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>> 1 Anonymous Counsellor 2026-08-02 05:24 ID:Pw/dQqdV
I just got fired.
I need a job but I'm still studying. Universifriends, what are some good options for jobs that are more accomodating to diverse student schedules?
Not concerned about pay, anything is better than nothing at the moment.
>> 2 Anonymous Counsellor 2026-08-02 20:10 ID:7BvzPF1w
Are you studying in-person/on campus?
See if you can get a job at the college. That would be the most convenient.
I've also heard of people working in the morning and doing in-person classes in the afternoon/night. Would probably have to be part time.
You can also work full time during the day and do online classes at night.
Not really sure about specific job options, though.
I'm curious about this too.
>> 3 Anonymous Counsellor 2026-08-03 21:44 ID:Pw/dQqdV
>>2
I'm in-person. I have very little leeway, some classes as early as 8 AM and some as late as 7 PM, with no leeway to change it. None of them run online. So I'm in a tight spot.
I've tried campus jobs just because I figured they'd be most flexible of anything. Library work is hard to get, people tend to stick and not leave. I tried student support, but failed the group interview so hard, people gave me funny looks as if to say "Why did you even come here".
Looking into back-of-house in large retail. Proper warehouses tend to push for full-time, even if they call it 'casual'.
>> 4 2 2026-08-03 23:53 ID:6gTgG6Wb
>>3
That sounds like a tough spot to be in. Just curious: what job did you have previously? It must have been something flexible.
Another idea that comes to mind is doing some kind of online freelance work. I'm not sure how much of a market there is for this these days (since AI has become popular), but you could do something like web design, coding, art, etc. as a freelance job. Probably wouldn't be consistent enough or earn a reasonable amount of money, but if you have some skill that you think you can use in freelance it might be worth a shot.
I'm in a similar position to you, actually. I'm looking for jobs that I can work part time.
(Also to all NEETs and people considering going to college, please know that >>1's schedule is surprisingly constraining and not the norm. Usually college schedules are much more flexible than this. You can typically design your own schedule and even do so in a way that allows you to work full time.)
>> 5 Anonymous Counsellor 2026-08-05 10:57 ID:Pw/dQqdV
>>4
I was a kind of teacher. Maybe I could think about tutoring, but am a bit nervous about that idea. Would honestly rather get away from mental work and just move boxes for a couple hours or something.
> >please know that >>1's schedule is surprisingly constraining and not the normIt may be my country or my university, not sure. Also I'm close to graduating; because of student dropouts and specialization, there are way less students in advanced classes, which wind up with only one lecture session a week. Those classes compound the difficulty of scheduling by making it harder to rearrange anything even if you do have options.
>> 6 Anonymous Counsellor 2026-08-05 18:07 ID:iwhBugWU
>>5
> >Maybe I could think about tutoringTutoring sounds like a nice idea. Since you're only going to be able to tutor something that you're already very familiar with, I don't think the mental work is going to be that bad. You will have to do the mental work of figuring out what the student is having trouble with and how you can explain things better to him though. Also, it's going to require being patient and supportive of the student.
I get the appeal of doing a physical job like moving boxes, but that probably gets to be exhausting before long.
Tutoring is probably a much more relaxing and rewarding way to go if you can find work doing that.
Those are just my two cents.
>> 7 Anonymous Counsellor 2026-08-09 12:57 ID:Pw/dQqdV
>>6
Nah, physical work is chill. I used to do full-time warehouse in probably the worst conditions of high surveillance, asshole managers, and high quotas, but the work itself was not that bad really. I left only because it would be impossible to do night shift full time with full time study.
I applied to some bookstores and back-of-house retail, sounds physical but chill, the problem is recruitment processes take so long. All these processes and interviews and paperwork and onboarding third party training modules that treat you like a retard, it takes too long to actually get into a job even when you've secured it.
>> 8 Anonymous Counsellor 2026-08-10 13:53 ID:4kwoDP/x
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> >recruitment processes take so long. All these processes and interviews and paperwork and onboarding third party training modules that treat you like a retard, it takes too long to actually get into a job even when you've secured it.I hate this also, but I've accepted that probably every job will have this. Am I wrong? Is it only the larger corporations?
Anyway, even though it's extremely annoying to go through that process, it's probably worth it. The recruitment process is only a relatively short amount of time compared to the amount of actual work you will be doing and getting paid for. Also its not so easy to just find some other job (and even if you do, who's to say it doesn't also have a nightmare recruiting process).
I don't think someone should give up on or avoid a job opportunity because of its recruiting process, no matter how annoying it is.
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