Ideas for gap year employment?

sbjdorlo
Sat, 03 Oct 2015 15:16:53 +0000

Oh, a temp agency is a good idea! Yes, his resume indicates that he’s enrolled in Penn, and is on a gap year. We have discussed that his unconventional education might be a negative. One reason for the gap year was to explore the gaming field. He’s taking the game design class which is good, but he was hoping to be able to get some temp employment, as well, in the gaming field optimally, but otherwise just to have some spending money. It’s not critical he work because he can be using his time to learn programming languages and making a game, and in the spring, study for 1-2 AP exams, but it would be nice to have income.

He’s going to put the word out about teaching cello. He taught two hours in the summer, but his student stopped once she went back to school. They want to take a lesson periodically, but having even 1-2 regular students would get him enough money to do what he needs to do (cover gas, phone, fast food, etc).

So, I think the plan will be to concentrate on seasonal jobs, a temp agency, and QA Tester jobs that we find, since many of those are temp jobs anyways.

Thanks for all the suggestions. It’s helped.