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Post by Aunt Arlene on Dec 15, 2005 22:45:37 GMT -5
I mentioned in The Alleyway that I needed to start job hunting again. Nick said he might be searching as well.
This might end up with just me and Nick commiserating with each other, but any friendly or not so friendly advice about job hunting would be happily accepted.
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Post by GreatMuppetyNick on Dec 15, 2005 22:55:23 GMT -5
*commiserates Auntie*
Figures I might as well get started. ;D
Have you started ... well, looking yet? I was planning on looking after the new years (the Chinese one, not the global one)
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Post by Aunt Arlene on Dec 15, 2005 22:58:37 GMT -5
I've been too busy with my current job to look much elsewhere. This project will be winding down next week. I was going to start looking more seriously then.
I have a piece of paper tacked up under my computer monitor reminding me of all the things I hate about my job. I'm hoping it will be the motivation I need.
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Post by Bango on Dec 15, 2005 23:04:41 GMT -5
Why do you hate your current job?
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Post by Aunt Arlene on Dec 15, 2005 23:15:11 GMT -5
1. The pay isn't great. It's OK, but I barely have enough left over at the end of each month.
2. No benefits.
3. I work on projects and there are usually gaps between the projects where I'm not getting paid.
4. It's a small branch of a company and we are somewhat isolated from the rest of the company. My boss pretty much has the run of the place. There is little recourse if you have a problem with her.
5.There is a particular project director that she likes. Lately she has been maneuvering to get him more work at the expense of me and another guy.
6. She is wound up so tight if you shoved a lump of coal up her ass, in two weeks you'd have a diamond. Literally. She turns a simple problem into a high stress situation. I could get a job on the bomb squad and have less stress than I do now.
I'd be willing to put up with a lot of this if I was making more money, but as it is, it's not worth it.
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Post by GreatMuppetyNick on Dec 15, 2005 23:34:11 GMT -5
Sounds like good motivation to move on to me.
Go, Auntie, go
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Post by Charisma69 on Dec 17, 2005 19:17:19 GMT -5
It sounds like good motivation to me as well. But then as the Master Of Procrastination I too have a hard time looking for a job.
I hate new situations, I really don't like being the new person at a job. I don't like not knowing exactly what to do. McDonald's has taught me that you always have to be busy and some jobs just aren't like that. It's too weird for me.
Like when I worked at the Children's Home. We got paid for watching movies at night - and it was okay.
We were of course doing bed-checks every 15 minutes as well as paperwork and laundry but compared to McDonald's we were getting paid to goof off.
When I worked at the Business Office at Mineral Area College as soon as it was 4:00 it was time to go. It didn't matter if you were finished with what you were doing or not, it was time to leave. It took me along time to get used to that and then the semester was over so it didn't matter - I was a work study there.
I would like to get a job were I actually made some sort of money. I get paid okay where I work but if anything out of the ordinary happens I don't have money for it.
Such as my son's legal expenses. If I hadn't been saving for Vegas I would have really been screwed. It's a good thing I didn't go or we might be living in a cardboard box right now.
And it looks like I'll be stuck here until November of next year unless I can find a job that's here in town and needs me for an 8:00 to 3:00 shift since I have to give Enzo a ride to and from school starting Jan. 5th.
I'm not even sure I'll get my current job to go for that. Breakfast rush starts at 7 so they want you there at 7 not 8. If you have to come in later then you have to wait until 11 - which means I'll only be working 11 - 3 and I so can't afford to do that.
I'd ask Enzo's Grandma to take him but she complained about the month she had to drive her son back and forth - I so don't see her doing this for nearly a year.
She hasn't even called to see how his court date went.
When I'm less tired I plan on trying to see if there are any jobs that need someone for that time frame but I'm not hopeful. Usually if I see one for those hours it's usually for far less than I'm making now.
My shiny degree could turn into a worthless piece of nothing before this is all over. The computer field is continually changing so my skills will be out of date before long. I keep up to date on things but since I don't do programming on a daily basis it's way to easy to forget stuff.
And since I don't have a pressing reason to keep doing it I keep putting stuff off until later. I'm always so tired when I get home. Plus there's laundry, and dinner, and spending time with Enzo, and lots of other things to do.
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Post by Darkchylde on Dec 17, 2005 21:01:22 GMT -5
Auntie, Nick and anyone else looking for a job. Have you started looking yet? Come on then, get up you lazy bums.
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Post by Aunt Arlene on Dec 17, 2005 21:04:04 GMT -5
Auntie, Nick and anyone else looking for a job. Have you started looking yet? Come on then, get up you lazy bums.
That's the spirit! ;D
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Post by tjaman on Dec 21, 2005 12:51:46 GMT -5
Hey guys! How's that job search coming?
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Post by Aunt Arlene on Dec 21, 2005 14:29:10 GMT -5
Working on my resume as we speak.
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Post by quantumcat on Dec 21, 2005 20:18:17 GMT -5
We should move en masse to one of those towns in the midwest offering free land.
They have job banks on their sites if one won't be bringing 'portable' employment.
We could wind up our own little intentional community where folks subsisted on brownies,went to the thee-ater every week, the 'Anarchist's Cookbook' was on the middle school's required reading list ,lawyers won cases based on how well they played hockey and the sports section of the paper was front page and above the fold.
(wonders if an earth sheltered home or castle would be permitted.)
I'm going to see if we have any stores that sell lutefisk.
That ought to go well with grits,right?
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Post by Charisma69 on Dec 21, 2005 22:16:05 GMT -5
We should move en masse to one of those towns in the midwest offering free land. They have job banks on their sites if one won't be bringing 'portable' employment. We could wind up our own little intentional community where folks subsisted on brownies,went to the thee-ater every week, the 'Anarchist's Cookbook' was on the middle school's required reading list ,lawyers won cases based on how well they played hockey and the sports section of the paper was front page and above the fold. (wonders if an earth sheltered home or castle would be permitted.) I'm going to see if we have any stores that sell lutefisk. That ought to go well with grits,right?
Okay, how soon can we form our own community? A place where kids are free to make jokes without getting arrested. Sounds like my kind of place.
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Post by Aunt Arlene on Dec 21, 2005 22:17:08 GMT -5
Sounds like a wonderful little town to me.
Think Joss would be our mayor? ;D
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Post by GreatMuppetyNick on Dec 21, 2005 22:20:03 GMT -5
Mayor, heck he can be the President in Nicklandia when I'm overlord.
As for the Job search ... haven't started yet.
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