I'm thinking about taking a nanny job which still puts me $400 a month short for making what I need to just to make ends meet.  Can I make up for this waitressing on the weekends?  Is it worth it? What's best, I'm stuck in a crummy great paying job now where I get harassed by my boss and need to leave.  I want to go back to school and finish my degree, but that takes time, and I need a job that will be able to support me and be compatiable with returning to school!
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You need to work in an expensive restaurant. you will work just as hard in a dive and an expensive restaurant - but if tip is a percentage of the bill - you get more there. Being pretty and flirty helps when guys tip - really!!
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Perhaps you can find a job that allows you to study most of the time, killing two birds with one stone.  For example, parking garage booth attendant or motel/hotel night clerk.  Both positions may be hard to fill evenings and weekends, if you can be available.  Waitress or bartender could pay well if the place is busy (evenings and weekends) and the tips are good.  I had a friend who worked his way through college as a McDonald's night manager.  You need a part time job (during hours others don't care to work) that will not interfere with your education but needs an intelligent fast learner. Good luck.
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It is a very tough situation. And sadly there are no easy answers. I'd would at least try to speak with your children on the phone and see how they are doing.\nTry not to be too picky with work, and if you do get a job try and get at least a used car; yeah I know about used cars but if you are in a tight situation including $$$$$ then you should go with what you can afford. \nIn regards to living samething start small and then work your way up, rent or room-mate with someone for the time being.
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How do you feel about your current job? Besides the pay, do you get along with your coworkers? Is your boss constantly checking up on you and questioning your work, or does s/he respect you and give you space to work freely?\n\nThese are the sorts of questions that I ask myself in a situation like your own. While money is very important, unless I was getting offered a lot more money, I would stay where I was if I felt comfortable there.\n\nHow I look at it is that you're at work for (at least) eight hours a day. When you're not at work, or sleeping, you're either getting ready for work or unwinding from work - so it is far better to find a place that you like to work at as it is essentially a second home.
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MEEEEEE.\n\nI mean, come on, if you realllllly need some money, at least have some dignity for yourself, and get a real job. Work at like McDonalds or something. And, if you're too used to the high-paying stripping job; then go to college, get an education, and get a normal, respective, high-paying job.\n\nduuuhhh...
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I speak for my wife...an RN Home health nurse for new Moms and babies...\nShe worked harder and more hours than anyone I know.  She travelled all day in her car, visiting patients -- sometimes in places that required an armed plain-clothed policeman, and constantly on the phone coordinating home health equipment.  Often, when she had questions in the field, she had little to no resources to help her...meanwhile the parents, grandparents, and local neighbors are clamoring and crying as she cleaned a burn wound on their child or drew blood.  In the evenings after 10 long hours, she had about 3 hours of paperwork to complete, followed by - again - coordinating the medical equipment for the next day.  Then the cycle started again.\n\nWhen could she give her young child the time she needs?  When could she be a mom?  When could the family see her?  When could she rest?\n\nShe quite her job, and stayed home to raise our child.  That was the best decision ever, and made a huge difference in my child.  The money was good in nursing, but not that good.  No amount of money could ever buy back the time with our daughter that she would have otherwise missed.  The financial adjustment was difficult at first, but adjustment comes.  For me, I never paid any day care to love my daughter in my absence -- something they can never do anyway.  I go to work, and never have a worry about my family.  That peace is worth more than money, a new car, or a huge house.\n\nToday my child is older, and my wife now teaches 1st grade.  The stress is nonexistent, unlike nursing.  The pay is much less...but she feels called into teaching, does a great job, and truly enjoys her job.  Again, the pay is tiny compared nursing, but we make it, and the happiness and peace cannot be bought.\n\nHope this helps.
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If you were struggling to make ends meet, I'd say bite the bullet and do the nursing home job until you found another job, but since you have money aside and can afford to not work while you look for a job, why not do that?  From my own experience, I've learned that there's nothing worse than being in a job you hate...it can affect every aspect of your life, and you don't want to be miserable all day every day.  Hold out for the perfect job...it'll come.
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Hi, you earning  problem u can solve so easily if you really want. You have looking for a part-time job like sales g/m, waiter/waitress, or others what you interested. You can ask to your friend, relatives or others who near you and good wishing you but, you have good cooperate with them.\nWish  you good luck.
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If you want a high paying job, you're pretty much screwed.  But if you are looking for a job with an OK pay, flexible hours, and little or no experience required, I would suggest becoming a security guard.  You can do it for a year or so and just get something to put on your resume for future jobs.  The job is simple, mostly walking around, giving directions, answering phones, and mostly things that fit into the "customer service" genre.  I know because I used to work security when I was in college.  Hell, I still work for the same company a few hours a week.  Just enough for gas and groceries.
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Are u crazy? Forget it? What if your boss gave em to u to see if you'd really go? Do you care about your job? If it was me I would definitely go to dinner. Your sister is still gonna be there when you come home rite? Where has your sister been in 2 freakin years? Do you know how hard it is a find a good job. If you like your job, and want to stay at it, forget your sister. She had 2 years to come visit you!!!
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As a waitress I ranged from $5.90/hr to $7.00/hr\nIn the retail industry now I started at $7.00/hr and am now at $10.00/hr, but that's for an assistant mgr position so it's pretty crappy too!(Canadian employed)
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So you need money but you have standards, is that what you are saying? \n\nwhat about temping, being a waiter for a week?  It's kind of a lot of money to make in 4 days.  \n\nSometimes www.craigslist.org has strange one time jobs posted on their employment boards in the "etc" section.
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I have been a cocktail waitress off and on for about 6 years and I once bartended for a year.\nI am currently not working as I have just had a baby and havent worked since I got pregnant-\nBut when I plan to go back to work part-time it will be as a server. \nTherefore I would sign a petition like that in a hearbeat even if I had no plans to work in that possition again -\ni have always believed that is it unlawful to pay us server below minium wage just because we make tips (which we have to claim and pay taxes on) so it is unfair on many levels.\nYES sometimes the tips are outstanding during certain seasons -but what about those slow months  (and I do mean months) there were times when I barely made $200.oo per week -if it weren't for my Fiance' and his job I would have struggled even more - \n\n1.    I'm not really sure what I could suggest to get such a law changed -but maybe if they could just acknowledge to make a change in the wages atleast during the slow seasons (of your particular region) to raise it to no less than minimum wage when things are slow and drop back to server wage when things are rockin' - I'm sure companies would keep employees much monger than they do now - It would kind of be like a give and take situation. But honestly it needs to be atleast minimum wage plus tips all the time. \n\n2.    Or heres an idea maybe servers wage could be changed to whatever the minimum wage was last before it was changed recently - so that we would still be below minimum but atleast close enough to it so that it is not that much of a difference  but employers can still afford to pay it. Each time minimum wage increases us servers would only be 1 buck behind -and that 1 buck really adds up fast so thats alot an employer would still be saving. This would make our pay checks a little nicer to supplement those days when we dont quite cut it with tips. Like days when you go home with $11.50  after 8 or even ten hours work  and get your paycheck that follwing week for a total of $125.00 -how are you suppossed to live off of that?? - This should NOT be happening nowadays!!!What do you think???
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in my state, min wage is $6.50 hr X 40 hrs = $260 a week X 4 wks = $1040. Take out taxes then, = $990 (?) a month.\nRent is about $550, gas a month is about $35, food about $200 (shopping and groceries with coupons), electric about $40, phone $10, basic TV $12. That leaves me with $143 for clothes, bathroom and cleaning supplies, entertainment and medical copays.\n\nOf course I can LIVE on $990 a month. But my apt has water leaks, toilet doesn't flush every time, I can only rent $1 movie once in while and can't go to the theater ever, I drive to work, store, church and parents, I haven't driven out of the city in 3 years, I had unforeseen health diagnoses and pay $25 a month in copays for meds, I get 1 bag of food once a month from Salvation Army, I have holes in my tennis shoes that I bought 4 years ago, etc. Yes I can live on this but I can't save any money from any of my checks, I have to use coupons and rebates all the time, I can't afford to have a $12 haircut so I cut my own hair, I just took two end tables from the dumpster area and nailed the leg back on it and cleaned them and covered them with kitchen towels for my lamps, I did splurge and bought a $1 double cheseburger at McDonald's today, the computer is have was given to me by different people (the monitor is Envision, the keyboard is Compaq, the PC is Gateway, no speakers, and the mouse is Hewlett Packard from Goodwill for $2). I go to the librar to use their computers because I can't afford much extra electricity.\n\nSo Yes, I can live on min wage, BUT IT SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Assuming you enjoyed taking care of the house and kids and depending upon where you are you might find a "Nanny" position that pays that much.  They do where I live (SF Bay Area).
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Oh I know it is a job babe...I have the same one. Think about it you are a full time maid, nanny, chef, landscaper, and sex factory....and you are paid nothing for it ......yeah it is the hardest and least appreciated job ever. But I think of it this way. I am paid every day in love from my son and my husband. That makes it all worth it. Plus my hubby treats me well and appreciates me so it is all good.\n\nPeople who think it isnt a job are ignorant!
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It really depends on the location. When I was in my early 20's (seems so long ago), I bartended in a pretty popular club while going to school. I only worked 3-4 nights a week, and I earned over 60k a year. I would walk out with about $400 a night. It's a lot of late nights, and you could get caught up in it, but if you are young it's great. A good friend of mine, never went to school, started waiting tables at 18, by 23, he was the head bartender at a popular local bar, and now, at 29, he is the head bartender at the Wynn Casino in Vegas, he easily makes $1000 a shift...