Here are three areas worth investigating if you want to land a job you can balance with university.
Retail trade
Due to its shift-based nature, retail jobs are extremely popular with university students. Whilst you will need a core knowledge of the products you are selling, working in retail isn’t a job you have to take home with you, allowing students to freshen up away from the classroom.
Accommodation and food services
Like retail, accommodation and food services roles tend to be split into any assortment of morning, afternoon and evening shifts. This is a versatile industry, with opportunities ranging from pouring drinks in a bar or night club and waiting tables in a restaurant to washing dishes or greeting customers at a pub.
Construction
This is an option usually reserved for students whose schedules allow them whole days off during the working week. Builders, electricians and plumbers often require laborer’s to fulfil non-specialist tasks like cleaning up the worksite, so if you ask around, you just might find yourself a day or two’s work.
Construction employs over a million people in Australia, roughly nine per cent of the nation’s workforce, which includes 170,000 between 15 and 24 years old.
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