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Let's say positive things about our jobs!
Fenriswolf:
Sex shop warehouse: I get to play with dildos, send silly emails to the shops, I like my co-workers and I get to finish/take breaks on time!! This is not true of my other job.
Vet: I get to work with animals, and talk to other people who find pus and blood interesting. My boss is happy for me to randomly take time off for depression (contemplating this right now, not a common issue), pays me more than my co-workers of similar experience because I tried to quit, and would probably pay for me to finish my vet nursing if I thought I could concentrate well enough to do it.
Trust me when I say there are many cons to these jobs too, but they pretty much all come down to people. The jobs themselves are sweet and the environment is mostly great.
nickyandthefuture:
--- Quote from: Llewellian on 12 Jun 2009, 13:39 ---Hmm... Negative, Nicky... we could totally meet in September in one of the beer gardens. Oh. And if you want a tip from a local: Don't go on the Octoberfest. Really. Don't. We bavarians are just using it to rob all the money from tourists and then some. Everything that is there is sold at horrible prices. A "Maß" of beer will cost in 2009 there roundabout 11.5 US Dollars. For one simple liter of beer. A beer that you can buy everywhere in Munich for 3.5 Dollars (or in a beer garden for 7 Dollars). We beat out Disneyworld by far with charging prices for nothing. If you want to drink a lot of bavarian beer, party until you drop AND having folks around you speaking your language, go on one of the "german-american festivities" in the villages near the US military bases in Bavaria (like Hohenfels, Grafenwoehr, Amberg and such).
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I accidentally went to Munich during Octoberfest last year. I went to a conference in Paris in September, and decided to visit some German labs afterward. I didn't even realize until I got to Munich why it had been so hard to book a hotel! I should have figured it out from the fact that so many professors were out of town that week. The first thing that I saw entering the festival grounds at night was a man in lederhosen urinating on the side of a van. Every German I told about this has insisted that he was either from the US or UK. Either way, I think I got the totality of the experience at that moment.
But yeah, some sort of QC bavarian get-together sounds interesting!
De_El:
The positive thing I have to say about my job is that soon I will have a different one. I do not want to go into detail for fear of getting my hopes up.
Yunior:
So I do not have a job, but I have 17 interviews this coming week and I will have a job by the end of June if it kills me. But I did discover something awesome about working, which is work clothes! Blazers! I mean, why are people not wearing blazers all the time my god they are beautiful.
That is really all I have positive to say about my coming week of interviews. Back when I said "I will have a job by the end of June," I actually meant "I am going into the journalism industry and my prospective employers find my desire to enter their field hilaaaarious." I might not have a job this summer. Unless it involves Twittering, because evidently, as a young journalist, this is all I am good for.
wafflecone:
my job is actually giving me hours starting tomorrow! i will be able to afford to eat and stuff when i go back to school maybe!!
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