[Alby]

what are some good part time jobs out there? i would like to broaden my horizon by seeing whats out there and what people are currently working as part time. would be great if people could post their position/status and a brief job description and if any qualifications are needed. hourly wage is optional.

i currently work 2 part time jobs, one being at starbucks and one for coast mountain bus company, a subsidiary of translink.

Employer: Starbucks
Position: Barista
Location: Oakridge Food Court
Hourly: $9.56
Description: Cashier or make coffee drinks
Benefits: You get 1lb of coffee or box of tea every week.
Qualifications: Anyone in high school or higher is probably qualified.

I work about on average 15 hours here per week.

Employer: Coast Mountain Bus Company
Position: Farebox Attendant
Location: SW Marine DR and Hudson, right beside Wild Coyotes.
Hourly: $18.93
Description: Sit on your ass till a bus comes, then change the cashbox and replace it with an empty one, restock empty transfer rolls.
Benefits: Basic medical + Extended. Employee card meaning free transit rides.
Qualifications: Anyone in high school with basic communication skills, able to lift 50lbs, passing criminal records check and medical exam, valid drivers license.
NOTE: This position has 2 statuses. One being part-time regular, meaning getting full benefits with a steady schedule. Also able to opt out of medical and get paid 6% more i believe. Other being part-time casual, meaning no benefits and on call.

I work 20 hours a week here.

My farebox attendant position usually hires a couple people every summer. There has been lots of movement around and probably postings will be up soon.

[Vansterdam]

with the recession here ill be glad with ANY job i have. any chancew that coast mountain place is hiring a weekend position? in return ill give you a good referal(long screening process/shitty hours/they hiring right now) for bc liqour ;) which is very hard to get in IMO my referal will help you with a chance of getting in 70% more then the other people who apply lol

[Alby]

for the coast mountain place, there are no just weekend positions. there are different locations that they may require you to work at, but the general times are starting around 5pm and can work till as late as 2am.

[K-Dub]

damn that coast mountain job sounds easy and the pay is great.
shifts start @5pm only? wouldnt the changebox need to be changed earlier in the day too?

while on the topic of busses..where do busses go to fill up?

[Alby]

pay is great, and from what i calculate, over a 4hr time span, i only work about 100seconds lol.

yes, most shifts do start at 5pm, nothing earlier. buses do not need to be changed earlier in the day since the buses comes in around 2am when we are still there to empty them. after that, there are only a few thats still in service which will be changed the next following day. buses can go on without getting their boxes done for a few days.

buses get fueled up in the yard where they come in. the yard has a diesel station for them. the only buses that gets fueled up are the buses without those 2 poles.

[punkwax]

Nearly $80 for less than 2 mins of work. You need to think of something else you could do in that spare time to earn some money. What would sell right beside the Wild Coyote? Crack, speed, weed, coke, heroin, meth, e, GHB, mushrooms, hash.. the options are nearly limitless. :)

[Durrann1984]

is there a position to count the cash/coins lol

[MegaMx]

jigalo?

[pandalove]

giordano

[Jer3]

wow sounds like a really easy job. what do you do with the rest of the time your sitting there doing nothing.

[illicitstylz]

wow sounds like a really easy job. what do you do with the rest of the time your sitting there doing nothing.

i hope where you sit around has wifi for our phones lol.

[twitchyzero]

i'd kill for that coast mountain job if they offered it during the afternoon.
consider yourself lucky with that such an easy job w/ good benefits + wage in this economic climate

[Alby]

there is such a position in a counting house to empty big mobile safe fillled with coins. requires you to operate maybe a forklift and pour them into counting machines.

i bring my laptop and sit there stealing the work internet to pass the time LOL.

[Razor Ramon HG]

with the recession here ill be glad with ANY job i have.

Yeah man, one of my co-workers lost their full time jobs due to the recession. I feel bad for him because it's definitely going to be a tough time.

[monkeywrench]

^ wow that sucks to hear..

I just graduated from BCIT and I'm having no luck in looking for a job, the industry is basically dead this year in Vancouver

[El Bastardo]

This should really be in the Employment forum

[4444]

Employer: Coast Mountain Bus Company
Position: Farebox Attendant
Location: SW Marine DR and Hudson, right beside Wild Coyotes.
Hourly: $18.93
Description: Sit on your ass till a bus comes, then change the cashbox and replace it with an empty one, restock empty transfer rolls.


if this job was paid at fair market value and not inflated union BS rates, we'd have a much better transit system

this is an $8 per hour job (should be less if it weren't for ridiculous minimum wages), any uneducated immigrant could do this

[Alby]

^ true enough, but because of unions and all that, this job hourly wage is so much inflated.

@EB: i thought about posting it in that topic, but this isn't really seeking or offering any job positions. i just wanted to see whats out there, but if you see fit to move it, go right ahead. i have no objections.

[Carl Johnson]

^ wow that sucks to hear..

I just graduated from BCIT and I'm having no luck in looking for a job, the industry is basically dead this year in Vancouver

what program did you take?

[iPee]

haha with that kind of pay you don't need wifi just get a data plan

[Alby]

i also have that for my BB :D

[03aspec]

^ wow that sucks to hear..

I just graduated from BCIT and I'm having no luck in looking for a job, the industry is basically dead this year in Vancouver

same here, i did my commercial transport eltt program at bcit, finished in november, kept working full time at my old job to scrounge up money for tools and i got laid off in february. shit is real fucked up right now.

[03aspec]

and coast mountain is a fucking joke, they hire 20 something guys from jamaica to work in their shops, but guys like me who do all the schooling here cant get a job there. fucking pathetic.

[3xta]

damn, i would love to work there. but the hours are shitty. I need a life too you know ahaha

[monkeywrench]

what program did you take?

Oh, I took Aircraft Maintenance Engineering

My only choice now is to relocate

[JSALES]

Emplyer: Panago Customer Contact Centre
Position: Customer Service Representative
Hourly: $10 - $10.50/hr
Description: Sit on your ass and take phone calls
Qualifications: High School or higher

hahaha

[Carl Johnson]

Oh, I took Aircraft Maintenance Engineering

My only choice now is to relocate

Yea I read somewhere saying 2009 forecast for the Airline industry is pretty damn grim. People are cutting back on flyings and Airlines aren't going fly planes below break even. So good luck man.

[Alby]

and coast mountain is a fucking joke, they hire 20 something guys from jamaica to work in their shops, but guys like me who do all the schooling here cant get a job there. fucking pathetic.
agreed, but they are still currently looking for more apprenticeship. from what i've heard, they are preparing to boot almost all the mechanics in the shop onto the road because they don't want any buses to break down during the olympics, so they can just repair them on the road. they will somehow need to fill back the bodies in the shop. what kind of schooling program did you take? i know for sure that if you have taken the 6 or 9 months commercial vehicle/pre-apprenticeship course at BCIT, they will definitely take a good look at your application. this is only valid for the location im working at, not sure about the others. you should definitely keep trying to apply.

[JHuJHu]

i use to work at panagos call center too! great pay. boring as fuck

[JSALES]

i use to work at panagos call center too! great pay. boring as fuck

haha which one? burnaby or abbotsford? it is boring as fuck and the breaks are stupid

[2damaxmr2]

flipping burgers

[Graeme S]

Employer: Any of the numerous conversation schools DT
Position: Conversational English Teacher
Pay: $10/hr (base; that's not what I make)
Description: Sit and talk with Japanese and Korean FOB students as they whine about their inability to make Canadian friends and pay you to talk to them in English.
Prereq's: Be able to speak and write english PROPERLY.

[Alby]

what kind of qualifications do you need for that Graeme? and what hours do you work? FT/PT?

[iPee]

yeah shit so fucked

Just graded from SFU got a property management position but pay sucks ass, since they are chinese and real estate isn't the greatest right now. Going back to school in May to finish up my accounting.

Having a hard time to decide on what to do, I can stay at the property management and make mediocre pay, or go back to the restaurant and make a killing. Hard to say whats better in the long term in this state of the economy.

[Alby]

in this situation, probably the restaurant job. people got to eat.

[Graeme S]

what kind of qualifications do you need for that Graeme? and what hours do you work? FT/PT?
Like it says in the post, can you speak and write english properly?

I work FT hours, but it's a bit hard to get those hours 'cause of the spotty demand and sketchtacularness of most schools.

[CorneringArtist]

So in short, you get paid to listen? Sounds like a decent gig. Anyone here work warehousing?

[Graeme S]

Paid to talk and correct.


Warehousing can be good depending on the job; if you really want to make good money with something similar to warehousing, see if you can get some longshoreman work.

[iPee]

in this situation, probably the restaurant job. people got to eat.

Yeah and with 2010 coming up its definitely going to be busy, but if do go back to the food industry, I'm giving up the chance to learn something related to my studies.

Never thought life was going to get this confusing.

[Alby]

well, the restaurants will always be there for a while. see if you can find something related to your studies. at best, you can always go back to the food industry as a last resort.

[RFlush]

Prereq's: Be able to speak and write english PROPERLY.

what kind of qualifications do you need for that Graeme?
I would assume reading comprehension would be one of them =/

[Carl Johnson]

Employer: Any of the numerous conversation schools DT
Position: Conversational English Teacher
Pay: $10/hr (base; that's not what I make)
Description: Sit and talk with Japanese and Korean FOB students as they whine about their inability to make Canadian friends and pay you to talk to them in English.
Prereq's: Be able to speak and write english PROPERLY.

lol if it weren't for school i'd do it for sure. so is it a weekend job? damn i would to talk to hot japs and koreans and getting paid while at it

[Alby]

in fact, there is a public posting now for Farebox Attendant.

Online Postings (http://www.coastmountainbus.com/careers)

check out the online posting link and the position is there. deadline is april 14, 2009.

[Graeme S]

lol if it weren't for school i'd do it for sure. so is it a weekend job? damn i would to talk to hot japs and koreans and getting paid while at it
Weekday, generally 9-6 with 60-90 minute class durations throughout the day.

A) get the "japs" word out of your vocabulary
B) no guarantee on the hotties. You're much more likely to get a 40-year-old housewife here with their 10 year old kid to get a year of Canadian schooling so as (s)he can get a leg up.

[Carl Johnson]

oops lol sorry about that

[03aspec]

agreed, but they are still currently looking for more apprenticeship. from what i've heard, they are preparing to boot almost all the mechanics in the shop onto the road because they don't want any buses to break down during the olympics, so they can just repair them on the road. they will somehow need to fill back the bodies in the shop. what kind of schooling program did you take? i know for sure that if you have taken the 6 or 9 months commercial vehicle/pre-apprenticeship course at BCIT, they will definitely take a good look at your application. this is only valid for the location im working at, not sure about the others. you should definitely keep trying to apply.

Thats the course I've taken, I think their only problem with me is the fact that I don't have any shop experience. The funny part was, that there were turds from my class who already were working at transit, the guys who clean the buses, one of them i swear didn't even know the difference between an extension and a deep socket and from what i know, they are all currently working as mechanics.

[Alby]

wow thats just messed up then. but then again, apprenticeship is to get experience in the shop as you've already taken the course. i don't see why they didn't accept you. from the mechanics i've talked to, they just told me to take the course and then apply. next time i see one, i will ask them if shop experience is also required.

[lilevilboi]

Is that starbuck you were work hiring people at the moment?

[Alby]

we just hired 1 person recently so i assume we still are. however we require a minimum of weekends plus one weekday. thats what i've heard when school was in semester. the more available you are, the greater the chances of you getting hired. the person we just hired, i believe he had weekends plus 4 weekdays available. doesn't mean that you will get scheduled for all those days.

[svelt]

I know a guy who delivers newspapers/fliers by driving around Metro Van around 2-4AM and cracks around $40/hr. Factor in gas and I'd wager he's still making $30/hr for it. Only does it around two evenings a week.

Being a tutor, either Uni or High School level is an obvious one. If you're fairly busy you could just take in one student once/week. I made $18/hr teaching high school math around five years ago. I would reckon you would actually need to be in University to qualify for this but if you join many of the various tutoring agencies you could get students even if you were in first year.

[kaitamasaki]

The farebox attendant position seemed too good to pass up, just applied for the hell of it :D

Have been jobless for quite some time anyways... all of my past jobs have been minimum wage =/.

[jas_daddy]

alby?? lily's alby??

[iPee]

how did he find that metro van delivery job

[Alby]

alby?? lily's alby??

shit jas? the one from good old kitchen times?

[jas_daddy]

hahah you got it man.... well i applied for the job... it's a good part time job and i also put you down as my referral hahaha hope you don't mind ;)

[Alby]

nice. don't mind at all. best of luck to you. hope to see you in the force soon.

[lubbyda]

for some reason when i try to apply, the site says there is a problem. whast up with that? any other way to apply?

[Alby]

i've heard from several ppl that its timing out. what i suggest is to write up a cover letter stating the position and fax it in with your resume.

[iPee]

haha RS people overloading their servers

[lubbyda]

sweet ill try that

[01-xtreme]

if you have your class 5, be a courier.

fedex + canada post > all others > ups, in terms of being an employee.

[rps13]

i've heard from several ppl that its timing out. what i suggest is to write up a cover letter stating the position and fax it in with your resume.

I can not find the fax number on the website, can you post the number please.

Thank you in advance.

[Alby]

i tried looking on their website and i can't find it myself. all i can say is to call in 604-953-3000 and ask them for the fax number where you can fax in your stuff.

[q0192837465]

damn, I want a wkend job. I can tutor, who wants a tutor? I can tutor H/S science, math, calc

[Neoxphuse]

ALBERT! It's vong, didn't know you were on here.

Help me get that position PT!.

[BeefCake4000]

Anyone got a phone call/e-mail for the fare attendant position yet?

[BeefCake4000]

ttt

[BeefCake4000]

Anyone got hired for the fare attendant pos yet?

[sh0n]

what are some good part time jobs out there? i would like to broaden my horizon by seeing whats out there and what people are currently working as part time. would be great if people could post their position/status and a brief job description and if any qualifications are needed. hourly wage is optional.

i currently work 2 part time jobs, one being at starbucks and one for coast mountain bus company, a subsidiary of translink.

Employer: Starbucks
Position: Barista
Location: Oakridge Food Court
Hourly: $9.56
Description: Cashier or make coffee drinks
Benefits: You get 1lb of coffee or box of tea every week.
Qualifications: Anyone in high school or higher is probably qualified.

I work about on average 15 hours here per week.

Employer: Coast Mountain Bus Company
Position: Farebox Attendant
Location: SW Marine DR and Hudson, right beside Wild Coyotes.
Hourly: $18.93
Description: Sit on your ass till a bus comes, then change the cashbox and replace it with an empty one, restock empty transfer rolls.
Benefits: Basic medical + Extended. Employee card meaning free transit rides.
Qualifications: Anyone in high school with basic communication skills, able to lift 50lbs, passing criminal records check and medical exam, valid drivers license.
NOTE: This position has 2 statuses. One being part-time regular, meaning getting full benefits with a steady schedule. Also able to opt out of medical and get paid 6% more i believe. Other being part-time casual, meaning no benefits and on call.

I work 20 hours a week here.

My farebox attendant position usually hires a couple people every summer. There has been lots of movement around and probably postings will be up soon.

The coin box attendant job is really good pay considering like you said you only do 100 seconds of work per the hour. The rest you can just slack and do whatever you want.

[Graeme S]

The conversation position is now open;

Requirements:
-Fluent unaccented English
-Proper spelling with clear printing
-Conversational ability
-Good grasp of idiomatic english

Resumes to rcscanada@hotmail.com

[TOPEC]

bumping this up, any other good part time jobs out there?
prefer afternoon hours as i have school in the mornings.

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

This should really be in the Employment forum

lol you mean the unemployment forum right? haha