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Captain Tuttle
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4 10's is in fact not awesome. It severely limits your day while relegating most of your usual tasks to your days off. You might be able to enjoy your Sunday if you're lucky.
Boogie9IGN
Member
I'm a cook at Google.
The only real pros are that I get to work a regular Mon-Fri schedule with 40 hours, paid vacations, etc and the people I work with are amazing. Something about a kitchen attracts some of the funniest characters you'll ever meet.
Other than that I pretty much hate it. Every time I get injured I want to quit but I'm kinda stuck living paycheck to paycheck cause of school so there's not much I can do about it. Gonna try and look around for a different job now that the semester is almost over but it's tough when you have a record (no felonies but still) and no degree :\
The only real pros are that I get to work a regular Mon-Fri schedule with 40 hours, paid vacations, etc and the people I work with are amazing. Something about a kitchen attracts some of the funniest characters you'll ever meet.
Other than that I pretty much hate it. Every time I get injured I want to quit but I'm kinda stuck living paycheck to paycheck cause of school so there's not much I can do about it. Gonna try and look around for a different job now that the semester is almost over but it's tough when you have a record (no felonies but still) and no degree :\
Hook. It up.
A lot people talk shit about all the agencies. Lol. But yeah, TSA and BP/ICE is a good way to get into the other agencies.
thesoapster
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Web developer (.NET world)
(also web service/framework programming and database design...and a bit of web sysadmin-y things)
(also web service/framework programming and database design...and a bit of web sysadmin-y things)
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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That's really interesting, do you have a blog with some samples of your art?
I work as a financial analyst for state government agency. Despite being a state job and the opinion of friends and family, working for the state is not as great as it sounds.
Pros:
+ Great boss
+ Great Benefits
+ Not too stressful and a good work/life balance
+ I have a short commute of about 4 miles, in comparison to my last job where it took 2 hours to get to work it is a night and day difference
Cons:
- No raises at all from what coworkers tell me
- Low pay and I could make much more in the private sector
- I live in a red state and the city itself/ majority of the people I meet are diehard conservatives so I stick out like sore thumb being a liberal minority who is not religious in the slightest bit
- City itself is too slow paced compared to what I would like
- Im a fairly social person and feel depressed sitting at a desk all day not speaking to anyone in a cubicle
I feel like I dont have a real platform to be upset. My biggest issues are personal gripes and not with the job itself. I think I may run into the same issues no matter where I go if I decide to leave so for now im just dealing with it while I try to figure out what I really want.
Pros:
+ Great boss
+ Great Benefits
+ Not too stressful and a good work/life balance
+ I have a short commute of about 4 miles, in comparison to my last job where it took 2 hours to get to work it is a night and day difference
Cons:
- No raises at all from what coworkers tell me
- Low pay and I could make much more in the private sector
- I live in a red state and the city itself/ majority of the people I meet are diehard conservatives so I stick out like sore thumb being a liberal minority who is not religious in the slightest bit
- City itself is too slow paced compared to what I would like
- Im a fairly social person and feel depressed sitting at a desk all day not speaking to anyone in a cubicle
I feel like I dont have a real platform to be upset. My biggest issues are personal gripes and not with the job itself. I think I may run into the same issues no matter where I go if I decide to leave so for now im just dealing with it while I try to figure out what I really want.
esmith08734
Member
Entry Level Software Developer
Pros: flexible schedule, insurance is decent, somewhat laid back..
Cons: long commute, so many trainings, things take forever (took me 5 months to get my own computer), being assigned projects in languages I have never used before.
It's okay. It could be much worse.
Pros: flexible schedule, insurance is decent, somewhat laid back..
Cons: long commute, so many trainings, things take forever (took me 5 months to get my own computer), being assigned projects in languages I have never used before.
It's okay. It could be much worse.
Jellycrackers
Member
I'm a composer and producer of music for media. Sounds glamorous, but I'm in year 2 and only making roughly ~$24,000 per year (if this year continues at the rate it's been going). It takes forever for royalties to build up and and for music to get released and make its way into stuff. Then it usually takes months to get paid after music does get used in something. I write music for a few libraries - one that gets music placed in TV shows (mostly underscore for bad cable reality shows) and a couple that do movie and game trailers. I only just got into the trailer game back in January, so I'm still trying to get my first trailer placement. Came REALLY close to getting music in the Blade Runner 2049 trailer, but they picked a different version. I also do freelance gigs on short films and indie games whenever I can. I love the work, and it's great being able to work from home and make my own schedule. What sucks though is how low it can pay and how unpredictable it is. The market for composers is incredibly oversaturated and competitive.
I also work part time in an office doing some graphic design and basic IT stuff. I make more from music than I do from the part time job, but I don't want to drop that steady paycheck yet just because my daughter will be born VERY soon, and I don't want to leave any money on the table. I think I'll be able to quit this by the end of the year though
I also work part time in an office doing some graphic design and basic IT stuff. I make more from music than I do from the part time job, but I don't want to drop that steady paycheck yet just because my daughter will be born VERY soon, and I don't want to leave any money on the table. I think I'll be able to quit this by the end of the year though
outunderthestars
Banned
Running a bicycle shop. Getting paid 25% than my last job and in cash under the table.
That said, I have an interview this week to return to my field of recreation management in a potential dream job. Fingers crossed
That said, I have an interview this week to return to my field of recreation management in a potential dream job. Fingers crossed
I work in a bookstore sorta.
Pros
- Every Tuesday and Wednesday we have these sorta meetings and stuff with supervisors who are basically our mentors. They help us prepare for the future like get our driver's permit, college programs, etc. It's paid too, so I get paid to talk about what's going on in my life and this gives me $88.
- It's an easy job and not stressful if everyone does their part
- This place is great for resume building. My job constantly goes to and hosts events/dinners where the employees talk about the business, give presentations, etc with politicians, charity organizations, investors, etc so it's also a great way to network.
- After 3 months everyone gets a guaranteed supervisor position
- Mostly chill environment
- You can buy video games and movies for 75 cents each and I get a 40% employee discount. Bought so PS2 video games and sealed DVDs and Blu-Rays like Chinatown, Metropolis (anime), and some fancy edition of Seven Samurai
Cons
- I think 2 supervisors hate me.
- Some people just see this as a cheap way to get cash and don't want to do their fair share of work which can really mess up our daily goals. If we miss them we get a lot of crap from supervisors.
- Can only work 5 days a week at most. 36 hours a week is the most I can do.
Pros
- Every Tuesday and Wednesday we have these sorta meetings and stuff with supervisors who are basically our mentors. They help us prepare for the future like get our driver's permit, college programs, etc. It's paid too, so I get paid to talk about what's going on in my life and this gives me $88.
- It's an easy job and not stressful if everyone does their part
- This place is great for resume building. My job constantly goes to and hosts events/dinners where the employees talk about the business, give presentations, etc with politicians, charity organizations, investors, etc so it's also a great way to network.
- After 3 months everyone gets a guaranteed supervisor position
- Mostly chill environment
- You can buy video games and movies for 75 cents each and I get a 40% employee discount. Bought so PS2 video games and sealed DVDs and Blu-Rays like Chinatown, Metropolis (anime), and some fancy edition of Seven Samurai
Cons
- I think 2 supervisors hate me.
- Some people just see this as a cheap way to get cash and don't want to do their fair share of work which can really mess up our daily goals. If we miss them we get a lot of crap from supervisors.
- Can only work 5 days a week at most. 36 hours a week is the most I can do.
I'm a full-time student but I'm also a cocktail bartender. I started when I was 18 and now I even get hired for events sometimes, pay is good. More regularly I work a student union bar.
But I'm quitting it soon once I graduate, moving from the UK to south of France to teach English as a foreign language. Big change! I'm excited though, can't wait to have a job with sociable hours.
But I'm quitting it soon once I graduate, moving from the UK to south of France to teach English as a foreign language. Big change! I'm excited though, can't wait to have a job with sociable hours.
I don't even know the correct terminology for my current job, but will give it a guess with: Replenishment Specialist for a large customer order retailer. It's a pretty stressful job right now with warehousing constraints and increasing - though wildly varying - sales. I don't know how I wound up here - I started as a sales rep - but it's a great learning experience with tons of responsibility and some leadership components.
DigitalRicket
Member
I've been working as a front desk / night auditor for nearly 10 years in the hotel industry. Make peanuts, no benefits, and I have a crappy schedule. I'm in the middle of applying and waiting on my hiring at on of Amazon's warehouses where the pay is better, they offer benefits, and a much better schedule.
MetalliCabombination
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Legal consultant (associate/corporate law) at E&Y and part time software developer
lord_of_flood
Member
Estimator for a drywall company. I typically send out bids for single family and custom projects, though I also get involved in multi-family work too (mostly assisting in project management though). It's not too bad of a gig, mostly because I actually enjoy the people I work with.
- Main job (full time): Management Assistant & IT
- Second job (roughly half a day per week): Accounting & IT for the family business
I'll be slowly phasing out/cutting down on the main job over the next couple of years until I'm full time in management in #2 since I'm going to take over the company from the parental units.
Which is nice since it enables me to work on my own schedule 100% of the time as well as from home if I feel inclined to. Fiscally speaking it will be even more lucrative of course, well enough to be comfortable.
H.Protagonist
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I'm taking ~2 years off to raise our kid, but my part-time work includes my usual gig (video game localization) and I'm submitting chapters of my second book to be published to my editor.
Pros:
- No need to wear pants
- Fridge is but a step a way
- Small projects = waaaaay less stress
- Working remote means I have super flexible hours
- Get to work with a lot of cool people all over the world on a variety of projects
- I have the luxury of working on a personal creative project with a very forgiving deadline thanks to my publisher who knows my sit
Cons:
- I miss my old office/crew big time
- Gets a bit lonely
- Baby 'work' goes from 7-7, so have to tetris in work time whenever I can which means I don't get much free time
- Have all the usual chores (cooking, cleaning, appts, the shopping, etc.) on top of the baby and work-work
- Hard to focus on work even when the kid's asleep bc there's always other stuff that needs to be done
- Baby brain
Pros:
- No need to wear pants
- Fridge is but a step a way
- Small projects = waaaaay less stress
- Working remote means I have super flexible hours
- Get to work with a lot of cool people all over the world on a variety of projects
- I have the luxury of working on a personal creative project with a very forgiving deadline thanks to my publisher who knows my sit
Cons:
- I miss my old office/crew big time
- Gets a bit lonely
- Baby 'work' goes from 7-7, so have to tetris in work time whenever I can which means I don't get much free time
- Have all the usual chores (cooking, cleaning, appts, the shopping, etc.) on top of the baby and work-work
- Hard to focus on work even when the kid's asleep bc there's always other stuff that needs to be done
- Baby brain
I'm a Quality Specialist for Bridgestone Americas. Pros are the pay and benefits. Cons are mainly the shift work and having my successes relying on what other people do. I enjoy it. They're paying for my college tuition 100% so I'm not complaining too much. I graduate from college at the ripe age of 30 next year. Hopefully the degree will advance my career with the company.
Basically I am an expert in convoluted licensing policies at a large software company. I attend all the launch calls to keep my knowledge up to date, I have a team of two people helping to migrate customers to the new licensing model, and I am a point of contact for licensing escalations.
It was planned that my work would be more Program Management-y but there were a bunch of org changes shortly after taking the role so that hasn't happened. I like my job pretty well regardless, and my boss is very cool shit.
It was planned that my work would be more Program Management-y but there were a bunch of org changes shortly after taking the role so that hasn't happened. I like my job pretty well regardless, and my boss is very cool shit.
The First Guardian
Member
For some reason I really really enjoyed reading through this thread.
As for myself, I'm a software engineer. I have a 8:30 - 5:30 job but I always have at least one project to work on as a freelancer. Nowadays i mostly do iOS development (also what I do in my full time job) and Web Development with django, but I used to accept anything that I could get. From Android development to .Net Web applications to angular, ... . Biggest con is that my free time varies between very limited to non existent but what I earn is really good.
As for myself, I'm a software engineer. I have a 8:30 - 5:30 job but I always have at least one project to work on as a freelancer. Nowadays i mostly do iOS development (also what I do in my full time job) and Web Development with django, but I used to accept anything that I could get. From Android development to .Net Web applications to angular, ... . Biggest con is that my free time varies between very limited to non existent but what I earn is really good.
hockeypuck
Member
General/Trauma surgeon. On occasion an intensive care specialist.
Pros: I save lives on a weekly basis. I laugh in the face of (others' potential) death. Patients like to remind me that I'm badass. Apparently I'm the guardian angel to a half dozen little old ladies. I get to work with a core group of professionals who are more badass than me. We're fucking awesome. My ego knows no bounds.
Cons: Badassery came with a heavy price of sacrificing 10 years of the best years of my life. Lazy/incompetent outside surgeons like to dump patients on us. Maybe we're too badass.
Pros: I save lives on a weekly basis. I laugh in the face of (others' potential) death. Patients like to remind me that I'm badass. Apparently I'm the guardian angel to a half dozen little old ladies. I get to work with a core group of professionals who are more badass than me. We're fucking awesome. My ego knows no bounds.
Cons: Badassery came with a heavy price of sacrificing 10 years of the best years of my life. Lazy/incompetent outside surgeons like to dump patients on us. Maybe we're too badass.