Dynalo posted...
mooreandrew58 posted...
probably on and off part time jobs. worked that job till I got bored of it quit, do nothing till I got bored of that, get another job. better plan would probably to just bounce around seasonal jobs, or places that hire extra staff during particular parts of the year that they plan to can when that season is over anyways.
The problem with this is you're pretty much limited to only ever doing unskilled labour, and I'm just not at all interested in going to stock shelves at the local Walmart if I don't need to.
No company is going to hire an engineer/accountant/hr manager/whatever that only wants to work 2 days a week. Doubly so if your track record is only working at a place for 6 months and then moving on. Unskilled positions will take you because they're used to high turnover rates, but skilled positions take a long time to fill often, and it's very expensive to do so, so companies usually want to believe you'll stick around for a while.
Honestly, that really depends on the organization. There are smaller companies, etc, which really don't need a full-time, dedicated employee in some of those roles (particularly HR or an accountant). And, for more menial/entry-level functions, some companies have a lot of employees who work part-time -- single moms and the like -- because it keeps them from paying benefits, the same trick used by retailers.
The same is true for a lot of marketing activities. Some smaller businesses want a blog or social media presence, but they're not going to hire a full-time employee for that because there's not enough need. So they hire either a free-lancer or a part-timer to put together the content and schedule it for a staggered release (ie, so it populates gradually).
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