I love my job indeed. I work at a soda factory and i just watch bottles of soda go by. I think i'm supposed to make sure nothing gets jammed up. But hell if i know. That happens so rarely it get's boring. But i'll take the 13$ per hour for it. 50hrs per week too. M-F.
I work at a CVS in the college town of Davidson ( Of college basketball fame).
Its a small, southern town with lots of good classic places and a coffee shop right across the street with some of the best coffee in the south.
I work bout 24-40 hours a week in the photo lab. Its a great place and lots of locals have gotten to know me. Only problem is that the hours are random and the pay is kinda low (7.20 an hour). Overall a good job while im in college.
I bake cupcakes for 4-8 hours a night, five nights a week - until Mother's Day comes around and I end up working a 14 hour shift. As for how I feel about the job, as you're asking on a Wednesday - wait, Thursday - I love it, but come Saturday, I'll hate it. Weekends suck, holidays suck more, so I love when we get two of them together, like this week. And I can't wait for the inevitable Friday or Saturday that's both a holiday and a wedding...
Still, it's a lot of fun as I love baking, and unlike so many other jobs out there, I get to walk around smelling of cupcakes when I'm off work (of course, this'd be after midnight when I'm off). I tend to be very popular, acquaintances joke that they're mad I'm not carrying armloads of cupcakes with me whenever I come across them.
Memorable tidbits? Well, this ones a little gross, especially for animal-lovers, but:
A couple weeks ago I cracked an egg open to find a blood red egg white. Cause: the chicken who laid it was hemorrhaging at the time.
Unfortunately, I'd already pooled it with the other 11 eggs or so I'd cracked for a 16 egg recipe when I realized what was going on, so we lost a bit of money having to throw it all out.
Or the time my boss tells me a wedding that was going to have nearly 200 cupcakes has grown to 450 and threatens to grow more and my eyes nearly fell out of their sockets. When 500-700 is working a full night, and this wedding's in addition to that work, not instead of, and you're the only baker, that's scary news. We'll be breaking up the work over the week, and hope to hire another baker before this happens, but still: eep. At least I don't have to decorate the things...
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I hate my job. I'm working at a local supermarket and it just really sucks. It doesn't pay well at all, the hours suck and I just have a ****** boss. I really hope that I'm able of getting an other job soon.
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I used to love my job, but commuting 2-3 hours a day was crap. Now i do contract work and can often just go 2 miles to the post office to file my projects, but it's feast or famine, and I have had stretches where I was down to my last $200 before hearing from a client again. And it still sucks. Because contract work is like 16-hour days for 3 months, then nothing for four months, then 16 hour days again, and it messes with your sleep schedule.
I'm a waiter in what used to be a busy casino restaurant. Between disgruntled customers who believe that the casino's out to screw them (they don't think the machines pay out as often anymore, they can't get free drinks on the casino floor like they used to, the promotions department no longer mails out free restaurant vouchers, etc) and the overall decline in the tourism industry, we're half as busy as this time last year and people are tipping less on average. I used to push 20% of my sales but now I struggle to get 12% on much lower sales (point of reference, last June, the average sales per server per day was $850, this June it was $475). When I first started, making minimum wage wasn't a big deal because I could bust my ass and make rent in a day if the conditions were right. Nowadays, making $100 in an eight-hour nightshift on a Friday is a hope and not a given. It's a lot harder to love my job when I'm putting the same effort in and seeing declining returns.
Beyond that, the bureaucracy there is sick. If my manager decides when need a new server for summer, he first has to apply to home office on the other end of the country to be allowed to open up a position. This can take upwards of two months. Then, if he gets approval, the process of finding a potential hire take a few weeks. And then when he finally has someone hired, that person has to wait two to three months to pass through the gaming security checks that are mandatory before being allowed to work in a casino. So it's near impossible to get a new employee in a timely manner. I was hired mid-September and didn't start work until late-November. Many don't wait that long for the minimum wage job.
Combine those problems and what do you get? A workforce that begins to look for greener pastures and a company unable to replace workers as they leave (and we lose a worker every month). Terrible workers get to keep their jobs because they're still a body and my manager would rather maintain the headcount rather than push for a new hire.
So I'm stuck making half of what I used to, working alongside morons doing a fraction of the work I am, waiting for my inept manager and molasses-slow company to do something about our many problems, and all the while my friends are moving on to bigger and better things while I'm stuck in the craphole of the world, waiting on a callback for a transfer that I think human resources forgot about months ago.
No, I don't love my job. But for now it still reliably pays the bills, which is more than I can say for most jobs in this dying town.
Doing a summer stint downtown in an office building for a mutual fund company. My job? Scanning client applications. I get my own corner cubicle and computer, and I can see the downtown shopping mall from here. Somehow, I'm allowed access here, and lurk all day, and I gotta say, damn these boards move like molasses sometimes!
It's an hour commute which isn't so bad, but the pay is phenomenal considering the repetitive busywork that I do.
I manage a Starbucks. Its okay, but the company is doing crappy, in anycase I make my own hours, always make my review raises and bonuses(which are ridiculous). It doesn't matter that the company is in a low point, soon I'll have enough saved up to start my own little cafe where I'll be able to bake my own stuff all day long =)
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I work at the Michigan State University Library, putting away books and whatnot, except that the guy who runs the Special Collections section (where they house all the comic books, old books, rare books, etc) likes me, and has requested that whenever I'm not grunt-working it up, that I go down and do whatever projects need to be done to organize the SC. It's pretty neat work, even if it is just sorting comics or hauling old books around.
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Not so much anymore.
I love my job when i have something to do. Hate it when i have nothing to do
I'm the Pricing Coordinator/Assistant Manager of a Small Grocery Store which means im also Computer Tech Support and i work in EVERY department (Cashier, Stock, Bagger, Produce, Meat Dept., Deli, Bakery, Service Counter, Accounting, Ordering)
Monday, Wednesday and Friday I get papers from the owner with things for me to put in the computer which means that i have to type a 10 diget UPC in for EVERY item and they could range from 3000-16000 items per day and after typing in the upc i change the price or set a date for a sale and what not. so lots of typing
but i get 45-60 hours per week and my actual job only takes about 20 hours to do. so i have learned that if i use firefox on my boss's computer in his office nobody ever looks at it so i can browse the internets when im the acting manager =)
i work in the Service department at a computer support company...i used to love what i do, but there is so little work lately that every day a dread getting laid off. i am the guy that has been here the shortest amount of time
I'm an administrative assistant/teacher at a tutoring/weekend school/academy. In a similar love/hate sort of thing, the hours I work during my full-time attendance at college are limited to weekends for about a total of 12 hours altogether. The pay's decent and the students are good (Grades 5 and 6 in the American education system).
However, we've hit the summer season. Our academy runs a seven-week stint, Monday through Friday. We had an ample supply of teachers, so I was moved down to office worker/administrative assistant (pays less than teaching). I don't hate it, per se, but it's a lot of work that really gets me yelled at a lot for simple mistakes or miscommunications. On the other hand, it's the extra cash that allows me to survive the summer, pay leftover tuition bills, get textbooks, and attend PRs, so I work hard and make sure to get my stuff together.
My boss is a really good person who keeps us on our toes. Definitely better than bosses 1 and 2 (the first pretty much exploited me at minimum wage and didn't care the effort I showed, firing me over a misunderstanding, the second didn't care that I had to commute about the same amount of time I was expected to work [2 hour commute, 2 hours a day, 4 days a week. The MetroCard fees alone hurt.] and eventually got pissed at me over a manner of five minutes on a kid's session.), so I don't complain all too much. Besides, I might look into a future as an administrative assistant, so this'd be good experience, connections, and references.
Plus, it's always good to help keep this generation in shape for the future.
I love my job.
I'm a waiter in a small restaurant. Good times. God tips. I have a weird schedule, but it's well worth it. I love the people I work with too. It's a really nice place to work at.
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The interesting thing about us legacy players is that we consider Force of Will, Dark Ritual, Blood Moon, Tarmogoyf and Swords to Plowshare to be fair.
Not really. I work in a audiovisual company, as advisor, tech support and installation. It seems interesting when I act as the first two, but the last is the more common job and it's not very gratifying, plus is a lot of physical strain to carry all that stuff.
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I work part-time as a cook in a well-known Southern restaurant chain, generally on weekend mornings when there's a zillion people all wanting their three food groups: grease, grits, and gravy. Some of my co-workers aren't good at what they do, so we get behind and they all yell about it. I work with a bunch of other women and sometimes their arguing gets to me.
The pay stinks, but it's a job, and the schedule is flexible enough that I don't have to worry about day care, which is far too expensive.
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Neutral I hate having to get up at 4:30 every day just to be at work on time, and then the work is hard, but I like that fact that I don't have to talk to people, I'm kind of an introvert.
But its okay long hours, hard work, but at the end of the day I did something and I get money to move boxes.
I work as a stocker at a warehouse store *think of Sam's BJ's and costco*
I hate my job as there are a bunch of kids and sterotype housewives that really do more complaining and talking then working.
I love my job as I work with 2 of my closest friends and the one I love. Granted we are all in different departments but together we get alot of work done and can put aside our personal lives to do it.
Also love the fact I have full medical, full dental, and about 19 an hour with time and a half on sundays and OT.
Yea, I work for a retail chain of stores in southern California (I hope none of you bastards recognize me). We work like dogs to keep the store running, while the management strolls around, chatting with each other and pointing out problems. Our store director doesn't know what he's doing, and no one seems to know what he does.
My pay is roughly $11 an hour, while management makes 60k + a year, and our store director makes 6 figures. Oh yea, our managers are about the dumbest people you'll ever meet too. (Excluding a few)
Sometimes I really dislike it, sometimes is OK, I'm a grad student with an assistantship, so my job is tutoring, teaching and grading some basic undergraduate math classes. So I deal with 17-22 year olds who sometimes are really nice, but sometimes they can be a pain the butt.
Like any job, I love it somedays hate it others.
I'm manager of an independant video games store and yet I rarely get time to play any games these days.
Working 6 days a week for a total of 50 hours is really cutting into the rest of my life, and really gets on my nerves especially now that the summer lull has hit games releases. I can be sitting doing paperwork and Amazon busywork 7 hours per day.
However when I do get to play it's very nice to be able to have a go on titles before release and almost the entire second hand range can be used as my personal library.
See, I've always wondered if the staff of places that sell used video games don't look at it and go, "Hrm... This DS game is used." *swipe* "And now it's a bit more used! GOOOOO CHARMANDER!"
I don't mind my job. It's not a blast, but it's not painful either.
I get paid pretty well, earn more the better I am at my job, and get to talk to lots of people about exciting places and events. I also get to chill out at my desk and surf the net when business is slow.
And then there are the perks... on top of the usual four weeks annual leave, we also get an additional week of leave for 'educational' reasons, which in this job, basically means traveling someplace.
Further to that, airlines, hotels, theme parks etc will bend over backwards to keep me happy because they know that if I like their product, I'm more likely to sell it to my customers. As such, whenever I go on holiday I can email a hotel and tell them I'm a travel consultant, and they'll often offer me anywhere up to 50% off, or an upgrade, or both.
And finally, there are so many incentives in place for us just to sell certain products. Many tour companies have schemes whereby I receive a free tour for every five of their tours I sell to a customer... and right now I've sold four of them, so I'm not far off a free holiday!
Oh, and did I mention that my company puts on big dinners with free booze once a month?
I work at the Division of Criminal Justice Sex Offender Unit for New York State.
It keeps me busy, but I deal with a lot of terrible human beings and the work content gets rather graphic. Otherwise I mostly just update photographs of offenders, which is tedious to say the least.
I like the pay, but I wouldn't mind switching to another agency.
My job used to be a real strain on my family, with crazy hours and lots of travel. It got to the point where I had to pack up my family and move halfway across the country. It worked. I live in a more affordable region where my paycheck means more, we bought our first house, and since the company I was working for didn't want to lose me, now I work from home. I can see my wife and kids anytime throughout the day, my stress and hours have gotten much more tolerable, and I have a great view! Now I get to watch my kids grow up, which is the best part...
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I work in an Emergancy Room. I do admitting and registration. Not a glamor job, but it pays the bills.
Its a small, southern town with lots of good classic places and a coffee shop right across the street with some of the best coffee in the south.
I work bout 24-40 hours a week in the photo lab. Its a great place and lots of locals have gotten to know me. Only problem is that the hours are random and the pay is kinda low (7.20 an hour). Overall a good job while im in college.
Still, it's a lot of fun as I love baking, and unlike so many other jobs out there, I get to walk around smelling of cupcakes when I'm off work (of course, this'd be after midnight when I'm off). I tend to be very popular, acquaintances joke that they're mad I'm not carrying armloads of cupcakes with me whenever I come across them.
Memorable tidbits? Well, this ones a little gross, especially for animal-lovers, but:
Unfortunately, I'd already pooled it with the other 11 eggs or so I'd cracked for a 16 egg recipe when I realized what was going on, so we lost a bit of money having to throw it all out.
Beyond that, the bureaucracy there is sick. If my manager decides when need a new server for summer, he first has to apply to home office on the other end of the country to be allowed to open up a position. This can take upwards of two months. Then, if he gets approval, the process of finding a potential hire take a few weeks. And then when he finally has someone hired, that person has to wait two to three months to pass through the gaming security checks that are mandatory before being allowed to work in a casino. So it's near impossible to get a new employee in a timely manner. I was hired mid-September and didn't start work until late-November. Many don't wait that long for the minimum wage job.
Combine those problems and what do you get? A workforce that begins to look for greener pastures and a company unable to replace workers as they leave (and we lose a worker every month). Terrible workers get to keep their jobs because they're still a body and my manager would rather maintain the headcount rather than push for a new hire.
So I'm stuck making half of what I used to, working alongside morons doing a fraction of the work I am, waiting for my inept manager and molasses-slow company to do something about our many problems, and all the while my friends are moving on to bigger and better things while I'm stuck in the craphole of the world, waiting on a callback for a transfer that I think human resources forgot about months ago.
No, I don't love my job. But for now it still reliably pays the bills, which is more than I can say for most jobs in this dying town.
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It's an hour commute which isn't so bad, but the pay is phenomenal considering the repetitive busywork that I do.
Objection!
I work at the Michigan State University Library, putting away books and whatnot, except that the guy who runs the Special Collections section (where they house all the comic books, old books, rare books, etc) likes me, and has requested that whenever I'm not grunt-working it up, that I go down and do whatever projects need to be done to organize the SC. It's pretty neat work, even if it is just sorting comics or hauling old books around.
Not so much anymore.
I love my job when i have something to do. Hate it when i have nothing to do
I'm the Pricing Coordinator/Assistant Manager of a Small Grocery Store which means im also Computer Tech Support and i work in EVERY department (Cashier, Stock, Bagger, Produce, Meat Dept., Deli, Bakery, Service Counter, Accounting, Ordering)
Monday, Wednesday and Friday I get papers from the owner with things for me to put in the computer which means that i have to type a 10 diget UPC in for EVERY item and they could range from 3000-16000 items per day and after typing in the upc i change the price or set a date for a sale and what not. so lots of typing
but i get 45-60 hours per week and my actual job only takes about 20 hours to do. so i have learned that if i use firefox on my boss's computer in his office nobody ever looks at it so i can browse the internets when im the acting manager =)
However, we've hit the summer season. Our academy runs a seven-week stint, Monday through Friday. We had an ample supply of teachers, so I was moved down to office worker/administrative assistant (pays less than teaching). I don't hate it, per se, but it's a lot of work that really gets me yelled at a lot for simple mistakes or miscommunications. On the other hand, it's the extra cash that allows me to survive the summer, pay leftover tuition bills, get textbooks, and attend PRs, so I work hard and make sure to get my stuff together.
My boss is a really good person who keeps us on our toes. Definitely better than bosses 1 and 2 (the first pretty much exploited me at minimum wage and didn't care the effort I showed, firing me over a misunderstanding, the second didn't care that I had to commute about the same amount of time I was expected to work [2 hour commute, 2 hours a day, 4 days a week. The MetroCard fees alone hurt.] and eventually got pissed at me over a manner of five minutes on a kid's session.), so I don't complain all too much. Besides, I might look into a future as an administrative assistant, so this'd be good experience, connections, and references.
Plus, it's always good to help keep this generation in shape for the future.
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I'm a waiter in a small restaurant. Good times. God tips. I have a weird schedule, but it's well worth it. I love the people I work with too. It's a really nice place to work at.
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I work part-time as a cook in a well-known Southern restaurant chain, generally on weekend mornings when there's a zillion people all wanting their three food groups: grease, grits, and gravy. Some of my co-workers aren't good at what they do, so we get behind and they all yell about it. I work with a bunch of other women and sometimes their arguing gets to me.
The pay stinks, but it's a job, and the schedule is flexible enough that I don't have to worry about day care, which is far too expensive.
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But its okay long hours, hard work, but at the end of the day I did something and I get money to move boxes.
I work as a stocker at a warehouse store *think of Sam's BJ's and costco*
I hate my job as there are a bunch of kids and sterotype housewives that really do more complaining and talking then working.
I love my job as I work with 2 of my closest friends and the one I love. Granted we are all in different departments but together we get alot of work done and can put aside our personal lives to do it.
Also love the fact I have full medical, full dental, and about 19 an hour with time and a half on sundays and OT.
Could be better... could be FAR worst.
My pay is roughly $11 an hour, while management makes 60k + a year, and our store director makes 6 figures. Oh yea, our managers are about the dumbest people you'll ever meet too. (Excluding a few)
tl:dr I LOVE MY JOB 8U
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See, I've always wondered if the staff of places that sell used video games don't look at it and go, "Hrm... This DS game is used." *swipe* "And now it's a bit more used! GOOOOO CHARMANDER!"
I don't mind my job. It's not a blast, but it's not painful either.
its an office job, i dont complain
i get paid to some times check salvation
I get paid pretty well, earn more the better I am at my job, and get to talk to lots of people about exciting places and events. I also get to chill out at my desk and surf the net when business is slow.
And then there are the perks... on top of the usual four weeks annual leave, we also get an additional week of leave for 'educational' reasons, which in this job, basically means traveling someplace.
Further to that, airlines, hotels, theme parks etc will bend over backwards to keep me happy because they know that if I like their product, I'm more likely to sell it to my customers. As such, whenever I go on holiday I can email a hotel and tell them I'm a travel consultant, and they'll often offer me anywhere up to 50% off, or an upgrade, or both.
And finally, there are so many incentives in place for us just to sell certain products. Many tour companies have schemes whereby I receive a free tour for every five of their tours I sell to a customer... and right now I've sold four of them, so I'm not far off a free holiday!
Oh, and did I mention that my company puts on big dinners with free booze once a month?
Ah, bliss.
It keeps me busy, but I deal with a lot of terrible human beings and the work content gets rather graphic. Otherwise I mostly just update photographs of offenders, which is tedious to say the least.
I like the pay, but I wouldn't mind switching to another agency.