Labor Day Jobs to Consider this Upcoming Hiring Season

Labor Day Jobs to Consider this Upcoming Hiring SeasonLabor Day Jobs to Consider this Upcoming Hiring SeasonWith Labor Day almost here, the community pool closing and the kids are back in school, some employers will soon be hiring. Fall always means a large influx of seasonal job hiring. Heres a list of jobs to consider if youre looking for something temporary this fall and winter.1. Gift wrapperA job for the holiday season, gift wrappers work in both stores and warehouses. A great way to make some extra cash during the holidays, this is a nice side job if youre good with holiday wrapping paper and quick with the ribbon and bows. Gift wrappers earn 2,000 per month.2. Retail workerPoint of sale, customer tafelgeschirr or stocking if you have some experience in the retail sector and enjoy the fast pace of the holiday cash register, this can be a great seasonal opportunity. Seasonal retail workers make $1,300 a month.3. Seasonal recruiterWith all the seasonal jobs available at this tim e of year, someone has to find all these employees. If you have recruiting experience this can be a great opportunity for you to consider during this holiday season. Seasonal recruiters can expect an average of $2,800 a month.4. Catering cookAs the holidays bring more corporate parties, family get-togethers and town gatherings, the demand for catering cooks and buskers quickly increases. People with experience in the service industry or who enjoy cooking will have opportunities. Catering cooks can expect to make $1,900 a month.5. Warehouse associateCyber Monday and months of increased web shopping mean warehouses are in need of personnel. If youve got the physical endurance to lift and move heavy boxes, working as a seasonal warehouse employee can be a great job for you. The average salary for this job is $1,500 per month.6. Retail MerchandiserIf you have an eye for presentation, merchandising is a seasonal job to look for. Merchandisers set retail displays so customers can find the products they want to purchase. In this job you can expect to make $2,000 per month.7. GroundskeeperOnce winter weather rolls in, the demand for groundskeepers quickly increases. Most of these jobs require dealing with winter snow and ice. If you have the back for shoveling and operating a snow-blower, consider taking up groundskeeping over the holidays. They make $1,750 a month.8. Package handlerMore packages are sent during the holidays then any time of year. To compensate for the surge in shipping, FedEx, UPS and the USPS hire a number of temporary drivers and delivery personnel to take care of the extra volume. As a package handler youll make $2,100 a month.9. Event staffAll those winter sports, parties, banquets, dances and temporary ice rinks need staff during the holidays. If youre in the market for extra cash during this holiday season, working on an event staff is another opportunity. Some event staff members make up to $4,100 a month.10. Customer service representativeAs more people go online to shop, more customer service issues tend to come up. If you have experience resolving customer service issues, this is a great seasonal job to consider. Expect to make $2,100 per month.

Cable Systems Installer-Maintainer (25L)

Cable Systems Installer-Maintainer (25L)Cable Systems Installer-Maintainer (25L)Cable Systems Installer-Maintainers are primarily responsible for installing, operating and performing maintenance on cable and wire communications systems, communication security devices and associated equipment. Duties performed by Soldiers in this MOS include Installs, operates, and performs unit level maintenance on cable and wire systems, to include Digital Group Multiplexers, Remote Multiplexing Combiners, repeaters, restorers, voltage protection devices, telephones, test stations, intermediate distribution frames, and related equipment. Configure digital group multiplexers and remote multiplexing combiners for operations. Installs, operates, performs strapping, restrapping, preventive maintenancechecks and services and unit level maintenance on communication security devices. Performs tests on cable communications systems to ensure circuit and system quality. Tests circuits/groups to detect an d locate line faults. Operates manual and motorized cable construction equipment. Climbs poles, as necessary, and assists in the construction of tactical cable and wire lines. Clears and maintains rights of way. Recognizes electronic countermeasures and applies appropriate electronic counter-countermeasures as necessary. Operates and performs preventive maintenance checks and services on telephone line and other vehicles. Installs, operates and performs PMCS on power generators. Coordinates and supervises team member activities in the construction, installation, and recovery of cable and wire communications systems and auxiliary equipment. Coordinates remote trunking operations with switching central personnel. Interprets and updates line route maps and overlays. Coordinates team logistic requirements. Checks and performs PMCS and unit level maintenance on wire and cable systems and associated communications equipment. Ensures PMCS and maintenance functions are performed in accorda nce with published schedules. Training Information Job training for a cable systems installer-maintainer requires 10 weeks of Basic Combat Training and eight weeks of Advanced Individual Training with on-the-job instruction. Part of this time is spent in the classroom and in the field. Some of the skills youll learn are Mechanical and electrical principlesPreventive maintenance proceduresLine installation and wiring techniquesCommunication security policies and procedures ASVAB Score Required 89 in aptitude area EL and 89 in aptitude area SC Security Clearance Secret Strength Requirement heavy Physical Profile Requirement 212221 Other Requirements Normal color vision requiredMust be US Citizen Similar Civilian Occupations Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line InstallersTelecommunications Line Installers and RepairersFirst-Line Supervisors/Managers of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers

Why Keep Working After Winning a Mega-Lottery

Why Keep Working After Winning a Mega-Lottery Why Keep Working After Winning a Mega-Lottery Those who believe that we are all special, different, etc., will say as many reasons as there are people. The more scientifically, statistically or category-minded will say not that many. Dodging that squabble by setting it aside, it may nonetheless be illuminating to ask oneself whether and why the choice would be to quit or continue working.A June 2, 2011 Christian Science Monitor article, Powerball numbers Why do lottery winners keep working?, citing a 2004 study, reported that of the 185 winners surveys examined in the study, 63 percent continued working full time at the same company after they won the lottery. Others started their own business (10 percent) or cut back to part time (11 percent). In all, 85 percent stayed in the workplace. The study focused on work centrality and prize size as the key variables determining the work or walk choice, with quitting correlating with high winni ngs and greater emphasis on the importance of work in ones life. So, what would you do- work, or walk?Without knowing each and every one of you, I am nonetheless willing to have a stab at a list of reasons- some deep, maybe deeply unconscious, that are likely to be offered by or affect a lot of you or us.Why Still Work and Not Walk?Lets start with reasons for continuing to work after the big win. (In Part II, reasons for quitting instead will be presented and examined)1. Work-based identity If you define yourself by your work (as a manifestation of work centrality), quitting may seem like self-annihilation. Like a concert pianist who develops severe arthritis and can no longer play, someone whose life is his work and whose work is his life may find it very difficult to imagine such a drastic change in identity as well as in lifestyle. Even though, unlike arthritis, a winning lottery flugticket expands ones choices, the grip of a work-based self-definition can be as powerful a deterr ent to quitting as arthritis is to playing.Staying at the job is especially likely when the web of ones lifes rewards is spun with the job as the sole or main thread, e.g., financial, social, moral, intellectual, creative or status. It is also extremely likely in the case of a mono-career- a resume with only one job on it (or at least for the bulk of ones working life).Someone with a mono-career is more likely to resemble a circus ring-master with only one act, e.g., a dog-and-pony show, which then not only exhaustively defines the circus- and by implication the circus-master, but also can rattle both if it folds.Job-masters with more than one ring- like a circus with lions, tigers, clowns, acrobats and fire-eaters in addition to the dogs and ponies- are almost certainly not going to define themselves in solely canine-equine terms or feel lost, helpless or useless if the pups and ponies ansturm off.Whatever risks of poly-careers duly noted, having more than one act in ones career ci rcus, like having more than one arrow in ones quiver, makes losing the one at or in hand much less likely to escalate into a financial or existential catastrophe. 2. Narrow stimulation bandwidth When the most stimulating thing in someones life is work, it is tempting to cite that as a sufficient or at least an excellent reason for continuing to work after winning the jackpot.But that leap is a tad too quick and too far, because it vaults over the question why nothing else- including nothing new or familiar- could match or surpass the stimulation of the job, or even of any job.It also ignores the possibility that the only reason the job has been the sole or main source of stimulation is that its demands left no time or energy for anything else. Hence, continuing to work at such a job can be tantamount to continued job-imposed limitation of awareness, interests, energy, time and opportunities.This is to say that, in some cases, a narrow personal range of experienced, understood or des ired stimulation is in fact a consequence of having a work-based identity.This is especially likely to be the case with lifetime grueling jobs, e.g., manual laborer or assembly-line worker, that allow and leave little energy, opportunity or imagination for (alternate) stimulation- apart from the common compensations of TV, dinner, beer and bowling night.Because many, if not most, such after-work episodic rewards cant fill the entire day, every day (with the common and unfortunate exception of TV), Id be bored is often the most predictable response to Why wouldnt you stop working?3. Work-ethic induced guilt Justify your existence, Fabian socialist and playwright George Bernard Shaw demanded in a scratchy 1931 newsreel. His heavy-handed produce-or-die speech (regarded by some as a quintessentially-Shaw, witty parody of extreme eugenicist views, but hammered by his critics as being no joke), although extreme by comparison, is a spooky version of the Protestant work ethic, which is bett er encapsulated as produce-or-at-least-feel-guilty. Some people, even when they are entitled to stop working, e.g., at retirement age, simply cant stop thinking a bit like Shaw (or those he is said to have been parodying).Id be uselesswithout purpose (as though lifes only purposes relate to paid production of goods and services for others, to the exclusion of the likes of home gardening, painting, learning, travel, teaching a grandchild how to build a tree house and even volunteering).Youd think that winning a mega-lottery would provide $100 million mini-reasons for quitting but, because the money isnt earned, it somehow seems tainted- or at least taints the idea of quitting work in order to put the money to use or under ones pillow for comfort and fun.Thats one downside of the Protestant work ethic. Quitting ones job after winning the jackpot would presumably free up a lot of time to think about and find even more such downsides.4. Fear of the unknown Have you never heard anyone sa y, But this job is all that I know (where know means both master and feel comfortable with). This was encapsulated in a great line in a movie I saw recently, where a grit-for-spit veteran marine, resigning at the twilight of his career says, Everything I know is in there (pointing to his dossier), with precisely that dual nuance. Most susceptible to this kind of thinking are those who, if not temperamentally predisposed to keeping things routine, well-circumscribed and undemanding, find themselves in lifetime jobs that make them live as well as think inside the safe confines of the box.Its only speculation, but reasonable to suggest that any such generalized, diffuse fear of the unknown may very well be fed by the same fears and needs, e.g., about safety.5. Some irreplaceable hook All of my close friends are co-workers. Id miss them too much. Thats a hook- especially if youre not good at making new friends or dont expect any opportunities to make them if you quit. From the standpoin t of lottery winner studies, this would also constitute a form of work centrality as a cardinal value.Before stomping on this reason to work rather than walk, consider how you would feel about your prospects of making new friends to replace your work circle. All that lottery loot dooms any certainty that new friends would not rather bond with your bonds than with you.Of course, old friends at work may turn on you too- but at least its possible that they (still) really like you as well as your money, even if not as much.There are countless other possible hooks Your job as director of a world-hunger NGO provides you a unique platform from which to do more good for the poor than you imagine your new cash could, despite the staggering amount. Or, like Mick Jagger, who could fund, without having to win, that lottery, maybe you think your job and its spinoffs provide way more fun or satisfac-shun than whatever any amount of money (left to acquire) could buy.The scope of the hook doesnt ha ve to be as colossal as ending world hunger or going on a world RB tour it could be as simple as wanting to be with your friends.Or to be able to go dibs with them in the office pool for the next lottery drawonce you certainly can afford to.________________________Next In Part II, Why Quit Working After Winning a Mega-Lottery?, subtle reasons some lottery winners (would) quit.