in with groups of people. Sometimes theyll never turn the lights off, other times the lights will fluctuate randomly, etc. Either way, you make fucking bank. The 4 day ones would usually pay out 5-800, but I did a 24 day stint that netted me 15 grand. No joke. I was set for the remainder of the summer (3 months) with just over 3 weeks in the tank. Im serious about this.

Takes some mental fortitude, but theres no quicker or easier way to make cash as a teenager.

[Larry Craig]

It's like what I tell all the promising young men coming to my office, seeking counsel as to how to launch a career in politics...



































Blow job or no job.

[nick > jesus]

Learn a worthwhile skill?

I tried the bike shop thing, hoping for some place to be down with some kind of internship type thing, but no dice. They said for something like that i would have to start in january, which is not an option with skiing and school.

Dood. Bitch jobs are the greatest thing in the world for a 17 yr. old. You've got more years than you want to imagine of "real" jobs ahead of you. Someday, you'll miss the no-stress, "I can walk outta here without blinking an eye" bitch jobs of your teens.

I dunno maybe the bosses i have had at dish washing jobs in the past just really sucked balls. It seems like some people don't hate dish washing as much as I (and the other dishwashers) did. That place had crazy turn around with their dishwashers and we ended up getting replaced by a Mexican...

Its not like i am looking for anything terribly long term. I dont intend on this being super serious or anything, Perhaps i should rephrase my question to "what bitch job does not suck too much?
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OK Ill bite. I did this stuff in high school on breaks/summer. Requires minimal time and effort, but of course there are tradeoffs.

Look around for sleep studies done at local universities or big hospitals. These can range anywhere from 4-40+ days, and have several different variations; however, for the most part they put you in a room with a bunch of cool toys/beds/whatever with no access to anything that could tell you the time or what day it was. A couple of the ones I did (usually the shorter ones) even put you in with groups of people. Sometimes theyll never turn the lights off, other times the lights will fluctuate randomly, etc. Either way, you make fucking bank. The 4 day ones would usually pay out 5-800, but I did a 24 day stint that netted me 15 grand. No joke. I was set for the remainder of the summer (3 months) with just over 3 weeks in the tank. Im serious about this.

Takes some mental fortitude, but theres no quicker or easier way to make cash as a teenager.

That sound like it would rule, what schools/ hospitals did you do it through? and what department?

[flyby]

if you can get into serving food at a relatively classy establishment (i.e. not a hole in the wall greasy spoon chinese place) you can make a lot on tips. Still a bitch job, but pretty darn easy.

serving food > dishwashing

[ill-advised strategy]

bellmen and valets at good hotels make good money and it's not difficult work. also: still bitch job but pay upgrade.

[nick > jesus]

if you can get into serving food at a relatively classy establishment (i.e. not a hole in the wall greasy spoon chinese place) you can make a lot on tips. Still a bitch job, but pretty darn easy.

serving food > dishwashing

I would love to be a sever, but there is not a place in town that hires male wait staff, especially not a male who is in high school. (one of many downsides to living in a small-ish town)

I am planning on moving my search down to golden/Lakewood

bellmen and valets at good hotels make good money and it's not difficult work. also: still bitch job but pay upgrade.

there is a fish place in lakewood that i am going apply at for a valet position

[adam]

well my jobs pretty good. I get paid to wash a few dishes, make a few sandwiches, sit around, and eat cake.

[RedWolf]

What about landscaping and/or lawn mowing? You get to be outside, listen to tunes while you work, and generally make pretty good money (at least in my experience...)

[trainnvain]

Valet?At 17, doubt it.
Take a trade job (carpentry help, landscaping)
Start doing prep in the kitchen, it's better than dishwashing.
I supervised a BMX track and dug, watered and rode all day when I was 17.
How I was lucky enough to get that job, I dunno.

[jibij]

Perhaps i should rephrase my question to "what bitch job does not suck too much?

Grocery store work was fun. Everything from bagging groceries, to shagging carts, to stocking shelves. Probably not as many openings these days with all the grocery stores moving to self-service, and contracting stocking, or pawning it off on the vendors.

Worst bitch job ever was restaurant work. I only lasted a month before walking out.

Best bitch job ever was sound, light, AV, setup/teardown work for a company that provided services to downtown hotels (in Atlanta). I don't know anything about the business here in Denver, but a little googling ought to turn up some companies. Search for AV, conference, rental... that kind of thing.

[nick > jesus]

Valet?At 17, doubt it.

me too, could be worth a shot

[Brock Landers]

golf course maintenance? out of work by 2, working outside, nothing too intense, herb-friendly environment

[lemon boy]

PM Rontele, he needs a landscaping bitch.

[DJSapp]

You're 17 and have no experience. You're made for bitch jobs, bitch. This will continue until your education or experience begins to back you up so you can get promoted from bitch to scrub. When that happens, there will be another 17 year old to take your place as bitch.

x2 on going into construction trades. Good money, fresh air and lots of exercise there.

[Chainsaw_Willie]

Tough call at 17. Most of the better bitch jobs want you to be 18 for insurance/labor law reasons, but ask around at warehouses, construction or trucking companies, things like that. Do you have an eye for detail? If so, buy some cleaning products and start detailing cars, or get a job at a dealership cleaning the cars that get traded in or come in from auctions. The temp agency thing is a good bet, too.

[ill-advised strategy]

Valet?At 17, doubt it.

I promise it's true...

my little neighbor buddy that I mentored, he had been spending time with my GF since he was little, was making more as a bellman/valet at age 17 than I was as a professional firefighter. This was in Taos, working for el monte segrado. This would have been around 2004ish. I guess I was kind of surprised he was hired for it too, but he's really a champ, and has proven it by moving on to manage a jiffy lube at age 18-19 while building a rep as a volunteer firefighter. Now he has one of just 5 full time paid positions in the fire dept there at age 21, a job he'll probably retire from at age 41.

you too can do this shit nick, you just have to realize you're the shiznit and then go prove it.

[Sirshredalot]

I got a job as a video store clerk in high school. Not much in the way of pay, but not very difficult, either.

[ICEHOCEY77]

drug mule

[brice618]

I started construction at 15, by the force of my father, an architect. It was the best thing he ever did for me (as far as forcing me into formative life situations anyhow).

[Liberal Genius]

Get really good at computer programming, or go to college to end up in the same place->>> spending the rest of your life with a "real job" in a cubicle, wasting away making big money, so when you have a few hours off on the weekend, you can laugh it up with your other Office Space drones on the golf course like you've succeeded in the game of life. Fuck yeah!

[TNKen]

Caddy at a local high end golf course. There is one around here. Have helped get a couple of kids your age jobs there. One caddied for the CEO of Exxon and picked up a $500 tip. Average tips $200 per day.