I've been trying to hire someone who wants to help run a used bookstore so I can slow down a little after 30 years in the business. The job mainly includes sorting through, pricing and organizing LARGE Quantities of books quickly. There are other parts of the job, such as putting around flyers and cashiering that will help give some more hours while you are learning the job, but there will be a learning period where you will have to learn the job, which will be Wednesday, Thursday, and/or Friday mornings.
It has been extremely frustrating trying to hire someone because while I am trying to find someone to take some responsibility to give me some time off, it has turned into a “take a hipster to work day” recurring nightmare, where someone answers the ad, convinces me to hire them, and after I pay to train for a day or two, they announce they just got hired at a pizza restaurant or grocery store but they will grace me with a few hours of their time a week. This, of course, nullifies the whole reason for hiring them because the point is to give ME more flexibility and free time, not some random person who answers the ad. You have to think in terms of 15 or 20 hours a week, expanding over a few months to 30 or 40 hours. I'm saying that up front, so someone doesn't answer the ad thinking they will walk right into a full time job.
You have to have a natural eye for books to do this job. You can't scan every book into your phone to see how much Jeff Bezos can get for it on Amazon. You have to be able to see if a book is any good almost before you touch it. Years ago, my landlord was watching me work and then said, “I never saw anything like it. He knows everything that's in a book just by holding it in his hand.” He was right too. And I'll teach you how to do it.if I can depend on you to show up and trust that I know what I'm talking about.