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scotty21690 said:
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Landscape professional. Here's a pic of my winter "office":

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Been busy this winter, huh Jay?


Very...with another big storm coming Wednesday. No complaints here, though.
 

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I'm an Aquatic Biologist. Right now I monitor and help protect the quality of drinking water.

My sugar momma ensures we have enough dough so that I can blow some on cards... :)
 

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jay1065 said:
scotty21690 said:
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Landscape professional. Here's a pic of my winter "office":

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Been busy this winter, huh Jay?


Very...with another big storm coming Wednesday. No complaints here, though.
How much are you guys supposed to get.They are saying we will be measuring snow in feet not inches in Albany,NY.
 

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Pizza delivery driver.

I did this in college and let me tell you, the money was awesome. Zero student loans. I'm now an Assistant Shop Manager for a small family owned company. Absolutely love my job.

I've been doing it for 6.5 years (in college) and the money has pretty much never been awesome. Especially the last few years. I barely make enough to pay my bills and mainly live off financial aid.
 

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Weimer said:
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Pizza delivery driver.

I did this in college and let me tell you, the money was awesome. Zero student loans. I'm now an Assistant Shop Manager for a small family owned company. Absolutely love my job.

I've been doing it for 6.5 years (in college) and the money has pretty much never been awesome. Especially the last few years. I barely make enough to pay my bills and mainly live off financial aid.

It also depends on the hours you get. I worked as a delivery driver and loved it! w/ tips, I made 18+ hour. The thing is I only worked about 12-15 hours a week. It was a great job: free food, very easy and you are in your car all day listening to your own music and not the other losers that work at the pizza place.

Unfortunately right now work is incredibly slow, and I am looking for yet another part time job so I can stop digging into the savings until I find a permanent full-time. I work in real estate appraisal as an assistant. I do data entry, and picture stuff until I can get my Real Estate's license. Problem is that the winter months are incredibly slow so I haven't worked in a few months now.

My part time job is an usher at a sports arena (HP Pavilion in San Jose).
 

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See, we don't get free food. Nor am I a big music fan. And on most nights everyone other than the closing driver is lucky if we walk out of there with more than 5-6 deliveries. We average about $2 a run for tips. So most of us make about $15-30 a night.

I worked for 2 hours tonight and made $26. While that's $20 an hour with my hourly wage it's not enough over the entire month to pay my bills. I work about 10-15 hours a week and make about $10,000 a year with tips.
 

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hofmichael said:
jay1065 said:
scotty21690 said:
jay1065 said:
Landscape professional. Here's a pic of my winter "office":

nh_pusher2b.jpg
Been busy this winter, huh Jay?


Very...with another big storm coming Wednesday. No complaints here, though.
How much are you guys supposed to get.They are saying we will be measuring snow in feet not inches in Albany,NY.

Most stations are saying it could rival the storm we had a couple of weeks ago. That one was 20.3".
 

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Weimer said:
See, we don't get free food. Nor am I a big music fan. And on most nights everyone other than the closing driver is lucky if we walk out of there with more than 5-6 deliveries. We average about $2 a run for tips. So most of us make about $15-30 a night.

I worked for 2 hours tonight and made $26. While that's $20 an hour with my hourly wage it's not enough over the entire month to pay my bills. I work about 10-15 hours a week and make about $10,000 a year with tips.

I worked for Pizza Hut back in the late 90's. I was taking 15 credits a semester and working 40 hours a week. I did all that during the week days and had the weekends off. I was also up at 5 in the morning and in bed by 11, so I had long days. I graduated with a 3.8 and was making around $40,000+ a year. It depends on what type of place you work at and what type of area you deliver to. The area we worked in was very wealthy and I could average 30 to 40 deliveries a night and walk out with $100+ in my pocket in tips. Needless to say I lived like a rock star in college.
 

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jrinne said:
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See, we don't get free food. Nor am I a big music fan. And on most nights everyone other than the closing driver is lucky if we walk out of there with more than 5-6 deliveries. We average about $2 a run for tips. So most of us make about $15-30 a night.

I worked for 2 hours tonight and made $26. While that's $20 an hour with my hourly wage it's not enough over the entire month to pay my bills. I work about 10-15 hours a week and make about $10,000 a year with tips.

I worked for Pizza Hut back in the late 90's. I was taking 15 credits a semester and working 40 hours a week. I did all that during the week days and had the weekends off. I was also up at 5 in the morning and in bed by 11, so I had long days. I graduated with a 3.8 and was making around $40,000+ a year. It depends on what type of place you work at and what type of area you deliver to. The area we worked in was very wealthy and I could average 30 to 40 deliveries a night and walk out with $100+ in my pocket in tips. Needless to say I lived like a rock star in college.

Yeah, the pizza world is a whole different ballgame these days because of the economy. People are cheaper and less willing to part with their money. The city I work and live in has a pretty decent sized community of upper class people and they're the worst tipping customers out of anyone. The best tips come from the working class and lower class people who know what it's like to scrounge for money.

No one at our store gets 40 hours a week as far as drivers go. It's not allowed and the managers will be in huge trouble if anyone even gets close to 40 hours a week. The max is usually 35-36 hours and once they reach that level they'll be sent home automatically and not allowed to work anymore. There's also no possible way to get 30-40 deliveries a night for anyone because we're never that busy and have way too many drivers. We had I think 6 or 7 drivers working tonight and on a Friday and Saturday we will have 8-10 drivers. The closing driver will leave with 20 deliveries on a great night.

In my entire 6.5 years at my job I've walked out with $100+ in tips maybe 1-2 times. And it pretty much never happens to anyone anymore and hasn't for the last 2-3 years because of the economy. You'd have to average $5 a run with 20 runs to hit the $100 mark and it's just not happening where I work. Too many pizza places, too cheap customers, and too many other drivers sharing deliveries.
 

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Soccer Referee for right now.

I don't go around reffing little 6 years olds, I only do major state wide tournaments. It's nice making 350-450 dollars just on the weekends. As a teenager it's great cash and it's something I enjoy doing. I'm actually not that bad.I was invited to this course where there's only room for 25 officials out of like 2500. It's crazy being 18 there and the next youngest guy is like 40.

Future? I'd love a career in advertising. I'd love to make the minds of little kids explode. :lol:
 

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