Jobs.

[xcellerate]

Currently interning; doing government contracts for my company. 15/hr.

 

[theotherguy]

Carnegie Mellon Student:

negative $54,000 a year.

I seriously need a summer job though. I've applied to work at Border's bookstore and Best Buy but haven't gotten any bites. I applied for an internship at NASA but was rejected.

 

[repiV]

Brainless business-to-business IT telemarketing work at CNET for ?10/hour. Boring as hell and way below me, but it's a nice place to work with great people, no commitments, no pressure and I can take time off whenever I feel like it. So it suits me just fine for the moment.

When summer's out, I shall be looking for a proper salaried account management/recruitment job...

 

[Lucid]

Freelancers always make a lot of money. You should be charging at least 20 bucks an hour, unless there happen to be a lot of welders with no jobs in your area..

No, there's virtually no jobs in my area.
I only charge what I think is reasonable... because I know it's hard on everybody these days.

They're usually small jobs consisting of fixing trailers or batting cages and patching up duct work.

I think $15 is more than enough.

 

[Dinkleberry]

Sell crack. Work dries up in the school holidays though :-(

 

[Baal]

Landscaping. I like it quite a bit, all mexican jokes aside.

Part of me wishes I had of not got into my "career" job so young so I would have had time to do some of the outdoor jobs like that. I came out of my office building last week after working 8 hours and walked right past a parked truck owned by a landscaping company that smelled just like lawnmower gasoline and freshly cut grass. It made me so jealous. That smell made my day after sitting in front of a computer from 9-5

 

[Dog--]

Why would you want an office job in the first place? Why would anyone want an office job?

 

[Lucid]

I kinda've wish I had an office job, sitting around waiting for a call gets boring as ****.

In the mean time I usually draw up random blue prints and build things.

 

[theotherguy]

Why would you want an office job in the first place? Why would anyone want an office job?

1. It doesn't require me to handle food
2. It doesn't require me to work outside in the Texas summer heat
3. It usually doesn't require me to interact with people.

 

[dfc05]

Landscaping sounds fun. I like planting stuff.

I'm currently doing an internship in environmental consulting. It's not that difficult or stressful, and it pays pretty well, so I don't really have much to complain about apart from sometimes running out of work to do, which is probably the thing about office jobs that I hate the most.

I mean I guess it's a little selfish to say that sitting in an air conditioned office is worse than working outside, but I used to volunteer fairly long hours outdoors in the summer during high school, and I actually came out of that feeling really good... whereas having to sit around in an office can get pretty draining (mentally). It's just not very stimulating, and when I'm finished, I get to go home and spend half my free time cooking dinner and washing dishes and figuring out what to take for lunch tomorrow? Sadness!

 

[JNightshade]

I work as a paid intern for a nautical software company in boston. That means I do all the projects that they don't want to assign to full-on employees. I'm not complaining- it's 40 hours a week, $17/hour... of course, almost all of that goes straight towards college

 

[knut]

J...o..b?

No, but seriously, I could do with some kind of work. Theres a farm shop about a mile out of the village that might be hiring, just moving stuff, unpacking stuff... that kind of work. I think, anyway. Might pop in and see if they've got anything as it basically means I get to spend all day outside with my iPod on.

That, or I'll see if a local supermarket not far into town has any placements going.

 

[Letters]

Airport security lead... $18/hr. Hours (1200-2030) and days off (tues, wed) suck, but it's not bad. I still need to finish college.

 

[Kula Meenur]

Used to work for Toll Holdings West Freight Managment until last August. Viscuous Liquid Dep Attachment. I was a shift supervisor running my own team in our unit. Fun fun. I also trained most of our unit personally and updated them with HAZMAT and HAZCHEM training and fire disposal drills in accordance with OH&S guidelines. I also trained them in the use of forklifts and got most of them their heavy tickets. Most of them were around 25-35 and i was only about 19/20 at the time so there were a few misgivings i had to address. Started at the bottom too. $75k yearly salary. Was pretty proud of that job. Made a lot of money for me and the company. Had my own clothing allowance too (only $2k)! Was actually running four independant teams in our unit by the time i left. Miss it.


Now i'm a law student, and am about to get a job in Royal Perth Hospital.

 

[Stormy]

Gradyate Environment Artist
Blackrock Studio - Disney
?16k year.

Good fun job and hopfly the start of a good long career industry.

 

[cheddarrr]

oooh i likes this thread!!


I work at the local ABC affiliate putting the news on the air. Running cameras/tapes/prompter/audio/what the hell ever they need. and for this.. i make 6.65

but i laugh my ass off EVERY single day. Making fun of the news is glorious


http://fourstateshomepage.com/

 

[Druckles]

I am Sir Alan Sugar. But you all knew that anyway.

 

[Geogaddi]

In the process of job hunting. It's hard to find a job that pays decently and doesn't suck.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Been working in recruitment for the security industry just short of 2 years, leaving shortly to start university this summer.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Ooh, Glennykins, where are you going and what are you doing?

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Queen Mary University London, doing Forensic Science and Molecular Biology, it's always been my kind of thing (although I never watch CSI...so I'm not one of those people)

 

[Gray Fox]

SPECTRE agent.

Not all it's cracked out to be.

 

[Baal]

Why would you want an office job in the first place? Why would anyone want an office job?

Money?

There are very few jobs that pay well and don't have you working in an office most of the time. It depends how you define "office" though I guess.

And of course there are exceptions.

 

[repiV]

I am Sir Alan Sugar. But you all knew that anyway.

You're a camera-baiting hypocrite peddling shite electronic gear from a naff industrial estate in Brentwood?

 

[Druckles]

You're a camera-baiting hypocrite peddling shite electronic gear from a naff industrial estate in Brentwood?

Essex. Yes.

But I'm a knight, so eat that.

 

[repiV]

Essex. Yes.

But I'm a knight, so eat that.

"I don't like liars, I don't like bullshitters, I don't like cheats."

...

"You admitted your mistake in the boardroom. You're fired. And you my friend, done a bloody good job of passing the blame onto everyone else - I'll give you another chance."

 

[Moto]

Full time student at a community college, studying Business Economics. Got denied at my first choice university, those assholes. I have a 4.0GPA, so shows what they know. Dicks. I'm not going there now just to spite them. Well, unless they offer me a nice scholarship. Then I'll reconsider.

No time to work now, but at the the beginning of the year, I worked at a motorcycle accessories store. They do mostly online orders. I basically put things in boxes and took stuff to the post office. A little under $10 an hour.

 

[Iron Kat]

Otherwise, I work at the local cinema. I only get ?5.14 an hour but I get to see free films whenever I want, see new films a couple of days before they come out, get free food when the managers aren't looking and the people there are good fun.

Now I wanna get a job in a cinema!!! Even thought the pay sounds pretty crap it would still be awesome to see new films for free, and i can't remember the amount of good films I've missed out on over the years. If I worked at one I'd never have to miss out again!!! :E

 

[TimoJay]

Just graduated and now I'm taking classes AGAIN, except this time I'm getting payed about $30/hr to listen to the lectures...


but 7 hours of lecture a day =
I thought I was done with school. darm.

 

[MJ12]

Need to find a job. Trying to at the moment.

 

[Monique]

I was working as a waitress for a bit. Which really ****ing sucked.

Then, one day, my friend had to quit her full-time job at a video gaming company down to part-time as a community manager because she's getting married. It's a small company with few products, so when my friend told them to try me out, they tried. And, well, hello job! Now I get played to a) write about games b) promote our company's products and c) play HL2 mods. It's not exactly working for Valve/Blizzard/EA or anything, but it's in the industry and pays decently.

It was really weird going from 8 hour shifts on your feet, nasty customers, trying to do homework at the register to a job that's doing what I love for a living. Especially since I'm still in college, and was expecting to have to get a degree to even enter a company as a CM.

Right now I'm in charge of making an encyclopedia of our game lore, hosting weekly matches of our game on Steam, and bothering people to work for us and/or play our game(s).

 

[Dog--]

Money?

There are very few jobs that pay well and don't have you working in an office most of the time. It depends how you define "office" though I guess.

And of course there are exceptions.

I'm talking about like cubical, punching numbers into a computer kind of office. Like, if you were working in a computer repair shop fixing computers and stuff, that's cool, but I'd probably kill myself if all I did was punch numbers in a computer confined in a tiny cubical..

 

[Saturos]

Like, if you were working in a computer repair shop fixing computers and stuff, that's cool,

There's not really much money to be earned in the PC repair business either. I'm starving to death over here.

PC technicians are a dime a dozen. Like Kleenex, people use em' then throw em' away.

 

[Kula Meenur]

I'm talking about like cubical, punching numbers into a computer kind of office. Like, if you were working in a computer repair shop fixing computers and stuff, that's cool, but I'd probably kill myself if all I did was punch numbers in a computer confined in a tiny cubical..

Had to do that for a while. It's not the greatest of fun. Used to do a lot of LANing with the boss and my collegues whenever we had a shipment clear Good times

 

[Doppelgofer]

i work in consumer sales. whenever you ring up to activate your debit card, if someone starts blabbing on about how good identity protection is, it's probably me

 

[Saturos]

I was working as a waitress for a bit. Which really ****ing sucked.

Then, one day, my friend had to quit her full-time job at a video gaming company down to part-time as a community manager because she's getting married. It's a small company with few products, so when my friend told them to try me out, they tried. And, well, hello job! Now I get played to a) write about games b) promote our company's products and c) play HL2 mods. It's not exactly working for Valve/Blizzard/EA or anything, but it's in the industry and pays decently.

It was really weird going from 8 hour shifts on your feet, nasty customers, trying to do homework at the register to a job that's doing what I love for a living. Especially since I'm still in college, and was expecting to have to get a degree to even enter a company as a CM.

Right now I'm in charge of making an encyclopedia of our game lore, hosting weekly matches of our game on Steam, and bothering people to work for us and/or play our game(s).

I envy you.

 

[repiV]

I'm talking about like cubical, punching numbers into a computer kind of office. Like, if you were working in a computer repair shop fixing computers and stuff, that's cool, but I'd probably kill myself if all I did was punch numbers in a computer confined in a tiny cubical..

Urgh. I've never seen one of those offices with separated cubicles, I think they must be more of an American thing. But that really would be my idea of hell.
Open plan offices are much more fun.

 

[Cormeh]

I am at present sitting back in my chair, relaxing with a cold can of beer.

I currently collect my weekly jobseekers allowance from the Job Centre which is unwittingly provided by you poor, misguided ignorant fools. Your misery and suffering being pushed around by "the man" is money in my pocket each and every week. How many of you pay your taxes? NONE OF YOU. That's right, your hard-earned cash is stripped from you by the government and then fed directly into my pocket.

What's even sweeter is "the man" believes that I am an invalid and unable to perform day-to-day tasks without pain and discomfort, which I play along with by limping around in public and complaining loudly when I'm too lazy to climb stairs or reach to the top shelf for that X-rated magazine I enjoy.

Each and every one of you is a poor sap, and I reap the benefits from it. AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.

 

[Kula Meenur]

Urgh. I've never seen one of those offices with separated cubicles, I think they must be more of an American thing. But that really would be my idea of hell.
Open plan offices are much more fun.

Nah man, you get them everywhere Open offices are much better tbh, provides workers with an honest relaxing environment, doesn't give that caged in feeling.

edit: I heard there was a set of recommendations put out for this, to break up office demographics...meh in perth anyway

 

[repiV]

I am at present sitting back in my chair, relaxing with a cold can of beer.

I currently collect my weekly jobseekers allowance from the Job Centre which is unwittingly provided by you poor, misguided ignorant fools. Your misery and suffering being pushed around by "the man" is money in my pocket each and every week. How many of you pay your taxes? NONE OF YOU. That's right, your hard-earned cash is stripped from you by the government and then fed directly into my pocket.

What's even sweeter is "the man" believes that I am an invalid and unable to perform day-to-day tasks without pain and discomfort, which I play along with by limping around in public and complaining loudly when I'm too lazy to climb stairs or reach to the top shelf for that X-rated magazine I enjoy.

Each and every one of you is a poor sap, and I reap the benefits from it. AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.

Pfft, you're just a wannabe. See, however much you leech, you're still poor. I get Disability Living Allowance on top of what I earn from work - even comes with parking privileges. Now go to hell.

Nah man, you get them everywhere Open offices are much better tbh, provides workers with an honest relaxing environment, doesn't give that caged in feeling.

edit: I heard there was a set of recommendations put out for this, to break up office demographics...meh in perth anyway

I agree. The only thing is they can be quite intimidating in larger companies - I interviewed at a couple of large recruitment firms before, and they had literally one sales floor with well over 100 people all on the phone and so forth. It was loud, really really loud and I think it would have done my nut in. So I ended up working for a smaller company, in which case having everyone in one room was just really pleasant.