What were some of your past jobs? Places you have worked for? Your responsibilities? Why you left? Volunteered or paid.
Grocery store packer. You unload stuff, you pack them on the shelves. Pay was awesome, something like $25 an hour because you work the graveyard shift. I did it during university days for 3 to 6 hours/week.
Flyers. I gave out flyers like crazy for a week and got $100 for my sweat.
Teaching at school. No pay but you get credit. Kinda sucks but hey, at least you're getting something towards your degree.
volunteered at this accounting firm doing odd bookeeping and whatnot.
volunterred for many local celebratiosn at the park
worked for real estate developers, Pizza Hut
worked for trucking company/cold storage/salmon processing plant - accounts receivable and admin
worked in a college - marketing assistant
worked in countless of restaurants/bars
also worked for David Suzuki Foundation in kits as admin ass't.
Ipsos Reid in payroll
babysitting
A million and one different volunteer jobs. Notable: accounting in a non-profit birth control clinic, arena janitor for a youth conference.
Paid jobs:
babysitting
delivering phone books
numerous restaurants and bars
pub manager
wrote building code (unfortunate- because I have piss-poor drafting skills, can't read plans very well, and can't build anything...but let me tell you, my calculations were bang on!)
office jobs in research, accounting, admin
helped handicapped/mentally disabled kids/adults for a week at camp.
In high school I had to do 30-60hrs of community service a year to graduate. Since I never was able to find a job, ever, I just did a 5hr MWF shift at a local hospital for about 2 years. I think I did somewhere around 1,000hrs. Had a good time, just ended up talking to the other retirees who were working there, pushing people around in wheel chairs.
Memorable highlights: delivered santa claus touqes for the new borns a couple days before Christmas, heard a couple babies being born while delivering a package, watched open heart surgery, carried a guy right from the open heart surgery table to his room with other nurses, those are the happy times.
The tough times were when I had to try and deliver a gift to an elderly woman who was terminally ill and dilvering flowers to a woman who had cancer and later I was told was dying who was in her late 30s/40s, she couldn't stop crying. That and going to the children's cancer ward was probably the worst days. Only got through those days by talking to the other helpers all who had strokes and heart attacks. One of the guys who was an engineer who help lay plans for the hospital, went into a coma for months, nobody expeted him to live through that, so whenever those tough days happened, I talked to him.
Met the heads of the hospital, I know all there is to know about colonoscopies. I ended up knowing everyone on a first name basis that when I went in for surgery or something nurses would remember me. lol
newspapers for 3 years, saw a lot of drunks,crimes, deer, and was involved in too many accidents due to icy roads. Best story, brakes failed going down a hill, too icey, slammed into a mail box. AAA said go talk to the person about their mailbox. So, 6am some rich wall street guy comes out, lets me in his house, he's in boxers and a tshirt. He told me he cared more about his 5 dollar mailbox.
randomly have done some farm stuff since about 13.
welder helper at a warehouse - walked around with firehose to make sure welders sparks were put out. This was my high school job. Paid great and not a ton of hours.
After uni, I was an office robot slave...sucked!
Those were my past jobs.
ouch office slave. I finally saw Office Space in the last year. It made me want to give up on life. lol
HA! I love that movie!!
I turned into Peter, but not 100%. Instead of gutting fish on important papers, I became my own boss and started charging out the rate the company used to charge me out to clients, before paying me only a fraction.
It wasn't just that. I just hated the whole office politics.
I don't blame you at all. Hopefully with my career, I can take a job in a rural mountainous area, would make the job seem less boring going to work. lol
Sportsdude wrote:
I don't blame you at all. Hopefully with my career, I can take a job in a rural mountainous area, would make the job seem less boring going to work. lol
Sounds like a cream dream! go 4 it!
Display windows for an art glass blower. (still remember his name....Louis Fabien)
Fashion modelling for a couple years.
B.C. Directories
CIBC Data Centre.
Clerical work at an accountants office
Office crap at physiotherapists
Pro shop attendant at golf course.
Office manager for Returnning Office for 4 elections. (well...office manager for 2)
Self employed- window treatment and design.
Whoa! PC, you were modelling? TELL ME MORE!
Yup....I didn't always look like this ya know. [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/c008.gif" border=0]
Van.. you weld?
Metal or aluminum?
anyhow. i cant sit up straight and im eating some burger queer.
see you all tomorrow. if it makes everyone happier i left my tahoe somewhere and caught a cab home.. not worth the effort or problems.
gnight.
Russ wrote:
Van.. you weld?
Metal or aluminum?
anyhow. i cant sit up straight and im eating some burger queer.
see you all tomorrow. if it makes everyone happier i left my tahoe somewhere and caught a cab home.. not worth the effort or problems.
gnight.
This made sence last night. Morning!
LOL....and it still makes sense Russ.
While in college I held a full time menial job after classes in the evenning at a nearby hospital.....At times, I've been kitchen help dishing platters and pushing the food carts up to the wards; I've been been an oncall janitor......cleaning shit and food off walls in isolation cells in the psychiatric wards, cleaning blood and body parts in emergency and surgery rooms.......I get to see surgeries, births, abortions (D&Cs), etc
It was a great job because I get to study and got paid while I waited to be called, plus a big percentage of the hospital staff in the swing shift were students like me.
Are you a doctor 49er ?
P.C. wrote:
Are you a doctor 49er ?[/DIV]
Ha! I'm an engineer
Well, it was a good guess. (http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)
.....or are you just saying that so you won't get called on for free medical advice. (http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/4.gif)
P.C. wrote:
Well, it was a good guess. (http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)
.....or are you just saying that so you won't get called on for free medical advice. (http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/4.gif) [/DIV]
Oh...I will still give out free medical advice, but it will require a physical exam first
[FONT size=4]LOL. [/FONT] Perhaps I'll stick to asking you for your DIY expertise.
49er wrote:
At times, I've been kitchen help dishing platters and pushing the food carts up to the wards
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I've heard about you guys....
Is it true that if a patient is not in the room (got sent home or died) the staff eats their dinner?
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Lil Me wrote:
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I've heard about you guys....
Is it true that if a patient is not in the room (got sent home or died) the staff eats their dinner?
As I said most of us were students (staving).........and later in the evennings snacks were served....custards, fruits, fresh juices, etc
...so you stole the custard from the dead guy :)
telemarketer (lasted for 3 days, that place was a scam... but I still got paid)
line cook (damn that job was stressful)
translator
thief (haha)
Hi Marik! Haven't seen you for ages.
Still busy busy with work and school?
hey lil me
even less time these days... I get to sleep on the bus / skytrain for an hour and a half every morning to get to UBC. It sucks.
work is same old (reffing soccer games)
how about you?
Marik !!!!
How nice to see you. I was just thinking about you the other day......and kingy too.
Missed you both.
how's it going P.C?
If any of you guys are still around in 10 years or so (haha) I can give you a free session once I become a clinical psychologist.
Can I make an appointment NOW ? (http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)
....and good stuff Marik !!!!
haha I'm not qualified yet. Just the first year... out of eight... (hangs head)
THAT'S a long road......so 8 years !!!! OK.....I'll wait until next week to book an appointment.
I'm free next Thursday!
Good for you, Marik.
You could probably write a paper on the DS personalities. lol
Thursday !?! I knew all those people who were telling me about long waiting lists were just out to get me. (http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)
lol wouldn't it be funny if Marik and I were in the same classes and we didn't even know it. lol
wait SD are you taking geography 102? cause there is this guy who kind of fits your description...
lol no I'm taking 102 next semester.
I'm pretty quiet in class (especially geog, i've got the most boring prof for 3hrs, don't ever take him, he talks for 3hrs about nothing, he says "in closing" an hour before class is out) and I'm always fiddling with my glasses.
SD do you live on campus?
yeah, being fleeced by the school every minute.
Lise wrote:
Whoa! PC, you were modelling? TELL ME MORE![/DIV]
You know, I never seen a pic of PC. But I can tell she is a model of what the world needs more of. A sweet soul!!
Russ wrote:
Van.. you weld?
Metal or aluminum?
No no. I was a water boy for the welders. Made sure all sparks were out. Just a Saturday job for weekend maintenance at a little planer mill in the Lower Mainland. I didn't need to work more than just Saturday with that job. It paid really good. 12 hours and I was good for another week. Life was so simple in high school!!
Hi Marik! It's so nice to see you around again. We missed you. (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/15.gif)
I think I'll be around 10 years from now to take up your offer. (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/11.gif)
Van......[img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/a025.gif" border=0] *bless you, bless you, bless you* Oh....and bless you again.
P.C. wrote:
Van......[img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/a025.gif[/img] *bless you, bless you, bless you* Oh....and bless you again.[/DIV]
*Sigh*
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