First job.

Started by Skyshadow731, November 25, 2013, 07:26:20 PM

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Apathy Reactor

8$/hr cleaning tables, could be worse. :)

ApexPredator

Quote from: Metalxdelights on November 25, 2013, 07:49:14 PM
Congrats on getting a job! My first two jobs were Half Price Books and Taco Bueno. Loved HPB (pay was crappy but I loved the environment)and hated Taco Bueno lol... I came home smelling like tacos every night and my friends always tried to con me in to bringing them free food >_<
Best if my knowledge half price books is only in Washington?

Silent1236

Working as a kennel staff at a humane society for several months now.  Smelly job, but it's fun! 

Butch1977

My first job was for a department store called Ames (similar to K-mart back in the day). Had a bad flood in my town and I was hired on as night crew to redo the entire tile floor on the place. My knees hurt just thinking about it.

Arbitratur

My first job was working in a supperette in the butcher dept. which I ended up doing all the aspects of that dept, and helping all the other depts when needed (deli, produce, stocking shelves).

Next job I got highered as a carpenters helper for a general contractor construction company. I got very good at the trade and was soon promoted to "carpenter" working alongside the other carpenters. I learned all the aspects of carpentry from "frame to finish".  At that time I started doing solo work on the side.

Next in line I worked for myself with my own carpentry company for 2 years. I had a lot of fun doing this and being my own boss, but it comes with the consequences of constantly trying to find work and get the next job, which is not too hard when you take pride in your work and have a good relationship with your clients, but winters can be very slow here up north, which sucks when you have a house, wife, and 2 kids to provide for...

My current job that I finally landed is working for the emergency gas departments for the utility company Con Edison. It is a great career and a ton of fun. Our main priority is responding to gas leaks that people call in. I work down in the Bronx in NY, so that also makes it a lot of fun, you see A LOT of weird stuff in the city. Haha.

Well that's my speil, over and out!

Vyse

Quote from: Butch1977 on November 26, 2013, 09:06:31 PM
My first job was for a department store called Ames (similar to K-mart back in the day). Had a bad flood in my town and I was hired on as night crew to redo the entire tile floor on the place. My knees hurt just thinking about it.
Ames Iowa? As in mayhem comic shop?
Anyway mine was a homemaker in a small retirement home in Iowa, made 8.25 to serve food to old folk and do dishes. After a year of that they loved me, moved me to cook at 9.25. Cooked for 250 people daily by myself. Hated it. Now I'm in Omaha as a deli clerk, 8.50 and after three months my manager started me on deli manager training. Working on that now but ehhh idk if I want that, unsure.

Butch1977

Quote from: Vyse on November 26, 2013, 10:14:18 PM
Quote from: Butch1977 on November 26, 2013, 09:06:31 PM
My first job was for a department store called Ames (similar to K-mart back in the day). Had a bad flood in my town and I was hired on as night crew to redo the entire tile floor on the place. My knees hurt just thinking about it.
Ames Iowa? As in mayhem comic shop?
Anyway mine was a homemaker in a small retirement home in Iowa, made 8.25 to serve food to old folk and do dishes. After a year of that they loved me, moved me to cook at 9.25. Cooked for 250 people daily by myself. Hated it. Now I'm in Omaha as a deli clerk, 8.50 and after three months my manager started me on deli manager training. Working on that now but ehhh idk if I want that, unsure.

I wish! But no. Like K-mart. That was back before Wal-Mart really took off and there was Ames, K-Mart, Super S, blah blah

gtfotis

My first job was enlisting in the Marine Corps when I was 18.. If that doesn't count, I worked at a bubble tea cafe earlier this year 😁

Mlerner12

Quote from: gtfotis on November 27, 2013, 12:06:16 AM
My first job was enlisting in the Marine Corps when I was 18.. If that doesn't count, I worked at a bubble tea cafe earlier this year 😁
Lost your gravatar?

Arzair

Quote from: gtfotis on November 27, 2013, 12:06:16 AM
My first job was enlisting in the Marine Corps when I was 18.. If that doesn't count, I worked at a bubble tea cafe earlier this year 😁

Not my first or second or even third job, but the USMC was by far the hardest job I ever had.

First job was teaching martial arts while I was still in highschool ... Way underpaid for the years of training it took to get to where I was when I was teaching.

gtfotis

Quote from: Mlerner12 on November 27, 2013, 12:17:45 AM
Quote from: gtfotis on November 27, 2013, 12:06:16 AM
My first job was enlisting in the Marine Corps when I was 18.. If that doesn't count, I worked at a bubble tea cafe earlier this year 😁
Lost your gravatar?
I uploaded a picture and it won't update :/

Vyse

Quote from: ConanEdo on November 27, 2013, 09:24:39 PM
Quote from: Taysby on November 27, 2013, 09:02:42 PM
You... Don't... Care... About...

The nerve of some people.
Well for one I don't fancy women. And for two, well...you're imagining perky, think more sag so low they drag along the ground.
He DID say boonies. I also remember a while back him stating he preferred the same gender, not that it matters much haha.