The Job Thread!

[Schimid]

Currently, I work at a place called Brookstone in Annapolis mall. I basically sell stuff to people, mostly stuff they don't need, and pick up a small fraction of each sale. I make 7.75 an hour, with perks of an extremely flexible schedule, great co-workers (two of which are my real-life friends), a weekly paycheck (not bimonthly thank God) and $200 - 250 for every Tempur-Pedic bed I sell. Also, a 30% employee discount and a staggering 75% discount on Tempur-Pedic beds in January.

But, I want more.

My checks only come out to about $130 a week after taxes, and most of that is just drained out anyway, some from my gas tank, some from taking care of my really sick mother, some from spending money on my girlfriend, my two kid sisters, etc. Upon asking for a raise, the store manager informed me that you are put under review A YEAR after the date you are hired. The average raise is about 50 cents.

One idea I've had is to go over to where MLE works; a nearby T-Mobile in the same mall. But trading in the devil you know for one you don't isn't exactly easy.

EDIT - Oh yeah, I'm 18, good with sales/fast-talking/scam jobs, fast typer, okay with computers, and stuff.

[Azrael]

If you are not happy with your job, then go somewhere else. Life is too short to be wasting time with such a low-paying job anyways. If you truly are a fast-talking scam artist, you should go into selling cars or something. I guarantee you will get paid more than 7 bucks an hour.

[executioneer]

I work in a mailroom for the state of washington and as of right now I am basically the only person who knows how to do everything, because one guy left and another's in the national guard and is doing stuff for them for the next 3 months, and sometimes it makes me crazy but hey

I want a job w/ computors, preferrably one where i'm making $20/hour or more + benefits, but i aint got a comp. sci. degree or anything so getting one w/ the state is gonna be effing hard

i should probably go get my a+ cert renewed :(

[Sethomas]

I'm working odd hours at the Indiana University Geology Dept., moving rocks around and cataloguing fossils. I could work a lot more hours than I do, but I'm trying to overcome laziness in that regard. It's $7, but I might soon start working either for the postal service as a rural carrier or for some TOP SECRAT COMPANY as a fac totem, starting out translating and writing articles. Either of those new jobs would pay really really well, but if they don't come through then I'm content with doing what I'm doing until I start back into studies probably next semester.

[DeadKennedys]

I work at a shitty fast food place, Cookout, for 7 an hour, weekly paychecks. Good thing is, I work the window, so I flirt with cute girls, make fun of stupid customers, and give people the wrong change

[nothing4buddha]

I work at a Hollywood Video making $8 an hour but when minimum wage goes up next year it'll be about $10.25-ish. I boss people around and comrade rocket works next door at Game Crazy.

During the week I also work at the chem lab at Folsom Lake College where I play my gameboy, dilute solutions, and clean up spills. I only get $7 an hour there though :(

[GADZOOKS]

I lost 5 jobs in the past 3 years! One I was fired (for stealing a tv that was given to me by my superviser), one I just quit, the other three the businesses went under!

Now I am unemployed and very content with my life!

[Chojin]

I used to run my own teeny tiny video game development company that specialized in proprietary arcade hardware. After we went under due to extreme naivety and producer dickery, I was unemployed for a few months and eventually took a labor job at my father's company for some spending money and to repay my business debts, then took a job as an electrician helper at the same job site for the same reasons and medical insurance. I also am training as a mobile DJ on the side because I like it ;<

Oh and zchimid, you totally should look into being a used car salesman. You have to be punctual as balls, but you seem to be more than responsible enough to pull it off.

[Archduke Tips]

I design refrigerator lighting.

I love this job! I get to work with people in India every morning, and I may be going to Mexico soon to prepare a plant for manufacturing. Plus the team I work with in the US is awesome.

I couldn't be happier. :)

[Jixby Phillips]

I work at a movie theater where I mostly work as a projectionist or box officer. A couple weeks ago I was paid to watch Texas Chainsaw Massacre becasue I built up the print. Projection is rad because you get to be by yourself all day and you mostly just have to be there if anything fucks up.

I also work box office a lot durring the weekends which can be fun because you can talk shit about people right in front of them, all you have to do is move your face a few inches away from the mike. Also when people are rude you can say things and not worry about getting punched.

Occasionally they make me work Concession but it's usually on a weekday when theres barely any customers, so I'm basically just hanging out with one of the managers all day (I'm pretty much friends with all of the managers).

I applied to be a manager but didn't get it because somebody else who was somebody's brother applied and HE got it. For a while I was angry because I already didn't like him before he got the job, and he was barely compitent as a regular emplyee, but he was a suckup and aparently campaigned for the job before a possition was even available. He was fired after a couple of months and was gone for good, thank god.

[DamnthatDavid]

I take boxes off a truck and through them into Old Navy.

In 2 weeks, I will begain my new life as a Coast Guardsman.

[Dire Flamingo]

I take boxes off a truck and through them into Old Navy.

In 2 weeks, I will begain my new life as a Coast Guardsman.
Fill one with snakes before you quit.

[executioneer]

n/m

[Womti]

bleh, who the fuck is womti?

[CaptainBubba]

While I'm at school I get paid 6.75 an hour, 15 hours a week to yell at kids when they make noise and patrol the halls of dorms shaking keys to get them to be scared.

At home on breaks I bake bread for 9 dollars an hour.

This summer I wanna do something like a comp sci. intership, or just lots of summer school if I can manage that.

[Zomboid]

I work at a Hollywood Video making $8 an hour but when minimum wage goes up next year it'll be about $10.25-ish. I boss people around and comrade rocket works next door at Game Crazy.



Hey! I work at a movie gallery. I think they're connected :O. WE SHOULD SEE IF WE CAN SEND IM'S THROUGH THE COMPUTERS.

[Zurala]

I work in a pharmacy for 9 an hour. I love the job, sometimes it's boring, but then again everything is at some point. The people, on the other hand, just need to be shot. I saw less drama when I worked at McD's with a bunch of high school kids. And the sad part is that all of the people that I work with now are supposed to be "mature adults" and they cry at the smallest things.

[Jixby Phillips]

Oh yeah, I don't make enough money or get enough hours (even though I get more than almost anybody there) but I live with my parents so its cool

[Schimid]

Funny thing happened to me tonight.

I was working tonight and got two "job" offers. Sort of.

The first one came from a guy who came in and wanted a pillow. He asked me what my major was, and I just talked with him politely. After a while, he picked up that I was going into media, film, television, acting, whatever, and the guy said that his sister works in the movie business and took down my name and number, and he said she'd give me a call if anything came up. I doubt this will happen.

The second came from a big guy, about 6'6 who talked to me about the slot machine in the store. We made jokes about it, and about some of the other useless but life-enhancing products, and eventually he asked me if I was in school, if I was ambitious, yadda yadda. Then he asked if I was good in leadership positions. I said yes.

He gave me a business card and said he would call me. He is the CEO/President of a business (i don't know what exactly) and told me to call him if he doesn't call me before the week is over.

Chojin, I actually got in big trouble today for being consistently late. Some of it is really my fault (forgetting the renaissance faire was still in town and getting stuck in horrible traffic) but some is just unavoidable circumstance when it comes to leaving school at 1 and having to be at work at 2. Plus to be a salesman like that, I get the impression I'd have to be either extremely sleazy or extremely charismatic, neither of which I actually am :=

[jin]

I work as a manager for one of the biggest outsourcing firms in Australia, in the department that deals with the biggest ticketing agent in Australia. ;D

I get 48K a year, it's pretty neat. ;>

I'm trying to get Chojin hired as an international telecommuter. ;p

I need this job to pay for my race car ;o

[liquidstatik]

how'd you manage to get such a job? ;x

[jin]

I don't know? i just sort of did some random things in the company and then they were like "you're hired". ;O

[liquidstatik]

i can't tell if thats sarcasm or not :<

but either way, i still can't find a job worth having. everything 'round here is fast food or wal-marts. :<

[Archduke Tips]

Do you have a degree or any marketable skills?

[Dole]

I am a sound designer for cartoons.
About time I got to do something fun after YEARS of the dullest corporate shit imaginable.

[WhiteRat]

I'm a munitions systems apprentice (soon to be journeyman) for the USAF. Interesting stuff but I can't stand most of the people that I work with because everyone here seems to love to gossip and stab others in the back.

[MarioRPG]

McDonalds employee. :/

[Evil Robot]

I fix and "re-work" air powered screwdriving robots that they use in factories. Currently Im the only person in North America who does this.

[Supafly345]

All the best jobs are found completely by accident.

I draw blood.

[Misdemonar]

The alst job I had was cleaning Construction Sites, I got 100$ a day.

[glowbelly]

i just got a job as a staffing coordinator at the cleveland clinic. it's part-time. $15/hour. i'm all kinds of excited about it.

[RectalWart]

but I live with my parents so its cool

Living with your parents is COOL? :/

[Marine]

I worked in a library for two weeks once, but i quit when they tried to pay me in little coins that had'nt been usable in any store for like thirty years. :/
Oh and i worked at a school for like three weeks this summer but got fired for corrupting the young ones with FPS games like Doom, Blood, And Serious Sam...

[sadie]

i teach high school english and journalism. this year, i have three english 12 classes and two classes of journalism, in which i advise the publication of the school newsmagazine. the school board office claims i make more than $20 an hour, so minus the time i spend outside my "normal" hours (8:30 to 3:30), i'd probably be better off financially working fast food.

[Grislygus]

but I live with my parents so its cool

Living with your parents is COOL? :/

Watch out peoples, this guy's a quick one.

[soundtest]

I was working for a software company doing GUI testing and deployments for a bunch of clients in the US. I was making an alright salary (~45k) and had full benefits. The job bored the fuck out of me though, and I hated the completely incompetent management.

Last Tuesday, at 5pm my co-worker (this one other guy I work with, super nice kid, does not slack off or have a shitty attitude or act like everybody owes him something [like me], always tries his best, etc.) got called into the office. He came out two minutes later and said, "Hey Steve... can you go over my work and handle these blah blah work stuff next week?" I didn't notice his eyes were kinda watery. I said, "Why the fuck am I gonna do your shit?" He said "... because I'm gone. They're letting me go. They say I don't show enough initiative."

See at this point I lost it. This poor kid was always a scapegoat there, and the bloodsuckers were all over him because he took it. I hated the management there so much. But I hate management anywhere so much. I hate bosses. It's a carryover from always fighting them in videogames as a kid. lol

I just grabbed my bag and said, "No I don't want to do your work. I'm gone too. Fuck 'em." And I haven't gone back since. My boss called me panicking, because I was the only other one there who knew how to do what we did, she offerred me more money, but I said no and that I didn't want to return to such an 'unhealthy' work environment. So instead I got drunk, woke up the next day and went to the passport office and bought a ticket at a travel agency. I'm selling all my shit and flying out in 3 weeks.

[Command Prompt]

I rotate between a barback and a bartender. I just quit the nightclub I worked at because I was barbacking for the GREEDIEST bartenders ever. The general rule of thumb is the barback makes half of what the bartenders make, since they can't do thier job if the barback doesnt do thiers (refill the ice, beer, liquor, help them serve...) however, I got tired of getting a measily 60-100 dollar cut of thier anywere from 300 to 900 dollar tipout. Fuck I would of been happy with an extra 50 bucks a night. Which would of required 6 people to pull an extra 10 bucks out of thier gigantic pile of free money. Ugh. On to the next club.

Working in this industry is amazing, I recommend it for anyone who isn't appearance dissabled. EVERY town, regardless of big a shitstain it is has a bar, and the best part is for you greasy americans, as long as you are 18 you can serve booze, you just cant drink it till your 21. I'm sure this varies state to state.

PROTIP - The most money you'll ever make without even finishing highschool.

[Command Prompt]

soundtest - I sure hope that kid goes to the labour board. Thats the fucking weakest thing I ever heard, and I'm pretty sure he could take them for a hell of alot, starting with wrongful dismissal, improper notice of dismissal, etc.

Of course I live in a NDP mandated province, were nothing you do is ever your fault.