Don't forget to check school districts, local govt (city hall) jobs, and state agency (social services, etc) jobs. Those are usually union
Administrative assistant.
Program coordinator.
Data entry.
Any consultant job that doesn't stress senority in the title.
Technical writer (you're a Google search away from being a tech writer expert)
Data analyst (trust me - no one knows what this means including the people interviewing you)
Any job that says "Level 1" in the job description.
Good luck!!
Highly depends on the company. You can be a data analyst with some SQL skills making $70k in one company and be a data scientist making $140k in another with the same skill set. I’ve had interviews coming from companies where all they were expected to do was format excel files and create powerpoints. Didn’t even know how to do basic data manipulation if it wasn’t already handed to them on a platter
Call center jobs have pretty low requirements, but they're very emotionally taxing. Consumer public hates customer service workers.
Yeah, hard to disagree, the most horrible shit I've ever heard is all from call center customers. One told my coworker once that he hoped she and everyone else working at her call center would get pancreatic cancer.
Maybe an accounts receivable clerk. The short version is you'd be keeping track of invoices sent to customers, and chase them to pay if the invoices get overdue. Most job ads will say you need an accounting background but you might get lucky and find a company that's just looking for anyone well-organized who shows up on time and sober. Some companies call the same job credit analyst. If it's in the same industry then your knowledge there could outweigh the lack of an accounting background.
Warning: you will almost certainly be dealing with unreasonably pushy management who want the money to be flowing in and who have never worked AR themselves. The key is covering one's ass. Document every attempt to contact a customer for money. Dates, times, contact info, phone conversation notes, etc. Stay organized and calm and professional in your language in email and on the phone, and you'll do just fine. It's not at all a hard job, just one that takes a lot of organization skills.
Technical customer support (or many of it's various names) at a tech company
Most offices probably have an internal mail clerk position or somesuch, I've applied for a few as it's pretty simple enough work it sounds like I could tolerate
If you can use CAD software and/or read blueprints, you could do industrial drafting or quality control inspection (metrology). Check your local community college or union hall for training programs.
Book keeping. Its like the little sibling to an accountant that does all the boring/tedious data entry but you don't need to sign your name to any state/federal attestations that tax math has been done properly.
If you think you need a "course", you should be able to find something that can give you the basics by searching Free Book Keeping Course. If you've got an account with some of those job search websites like Indeed or LinkedIn, they might have "certification" courses for free/cheap.
Libgen.is will pull up a bunch of entries for books about doing Book Keeping that are between 200 and 600 pages.
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Data Entry, i tripped over my own shoelaces into a fairly comfy data entry job in my early 20s without a degree. basically it was looking at videos turning it into spreadsheet data for engineers. I got in at the sweet spot between when they used to make blokes stand outside and when neural networks started doing this stuff. I'm sure in some places they still do it this way. Also there's other types of data entry. Consumer data, mostly.
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QA Testing for software. not every dev team needs you to be a programmer. sometimes they just need people to test new features of an application from an end-user perspective. it especially helps if you're good at verbal/text communication and sending screenshots if you run into errors. Also you need to be able to follow flowcharts to compare what the program is doing to what the specification says it should be doing.
I hate call centers but there are a lot of office jobs that are actually good if you can type fast and remember a lot of things, even if you don't have a degree. Attendance will matter more than anything else. I had a gig where I was finally allowed to work for home after a few years. As much as I hate to say it, a lot of small business chuds are absolute knuckleheads who can't work a spread sheet or manage a budget. having even the most bare-boned skills in excel and being able to keep up with contacts and make a few phone calls here and there for that kind of person is a job that's easy to get but you might have to offer your services in a more mercenary fashion, since a lot of people don't even realize they need someone like that, or keep insisting to themselves that they don't.
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If you don't mind some customer service component, it is fairly easy to become a teller at a bank or credit union, and then leverage that into a starting position as a retail banker/loan agent of some kind. It's not bad work if you can avoid a place that's insane about sales numbers.
