Isn’t garbage pickup usually done in the morning? This will be different depending on the country and probably even city but can be an option in some places.

Pizza delivery is a good one, most of the time the places will be hiring for the dinner rush, so you’ll work a few hours and then just go home for your free time. In your car, you can listen to whatever you want, so your reading could become audiobooks!

do you want a part time or full time? only part time would allow significant free time, but you would have to be living with someone that is supporting you, its doubtful someone would want to unless you have an SO(you will get constantly nagged on by everyone for having a PART TIME job which would just add stress and demoralize you). full time. you can look into technician jobs, it does require some training(not a full degrees worth), although its very cheap(to get training), its not an immediate process. maybe some grocery chains, since they employ alot of part time students, or if you need full time.

there are 3 paths of pharm tech: 1 is apprenticeship, usually from pharmacy chains like walgreens, cvs or other, walgreens is the most reccommended approach. 2) is paying for the pharm tech course online, and then take the pharm tech national test 3) going to a community college and take pharm tech course but it will take 9months to finish all of them, but they have an 80hr externship, or go to a state college for an accelerated courses, way more expensive. this method isnt reccomended.

if you are in cali, they added an extra layer of BS, it requires a license(you have to go to site and find out all the stuff they need to apply, livescan, self-query, hs transcripts)

Have you also trued doing commissions for art? Or writing some books off your interests and publishing them? Just a thought.

Otherwise an employment office helps you find work too! Oh and StarBucks while kinda oof with only minimum 20 hours it’s actually pretty chill, just apply to a slow location if you dont mind having little to no tips

usually retail is like this until December-ish. I worked retail back of house for years and it was only 4 hours or so per shift.

Security guard. The guards at my job sit in the guard shack (air conditioned micro-building) and monitor cameras, ocasionally doing a door check where they walkthrough the buildings verifying entry points, and oversee visitor badge distribution and sign-in/out sheet.

They might have other duties that I’m not aware of.

Front desk at a hotel. Night audit in particular, you’re liable to end up getting paid for 8 hours of work while doing around 2-3 hours of actual work on an average night.

Only wrinkle is the occasional interesting workday (fire alarm goes off at 3am, power goes out for hours, water heater for the building dies, and so on), where you definitely earn every penny.

Just a quick note, there’s no such thing as unskilled labor. All labor requires skill of some sort. You have skills, what you lack is specialization.

I spend all of my free time on things like reading, drawing, writing, thinking, occasionally learning something new.

These are all skills that can be leveraged to earn a job. Here are a few things that come to mind which you could potentially leverage with your skills:

• tattoo artist
• author/journalist
• office staff
• graphic designer

Custodial work for a government or school district, consistent hours and benefits, can even give you time to just sit around and do whatever you want if you are efficient, also usually union.

If you are interested in cars and live in a state that requires vehicle inspections, you could do that. My son did a two day class to get licensed. Then he easily walked into jobs.

Night watchman if nights are OK. I’m not in touch with how available such jobs are these days, but I had a gig once for a couple of months when I first got out of college, decades ago. Was great to get some reading and thinking done.

I would always suggest joining the IBEW and becoming an electrician. You can start with no experience and get trained up over a few years for a career that will pay at or near 6 figures.

All while providing health insurance and retirement.

I work in 911 dispatch, exact qualifications and work conditions will vary from place, but often you don’t need much more than a high school diploma/GED, basic computer literacy, and acceptable typing skills, and of course the ability to keep a cool head and deal with emergencies.

Technically, I work slightly more hours than a regular 40 hour week, but I have more days off overall, and especially on night shift you can often count on having a decent amount of downtime where you can work on pretty much whatever personal stuff you want between calls as long as you can put it down when the phone rings.

And the pay is going to be better than minimum wage, not that you’re gonna be making a killing, but you’ll also have access to pretty great benefits and job security.

It can be stressful and not everyone is cut out for it, but if you are I think it’s a pretty great gig, I’ve been doing it for 8 years now. There is a lot of turnover from people either getting burned out or just using it as a resume builder to move to other public safety sorts of jobs, but that means that basically every dispatch center in the country is almost constantly hiring.

School bus driver isn’t strictly unskilled, but it’s 80% a skill you already have. You can even be a van driver instead of a bus.

Stagehanding

If you live in a city of somewhat reasonable size, there will consistently be concerts, political rallies, plays, corporate events, etc, that need a stage. Thus, there is a large industry dedicated to unloading trucks, moving things from here to there, building the stage, assembling set pieces, running AV, lighting, and pyro, taking care of anything and everything before, during, and after a show, and then packing everything up again. And this industry constantly needs fresh faces to show up to push this thing over here and tighten this thing with this wrench.

The upside is that it requires no work experience at all, is constantly hiring, has potential to teach you other more marketable skills like getting a forklift cert, and you can choose your shifts - working for multiple different companies at once and picking the shifts you want to work for who and when. Also, your coworkers tend to be cool, or at least characters - the whole industry has a sort of island of misfit toys feel. Your lunch table might include a college student working their summer job, a retiree making some extra income, an aging punk, a gruff blue collar guy, and an ex-felon, all shooting the shit about whatever is going on that day. And speaking of lunch - you typically get fed when you have a day that goes over 5 hours, and concert catering is gooooood.

The downside - lots of the guys who tour with the band, who are going to be the ones in charge of you for the day, can be real assholes. The rock’n’roll schedule will take its toll on your sleep cycle - lots of shifts will start at 10:30PM and end at 3AM. The work actively discourages thinking or creativity, as your tour guy already has everything figured out for exactly how he wants it, and will shout at you if you take the initiative to do it your own way. And if you are shy and have trouble advocating for yourself, you could just be stuck pushing boxes for years.