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Old Jul 27, 2013, 10:11 AM
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I made myself my own temp. I had a background in accounting support so drafted a letter and sent it to lots of local accounting firms in December, explaining that they were going to have the tax rush for 2-3 months and all their employees were going to be busy, how'd they like a backup to do their "normal" day-to-day work; phone answering, filing, etc. while they worked 24/7 on their clients taxes.

Figure our a need that corresponds with what you can do and then fill it. How about doing quarterly/yearly inventory for stores? That's a common temp job; if you've done it before and don't mind doing it, make up your own brochure and send it out every 2-3 weeks, over and over; you'd be better than the usual warm body they get from temp agencies; could undercut the agency fees because you wouldn't have overhead and yet you'd get more than the agency types, etc. Since they'd be doing their inventory different days for different stores, you might be able to get fairly steady work/clients and then you could pick and choose the most lucrative.

Get a job with a small/local moving company? I had a friend who did that summers as he was going to school; it was hard work but paid well, was good exercise, etc. The company that moved me to this house; had a older guy managing and a bunch of much younger types who never opened their mouth they almost weren't allowed to! You wouldn't have to interact with customers or sell anything.

I always wanted to be the car dealership guy that drove the used cars to the State emissions place for their tests or the DMV for paperwork or the repair shop guy that went and picked up parts wherever they do that. If I had a car I'd see if I could get a job with a messenger service; law firms, etc. have to get original paperwork to courts and government agencies all the time and other types of firms move paper around like from engineer to architect, and back, etc.

Call civil engineer/surveyor firms and see if they need a "rod man"; he's part of a survey crew and stands where he's told to holding a stick so they can do their surveying from here to there :-) Easily pays $8-$10/hr. and you work early to mid-day. How about flag men on construction sites for roads, bridges, etc. where they stand there with the "Stop"/"Slow" sign and direct traffic?
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