Finally, your diploma is at hand and the school shackles are off. However, amidst the cheers, parties and congratulatory greetings, you cannot help but take notice of those big, looming words that spell out — How to find a job? If you find this too menacing, you don’t feel like becoming part of the daily rat race just yet or you’re waiting for your dream company’s hiring, drag your butt out of unemployment and check out these low-key, temporary jobs for the fresh graduates.
Tutor
Put all those lessons you’ve learned from years of education into good use!
Share all the knowledge and skill you have gained to children while getting paid for it. If you’ve had enough with those tedious subjects, you can teach other interesting stuff such as arts and crafts, music lessons or swimming! Just make sure that you love to be around with kids or have enough patience to get you through the entire class.
How to find a job: Seek a temporary job at your tutoring centers or you may ask friends and relatives if they want their kids to have supplemental teaching.
Research Assistant
Professors with hectic schedules, colleges and large companies often are in need of someone to go out into the field and do the groundwork for them. You don’t have to worry because the load is pretty light. All you have to do is take notes, facilitate group discussions and interview people. This is a good way for you to gain a perspective in a world you’re not entirely familiar with and learn interesting new things while getting paid. Plus, this alternative job does not require long-term commitment.
How to find a job: Read the classified ads, look into your college departments and institutions or check out those non-government organizations such as Greenpeace.
Entrepreneur
You don’t have to be the next Donald Trump! Being an entrepreneur is just a temporary job that allows you to earn some extra cash, while doing things you like. For instance, if you know your way in the kitchen, you can make snacks or bake pastries and sell them! Just do some packaging and send out the word to your friends. Don’t forget that before you indulge into your creativity and run wild, seek out the opinion of people you trust prior to investing on anything.
Bartender
Bartenders rock! But before you start dancing on top of the table or throwing those bottles high up in the air, you have to know a lot of things about liquor and learn some skills first. Ask for tips from party animal friends on how to mix up those drinks or you can check out your favorite bars and watch the experts do their thing! If you’ve got a few cash to spare, you can enroll to some classes on how to mix those alcoholic beverages.
Barista
If your parents are extremely uncomfortable with the thought of you being surrounded by all kinds of alcohol, you can opt for the tamer, daylight alternative job to bartending. All you got to do is hand out the non-alcoholic beverages from behind a Starbuck’s or Seattle’s Best counter. That’s what baristas do. You’ll get paid by giving people their pick-me uppers in the form of latte and cappuccino, plus you get to keep the “bar” in your job title.
