Jobs with an early start

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frash

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Pipe-dream.....

Currently working 9 to 5 in the IT industry but would ideally like to get a job out of IT with an early start (5am) which finishes around lunchtime.

First thoughts are taxi or some sort of delivery person - neither of which are overly appealing. What other options are there?
 
Shift work at any number of high profile internationals?

You may even find that your IT experience would be in demand e.g. Microsoft, Google etc
 
Other possible options are those where shift work is possible, such as Security, Gym instructor, Maintenance, Self employed gardner / landscaper etc, 24-hour supermarket work, Fruit & Veg wholesale / distribution trade.

You may need to specify what level you're at in your current role and / or what salary or level you'd expect to achieve in your next role. This will help others to give you a more specific steer.
 
swordshead said:
Why oh why would ye want to start work at 5am??Id be cryin gettin up at that time
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I'd love it if i could find a suitable job allowing me to work those hours. No traffic worries and home by 2pm or so with the rest of the day free. You'd get used to getting up at that time within a couple of weeks.
 
Trent said:
I'd love it if i could find a suitable job allowing me to work those hours. No traffic worries and home by 2pm or so with the rest of the day free. You'd get used to getting up at that time within a couple of weeks.
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would you be going to bed at 8 pm?
 
I'm working in the IT industry for a while myself and depending on the type of job you do I'd seriously consider having a chat with your boss about working different hours. Given that most IT work is project based (and good IT staff are genuinely hard to find) it's usually better for the employer to see somebody work different hours than lose them entirely. It's defintiely worth seeing what the options might be i.e. working from home, flexi-time, 3day week etc.....nothing ventured nothing gained!!!
 
As an employer, (currently okay for staff but you never know in the future), I'd love someone to work those hours, to interface with our development team in asia and make the most of the changeover.
So perhaps you could target companies where a significant chunk of their development or tech support is based in asia, in which case the hours would be a benefit rather than a problem?
 
Lots of companies have a "follow the sun" approach and which is changing the normal working hours to facilitate their overseas clients. A lot of the bigger US financial companies that are based here would probably have a shift thats begin around 5am to cater for the Asian markets. I'm sure a lot of them would welcome an IT employee who is willing to work those hours.
Might not be so much of a pipe dream, could easily happen! Unless you want to get out of the IT industry altogether that is..
 
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Thanks for all the replies.
I would ideally like to get out of IT altogether but seeing as there's childcare & a mortgage to consider I'm not sure that a career change now would bring me in the kind of money I'd need on a monthly basis.

I'll keep an eye out for some job openings in financial places.
 
cinders said:
In case this job is gone, how about Greenkeeper on a Golf Course?
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In theorey it sounds like it would be a nice job to have but then in reality it wouldn't be that great on a cold, wet January morning at 5am.

More to it then first thoughts might suggest
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