Say I were a student coming home from Paris to the US for two months and that I needed to make as much money as possible during that short period before I went to Taiwan, what should I look for?
Let’s assume I don’t care about the nature of the work (at least to a large extent – I mean, the job would have to be legal, non-sexual, etc.etc.), what should I look for?
I presume there could be some regional restrictions, so let’s just say that I will be in Charleston, SC. Hypothetically speaking of course.
If there are prerequisites for the job, I have an english BA and a Licence 3eme Philosophie. I speak French and VERY basic Chinese.
I don’t know if any of that’s important, I’m just trying to find out if there are good paying jobs that are specifically for short term (two month) periods…
Any ideas like participating in Hospital tests, etc. are welcome.
You can go into a temp agency. I wouldn’t call it good paying, but you can cash in from OT in a lot of temp jobs. You can get office-type temp jobs (receptionist, call center) or more manual type jobs (warehouses, factories).
If you want to make a lot of money in a short time I’d go with construction or bartending.
Construction - a laborer can make very good money and it doesn’t require any specific skill. However it is back breaking work. I did it for one summer. We started at 7:00 a.m. and I was exhausted by 9:30 a.m. - fell into bed at 7:00 each evening and slept like I was dead until the next morning.
Bartending – might require a license in your area. The pay and tips are great if your friendly and outgoing. The problem is that although it may sound fun to begin with, it really is a lot of work and spending 8 hours a day in a bar gets really old pretty quickly.
When I was in college (twenty years ago), joining a deep-sea fishing crew in Alaska was known as a summer job where you could earn a lot of money, but was also very high risk.
This is second or third-hand information, but apparently recycling centers pay well for people willing to sort through people’s garbage and do the further processing, like separating white from green/brown glass, or various plastics. In the town I went to university in, it was a quick, but dirty way, to make a few bucks for rent, apparently.
Try being a surgeon. Perhaps starting your own law firm. Other than that, I’d say grab a newspaper and start lookin’. If there are any good, high paying jobs for two months, they have long since been gobbled up.
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I don’t know how much money you’re looking to make in this time period, but I made $17/hr as an editorial assistant (word processing) and I don’t have an English degree. A degree would probably bring in a ton of money temping in the publishing field. And as far as I know, they utilize temps quite a bit.
If you’re in the REAL, un-hypothetical Charleston, I understand that stevedores (not longshoremen 'cause they’re in the union) make some serious dough but the hours are suckier than suck. We have one of the largest ports in the world and since the old bridges will be completely down and out of the water within weeks, traffic in the harbor will be going through the roof.
MUSC is always running ads in City Paper for medical experiment quinea pigs needed.
Charleston has tons of bars, great way to make a bunch of cash but not so great for your lungs.
Finally, you only really need one of your kidneys.