And: where to look for such jobs? What would be the process to find them with any chance of success?
I hope the question in the title is general enough that more people might find it useful, I’m sure I can’t be the only one. I’m going to include some extra details specific to myself below, but you can just ignore them if you want to.
- I have no education beyond high school and no useful skills, although I do have a couple of years worth of work experience at this point. I don’t really have the will to learn anything new for the purpose of getting a job any more.
- I have been unbelievably lucky in that the circumstances allow me to live on minimum wage in humane conditions, and beyond the basic expenses I have nothing to spend money on anyway. So it doesn’t matter to me how much I get paid.
- I spend all of my free time on things like reading, drawing, writing, thinking, occasionally learning something new. If I could spend even just a couple of work hours every day with a pen and paper and an Internet connection, it would make me a bit happier.
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.
School bus driver does require a commercial driver’s license with bus status on it, or approval, or whatever the term is. Edit: endorsement.
Many school districts will sponsor potential bus drivers to go through the schooling to get that license because they are in such desperate need for bus drivers.
Yeah, I see signs in my area about testing paid and $5k sign on bonus.