Part Time Job Ideas Needed

[LMT]

I would like a part time job to augment my current job.

We (the Seattle Red Cross) are going to lose the equivalent of 7 full time positions.  My job is safe.  I currently work 34 to 39 hours a week.  However, hours will be less in the future.  Not as many classes due to the slow down in the economy. 

My schedule is all over the place.  I can not get a part time job that has set hours.  I need something I can do independently of a clock, office, or rigid schedule.

Any ideas?   I am an ex high tech project manager for large software projects, an ex EMT, and now I teach Red Cross classes.
I like people, like research, and being out and about.

Thanks.

[nateqwik]

Pimp? Beware.... I hear it ain't easy.

[Buckethead]

I can think of three options for you, but I'm not sure what you might be up for.

First, some sort of outside sales position. You'd be able to go see clients and customers on your own schedule. Radio ad sales comes to mind, but lots of places have positions like that. You may need to put in a handful of hours per week at an office somewhere, lining up orders, doing paperwork, etc, but by and large you're on your own.

Secondly, something you can do from home. With your EMT and Red Cross background, I'm guessing you'd make an excellent medical transcriptionist. Hell, I'm thinking about picking this one up just to help pay for my motorcycle habit.

Thirdly, make something to sell. Do you like to bake? Maybe you could sell home-made cookies at a local coffee shop. Are you artistic at all? Those same coffee shops often have local art for sale on their walls.

S'all I got, Mary. Hope it helps.

[lauramonster]

Secondly, something you can do from home. With your EMT and Red Cross background, I'm guessing you'd make an excellent medical transcriptionist. Hell, I'm thinking about picking this one up just to help pay for my motorcycle habit.

was thinking along the same lines.... what about the person who approves procedures?  You'd need to undertand what's going on, and how to fix it.  Not sure if it's an 'offsite' job. 

and for something totally different.... insurance adjuster.  Schedule appointments, ride in the comapny vehicle, note any damage you see, and issue checks.  Probably more to it than suggested, but they have training, don't they???

[rgramjet]

Become a mobile first aid training consultant.  If you are certified you could go around to business's and charge to train one/several employees first aid. 

I just deleted an email from a building trade organization that was offering first aid  training for $65 per person, discounted group rate.  Something about OSHA requiring one employee to be certified per shift blah blah blah.....

Id start with OSHA and see how to become certified, get some liability insurance and business cards, then get on the horn making cold calls! 

Good Luck!

If someone called me pitching an OSHA accreditied class for a couple hundred bucks, Id more than likely do it.....those fines can get nasty!

[cyrus buelton]

What sort of hourly wage are you looking for?

[Mother]

AMR. go run the wheelie van...or go on call in the system. you know how to do it.

[LMT]

Become a mobile first aid training consultant.  If you are certified you could go around to business's and charge to train one/several employees first aid. 

I just deleted an email from a building trade organization that was offering first aid  training for $65 per person, discounted group rate.  Something about OSHA requiring one employee to be certified per shift blah blah blah.....

Id start with OSHA and see how to become certified, get some liability insurance and business cards, then get on the horn making cold calls! 

Good Luck!

If someone called me pitching an OSHA accreditied class for a couple hundred bucks, Id more than likely do it.....those fines can get nasty!

I teach First Aid, CPR, Wilderness First Aid and Emergency Response for the Red Cross.  OSHA is great!

[LMT]

AMR. go run the wheelie van...or go on call in the system. you know how to do it.

I am looking into on call.  I would need a big, strong partner though.  I used to wake up with a sore lower back each day and do not want that again.

[LMT]

What sort of hourly wage are you looking for?

At least $15

[cyrus buelton]

At least $15

Not sure of the labor rate in Seattle, but that would eliminate a lot of employment around here. Hell, I'd say 1/3 of my work office does not make 15$ an hour as full time jobs.

Good luck 

[Got Duc]

can you teach outside the Red Cross?

[LMT]

Not sure of the labor rate in Seattle, but that would eliminate a lot of employment around here. Hell, I'd say 1/3 of my work office does not make 15$ an hour as full time jobs.

Good luck 

$15 here is like $9 elsewhere.  We have a high cost of living and even coffee shop workers start at $10.  Tips add more.

I would make more at Starbucks, Tully's, or any other coffee shop then going back to AMR.

Private ambulance companies here do nothing but inter facility transfers or BLS (Basic Life Support) calls and pay $10 to 12 for new hires.  With my experiance I could make $13 to 14.  To make more, I would have to be a supervisor.  Thats more work then I want.

[LMT]

can you teach outside the Red Cross?

Yes, as an authorized provider.  It requires a lot of up front $ for books, Anne rental, certs, etc.  Plus it would take those business away from the RC. 

[Got Duc]

ahhhh

I have the most of the dolls and borrow the adult ones from work when needed. Not sure what the goign rate per student there is but we do very well here teaching on the side.

Jim