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(@stumbleina)
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Today the man known as credit card debt forced me to get another job so I'd have the skills to pay the bills, giving me a grand total of four jobs (being a college student is NOT a job, even though I do that too). Starting tomorrow I will be serving up sushi at a local sushi restaurant to the hungry and ignorant of my little town. I say ignorant because I know people around here and I'm sure they will totally ask for things like fries or lo mein.

So here's the topic at hand, where do you work and do you like your job?

I'll obvi start:

Sushi restaurant - No idea since I haven't started yet, but I'll be the only person who isn't Korean working there. I hope they're nice.

Apartment complex - I work here on Saturdays and it absolutely sucks. I'm a leasing agent and so I have to do things like tell people they're going to be evicted. I also deal with alot of sob stories OH NO I CANT PAY MY RENT. In a sadistic way I guess I sort of enjoy it.

Computer Lab- LOL FREE CHECK PLS. I sit around and get paid for telling people how to turn on a Mac. Thank you work-study.

Denny's - I'm a waitress. There are alot of rednecks. I can't get enough shifts so I get to also work at another restaurant. Also the tips suck. Basically everything about this job sucks but they let me take off whenever I want and I'm the head waitress.

So where do you sell your soul eight hours a day?

 
(@crimson-darkwolfe)
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I'm a student. I pay to work.

 
(@chibibecca_1722585688)
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i'm one of those evil unemployed slackers who's running up debt, otherwise known as a student. ^^

 
(@sdf-jerry-p)
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I work at one of the libraries on campus. If it wasn't for the tuition waiver benefit, I don't think I'd work here as state pay is crap. If they ever try to move me to the main library on campus, I'd quit. Even the possibility of free grad school isn't worth putting up with that place.

I need to start grad school so I can hurry up and finish and get a better job.

 
(@hypershadow77)
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I'm a butcher at cobb cook grocery. i'm more of an apprentice if anything. but it's all good, the money sucks but i like my coworkers. i'm thinking of applying at lowes haha

i'm also an instructor at the neighboring town's Martial Arts School. (doesn't pay anything, but i get a meal every now and then.)

 
(@tornadot)
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I work at UPS, loading trailers. If it wasn't for school, I'd be a driver and making better money...ahh well.

 
(@shadowed-spirit-sage)
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Unlike Torn, I work at a UPS store, which is a franchise and not part of the company so we don't get the rockawesome benefits. We just have to deal with the crap people who come in and complain when they can't get their package overnighted for less than $20. I love the people who work there, but sitting backstage in costume waiting for customers and playing my DS is not a way I want to make money. >> I want to earn my living.

Today I went to a bunch of different restaurants in attempt to be a waitress. Alas, you've gotta be 19 to be one due to serving teh alcoholz, so I've got about two months before anything happens. ^^; But the Olive Garden people seem to like me, so we'll see. I just hope it means more money. 'Cause living on minimum wage with crap hours is craaaap, especially when I'm moving out soon.

~Shadowed Spirit Sage

 
 Srol
(@srol_1722027881)
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I work at a small newspaper in New Mexico in the position of Online Editor. Basically, I update the Web site.

 
(@spiner-storm)
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I don't work! :D

But, I am looking. D:

 
(@dirk-amoeba)
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I currently work in the Office of Institutional Advancement at my school. That's the office that shakes alumni down for money. I mostly do data entry, making sure our records on alumni are current. I also do errands around campus and other random stuff.

It's not a wonderful job, but it's not difficult work and I have the option of working there over school breaks. I might even be able to work there for a while after I graduate while I'm looking for a real job.

 
(@thecinderblock)
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I work in the MF RP Room, as a professional RPer. nN

 
(@toby-underwood)
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I sit on my butt and get yelled at for 20 bucks an hour. Oh and sometimes I break the network and pretend to fix it.

I mean I'm a network operator. >>;

~Tobe

 
(@gyserhog)
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I work at a JB Hi-Fi as a full time Games Advisor (Aka, the game you want is here, right under the clearly marked section, you moron).

While full time is nice, I would love more days off and more staff to support me in my running of said section. Or just more competent staff to begin with. That'd be nice.

 
(@trudi-speed)
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I'm your generic part-time incompitent supermarket replenishment officer (LOLZ I STACK SHELVES). Well, I'm not that incompitent any more. I still don't know where a lot of stuff is, but I know the basics. Sugar, goldern syrup, eggs, long life milk, that kinda thing. And I've found people ask me for something new every day I work there o.o. I work in the bakery department and yesterday someone asked me where the tights were o.o Our store is one of the biggest in the country I think, so the employees are specialised into departments. Our customers do not realise this =(

Also you do have some responsibilities which kinda suck. For instance last Saturday someone dropped a load of eggs on the floor, and the first person to discover it has to guard it so no-one slips on it. And they are not allowed to leave it until it is delt with. Of course that was me. However since it had gone 6pm a lot of people had gone home, and since the two bakery managers had gone home everyone (except me) on my department had gone for their break. At the same time. For double the amount of time they should have had. Eventually I flagged someone to get a cleaner and they never came back :D
My Mum came to pick me up eventually and I told her to get a cleaner. She came back and told me they had all gone home. Hence why the other bloke vanished, he didn't want to clean it up. So I got my Mum to guard it while I mopped it up with tissues, and finished my shift 20 minutes later than I should have =(

That said, oddly enough I enjoy it. I'm getting to know the guys I work with :D Often the customers are nice, in fact they're more often nice than they are not. Of course I've had experiance with some right grumpy gits but hey what can you do. In fact some customers are so nice that they actually help you do your job if you're struggling o.o And on Wednesday I get to go behind the bakery counter and serve people and tray cookies. Man, I've seen enough cookie dough to last a lifetime. But we get to sample things :D :D :D

Man that was a rant and a half.

Oh btw the pay is great

 
(@ultra-sonic-007)
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Except I work with customer service instead of bakery (hay guyz I'll bag your stuff).

Originally worked in grocery, so it helps when customers ask me where things are. Most common request? Velveeta. Instead of being with the REST of the cheese, it's on the aisle with the canned vegetables, the parmesean shakers, and the tomato sauce. o.o

Also, $8.50 an hour FTW

 
 Pach
(@pach)
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I'm looking for work.

Anyone want to commission me for art? 😀

but sitting backstage in costume waiting for customers and playing my DS is not a way I want to make money.

Sounds good to me!

 
(@sakaki22)
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I've spent approximately 294 of the 365 days in 2007 unemployed. Those other days involved a two month stint as a gas station attendant, three weeks as a produce stocker, and three days on a assembly line making ReliaDose bottles.

Since Jan 1 2007, I've filed no less than 35 job applications and resumes, not counting "submit" buttons on Monster.com or applications to two temp agencies, to a grand total of five interviews.

Thanks, economy. Not like I don't have bills to pay and, now, mouths of feed.

 
(@lighty)
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BJ's

Member service desk. =o

 
(@sailor-unicron)
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Nuclear power plant. I'm not currently doing anything 'cause they're in the middle of an outage.

 
(@erika-the-ocelot)
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I don't work yet, but I do give extra private lessons to younger students who need that extra push in maths or latin mostly. :3
I charge 5-10 an hour, depending on whether it's a friend, I have to go to their home or they come to me.

 
(@darkest-light)
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o.o

This is the website for my job.

I'm a Gemologist. 😮

My DYMONDZ, Let me show u dem!

 
 Kaze
(@kaze)
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Since May 2006, I've been doing part-time volunteer work with an Americorps program at my college, which is called "Bridging the Digital Divide."

I've done a small variety of things like clerical work, data entry, created handouts, phone calls, helped register students for the classes, but mainly I teach and assist older adults basic computer skills.

By morning, I'm apparently the "head instructor" of a class full of complaining old people who most of the time don't know what button to click on in Microsoft Word to open a file when I've explained it a million times to them. Some people get it, others don't. It doesn't help when half of them have never used a computer before, but that's another story. One or two other people work with me, but they usually come to me for help while trying to fix a student's messed up work. It really doesn't help matters if half the class has questions about the same thing and I happen to be stuck by myself one day.(Read: AARGH.) If things happen to be okay, then I sit on my butt to steal a few moments to check this place or my email.

In the afternoon, I'm assisting, but here it's almost the same thing. The actual teacher isn't very good, so when he isn't very clear, my sister, the regular assistant for the class, and I go around to explain things in more detail to a class of about 20 or so people. :>;

 
(@darkwinguk)
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What my sig says. I am an auditor for one of the "Big Four" accountancy firms (I will spare my firm's blushes by not naming it :D ) After my current client job is over (at the end of this month), I'm seconding to the tax department for a few months to see what they do and whether I like it better than auditing.

You get to meet loads of really quite important people, and see loads of different ways of managing companies and finances. The working hours can be flexible, although we're not on flexitime and my managers have realised that when they want to show appreciation for hard work, rather than buying champagne, they give me Amazon vouchers or allow me to go get a DVD boxset :D

On the downside, it can be quite pressured with long hours; and of course the last thing anyone needs is for the auditor to appear by their desk...

DW

 
(@jinsoku-sonichqcommunity)
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Cuz I'm bored...

I'm a store manager at GameStop. Can't say which, obviously, because I love my job. I sell video games and game systems... I eat, sleep, breathe, and poop video games, done it my whole life, so it's almost perfect, (my perfect job would be any where in game design, obviously, but I don't have the patience).

I talk about games all day, help people who aren't into video games and educate them on how it all works, and from time to time, I get to play and experience games from weeks to months in advance than anyone else. It rocks. =D

 
(@cykairus)
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Cashier at a Kroger's near where I live. Also trained at fuel center and I'm fairly certain at least two other departments.

 
(@tigergirl-soldier_1722585687)
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I am also a college student, but I have a part-time job working in the school library. Fun...this is purely for gas and food money.

I also take on commissions during the summer and winter months. Brings in some good extra cash. You get to meet new people, and have a drawing challenge. *shines up portfolio* :3

 
(@robobotnik)
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I'm currently working as an art and deign technology teacher at my old secondary school, it's temporary, but I've applied for the permanent position.

 
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