What are decent jobs for college students?

I worked as a hotel desk clerk at a Holiday Inn type place my last year of college. Hotels need staffing 24/7, depending on the size they could probably fit you into something compatible.

Waiting tables can be lucrative. During the day, a place where business people lunch is probably the best.

Cleaning rooms in a smaller motel may fit your schedule. Around here the maids are paid per room, and can get tips. If you work quickly, you can make much more than minimum wage most of the time.

And when you get a room that is a real mess, you get half of what the motel charges the guest for extra cleaning fees.

Well, I don’t know what to say… I would suggest a restaurant, since servers do get quite a lot of tips, depending on how busy the restaurant can get.. etc but you already said you want to stay away from there. but it is pretty good money!

If you can get it, Best Buy would be good. I’ve worked at mine for 2½ years. It’s not the end all, be all job. It’s certainly not fast food. It has a good discount, okay flexible hours. No major complaints other than my position of customer service, and that would be the same everywhere.

I hear Starbucks is really a great place to work… plus, you make tips so you’ll probably make more than minimum wage.

I’ve been a server before, which is why I intend to stay far far way. The money wasn’t good at all…it was crap. Plus dealing with customers who constantly bitch about tea not being sweet enough, their food taking too long, or their steak not being done just right. As if I’m the one sweetening all the tea and cooking the food. It gets old FAST. I absolutely hated it.

Hosting was actually not so bad, considering I did like the people I worked with. However, the money is only enough if you’re a high school student who’s parents pay for everything.

@starboyg Yeah, I’m really hoping I get the Best Buy or Home Depot jobs. However, I’ve applied to both places a few times before and never got a call back. All this online stuff ruins everything.

@SamIAm I applied for Starbucks right after asking this question. I know their hours are flexible, they’re open late but not too late, and plenty of people work their while in school.

At this point, I’m hoping I get a call back from ANYONE.

@lbwhite89; Oh, I see. I know what you mean about the customers.

Anyways, I think that it might give a higher chance of getting a job if you personally went in with a resume and asked to see the manager if they were available. Usually that makes a good impression. Or, so I’ve heard.

@lbwhite89: I’m in the same boat… looking for work. Maybe next time (before putting your 2 weeks notice in) it may be smart to have something lined up if that’s possible. Good luck to you :)

UPS (loading trucks) is about 4 hours a day and you could work the night shift, which is somewhere from 11 – 3 ish every day. It’s not a bad job and it whips you into shape and pays fairly well.

Local news papers hire adults to deliver papers. You get up at like 3:45 AM get back home at 7:00 Am and make about $1,000 a month if you get a decent route. You have to collect from the subscribers and usaully its a 365 days a year job, you’ll have to have a sub-carrier you trained and pay if you want days off. Oh ya, you have to have a decent vehicle.

@SamIAm It’s a long story. I’m not struggling for money, so that helps.

@lbwhite89 what’s your major?

Any job in a college town is going to suck because of supply/demand for labor in your area is probably out-of-whack. If you’re at a big school in a small town (as many are) then there’s a huge demand for the types of jobs you’re looking for and very little supply. The result is that the wages and benefits are probably going to suck anywhere you look for work locally.

I would try to see if you could put your skills to use and work remotely over the web somehow. For example, graphic designers with talent are always in high demand at affordable rates to people writing iPhone Apps. Or perhaps you could make and sell t-shirts on campus or do medical transcription on the side for a local surgeon. In my experience, it is always better to work for a small, locally-owned company than a franchised mega-corp.