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Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => The Fridge => Topic started by: Lillefot on May 18, 2008, 09:26:18 AM
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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 :P:
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. :lol:
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
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Okay, here's my work details:
Location: My Home. :p
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. :lol
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I don't have one. I'm wanting to get a job at the Subway here.
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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! :yes
Haha, atleast computers aint as dirty as some of my work is! /envy :lol:
Ace,
What work would you have to do in the subway, and what wage would you get? :)
/Lillefot
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The job I want on the side of the road.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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...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.
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This thread is depressing. It reminds me of how bad the economy is. Seems no one so far is making it very well. -_-
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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! :lol:
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
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whats my job?
well, ill say this......i dont have one
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I work at Chick-fil-a. It is mainly an after school job.
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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. :)
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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. -_-
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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 :x. 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 :yes. 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 -_-.
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Tiger,
I guess not :^.^: Sounds tough!
I've done more than toilets though...
Ahh.... cottage nr.3 summer 2007.... :blink:
LOL
/Lillefot
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no work at his moment,
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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
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I make cars go BOOM. :lol :lol
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I'm a car audio installer at Future Shop / Best Buy. :p 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! :D
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. :p
We'll see how things go. B)
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You made your own car go boom too. :p
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Haha.. I work at the library, putting books where they belong =P.
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You made your own car go boom too.
Sure did! :lol
I suppose working with Mumbling on our latest song project counts as a "current job", too. :p
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Yes it does! I work very hard :yes :lol
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I don't have a job yet :p I volunteer at the SPCA however, which stands for: "Special Prevention of Cruelty of Animals"
I work with the cats and try to get them adopted. I love it! :D I would like to get a paying job there however...I just don't know which paying job I would want there...
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Okay, here's my work details:
Location: My Home. :p
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. :lol
Repairing computors for a living :D and creating websites too. That sounds like a nice job! :yes
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Yesterday I worked for the first time at the library, it was kinda cool :^.^:
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I got a a job! I got a job! :birthday :lol :DD :D :)
Today I got a phonecall informing me that my application has been accepted. From September 15th on I will work as a librarian in the historical library of the university here in Bochum :)
I will work for less pay than I would have claim to by the official "rules" but I am not after tha job because of the money but rather because I want to have a foot in the university's door so to speak.
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That is great, I am sure you'll do well in the job. Plus I would guess it'll be a quieter job then some, and there are lots of books there too.
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So, going back into library again? :D Cool we kinda share jobs :p
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Awesome Malte! You had been looking for an opportunity like this for quite some time now. :yes:
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well, lets see..I start again on Monday august 18th..
back to School WORK!!
Man I hate it..except the fun classes...But it's the math that is terrible..And the NyNorsk...Anyway..That's all...
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I guess school is considered a job. :p I always said it was when I was in it.
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On Monday I started my new job at the historical library of the university :)
Today is my second day at that job (it is always Monday and Wednesday from 11am to 4pm). So far my task is to check out the list of missing books for books which have reappeared on the shelves (they may have been put on the wrong shelves and been recorded as missing, "vanished" beyond the first row of books, or returned by a remorseful thief) and make sure that the books on the shelves I'm checking are in the right order.
It is not a fulltime job beside the studies of course, but I earn almost exactly as much as I may without having to pay income taxes for it. I'm curious about which further tasks are in store once I finish the missing books list :yes
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Sounds like your job is going well, good luck on it continuing like this.
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well good luck with the job :^.^:
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I don't know if I ever updated my status in this topic when I got a new job. I'm currently a special education teacher in an alternative school. Basically, the kids here are here because their normal school district did not have the services to accomodate their special needs (or didn't know how to manage their behaviors).
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Well, I am actually, not an adult so I don't exactly work officially...
But I consider school as work, so that's my occupation..
Though I'm having a work-week in week 5, and I'm gonna go and check out the petshop on Byhaven....
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I would consider gong to school wither elementary, jr high, high school, or even college & university as a job also. That is just me though. I'm sure some do not.
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College stuff--all that is asked of you constitutes a job and more. :p Not always easy, I will say that. Its a job because there is value to what you do and you earn something in return.
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Well I've opened a new business if you want to call it that. I decided to actually make money off of having a server and now charge people for server space. I only have 8 people signed up at present, but it brings me in an extra $130 a month. Heck, it pays for the electricity to run the server and for minor upgrades/repairs. I hope in the near future I can get more people on it, but there's no rush. I advertise it on my backup services website:
www.backupmydata.co.nr (http://www.backupmydata.co.nr)
NOTE: Please don't try to sign up for my data backup services. They are only available to people who actually get computer repair by me. Besides, why would you do that when members of GOF have free server space using the LBT server? :p
I'm now running 5 servers. 1 has around 500gb (the LBT server), another has 32tb (my personal server), another has 8tb (my backup services server), another has 50gb (my client server that I use to access data to repair computers) and the final one has 320gb (my backup server that automatically backs up everything that's uploaded to the LBT server). Each server is running Windows XP Service Pack 3 Lite Edition and they all have at least 1gb of ram. I want to open another server just for websites. It would only be 20gb or so. I'm sure I could do it with an old beater PIII. :p
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To be honest, I am fed up with my job at Wal*Mart. Get ready for quite an explanation...
There are alot of things going on with my job that I am just not approving of. For one thing they started cutting hours, claiming that it was to keep money and so that we could get our bonus during the time we had some new competition. However, my suspicions tell otherwise with the "improvements" going on at the time. A chain-link fence around where we store the electronics, a glass barrier in front of the camera displays, (which I pretty much approve of with how many people kept removing the displays and setting off the alarms.) new locks on the trash compactors and a few others. To be honest, I think they're holding out on us.
On top of that, I am constantly sent to the back to help pulling with the truck and the people I work with are quite unsafe and no matter how many times they are told, they continue it. I'm surprised they don't get fired.
I was also turned down for the promotion I wanted. Sure, it was because of money related issues, but as I stated earlier, the improvements going on tell me otherwise. A part of me thinks that my boss just wants me to stay in my area because I'm the only one there, so he's making up excuses so that I have to stay there.
I even tried setting up for moving to another Wal*Mart and was denied for it. I thought by doing that I would have a better chance at getting what I wanted. Plans didn't work out too well.
Without proper evidence of these things going on though, I cannot call up the higher levels of management that go beyond the Store Manager. Giving out supposedly false information can lead to quite a few law issues on my part that I just don't want happening to me. I'm secretly looking for some, but nothing has come up. So I can't do much of anything right now.
I feel like quitting my job. However, my heart conflicts with that decision because of the talk my parents had with me earlier about benefits and such. However, a part of me just isn't caring about those anymore. Getting benefits is nice and all, but with all that's going on, is it really worth it?
I'm looking into finding a new job and even possibly working on-line. With the on-line deal, nothing that isn't a scam has turned up yet. (I pretty much know a scam when I see it these days.) As for new job, nothing yet, but I just recently started on that. It'll take time to see results.
Wish me luck with the job hunting, because I've had just about all I can take with my current job. -_-
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Good luck then John.
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Wal-Mart is a can of worms worth its own topic. Good luck on the job search if you decide to try something else.
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My tiring search and looking up reviews on the net at the jobs that say can have you make money on the net has turned up quite a few results I want to start trying.
Now, before you go and say, "You're going to get scammed!!", be aware that I did DEEP research. I checked out information of how they work and how reliable they are. I even looked up pages that said "<insert site here> is a scam", and looked carefully at whether the person was scammed or they just picked something that required a lot of work and the person who made the reviewer was just lazy.
My research found that over 80% of what I found were scams. (No wonder people keep saying "On-line money making businesses are scams".) Also, out of those that do work, a good number of them require quite a bit of work on your part or have you basically knowing what you're doing. (Which is why only SOME people are successful when they do an E-Bay Business. Yes, this was one of the suggested things I looked up based on how much I have that I just don't want anymore.)
After all the research of finding what's real and what's not, I have made a few select choices and will see for myself what works. Some are hard to get into because of how great they are, others aren't that good but easy to access. I'll see what the results turn up now.
Wish me luck because I did TONS of research. I know what I'm doing. I'm not going to get scammed. ;)
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Oo Good luck. Hope ya really dont get scammed and find a nice job :)
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Good luck on the job hunt, hope you get a great job.
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Good luck with that, hope you get a good job
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John I sent you a PM instead of posting my reply here. You'll thank me for not doing it.
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Student and volunteer EMT.
I'm just going to talk about the EMT position:
Good: Satisfaction of helping people and learning experience.
Bad: Risk of bloodborne pathogens. Paramedics tend to be rude. Encounter really disgusting things. Risk of violence.
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I got a new jobby... Well actually an extra one!
Next to my library job(which I can keep, yay), I decided to get another job.
It's not much, but I'll be bringing around advertisement folders in my neighbourhood. Should be two hours of work weekly, and pays quite alright.
Extra money is a good thing.
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Very cool, Iris!
I'm in the middle of hopefully almost quitting my night clerk job now. One of my new friends, a regular customer at my store, is helping me get a job with him after I helped him out a bit this week. Here's hoping! :D
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Just an SPCA volunteer, I work with the cats to help them get good homes. :)
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After i stopped working at Best Buy, i relocated to another state and got a job at a small computer specialist store.
i make $9.75 an hour, work about 38-40 hours a week.
i dont really have a single position in the store. i do everything, including sales, warehouse, cleaning, our service center, so on and so forth xD.
i was fortunate imo, as its a job where i dont have to focus on just sales, which isnt my favorite thing to do. about 40% of everything i do is sales related.
peace
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I don't have a job. Jobs are for losers.
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My point within my job has changed since the time I complained.
For one thing, I have more of the amount of hours and weekly schedule I've wanted. (All I ask for is Sunday off and I get it.) Plus, through the Christmas Season, something happened. I don't know what, but something appeared to me that showed something I really wanted to do with my life.
At this point, I cannot say what until I am ready. Just know, it's going to be something that will have a huge impact on the world. Something for the better.
I hardly ever help the morons in the back room now. When I do, I find that they are still morons. Still being unsafe and careless. Yet, with how much less I go, it just makes me feel better now.
I'm now around those who give me a more positive atmosphere to live in. It's given me a more positive outlook on the customers. I look forward to helping them now, rather than wanting to turn them down.
I've got a full-time job. Work in better mental conditions. And have a Manager who is just great in the end.
After all I've been through to get here, I feel so blessed.
Still, I don't want to keep the job, despite how much I've gotten to like it now. Despite how much I fought back, I don't want to stay.
There's something else I want. Something better.
Until then, I can say, without a doubt, that I am happy to work at Wal*mart. :)
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I don't have a job. Jobs are for losers.
Try telling that to my landlord. :lol: