Okay, first of all, that BA in writing isn't as useless as you might think. Tutoring, ghostwriting (there's always SOMETHING on craigslist for that), journalism, high school teaching, and a couple of nearly-pyramid-scheme-but-not-really write for cash sites come to mind.
Second of all... sales refers primarily to selling any product. Retail technically falls under that but has more of a customer service requirement with it, too. My new job is literally selling yellow page advertisements, which honestly hasn't turned out too shabby so far. There are some similar positions in things like insurance or banking that do amount to little more than pyramid schemes, sadly... But for some examples from my own work place: One woman used to work for coca-cola selling vending machines. One of the guys sold software business to business. Another was a car salesman (shockingly still profitable these days!).
Taking up a hobby like jewelerymaking might work for you, too; a friend invested about $50 into her initial supplies, and now makes about $1000 a month selling handmade jewelery both to local stores (look for places with names like Local Charm, Beautiful by Hand, Sante Fe Charm, etc) and the flea market.
Depending on your experience, you may also be able to pop into a local Arbys or Sonic as an assistant management position.
I spent the last three years working an average of two jobs at a time, no job more than 8.50 an hour, working anywhere from 12 to 86 hours a week depending on how things were going at the time; it's a hard road, but, you can likely make it.
Once you've gotten far enough to peck away at the situation and gotten your credit back on the right track, check out P2P loan sites; some of them are really good, and there's ones specifically for college loans.
Is your email up somewhere I can see it? If not, IM me with it, or there's an entry on my LJ that ways something to the effect of "I wanna send people stuff, this one's screened, you're safe to post here"; put your email there, and I'll send you that resume copy.
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Date: 2009-03-17 04:54 pm (UTC)Second of all... sales refers primarily to selling any product. Retail technically falls under that but has more of a customer service requirement with it, too. My new job is literally selling yellow page advertisements, which honestly hasn't turned out too shabby so far. There are some similar positions in things like insurance or banking that do amount to little more than pyramid schemes, sadly... But for some examples from my own work place: One woman used to work for coca-cola selling vending machines. One of the guys sold software business to business. Another was a car salesman (shockingly still profitable these days!).
Taking up a hobby like jewelerymaking might work for you, too; a friend invested about $50 into her initial supplies, and now makes about $1000 a month selling handmade jewelery both to local stores (look for places with names like Local Charm, Beautiful by Hand, Sante Fe Charm, etc) and the flea market.
Depending on your experience, you may also be able to pop into a local Arbys or Sonic as an assistant management position.
I spent the last three years working an average of two jobs at a time, no job more than 8.50 an hour, working anywhere from 12 to 86 hours a week depending on how things were going at the time; it's a hard road, but, you can likely make it.
Once you've gotten far enough to peck away at the situation and gotten your credit back on the right track, check out P2P loan sites; some of them are really good, and there's ones specifically for college loans.
Is your email up somewhere I can see it? If not, IM me with it, or there's an entry on my LJ that ways something to the effect of "I wanna send people stuff, this one's screened, you're safe to post here"; put your email there, and I'll send you that resume copy.