<p>Any ideas for easy jobs that I should try to get? My friends wanted to try getting jobs at a Toys R Us express that just opened up but they aren't hiring. I would prefer not working with food because I'd either get sick of the place and never go there to eat, or just be grossed out.</p>
<p>no offense, but most people will take whatever they can get at this point, so be prepared if your “easy” just isn’t out there. also, easy jobs dont pay as well as hard ones. by hard i mean manual labor hard. </p>
<p>As for suggestions, babysitting is always seemed to be lucrative, and provided the kids arent total brats it is nowhere near as bad as other stuff.</p>
<p>Just make a list of places that you think would be fun to work at…or at yur favorite stores and check if the’re hiring.</p>
<p>try something in retail, it’s not usually as hard as food service</p>
<p>unfortunately for me, j. crew rarely if ever hires teenagers. looking into either a department store, barnes and noble or starbucks. or maybe i’ll waitress for the tips.</p>
<p>Depending on your age, and how advanced you are in certain subjects, tutoring can be a very good option. Parents of middle school students and early high school students pay big bucks at ‘learning centers’ or with tutors who are overqualified for what their student need (ie someone with a masters degree). If you are in Honors Spanish 4, you can certainly tutor a student who is struggling with Spanish 1. If you are going into Calc BC, you are probably a good candidate to tutor a student in Algebra 1 or Geometry. Have you been through AP Chem with a high score on the exam? You could probably tutor a student who needs help in general ed Chem.</p>
<p>Send out flyers in your neighborhood with information and availability or put a small ad in your community newsletter. Have reference letters from previous instructors endorsing your skills. If you can drive or bike to their house it makes it far more convenient for the parents who may have busy schedules with younger siblings. You can charge more per hour than you would flipping burgers. Keep in mind…there are people who are flipping those burgers now who said they would never work in fast food. Jobs are very hard to come by and if you need to pay the bills, you take what you can get. No shame in that!</p>
<p>I’ve worked in retail before and that was really easy. Just stand* around, talk to customers, restock every once and awhile, and maybe man the cashier. You get to learn how to properly fold clothes lol, which is good. I think the hardest thing I had to do there was learn how to deal with coupons and sales haha. I didn’t have to deal with many crappy customers because the store catered to teens and young adults, and they’re usually pretty civil.</p>
<p>I have a friend who worked at Toys R Us. He hated it after awhile… Customer service gets annoying and he needed to deal with younger teenagers who thought they were cool because they loitered at a kids’ store.</p>
<p>I’ve been working as a barista, which is pretty easy. Only it gets hectic when tons of customers come in and and the line starts getting longer and you feel like it’s your fault because you can only make lattes so quickly. But our customers are usually very civil, which helps.</p>
<p>You’re much better off looking for a fun job than an easy one. I worked at an ice cream place that was always crowded and busy, but it was a ton of fun because I had really cool coworkers. I had another job where all I had to do was basically wait around to unload stuff from delivery trucks. It was easy, but it was SO BORING because I’d work for about 15 minutes of each of my 4 hour shifts. And I didn’t get to chill with fun people, like at the ice cream place, because 1) there were usually only 2 or 3 other people working with me, 2) there was a lot of petty drama that all of my coworkers blew out of proportion, as if they were a bunch of little girls, and 3) most of the other people were losers. So the bottom line: look for a FUN job.</p>
<p>Subways is good. Never worked there, and I know you said you don’t want to work with food, but its different. Its a relaxing environment and isn’t crowded and hectic like McDonalds,KFC,etc…and its CLEAN</p>
<p>Do you have any skills? Music? Math? Programming? Advertise yourself and be a tutor.</p>
<p>Personally, I took my passion and knowledge in finance and investment management,bundled with my current summer internship, and opened my own investment management operation. Its nothing formal, since I’m only managing 3 peoples’ accounts (family members), but sizeable for a teen. Its been approximately 2 months now. I started out not charging for my services, until they recieve a return of 15% or above. Then I’m charging 12 cents for each dollar gained <em>muahahahahahaha</em></p>
<p>See, you can use whatever skills you have to make money. Try tutoring like he/she said^</p>
<p>Clothing stores: Aeropostale, Hollister Co., Abercrombie and Fitch - you must be hot for HCO and A&F BTW, PacSun, Zumiez, Hot Topic, Forever21, Gap, Old Navy, etc. Anywhere with a lot of teenagers.
Educational places: Library, museum, etc.
Tutoring: Sylvan, Kumon, Princeton Review, private, etc.
Illegal ways: Drugs, pimping, etc. … lol jk.</p>