Your current Job

Lillefot · **on:** May 18, 2008, 09:26:18 AM

Hi friends!

As I was working today, I thought about a topic like this.
I wanted to share what I do for "living" and fun things(or not so fun things) that happen at work.

I'll start off,

I work at a Camping Site, it's my family's comapny, and it's opened in 1991.
I started to work there 2006, and has now reached the highest level of employment, after my boss.
My hourly wage is 95 SEK, which is 9,97 EUR and 15,35 USD.
I find it a good wage for the job that I do, besides, it's just a holiday work that I do every year from 1 May - 31th August.
So, what do I do?

-In the reception, greeting visitors and sell them stuff and handles the payment from them.
-I seel Scandinvian Camping Cards.
-I use the Camping Site's booking system to book guests, check in and check out etc.
-I clean, kitchen, cottages, showers, the field and.... "drum solo" the Toilets!
-I cut the grass.

Lot's of service stuff in short words.

Fun things that can happen:
I find a leftover Euro or SEK

:

Bad things:
Guests that is grumpy/etc, and let it out on innocent me! :angry:

Horrible things:
When there's stop in the toilets! <_<
Like today, TWO stops! But I grabbed my "Shield" (the spray) and my "Sword" ( the brush) and got rid of it, do I have to mention that I took a shower afterwards...? -_-

This is a job that I DON'T want to work with in the future though, I have other plans.

But as a summer job, it's good payment and a great experience!
And I'm lucky to have it, since summer/holiday jobs are hard to get here in Sweden if you're young. -_-

So, what's your job?

/Lillefot

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #1 on:** May 18, 2008, 09:50:21 AM

Okay, here's my work details:

Location: My Home.

Description: I repair computers for others, create websites, and backup&upgrade systems.

Current wage: $20 hourly. I charge so little because it brings the people in in HOARDS! I can be repairing up to 10 computers at once which makes $200 an hour, however I usually only work on 4-7 computers at the same time. It's really hard to work on more than 7 computers at once, but I've done it before.

Good things that can happen: I get someone in who's TOTALLY computer illiterate. They always have a lot of work that needs to be done because they don't even know how to defrag their disks or some crap.

Bad things that can happen: Okay, when I have their computers, if something goes wrong with it, they ALWAYS blame me even when it's not my fault. I've only screwed up one computer and that's when I was helping them bring it into my shop. The stairs were slippery and I fell and dropped the computer onto the concrete. Totally broke the HD. I replaced it free of charge and it didn't cost much seeing as it was only 30gb. Unable to find a 30gb one new, I just installed an 80gig for the poor old man.

f-22 "raptor" ace · **Reply #2 on:** May 18, 2008, 10:56:07 AM

I don't have one. I'm wanting to get a job at the Subway here.

Lillefot · **Reply #3 on:** May 18, 2008, 11:31:07 AM

LBT lover,
Awsome! Atleast it sounds so to me! :^.^:
From what I understand, it's a job that you feel comfortable with and enjoy, which is good!

Haha, atleast computers aint as dirty as some of my work is! /envy

Ace,
What work would you have to do in the subway, and what wage would you get?

/Lillefot

f-22 "raptor" ace · **Reply #4 on:** May 18, 2008, 11:35:00 AM

The job I want on the side of the road.

The Dark Patriot · **Reply #5 on:** May 18, 2008, 01:46:14 PM

Where I Work: in the bakery department at a department store. (It's only about a half hour walk from my house, so I tend to get called in a lot since I'm the closest available-anytime person to the store)

What I Do: A lot of stuff, depending on when I work. If I work in the morning, I put out the commercial bread and slice the bread we make in store. If I work in the afternoon, I watch the Miwe breads (the stuff that we sales-side personnel bake off) and package various types of buns and stuff. At night, I close the store or pack the stuff that we bake and send to stores that don't have a production bakery like us. (this gets annoying, since I can never finish before the end of my shift, and so must stay later...) I also watch the cake coolers and freezers to ensure that they are at the proper temperature and occasionally sweep the floor, when it's needed.

What I get paid: $9.35/hr CDN at the moment, but it's going up to $10/hr at the end of August

Good things that can happen: Getting the occasional tip from people that you decorate cakes for.

Bad things that can happen: Running out of some random item, and having some customer start ranting at you since they live out of town or something.

Plus, I get full medical and dental, along with a 10% discount on essentially everything in the store, plus the benefits of being a unionized worker.

lbt/cty_lover · **Reply #6 on:** May 18, 2008, 01:49:24 PM

I don't work, but I do volunteer my time at a nearby hospital. I work in their library, doing inter-library loans, putting periodicals on the shelf, and taking inventory.

Petrie. · **Reply #7 on:** May 18, 2008, 03:05:05 PM

My current job is to assist teachers in classrooms. I don't make much at all...$8.08/hr. I hope to have my own classroom in the fall, doing things my way, plus I'll be working with older students, which my certification is in. I would start at about $30,000 per year.

NeptuneNavigator2001 · **Reply #8 on:** May 18, 2008, 03:16:59 PM

...Ehh... What do I do? Absolutely nothing... I exist... And now, *off-topic* without a mother, guaranteed... *on-topic* I wish I could get a job fixing other people's computers, like landbeforetimelover.... Or, get good enough with the horn, make a Fusion album, and receive donations, or something... LOL

...Ehh... Welcome to my age 23... Such seems to be life.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #9 on:** May 18, 2008, 03:24:19 PM

This thread is depressing. It reminds me of how bad the economy is. Seems no one so far is making it very well. -_-

Lillefot · **Reply #10 on:** May 18, 2008, 03:32:10 PM

Quote from: landbeforetimelover,May 18 2008 on 02:24 PM

This thread is depressing. It reminds me of how bad the economy is. Seems no one so far is making it very well. -_-

We Sweds don't complain. Atleast not on the low dollar!

If one shall buy from the US, now is the time!
I think that 1 SEK is about 5,50 USD nowdays. :^.^:
(sinister laugh)

/Lillefot

ingster · **Reply #11 on:** May 18, 2008, 03:50:25 PM

whats my job?
well, ill say this......i dont have one

F-14 Ace · **Reply #12 on:** May 18, 2008, 04:28:32 PM

I work at Chick-fil-a. It is mainly an after school job.

Petrie. · **Reply #13 on:** May 18, 2008, 05:49:22 PM

Quote from: landbeforetimelover,May 18 2008 on 02:24 PM

This thread is depressing. It reminds me of how bad the economy is. Seems no one so far is making it very well. -_-

Do you think of anything in a positive light? Perhaps the fact that we do have jobs, and reap the benefits of working instead of simply sitting at home, idle?

Usually I wouldn't say anything, but that comment just plain annoys me. Yes, with all the educational background experience I have, being a teacher's assistant is not the most ideal thing to do with such experience. Its what I could manage to obtain and do while completing my masters degree full-time. I'm not expecting the world from this job, but it pays for all my personal loans so I can finish grad school and keeps my car on the road, and gives me additional experience in the education field. I couldn't ask for better given the circumstances.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #14 on:** May 18, 2008, 11:51:19 PM

It's not so much the fact that not many can get a job they really like that pays a lot, it's more the fact that it takes everyone so much time to get a really good job. Didn't used to take so long a few decades ago. You'd be 25 and expected to have a spouse, a kid or two, and you'd both have great jobs and be close to owning a house.....without college education. Now you're lucky if you get those things by the time you're 35. -_-

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #15 on:** May 19, 2008, 12:29:06 AM

I currently work as a certified nurse aide(CNA), 'cuz I originally wanted to go into nursing. I started when I was sixteen by doing after-school private duty, took the training in my senior year of high school, and have been working at the same site for nearly four years now. Lillefot, if ya want to discuss "disgusting jobs," I don't think unclogging toilets can compare to the things I've seen

. Hmm, let's see...bedsores, skin tears, changing catheters, incision care, tube feeder care, cleaning up excrement, vomit, bathing folks, infected wounds, mass amounts of blood, amputation care, corpses...there's nothing left to my imagination

. Landbeforetimelover, twenty bucks an hour for computer repair is not all that bad

. Healthcare facilities are severely understaffed. Not only am I in school full-time, but I also work forty hours a week, mostly at night, and I'm only making eleven dollars an hour. I tell ya, healthcare staff are overworked, underpaid and terribly short-handed <_<. No wonder few folks want to go in that field -_-.

Lillefot · **Reply #16 on:** May 19, 2008, 08:58:13 AM

Tiger,
I guess not :^.^: Sounds tough!
I've done more than toilets though...
Ahh.... cottage nr.3 summer 2007.... :blink:
LOL

/Lillefot

kjeldo · **Reply #17 on:** May 19, 2008, 09:53:04 AM

no work at his moment,

mcr mad · **Reply #18 on:** May 19, 2008, 01:02:35 PM

i an't got a job unless school count, but when i do get 1 it'll probale be at HMV mainly cos unlike most store's in swindon thay play god music in the background like fall out boy, the kooks, the artic monkey, dizzy rascal, the wombats, panic at the disco etc, you know indie, emo, metal and rap & after my hour are over i can just buy all the albums i want

action9000 · **Reply #19 on:** May 22, 2008, 05:08:55 AM

I make cars go BOOM.

...

I'm a car audio installer at Future Shop / Best Buy.

i've been doing this for about a month now and slowly getting better at it. Basically, I upgrade people's car stereos, everything from putting in new CD players to connecting high-end amplifiers and speakers. Best part: I get to listen to my own tunes all day and we're encouraged to crank it up and draw crowds!

Doesn't pay great as a base wage, but I can make decent money if we get a lot of business. I get $11.25 / hr + 10% of any work we do.

Good times! I probably won't be doing this more than a couple more months, as I have a drafting design-type job potentially lined up by the end of June, through a friend of mine that is a more suitable career move than installing car stereos.

We'll see how things go. B)