<p>Anybody ever work at a Hollywood Video or an f.y.e. music/movie store? What is the work like? Or, what is the highest paying job you ever had? I hear Costco starts off at $10. But the work requires a lot of certification kind of stuff. Local pizza place doesn't start out enough and movie theaters pay crap. Same with book stores I've found. What's the trick to actually getting some good money? And, potentially, anything where you're not ringing up groceries every two seconds?</p>
<p>Try for a job at a flower shop-- or any other place where teenagers don't typically work, like a drug store.</p>
<p>Stay away from food service-- I spent 6 months at a local Cafeteria/Grill and hated hated hated it. .</p>
<p>If you don't have experience, you probably won't be making much.</p>
<p>It depends a lot on the type of place you're living. Kids around me make a lot of money babysitting, in tips at nice restaurants, in tips valet parking, doing some landscaping work, and working any job they've been at for a while.</p>
<p>Yeah don't expect to get paid a lot when you're young and don't have any experience. The trick to getting paid a lot is to have some skill that a job requires. Delivering pizza and bagging groceries don't require any skill, so they don't pay much.
Then again, my job requires a lot of training, certification and skill and I still don't get paid much at all. (I'm an EMT) So thats not necessarily a perfectly direct correlation haha</p>
<p>I worked at a movie theater for two years and I just quit because it is too far away, I don't get enough hours because of the distance, and they never gave me a raise after two years. Looking for something that pays more than $6.50 now.</p>
<p>I work at the Marriott near my school as a banquet server. Its the only legit job I've ever had, and I'm making $15.50/hour. I just asked around my school until I found one that was convenient and well paying. Pretty sure that most of it was luck though.</p>
<p>Icarus is right; the jobs that pay best are the ones that require skill (that not anybody can do).</p>
<p>As a musician, I can make $200 in an hour, and for the lowest paying gigs I still charge $60 / hour (generally playing 2-3 hours). As a bank teller, I make about $8.50. As a shop worker, my sister made about $6.25 her first year (increasing to around $8.50 by the time she stopped).</p>
<p>my parents own an education center, and a parent asked me to tutor her fourth grader in math. i teach her twice a week, once for an hour and once for an hour and a half, and for each hour it's $35 and for each an hour and a half it's $50. we print out invoices and receipts and everything each month, so i guess it counts as a job. my mom barely pays me, though :p i guess i'm deducting the amount i have to pay her back later for all the food&clothing&shelter.</p>
<p>$35/hour?! Wow, for an eighth grader, that's pretty good pay.</p>
<p>yup. but then, that's how much THEY pay. in an institution, teachers dont get all the money- think about the electricity, resources, and renting a place!</p>