going next week to check out a part time job ...census taker

[greenbriar]

not sure what all it will involve, but if it doesn't interfere with my teaching, I may take it on

[Skittles]

1. all the people who don't respond to the census info request

you find them and get the info - I think that's what it involves. Sounds likes something better done during evening hours, for sure.

[greenbriar]

2. I think it will pay like 10 or 12 bucks an hour

would be nice to help pay off a bill or two

[Skittles]

4. that is correct

:)

[Rhiannon12866]

3. My mother did this since 1970.

She jokes that she works every ten years. She didn't have a problem with it, though it meant a bit of driving and some of the houses she visited were heartbreakingly poor. I'm pretty sure she could do it whenever she wanted as long as the results were in on time... :-)

[Whoa_Nelly]

5. Friend of mine, on unemployment, has had to apply for that job, took the tet, passed the test

and was told that she would have to go out at night, alone, knocking on doors of whatever neighborhood they send her, to try to get census info.

She's trying to find a way to not do this job.
She lives in a big city, many not so good places they could send her, she's in her 60s and only 4'10" tall.

She was told there will be no choice of working day or night, or what neighborhoods they select for her to canvas.

[toadzilla]

9. thats odd... theyre not even going to begin knocking on doors for a while

first is all daytime work, and they tend to only place people in the areas where they live.

[Whoa_Nelly]

15. I'll share with her what you posted

She does live in the downtown area of the city near some of the not good neighborhoods.

However, I will share with her what you posted.
I think part of the reason she's only hearing what she thinks they are saying about the job is that she said it would be paying her less than what she is getting on unemployment.
She's a senior level geologist without a job right now, and is applying to the few and far between positions in her field.

Thanks! :hi:

[Jeep789]

12. You can go out with another Census taker

or have someone else go with you and wait at the curb. Plus, you choose your own hours. I chose to do some neighborhoods on the weekend in the daytime when I did the job part time and I never felt in any danger.

[Whoa_Nelly]

14. I'll tell her what both replies here shared

She says she was told she would have no choices in the hours, and that she'd have to go alone.
However, she could be freaking out based on what she thinks she was told.

Thanks for the input! :hi:

[Kat45]

6. Are they calling people already?

I took the test a couple of weeks ago but haven't heard anything yet. Though I think they may start in different areas at different times.

[Eurobabe]

7. My mom did it too

in 2000, she's just signed up again. Good luck.

[handmade34]

8. might depend on where you live

Greenbriar, Census work is ok. Paperwork, knocking on doors, keeping schedule, producing results, etc. I was local supervisor in the 1990 Census in a relatively rural area. May be rougher in an urban, innercity setting. After the Census work I did a lot of field work for Gov't studies (knocking on doors, etc..., same as census) I loved the work and now travel throughout the U.S. doing the mapping for same studies(I work off Census maps), and while I would go back to interviewing in rural areas, I would be hard pressed to do innercity. Good Luck!

[toadzilla]

10. I just got called back today! took the test a month - 6 weeks ago

I start at the end of the month. 15 something an hour, mostly daytime shifts during the week.

[Jeep789]

11. I did it twice as a part time job

Really a good experience and pretty good money for a part time job done at hours you choose. I ran into very few problems. Most people cooperated and if they absolutely refuse you don't force them. I still have fond memories taking a census in a house while a chicken flew around (yes, in the house).

Edited to add: I considered doing it again for this Census but thought that since I was working and so many people aren't, I would defer.

[lunatica]

13. There are phases to census jobs over a period of a few years

In the first phase you don't have to even meet people and it starts this year. You just walk up and down streets to verify that addresses are real, and if you do talk to someone it's to ask them if they live there. I imagine this is to make sure the addresses are real.

In the second phase people fill out the census and mail it back.

In the third phase you call and visit the people who never sent the census back. You interview them and fill out the census and send it to the census bureau. So working for the census takes about two and a half or three years.

I looked into it.