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What are my job options?
I’m 23/female.
I mostly have experience in babysitting children and watching the elderly. I figured I need more experience and volunteered at a local YMCA for 6 months. I helped in the front desk, cleaned, laundry, and daycare. I was friendly to everyone so I have good references.
I have a lot of time in my hands. I took my college summer semester off to look for a job and get some money. I have applied to all of the fast food places in town, which are a lot. I also applied to small and large stores. I applied to different temp agencies. I even went to job fairs.
No one called me back. When they do they would say there are no openings or I’m just not what they’re looking for.
I finally found a job, working part-time at a daycare center but it’s on call. I don’t like that there is no solid schedule and I always have to wait for them to call me. It’s not an ideal schedule because I don’t know when they are going to call me. It is making it difficult for me to make plans for anything. Also, they barely call me. I just started 3 weeks ago and only worked 4 days.
My brother thinks I should join national guard or army, but I don’t have the body or drive for that.
What should I do?
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Summer is a great time to babysit or nanny. Look for someone who needs help with childcare, church vacation bible school groups, summer tutoring programs, etc.
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Sometimes there just aren't enough jobs that employers are hiring for. If you are looking for work only for summer and won't be available after that cus you're back in classes, that could be a reason why people don't want you, because they are looking for more long term employees.
In that case, it might help to be your own boss and advertise for just summer help. The only thing I can think of is a combo of house and pet sitting for while owners plan to go on vacation. At this late date though, any jobs for one home owner that last the entire summer to house sit are likely gone.
There will be the average family vacations that last a weekend or a week and where they plan to go, pets can't go. You would stay at their place, care for the pets, bring in the mail, water the lawn/garden and still have time to take off with friends for the beach for the afternoon.
People are going to want someone responsible for a job like this. With your past of caring for elderly, daycare and volunteer work, you sound like a responsible prospect. Then keep a calendar and fill it with all the short term house sitting jobs. But you need to get your name out there, even if you decide on something like just dog walking. Put cheap ads in the classified ads like the ones that charge a nickel or dime per word. Ask to put up ads at all the local vet places. As a pet owner, I've call the vets asking for referals of people to come take care of pets while we were gone. Once, I could find no one to help and one vet had a few kennels and took our dog for the weekend to board. Taking a family pet to a boarding place is more traumatic for a pet than being watched at home and lots of owners know that so I feel you should still be able to do that and still keep the on call daycare job.
Its worth a try.
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You can look into preschools. My friend worked at daycares a lot as a teen, and now has a job working at a high class preschool as a teacher, while she's in college. Might also be good since you're intending on going back to school. She's full time with a steady schedule, as well.
Also, we're talking BRAND NAME preschools... like Belles & Beaus...
Also, you could look into elder care. There are a lot of them and they vary in responsibility. Sometimes you're a chauffeur that comes to take them places and hang out with them, sometimes you can make more doing... unpleasant... aspects of elder care that a nurse is often employed to do (like diaper changing, etc). There should be a lot of facilities (retirement homes, nursing homes, and in home care companies) in the area that do that sort of thing, or can recommend you to the companies around that do.
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