Finding a flexible part-time accounting job while in college
Employers automatically deny applicants who are balancing a university education alongside another job because they demand total schedule flexibility. This inflexibility stops students from earning income, which is further compounded by a lack of personal transportation and unreliable local public transit systems.
What the numbers show
Counted from the threads quoted below. How we count
- This comes up 17.5× more often in r/Accounting than across the site as a whole.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
Share your steps and trade-offs so fellow engineers don't have to reinvent the wheel. No account required.
- 1Doing VITA volunteering or tax preparation work on the sideDid this help you?
- 2considering lying about college schedules or availabilityDid this help you?
- 3continuing to search and try despite barriersDid this help you?
- 4Learning Excel during free timeDid this help you?
- 5Looking into volunteer tax programs in collegeDid this help you?
- 6Looking for non-remote service or retail jobs such as a bartender or night time stock clerk.Did this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I'm a high-school senior with a lot of free time because I'm not able to get a job because of how fucked this job market is.”source ↗
“What type of accounting jobs or side hustles, can you do on side while completing your university education?”source ↗
“Im trying to find related job this past few months but I cannot really find one that would fit to me since I am only available at night due to full load units at school since Im a graduating student.”source ↗
“Issue is, jobs, regardless of the low pay, want you to dedicate your life to that job. If youre not flexible, yiure not hired.”source ↗
“I tell them im trying for college and another job, that is an automatic denial.”source ↗
“My lack of a vehicle and inconsistent, shitty bus system down here makes getting a job deeper in my area very difficult.”source ↗
Where this came up
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