Mon-Fri 9-5 job without experience (Knoxville, Maryville: hotels, home, school districts)

[NJDevil]

Economy issues aside, what kind of Monday-Friday, 9-5 job can a person get who only has a restaurant background? What types of jobs will hire someone in their mid-40s without experience? My husband is a quick learner, hard worker who wants weekends off! Any suggestions would be appreciated. I don't know what industry he needs to look into. Knoxville, Maryville or Sevierville areas.

[Beretta]

Originally Posted by NJDevil

Economy issues aside, what kind of Monday-Friday, 9-5 job can a person get who only has a restaurant background? What types of jobs will hire someone in their mid-40s without experience? My husband is a quick learner, hard worker who wants weekends off! Any suggestions would be appreciated. I don't know what industry he needs to look into. Knoxville, Maryville or Sevierville areas.

Bank Teller? Some of them have abbreviated Saturday morning hours but that is all that I can come up with at the moment.

[gemkeeper]

NJDevil, most cities and county public works only work weekdays, and all national holidays off. There are hundreds of positions in the DPWs that require no real experience - water meter readers, water line installations, people in the planning, recreation, maintenance, and assessment offices.

Jobs like these certainly wouldn't start at the management level, but even the grunts make more money than most entry level jobs. I have worked for Department of Public Works in 3 different states in between teaching stints and always landed one right away and had great experiences with all of them.

Just another idea to look into.

[montanamom]

How about a maintenance worker or something at a school?

[ShellsNJam]

What type of rest experience? Larger hotels (Full Service Marriotts, Crowne Plaza, Hilton, etc.) sometimes have an Admin type person for the rest staff - Chef, Rest Mgrs, Bar Mgrs - if they are large enough. Lots of hotels have a few back office type positions that are M-F with normal hours. Since you know the industry, that is helpful in these types of positions.

[NJDevil]

I appreciate the suggestions, they are good ones. I guess he could write a letter to these large hotels and send his resume to see if they have something available. Job ads are so lame right now; I wonder if any places are hiring but are not advertising for it. I do like SMG and gemkeeper's suggestions.

[gemkeeper]

NJDevil, usually towns and cities advertise their jobs under "Employment Opportunities" on THEIR website. I haven't seen too many of those jobs listed in the classifieds in newspapers.

An internet search of different types of businesses just by visiting their site will show that they are searching for employees. This would include local car dealers, school districts, county and municipalities, local eating and lodging establishments, etc. Check out some sites and see what you come up with.

[hiknapster]

Originally Posted by gemkeeper

NJDevil, usually towns and cities advertise their jobs under "Employment Opportunities" on THEIR website. I haven't seen too many of those jobs listed in the classifieds in newspapers.

An internet search of different types of businesses just by visiting their site will show that they are searching for employees. This would include local car dealers, school districts, county and municipalities, local eating and lodging establishments, etc. Check out some sites and see what you come up with.

That's so true. That's how I found my job; by going on the company website.

My husband just goes around to auto shops looking for work, which he will be doing Tuesday. It is very, very slow. Everyone's getting hit by this.

[joeblow1]

The CAC mobile meals has a job opening I saw. Its starts out at 9.55$ an hour. its under food service in the paper.

[gemkeeper]

NJDevil, one thing I just remembered, also, about city and county jobs. A city anyplace in the US is going to be a government website. They are always listed as a www.ci.(cityname).state.us or as a www.cityofblankety-state.gov (broken link)- Geesh, they are not valid websites though!

You get the idea though. If you want to look for city jobs, say in Alcoa, you would access them through www.ci.cityofalcoa-tn.gov (broken link) just as an example. That way you won't get into that search game of finding every hotel within 40 miles of the town you are looking at.

So, the easiest way to do a city govenment search is to type into your search engine "city, Tennessee city government home page". I hope this helps!