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Post by angilasman on Oct 17, 2008 17:44:41 GMT -5
Yup, at the ripe old age of 20. I intended to join the workforce a year ago, but a whole load of personal stuff came up and I hardly had enough time for my classes. Now I'll be going to my first job in a few hours: maintenence service at the local civic center... cleaning up after Disney on Ice this weekend.
Well it sure sounds sucky, but I had to do something quick to help pay for my next semester (tuition went up), and I'll be trying to get something, well, anything else. It's mostly a night, but at least it's on weekends and away from my college time.
Wish me luck. I might just hum "I can't wait to get off work" by Tom Waits in those wee hours.
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Post by Weirdo Writer on Oct 17, 2008 18:42:55 GMT -5
Best of luck to you!
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Post by Chuck on Oct 17, 2008 19:30:40 GMT -5
I always suspected they had scoopers that followed behind the skaters!
Good luck with the first job! Who knows where it could lead?
My first job was in grade school (through high school) at my aunt & uncle's theater and drive-in.
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Post by Trumpy's Magic Snout on Oct 17, 2008 21:06:03 GMT -5
Good luck! My first job was in McDonald's and it was sh*t! i've ran the gammet of rubbish jobs since.
My highlight, while working in a bar physically throwing a Frenchman who threatened to stab me through a door. It was locked.
Just make the most of it and think of the money. You tend to meet good people in crappy jobs though so that's a bonus!
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Post by Captain Hygiene on Oct 17, 2008 21:08:23 GMT -5
Hope it works out for you. My first job was partly awesome, just because of the people I worked with.
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Post by CBG on Oct 18, 2008 1:46:14 GMT -5
Best of luck, angilasman. Since I thought this was gonna be a thread about first jobs, and since others have chimed in... My first gig was at the Glendale Batting Cages in Glendale Ca. Working behind the pitching machines, refilling the machines with baseballs, and repairing when needed. Dirtiest job I ever had.
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Post by Skyroniter on Oct 18, 2008 2:31:17 GMT -5
That doesn't sound too sucky to me, angilasman.
One of my first jobs was maintenance man in a hotel. One of the tasks they gave me was to clean out the clogged up septic holding tank of the lounge with a bucket. It costs them less to put the lowest on the pole (me) doing that as opposed to paying a septic service.
Even that wasn't all bad. I found twenty bucks in it.
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Post by bobjohnson on Oct 18, 2008 9:19:51 GMT -5
Good luck! My first job was in McDonald's and it was sh*t! i've ran the gammet of rubbish jobs since. My highlight, while working in a bar physically throwing a Frenchman who threatened to stab me through a door. It was locked. Just make the most of it and think of the money. You tend to meet good people in crappy jobs though so that's a bonus! my first job was mcdonald's also, it was hellhole. I even stopped eating there after I quit. but we need jobs like that to show we have better chances in the future.
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Post by mccloud on Oct 18, 2008 9:33:41 GMT -5
My first few jobs were fast food and restaurants, too. Hated them. My favorite job (not the one I have now) was doing custom framing - it was fun. It didn't pay poopie, though.
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Post by angilasman on Oct 18, 2008 11:09:42 GMT -5
Well, it was a night of sweeping and mopping, my co-workers including old drunks and a guy with a Grateful Dead tatoo and heavy facial scarring. I suppose it wasn't too bad. The first two hours scooping up the piles of trash others had... uh, piled, was the best part: on your own, develope your own rythm and get lost in thought....
Anywho, what I didn't like was guys trying to bum rides off me when we got off. That made me uncomfortable.
I might send a letter to the Ace hardware company though. I have found certain flaws with their so-called "popcorn scooper."
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Post by Weirdo Writer on Oct 18, 2008 14:14:59 GMT -5
My first job was an odd one- I was part of this group of kids that went around apartment complexes picking up old copies of a free weekly newspaper, and took them back to the warehouse to be recycled. There was this one time when the maintenance guy at one of those complexes saw me and this other kid on the job and mistook us for thieves- fortunately, we managed to defuse the situation before he called the cops or anything.
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Post by Pierre Trudeau on Oct 19, 2008 22:15:45 GMT -5
I had one of the coolest first jobs ever. I worked at a photography studio as the 'everything' girl when I was 16. I put wedding albums together, senior portraits, did set designs for beauty pageant pictures, did framing, organized 100 little kids to get their basketball pics done as efficiently as possible... it was a great job I did for 2 years.
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Post by (busdrivertohell) on Oct 20, 2008 0:21:39 GMT -5
I had 2. Housekeeper and Waitress. Both jobs sucked.
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Post by doctorz on Oct 20, 2008 13:37:49 GMT -5
Cleaning out the cave after the Clan of the Cave Bear got finished feasting on cold dead mammoth meat was my first job. I kid.
My first job was bagging groceries at the Piggly Wiggly. One of my coworkers got both fired and arrested for threatening me with a box cutter. I must confess it didn't get any better for a long while. It was either psychotic bosses driven mad by capitalism or insecure social climbers who believed that climbing the corporate ladder by treating any percived rival like crap and doing whatever it took to get the MacMansion with the gold toilet fixtures was the goal of their pathetic lives. Right now my job is fine. I like my coworkers, it pays well, it's secure and I get along with my boss. Life is good.
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Post by Mod City on Oct 20, 2008 14:23:44 GMT -5
Congrats on heading out to the working world, angilasman. My first job was writing short sports stories for the local paper. My first real job was working the one-hour photo machine and video rental counter at a Lewis Drug, which is kind of a local Target-like store in these parts.
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