Holiday Job for Student

[eternalteena]

My son is at uni and is coming home for Christmas and is broke has anybody any idea what sort of job he could get that would pay him a decent amount. He is not frightened of hard work and can turn his hand to most things, his is a mature student not a teenager. I am not in a finacial position to help him so any ideas please I and he are desperate. I live in Long Eaton in Derbyshire if that helps as travel costs are vital. Thanks

[Simon_States]

The obvious choice would be to go to a recruitment agency!. Try www.near.co.uk to see which ones are near to where you live.

[NiceCupOfTea]

Pubs, the Post Office (though I think they recruited a few months ago), local supermarkets (oxymoron I know). good luck!

[january_bug]

What's your idea of "decent" money?

Many of the suggestions are probaly your son's only decent chance of work over the Festive Period, but they are unlikely to pay a lot above minimum wage. I wholeheartedly agree with the suggestions though, I am just posting this as a "heads-up" that those jobs pay little over �5.05/hr to a temporary worker.

Office work pays more, but there's little of it going at this time of year.

Good luck though, and Mmerry Christmas.

[morg_monster]

I would not bother with the supermarkets - they will most likely take longer going through the recruitment process as they will be following company practices. I think it is very unlikely that he would be employed in time for christmas - new staff can't be trained properly in the busyness of the runup to christmas. This close to christmas, try somewhere which will take him on almost instantaneously, like a pub or a smaller local shop. Look in the local paper as well. He could always pop a few flyers through doors (houses and local businesses) offering to do handy work like moving firewood, or getting rid of christmas trees after christmas (if he had a car to take them to the tip), walking dogs, or anything else which he can do legally (ie not wiring someone's house).

If you do go down this route - make it clear he is expecting to be paid, even if you just say on the flyer 'Home from university for christmas and need to earn some cash'. My brother once did this at 13 yrs old and ended up walking an old lady's smelly dog for 6 months - she thought he was doing it out of the kindness of his heart, and he couldn't bear to tell his aim had been to supplement his pocket money.

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