Posted on: 09-06-04 14:32:19
my advice - either start your own small-time dorm room/home-based business, or look thru your local area newspapers under part-time help wanted. you will only find "cash" jobs by word of mouth, their hours will be infrequent and they will prolly not earn you as much as regular employment. better yet - speak to your international student counselor to try and get a waiver form that will allow you to work off-campus for a certain number of hours a week. you may have to demonstrate need. this was the norm in the US and I'm sure Canadian universities aren't far behind.
even for blue-collar work, you will require an SIN number, and if your student status doesn't allow you to work off-campus you can get into trouble. speak to a counselor first. The other option that most international students don't know about is to go direct to the goverment - ie., in this case, go to a local HRDC office, tell them you're a foreign student looking for work and see what a govt counselor can do for your situation. being on welfare is not the best thing in the world but if you don't want to go broke or back that may be the only option left. best of luck!
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Forget the HRDC part, you will be asked to go back home, my advise to you is look out for a desi contractor who supplies labor to factories, he should help you out. The problem will be you payment will have to be routed through some friends bank account or you will have to take a discount on your hr payments.
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Jai Hind .....
guys,
let me thank all of u guys for giving me and other international students in canada on how to find some source of pocket money!!! u know.... we guys have money but the problem is that money goes into the tution and stuff..!!! we are left with nothin to spend on ourselves!!! thats the problem which push us to go out for ilegal stuff!!! but u know.... i got an oncampus job of public interviewer!!! thats cool... getting 10 bucks per hour!! its part time BUT stills its better then anything illegal!!!
enjoy
let me know if some body interested in giving me a good illegal job!! (DONT EXPECT THOUGH)..
thanx a lot guys
take care!
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Thats the way it is
Strange why the hell do you want a illegal job when you say you have got a legal job in the campus , and 10 bucks is cool man . As regards to selling “Channa “ , yes you cannot sell “ channa” but you can sell hot dog’s , we are Indians man, we can do any thing and survive .
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