Best Seasonal Jobs (Summer Jobs) to Make Bank, If Possible

[slippydubloons]

Hey all,

I'll have roughly June and July to work, will be moving back in w/parents then to minimize living expenses and would like to rack up as much money as possible during daytime hours (will be spending time with friends and loved ones in the evenings, but everyone I know of has day jobs and I don't want to just waste my days away)

I'm committed to not pre-studying but I was interested if anyone here has any experience with jobs like this that make a decent amount of money! I have very little blue-collar work experience but would be very down to get into stuff like that.

Should I look into waiting tables? Manual labor? How would one get involved in something like this?? Pls advise, many thanks in advance 🙂

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[tarheelpenner]

Hey all,

I'll have roughly June and July to work, will be moving back in w/parents then to minimize living expenses and would like to rack up as much money as possible during daytime hours (will be spending time with friends and loved ones in the evenings, but everyone I know of has day jobs and I don't want to just waste my days away)

I'm committed to not pre-studying but I was interested if anyone here has any experience with jobs like this that make a decent amount of money! I have very little blue-collar work experience but would be very down to get into stuff like that.

Should I look into waiting tables? Manual labor? How would one get involved in something like this?? Pls advise, many thanks in advance 🙂

My friend just got a job welding and he makes like $18 an hour. Do that. Or babysitting, since it's all under the table and typically pay well.

 

[slippydubloons]

My friend just got a job welding and he makes like $18 an hour. Do that. Or babysitting, since it's all under the table and typically pay well.

Unfortunately I'm a pretty imposing male so kids don't love me (LOL), perhaps waving goodbye to a career in peds

and I feel like those welding jobs and such need you to be a member of some sort of union or apprenticeship, no?

 

[blackroses]

Hey all,

I'll have roughly June and July to work, will be moving back in w/parents then to minimize living expenses and would like to rack up as much money as possible during daytime hours (will be spending time with friends and loved ones in the evenings, but everyone I know of has day jobs and I don't want to just waste my days away)

I'm committed to not pre-studying but I was interested if anyone here has any experience with jobs like this that make a decent amount of money! I have very little blue-collar work experience but would be very down to get into stuff like that.

Should I look into waiting tables? Manual labor? How would one get involved in something like this?? Pls advise, many thanks in advance 🙂

This sort of work can be really location depended. Are you in a rural area? Metropolitan? Lots of agriculture in the area? Etc...

Some of this kind of basic information would help a lot.

 

[slippydubloons]

This sort of work can be really location depended. Are you in a rural area? Metropolitan? Lots of agriculture in the area? Etc...

Some of this kind of basic information would help a lot.

Will be living very close to the heart of a Top-5 (in population) city in the US!

 

[tarheelpenner]

Unfortunately I'm a pretty imposing male so kids don't love me (LOL), perhaps waving goodbye to a career in peds

and I feel like those welding jobs and such need you to be a member of some sort of union or apprenticeship, no?

Well he isn't. Maybe he's doing it illegal? Lol idk he just dropped out of school and immediately started this job welding so idk

 

[RogueBanana]

Lifeguarding is a sweet gig

Tending bar will pay in spades if you don't mind working nights and weekends

USPS postal carriers are paid upwards of 20 and don't require experience

Washing/painting/detailing boats if you live near a rich area. I once made 10 Grand in one summer doing this, it's brutal work but it's totally worth it.

 

[PB&Jam]

Lifeguarding is a sweet gig

Lifeguarding definitely depends on the location and who you work for. I made just over minimum doing that last summer, and the facility was absolute crap. It was a nightmare that was almost not worth the money I made. If you're thinking of lifeguarding, ask around and see if anyone else has worked there and what it's like. I had heard bad things about my facility, but I went ahead with it anyway and sorely regretted it. Do your research. Also, LG courses are expensive, so take that cost into account if you're not already certified.

 

[colbgw02]

For the USPS or any federal job, you wouldn't make it beyond inprocessing before the summer is over.

Never did it, but how many food service places give server or bartendering jobs to seasonal workers, possibly with no experience?

My first thought was working for a moving company. It's gruelling, and I'm not entirely sure what the official pay is like. But it'll keep/get you in shape, and at least some of your money will be off-the-books (tips).

 

[RogueBanana]

For the USPS or any federal job, you wouldn't make it beyond inprocessing before the summer is over.

Never did it, but how many food service places give server or bartendering jobs to seasonal workers, possibly with no experience?

My first thought was working for a moving company. It's gruelling, and I'm not entirely sure what the official pay is like. But it'll keep/get you in shape, and at least some of your money will be off-the-books (tips).

my USPS office has several part time jobs posted "for immediate hire"

 

[colbgw02]

my USPS office has several part time jobs posted "for immediate hire"

It's possible you're intimately familiar with these jobs and know differently, but that typically just means that the position is open, as opposed to being advertised for a planned retirement or transfer, for example. Nine years of federal employment here, to include in a hiring/firing supervising role, and the quickest I ever saw someone move from acceptance to actual work was six weeks, so you can understand why I'm skeptical.

And, to be clear, it's not that he couldn't walk in and get the job immediately, it's that I think the upfront investment in required training wouldn't be worthwhile to the USPS for the handful of days he'd be available to actually work.

 

[MDurgs]

Check out tutoring for Chegg. It takes a maybe 2-3 weeks to sign up. You can make 20$ an hour tutoring high school / college sciences courses on your ass at home. I made 280$ in three days last summer but haven't been able to keep using it because of school and MCAT studying.

 

[themoonman2]

I waited tables for years and averaged $20-30 an hour. It's tiring, bad hours (when everyone wants to go out and eat) and you'll probably have to have restaurant experience to get hired.

That being said, you should definitely travel rather than work- I wish I had done that. The chump change you'll make- maybe a couple thousand at best- is nothing in the long run and you won't have this type of freedom EVER again.

Edit: to add, you can travel southeast asia or south america for very cheap