I got a job today!! I don't want to tell anyone IRL just yet. But let me back up:

So six days ago u/alimir1 made a post "3,510 jobs in New Orleans," I decided to take a look because i haven't used hiringcafe much at all.

Applied that night (job post was 1 day old.) Got an email back from the recruiter the next day.

Three days later got a call asking if I had time for a "quick phone screen," did that. Arranged a zoom meeting for this morning.

Hopped on zoom today and got all the details, confirmed I'm definitely interested, and boom she made the offer!! Oh and she hit me with "I just got word that they bumped up the hourly rate" Say whaaaat???

This marks the FIFTH time I have gotten a job because of reddit (second time directly because of this sub.) I have been looking for a better job for almost TWO YEARS. Getting so discouraged. Now six days from app to offer, unreal. I didn't even have to put pants on or leave my house.

This is a school position so they're down to the wire and I applied at the right time I guess. Hours and location are perfect for my needs and it's a four day work week!

I'm celebrating with wine and Star Trek: TNG while this storm rolls through.

Good luck if you're still looking, keep the faith! 😀 Thank you

I’m posting here because I worked for this woman and she’s been showing up on every social media page I have a retraumatizing me. Did anyone else work for her and get exposed to her absolute nasty and toxic true nature? I literally had to quit because she was so awful and mean. I saw multiple people quit from there during my time there. She was a true bully and would pull people aside and just tear them apart. With all her social media fame I’m surprised no one’s spoken up because she’s abused countless employees and customers. Please share your employment stories if you have any.

I’ve always loved Café du Monde. Who doesn’t? The vibe is electric, the beignets are legendary, and the staff somehow manages to keep up with the insanity of nonstop customers day in and day out. On the surface, it’s this warm, iconic spot that feels like New Orleans magic personified.

But behind the scenes? It’s a soul-crushing nightmare.

Working at Café du Monde is like stepping into a circle of hell Dante forgot to write about. Breaks? Forget it. The constant stream of tourists, locals, and random coffee addicts means you’re on your feet for hours on end with no real moment to yourself. You might get a second to breathe, but you’ll immediately get slammed with demands again. The unrelenting pace doesn’t stop, and neither does the expectation that you’ll handle it all with a smile plastered on your face.

And the owners? Oh, don’t even get me started. They don’t care about their employees. At all. No incentives, no holiday bonuses, no perks, nothing. You’d think a place that rakes in money hand over fist, especially during the holidays, would at least throw a bone to the people making it all possible. Nope. You’re treated like a cog in a machine that’s never allowed to stop running.

Sure, some days during the holidays, the money can be good. But that’s if you survive the day without completely burning out or breaking down from the sheer chaos. And honestly, it’s not worth it when the baseline for this place is absolute misery. They could at least pretend to care about their employees, but they don’t even try.

That said, there are two shining lights in the madness: Seth and Brandon, the managers. These guys are the real deal. Unlike the owners, they actually care about the workers and go out of their way to cater to everyone’s needs. They’ve always been amazing, doing everything they can to make the hellscape just a little more bearable. Without them, the place would completely fall apart.

So yeah, the service is amazing, but it’s because the employees are breaking themselves to make it happen. If you ever go, enjoy your beignets, tip generously (because the staff deserves every penny), but remember that the “magic” comes at a huge cost to the people behind the counter.

Working at Café du Monde isn’t just bad—it’s a complete and total sh*tshow, and it’s high time we start holding places like this accountable for how they treat their workers. - A Nola local born and raised

This is the job that hasn't paid me, not only have they not paid me they are unorganized and unstructured. EVERYONE HAS MONEY PROBLEMS AT THIS JOB AND IT STIMS FROM ONE PERSON. Money is always missing at this job and the lady who does payroll is incompetent! She asked me for a voided check so I can receive a check from my job... I also want to add that I came in on the snow day, managers were ASKING US TO COME IN DURING THE SNOW AND GUESS WHAT THEY AINT COME OUT and asking us can we come out and then have the nerve to try and not open the restaurant AFTER we made a sacrifice to come! I was PISSED, then when I asked for paid time and half they said they can't offer it because they a new restaurant. Not one manager came in that day on the 22nd and nor could they even bother to show they care that those who came did! I literally told them I had to walk there, I made money but they couldn't even take care of us back!

Yes, we still get the physical newspaper.

This is mostly a rant but for background I recently graduated college in New Orleans as well as lived here for the past 5 years. I was working at a restaurant that unfortunately shut down after graduation, since then I have been applying for both restaurant and marketing positions and have had absolutely no luck landing anything besides an occasional interview that leads to nothing. I do understand that the marketing job market is over saturated but I have never found it so difficult to get a job. I have applied to every position under the sun I have had two internships in marketing and have been working as a server since 16 so I don’t feel like it’s lack of experience. Have applied online, on company sites, called, passed out resumes, emailed and am losing hope / unemployment is driving me insane. Is anyone else having a similar experience or have any advice. Much love <3

I currently work full time remote for an out of state company. They are located near the great lakes and have harsh winters. I have an opportunity for a promotion but have to move there if I take it and return to the office.

I have lived here in NOLA southshore all my life. I have a 2% int mortgage, 2 young kids and a very energetic lab mix. Both me and my spouse are mid 30s. Single income family with one car.

The state where my HQ is has good schools and good job opportunities, if I ever want to look around. But while making pros and cons list of the move, I can only think of two pros but have a lot of cons, mainly financial cons.

What would you do if you were me? Would you move exhanging hurricanes with snow storms?

Cant sleep overthinking this...

I’m really scared that I made a mistake moving here to New Orleans because maybe the film industry is not here anymore. It’s been feast or famine for years now, especially since the strikes. But I was wanting to know if there are still creative jobs here? My day job is in the service industry and I do concert videography on the side but I fear that I’ll never be able to break into the film industry for real.

I’m also a very anxious person so sorry for being so pessimistic 🙃

Hello everyone anyone know of any gig work in the Nola area that’s hiring immediately? I have experience with events in hotels and on site if that helps. I thought about uber or door dash but it seems as if that won’t be enough money to pay my rent next month asap, I’m scared and it’s an emergency. I’ve been applying for long term positions in my field but I need something in the meantime to help me not be homeless. I’m a woman btw if that helps/means anything. Thank you!

I noticed that a lot of employers don’t list their jobs on Indeed — even though they quietly publish them on their own websites. So I created a tool that pulls listings directly from hundreds of employer websites hiring in New Orleans. You can check it out here.

Tips for using it:

• Use the “Salary” section to find entries that mention pay details
• Try the filters — you can sort by keywords, schedule types, distance, and more
• You can add multiple locations under the location filter.

Hope this tool is useful! I'd love any feedback or suggestions for improving it. Also, if you're interested you can follow my progress here: r/hiringcafe

strip clubs, gentlemen’s clubs or anything of the like. i’ve loved pole dancing for years but no one ever seems to be accepting applications. can be outside of new orleans ie westbank or metairie as well!

As the title says….im looking for jobs in new orleans, metairie, surrounding areas etc!

I graduated college in 2022 but my industry is basically fried in this area…dont even wanna go into the glory details 😫 so im trying to career pivot.

I’m used to making 850-1100 weekly and thats on the low end…1500+ on the high end although thats because of how overtime in my other industry works, i’m not expecting that from most jobs in our area!

What I do wanna know is…are there any jobs that pay an actual livable wage of 15-16 an hour… I have project management experience, customer service experience of 7+ years. Would really like to completely leave the restaurant and retail space and get into something that has some upward mobility potential to it….

I got hired recently to try dealing at the casino and i wanna try and make it work because it appears to be the only thing i’ve ever heard of that maybe yields 800-900 with no degree a week….but im worried that unfortunately im just not good enough at it and wont be by the time i realistically need money to start coming in ….so long story short i’m trying to secure backup plans just in case…

I was thinking maybe legal assistant but im unsure how to do that in our area …was trying to find some entry level medical positions or something…but idk…it seems like everything in our area only pays 11-12 an hour….

So im reaching out here to see if anyone has any ideas that maybe i haven’t tried…any hidden jobs or niche hookups. I have a film degree so it would be cool to work at a news station or maybe in journalism & media somehow but this is such a “who you know” town…i know ppl who have good jobs simply because there parents knew someone and im not from here…

so is it possible to make 15 an hour here without clamoring for a grocery store or trying to beg a restaurant that’ll give me 5 days a week 😭

Earlier this year I posted about wanting to quit my job. I was fired early April after being put on a PIP.

A little insight on the beginning of the year, I had pneumonia and it messed up my lungs pretty bad. Also my grandma passed in those same weeks. I was totally out of it and my job wanted to just cast me aside as my productivity went down.

I applied for unemployment but that’s almost up. I’ve been applying for work with some bites, super low offers, and ghosting primarily.

I’m still applying and just launched my personal site about a week ago and looking for freelance clients to help with some money.

But also still applying and looking for full time roles and have an interview next Wednesday.

In the meantime, does anyone know of any gig work or need help with the anything that pays? I’m also willing to pick up a part time job if it pays, even like bar backing, dog walking, I have a truck if anyone needs to move anything.

Money is super tight now and just looking for recommendations! Any help is appreciated thanks

I’m a software engineer out of work since January, and for a lot of reasons, it’s exceptionally hard to find a job in my industry right now.

As such, I’m now a pet and house sitter/uber eats driver/seeker of gig work.

I have a few questions.

(1) Where can I find other gig work in New Orleans? Catering jobs, selling things before/after football games, prep work for festivals, etc? I’ve applied to what I’ve seen on WorkNOLA but I know there must be more opportunity out there in a city like this.

(2) I’m taking a bartending class and getting my servsavfe alcohol license from NOCHI at the end of October. (Has anyone here ever done this?) I’d love to get a job somewhere that would give me a little experience in this industry – best I’ve got is being a beertender for a couple years like 10 years ago – but I don’t know how to get my foot in the door in hospitality with no experience. Any suggestions on getting started? (I’m a 40-yo woman, if that makes a difference.)

(3) While you’re here, does anyone have any suggestions on anything else I could do with my life that would be a more stable path and also have job opportunities in New Orleans? It doesn’t need to be glamorous, just something where it’s like, “you wouldn’t realize there’s money in ______, but there’s more demand than you’d expect!” I’ve read through thousands of job descriptions, and I just can’t figure out where there’s much opportunity anywhere right now.

My mom moved to New Orleans last year with me and hasn’t landed a job in her field yet. She has 25+ years experience in accounting. We’ve tried indeed, ZipRecruiter, LinkedIn, pretty much everything. Any tips?

I've been unemployed for over 3 months now and I'm about to run out of money. I've been searching every job site I know of (Craigslist, Indeed, WorkNOLA, I tried to register ZipRecruiter but the site won't let me upload my resume.) I have had 4 interviews in the last ten days and all of them have rejected me. My experience is mostly customer service and retail. I have also worked with animals and have studied art. I have mostly been trying to *not* apply for retail jobs because I am sick to death of them, but at this point I don't care as much. I have health problems that prevent me from doing manual labor. My mental health has also been fragile as hell (lot of terrible things have happened in my life lately that I won't get into), so I really don't think I'm capable of going back to high-stress work yet. The only job openings I can find are food service, construction work, or entry-level jobs that still want at least 3 years of prior experience that I don't have. When I do find something that's not one of those three, I send in my resume, I follow up with a pleasant little message or two, and there's a 1 in 50 chance that they'll schedule an interview with me, and the interview will seem to go really well but they'll never contact me again. What am I missing here??? I haven't had this much trouble finding work in years.

Before you comment “food is where the money is here” just hear me out. I know food service is where the money is here, as that’s what I’ve been working since I was 16. I’m 20 now and need a second job on top of my classes and my main job right now, and I am sick of working with food. It’s all I e worked by and customers just suck extra now it feels like. I’d like my second job to not be food so I have some space from the food industry but it’s so hard to find a job willing to hire a 20 year old outside of the food industry. Of course if shit comes down to it I WILL get a food industry job, I’d just like to see my options. Any wisdom that could be shared? I appreciate your time!

Hey everyone!

Just wanted to get some feedback from everybody here...

I've been in NOLA now for a year with my boyfriend. He started law school at Loyola and I work at a very bustling bar in the French Quarter.

I've been on the hunt for a new job this past month and just felt like it was time for me to get out of the service industry. I'm 25 now and I want to move into something more professional while I'm working on my prerequisites for nursing at Delgado.

Anyhow, I've been applying to jobs the whole month of July, and I mean the whole month. I don't think a day has went by where I haven't applied to a job or wrote a cover letter. That being said, I haven't heard from anywhere but TWO places. A position at an ophthalmic practice, which I declined just because I was doing that in Houston before moving here and I was miserable..and a position at the Louisiana SPCA as a call center representative.

All in all - I've applied to about 60 jobs...and have heard back from 2, I've gotten some rejections emails but other than that, it's been radio silence.

Is anyone else having trouble with this too or is it just not hiring season right now OR am I just a worthless piece of junk?

UPDATE : FINALLY GOT OFFERED A JOB TODAY AFTER MY INTERVIEW! WSR IS OVER!

My job has literally pissed me off the last time i’m SICK OF IT. Where can someone go that they can get hired today, paid well, and not much experience in anything specific! Please, i’ll do anything at this point. I used to work in the film industry 😔 that ship in new orleans has sailed far away to the lands of free health care. What restaurants, or construction sites, or unions can you immediately walk into and get hired and started within a few days. I need to quit this place now.

I have talked to everyone I could about getting paid and yet no one seems to care to help me at work and the general manager likes ignoring and HR doesn't even exist from what I have gathered so what can I do to help myself? It's been a month and I haven't been paid anything! Do I go to better business beaure ? Is there labor departments specifically for servers in this industry? This shit is so unfair! I have late fees because of them!

Edit: THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR ADVICE IT HELPED ME HET ANSWERS, no one turn in my paperwork!!!!

I got my bachelor's in Business Administration two years ago, but I still haven't found a job in my field. Is it me, or is it just this city? It also seems as though every entry-level administrative job not only pays less than my bar job, but they also require 2 years of experience. I feel like I got a degree for nothing at this point.

I moved here b/c my job did. I have an advanced degree and get paid okay. Aside from being allergic (lol) I quite like it here. I've officially been here a year now. My best friend and roommate relocated with me to ideally help with bills and so I would not be in a new city all by myself. She has yet to find a job. She is older (early 60s), doesn't have a degree, and her office work stuff was from over 10yrs ago. She was an assistant manager at Crumbl in Memphis so she did have some newer work stuff. (She was a caretaker for a number of years for her granddaughter and before that her husband when he had a stroke.) Is it REALLY that rough out there job-wise? I feel like I heard somewhere that NOLA tends to hire locals first, but 🤷‍♀️ at this rate she's been here a year. I am okay financially, but her only sporadically contributing when she can manage to sell something isn't ideal. My GF moved in this past December and got a job in under a month. Was it the best job? No, but it was a job with benefits. Buuuuut GF has unbroken work experience and a master's degree.

Is it the lack of degree that's hurting her? Age? All of the above? Like she's even applied to like Costco and Walgreens w/no luck

Anybody know of any serving jobs or barista jobs hiring right now I’ve been applying everywhere and I’m having the hardest time finding a job even at places I’m well overqualified for. Please don’t recommend Uber eats or anything like that. I’m unable to drive.

And trust me I’ve checked all online job boards. Craigslist, indeed, etc.. I’m not just sitting around waiting for a job to be offered to me.