Your job

[Changrules]

Hello everybody Um i'm bored so i decided to make this thread yeah..... What is your profession/Job WHERE DO YOU WORK! Do you like you job do you loathe your job or are you kinda in the middle of things and just take what you can get.. I'm pretty curious because someones job can say alot about the person i think... But you all know i'm a completely retarded college dropout so yeah TALK AWAY YOU SUPAR COOL CATS!!!

[Rocky]

I work part-time as a waiver specialist for a children's center which specializes in intermediate care with kids that suffer from mental/physical handicaps. Its a pretty sweet gig, no complaints about it! Basically I work one-on-one with a child who has a said handicap, and I get to hang out with him/her all day, participating in activities with them and sometimes working on goals that they would like to accomplish. This includes me taking clients out to eat, going to the mall, playing Nintendo Wii with kids, playing them one on one in a game of basketball, and the list continues. I get some good benefits out of the deal, and I make an OK amount, plus I don't get taxed for it which is nice indeed! So yeah I love my job and I am going to hate when the fall comes around because I will have to cut back on hours when I go back to school, plus all of the kids will miss me...

[Jesus Christ]

I have a pretty shitty job. I push rows of what usually end up being 7-10 40lb shopping carts back into a store from their designated places in a parking lot at a grocery store. It's hard physical work, but it keeps you in shape I guess, and you get a good deal of freedom; no one is watching your ass all the time like other positions in the store, and if carts are pretty much done you can sit around for a while and take a break from it, and no one will say anything to you.

[dimmufan]

I work at The Odessa Country Club Links Course, the most beautiful golf course for 300 miles in any direction. I wake up at 5:00 am every morning to pick up 3 coworkers so we can be there by 6:00. When we get there, we sit around for 30 minutes eating breakfast and bullshitting with all the other employees. Then we get to work. My day starts out raking the foot prints and debris out of the sand traps, or bunkers, whatever you wanna call them. It should take about 2 and a half hours to rake all 52 bunkers but I stretch it out over 4 and a half hours. That equals a lot of time sittin under a tree. Then we take lunch. We get 30 minutes for lunch but I try to stretch that out for at least an hour and a half while staying on the clock. Then I get on a mower and mow various parts of the course depending on what machine I am using. Some mowers are designed for mowing greens, some for fairways, some for rough, and some for hills. Sometimes I weedeat a fenceline or the base of the trees where the mowers can't get to. I leave at 3:00 pm and take my coworkers home. I do that 7 days a week. It is one of the easiest and most laid back jobs I have ever had.

[Priscilla]

I work at EB Games. It is pretty cool I guess well acutally I do enjoy it a lot and I do love the people I work with. It is cool to work with games and I get to see what is coming out and get dibs on old games people trade in. =]

It is also awesome to meet people with the same interests as me. I work around 18 hours a week usually. But it is well worth it.

[Jesus Christ]

I work at EB Games. It is pretty cool I guess well acutally I do enjoy it a lot and I do love the people I work with. It is cool to work with games and I get to see what is coming out and get dibs on old games people trade in. =]

It is also awesome to meet people with the same interests as me. I work around 18 hours a week usually. But it is well worth it.

I'd like to work there, but all of the locations around where I live have some retarded elitist policy that you have to know someone who already works there to get a job there.

At least that's what I was told by a friend of mine who applied. He could just be butthurt about not getting it and making excuses, though.

[Priscilla]

I'd like to work there, but all of the locations around where I live have some retarded elitist policy that you have to know someone who already works there to get a job there.

At least that's what I was told by a friend of mine who applied. He could just be butthurt about not getting it and making excuses, though.

That is really strange. I didn't know anyone when I got my job and that shouldn't be the case because that means they won't always be getting the best person for the job. Just someone with connections.

Well, I am the only original worker at my store. Even the managers have left. Anyway, everyone we have hired has been not connected to anyone except for one person and he was what we wanted anyway.

Maybe your friend is just a bit hurt he didn't get the job. I'm not sure I don't know how they run their stores. But we don't run ours like that if it is the case.

You could always try though. It wouldn't hurt. =]

[Sarah]

Hmm... actually, I think JC is right. It seems to be that way with places like Gamestop, EB, Game Crazy, Hollywood Video, and Blockbuster. The only reason I ever got a job at Blockbuster (way back when) was because I was friends with everyone there.

Actually, that can be true about most places right now, especially with the lack of good economy. Companies don't want to pay people... especially if they're a higher liability for turn around.

Unfortunately, I'm currently jobless. I've been attempting to work as a freelance computer technician... except that no one knows who I am. It's not easy getting people to give you their computers to fix when you're a tiny female.

For a few years, I was a teller. I had to take multiple leaves and quit eventually because of my health. Now, I'm having a hard time finding anything. No one wants to hire people where I live. My mom can't find a job. My sister can't. My brother can't. Friends can't. We're in pretty steep.

My best opportunity so far is for a call center that reminds people to return old equipment. I've got an interview for it tomorrow. I guess that's okay, but I really just want to fix people's computers right now.

Such is life.

[Victoria]

I work at two places right now. One, mainly because of my discount. Two, because of the better hours, but still the only one I could find.

1. Barnes & Noble - 8.75/hr, 4 hours a week. Two days a week. Before the store opens. I'm only there for my B&N and Gamestop discount.

2. Public Library - 8.25/hr, 12 hours a week + every third Saturday 2:30-5:30pm. I just shelve books in my section and occasionally do whatever other task that I'm listed to do on the DAS (Daily Assignment Sheet). Since I'm on the closing team, I usually either do those bins that are found outside on the sidewalks of the library (Yeah, you've seen'em.) Or I do what's called the "Bells". We don't have an intercom system, so we have three key places to yell really loud that the checkout desk is closing. >_>; Seriously... they should get an intercom system. It'd be much easier. -_-;

But yeah. I get 3 hours to shelve whatever books I have. Usually I get about 1-2 shelves full. (3 shelves on a cart) Takes me approximately 30 minutes to do 1 shelf. So if all three are full, about 1 1/2 hours. So I have another approximate 1 1/2 to slack off.

Or.. "Shelf Read" as we like to call it. Inspect the shelves to see if everything is in order, fix up the books that get pushed back, or get sloppily left to the side, etc. I usually do that while I'm shelving... so by the time I'm done, everything is spic and span.

Today I read Air Gear volume 9 and played FFIII for the DS. >_>;

Yeah, I'm just a lowly Library Page.

[winterborn86]

I use to do 2 jobs.

The first job was a part of a training course and i was working in a first school as a trainee teaching assistant, so much fun sitting there colouring with the kids and listen to them read, also its really nice to know that in apart of their education, and it great to see how the progress through their work.

The second job was just at the weekends as a shop assistance, Shelf stacking was fun cos after you finish your trolley everyone use to mess around out back until some more trolleys came down, and done till work, i HATED that, bloody grumpy customers, and as for "the customers always right" BULLSH*T. they are hardly ever right.

On the side i sometimes done MSA work with the school when another MSA was off sick, i took over their class.

Right now my job is a housewife

[LocoColt04]

I'm an Assistant Manager at a GameStop (or, for our Australian friends, EB).

For the record, I got hired and didn't know ANYONE there.

I love my job. The pay is less than respectable, but I stick with it because I have so much fun. People have been telling me that I should be in sales since I was five years old... and lo and behold it's what I ended up doing. And I'm a natural.

I've been with the company since Halloween 2006, though my first actual shift wasn't until mid-November. I worked six shifts and was promoted into third-key management, the Senior Game Advisor (SGA)position, on 22 December 2006. I worked that until 15 July 2007 when I was promoted to the ASM position.

As an SGA, I was being borrowed out to other stores within three weeks of the promotion. I worked nearly a dozen different stores, though I had only ever been employed by one. Fortunately, once I was promoted to ASM, I think I was only loaned out once or twice. I didn't mind working at the other stores though; it offered a lot of different sales experiences.

I was approached by our District Manager this past May regarding a new store that was set to open in July. He had picked me for the ASM spot at that store, and wanted me to be the one to set it up and get it all going. A Store Manager wasn't even picked out until two weeks before the store was slated to open, let alone the rest of the staff.

I spent three weeks working at a store in a podunk little town with only one Wal*Mart because they were in need of an ASM and we already had a promotion plan in place for the employees at my old store. So, I went over there. It wasn't too bad, but EVERYTHING revolved around that damn Wal*Mart. Even the store's bank was in there. That was unnerving.

So, our new store opened up nearly a month ago now, and we got it all set up and running. The business is somewhat slow since no one knows the store is there yet, but in terms of comps and sales percentages, I'm posting the best numbers of my career thus far.

Rumor has it, Store Management is on my horizon, anywhere between the end of this month and the holiday season. Neat.

[Meier Link]

I work for a daughter company of Lufthansa Technik based out of Germany that is in the trusted Star Alliance. We are a FAA regulated repair station known soley as Lufthansa Technik Tulsa. We work on anything and everything that surrounds the aircraft engines (Fancowls, nosecowls, thrust reversers, yadda yadda) and miscalanious details such as flight controal surfaces. I have been with the company for over 7 years and have been all over from working sheet metal to composites to metal bonding to actuation systems and hydrolics. I spent 3 years as lead over the NCD group section (new product development) but seeing my area is currently shut down, because there are no new products to be developed, I am working as a Sr. Tech over the bonding department which bonding is ironicaly the same thing I was hired in to do oh so long ago haha. It's a great place to work and it pays the bills and then some. I am just biding my time until my area is reopened and I can retake controal of what is rightfuly mine.

NCD is my passion, the whole research of the part, developing repair proceedures and non conditional repairs is my passion. Plus everything I work on is new to me so my job doesn't get old. I do the same thing in bonding, I work the harader parts that the others can't handle and come up with (in conjunction with engineering) standard repairs that over all help the quality and structural integrity of the details we work and that you fly on. Scary thought huh ::dun dun dunnnnnnnnn::

[dimmufan]

I'd like to work there, but all of the locations around where I live have some retarded elitist policy that you have to know someone who already works there to get a job there.

At least that's what I was told by a friend of mine who applied. He could just be butthurt about not getting it and making excuses, though.

It is quite true that if you know someone where you want to work, then your chances of getting the job are greater than someone who just walks in off the street. My 9th grade English teacher once told us, "It's not what you know, it's who you know to succeed in life." I have found that he was quite right. Every job I have ever had I got because I knew someone that worked there and they put in a good word for me. EVERY JOB!!!!

[DragonHeart]

At my job knowing someone isn't a requirement, but it sure helps. I personally recruited about five of my friends to work at my store, and my boss hired every one of them. None of them work there anymore though. =(

Anyways, I work at CVS/pharmacy. Been there for six years as of this month, was a lowly grunt till a couple weeks ago. Now I'm a half-trained photo tech, woo. In fact, my first shift to actually run the photo lab is tomorrow night. I'm a bit nervous about that, as I don't have much experience with the G3 and G4 kiosks, and I only did closing procedures once so far. I'm going to ask my coworker if she can jot down a list of things I need to make sure are done, cause our checklist doesn't cover everything. I won't be entirely by myself though, as the shift supervisor is also a trained tech. Yes, it's intentional. Technically I'm still training so they're not just dumping me in there and leaving me to it. That would suck.

When I'm not in the lab, I'm generally working the floor. I've long since earned the seniority to get off the damned register, so now I only function as a backup unless someone calls out or something. I face to make the store look nice and handle most of the day-to-day maintenance, putting unwanted product back, vacuuming, that sort of thing. At the end of the day it's still retail though, and I really don't like it. I'm keeping an eye out for another job, especially something that'll pay better cause I make crapola.

~DragonHeart~

[GypsyElder]

Yay! I'm a Bum. I'm waiting to see if Vans store will call me back, and I just got an E-mail from Macy's for a scheduled appointment, for interview. I hope I get hired.


Also, You all suck with your jobs. *Jealous rant*

[Josh_R]

Well as of right now I am a independent contractor I usually cut down tree's or whatever it is the client need's done. In nine months I will be in Iraq working with computer and fighting in the war.

[Dr_Flea]

im the second chef at a rather charmin little pub in Gawler in south australia!!

Head chef went and got himself married so im doing a 15 day stretch at running the joint!!

~Dr_Flea~

[Maridia]

I work at a liquor store. It's not bad. Our summers are insane and winters are dead. The 2 owners are like ying and yang so we're all doing well but the other is really easy going so we get to have alot of freedom over our jobs. It pays better than alot of things around here, and for the amount of fun, actual working, and pay it balances out in our favor so I'm satisfied. Not that I want to do it as a career, but so long as I'm living here it's really the best shot for keeping steady pay and fun in. So thumbs up. And just about nobody gets the job without knowing someone before them. My brother to cousin before them who's father worked with the owners brother. 2 of the other guys had brothers that worked there before them who are gone now. The one person who applied and has the job is actual the one douche at the place.

[Insufficient Mage]

This thread is somewhat old. I wonder how many of the people who posted last year still have the same job?

I've got a couple part-time jobs, but they all consist of the same type of thing. I'm a childcare provider; I watch kids. I started out when my friend's mom asked if I wanted a job taking care of very young children while their parents attended Positive Discipline classes, and since then I've been getting referred all over the place amongst their network, so I continue having the same type of job, just at different places. The hours aren't many, but since I've got a couple at a time, I'm making a sufficient amount of pay. Plus the pay itself is pretty good.

I can definitely say my job isn't boring. This one kid and I used to always talk about the latest Ben 10 episodes, ever since I noticed the stylin' Omnitrix he was sporting. I was envious.

I also occasionally wait tables in the winter; its kind of a seasonal job that I do every year, since my friend's relatives own the place.

Having connections has been incredibly helpful when it comes to my employment.