How do you like your job?

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Robert F. Kennedy, Ralph Nader and of course Imran Siddiqui will be sad to hear that.

...and add in, St. Thomas More, Mahatma Gandhi and Marcus Tillius Cicero.

I should note even though my job has pissed me off a little lately, I've met too many cool women at this job. Right now I have the problem of having two women interested in me at once. Which is not good in a working environment. . I'm not exactly sure how to handle this. I'm in way over my head.

Dis: Just a suggestion, but have you ever thought about sharing with your ol' buddy Zkribbler?

[Ecthy]

A bike for 10€/day, a canoe for 7€/hour

[Dis]

Originally posted by Zkribbler


...and add in, St. Thomas More, Mahatma Gandhi and Marcus Tillius Cicero.



Dis: Just a suggestion, but have you ever thought about sharing with your ol' buddy Zkribbler?

You just need to come work where I work.

My company is about 75% female.

[Lancer]

I live on the Oregon Coast. Wide, empty Pacific Beaches, 20 lakes within 20 minutes, rivers teeming with salmon. If I come to Berlin it won't be for the scenery.

[Lancer]

Casino is planning a new building to move into in about a years time. Between now and then we're hiring 300 people.

[Tiamat]

Hmmmm let's see, my job well yes, it's lovely. I scoop up warm steaming piles of poo, pee and get coughed on and farted on every day. I clean out ooooozing sores, change bandages and every now and again have to clean up dead bodies. So I'm not really sure how to rate my job. I don't think there's a scale for it.

You know Lancer, your job is sounding better and better think that blouse comes in my size?

[Bkeela]

I'm a fan of nurses. My job would be intolerable without them. It is a great crime that nurses get paid next to nothing for the Christlike work that they do. I think the fact that CEOs and lawyers, who destroy the world, get paid handsomely, and the Mother Teresas of the world get spat in their face - I think this indicates that there must be a Heaven and Hell. Otherwise there is no justice in the universe.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Oerdin


I did that in college and it was the perfect college job. I got $6 wage plus tips but I only worked nights and weekends which were the prime times. On the weekends you could easily make $100 just in tips during a four hour shift and all of it tax free. Sure, some of the weekdays were really slow but you had to take the good with the bad.

All in all it's a good job for a young guy.

IMO the perfect college jobs are "minding the store" type jobs. Security guard, hotel night auditor, late night phone support etc. are all great because you typically will have a few free hours to read / study.

My current job is one of these. I rate it about a 7, mainly because it is pretty easy and allows me about 4 free hours a night to post here (I only post here from work), read, work out etc. It pays reasonably (45-50 k), and I get over a month of vacation a year. But it's dull. Hours of tedium puncuated by moments of sheer boredom.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Bkeela
I'm a fan of nurses.

Me too-- my wife is one and my mom was one as well.

Originally posted by Bkeela
It is a great crime that nurses get paid next to nothing for the Christlike work that they do.

No argument here. Although the approximately 70K she earns is better than "next to nothing", I can't justify why I make more than her.

Originally posted by Bkeela
I think the fact that CEOs and lawyers, who destroy the world, get paid handsomely, .

Hey-- that would sting if we lawyers had any feelings or a conscience.

Originally posted by Bkeela
Otherwise there is no justice in the universe.

Well my nurse wife benefits from my income just as much or more than I do so maybe there is some justcie for her out there

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Sikander


IMO the perfect college jobs are "minding the store" type jobs. Security guard, hotel night auditor, late night phone support etc. are all great because you typically will have a few free hours to read / study.

I agree totally. I worked through law school as a computer lab assistant. Basically I studied, socialized and played RISK on the computer. The pay sucked (minimum wage) but since it was a minimum effort kind of job, that seemed fair

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Lancer
Well, maybe it will be good for PH to talk about it and I'm curious.

Excuse the delay - I shall fill you in, but it's not too exciting. You see when I took the job I had some experience of the job, now I have earthscorching experience at one of the kings of the sector. However they have decided that the best course of action is to treat me like sh*t for all the work and responsibilities I have - an index-linked pay rise, no promotion in line with the job I actually do. And their desire to fast-track me has dried up as none of the original managers who were there when I started are there now. Too few people (numbers have declined) compared to twice as much work as there was a year ago. And I'm also getting that two year employment itch...that's it really.

[Kontiki]

It sounds like you're quite employable - why do you put up with that crap? Move on.

[Provost Harrison]

Convenience and routine - I am looking, but making a rather half-arsed attempt at it...

[Darsnan]

Originally posted by Flubber
my wife is a nurse and my mom was one as well.

My wife is a nurse as well - she does triage in the local Level 1 ER. Personally speaking I don't know how she handles some of the things she has to deal with on a nightly basis.....

Nurses!


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[Lancer]

There's a reason why most nurses are women. Women are angels at such stuff.

Besides, how would you like your plumber giving you a spongebath?