Are you looking for a job? (#2) Expanded list!

Fellow FReepers who care about you ^ | 11/30/08 | na

[B4Ranch]

Thanks to fellow FReepers, the list of resources has been greatly expanded. Check this thread every day for new additions.

http://www.linkedin.com

http://www.biznik.com

http://www.seniors4hire.com

http://www.retirementjobs.com/

http://www.firstjobresource.com/

http://www.snagajob.com

http://www.groovejob.com

http://www.jobsonline.com

http://www.fiveoclockclub.com/

http://www.jobcentral.com

http://www.sba.gov/

http://www.christianet.com/christianjobs/

http://www.defenselink.mil/sites/c.html#civjobs

http://www.simplyhired.com

http://www.allmyfaves.com/

http://www.mrinetwork.com/

http://www.caljobs.ca.gov/

http://www.jobbankinfo.org/

http://jobcircle.com/

http://jobs.nj.com/careers/jobsearch?new=1&searchType=advanced

http://geo.craigslist.org/

http://www.monster.com/

http://www.indeed.com/

http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/

http://www.careerbuilder.com/

http://www.dice.com/

http://www.jobbankusa.com/

http://www.vault.com/

http://www.job.com/

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2136635/posts

[B4Ranch]

ping

[unkus]

ping

[B4Ranch]

Good luck in the hunt.

[MARTIAL MONK]

OK, here it is. Low cost. Good money. But you gotta have some hustle and some grit and some initiative. If you want to drag your ass into work at 9:00 every morning and sip coffee with your mouth open for an hour, forget it.

Stand on any street corner in the country and look around. What do you see? Windows. Dirty windows.

Go down to the thrift store and get some white shirts and white pants. Cheap and disposable. A buck or two. Get a bucket and a couple of squeegees and hit the street. Build your capabilities from there.

I owned two convenience stores twenty years ago and it was a hundred bucks per store every month then. The guy spent two hours per store max.

Go cut-throat on price. Get your foot in the door. You will be turned down a hundred times for every account that you do get but you don't need too many to have a solid foundation. Hit the better neighborhoods, get some residential accounts. Get some commercial accounts. Ask for references. Build. Build. Build.

You will spend a lot more time selling than cleaning windows at first but when that equation shifts, you will have a business. Do a good job and keep after it. No excuses, git 'er done. Do what others won't. It works in a city or it works in a small town.

What can you make? A couple hundred to a couple thousand a month as part time, early mornings, nights and weekends. It depends on your aggressiveness in selling. When you are solid enough to go full time it's somewhat self limiting but I have seen some guys making in the $60,000 range for doing something no one else wants to do.

[Allegra]

Thanks for the ping. I'm happily employed, but will keep an eye here in case there's anyone I can help out.

I have a couple of friends in the job placement biz in Houston.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I was re-reading some of my old notebooks the other day. I keep tons of notes on stuff related to business, crafts, ideas for the future, plans, gardening, etc.

I came across an idea that I got from somewhere, and the idea is to find 20 “talents” that you have that will net you $1K a year, each. That way, you’ll be bringing in $20K a year without having a “real” job.

Anyhow, some of the talents that I have that have brought in cash in the past (when times were tough) were:

Gardening, Baking, Writing/Editing (Newsletter or web-page), Researching, Sewing, Crafting, Space Organizing, Refinishing Furniture, Rehabbing Found “Junk,” Teaching/Instructing, Raising Small Livestock and Selling garden Produce & Seedlings.

So then I thought...pick the Top Ten and make $2,000 off of each, each year. Narrow it down.

What talents do YOU have that could bring in extra cash? You’ll be surprised once you sit down and look at the skills you already have.

As Abraham Lincoln once said, “If you are looking for work, start from where you are standing.”

[B4Ranch]

Ideas to save money.

If you are in your own home, rent out a bedroom or two.

If you rent, find someone to rent with. Your landlord probably wouldn’t object. At least the place isn’t empty.

[unkus]

Thank you very much.

[Kickass Conservative]

America was built by Hard Working Individuals who cherished their freedom and liberty. Now we have a “gimme my pie” population that thinks somebody else owes them a living.

To put it in numbers, the Election proved that 52% of the Electorate thinks the other 48% of the Electorate owes them a living.

Guess I should have put (sarc) next to my original comments.

[Cedar]

When I worked a seasonal job as a Tax Preparer, a guy came by with that window washing business. The manager hired him twice that season to clean the windows. I think he had built up a pretty good business.

I’m already working outdoors but as winter approaches trying to get back to inside work. A desk job would seem pretty good right now (though once weather gets nice I tend to want the great outdoors again). I’m trying to think of something more with a balance of both.

But thanks for the suggestion. I’m sure someone here may take your idea and run with it.

[deport]

Southeast Texas....... Beaumont/Port Arthur/Orange area.

Major petrochemical plant expansions/upgrades;

While the rest of the nation’s economy is in a tailspin, Southeast Texas stands out as a happy exception. Several major expansion projects by area petrochemical plants have created a big need for labor. In fact, the demand is greater than the local supply. In the past 10 months, almost 35,000 people from other places have come to the region for jobs or training.

http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/business/local/tens_of_thousands_form_southeast_texas_workforce_army_11-26-2008.html

[B4Ranch]

Check out #91

[MARTIAL MONK]

Not to be disparaging but it probably is a good idea that you not look at this line of work. You have to WANT it. If you are going to be successful in a business of your own you are going to have to do what everyone else doesn't want to do or can't do for themselves. I've always wanted a nice toasty corner office and a secretary with big tits. Didn't get 'em then, don't have 'em now. I have started and run a number of businesses.

I was da bossman, da head honcho, da big cheese. I can't tell you how many times that meant that I slept on a cold concrete floor because I was too damn tired to even get in the car and drive home. Employees get off at five. The boss stays until the job is finished. Sometimes it was forty or forty-eight hours straight. Just home long enough to shower and shave.

It's a damn strange feeling to unlock your front door, walk in and see that everything is so unfamiliar.

THAT is what owning your own business is, especially if you have more than one. Not everyone can do it or wants to do it. Thats alright, but recognize the limitations. It ain't all peaches and cream and big paychecks.

[wally_bert]

Being the boss was never the easiest job and anyone who believes that is sadly mistaken.

My dad and uncle run their own heavy equipment/construction business and for them it is a 7 day/week operation, sunup to sundown.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“If you are in your own home, rent out a bedroom or two.”

Hmmm...that’s a tough choice. I just FINALLY got my boys all out of here and now our extra room is my sewing room.

Sewing Room or rent it out to a hunky Farm Hand, say a 1972-era Paul Newman type? Decisions, decisions, LOL! ;)

[B4Ranch]

That might make those long winter nights pass a little faster.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Or slower...if I play my cards right. ;)

[B4Ranch]

I have this image of you two curled up on the rug next to the fireplace.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Don’t tell my husband; I’ll send you your weight in chocolate, LOL!

[B4Ranch]

160 pounds of chocolate would do my family for 300 years or more.