If you’re making minimum look into operations/warehousing. It’s hard work but I literally can’t get people to show up for less than $25/hr. Suburbs of Chicago tho.
Avoid retail because those jobs will be brutal and pay less. Check indeed for warehousing, the good jobs will be small businesses and 3PL as they both typically operate during normal business hours. Apply even if you don’t have experience, it’s not complicated work so… I can only speak for myself but I mostly look for aptitude, effort, and attention to detail.
We currently have 2 full-time jobs open and our 3PL is an hour away in the suburbs and they’re also struggling to find people, full time M-F. Obvious positions like receiving and pick/pack, forklift drivers, and also kitting/assembly, special projects like labelling, etc. It can be mind numbing work at times but if you stay open to trying new things you’ll end up doing something different every day and moving between departments. If you’re reliable and put in effort it’s easy to move into a supervisory role and salary can be anywhere from $50-$80k+ but 60k is typical.
I did all these things and I’m an operations manager now and make very good money. People see warehousing as a dead end job but honestly it opens a lot of doors into operations jobs.
If you’re making minimum look into operations/warehousing. It’s hard work but I literally can’t get people to show up for less than $25/hr. Suburbs of Chicago tho.
Manufacturing company I work for starts at a minimum of $20/hr for the lowest role, and that’s our nationwide lowest pay.
We are constantly hiring
Where would I go to find warehouse jobs?
Avoid retail because those jobs will be brutal and pay less. Check indeed for warehousing, the good jobs will be small businesses and 3PL as they both typically operate during normal business hours. Apply even if you don’t have experience, it’s not complicated work so… I can only speak for myself but I mostly look for aptitude, effort, and attention to detail.
We currently have 2 full-time jobs open and our 3PL is an hour away in the suburbs and they’re also struggling to find people, full time M-F. Obvious positions like receiving and pick/pack, forklift drivers, and also kitting/assembly, special projects like labelling, etc. It can be mind numbing work at times but if you stay open to trying new things you’ll end up doing something different every day and moving between departments. If you’re reliable and put in effort it’s easy to move into a supervisory role and salary can be anywhere from $50-$80k+ but 60k is typical.
I did all these things and I’m an operations manager now and make very good money. People see warehousing as a dead end job but honestly it opens a lot of doors into operations jobs.