Company: Best Buy
About: Provide a positive, smooth check-in and checkout experience. Understand technology issues using follow-up questions and taking notes to execute tasks with priority. Maintain and update certified training courses.
Requirements: 3 months of experience in customer service with the ability to take on a flexible schedule. Please have a passion for technology and a desire to learn and solve problems in an industry in fast pace.
Link: Best Buy Application
East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) is hiring a full-time Customer Services Representative I in Oakland. The role begins with six to eight weeks of training, followed by a six-month probationary period.
Representatives serve utility customers in a high-volume environment: taking customer calls, responding to billing and service inquiries, processing payments and daily receipts, keeping customer account records accurate, and helping customers start or stop service.
Requirements: 12th grade or equivalent AND two years of clerical experience (customer-service experience is a plus); equivalent combinations of education and experience will be considered. Spanish bilingual candidates are preferred.
The hiring process includes a written test in mid-November 2026 and a panel interview in early December 2026, and establishes a 12-to-24-month hiring list.
IMPORTANT: Applications are accepted ONLY during a 24-hour filing window — Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 4:30 p.m. PT through Friday, October 23, 2026 at 4:30 p.m. PT. Apply as soon as the window opens.
Pay: $69,720 – $84,744/year.
The City of Alameda hires part-time administrative staff across its departments through a continuous citywide talent pool. Applications are reviewed only when a department has an opening, so there may not be a single current vacancy; applications stay active for three months, and departments draw from the pool as needs arise.
Typical assignments include reception and phone coverage, data entry and typing, scheduling, Microsoft Office work, filing and copying, large-scale document scanning and archiving, bookkeeping and tracking revenues and expenditures, basic research and report writing, grant writing and reporting, programmatic support, and event planning and coordination.
The city uses E-Verify; new hires must present a valid U.S. Social Security card at the time of hire.
Pay: $18.35 – $27.10/hour.
Community Staffing Resources is hiring a full-time, in-person Accounts Payable & Administrative Assistant for its downtown Concord office. The schedule is Monday through Friday during regular daytime business hours.
Day-to-day duties blend accounts payable work with general office support: helping process invoices, handling basic bookkeeping, keeping financial records accurate and up to date, filing, data entry, and general office correspondence.
The ideal candidate is dependable and detail-oriented, comfortable with computers and everyday office software, and brings a positive, eager-to-learn attitude. A bookkeeping background is helpful, but the employer provides hands-on accounts payable training.
Pay: $20.00/hour.
via CTP Skill Center.
Front-desk hospitality role at the Napa European Wax Center. The associate greets guests on arrival, manages the reservation book, checks guests in and out, explains services and membership packages, and keeps the front of the shop orderly. Basic register duties round out the day, and there is some wax-pass sales work that earns commission on top of the hourly base. Pay is $16.90 to $23.90 an hour. The schedule includes some evenings and weekends.
This small rare-disease nonprofit needs someone to keep its virtual office running day to day: handling communications, keeping donor records and CRM data current, coordinating meeting schedules and logistics, and helping with newsletters and community materials that support families affected by ichthyosis. A light, flexible-hours behind-the-scenes role at a mission-driven organization. The role is 10 to 15 hours a week. Admin experience and familiarity with Microsoft 365 and DonorPerfect (or a similar nonprofit CRM) are preferred, but no specific years of experience or degree are required. Apply by email to the contact named in the posting.
Today, I posted my first two job listings — one computer equipment management role for a moving company and one IT support position at H-Mart (Korean language skills preferred, so make sure Alex sees it!). It was good practice for my own job search, like how to find the most relevant information efficiently.
Full-time in-person position paying $75,000 – $124,000/yr.
Benefits: Health, Dental & Vision insurance; EAP; 401 (k); Life Insurance and AD&D; BTA Insurance; PTO and Paid Holidays; Celebration & Condolence Benefits; Additional Smart Card points; Holiday Gift certificates; FSA; DCFSA; HSA
Duties include: IT user support; Computer maintenance; Record keeping
Candidate must have: General technical knowledge of computers; Strong communication and customer service skills; Familiarity with help desk software and remote desktop tools. CompTIA+ certification is a plus and bilingual English/Korean language skills are preferred. (Attention Alex!!)
10 21 2026
Today we worked on finishing the lab assignment for the week, and then we did tech article presentations. This time, I was able to do and document steps 1-3 on my ticket. It was cool seeing the difference between sysprep and nosysprep for Windows 10, and then at the end of the lab, doing an image backup of the Windows 10 operating system and configurations all in one file called tibx.
October 21, 2026: Today, I did some work on the lab project and presented my weekly tech article. It may have been way out of the ordinary by today’s standards, but who knows what will happen decades into the future?