What would be the easiest job to get in Hawaii? (low income, apartment)

[flavlif]

I heard tour guide is a job high in demand in Hawaii, but I saw a chart and it showed the number of tour guide to be about one tenth of retail jobs.

[Grassyknoll]

Is your question the title of your post (coffee or macadamia nut picker would be easiest job to get), or is it something more related to your post above?

[Dreaming of Hawaii]

Flavlif, you sound like you desperately want to move to Hawaii, but you have no job or even any education. Why are you focusing on moving to Hawaii?

I think the best thing for you to do is figure out what you want to do with your life. You’ve asked about a bunch of different unrelated jobs in Hawaii, but do you realize that they all take training? Even tour guides need skills that take training. Sure you could pick Mac nuts and get paid by the pound, but how would you afford to live?

Perhaps you need to meet with a career counselor to see what you would be qualified and/or interested in doing. Right now you are all over the board with no direction.

[hotzcatz]

Aloha Flavlif,


It's pretty easy to get a job in Hawaii, HOWEVER, it's really hard to get a job that will provide the kind of lifestyle we imagine most people on the mainland to have.


So, in order to survive your first few years until folks figure out you really want to live in Hawaii and are going to stick around (that's when you'll get the better jobs, the nicer places to live, solid friends, etc., etc.) you'll need to scale back your living to match the low income jobs that are plentiful to folks who have just moved to the islands.


Housing is the biggest expense in Hawaii, if you can get somewhere you can afford to live, the rest of living in Hawaii is about the same as an expensive place on the continental United States. First off, show up with no debt, no pets and enough money to get back to where you were just in case it doesn't work out. Then you'll want more money on top of that to get started with. For a single person with no pets, four to six thousand plus the get back to the mainland money would be a good start.


Find a shared housing situation. Rent a room in a house or apartment, not the whole house or apartment. That not only gets you a semi-affordable place to live, but it also gives you folks who have somewhat of an interest in helping you make it. Then find employment somewhere nearby. It doesn't matter what, "do you want fries with that" will do. Work that job for six months to a year to get some employment history and then look for upgrades.


While waiting for the first year in Hawaii to pass so you'll get some on the ground street cred for living in Hawaii, network and find good stable people to be friends with. You're known by who you know so get good friends.


Do you have any specific island in mind? Each one is different.

[rya96797]

easiest job to get? retail associate or fast food worker.

[whtviper1]

Ok I’ll play although the game has run its course.

The easiest job to get are the jobs nobody else wants to do. There are plenty here.

[terracore]

The most recent data I could find in 10 seconds on an internet search showed Hawaii's unemployment rate for April was 2.8%. I know several employers who can't find enough people to work. If you come here, you will get a job. If you can pass a drug test, show up on time, and can get along with your co-workers you can move up pretty quickly in many industries. The fast food joints are all paying significantly above minimum wage for entry level positions. I'm not suggesting that you need to work in that industry, I say that to communicate what is happening on the bottom rung of the employment ladder.

[davephan]

What are your job skills, income level, and cost of living where you currently live? Knowing that information, you’ll know what you’d need to do to improve your job skills, income, standard of living, and quality of life. You might think about how to improve your life where you’re currently living, instead of what work you could do to be able to live in Hawaii. With little to no job skills, you might be able to move to Hawaii and have two or three low wage, no benefits fast food jobs, and live out of a van. Some people live that way, but you’d have to be willing to lower your standard of living that far, and have no long term financial future. You’d also be on the edge of being homeless if any disaster in your life occurred.

Maybe your time table to move to Hawaii is too short, and needs to be increased to decades. The medical career path requires college, a lot of expense, and years of study. Not everyone is accepted into the colleges. Only certain medical careers are high income careers. There are many low wage health care careers, which would won’t increase your standard of living.

The IT career path is possible without college, but it’s tougher to get your first iT job without a college degree. There’s low cost and free IT training on the Internet, such as Free Code Camp, Udemy, and thousands of free YouTube videos. OpenCourseware allows you to take college courses at no cost, watching YouTube videos. You get the knowledge, but not the college credits. I know people who work in IT that only have a high school education, but they were highly motivated and educated themselves with low cost and free training. It took close to a decade to gradually increase their income and they make six figures or close to six figures. These are jobs like developers, system analysts, and senior database administrators. But it’s much harder to get the first IT job, but once they get past the front door, they can prove their worth, and be successful, without the college degree.

But everyone isn’t cut out for a high income job. Plus, most people limit their own financial success in life, due to lack of motivation, and fear of an unknown future. That’s why there’s so many poor people in the United States. Most likely, you are limiting yourself.

I suggest you think about your long term goals in life, rather what you can specifically do to barely survive in Hawaii.

[Open-D]

Originally Posted by Dreaming of Hawaii

Flavlif, you sound like you desperately want to move to Hawaii, but you have no job or even any education. Why are you focusing on moving to Hawaii?

I think the best thing for you to do is figure out what you want to do with your life. You’ve asked about a bunch of different unrelated jobs in Hawaii, but do you realize that they all take training? Even tour guides need skills that take training. Sure you could pick Mac nuts and get paid by the pound, but how would you afford to live?

Perhaps you need to meet with a career counselor to see what you would be qualified and/or interested in doing. Right now you are all over the board with no direction.