Seasonal Work in your area?

[Renee in NC]

Is there any big event that leads to seasonal work in your area? Even if only for a few weeks, can people pick up work?

 

For example, we have "Speed Weeks" here where you can get plenty of temp work for about 6 weeks or so. It may be minimum wage, but you can work lots of hours during that time.

 

I am trying to track down work like that all over the country and would love to hear what goes on in your neck of the woods!

[Kathleen in VA]

Renee, we have a pumpkin farm near us (Fredericksburg, VA) that hosts a Fall Festival each year. I just saw an ad in our online "paper" today that says they're hiring now for the event.

 

http://www.belvedereplantation.com/fallFestival.php

 

http://belvedereplantation.com/blog/employment-opportunities/

[ElizabethB]

We have friends in cheyenne, Wyoming, I would think their Frontiers days would be like that...they said the town grows from 50k people to 250K people for that week. Also, the balloon festival in Albuquerque.

[GWOB]

Yes. We are near a nuclear power plant. Every 18 months-2 years it undergoes a re-fueling outage. Outage (or he!! as we like to call it) lasts around 2 months, including work-ups. This happens at all nuke plants everywhere. There are a few nuke plants in Florida, so you may want to see when they are scheduled to go into outage.

[Annie G]

Where we live (Northwest Illinois), July brings a few weeks of temporary work detasseling corn. It's hot, itchy work, and mostly done by teens. But with the economic conditions what they are, anyone who is willing is likely able to find work. In our area it pays between $8.50 and $12 an hour.

[Renee in NC]

We have friends in cheyenne, Wyoming, I would think their Frontiers days would be like that...they said the town grows from 50k people to 250K people for that week. Also, the balloon festival in Albuquerque.

 

Frontier Days is first on my list!!!!!:lol:

[Melinda in VT]

Ski resorts hire a lot of seasonal workers.

[Maddysmom26]

We have the national baseball hall of fame, which has the classic game fathers day weekend and then the induction weekend usually the last weekend in July. Then they have built several big baseball & softball parks, that host about a hundred baseball teams per week from june to sept. so theres plenty of summer work here. Especially weekly rentals, or even cleaning for the rental people. i just started cleaning for my aunt who rents her 3 bedroom camp,they pay about $25 hr to clean. But all around theres plenty of work created from the whole "baseball" theme. Especially if someone really good is being inducted. Then its a really busy summer.

[lollie010]

Where we live (Northwest Illinois), July brings a few weeks of temporary work detasseling corn. It's hot, itchy work, and mostly done by teens. But with the economic conditions what they are, anyone who is willing is likely able to find work. In our area it pays between $8.50 and $12 an hour.

 

I heard a program on National Public Radio about detasseling. It was so interesting. They had interviews with a few people who had done it years ago. One local football player gave up after half a day, but there was a young lady who worked all summer to save up for a bike. I thought it was funny that she outlasted the football player.

[lmrich]

In Atlanta the Mart - clothing and merchandise has four shows a year and hires workers for three weeks at a time. I know there is one in October and January.