Creative job ideas

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I know there are many who are hurting right now. Jobs are scarce, companies are downsizing or going under. But there a lot of jobs out there, if you think out of the box. There is a website called Work at Home Mafia - its free to sign up and they have great work at home job leads. Signing up with several temp. agencies is helpful as well - there are those for industrial and administrative work as well as executive positions (for those with experience in this area). Ever been to a resort a wished you lived there or gone on a cruise and wished you could stay forever? Why not work for them? Call a hot springs or ski resort and find out if they need any help - you likely will have to be willing to work far from cities or towns. And you may only get a stipend - I worked on a hot springs resort and got five hundred a month - pretty good for not paying rent or for food and no malls to spend all that money at! Or you could just do it for vacation - most people don't know they can offer to work a week and stay a week at many resorts. Look up the cruise lines online and look at their career sections. You can do the same for other companies - rather then wait for the newspaper or monster to come out with a work announcement. JetBlue and others hire work at home agents as does DirectTV - through Sitel Corporation. So do many online scools - admissions personnel many times work at home. Google a hotel chain around you and and look up the career section. There are great advantages to working for a hotel - like discounted vacations! Look up the private jet airlines as well to see if they're hiring. Subscribe to the Caretakersgazette online and read and apply to jobs for caretaking for houses, people, animals, farms, inns, storage unit facilities etc. With some you need another income as you just get a free room or apartment, with some you get a stipend, others offer a salary and still others even offer insurance. Call up your local answering service - or call your doctor's office after hours and ask if they need extra help - I got a job that way in a state I moved to for care taking. Consider market research - calling residents and doing political surveys or asking if they liked recent service done by a company etc. You could call all of your your local real estate offices and offer to be a home tender - the person who sits in houses for sale and offers tours and information, many times real estate agents don't have the time for this. Or offer to do the lawn or cleaning for the agents. Look on craigslist and local papers for small businesses like remodelers and lawn services and offer to deliver flyers for them, offer a great low price that you can afford to do because you can also deliver flyers for your local pizza and Chinese food places. Put up flyers and free ads for dog walking and pet sitting in your neighborhood. Or even house sitting. Have a local military base nearby? Check them out online - my husband workds on base and so does his entire immediate family. His sister makes eighteen an hour for just data entry, my husband makes this and more just taking care of planes for Customs and writing reports. Much of his day is spent playing his PS2. He considered taking a second job for the fuel farm - making 18 an hour - no benefits. He has worked weekends doing front gate security making I think 15 an hour. And he says they always need good people. Even janitors make a lot of money there! Just be prepared for a thorough background check! Out of work? Go back to school - get a Pell grant to pay for it and learn a trade like massage therapy - just be prepared to learn the body from the cellular level on up. Its not just learning to "rub someone down". Or anything in the medical field - even medical office manager - this is a field that will always be in demand. And again, once you have your degree as nurse or nurse's aide or certification in medical billing and coding - apply to a base - again to likely make a lot more! When I first had my baby, I looked up Sleep Technologist and one Dr - lead researcher in the field kept coming up with intriguing ground breaking research and so I wrote for information on how much sleep technologists make and if they were happy etc. And he invited me in for an interview and had me interview with everyone in the office then had me go home and think about if I can handle the job with a new baby and studying for my Massage Therapy nationals. In the end, with a baby with colic, I chose to wait but we kept the door open. I was offered 14 an hour to start through the probation period. A raise at the end of that time and other raises as time goes on. Working at night though and being up during the day with the baby and other factors made it not the right time. However it shows that once again my proacitve nature opens up doors. You don't have to wait for an opening. Medical transcription or billing and coding could eventually open the doors to working at home. Great certification/training to have. As is any certificate you have for office work - puts you ahead of others! The deaf relay here hires at home - and do you know how much deaf translators make! That's a good training to pursue. Being flexible with time is helpful as some jobs pay more for those willing to work nights and weekends. Just a few ideas - any sound good to you or helpful - what ideas do you have?