[quote]Field wrote:
Im just going to be honest and say that i just want an easy job that pays ok and doesnt suck up all of my waking hours .
Something like a gas station attendant or a cashier at Rite Aid, or maybe a job at the super market .
Yes i realize that sounds pathetically unambitious, but i just havent really found anything that i give a good sh1t about to want to make a career of.
The one job ive worked so far that payed good money was as a maintenance mechanic , but for the 2 years that i did it i wondered …how ‘fun’ is your job supposed to be ? This type of work was pretty dry and really didnt turn me on that much.
In my opinion , just learning stuff at college was probably the funnest and most meaningful thing i have done so far. I think i really just like …learning stuff …and …being ‘in the know.’ Lol.
I went ahead and got a fitness trainer certification but since i dont have any related degree or credentials to go with it im not sure how easy it would be to get a job with anyone . That and i just dont feel, legit- to my–self … just trying to be some random a$$ deuche trainer person without any papers to show that i am smart…If you understand where im coming from.
I want to go back to school but i dont really have any money, so the only way to really get anything done is i just need to do more work. A few people told me i should just get some student loans but my mom says ‘fk that sht.’
Dont take me wrong, people say i am a very hard worker on tasks that dont require tons of thinking or scheming.
I worked for a temp agency for a while and made some green but they pretty much always send you out on assignments where you are working sh1tty 12 hour shifts with some garbage-trash type of job, some of them were ok , but srsly the last job i did where i spent a couple weeks in some big warehouse pulling stuff out of boxes and counting stuff all damn day , that pretty much sucked all of the try-hard out of my soul. It was like death, it took away all of my try-hard.
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I worked in a Supermarket-come-Gas Station part-time through high-school and college(with full-time hours in the summers). And believe me, unless you have zero respect for yourself, you do not want to end up there for an indefinite time.
You are doing a truly meaningless job for a guy that you hate, and you hate him. Management in these types of jobs are insecure and incompetent assholes. That’s why they will always be in that line of work. The back-stabbing is merciless and people keep you down in any way that they can. Sometimes to protect or justify their own position, sometimes for the hell of it. I was lucky because I was there just to have a little income through my student years and I kept a low profile for the most part.
But that also gave me an opportunity to people watch and when I realised what was really going on, I learned to detest everything about it. I realise that almost every job will carry a strong element of this, but what amazed me is that it happened for the hell of it. The worst culprit’s never seemed to gain anything(more responsibility, promotion etc), they just enjoyed being assholes and meddling in other people’s business.
I’ve known several other student that have said they exact same thing when we discussed.
What really killed me was the management. Insecure and amazingly incompetent, but sneaky as hell. I took the first job I could out of college, another meaningless job but this time for a massive international company(thanks economy) but what do ya know, I really love where I work and although my college degree is in no way related to where I work now, I have great ambitions to work for the company and try my hardest.
Rant(I suppose) over.
