Jobs!

[sheilaforever]

This thread might have already been done (?) but since quite a few folks here are in their college years, it might get interesting where you work to make some dough for a living besides parental subsidies... Folks who really DO work for a living are welcome as well of course.

And share the news of good jobs and UGLY jobs! LOL!

[Keith]

Oy. Dare I?

I do.

For the past year or more, I've been working at the Bank of America in my hometown. No, not for Bank of America, but for a company that works in the same building and does the courier work for Bank of America.

My mother worked there, through different companies, for 20 years without a raise.

I work there from 3:30 - 8:30, give or take. 5 nights a week. From about 3:30 - 4, 4:30 I'm busy. Then I have free time until 5:30, when I have my break. The person who relieves me is often late. Occasionally, I get no break, because either way, work starts coming in again by 6:00. And that's fairly non-stop.

The work is easy enough. I like doing something vaguely physical. lots of lifting heavy bags full of bags full of checks. I scan bags, check paper work, and answer phones. I'm a peon. And yet, what I hate most of all are the people and the hours.

The people I work with are a big group of friends. It's always one big party for everyone but me. They're all so immature and all so much older than me. It boggles the mind. Many of them are Haitian, and thus slip into their mother tongue quite frequently. This is an annoyance with me when I'm on the train, and people are talking loudly in a language I don't understand. Imagine me working in it.

If not for the money ($9/hour), I'd leave there so very fast...

[DevotedToAMC]

I was a bagger at a grocery store for a year and a half, a volunteer at American Red Cross for nine months, volunteer on two political campaigns for a couple months each, a research paralegal for three years (made lots of money there) and now I am a full time law school student

My wife is an insurance broker making around $150,000 a year

[SoapQueen89]

I work for my family's monument business since 1992. I am paid a weekly salary and it is deducted from my commissions I earn for the year. It's a seasonal job usually from late March till Thanksgiving. During the winter months I live off of my end of year bonus, which usually carries me through till February/March. It's a family run business and we've been in business for over 50 years. My father started the business in 1955.

I've had other jobs before 1992, I worked in the offices of a local grocery store chain as a secretary for about 2 years, and then was a receptionist for a window installing business. Neither job made me the money I'm making now by selling monuments.

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Jen

[JackPeyton]

in high school & my brief stint in college (and by brief - i mean 6 days) i worked at K-Mart. Nothing but good things to say tho. They treated everyone pretty weel, the jopb was easy. i got away with a lot more than i ever should have. all i will say is never put anything on layway... i went from 6.75hr upto 9.50 in about a year.

after that i helped open a Linens N Things - it wasnt bad but it was the summer time and i was ready to party, not work. so i quit. i made 8hr there.

then i went on to an old folks home where i found a dead woman and quit. to michaels, where i quit. to mervyns, where i also quit.

then i started to work at this answering service it was amazing. i loved it. but then i decided to move to montana and actually gave a 2 week notice!

in montana i was a jr. manager at a pacsun. it paid 9 an hr, and that was a llot since it was so cheep to live there. i also worked at target for a week and quit. then i moved home and quit pacsun.

when comming home i went back to the answering service but when i was gone mngmt changed and the job sucked so i quit. but we started to take Call Box Calls. those are awsome (in Cali we have Call Box's set up on the side of the freeway every few miles incase someone breaks down. best calls ever. dead bodys, girls thrown outa cars, homeless people, crashs, fires, etc...)

then i bummed it around for the end of summer.

but then one day i stopped in at this hotel to apply. and they interviewd me then hired me and i started a day later. im the night manager here and i do nothing. really. i print reports and put numbers into a comp. thats it. and it pays 10.50 an hr. its sun-thur and i get free/cheep hotels anywhere. its amazing. i think i may keep this job for a bit....

...however i am thinking about getting a job at CHP. it pays more, all i would do is take reports, and it seems intersting.

oh and i use to run a hair salon for my mother.

[JackPeyton]

in high school & my brief stint in college (and by brief - i mean 6 days) i worked at K-Mart. Nothing but good things to say tho. They treated everyone pretty weel, the jopb was easy. i got away with a lot more than i ever should have. all i will say is never put anything on layway... i went from 6.75hr upto 9.50 in about a year.

after that i helped open a Linens N Things - it wasnt bad but it was the summer time and i was ready to party, not work. so i quit. i made 8hr there.

then i went on to an old folks home where i found a dead woman and quit. to michaels, where i quit. to mervyns, where i also quit.

then i started to work at this answering service it was amazing. i loved it. but then i decided to move to montana and actually gave a 2 week notice!

in montana i was a jr. manager at a pacsun. it paid 9 an hr, and that was a llot since it was so cheep to live there. i also worked at target for a week and quit. then i moved home and quit pacsun.

when comming home i went back to the answering service but when i was gone mngmt changed and the job sucked so i quit. but we started to take Call Box Calls. those are awsome (in Cali we have Call Box's set up on the side of the freeway every few miles incase someone breaks down. best calls ever. dead bodys, girls thrown outa cars, homeless people, crashs, fires, etc...)

then i bummed it around for the end of summer.

but then one day i stopped in at this hotel to apply. and they interviewd me then hired me and i started a day later. im the night manager here and i do nothing. really. i print reports and put numbers into a comp. thats it. and it pays 10.50 an hr. its sun-thur and i get free/cheep hotels anywhere. its amazing. i think i may keep this job for a bit....

...however i am thinking about getting a job at CHP. it pays more, all i would do is take reports, and it seems intersting.

oh and i use to run a hair salon for my mother.

[sheilaforever]

Interesting...

I used to work at an office of architects/construction experts who mostly work for courts. I started sometime during my school life and helped out during the school holidays. The last year 2 years I served as the boss's secretary vacation substitute. The job itself was cool but payment lousy.

(I also was trainee at DaimlerChrysler Financial Services at some time but tend to ignore it.)

This summer I started as a salesperson in an upscale chocolate store mostly dealing with tourists; hence try to learn Spanish and Italian in addition to the languages I'm already fluent at. Colleauges are nearly all students so it's great fun so far and it's just an inch away from gym and uni.

@ DevotedToAMC: Fellow law student here.

[Tishy]

I have had many a job but in my 30's I have found my career. And I am not just saying this because I am at work. I love my job. I am a customer service representative dealing with companies 401k's and pension plans with a major brokerage firm. Basically if you have a 401k, you may talk to me. I help people plan their retirements. I help people save for retirement. I get to talk all day and I love it.

I have also passed my Series 6 and Series 63 exams this summer. Which means that I can give advice about mutual funds and I am licensend in all fifty states. It's really cool to see my name listed as a broker on nasd.com.

I am planning on retiring from this company. The money is fantastic. I get quarterly merit bonuses, Annual raises on merit and 10% profit sharing into my 401k

[Ryan]

I've had a variety of jobs since jr. high school. With my family, anything you're given comes with strings. I preferred not having those damn strings, so I worked.

I spent some time working for the GAP and Abercrombie & Fitch. It was nice while it lasted. I made some nice money, had some nice perks. They worked around the school and sports schedules of their employees.

I also did some volunteer work (it was mandatory at my school) with Habitat For Humanity and a local group called Project Green Thumb.

During my junior year, I kinda slacked off in school. I was like I've spent the last 4 years working my ass off in school, now that I'm back home with my mom, I'm gonna take it easy. I didn't do badly, but it wasn't up to my normal standards. As punishment, I had to quit my job and work with my aunt's husband's construction company when school let out. I learned a few things.....1) Hard labor isn't for me 2) I now know how to build a house and 3) One benefit of doing hard labor is not having to work out. I was in AWESOME shape just in time for football camp in August.

Since March 05, I've worked in government. For it to be such a crazy job, I get paid good money and have great benefits. Plus who doesn't like having paid holidays off!! There's lots of opportunity for promotion and bonuses. It's because of my job that I've begun changing my major. Originally, I wanted to do law, it's been the thing I've wanted to do since I was a kid, but thanks to my job, I'm more interested in PR & Advertising.

[DevotedToAMC]

Ryan do not forget your job as an administrator at SON

[Actor87]

I've worked at Brookshire's, a convenience store, my dad's oil company, Logan's Roadhouse, Copeland's (another restaurant), Applebee's (worked a day until the manager forgot she had hired me and apologized for doing so---never got paid for that one day BTW), at my university's alumni association's call center (I loved it but my boss was a cocaine/sex addict and ended up laying a bunch of people off by lying and saying he had to use volunteers--nobody knows why he really did it to this day), I'm a freelance photographer and monthly columnist for my hometown newspaper, a part-time photographer (I own my own business, I guess you could say--my photo blog's on my profile), and now, I work at CVS Pharmacy (since April 07). I check people out and do the whole one hour photo lab thing. I absolutely hate it (I volunteered to work Thurs., unaware that my partner and I were supposed to film, I tried to cancel work, boss hung up on me, I ended up calling back in and saying I cancelled on the project, and now it looks like my partner's going to have to do our final video production project all by herself.)

I need a new job.

[DevotedToAMC]

Funny because out here there was a sports store by the name of Copeland's...I am not sure if it is still in business since it went out in the local mall

[rxcats]

I started working at my father's movie theatre when I was 10 years old. I popped the popcorn for $1.00 an hour; I always had more cash than my friends, since I was the only one working. I guess I probably made $15.00 or $20.00 a week; that was good for a 10 year old in 1971. When I was 12, I stated selling tickets and concessions. Sometimes I would have to card people for R rated movies; I am sure that pissed them off.

I got tired of working for Dad by the time I was about 16 and started working at a Mexican restaurant. It was "semi" fast-food. Much of my social life revolved around my friends from that place. I have many fond memories. I worked there until I left for college.

After college, I started working as a pharmacy technician in a NC hospital; that was back in the mid-1980's. I now work as a Poison Information Provider for the Poison Control Center. I still am licensed as a pharmacy technician and work per-diem at a SF hospital. I am getting my RN now as that will enable me to work as a Toxicology Management Specialist at the Poison Center; you either have to be an RN or PharmD (RPh) to qualify. It is much faster to get an RN and the pay is the same; I'm a little "long in the tooth" to go to pharmacy school now.

[Shawn]

I got my first job as a cashier at the local Sam's Club during my senior year of high school. I stayed there for five years, working through college, and climbed the ladder to check out supervisor and Front End Manager.

After I finished college, I moved down to New York City and was hired as Executive Assistant to the President of Levi Strauss Signature brand clothing. After six months, I became a sales executive and traveled the country to various corporate buyers including Dollar General, Burlington Coat Factory, Neiman Marcus, Nordstroms, Big Lots!, TJ Maxx/AJ Wright. The best part of that job was for two years in a row I lived in Las Vegas for a month at a time for various apparel shows, all expenses paid in a suite at the Venetian Hotel that was bigger than my apartment. I stayed there for about two years.

I now work at Marsh McClennan as a Global Data Manager in the Hoboken, NJ office. I'm in charge of taking data sent from every country in the world and coding it, verifying and posting it in the global directory, while keeping in contact with data coordinators and sales/client executives to ensure that the business isn't lost and that everything is current.

[DevotedToAMC]

Attention everybody! I just got a new job as CEO of the Walt Disney Company and Brian Frons will be given the pink slip this Monday!

Okay we can all dream