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I just quit my job as a dishwasher - and before that, I was a... dishwasher. I'm coming out of high school now, and I'm not ready to go to college yet - though I would like to move out of my folks place sometime soon - a few friends and I have talked about finding a plce in the area.

The thing is, I have no idea what I want to do - I want to earn enough money so that I can support myself while I write, but in order to do that I have to get a high paying job - of which I find are too strenuaous for a guy looking to pay for college without paying student loans twenty years down the road.

I was thinking - what job would I be best at? I was thinking of working with children, or becoming a Priest. I know the administrators are great with working with kids, they have to deal with us, I know that wazn's a swim coach, most of the others on the forums work in health care, grocery stores, technical stuff and/or restaurants.

Trust me when I say store clerk experience works wonders.

If you can steadily hold a job where you frequently handle money - and if you're lucky, you get to count up and put away that money too - then it goes on your record and jobs in the future love that shit.

you could get work as an apprentice plumber. that tends to pay pretty well if you don't mind that kind of work. waiter is another good way to go, depending on where you work the tips are pretty solid. you're definitely going to need a room mate or two to split costs with; that's really the only realistic way of moving out of your parent's place at this stage in your life short of living in a crack house.

God knows that's the only reason I'm still working as a cashier.

If you want to work with kids, I'd recommend starting out small, like trying to get a job in a summer camp, or in an after school program, or something along those lines. That can give you some hands on experience to decorate your resume, as well as let you decide if that's what you really want to do. From there, you can make a decision on if you want to go to a teachers college, or if you'd rather try something else. I'm recommending teachers college, by the way, since that would give you a few months a year to do your writing without any serious problems.

How much money do you need to make, and what do you like to have money to spend on? These are two very large things to consider, especially if its just going to be a jpb until you go to school. That said wait staff make so much money it hurts my brain.

Until my research starts next year I'm working at the Post Office as a mail sorter. I have no idea about the US postal system (where everyone goes crazy) but over here it's an exciting, challenging, high-paying job. I got all my friends jobs here and they love it.
Job like that is awesome.
I recommend avoiding store clerk because then you have to deal with customers. And customers are crap.

I am suddenly reminded of Charles Bukowski...

anyways, I suppose this would be a thread centered around untrained occupations. I'd suggest you get some training and undertake a more lucrative career, even if you're main aspiration in life is to write, that's never a guaranteed pay check until you've established yourself.

My suggestion would be to bite the bullet and get a degree as fast as you can, otherwise you might find yourself with the same caliber of job for much longer than you anticipate. Education is emancipation!

Yeah I agree with Funka above.
While studying do part-time work if you can. Night jobs are great. They prevent massive student loan debts and give good experience. And allow you to go the uni pub every day! whee!

How would you classify "high paying"? I mean there are several easy jobs that could get you through college that dont really require....umm college.

But i cant think of any of those.


try being a waiter or a bartender, or a stripper, or a gangster.

I'd rather not work at a restaurant if I could - I wanna work with kids, or maybe cleaning at a resort. My plans allow me some freedom, as I'm not planning to go to college straight after high school, and I can earn a bit of money while I'm waiting.

I don't know ow much money I have to make yet, as we've been apartment hunting recently, and gotten little response.