Jobs.

[Chief]

How many jobs have you been through to get to your career? How long did you stay at each job? Why'd you quit? Etc... I'll start. :)

From age 16 - Present 19

1st Job: Walgreens Drugstore Clerk, 2 years, 25 hours per week. Why'd I stay so long? I was 16-18 and was still in high school, basically I had to work because parents were on my case about showing up for work. Why'd I quit? School/College

2nd Job: Mcdonald's, 2-3 weeks, 35 hrs per week. This was my first job in college. HATED :angry: the environment and the people. I felt like a piss bucket working there. Everybody there was just lazy and stupid. Fake reason for leaving? My grades were falling.

3rd Job: Follett's Bookstore (temporary), total of 5 days in 3 months, 8 hrs per day. :lol: The manager was cool, told me to come in whenever I feel like. Though sometimes he'll have me scheduled. I faked calling in sick many times :lol:. So he won't hire me full time/part time.

4th Job: Walgreens Drugstore Clerk, 2 weeks, 30 hrs per week. Once I started working there, the environment wasn't like the last Walgreens I had worked at. :( There was this one PISSANT assistant manager, who believed that a college degree in business management put him on a high chair above everybody else. What an ass. No offense to any business majors, but to me a business degree is one of the "easiest" degrees to earn. Fake Reason for leaving? My grades were falling.

5th Job: Southwest Recreation Center (College Gym), Building Supervisor. 2 months, like 10-20 hrs per week. This is prolly the only job I regret quitting. All we did was sit at the front desk and check student IDs in order for them to use the gym services. Also we were to check in and out all the rented equipment. And the entire gym was operated by just two building supervisors, no managers to always be on your ass about stupid shit. :) I quit based on the what was told by my AF recruiter about when I was gonna leave for the Air Force.

:rant: I found out 3 days before the initial leave date, that my leave date would be postpond til 6+ more months later. BTW I AM NOT JOINING THE AIR FORCE!! I don't hate the military I just hate that my recruiter lied to me and that I was "medically disqualified" from getting the job I wanted. Even though a local optomerist told me I have perfect depth perception but the idiots there won't know. So I decide to finish school and try to earn my Mechanical engineering degree. :) Fucking recruiter wasted a year's worth of schooling. :mad: I tried to get the job back, because me and the manager were on a "equal level of intelligence" :lol:, but he told me he already had all the positions filled. :(

6th Job: Boston Culinary Group (concession stand operator for the college stadium) Warehouse, 3-4 weeks, 40 hrs per week. :lol: This is the reason why I made this post, because I just quit TODAY!! :lol: I was suppose to work today, but I called in and said that I don't wanna work and that I quit. I hated the assistant manager there. She was a fucking bitch and a hypocrite. :mad: All she does is tell workers what to do. She's just the middle man inbetween the main manager and us (the workers). She won't even let the workers have a sit down for 10 mins after wroking 16 hours straight on game days, while she would sit down for hours and have a bite of her cake while at the same time telling others what to do. WTF!!??

Well that's all the jobs I been through. There gonna be more added to this list. :lol: I guess it's my nature never to hold a steady job. As of right now, instead of looking for a job, am gonna hurry and finish my degree so I can finally get started on what I really want to be. I want my career, not a job (unless my rents due) :lol: BTW at every job I worked my ass off. I have strong work ethics but after being in such environments for so long I realize why work so hard while others aren't? or why work so hard, if your work is not gonna be recognized? Am still looking and working towards my career.

TY for reading my post. :)

[seba]

i was converting some procedure processes graphs (or whatever it's called) from paper into visio. some iso 9000 (i think) thing... boring rutine job, but not much to do and not bad payed.

uhm. i worked once on a conference as tech assistant. my worst job. i left the first day. there were so many people bullshiting and arguing... but they were all so wrong, i wanted to take part of the conversation at one moment, but then i decided that i will rather ran away home.

i was once selling some scuba courses at a fair, pretty interesting, not my usual choice.

web and software programmer (this is what i usually do). but i mostly worked on projects... now i do pretty rutine pages... blah boring.

and that's about it... i haven't had a regular job yet and i doubt i will in the near future.

[Imen de Naars]

17-now: translator of walkthroughs from english to italian.

Environment: home
Pay: ok
Working Hours: whenever I want to

[attila_the_hunny]

12-13 - I had three jobs run by the same guy. He was a family friend and it was under the table. When he was a butcher, I meat wrapped. When he worked fairs and such, I was a cashier. When he was a caterer, I was a server. I had a lot of fun and pretty much everyone was crazy--they were all either high or drunk. Good times.

14- Teacher's Assistant. Boring. Filing, hand papers out, photocoping. I even forged a few signatures for the lady in charge. Summer job.

15 - Helping my dad with his carpet cleaning business. His business went under because he fucked up someone's carpet while he was stoned.

16-17- McDonald's. I burned myself a few times and always came home greasy. It was revolting. Moved.

18-19 - Gap. For a whole year. I loved being a cashier, but being on the floor I hated. I met a lot of cool people, though. Quit to go to FL and take care of my grandmother.

19 - Dollar tree. Cashier. It was okay. My boss was a little creepy, though. It was seasonal.

20 - I was a nanny for a little while. Kid was a demon, so I quit. The mother was insanely cheap.

Now - Working on getting my CNA license. Finished academically and now I just have clinicals to do, then I'm done. They pay around $12-15/h here, so I should be doing good. I'm proficient in the art of asswiping.

You're pretty bitchy, Chief. Not everyone loves their job, but most people don't have the liberty to just up and quit their because they don't like it. It's pretty stupid to quit one job when you don't even have another lined up.

[Chief]

Trust me, I can keep a job for a pretty long time even with some of the conditions that I described above. I was in college, I really didn't need the money because of all the scholarships I was on. I was even getting a monthly allowance of 400 dollars a month from one of the scholarships. Plus I had a shit load of money saved from working. I could afford to quit. Yes, I always have a plan B, C, D. Every decision I make I always have a "backup plan". The only reason I worked was to just save more money incase I needed some luxury. (XBOX 360, BABY!! :) )

[eyebyte_atWork]

I would know where to start - I have had so many jobs/careers - It might take a page maybe two just to list them.

[seba]

17-now: translator of walkthroughs from english to italian.

Environment: home
Pay: ok
Working Hours: whenever I want to

yay, i've just noted that you're treviso. wiii so you are the closest to me on the forums :banana:

[FiP]

yay, i've just noted that you're treviso. wiii so you are the closest to me on the forums :banana:
nop...
i m the closest to you: )))

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[jread]

Age 16 - Food prep. in the kitchen at a busy restaurant. Worst job, ever.

Age 17 - Teller at a small bank for the summer. This job wasn't too bad except for the idiot customers

Age 18 to 21 - GIS Technician for Orange County, TX. Created digital maps of the county's geographic features. Awesome job. Never dealt with the public and got to play on the internet a lot.

Age 21 to 26 (present) - GIS Technician/Senior Technician for the city of Austin, TX. Same as above except on a much larger scale (big city) and more interesting projects, not to mention much better pay.

Overall, I've been fortunate in my working career. I just need to find a way to make over $20 per hour and I'll be happy.

[CoHo]

In high school I served beer at the universities bar/grill (in one of the university buildings where they have the deli, pizza hut, bowling alley).

After that I moved to working in the pizza hut. We only made one type of pizza; personal sized and either cheese, pepperoni, or 'special'. I used to carry garbage bags of them home to store in my fridge (I lived alone during high school).

During summer I tended food for the Saints football team while they came into our town for practice. What a bunch of assholes. I cut my hand pretty good on a half-opened tin can.

Then I started working at a different full-sized pizza hut in the Twin Cities. We had a dishwasher nicknamed 'aduda' because all he could say was "DUHHH DUHHH DUHH" (he was mentally retarded and we were bastards).

Then I got married, and everything got all serious. Well not really, I worked midnight to 8 at US Bank in the 'letter opening division' (it was actually called OPEC but I like my title more). It was great, the transistors (people moving from 8-5 to midnight-8) were great fun, one woman actually started crying because she was so tired.

[joft]

When I was a kid I used to do lemonade stands

I had a paper route for the town newspaper when I was like 7-9 or so, the paper got bought out by a larger one in the area and I got laid off

Did various volunteer stuff when I was going to church, including being somewhat of a salesman at a firework tent during a few weeks before July 4th for 2 consecutive years

Now, age 20, got a job at Costco (warehouse store) working on the "Front end," which is their equivalent of bagging groceries (since they don't use bags); basically putting the groceries back in people's carts as the cashier scanned them. They also had me doing stuff like organizing the grocery carts in the parking lot at night. Lasted 2 weeks and 4 days. I actually quit 1 week and 4 days into it but stayed because they had me scheduled for the next week already. I fucking hated it and quite seriously wanted to kill myself to avoid it.

I don't quite know what my whole problem was with it, maybe I really am a bit insane. One of the managers told me I had to tuck my shirt in, and I absolutely couldn't tolerate it. I couldn't take being told (or even asked) to do anything, or having to ask if there was anything I should do. I wonder if there's a mental disorder for that?