Jobs!

Since I finished uni for the summer, I am back working for the government. Suits are required, dark glasses strictly optional.

Yeah, I sold out.

I actually work for the council, organising kids with places in schools and organising appeals for their parents against denial of entry into schools. So if a kid fails his 11+ test I have Mr & Mrs Fuckwit on the phone telling me the test was too hard, lil' Fuckwit Junior was ill that day, the test invigilator had scary eyes... All manner of excuses. So I sit and get shouted at on the phone most of the day, 9-5, 5 days a week. But at the end of every month I get a little bit nearer to clearing my phenomenal student overdraft, so it's all good.

Seriously though, in the UK, if you're after easy money in a fairly mindless job... Get data input or some form of admin/clerical work. It's boring, but well paid and a comfortable working environment... and if the people you work with are decent, then it's usually not that bad. Plus many offices run a flexi-time system nowadays so you can pretty much work the hours you want. I doubt it's any different in the US either.

my boss always schedules me for the one time i cannot work. saturdays 2-4 because i have a radio show. he knows this. but i always seem to get scheduled.

I applied for a job at Starbucks because a lot of my acquaintances work there and they're flexible with hours. I'm such a sellout, but it feels pretty damn good.

lauren wrote:

I applied for a job at Starbucks because a lot of my acquaintances work there and they're flexible with hours. I'm such a sellout, but it feels pretty damn good.

NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
im gonna throw a brick through your starbucks window.


haha, im jsut kidding
everyone needs money, even if it is from the man.

Haha, yeah, sorry. My need for money outweighs my concern for sticking it to the man.

i worked at Starbucks for almost four years.

now i've been at Disney World for just over a year

I work at a pizzeria. It's kind of mind numbing but you get paid for standing around and occasionally making a pizza which you end up eating anyways.

I'm a secretary for an expert defense witness for Kawasaki. I get the boring shit, filing and answering phones, but my brother and boss get to reconstruct accidents and blow shit up and use crazy expensive high speed cameras and travel and junk. It's actually a super stressful job; a paralegal should really have my position.

i reported a couple weeks back that i got hired by the Gap.

yeah, i quit that yesterday, now working at FYE.

may as well sell my soul to the punk rock devil, i know

Everything is so overpriced there!

Just got a job at Fossil.

I don't have a job. I quit my last one about a month ago so I could go see Hot Water Music and Bouncing Souls
Now I need one again. I think I'm gonna go down to the local record store/ head shop and see if they're lookin to hire. I'm on pretty good terms with the owner so what do I have to lose.?

I work at a cafe. I'm a waitress. I take people's orders, give them their food. Provide them with caffeine kicks.

ALOT of people are complete assholes. But you still have to smile and be nice to them.
Sometimes I have to stop myself from snotting in their cappucinos.

But the people I work with are nice. And the money is good. And some customers are nice.

target overnight

it sucks

I suck so much at jobs where you have to smile and take people's shit. I did that at Wal*Mart, and when some guy yelled at me and told me he was going to take his business elsewhere, I smiled and said, "Go right ahead."

I take odd jobs at my school... this last time I was a model for a figure drawing class. $10 an hour to sit around.
The best job I ever had was my very first job in a little book store where after one week the owner would leave me alone in there to open/close the store and we got maybe one or two customers a day so I just sat in a big comfy chair, played whatever music I wanted, and read. Oh, those were the days.

Nobody shops at my store at all, and you get a free watch (Up to $150) for completing training. The people that work there are awesome, its so fun. Oh, and we don't clock out for breaks

i dont have to clock out for breaks just lunch.
which really kills me since it basically makes me under an hour...

i work at value village as of last friday.
i got paid to fill out paperwork awesome!

btw washington minimum wage is fucking $8.13
ridiculous

ANND!!?! after three months i'll be full time
and i get paid 40 bucks to not smoke every payday.
soo for working 8 hours plus [maybe] not smoking i made almost 100 bucks
i was at the end of the pay period so my check will only be fore seven hours plus the hour i spent filling out paperwork.

so much fun.
and they have benefits which is really strange to me.
health dental the works.

I worked at a skateshop for probably about half a year last year. That was pretty sweet.

But usually I'm working for my dad, landscaping, concrete, etc. His website can give you a better idea of what I basically do during my summers. http://www.klassenconcrete.com

That's awesome, Raccoon. I don't know why, but I love physical labor... especially when it comes with awesome results like that.

Thanks man. Yeah, my dad's gotten pretty creative over the past few years, so he's been coming up with some wicked stuff lately. It's pretty fun working there in the summers, there's a bunch of really funny, awesome guys that work for him so it's super fun.

I want a new job so badly, the people suck at my work and my job just sucks.
its so hard to find a job where i live though, my friend looked for about 6 months and applied to over 30 places and finally got a job at some bar downtown.

the only jobs you can get here if you're not 18 is fast-food or wal-mart. i can't work in fast-food and wal-mart...seriously. but i do get to make lemonade. i literally have a lemonade stand i work at for festivals. worked last weekend and working tomorrow. i make lemonade for about 6 hours and get usually paid at least 100 bucks so no complaints here.

i work at a call center and sell inteernet / voip phones / digital tv
its awesome, i work 20 hours and can pretty much come in whenever i want and go on tour whenever i want.
and my co workers are the best dudes ever. i made 3 grand last month.
i also work as a bartender / dj at a local youth center / venue
and i work as a tourmanager / roadie / mercher / booker

i used to work as a house technician for a huge law firm for two years.
and i used to work for mc donalds for 2 eeks, but only showed up once and decided i just couldnt do it.

im also trying to go to college.

Being new, I'm interested in what everyone does for a living. It could either be your career, or your part-time job at the moment. Worst/Best job you ever had?

I'm currently unemployed, but I've been applying to a bunch of places over the last week. I'm doing something different where I'm only applying to places that I actually want to work at..I've had too many shitty jobs.