How do you like your job?

[Lancer]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison


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.

Places like that tend to talk you down to potential employers just so you don't leave, the butt holes. The only way to show them what you did is to make them do it themselves. Find a place that appreciates you!

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by 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.

On the other hand, it took my mom six years to die. I don't know how I could have handeled it without the day--in-day-out showing of compassion and dedication by people like you.

Nurses = [ * infinity]

[monolith94]

I'm onto my second week working at a small independent bookstore. It's not particularly challenging, I get to talk about books and stuff with customers, my peers are friendly, and the hours are good. It's not a job that offers much advancement, and doesn't pay particularly hot, but it's decent enough.

Would you like a bag?

Yeah, and I'm working on the great american novel, meanwhile...

[-Jrabbit]

It's been done. Many times.
Those Great American Novels -- they mostly suck.

[monolith94]

Hush, you. This'll be good.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by monolith94
Hush, you. This'll be good.

As long as it doesn't contain fishmongers or lines like:

"I think we'll be hearing from that boy. Whenever people are oppressed....

[pchang]

I voted 6 just because I hate working. I think most would rate my job much higher. The pay is great. The benefits are great. My travel benefits are similar to Oerdin's but the scale of my travelling is about an order of magnitude more than his (which gets tiring fairly quickly). But the gold+ status on airlines and hotels does make taking personal vacations much more convenient/nicer (free breakfasts, first class upgrades, and such). Since I have been doing well, I am on track for a company paid vacation to Hawaii for my wife and I. I have a great deal of control over my own fate. The main bad thing is that I think I have pretty much topped out career wise at my current work place.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Bkeela
My other job is in the funeral industry. At the worst I can be woken at 4:30am to collect a deceased person from a nursing home/private home. Carrying a morbidly obese cadaver down a flight of stairs with distressed relatives looking on is horrible. Dressing the deceased and sowing their mouths closed is another aspect of the job I despise. The condition that most people let their teeth get into is sick. The sight of snot in nostrils also makes me sick.

I vote Bkeela with having the worst job.

[Lancer]

Seconded :barf:

[Arrian]

Voted 7. It's low-stress, decent pay/benifits, and is occasionally even interesting. Downside is that I have hit a bit of a ceiling unless I choose to move laterally, which I don't really want to do. I'm comfortable.

edit: what my job is:

I handle (investigate/analyze) environmental claims (pollution, hazardous waste) under commercial general liability-type insurance policies (so, while some of my accounts are "mom and pops" type shops, I don't have claims coming in from homeowners with leaky oil tanks).

-Arrian

[Lancer]

Originally posted by monolith94
I'm onto my second week working at a small independent bookstore. It's not particularly challenging, I get to talk about books and stuff with customers, my peers are friendly, and the hours are good. It's not a job that offers much advancement, and doesn't pay particularly hot, but it's decent enough.

Would you like a bag?


Yeah, and I'm working on the great american novel, meanwhile...

When I had my little bookstore I almost never had a time without a gf. Girls are hot for booksellers. Of course, I worked alone and the store was in my house. I opened a hidden door in a music display to get into my cozy little apartment...

[Lorizael]

My current job, which I've been at since October, is monotonous and unsatisfying. I'm a temp on a long term contract for a medical research company and I am essentially a cog in the machine.

Somewhere up the line interviewers collect information about healthcare providers and eventually this information gets down to our level. Using a giant database and the internet we attempt to correct and verify the information, which has been massively distorted in a real life game of telephone. When we're done, we turn in the sheets and never see them again. No sense of accomplisment, no reward.

That said, the job is quite easy and affords me plenty of time to do what I'm doing right now. The pay is significantly better than I got in previous retail positions - but still not enough to live on my own or save up for college - and my typing speed, which was already quite fast, has become blindingly so.

[Lancer]

So, make the most of it. In your situation, living at home I'd help out my parents financially if they need it, take out the garbage, walk the dog, clean the yard...

Then I'd save $, go to the Phils and find a girl, bring her over and get a place together, or even better an RV so you can keep saving to buy a house or big lot for the RV with hookups. Then, just keep working, saving...when you get to be 50 sell everything and carry the paper and retire to the Phils where you've already bought oceanfront property for $5000 and built a really nice house for $25,000. Then, just enjoy your wonderful woman, swim and relax, play Civ and visit with her family, make friends, drink rum drinks...wait for social security to kick in...maybe help some deserving youth with tuition for $30 a month, eventually die with a smile.

[Lancer]

Originally posted by Lancer
So, make the most of it. In your situation, living at home I'd help out my parents financially if they need it, take out the garbage, walk the dog, clean the yard...

Then I'd save $, go to the Phils and find a girl, bring her over and get a place together, or even better an RV so you can keep saving to buy a house or big lot for the RV with hookups. Then, just keep working, saving...when you get to be 50 sell everything and carry the paper and retire to the Phils where you've already bought oceanfront property for $5000 and built a really nice house for $25,000. Then just enjoy your wonderful woman, swim and relax, play Civ and visit with her family, make friends, drink rum drinks...wait for social security to kick in...maybe help some deserving youth with tuition for $30 a month, eventually die with a smile.

QFT!

[Lorizael]

Have you become my counselor? Or just an advertisement for the Phillipines?