NationStates Jolt Archive

Meh, I'm bored and polls are always fun :D Mine's not bad, the pay's not that good but then again I don't actually do much and I'm just glad I have the job period. Plus you get to see some interesting characters walk into a dollar store :)

One of the best jobs out there, but also one of the most stressful. And one where I never know what the hell is going to happen next.

Today I had one class where I had to babysit three students who thought it would be funny to start throwing books around the room instead of studying English; just to turn around and find some of my students had been working very hard with dictonaries to figure out how to ask me a question properly in English (Given they've been studying the language since April, I was impressed).

Of course they asked me if I was a geek, but that's the life of a junior high school teacher.

Job? What's that? I actually don't have a job currently but i am waiting to hear back from a place. Nothing special but I will learn alot of dirty secrets about people if i get it :P

My jobs ok, working at a century theatres. Its easy, pays well considering. I just don't like the wierd hours(have to get a different schedule every week), and no direct deposit.

I'm looking for another job, but at least being picky.

I just switched jobs about a month or so ago. My old job was one that just paid the bills as far as I was concerned. With this new job, I'm *much* happier. It's much closer to home, it's more responsibility, and it's in the field I want to be in.

Ha ha, I'm a worthless freeloader who doesn't want to work and doesn't have to work

I make $7.20/hr, plus $15/day in tips. My second job I make $10.00/hr, no tips. About $25K all together. Sucks.

My job is cool as hell, but it's freelance and I refuse to move where the industry is huge, so it can get spotty now and then. But when I do work, it rocks (except the pay, but that'll get better, hopefully.)

i hate my job. i get 15p above minimum wage and more often than not the management take our tips cuz they can't count money into or out of the tills. the most tips i got to keep in a night has been £8, i made £12 myself once but we pool our tips so i got less, but it's usually no more that £2 i get to keep. and the new top manager is a sarky power-tripping ball-bag. thank fuck for my co-workers cuz they're great fun. still quitting soon tho, soon as i find a new one.

I work 3rd shift, at a hotel...I'm at work right now, actually.

It used to be fine, especially since it gives me time to do homework (I'm attending college part-time).

We had an ownership change about a month ago, though, and now they're dicking me around on health insurance, vacation hours, and the fact that I'm overdue for a raise.

Needless to say, I'm looking for something else...

I really like my job but I hate my boss and the pay sucks. I'm looking for a better job but it's almost impossible to find a job at all in this industry. Students do it for free as they need working experience and employers are more than happy about it. I should have studied something else.

I waitress, and I love it. The chef is so sweet and funny, most of my coworkers are really cool, and I get to wait on all kinds of people. The other night I waited on the cutest old couple and joked around. I also waited on two friends who hadnt seen each other in a really long time, it was so sweet to see them catching up on old times. Of course, there are obnoxious, mean, and grumpy people, but I just try and cheer them up a little.

Best part, tonight I got to wait on 3 cute, smart guys (i know they're smart cuz they said they were med students) and flirted with one of them. Needless to say, a lot of fun.

Yeah, that was probably TMI, oh well. I felt like gushing, sorry.

Jobs and careers are just the governments trying to keep all you mindless sheep easy to maintain and control.

Come join me brothers and shed your clothing, come back to nature and its teachings!!!



I had a job last summer. Kind of a security/slash keep kids in bed/prevent the kids from buring the place down type deal at a massive summer camp. Was pretty sweet. Got paid 67.50 a day (Canadian) and worked something like 3 days and 2 days off (got paid then too). In those three days on I worked (sat around in a hallway) for 4 shifts.

First was 1800 to 0000 - pretty easy, just got the kids in bed

Second was the next day from 1530 to 2330 - kinda like the last one, cept longer and we ordered pizza which would arrive as our shift ended

Third was 0730 that next morning to 1530 - long and boring, kids weren't in the buildings so I usually slept (shh, don't tell anybody)

The last was 0000 to 0730 that night - the worst of 'em all, ended up mopping the building I was in for the night like 3 times over just to stay awake

After that last midnight shift we had 52 hours off before the rotation began again. As you can imagine, with that much downtime, hijinks were sure to follow...

I wish I had my old job :(

When I get a full time job, I hope I enjoy it.

I won't keep doing a job I don't get any satisfaction from :)

I don't have a job, I don't want a job. Yet. When I finish uni though, it might be different

I'm was 'let go' from my last job. Apparently they only wanted full timers so got rid of all us part timers. That was 2 years of my life wasted. Oh well I'll just concentrate on my studies and go to uni.

I bag groceries and get abused by irate customers for minimum wage in a supermarket.

Enough said. :p

I bag groceries and get abused by irate customers for minimum wage in a supermarket.

Enough said. :p
Sounds kinky.

While my pay isn't the greatest, I very much enjoy my job. I coach a men's team sport at the University level in the States. Negatives: During season I have no social life - my friends accuse me of falling of the face of the earth. Off Season, I have little structure to my day. Positives: I love coaching, I love recruiting, and I enjoy the atmosphere in an Academic Community that only a University can provide. So-so: the pay, as well as the security of my job being based, in large part, on the performance level of others (ha)

I work at Wendy's. It's quite fun. My coworkers are awesome, overall. The only thing I hate doing is dining room. Bloody cleaning up tables and chairs and all that yunk...

Subway Slave. I've been there for about a year now, and recently went from being paid 7.75/hr to 7.85/hr. After a year of being treated as sub-human by bankers on their lunch hour, not to mention constant abuse by my Nazi of a manager, I was rewarded with a big fat 10 cent raise. I know I shouldn't complain, since a lot of places don't even offer raises, but it's still an insult nonetheless.

I'm only two months away from finishing my Master's, though, and will hopefully find an actual career shortly thereafter. I'm sick of smelling like f*cking subs every second day.

Subway Slave. I've been there for about a year now, and recently went from being paid 7.75/hr to 7.85/hr. After a year of being treated as sub-human by bankers on their lunch hour, not to mention constant abuse by my Nazi of a manager, I was rewarded with a big fat 10 cent raise. I know I shouldn't complain, since a lot of places don't even offer raises, but it's still an insult nonetheless.

I'm only two months away from finishing my Master's, though, and will hopefully find an actual career shortly thereafter. I'm sick of smelling like f*cking subs every second day.
See, this is why I work a fast-food place in a rural area that gets its business mainly from the highway traffic. People are much nicer there overall.

I work in a new-ish Direct Mail company as the pet programmer (plus PC building/maintenance and a bit of data processing's turning up, too). It's mostly dull, they don't really need anything interesting coding, and all the "programming" I do is drawn in Visual Basic. And the pay's pretty rubbish.

Oh well, things may be looking up either here or elsewhere. We'll see.
Wanted: Aims and Ambitions.

No job just now. Recently finished my degree and now trying to find some nice little quiet job I can take for a couple of years. Hopefully I'll get the one I applied for t'other day at an independent cinema/arts centre - pay's not brilliant, but it's not too many hours so I can get another part-time job at the same time.

No job just now. Recently finished my degree and now trying to find some nice little quiet job I can take for a couple of years. Hopefully I'll get the one I applied for t'other day at an independent cinema/arts centre - pay's not brilliant, but it's not too many hours so I can get another part-time job at the same time.
That job sounds like it would rock. Good luck dude.

No job just now. Recently finished my degree and now trying to find some nice little quiet job I can take for a couple of years. Hopefully I'll get the one I applied for t'other day at an independent cinema/arts centre - pay's not brilliant, but it's not too many hours so I can get another part-time job at the same time.
Have fun.

Oh, by the way, gang, one thing I recommend you never do: work at Safeway. In any job. Myself, my sister, and three friends all at different times took a different job there. I worked in the Deli. My sister was a Courtesy Clerk. My friends were Checkers. All of us were fired within two and a half weeks for making a couple tiny mistakes, mistakes that would be forgiven in most jobs as part of the learning process. You don't learn things immediately and correctly the VERY FIRST FUCKING TIME with them, and you're outta there.

I just finished my teaching post grad in Physics and Maths (yes you colonial types, there is an s at the end of Math).

During my training one S4 (age 15-16 years old) turned to me in class and said "Sir, you're the scariest bastard thats ever taught me!". Not bad for just being a student at the time.

I prefer Physics to Maths as I can make the lessons a lot more varied.

Have fun.

Oh, by the way, gang, one thing I recommend you never do: work at Safeway. In any job. Myself, my sister, and three friends all at different times took a different job there. I worked in the Deli. My sister was a Courtesy Clerk. My friends were Checkers. All of us were fired within two and a half weeks for making a couple tiny mistakes, mistakes that would be forgiven in most jobs as part of the learning process. You don't learn things immediately and correctly the VERY FIRST FUCKING TIME with them, and you're outta there.

I work at Safeway, but the Australian version. They threatened to fire me for having long hair.

I love my current job so much that I've applied for a new job in a hospital for the criminally and clinically insane.

Atleast it would be varied....

my job is pretty cool, all things considered. the last thing i did before this was work in McDonalds (while i was working here, sorta... been working in one way or another here since i was about 14).

pros:
can be very interesting
changes pretty much daily as to what i actually do (sometimes market research/analysis, sometimes graphic design, sometimes website monkey, video editor, IT manager, apprentice commercial retail consultant, retail design and shop layout, photographer... all sorts! and i like a job that is not static)
expanding skillset
continually learning and gaining experience - chance to grow
nice working environment (got me own office, woo! and its bright and airy, and can work outside sometimes (except you can't see the screen))
going out for meetings and consultancies can be interesting, especially as i just tag along as the apprentice
because its a family business, i get to play with gadgets and new technologies and at the end of the day take em home for my own use (like this laptop - tis a business one, but because work = the home its mine too!)
access to pretty much my own ISP
good work hours for me (only about 6 hours a day)
can take days off to go see glitziness at short notice
pay is ok
good lunches (kitchen's just over there, hehe)
ability for self-improvement (apart from the skills and that, doing well for the business directly does well for me!)
can, and have, created new products (one very successful, woo!)
working with intelligent people is heaven compared to mcdonald's (especially) and uni...

cons:
often very stressful - impossible to meet external deadlines
work weekends - 7 day week - and usually evenings
lack of real resources
no upwards movement/promotions etc
pay fluctuates per project so its rare for me to know how much cash i'll have next month... (though i could budget...)
no social structure (all my friends are away at uni and the only people i see most days of the week are my parents)
difficult working relationship with parents (difficult and emotionally taxing to see them struggle and suffer with stress and debts and things :()
not much prestige from working in this field
becoming 'jack of all trades and master of none', in that the job changes too fast to properly learn one thing or another - its always do it well enough to move on to the next thing, and that irritates the shit out of the perfectionist in me
lack of real time off
no holidays (except for this year, woo!)
life = home = work is not good for me. i want to work to live, not live to work
home = work difficult to cope with sometimes
i need a job that's "more than a job" and that really means something to me in order to motivate me. this job only provides that via the loyalty i have to my parents - its sometimes very hard to care or be motivated about the work itself



thats a pretty exhaustive list... on the whole, it may be difficult (mostly for emotional or personal reasons), but its actually pretty good :)

Bloody awful.

I started last Sunday, and worked an uninterrupted 8 hour long shift on my feet. Not impressed.:mad:

Bloody awful.

I started last Sunday, and worked an uninterrupted 8 hour long shift on my feet. Not impressed.:mad:

Meh, I've done it for 10 hours. :p

Meh, I've done it for 10 hours. :p

It does suck so much. I was operating a mechanic dishwasher in a 2 metre by 2 metre room for 8 hours.

Bloody awful.

I started last Sunday, and worked an uninterrupted 8 hour long shift on my feet. Not impressed.:mad:
You get used to it pretty quickly. In a week or so.

After that, just wait for your first double shift... That's a killer.

You get used to it pretty quickly. In a week or so.

After that, just wait for your first double shift... That's a killer.

Yeah, but its better pay then any other part time work I can do, so meh.

Fit colleagues as well.;)

It does suck so much. I was operating a mechanic dishwasher in a 2 metre by 2 metre room for 8 hours.

Mmm, mine was on the week before christmas last year....supposed to be 3pm-12:30am, but they needed me to come in a half-hour early.

I'm supposed to get three breaks, two fifteen minutes and one half-hour, but it was busy, and my idiot supervisor forgot (I think she's been fired, hmm.)

The store was dead quiet after about 10pm anyway, so I told the duty manager and he said he'd pay me an hour extra. And I did get to sit down while it was quiet anyway, so it wasn't totally uninterrupted on my feet. But the first 8 hours or so were a killer :/

I'm going for job interview today.... any tips people?

Regular 16 year olds job at supermarket *nods*

I'm going for job interview today.... any tips people?

Regular 16 year olds job at supermarket *nods*

Yeah, I'm an expert at screwing up mundane job interviews. Don't:

Insult the interviewer
Point out her incorrect grammer
Ask if the uniform could be improved
Suggest improvements to protocol

And finally, don't ask how long its taken the interviewer to be promoted all that way.

I'm going for job interview today.... any tips people?

Regular 16 year olds job at supermarket *nods*

Don't. Trust me.

Seriously, go shovel poo at a farm somewhere. It's probably more rewarding. :p

(only kidding. It's not THAT bad)

Yeah, but its better pay then any other part time work I can do, so meh.

Fit colleagues as well.;)
If you don't already have proper working shoes, buy them. It really makes a huge difference.

People at my place seem to think work means "getting away with doing as little as possible" whereas I think it means actually doing your job. Am I the one with the naive attitude or are they in the wrong?

Maybe I should adopt their attitude though as I keep getting shortchanged when it comes to being paid. My contract says 10 hours a week, I'm doing 15 hours because we're shortstaffed, and they're paying me for 9 hours. NINE! Bah! Effing bank holidays every other week don't help either!

I don't mind the work though. I can deal with the occasional binbag that's been puked in.

I'm going for job interview today.... any tips people?

Regular 16 year olds job at supermarket *nods*
you already have some of my suggestions :)
could try thinking up and asking some questions about the job and/or company, but then this is simply a supermarket job and you probably don't have to go all out to impress (at my mcdonald's interview they said i was 'too smart, questioning, and have too many qualifications to want to work here' :p i said i really wanted the job and they said ok :) and weeks later the other staff were saying i should be the manager of the place... ah, shitty memories... :p)

If you don't already have proper working shoes, buy them. It really makes a huge difference.

Yeah. Converses tend to hurt after 4 hours.

I'm sure that if I don't quit my job soon I'm going to loose it, nuts, insane :headbang:

Don't. Trust me.

Seriously, go shovel poo at a farm somewhere. It's probably more rewarding. :p

(only kidding. It's not THAT bad)
Heh, when you live in a village where 99% of places never need new staff because the place is so dead... you snatch up any job interview. Seriously - I went around asking in every place here if there were any openings. I need money dammit! I'm fairly patient and I can just be testing that out :p

And, uh, thanks Chris - though I'd say those were fairly obvious.....

Huw - have all your advice to already keep in mind, and thank you :) for that and all the support :fluffle:
Don't want to try too hard and just seem fake... I don't like saying things I don't mean... but I'll probably have to to some extent... even though they'll probably know I just want it to get money.... stupid unspoken social thingys... :p

No job yet this summer, but I had the best job ever last summer as a nanny/therapist for a boy with tuberous sclerosis. I wish I were doing it again this year :/...

Well, I've been without a job for about a week now, because my company stopped publishing the magazine for which I was managing editor. Lemme tell you, while being able to sit on your ass and do nothing may seem attractive, it gets really boring really quickly. The shutdown of my magazine, though, has allowed me to look to a career change that I'd been thinking about for a while now. I always said when I got burned out on publishing and journalism (I also served as lead reporter for the magazine), I'd go into teaching. With the school year nearly over, schools will be looking to replace any teachers that are leaving, so really, the timing couldn't be better.

And many thanks to Aerou for helping me see a silver lining in the loss of my job.

My job's very good, but there are a few problems.

It pays a very good (for my age) $8 an hour, plus the work that I do is ridiculously easy (office cleaning = slacker's dream). Then come the problems...

...For starters, I don't get to work every day. Along with that, the days that I do work aren't always steady, eight-hour trips. And now I have to get a haircut, because some offices don't want my hair shedding all over the place (and I was planning on reaching ass-length by Christmas!).

Oh well. At least I'm making money, something I wasn't doing before this. Heh, I should even be able to afford (in due time) that Gibson Epiphone Korina that I've been looking at.

Now, there's a hell of a bonus to this job: Free transportation, along with which comes free meals. I shit you not --- BBQ, hoagies, steak... Anything and everything, completely free of charge.

...For starters, I don't get to work every day. Along with that, the days that I do work aren't always steady, eight-hour trips. And now I have to get a haircut, because some offices don't want my hair shedding all over the place (and I was planning on reaching ass-length by Christmas!).


You...shed? :eek:

You...shed? :eek:

Yeah, I shed all over the fricking place. I'm not losing hair, either, because the stuff I shed is about half the length of a full strand of hair (some of it's full-length, but it always seems to grow back).

Those who constantly shed have very shiny hair... I've noticed that recently.

And now I have to get a haircut, because some offices don't want my hair shedding all over the place (and I was planning on reaching ass-length by Christmas!).

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooo dude!! :eek: :( :(

Yeah, I shed all over the fricking place. I'm not losing hair, either, because the stuff I shed is about half the length of a full strand of hair (some of it's full-length, but it always seems to grow back).

Those who constantly shed have very shiny hair... I've noticed that recently.

Was one of your parents a Collie perchace? :p

Was one of your parents a Collie perchace? :p

Nope. Just Irish. :p

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooo dude!! :eek: :( :(

Don't worry, I can have it shoulder-length. And, at the worst, I can get a New Wave (think Glen Matlock during his Rich Kids days) or a Mod cut.

Three good things about my job:

-All the free Hell Pizza I get.
-Going to the supermarket to buy shit for work, and seeing the plebs who work there. It reminds me that I could have it much worse.
-The boss loves me because I'm the only person who works there who knows what the hell is going on most of the time. I can pretty much pick my hours and talked a pay rise out of him because of it.


Everything else about it sucks.

Meh, I am a machine operator and a forklift driver for a cabinet and table factory in Wisconsin. Being a computer person, I completely loath my job. MSN having dubbed machine operation as the 2nd least popular job in the US doesn't help much either.

I voted "I like it, although there are some things to hate..." although it's of course more complicated.

Things I love:
I get to spend about 1/3 of my work time more or less playing with kids (which I enjoy emensely) and generally having fun.

I work short days - a total of 29.5 hours a week.

I rarely start wook before 3 or 4 pm.

The "AHA! moment" when any student catches on to something. It's especially rewarding when it's a difficult point.

The 5% of my students who are "super" motivated.

Things I like:
I spend about 20 of my work time with adult students who are either highly motivated or at least fun to work with. (I'd rather be teaching the kids, but a good adults class is alright.)

I work in a very international workplace with people of at least 15 different nationalities.

Many of my co-workers and students are attractive young women. :D (Unfortunately the students are off limits and co-workers are morte or less "with apprpriate care". That's why this is a "like".)

My current employer is less concerned with dress and apperance than most have been. (I was dressed down by a manager at my previous employer when I shaved my head. The head of the personnel department at my current employer complemented me when I did so.)

Things I don't like, but deal with because it's the job:
I spend about 15% of my time dealing with "problem" students/customers - people who either don't want to be in class (they're being forced by their own employer or by their parents), have a "problematic personality", or have spoecific learning difficulties (which I'm sympathetic to, but it doesn't make teaching them any easier.)

Things I hate:
The decline in the quality of upper and mid level management at my company.

I work in Investment management and the markets ar elousy at the moment - lots of red ink:mad: