AbeBooks.co.uk: Student Jobs and How to Find Them

Let’s Talk about Work

Students often endure horrible jobs to pay for tuition and textbooks. From telemarketing to door-to-door sales, students have the short end of the stick. AbeBooks.co.uk helps students save on textbooks by offering millions of new, secondhand, and international edition textbooks online. Thousands of textbook sellers list cheap editions and secondhand textbooks that are easy to find. Students save up to 50% on secondhand textbooks at AbeBooks and also find bestsellers for less than a pound. The university bookshop can’t compete with our inventory of textbooks or low prices.

Besides textbooks, AbeBooks offers a variety of books to help students in the real world after graduation. Check out these books on finding your dream job and learn from books detailing some of the worst jobs in history.

Help for students looking for work

Dream Jobs and How to Find Them

These recommended books help students land jobs that won’t require giving your body to experiments.

50 Best Jobs for your Personality by J. Michael Farr
How to Get a Job You'll Love by John Lees

Worst of the Worst

The Worst Jobs in History by Tony Robinson
Crap Jobs: 100 Tales of Workplace Hell by Dan Kieran
50 Jobs Worse than Yours by Justin Racz
Odd Jobs: Portraits of Unusual Occupations by Nancy Rica Schiff

Top 10 Worst Jobs Held by AbeBooks Staff

We asked our colleagues about their most awful jobs before AbeBooks. It's safe to say we're all pleased to have shed our gas masks, paper hats, and shovels for greener pastures.