Student Jobs and How to Find Them
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Students often endure horrible jobs to pay for tuition and textbooks. From telemarketing to door-to-door sales, students have the short end of the stick. AbeBooks.com helps students save on textbooks by offering millions of new, used, and international edition textbooks online. Thousands of textbook sellers list cheap editions and used textbooks that are easy to find. Students save up to 50% on used textbooks at AbeBooks and also find regular books for as cheap as $1. The campus bookstore can’t compete with our inventory of textbooks or low prices.
Besides textbooks, AbeBooks offers a variety of books to help students in the real world after graduation. Check out these books on finding your dream job and learn from books detailing some of the worst jobs in history.
Dream Jobs and How to Find Them
These recommended books help students land jobs that won’t require giving your body to experiments.
- Hello Real World! A Student’s Approach to Great Internships, Co-Ops and Entry Level Positions by Jengyee Liang
- Best 109 Internships by Mark Oldman
- The Back Door Guide to Short-Term Job Adventures by Michael Landes
- How to get any Job with Any Major: Career Launch and Re-Launch for Everyone Under 30 or (How to Avoid Living in Your Parent’s Basement)
- 50 Best Jobs for your Personality by J. Michael Farr
Worst of the Worst
- The Worst Jobs in History by Tony Robinson
- California Holiday: Or, How the World’s Worst Summer Job Gave Me a Great New Life by Kate Cann
- Crap Jobs: 100 Tales of Workplace Hell by Dan Kieran
- 50 Jobs Worse than Yours by Justin Racz
- Odd Jobs: Portraits of Unusual Occupations by Nancy Rica Schiff
Top 10 Worst Jobs Held by AbeBooks Staff
We asked our colleagues about their most heinous jobs before AbeBooks. It's safe to say we're all pleased to have shed our gas masks, paper hats, and shovels for greener pastures.
- Cleaning up old graves in a village cemetery
- Removing cat urine-soaked insulation from the crawl space of a house (ouch!)
- Being a mover (carrying furniture covered in other people’s filth is horrible)
- Working at a fast food restaurant
- Telemarketing in a creepy man's basement
- Licking envelopes
- Stringing tennis racquets
- Taping posters to telephone poles during Canadian winters
- Working at a car dealership cleaning up their basement
- Selling knives
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