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Jobs that I can study while doing? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Hello everyone,
For reasons I won't get into here, I'm looking for a minimum wage job where I would still have enough downtime to self-study an online course I'm doing. I've been thinking something like this might be possible in a receptionist style scenario. Has anyone done this before? What sorts of jobs are good for this? I'm gessing it's probably jobs where they are looking for a person to pay just to have someone on-site and on-call...

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

My father told me that he worked on cars in a garage while he was getting his degree. He would stick study material under the cars while he worked on them. He also was able to get away with short naps under there. I doubt that'd work today, but just throwing out something I heard about.

I have an IT position that has an incredible amount of downtime. It's a government org. I read books in between calls. You won't be able to study if you get an IT gig at an MSP (Managed Service Provider). They have lots of clients and the work never ends. You want IT that's in-house.

Good luck!