...another day older and deeper in dept...

Lets see how doomworlders support themselves

What was your first job?
What is your current job?
What was your most interesting job?
What kind of job would you rather be doing?

Retail.
Retail.
2nd.
Dole bludger.

I got fired from my first job, I was "over-qualified"...fucking cuntrahses they were...2nd job, which i'm still in, and I work at a department store. Wow.

It's been interesting, and gay, mostly gay, since people come in and yell at you for no damn reason. They blame you specifically for something they've probably fucked up.

If you get offered a job in retail, be prepared to be :

* Yelled at
* Abused
* Yelled at again
* And again
* Get blamed for things you know nothing of

Etc etc etc.

Fuck, work sucks.

Next?

Ct_red_pants said:

What was your first job?
What is your current job?
What was your most interesting job?
What kind of job would you rather be doing?

1. Filling shelves in a do-it-yourself store was my first job.
2. I do not have a current job.
3. My first job I think was my most interesting job. I was new to working and I learned a lot of things. Since I was shy it helped me a little to talk to strange people.
4. I'd rather be having a job as a moviedirector, scriptwriter, pornstar or as a gamedeveloper.

1. My 1st job, save my newspaper rounds, was McDonald's!
2. Retail (cellphones under the Vodafone network)
3. My life has never been duller than when I was working! In here the only thing I can fill in is 'unemployment'!
4. A carreer in sports (?? YES SPORTS), or gamedeveloper... something... I like some of Disorder's ideas as well...

mmnpsrsoskl, YOU'RE DEAD RIGHT! Even today at work has been another perfect example for that. People who start yelling to you about problems you can't help or do anything about!!! I hope all of todays' customers all have crappy jobs of their own to return to!

Disorder said:

4. I'd rather be having a job as a moviedirector, scriptwriter, pornstar or as a gamedeveloper.

...in that particular order?

scorpion said:

...in that particular order?

All at the same time if possible :)

Ct_red_pants said:

What was your first job?
What is your current job?
What was your most interesting job?
What kind of job would you rather be doing?

Sodexho-Marriott in the Montréal Biôdome
Sodexho-Marriott in the Montréal Biôdome
Sodexho-Marriott in the Montréal Biôdome
Sodexho-Marriott in the Montréal Biôdome

Heh, this is a great place to work. I almost do anything : Cashier, cook, serving , backup, on a terrace(SP?), washing dishes, etc... The pay is low (7$/hour) and shift can be long (worked 15 days in a row, 1 day off and another 12 days...) but the people that I work with are the greatest.

First job: crystalclearpoolsdenver.com]Pool supply store.
Current Job: du.edu/uts/multimedia]Multimedia Technician at the University of Denver (2nd job, and already getting $11.83/hr)
Most Interesting: Well, only had two. Can't really say.
Rather be doing: Rather be doing something with videogames or music in Japan.

A salad packery.
Cleaning in a daycare.
Both sucked, but in case of pure interestingness it must be the first.
I don't have any job right now.


Well, the first job was beyond horrible. At a glance it wouldn't seem so bad. I worked at a small independent factory where we sliced up various vegetables and packed them in plastic trays for catering.

The problem was the workload. The factory was depending a lot on shcoolkids under 18 who worked on accord in their spare time to support their pocket money. They do not have to pay tax yet and can therefore be paid substantially less. The problem is that such help cannot be relied upon on daily basis as:

1: They will bail out when they get the slightest bit unhappy with the working conditions as they do not need to care about unemployment yet.

2: They have a life besides that may require their attention (homework, being kids in general).

3: They do not really need the money.


The gross overestimation of the availability of pre-18 workforce meant that us regular employed workers had to run double speed to be able to do the stuff that the boss had thought the accord workers would do.

Then there was the overtime. We frequently had to work overtime, but since it was paid (they weren't total bastards) it should in theory be decent enough (I needed the money for going to an art school). The problem was the amount of overtime. I think a lot of people would agree to work two or three hours paid overtime. Even if it was almost every day. The problem was that sometimes it would be 11 or 18 hours as the boss had taken an order for a ton of sliced vegetables with only three men at the job.

The last hassle was mostly my fault (or shortcoming if you do not consider incapability a sin such as I tend to do). I knew before that i was a bit clumsy and slow to react. Primarily from sports and physical education in school. But back then I attributed it to lack of training (I preferred to read or draw instead). Here, however I was convinced that my reaction time was inhumanly slow. Together with my somewhat lacking physical strength this would be my greatest source of unhappiness.

Though I tried to shirk away from it, volunteering to do other tasks such as tending the machines who washed or sliced the vegetables I was more often than not placed on the assembly line where they packed the vegetables into trays. And see, this task does at least require adequate control of my hands and movement as well as speed. Since we were always a bit behind the schedule the speed on the packing machine was more often turned up than down and I was sternly reminded everytime they had to slow down in order to clear up an error that was in 9 out of 10 times my fault. The fact that I simply seemed never to make any progress (tey assumed that I was to be as competent as them after two weeks at work) was taken as a sign of laziness so there was good reason that everybody at the job hated me.

Later I was given more tasks away from the packing machine as I was prone to be more of a liability than a help there. This would at first seem as a blessing as I was able to slice vegetables just as fast as everybody else (I had picked up a little speed, just not enough). This, however, had it's problems as well.

One of the tasks that I often got was slicing cabbage into quarts that would fit into an industrial food processor. A thoroughly easy task that was often left unfinished when the pre-18 workers failed their morale check. I soon found out why. See, the problem was not slicing the cabbages. The problem was hauling them out of the storage fridge. One cabbage head itself weighs about as much as a human head (if not more) and a whole bag of them can easily weigh as much as a human being. Having 14 year olds drag about with these sounds as being a tad in conflict with regulatives. Anyways I was 18 at the time and should really not have any reason to complain but my back and arms tended to hurt a bit more than they usually do during that time. It did, however, go unnoticed as I am a lot better at overexerting in regards to strength than in regards to speed.

At list they had enough of me (I did understand them) and I was fired. I then talked to one of my friends about it and when I mentioned that I was fired he burst into a laughter. I figured that I had hit rock bottom and he was laughing at me for being unable to keep such an easy job, but he then said: "You were fired!?! You mean, you didn't even leave voluntarily?"


My next job (cleaning) was in contrast exceptionally easy and I didn't have to hurry as long as it was done till next day. It was, however rather boring and the fact that I usually worked alone and had no-one to talk to during breaks (my colleague, a lady in her 50's, was rather non-talkative) made it even duller. But it was soothingly easy.

I've had many jobs, they've all been pretty lame. I'm currently a WinNT administrator at a small business and make pretty good money...not nearly enough for my skills but enough for now. If it wasn't for my roommates I'd be homeless! It's a tough job to leave cause I have seniority, and I've made some cool friends. Weekly paychecks are also a nice bonus.
i may be able to squeeze a little more cash out of them once i start doing an .html format mailing list for the biz...on my own time ;P

Dan's Foods, Olympus Hills. I've managed to hold this first job since after my sophomore year in high school (currently junior in university), albeit as a summer/Christmas job the last few years. It's fun at times, and grating at times, but in the end it's money and respect earned.

I've got a whole horror-story rant, but this prolly ain't the place. :P

I've only had two summer jobs so far. One was the classic bagboy job in a very depressing supermarket. The second was a little more interesting though: I operated rides in an amusement park for a month.

It's a little scary going from your daily routine of 'sitting on my ass eating Doritos' to 'operating a 20 ton machine with 15 people in it'. And even though only operated the same attraction once or twice, it gets boring real quick when you're just opening gates and pushing buttons for 10 hours straight. At least it paid decently.

Best part were the weekends though, when I was assistant on a stupid magic show (not on stage, thank god) and a diving show. The last day of work, August 31st, was great. There was some kind of mixup in the work schedule, so when I arrived at 10 AM there was no work for me until the first diving show at 12:30. I spent those first two and a half hours sleeping in a hammock near the campers where the Russian divers prepare themselves, then I did two shows and spent the time inbetween sitting in the sun, listening to the weird Russian rap CD's the divers were playing on the show's huge sound installation.

And I accidentally walked in one one of the female divers in the shower. Young, athletic Russian women are HOT. And they can have a sense of humor after ten minutes of solid yelling.

This summer I hope to get a job packing boxes in a local factory that makes cleaning products. It's boring, hard work but it pays very well. We'll see.

I got one fist of iron, and the other of steel,
If the right one won't get you then the left one will!

What was your first job?
What is your current job?
What was your most interesting job?
What kind of job would you rather be doing?

Dishwasher
Unemployed lazy bum
My current one
Porn star

What was your first job?

I've never worked.

What kind of job would you rather be doing?

Porn star, shagging BBG.

First job: Optician
Current job: Optician
Most interesting: Optician, even though it sucks, 'cause it's my only
Preferred job: Computer programming

I get paid $6.50/hr with no experience, so I guess it's okay, especially since it's my first job. I only get 13.5 hours a week though.

What was your first job?
Job? What's that? :P

What is your current job?
Lazy, good-for-nothing bum.

What was your most interesting job?
Oh, wait, I do watch my neighbor's dogs but that doesnt count. (wait, I DO get paid)

What kind of job would you rather be doing?
What do YOU think?

I worked at wal-mart during the christmas time.
it sucked. picking up after lazy shoppers an hour after the store closes. I worked cash, and most often didn't care about doing too good of a job. well, to nice people I was nice. but to drunk people buying lingere and such, no.

stupid people holding up a line for 15 minutes just for a 25 cent discount on a shirt with a small stain...

it was the only job I ever had. I am too &^%$ing lazy to get a job..

Ct_red_pants said:

Lets see how doomworlders support themselves

What was your first job?
What is your current job?
What was your most interesting job?
What kind of job would you rather be doing?

First job? I didn't really have a real official one, however I did deliever the Newspapers twice a week.

Current job status? None real official Payed one so.....Spamming Teh Forums :D

Most interesting and fasinating job? .......Spamming Teh Forums :D

Rather be doing/Dream job? Something with computers really, perhaps a computer programmer :D .......With Spamming teh forums on the side :D

What was your first job?

I had a paper route. Doesn't like everybody do one of those in their lifetime?

What is your current job?

Ah yes, bagging groceries and bringing in carts at Marsh Supermarkets.

What was your most interesting job?

Neither has been interesting at all. I have a hard time choosing, as both were pretty boring. But if forced to decide, I'd say doing a paper route was more interesting than sacking groceries and pusing carts. Too bad I never got a day off though.

What kind of job would you rather be doing?

I'd rather be working with computers, my forte. Programming, troubleshooting, assembling, developing, engineering, I'm not too picky :P

What was your first job?

Paper route.

What is your current job?

Mechanical Designer/Draftsman

What was your most interesting job?

Above

What kind of job would you rather be doing?

Getting paid to have sex with collage girls while eating KFC and playing gamecube and ps2 games.

Fredrik said:

Porn star, shagging BBG.

Uh......no. o_O

First Job: Slut. Eight years and running! ^.^

First REAL Job: Mechanic. Amazing, neh? I don't actually know nearly as much about cars as that implies; the owner of the shop was a friend of my father's, and as my dad couldn't get me a job working on computers he got me a job working on cars, my second favorite thing. I didn't want to work the front, though, so I got hired on as a mechanic even though (at the time) I knew virtually nothing about cars, and I was also under 4 1/2 feet (1.38m) tall at the time, with a bench-press of approximately 40 pounds. I learned a lot, though, and shortly I was replacing fuel pumps and brakes and all manner of filters, and eventually I got to the point where I helped my brother and his best friend, the head mechanic where I worked, completely overhaul several cars. Fun stuff.

Current Job: Slut. Duh.

Current REAL Job: I'm a Data Conversion Operator for the United States Postal Service. I'm a damn good one, too - over 16,000 keystrokes per hour (approximately 850 images per hour). Basically, I type in information off the front of mailpieces. They're run through this big machine which takes a black-and-white 640x400 picture of the front of the mailpiece and then we look at the image, and type (in a special form of shorthand) the address info on the image. Extremely boring, but you can't beat $26 an hour ($13/hr starting) for sitting on your ass typing. Full-time, too - and since I started doing "improvement coding", which basically means I and the rest of the people on the improvement crew fix everyone else's fuckups, I've been working super-overtime.

Most Interesting Job: Ah, I'd have to say working for Dell. I hate Dell, but it was a lot of fun.

Job I'd Rather be doing: Well, I'd say Porn-Star, but I'm really (believe it or not) too camera-shy to do that. Even though I'd probably be really good at it. Realistically, I'd like to get into IC and/or firmware design. Yeah, I'm a big dork. :P

Katarhyne said:

Jazz that Kat said

...Man Im boring...Ive wasted my life.. :D