POSSIBLE PART TIME JOBS

Jahman · Post by **Jahman** » Tue May 21, 2013 2:50 pm

hi all, im a young man of 23yrs old. can someone please help me know some possible/available part time jobs for a freshman international undergraduate student? i will be very happy to at least hear from some one so that i plan well towards my trip. i will be staying at kokkola. thanx in advance

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332415 · Post by **332415** » Fri May 24, 2013 11:04 am

Jahman wrote:hi all, im a young man of 23yrs old. can someone please help me know some possible/available part time jobs for a freshman international undergraduate student? i will be very happy to at least hear from some one so that i plan well towards my trip. i will be staying at kokkola. thanx in advance

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Jahman · Post by **Jahman** » Fri May 24, 2013 11:15 pm

its cool. how will i find one as soon as i land at kokkola?

332415 · Post by **332415** » Sat May 25, 2013 1:00 pm

Try the local work office

Jahman · Post by **Jahman** » Sat May 25, 2013 2:40 pm

thank you for your help. a friend at finland has also sugested for me to try at the post office since there are always vacancy overthere as post boy. how possible is that one too if you can help.....

332415 · Post by **332415** » Sat May 25, 2013 7:30 pm

I dunno, one job I know you can get is delivering adverts to people's houses. I know, because when I first moved here that was the first thing I did.

It's an awful, boring, time consuming, tedious job, but I knew it was all I could have got speaking no Finnish (well, "moi"

)

You could look into the Kokkola equivalent of Jyväskylän Jakelut, which is who I did it for. They surely have it in Kokkola too

Jahman · Post by **Jahman** » Sat May 25, 2013 8:24 pm

no problem about how difficult it may be cuz i do more donky job under hot sun down here, all i care is the remuneration. do they give fair salary......

332415 · Post by **332415** » Sun May 26, 2013 1:28 pm

Jahman wrote:do they give fair salary......

No, but what not many part time jobs with little/no language skills do

You get paid on how many adverts you deliver

Jahman · Post by **Jahman** » Sun May 26, 2013 3:06 pm

no problem. God will make a way at the right time.

OccultBenkku · Post by **OccultBenkku** » Mon May 27, 2013 6:13 pm

332415 wrote:I dunno, one job I know you can get is delivering adverts to people's houses. I know, because when I first moved here that was the first thing I did.

It's an awful, boring, time consuming, tedious job, but I knew it was all I could have got speaking no Finnish (well, "moi" )

You could look into the Kokkola equivalent of Jyväskylän Jakelut, which is who I did it for. They surely have it in Kokkola too

Who did you contact at Jyväskylän Jakelut for this?

332415 · Post by **332415** » Mon May 27, 2013 10:56 pm

OccultBenkku wrote: Who did you contact at Jyväskylän Jakelut for this?

No one in particular, I just went to their website, called the main number, asked if they spoke English, then if they had any jobs available.. she said 'yes', I said 'great' and that was that pretty much haha

You looking to do it?

OccultBenkku · Post by **OccultBenkku** » Mon May 27, 2013 11:53 pm

I am looking to do anything if it pays my bills

so looks like it may be a paper round for me::P

Flossy1978 · Post by **Flossy1978** » Tue May 28, 2013 10:45 am

Good luck with delivering the junkmail. It's a horrible job, especially in winter. And depending where you deliver, will depend if you need a car or not.

You won't get a job working for the Post itself, as a Postman. Or probably even in their Postoffice, or sorting the mail there. You must be able to speak fluent Finnish. It states it in all job advertisements to do with delivering mail.

Please don't live in la la land, like you'll turn up here and just easily get a job. Do you know what the economy is like here right now? There are so many Fins out of work and more are losing their jobs daily. And you turn up, without any skills in Finnish whatsoever, thinking you can just easily get a job.

Delivering junk mail is an awful job. The pay is crap too. Doing it in horrific weather is probably the worse thing of all.

332415 · Post by **332415** » Tue May 28, 2013 10:57 am

Flossy1978 wrote:Good luck with delivering the junkmail. It's a horrible job, especially in winter. And depending where you deliver, will depend if you need a car or not.

Delivering junk mail is an awful job. The pay is crap too. Doing it in horrific weather is probably the worse thing of all.

haha, I did it over one autumn/winter and I was fine. That said, I had a car and my girlfriend actually helped me sort and deliver them, so it was two of us doing one person's job.

I think it would be a nightmare in the summer, but that's just personal preference. I get hot and sweaty now just walking to the shop and hate it, never mind carrying a heavy bag of ads up and down stairs for a whole afternoon.

..and like I said, I had my girlfriend doing the job with me too (even then it still took us around 3 hours to deliver). I'd hate having to do it all by myself

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