Tips on Exploiting Your Low Paying Job

Whether you are in college with one class at a time or can't quite afford to go to college right now, you can exploit the skills you use in your socially deemed bad job. You are using skills right now, whether you're a waitress, a cashier, construction site cleaner, or a janitor (which, by the way, isn't such a bad paying job in some places). The trick is to learn what you can and effectively document these skills while you are doing your job.

Here are some reasons you are probably working there in the first place:

-You needed to make money to support your family and didn't have a college degree or technical skill to get you one of the more desirable jobs.

-You are going to college, but need to have a job for those pesky things such as groceries, gas, electricity, and rent/mortgage.

-You have a college degree, but it seems completely useless in the area in which you live, and because you can't find a job in video game design (or whatever your degree is), you are going broke; can't afford to move; and you need to make some money.

Okay, so you maybe you have other reasons for working the job you are working. None the less, it would be nice if you could make a bit more. You probably want a job with better hours, and definately some benefits would help. Don't think of yourself as being trapped. Think of yourself as moving up. Here's how.

Tips for Exploiting your Low-Income Job

- First, do a job search to find which jobs are available that don't require college degrees. Look at their job descriptions and pay attention to how they might relate to your own job. For example, if you are a cashier, and the job is looking for someone with experience in sales with good people skills, keep track of how many in-store cards you've sold to customers, and explain how many customers you've greeted on a daily basis. It isn't so much the job, per se, that will give you a leg up, but it's more that your prosepctive employer can see how you can apply skills you've gained in other jobs. Effectively communicate these skills and you're ahead of the game.