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Does anyone have a job they actually like?
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in Work & Study
Just wondering cos I can't stand mine and i'm absolutly desperate to find a new one.
My actions make me beautiful and dignify the flesh
My actions make me beautiful and dignify the flesh
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I've worked in Smiths for a year and on Saturday they decided to promote me which was quite cool. I've been working on the front tills for the past year but now I'm on books where I have a phone to answer, the book ordering computer to work, and the magazine ordering system to sort out.
They told me I was going to be doing that when I arrived at work on Saturday, I had no training and had to work it all out for myself, plus for the second half I was supervising a new employee, and was in charge of locking up the back of the store and sorting out the tills at the end of the day. Shows they trust me I guess <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif">
actually marketing communications is what i was built for. i love doing the marketing, advertising and promtion of my company's products. <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif">
however, we are a technology start up, so there's always the risk that i could be unemployed before the day's out. <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/tongue.gif"> <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/tongue.gif"> <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/tongue.gif">
oh well, life of a start up.
i like most of the people i work with. well especially the saturday staff. thursdays i work with someone i really dont get on with and also on fridays, but theres someone else who im indifferent to so its better than just me and little mr annoying. and the boss's assistant type persn who has a slight bit of authority is the same age as me and didnt like me at school so he picks on me a bit and makes me feel stupid. and ive been ill a lot recetnly and now ive had this thing go on my file about my absences (my rate is like 5% or something and only 3 is acceptable) and basically im not allowed any more days off sick in the next 26 weeks. wtf do they expect me to do if im throwing up or have flu and cant even get out of my bed??? crazy fools. oh and im paid well so its not so bad.
and its only a part time job to earn money for uni (afore mentioned semi-slave driver finds this highly objectionable) and im only going to be doing it until i get a full time job after uni, or until i find a better part time one thats flexible in terms of working at uni and also when i come home in the holidays.
oh why cant i just write short replies?! lol <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/tongue.gif">
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
~ Nietzsche
Of course I'd love to do other things don't get me wrong, if truth be known I'm only working here short-term in aim to get myself some qualifications so I can use this job as a fall back and instead go properly for professional radio broadcasting...
But in the mean while, I'm quite happy.. <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif">
I'm working in the NHS looking at modernisation. Guess I comes back to my "make a difference" ambition.
Shame about the shit money though. Still can't take it with me when I go, can I?
"He's just a pimp, with a limp and some vaseline""
btw justin do you have any messengers?
no he doesnt, he just uses the net at work sadly <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/tongue.gif"> sorry i saw him say that a while ago and couldnt be bothered waiting for him to reply tomorrow lol
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
~ Nietzsche
Sounds cool. I love advertising <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif">
It's so mind numbingly boring that I find myself falling asleep at about 2pm.
There are only three other people that work there, all of them are about 30-35. One of them is from Syria and the other two are from Pakistan. We have absolutly nothing in common and they always stand around talking in some language that I can't understand. I'm always paranoid that they're talking about me.
I'm getting paid £3.40 a fucking hour and i'm 22. I realise that this is below the minimum wage but they're getting round it by saying that i'm still training. I can't afford to quit and I haven't got time to go to the job centre to find anything else. I'm buying job papers but no-ones looking for staff, everyone just wants 'Managing Directors' and the like.
They asked me to bring in some cds to play in the shop and everytime I do they turn it off to put Micheal Jackson's "Off the wall" album. It's not like I take in anything really wierd or shit, just REM and some hip-hop(which I know they like cos they've told me).
I'm going to take a day off on the sick and make it my mission to find a job that doesn't suck ass.
My actions make me beautiful and dignify the flesh
I have contracted for some really nice managers but I dealt with one bad one that ended up owing me shit loads of money for some projects I worked on last year!
This put me off so I decided to try and make the move into a full time permanent role. I actually managed to get myself an interview with the bloody BBC for a trainee web producer position. It was really scary but an excellent opportunity. The only problem being, there is a 5 year waiting list for their 'employee day nursery'!
After my tax and NI, my commuting costs and expensive private day nursery fees, it just wasnt worth it. They offered me a 2nd interview but I turned it down.
This is the same problem with all the positions the recruitment agencies wanna put me forward for, so I am now applying to go back to Uni because I left my degree to have my little girl in 1998.
By the time I have finished uni, she will be starting school so I won't have to worry about nursery fees when I am ready to start my career again.
As for web development.... I love it!
My job's OK, standard office BS for a large mutli-national conglomerate. The people and atmosphere are really relaxed which I like, but the job itself is really dull which I don't. To combat this I've logged on here, keeps me looking busy by typing instead of staring gormlessly out the window.
I'm an accountant for a media company which sound dull to many people but is really interesting to me. The funny thing is that being an accountant is the last thing I thought I would do for a living. I hated math through school and took psychology at university. But when I finished school and looked for work I was offered some office work helping with data entry part-time. After 5 years there, I'm the head of my department, being paid well and doing really interesting work.
I guess I'm saying that it's worth trying different things because you may end up with not just a job, but a career you love.
I'm a greenkeeper and in the summer all I do is sit on fuck off big mowers and cane about the course. In the winters it's a proper shit job.
Hours change depending on what time of year it is. At the moment I start at 5 and it's 7:30 in the winter.
Pays alright as I still live at home. I'm in college once a week as well doing Turf Course Management - sounds intresting dosn't it.
Forwards ever, Backwards never - Skive
i've had some pretty shit jobs though....burger king at a motorway sevice station, and waitressing at Oasis Holiday Village spring to mind <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/biggrin.gif">
don't ever go to Oasis, it's shit and expensive and the staff spit in yer food <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/biggrin.gif">
jobs should b like uni, they should change topics every three months. too many bosses (like mine) find someone to do a certain task and then leave them there to grow cobwebs. you inundate them with ideas but they're like terry pratchett's trolls, it's like they can't think during daylight.
The ones I enjoy: I play piano for an orchestra and earn 20 dollars an hour. I have 4 rehearsals a week, and 2 hour rehearsals. But they're going to cut them down to 2 which is also good.
I teach little kids piano, and they're SOO CUTE!! I only have 4 students and I get 7 dollars for half an hour.
The one I don't like: I tutor this kid who is SOO WEIRD!! He's psycho!!!! But I get 20 dollars an hour, and I tutor him an hour every day from monday to friday. I'm going to stop tutoring him because I'm afraid of him. He'll like stare at me and be like you're really pretty, and he has this psycho dog and made the dog chase me around the house!!!
i do web design for my brother and help him out in web hosting as well...ive also taken over being secretary of a car club over the summer as my sis in law has a baby to look after
i get £15 an hour for web work and £7.80 for the secretarial stuff...
i work from my bruvs house which is a train ride away (short train ride) and i can work when i want for as long as i want, wear what i want and can stay here if i want.. <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/biggrin.gif"> <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/biggrin.gif">
in a nutshell, i do bugga all and earn a lot <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/wink.gif"> im learning all the time though in the IT field, some of it interesting and other parts not but i find it more fulfilling than just stacking shelves or whateva at the local supermarket, so i love it <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif"> <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif">
call me satan <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/smilie/angryfire.gif">
But i get free food... even when im not workin... and the lad i work with is a fuckin god! So yeah, im not complainin!! <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/smilie/wiggle2.gif"> Lxxx
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
~ Nietzsche
call me satan <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/smilie/angryfire.gif">
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!!!
You do not want to do that. It will run you down until you have no will to live. I was there for 4 years and it slowly kills you.
Why don't you close your eyes and re-invent me?
Is that how they ensure a steady supply of fillings for their burgers?
"Relax? I can't relax! Nor can I yield, relent, or... Only two synonyms? Oh my God! I'm losing my perspicacity!" - Lisa Simpson
Is that how they ensure a steady supply of fillings for their burgers?
"Relax? I can't relax! Nor can I yield, relent, or... Only two synonyms? Oh my God! I'm losing my perspicacity!" - Lisa Simpson
I used to work there as well mate. I was only there for a few months cause I got sacked for having a smoke on the close. Some people who I worked with that were the same age as me had been there years and are still there.
Forwards ever, Backwards never - Skive
call me satan <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/smilie/angryfire.gif">
Sorry, but that is not quite correct but i have had a dring. <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/tongue.gif">