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Fun Stuff => CHATTER => Topic started by: BlakeJustBlake on 09 Oct 2009, 16:50
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There's been a lot of talk in qc of jobs and school and such. So how's that work out for you? I know there's a range of people here who are already in careers, still in college, working part time gigs.
Personally I'm unemployed. I was working at a pizza place, they'd cook up a bunch of pizzas and I'd take them out to businesses around lunch time and try to sell them, or sometimes I'd go out at night and sell them to drunk people. But then I got in a wreck and my car is out of service. So I'm looking for something now, trying to apply at an on campus cafeteria.
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Grocery store, full time awesometeer that's what.
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Morning I work at FedEx Ground pushing boxes around and sorting tiny boxes and repackaging beat up boxes and fixing labels and having a good time.
Evenings and weekends I work at Bath and Body Works, selling mildly overpriced but fantastic lotion to Canadians.
These are pretty okay jobs.
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Wal-Mart Deli.
I win (lose?).
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I work at a cafe in Newtown (Sydney), called Citrus.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3621/3421323572_0323149d14.jpg)
I am one of nine people who work out the front. 6 of us are waitresses, 3 are baristas, one is the owner and three of them are related. Everyone is a little bit strange, but that is not that surprising. The meals we have are huge, but still fairly cheap, which I think is why we get a fair amount of business (even though it has been ridiculously slow lately). We have just changed cake suppliers recently, and the new cakes look so delicious that I always consider just having cake for my lunch/dinner, rather than proper food.
The guys in the kitchen are also fairly strange. One guy is almost obsessed with his muscles (on my first shift there I caught him checking himself out in the glass door of the microwave); one guy doesn't know much English and has a lisp, which makes it even harder to understand him, though I am getting better; the other two guys have the same name, which is really confusing when they are both working. One of them has taken to saying good morning to me whenever he sees me, even though lately I haven't worked in the morning at all, then laughing at me when I explain that it is afternoon/evening.
A strange coincidence that happened a few weeks ago has resulted in almost everyone who works there is going to the same gym. One of the girls signed up, convinced two of the kitchen guys to join the next day (I joined up at the same time, but didn't have anything to do with that), then she got the boss to join, and he signed up his wife, who also works there. I have yet to see any of them when I go there, but I am now worried I will. We are a strange, motley group, but everyone seems happy there, even the people who end up working 15 hour shifts, so it's a pretty nice place to work.
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Financial investment company. Secretary to one of the big wigs. It's pretty fun most of the time, and the benefits are good, so whatever. I like the stable schedule since it gives me the ability to plan the rest of my time.
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Station Manager at a local public access television station. I make tv shows, play with green screens, decide scheduling, interview rock and roll peoples, and get glad handed by politicians.
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Call center for a pharmaceutical support program. Calling insurance companies to check patient benefits for a drug treatment. Next week, I learn how to answer the phones..
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soldier in the US Army. my time is dictated by whatever my Sgt wants. but mostly i work a 6a-9p day. the worst is when i work a 24 hour shift that happens to fall on a weekend
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I work at an art supply store. Lately I've been helping new art students buy supplies, hauling big ass boxes of boards around, making (meaning drawing, cutting out, and hanging) large window displays, and yelling crazy shoplifters out of my store. One of my coworkers and I are currently waging war over one of the elevators in our building with a bunch of stupid ass kids from the college next door. I am confident that we will succeed.
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I am a "sales associate" at HMV, a major retail chain that sells entertainment (movies, music, books, etc).
Then I work 2 days a week at a power company doing customer service and data entry.
On Sunday mornings, people give me their infants so I can tell them about Jesus for a few hours - but instead we just play with toys.
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at the moment i am a sales associate at eddie bauer and a "technology consultant" at staples business depot which basically means i'm still a sales associate but one who gets to occasionally boss the other associates around. the first job sucks my asshole but the second one is actually pretty fun! mainly because i am literally the only female in the technology department but it's not a weird thing, everyone just treats me like one of the guys and it's sort of fun and challenging. with any luck hopefully i will be doing that full time within the next month or so and my days of juggling two part-time jobs and selling clothing can finally be over forever. i also occasionally work as a volunteer administrative assistant/relief worker at a homeless shelter for youth, which is a little closer to what i want to do with my life but i'm still working on the steps involved in actually getting that to happen.
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yay another meme...
My day job .... test technician at an electronics contract manufacturer i've nicknamed PTHell.
My part-time evening job ....... delivery driver for Lordco.
oh and the day job pays the bills but the evening job keeps me sane ('cause its fun LOL)
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I work as a "customer service agent" (which makes me think I should get a code name or a gun or something) at a call centre for one of the toll-road operators in Sydney. People call up and pay their bills and their fines and complain and set up accounts and complain and make enquiries about how to get to different places and complain and so far I have succeeded in not shooting myself in the face. The fact that I am really really good at this job just makes me even more depressed. If I don't get into uni I'm going to try for a full-time job in a bookstore or something. I don't want to work in a call centre for another year.
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I work at the local pub, I mean the only pub that a resonable person would frequent around here. I just got home from work, utterly drunk and with about €70 in cash, so I guess it's a pretty good job. I basically get paid to get drunk with my friends.
edit: recently I worked construction for a month, that was a pretty good gig, too.
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I work in the Fiber Development Lab at the Lab for Laser Energetics. I try to discover interesting things about fibers, or at least demonstrate that interesting things about fibers are actually true (if you've ever heard of Marcuse, awesome). I am also grading papers, holding four office hours a week and trying to come up with demos for an undergraduate lasers course.
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I used to work in a retail store selling records and video games, and movies, and whatnot. Now, I've moved to their warehouse, where I mostly scan things in and out, and lift boxes, and all that jazz.
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(in b4 Ally's awesome job)
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I work as a "customer service agent" (which makes me think I should get a code name or a gun or something)
Or a miniskirt, stilettos, and too much make-up. Thank god I can shut down my mental image facilities.
I'm currently unemployed, it doesn't help that I have applied to most places around here to no avail, so I'm really slow about re-applying because after you fill out 15 applications with no more than two automated thank you but we aren't interested in hiring you emails in return, it gets pretty damn discouraging. I'm thinking about applying to deliver pizzas once I have a car, and I've been applying to a lot of bookstores. It doesn't help that I don't really get out much and don't have any previous jobs, so I have very few people to be my personal references.
If only paper routes didn't pay like shit, I would do that. They are a lot of fun, at least for someone that likes driving and being out in the middle of the night when nobody else is.
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I'm in the same boat as you Nodaisho. Applied to every job that turns up, but nothing works out. Closest I got was an interview for a job that I only applied for on the off chance they'd want to employ me. Turns out they didn't. I'm currently in the "fuck employment" mindset.
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I'm at school just now but in the summer I worked as a programmer for an oil services company in Aberdeen. I really enjoyed it, I was basically allowed to just be a nerd and sit in front of a computer all day, doing something that interests me. However, I later discovered that another part of this company was contracted to build some of Guantanamo Bay.
...the point where they can feasibly justify having me killed
I am now waiting for Tommy's body to be dredged up from the harbour. They're an oil company, they don't need justification.
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I work as a "customer service agent" (which makes me think I should get a code name or a gun or something)
Or a miniskirt, stilettos, and too much make-up. Thank god I can shut down my mental image facilities.
Thanks, my job wasn't humiliating enough already. Seriously, I try to avoid answering the question "so what do you do?" because I'm so ashamed of the answer. Fuck my life.
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Grocery store. I stack shit that you buy, bitches.
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Hmm. So much for fuck employment. Walk into a local hotel/bar/restaurant, they're so desperate for staff the manager asks me, with no experience, to turn up tonight and have a go. So there I'll be, in a busy bar on Saturday night wondering what the hell I should be doing. Oh well.
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That's a lot how my pizza job worked, I went in and mentioned my friend who worked there and they asked me to come in the next day. but it wasn't like a real job, as far as I really know it was just a drug front.
I worked at a movie theater for a couple weeks once, but then I slept through a day of work accidentally and fucked that up. I'm thinking about just moving somewhere else and looking for whatever I can unless there's nothing then moving again.
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I am currently an unemployed, penniless student but I used to work part time in a supermarket. I'm hoping never to have to go back to that (not because I disliked it but because hopefully I will get fun internships and vacation schemes and be on track to getting an awesome job when I graduate).
Incidentally Tommy I googled the phrase "oil exploration company based in Aberdeen and London" because it sounded like it might be a press release and I wanted to find out which one, and you used the exact same phrase on SGR.
Still don't know who you are a spy for, though.
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I work for a municipal government in the Public Utilities department.
I am a drafting tech GIS tech engineering tech. They like to change our job title occasionally. My little section keeps track of where all the water and sewer lines run and makes the occasional map showing where the water and sewer lines are located. I get to check other peoples work and make sure they didn't screw something up. It's a good thing I do this.
I've been there 22 years and am not likely to go anywhere anytime soon.
The work is mostly okay.
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I am a lowly codemonkey in a gigantic software-churning hate machine in Burnaby.
And when I'm not doing that I have half of a cafe to keep me busy.
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If I could have a job, I would work at the pool near my house.
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By day: a mild-mannered photographer/journalist/librarian/street-cleaner.
By night: a fearless vigilante, fighting crime in our once proud city's underbelly.
(The above might not be true.)
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I work at a mobile X-ray company here in OKC. We send techs to nursing homes, home healths, assisted living, baby nurseries, and prisons to do X-rays on patients that can't otherwise make it to a hospital. I work in the office answering phones and filing papers and talking to nurses and sending x-rays to radiologists. It's a pretty awesome company, because is is small, but makes a shit-ton of money. The bosses are the kind of people that are really loyal to the employees and they often buy things for me like breakfast and stuff for no reason. I just got a raise, and I am also training to work weekends, so I can earn time-and-a-half one weekend a month. It is a really great job.
Also, my boss is kind of crazy, and I really love him, but the stories I would tell about him would really just make him sound like an asshole to anyone who doesn't know him, but he really isn't!
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I am a miserable PhD student in microbiology. I essentially sit in a lab all day showing undergrads and MS students how to do things that they should have learned a long time ago and getting very little time for my research that is going nowhere anyways.
On the upside I can occasionally come into work drunk and if I'm really tired I can just sleep on my desk.
Oh, and I'm also a tutor for university athletes. I help general biology students who are struggling with really easy concepts and I have some human genetics students, which is a class I'm really not qualified to tutor for.
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Two days a week, I help confused university students write essays. It's the best job ever, and the pay ain't too shabby. And when there aren't any students to tutor, I get paid to do my own college work.
One day a week I do market research for a web development company, which is kind of eh but may lead to full time work when I graduate next spring.
Annnnd I also write a blog for a clothes company in Denmark in exchange for free clothes, if that counts as a job.
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I am a university student, but for the sweet, sweet cash money I am also a lab demonstrator for inductory organic chemistry. The lab is supposed to be about 4 hours long; I usually am there for 5 hours.
The job mainly consists of me getting flints for people so they can light bunsen burners. My favorite part of the job: telling people to keep their damn safety glasses on. If I tell you three times, you're out of the lab.
My students are actually pretty cool. One of them gave me a cupcake the other day.
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I am a technical assistant for a wood and metal sculpture shop at an art school, during extensive and largely disastrous renovations in which we lost two thirds of our floor space. Meanwhile the number of students with access to the shop has doubled. I spend a lot of my time ordering things and running errands and showing people how to use things and giving workstudy students odd jobs. And very much like Vegkitkat I spend a fair bit of time ensuring that students are wearing their safety glasses and ear protection and proper clothes and all that stuff. It's both fun and extremely stressful. It's also a tremendous learning experience.
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I am a production assistant at a mediumish company that makes slot machine and online casual games. Recently we have toned this side of the company down somewhat because we have started work on a new project.
We are creating a brand new enormous TOP SECRET online fantasy trading card wargame. I spend my days researching TCGs and RTSs and any and all computer or tabletop games ever, consulting with the artists on what their wizards and dragons and elves should look like, writing campaign scenarios and backstory, assisting the animators, play testing (my Necromancer deck is pretty awesome) and trying to figure out how the software should look and work. Our office is crowded with kooky artists and fantasy paraphernalia, and if you don't have at least six action figures and a bunch of dice and nerdy posters at your desk you are behind the pack.
It is the biggest fluke that I got this job as I was originally hired as an assistant to the receptionist and to take care of timesheets and clean the kitchen, but when they realised I was super keen to help with the new project I was promoted and given all these amazing responsibilities. My office and co-workers and bosses are also completely awesome (and smack in the middle of the Sydney CBD) and we have amazing benefits and get fed every day and, on whatever occasion we can think of, alcoholed. I freaking love my job.
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I am an IT tech at my university's business school. The bulk of my job involves creating images and deploying them to computers. Basically it's like rubber-stamping computer systems. I just finished up creating a computer that has all of our software on it that you can remote into from anywhere you have internet access, and from now on I'll probably be researching how to use Windows Automated Installation Kit on a facility-wide level. We've been using Symantec Ghost and man, is that a shit program, whose shittiness is compounded by the fact that you have to pay for it. WAIK comes free with Windows, and integrates seamlessly with all of our systems. If I can get it to work, it will cut down the hassle of this job considerably. Plus I'll get a big gold star.
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ITT: we talk about how much we would like to stuff Lunchy in a trunk somewhere and take over her job.
At the moment I'm an IT contractor with an investment bank, which basically means I do all the IT gruntwork like moving computers around, re-imaging pcs before someone else uses them, changing printer toner, etc. It's pretty low-level and boring, but they pay me relatively well for the level of work. I would love to be able to come in next week with an updated description due to getting a better job, but I dunno, the job market here is pretty depressed at the moment.
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Unemployed (hopefully just for now), was a dishwasher before this.
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I also work at a call center only for an Evil Bank. Not the biggest Evil Bank, it's actually pretty moderately Evil compared to others. Like Jimmy's call center job, mostly I listen to people complain only sometimes I egg them on a little bit. I get threatened by doctors actually all the time (yes sir, i understand you are a physician. you are also late.) It is also a lot of hand holding for every single thing and lots of helping customers add things and also lots of telling them that they are responsible for their own credit card. (some customers are okay but not very many) (i totally yelled at one guy once, it was awesome) (and i didn't get in trouble for it, he was that big of a dick)
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Next month I start a seasonal job answering customer service emails. Last year I did this they forced us to answer the phones all day for at least a week which I hated, but they pay is good.
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I help people with their homeworks and get paid for that.
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I am currently in college, but when I am home over holidays I work at a dog grooming shop! The work is pretty tough (not exaggerating, I was seriously mauled by a cat), and some of the customers suck (owner of said cat offered to pay my medical bills, but then failed to follow through), but I overall love my job.
Some of my favorite clients:
Simba does not go anywhere without a buddy
(http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs174.snc1/6535_1200082685874_1342764713_579826_4994145_n.jpg)
Cosmo loves to be fashionable
(http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v5207/35/13/1342764713/n1342764713_574271_6522331.jpg)
And Chewie sports a fabulous mohawk
(http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs218.snc1/8528_1220559997794_1342764713_649887_7384311_n.jpg)
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I'm now having trouble deciding who has the best job out of you and Lunchy. On the one hand, awesome free stuff and top secret projects. On the other hand, dog with mohawk.
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So, uh, in the space of these three posts in this thread I've got a job. Pay is awful, hours are worse, but I guess that's the nature of bar work. Was working until 2AM last night woo...
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I'm a supervisor at a pub/restaurant which is part of the UK's biggest pub chain, Wetherspoons. Its an ok job, since I got promoted my pay is a lot better, the hours can suck but the people I work with are great. The only problem is our prices are ridiculously cheap. We sell a cheap ale at £1.35 a pint and spend most of the day shifts enduring several dozen old men drinking it by the gallon, then in the evenings we often get swamped with students drinking Jagerbombs and Sailor Jerrys (if anybody is wondering what that is, its a really sweet spiced rum thats become quite popular over here with Pepsi). Like I said, the people I work with are great, but aside from Friday and Saturday nights, where we have like 10 staff closing the pub and about 6 more who leave at about 11, we're often totally understaffed.
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Explaining what I do for a living is kind of a long story* because I've cobbled together a slew of different income streams, rather than having a single full-time job like most people. For example, I teach computer art classes (3D animation, game design, etc.) at a couple of colleges here in Chicago, but I'm an adjunct and thus a) this is part-time work and b) it doesn't pay much**. I also make money selling animations in Second Life but that income stream has been progressively dwindling because I've been paying less and less attention to maintaining it. And then on top of that stuff I do freelance work developing games, especially online games in Flash. Freelancing is definitely a feast-or-famine approach to work where you're constantly hustling for new clients (I finished one lucrative gig a couple weeks ago, so right now I'm hoping one of the clients I pitched last week will hire me for my next gig.)
My best shot at more stable employment is to get a full-time teaching position for next year and, while job hunting for tenure track faculty positions is pretty much always a long shot, in this economy there are even fewer schools hiring than usual. I also need to get around to finishing one of the many unfinished games I've constantly got on the back-burner (currently I have half a dozen iPhone games that I'm either planning out on paper or have developed prototypes for, but no finished games in the App Store.)
Also, all the health-care debates recently have a lot of relevance for me, since I don't have employer-provided health insurance and thus know first-hand what the situation is like for people without employer-provided health insurance (AMERICA FUCK YEAH.) It was amusing to me when my very Republican father sent my sisters and I an email full of misinformation (or rather, a link to a Wall Street Journal article full of misinformation) about what health-care is like for uninsured/underinsured, and reminded him that I am underinsured and in the past couple years I've been to the emergency room once and have had major dental work so I'm perfectly aware that that article is nonsense.
*I keep thinking I need to come up with a concise answer to the common question "What do you do?" but I never get around to thinking of that, so I'm constantly fumbling awkwardly to explain my work-life to people.
**People attending college, you might not realize that little of your tuition goes to faculty salaries (the majority pays for administration, and health services, and job placement counselors, and athletic facilities, etc.) and so only the handful of full-time faculty are paid decently, and even they are typically paid considerably less than they could make in private sector jobs.
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I've been meaning to post about this for a month, but I couldn't find anywhere to upload PDFs.
I work at a campus newspaper doing layout & design. Since I started the job last year, we've gone from this (http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B5ybXz1IGTl0ZjMyM2Q1ZGQtYzU0My00NGMwLTk0YTUtZmM1NzY4ZTJmMzI4&hl=en), the design I inherited, to this (http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B5ybXz1IGTl0ZjhmMjI1ZDMtOTA3Ny00ODQzLTljMTUtMjZlYTNjNjdjMjgw&hl=en), a revamp of that design, to this (http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B5ybXz1IGTl0OGI4NjhkZjgtNzIxZi00OWIzLWFiNmQtMDE2NDc3M2RjYzUz&hl=en), our design this year. This isn't the issue I'm happiest with but the design itself is pretty close to finalized as of its publication.
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I guess the last time didn't post so Here It Is.
I've been meaning to post about this for a month, but I couldn't find anywhere to upload PDFs.
I work at a campus newspaper doing layout & design. Since I started the job last year, we've gone from this (http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B5ybXz1IGTl0ZjMyM2Q1ZGQtYzU0My00NGMwLTk0YTUtZmM1NzY4ZTJmMzI4&hl=en), the design I inherited, to this (http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B5ybXz1IGTl0ZjhmMjI1ZDMtOTA3Ny00ODQzLTljMTUtMjZlYTNjNjdjMjgw&hl=en), a revamp of that design, to this (http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B5ybXz1IGTl0OGI4NjhkZjgtNzIxZi00OWIzLWFiNmQtMDE2NDc3M2RjYzUz&hl=en), our design this year. This isn't the issue I'm happiest with but the design itself is pretty close to finalized as of its publication.
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The funny thing is that it kind of did, but not completely. If you go to reply, it has both of your posts under the "Topic Summary" thing, but it still doesn't appear in the actual thread.
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I'm a layout guy, not a coding guy.
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uhh, job thread.
i was a freshman in high school when i got myself into a part time job, at which i was (re)designing, coding, updating and maintaining about 30 porn websites. i quit after a year of oh-hai-i-get-paid-to-watch-porn fun and when i got back a year later, i was assigned to the ads department where i designed ads for, uhh, i dont know what its called in english, phone sex lines maybe? another year passed, and i quit again. a few months ago, my old manager from that company called me and said he had quit too and was putting up an internet ad network business, and needed a know-it-all guy. thats how i got my current job. now on one hand im refining and tuning the adserver i wrote for our tiny ad network of 600M imp/month and on the other hand im designing and coding custom projects for some of our clients.
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I work for a small and obscure office of the Australian Commonwealth Public Service. The office is in Canberra, and I live in Melbourne. Canberra is about 700 kilometres away from Melbourne, so the commute takes a while. So instead of commuting I work from home. Which means that if I want to start work at nine, I can get up a few minutes before nine. If I want to sleep in a bit I can get up at ten or ten-thirty and do the last hour of my work in front of the evening news on the T.V. If I want to take a few hours off in the middle of the day I can, and make up for it later. If I want to go and do my grocery shopping, or go and get a coffee at any time of day, I can. If I want to finish early one day a week so that I can go and play touch football, that's what I do. The standard Australian public service day is seven and a half hours.
I spend entirely too much time during the day talking to my cat.
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Harry I don't care what you do, can we swap jobs please
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I'm a supervisor at a pub/restaurant which is part of the UK's biggest pub chain, Wetherspoons.
just be glad you have hours at all, most full time staff where I work (Yates) are probably going to be part time by January.
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I work for one of the agencies of the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Wateramanagement, and then mainly focussing on the enforcement of the Law(s) that deal with keeping the waters clean/getting them cleaner.
Its quite the amusing to one day walk around on oil refineries, and the next to race across a rather large body of water in a way to fast speedboat to go and gather some data.
Also, yay for 36 hour workweeks! (Though, i work 40 hours standard, but that means i just have 2 days off extra per month!)
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this explains (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uGsUXSbI4E&feature=player_embedded) what working at a call center is like. basically at least one call a day at the bank is like this though i would have hung up way sooner due to her cussin and threats, silly as they are, i would rather actually help another customer.
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I work at high school. As little as possible.
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http://www.instantrimshot.com/
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I work for one of the earths biggest internet firms, watching over parts of their systems.... typical minion grade job for someone i expect to be the next Bond Supervillain....
My "somewhat virtual" office is located in a big red building atop of Seattle...
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3316/3519104228_c076ef43a0.jpg)
In reallity, my ass sits most time somewhere deep in the woods of bavaria in a comfy chair in front of my computer, connected to the "System" ;o).
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I work via Maandag (http://www.maandag.nl/?gclid=CLyhvumdwZ0CFVWF3godyX_WsQ) in this organisation www.dmb.amsterdam.nl . (The nice embedding of the links seems to not work here at ... work).
I do admin. duties. It's rather mind-numbing and stuff but it pays.
Poorly. But it pays.
I spent way too much time on the internet. I waste my time and I should be looking for something more exciting ...
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I, like Inlander, work from home. I do web dev for a large, soulless ad firm. It's pretty sweet, except when I run into one of the many operating paradoxes that sour things and bedevil me. Also, they are now making me commute downtown to the office once a week.
I too spend a lot of time talking to my cat. I got him as a kitten and I get to watch him grow fatter and lazier, day-by-day.
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A good preparation for marriage! Ohh!!
*Paul Shaefferesque musical segway*
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This is a conversation I had with a customer today:
Customer: I don't see why I should have to pay for my account in advance!
Me: Well, it's because you have a pre-paid account. You pay money onto that account, that money is then used to pay the tolls.
Customer: That's robbery! You're forcing me to pay for something I haven't done yet!
Me: Because it's a pre-paid account. Like having a pre-paid mobile phone and it's entirely legal, and also what you agreed to when you opened the account.
Customer: Well nothing else is pre-paid! You don't pay for groceries in advance! You don't pay rent in advance!
Me: Uh, actually you do. Rent is always paid in advance. Lots of things are pre-paid!
Customer: Well I wouldn't know I've never had to rent anything.
Me: Probably not the best argument to be making then?
Customer: Look you little unionised, lefty, labor-voting prick...
Me: Grahame [for t'was his name], if you're going to start getting personally abusive and start swearing at me I'm just going to hang up. I don't appreciate being yelled at.
Customer: Oh I haven't begun to yell, you haven't even seen yelling yet. And if I am yelling it's because you're being a smarmy bastard.
Me: Grahame, you haven't seen smarmy yet.
It kind of went on like this for a while. Fuckwit got me so angry by the end that my hands were shaking so much I fucked up my nails.
I hate my cunting job.
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Job thread. Nice.
I'm a full time student at the College of Wooster in Ohio. It's a small liberal arts school and I'm a communication major.
I actually have two jobs. I work a few hours a week in the Special Collections area of one of our libraries. I basically take care of all the old books that we have, do mini-research projects for my bosses, and I had to learn how to laminate 100 year old newspapers that fall apart every time they get moved with two pieces of plastic, a squeegee, and a roll of double sided tape.
My other job is at Best Buy. I work in the music/movies/video games area, I sell TVs when they get busy and I help out in computers from time to time also. I really like my job, but sometimes I feel like I don't get enough time for school.
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Programmer for a large pharmaceutical company. I take files full of numbers that people give me and make files full of numbers for other people. The pay is good, the benefits are awesome, and most of my clients are very attractive ladies.
Except I rarely see them because I work in a different building and mostly deal with them by phone, and even though the work is relatively easy, there's a shitload of it. But the pay is good and the benefits are awesome. Also, because I'm on a computer all day, I can type this and people think I'm working.
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Customer: Look you little unionised, lefty, labor-voting prick...
I'm sure it wasn't funny at the time but hahaha oh my god
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It was pretty funny.
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The job that pays the bills and insures me and stuff: I am a Dispatcher for the county. I tell Police/Fire/EMS where to go. "911 What's your Emergency?" Fortunately I live in a rural county of about 1,500 people so most of the time calls are about cattle escaped from their fences or people hitting deer on the highway. Man, fuck those deer. I am also the IT Administrator for the office. It's a good job (I get paid double time for all of those random holidays that banks are closed like Columbus Day) and the county pays 100% of my family health and dental insurance
I also have an Associates in Computer Information Systems (hence the IT ADmin part of said job) and I do computer repair and troubleshooting on the side. I also referee JH/HS basketball and umpire High School and Junior College baseball.
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I have a cube.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2730/4110086994_f18d2452e2.jpg)
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I work at a gymnastics center, answering phones and keeping books, and paying bills and doing math and shit.
mostly i just talk to you guys and download music illegally (sshhh)
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I have a cube.
Man, at least you got your own cube. I have to share mine with two other people.
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I had a job once years ago where I shared a desk/computer/phone/workspace with our alcoholic phone technician. To make it worse, it was in a closet. No shit.
At least there was always booze in the desk.
My first job where I had my own office I worked in an old building that had been remodeled. My office had formerly been a men's room, so I had the plumbing stubs for urinals right behind my desk.
Classy.
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I would take a picture of my cube but our office is all TOP SECRET and I would probably get fired or something.
I share a Troll doll named Edgar the Destroyer with the Animation Manager, who sits opposite me.
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I think photography at my place of work tends to be frowned upon. I think it's just because the Department of Energy is trying to pretend that they do interesting, classified research.
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Well, when I hear "Department of Energy", the first thing I think about is some big space laser or something. No one wants to be part of the Department of Energy if they don't have access to a space laser.
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I work in a lumber yard. It tuns out some of the least intelligent people in the world like to shop for lumber.
Also, I cannot wait for a couple of months when it will be below zero when I am working
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"Remember: Half the people you meet every day are below average intelligence"
Not sure where that quote it from but I always liked it. Because A) it sounds sort of rude and mean, and B) Mathmatically speaking, it's actually true so it's not really a dig at anyone, just the law of averages.
Unfortunately, I find that it's actually more than half usually :|
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It's not actually true. I work at a location where I bet there are no people who are below average intelligence. If I only go to work (which I do some days), that will mean I will meet zero people who are below average intelligence. Now, half the people I meet will be below the average intelligence for the people I meet that day, but that's not quite the same.
Well, when I hear "Department of Energy", the first thing I think about is some big space laser or something. No one wants to be part of the Department of Energy if they don't have access to a space laser.
Dude, you have identified where I work (http://www.lle.rochester.edu/) with startling precision.
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Fancy that, we get most of our funding from the DoE as well.
Of course, my lab doesn't design giant space lasers.
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My back faces the window, so I get some sunshine. I have a lot of plants there. Apparently I forgot how to write proper sentences.