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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: Pilla on May 19, 2010, 04:11:30 pm
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I have one, and it's something I had to really prepare myself to endure.
I'll explain. For a long time I had a hard time being motivated to work, well, when I was a teen. I would always enjoy sitting down playing games all day and then sleeping all night, or sleeping all day and playing games all night. MMO's and steam, and just leaving my avatar idle in Second Life for days because she "lived there". Then came a reality check, I couldn't depend on mommy and daddy forever to carry me around...I was looking at classmates move out at well before 18 or at 18 and figured I'd do the same...I never did. I was the one who always spent hours doing nothing and enjoying it, working on rpg maker and just fooling around wasting my youth. Fast forward, I started becoming depressed, mainly due to my mom always telling me horrid things such as how I was never going to amount to anything and how I was the reason her marriage was unstable etc etc.
Fast forward again, my trusty friend of 17 years or more decided to get me out of the mess I seemed to be stuck in. With no transportation my job hunts where always online, but most of them always ended up being some third party that suckered me into giving out info to spam me with their crap. My friend got me connected with a agency that found jobs for the people that singed up for them, simple enough. So it began, they assigned me to some company that makes condensers for radiators. Now, you take a person whose use to being on a computer, pasty, sunless, and place them in a factory with people, lord forgive...that are not as "normal" to you.
Let me recollect what I'm trying to say. The job is brain dead that the agency gave me. I was sent to it so fast, and wondered why there where so many positions open. All I do, for 12 hours, is place a condenser in a machine...the machine itself is pretty crap. The "Helium Leak Chamber" is old and well due for maintenance , it constantly gives me errors so much that I learned how to fix it on a semi level a engineer does, just without actually operating the insides of it. All of my co-workers think I'm odd, but have grown to love me in a sense that I'm...different. Most of the employees are people with little ambition, not ALL of them mind you, but one guy's breath smells like he does pot all the time, and he constantly brags about his days in school in which he skipped classes (highschool). Another lady always says "the white man" and is very...racist. We all get along, but it's depressing knowing I made my fate as it is with this job. But you know what? I endured, I told myself to STFU and stop being a princess, and just endure...
And now, I have seen the results of just doing the job, and looking for better, currently I have been given a position as a correctional officer, I did this while working this brain dead job of 9.00 an hour. I'm much stronger now, and 12 hour shifts are normal to me now. I've mixed my gaming with work, and now can buy things or games with the money, but also work off my student loan. I also have been good at saving money and all around a more "go getter" type of person. I'll be making 4.50 more once I get the position, just doing lots of tests and passing. I can make a top out of 20.50, but also can apply for the sergeant or other ranks. It's going well, and I turned from lazy gamer, to a decent person without sacrificing my true self, someone who likes to live.
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Have you ever worked a job that makes you insane with boredom or depression? Did the people around you seem the same or "stuck?" and did you escape it?
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not yet..
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wish i even had a job. i used to have a facotry job like yours. 12 hours of standing there wishing you where somewhere else. But you gotta stick with it. at least now you're gettin somewhere in life. take it a stepping stone at a time. Good luck
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what
I don't know I get pretty bored sometimes but I honestly do alot of interesting shit sometimes but then sometimes I do routine boring shit too. Like this morning we had to move a 600+ lbs rack full of mooring line across the deck with just a pallet jack and some 2x4s and it was pretty tough but I really like shit like that because it makes you think and try to figure out how to make something work with only what you've got on hand.
I don't think there is anything too soul numbing about my job the only thing that really bothers me is not being able to promote myself as fast as I'd like right now because I need seatime so I'm not really going anywhere right now. And spending most of my time away from home on a ship that goes nowhere.
gotta sacrafice to make the money though so I try not to think or complain about it too much.
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there can be no job that is more soul numbing than jobhunting
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every job i've ever worked has been soul numbing. welcome to the real world!
also for $9/hr i would do that job anyday man. i've worked far worse for far less money.
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walmart was the absolute worst though in terms of BOREDOM. i'd essentially have to pretend to be busy for ~9 hours a day because as the sole HARDWARE MAN i had to stay in my section of the store incase anyone needed paint made.
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yeah man my boy worked in home depot as the paint guy, made paint and sales suggestions and yeah he hes told me some stories from there.
I was a temp at an office for a summer and I litterally had to stamp envelopes all day because they didn't have anything for me to do. I also filed cases and stuff like that. Time killing strategies included playing pokemon, reading batman comics, and pixeling on the non internet having computers.
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Please reserve exclamatory titles for when they are appropriate.
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Another lady always says "the white man"
:cool:
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that's good to hear.
i am doing my civil service as an archives secretary at our city's academic hospital. a big part of my job description is dismantling x-ray reels. i do this alone at the basement level of our hospital.
it's uh very absurd life. you take the reel from the cardboard. you lift up your arm up to a ~90 degree angle. then you pull from the film with your left hand while holding from the coil with your right hand and you...wait as the reel dismantles itself. sometimes you have to pull again from the film due to the glue that keep's the reel together. and you wait. you do this until the containers are filled with films (takes about 1d to 1½d) and after that you order new containers that arrive within few days. sometimes i do this again at friday if they arrive early.
i throw the cardboards into containers in different ways and from different distances. most of the time i do it in the boomerang fashion from a medium distance. the floor is filled with cardboards at times, it's messy.
occasionally i jump into the container/platform to stomp furiously on the sea of films (like how all those women in wineyards stomp the grapes, you know THE MENTAL IMAGE). lot of times i sing at the same time convivially & loudly songs like nirvana's "floyd the barber" or iggy pop's "i'm bored". or try to imitate morrisey. sometimes i just dismantle the reels while standing on the sea of films, watching as the reel dismantles graciously against my groin. flap flap flap heh.
one day one of the middle-aged secretaries' found me reciting seperate iggy pop - lines. i was trying to create a NWN/BG1 & 2 soundsets in my mind so i shouted things like "i'm only five-foot one", "i got a pain in my neck!" "i'm bored" "i'm wanking my log, i'm living like a dog". i made a loud YELP and jumped when she sudendly comes around the corner and i felt really embarrassed. i thought i was alone! i wonder what she thought about me.
fortunately i like doing this as i can be alone and i can do it at my own steady pace without the pressure of performance. more importantly, i can think a lot while i do this. my normal work allows this too. usually if i'm really tired when i come from the work it's either because of sleep deprivation or low bloodsugar or that i have been thinking contantly/hard that day.
i do think big stuff (a whole lot actually!) but most of the time it's dumb or silly stuff. for example, the connection between adam lambert's album's cover and jojo's bizarre adventure - artwork and esthetics, finally a connection between japanese and america? fashion and metrosexuality. thinking about a concept of legend of zelda 2 aka glassy stoner. note: your children's first playing machine will be pentium II, windows 95 with soundblaster 16. note ahhhaha, i wonder how the rpg's got their eg. dog soundfiles? ahhhaha valve-software sound dep., beating dogs at the backroom UGH dying sounds? hideo kojima, goes to a battlefield for authentic material for his newest game...also combined gorilla dead growls to chainsaw *_*' combined Iggy Pop's death howl to- NO!!! NO!!!! NO!!!!!!!! i'm wanking my log, i'm living like a dog... i'm bort.pump me up... pump me up!! pump!!!! pump!!!! raaagh!!!!! i'm pumped ull of healthy guaranas, ginseng, b-vitamins and taurine!! AAAA a gull that sounded like chiptune/squarewave!?!? [that ][/that] ahhhaha why do i think JIM CROCE when i think of bizarre chiptunes. i occasionally write down ideas and thoughts like these down, i have a notebook for that.
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i'm pumped ull of healthy guaranas, ginseng, b-vitamins and taurine!!
I hope not. stay away from that stuff
besides vitamins but you can get those in food
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No I like my job. Get paid 9 bucks an hour to make food for people, have dance parties, sit around and eat...I do have to do all the boring shit like mopping and doing dishes but idc.
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there can be no job that is more soul numbing than jobhunting
qft.
ps i hate job hunting. there are no jobs. anywhere.
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Just quit a roofing job today. My back is destroyed and so is my skin. I really thought I could get used to it but 12 hours on a roof in the heat is really not for me :( . All the guys I worked with were in shape, still chain smoking like crazy and yet were able to excessively remove/insert new shingles, and not to mention survive the heat too. I have so many cuts on my arms and hands despite wearing gloves. I've destroyed 2 pairs of pants and my socks had to be thrown in the trash since they were beyond redemption. If you are a roofer you are a very hard working individual and should be given an award equal to an emmy (or whatever the great awards are i dunno)
I wouldnt say it was a soul numbing job, but more of a soul excreting job. It really took the life out of me!! argh I'm just disappointed that I wasn't able to work there too long. the pay was amazing and for a good reason too. I just....wasn't part of that good reason.
Next stop, Grocery store!
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qft.
ps i hate job hunting. there are no jobs. anywhere.
hi please explain this to someone who matters (pops)
it wouldn't bother me much but his answer is BELIEVE IN YOURSELF or something like that and it's like yeah I do believe in myself there's just no jobs
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I haven't had any crappy jobs, but a lot of crappy interns. Working in a supermarket. You might think this isn't too bad, but when you're working with assholes all day long who have a crappy temper, and you only get crappy jobs, it gets annoying fast. Also working in a greenhouse. Jesus, forget the heat, the stench alone is enough to drive you nuts. A job at a DTP company where I had to fold paper all day long.
Yeah my main problem with these above jobs and alot of others is that the days are too long and the work is too boring / crappy. That's why I quit with that shit and became a paperboy instead. I gotta get out of my bed damn early, but at least it only takes an hour a day and I can listen to music. It's not too bad when it doesn't rain / snow / hail.
But yeah in the end all jobs have crappy things in them and this world blows. But working in a factory... No way in hell I could do that. I hate routines, doing exactly the same things day in day out, day in day out would be hell for me. So no, no thanks.
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hi please explain this to someone who matters (pops)
it wouldn't bother me much but his answer is BELIEVE IN YOURSELF or something like that and it's like yeah I do believe in myself there's just no jobs
yeah. my parents are like this too.
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Working in a supermarket. You might think this isn't too bad, but when you're working with assholes all day long who have a crappy temper, and you only get crappy jobs, it gets annoying fast. Also working in a greenhouse.
This is thankfully the only terrible job I had. It's exactly how you describe it. And in the end your contract doesn't get extended, not because of your performance but because it's obvious you have no interest in the other people working there.
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there can be no job that is more soul numbing than jobhunting
Very true. It's just as bad as a terrible job and it's compounded with the extra joy of being broke. I recently finished up a contract and not working/having money is really starting to get to me, I'm at the stage where I'm gonna go back to getting a fast food job instead of working at another great opportunity like the one I got late last year. After I finish uni it'll hopefully be a bit easier, but talking to some of my mates who have Masters and aren't having much luck isn't helping that too much.
But yeah, I hear factory work is terrible. Have you thought of construction? You don't necessarily have to be big, the strength will come in time. But really things like bricklaying/landscaping are better than factory work in terms of interest and they make you pretty physically fit. I did both for a couple of weeks and enjoyed them quite a bit, there's a nice sense of camaraderie on a construction site.
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My dad got me a job at his company when I was a school. It was a boring data entry job but I stayed there for 2 years because the hours were flexible and the little extra money was nice. All I did was take hand-written invoices and typed them into an inventory application. At first they did not have such an application so I built one myself using Access, but as they opened more branches and I had to manage more data they purchased an off-the-shelf system. Every day I would get hundreds of invoices and most of them were written in a hurry and you have to figure out what they say. It is very easy to make mistakes like entering 100 instead of 10 for some quantity.
This kind of job could easily be automated by having the invoices entered to the system at the sale points when the purchase is made. It was a small office with 3 people and since there was no place for me my desk was in some medicine storage room which had to be kept cold. Sitting alone from 6 to 2 in a refrigerator was terrible. On the other hand, you don't have that much choice when you are starting out. Having worked 3 jobs after that, it seems that you (or at least I) can never be content, with few exceptions jobs are not meant to be fun. There are better environments and there are careers you care about, but you'll always have annoying coworkers, a stupid boss, bad customers, small desk or some other annoyance that will be exaggerated because you have to deal with it on daily basis.
So what you do is get the most out of what you're doing now, and look for better opportunities. In the worst case, a job would teach you some basic people skills that are useful in life. It might also gives you some perspective on things. Even if you don't get anything from your job, it's not worth getting depressed about something temporary. As cheesy as it might sound, being positive about things is better for you in the long run.
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Speaking of making the most of what you've got and being positive. Even if you're stuck in a mind numbing job, there are probably other interesting jobs in the same place you work, and if you talk to people you might learn about them. For example, when I worked in data entry I used to talk to several accountants who worked in an office next door, and I learned a lot about what they do (mostly out of boredom, and sometimes because I had to prepare reports for my boss). I got a developer job later, and since we were developing financial applications that knowledge was useful after all.
he connection between adam lambert's album's cover and jojo's bizarre adventure - artwork and esthetics, finally a connection between japanese and america? fashion and metrosexuality. thinking about a concept of legend of zelda 2 aka glassy stoner. note: your children's first playing machine will be pentium II, windows 95 with soundblaster 16. note ahhhaha, i wonder how the rpg's got their eg. dog soundfiles? ahhhaha valve-software sound dep., beating dogs at the backroom UGH dying sounds? hideo kojima, goes to a battlefield for authentic material for his newest game...also combined gorilla dead growls to chainsaw *_*' combined Iggy Pop's death howl to- NO!!! NO!!!! NO!!!!!!!! i'm wanking my log, i'm living like a dog... i'm bort.pump me up... pump me up!! pump!!!! pump!!!! raaagh!!!!! i'm pumped ull of healthy guaranas, ginseng, b-vitamins and taurine!! AAAA a gull that sounded like chiptune/squarewave!?!? [that johnny marr joke i made for dicko] ahhhaha why do i think JIM CROCE when i think of bizarre chiptunes. i occasionally write down ideas and thoughts like these down, i have a notebook for that.
Haha, I love you Ramci. I originally skipped your post because your posts tend to be hard to follow, then I thought it's not fair and that particular post started normal. I guess I was right after all.
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ps i hate job hunting. there are no jobs. anywhere.
maybe we should work for each other since that's the only way we're gonna find work at all
yeah. my parents are like this too.
and mine. well not my dad so much cos he's baaaaddad
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every waking hour is spent trying to and succeeding at sucking my own dick and then cumming on the floor next to my head
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I've had one truly boring job, and that was working as an Attendant at a horrible local amusement park. Minimum wage, standing all the time, operating a ride (basically turning a switch on) for hours on end. The only upside was the tan you'd get working outside all summer. But anyway, now that I'm graduating this coming week, I'm finally getting a real job in my career. To go from making $12/hr to $40 is going to be awesome, but I'm probably going to save most of my money instead of splurging on things.
But anyway, I think the lesson to be learned from these soul numbing jobs is that they're a necessary evil on your way up to a better job. If anything they should motivate you to do well in school, university, college, etc, because you need to get out from them. I don't think there's anything worse than having to endure working in a terrible job that you despise for the rest of your life. I fully agree with what RPG wrote. Well said.
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I actually thought working in a theme park would be really fun
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I actually thought working in a theme park would be really fun
So did I but I was vastly disappointed. It was fun for maybe the first day, then you realize that your job consists of watching people have fun while you stand there being bored.
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why would you do manual labor for any less then $10/hr? advancement opportunities or something?
food service is where it is at for low paying jobs imo. i make 12/hr doing banquets which is basically 3-4 hours of settup (tables, place settings, etc.) 1-2 hours of hectic food serving, followed by another hour or so of chillllling out and free food followed by about 45 minutes of tear down after the people finally leave.
i also serve when the place is just a restaurant which can often yield even more money then a banquet.
it is also a massive concert venue where i get into all the shows i work for free.
sorry my job is not soul numbing at all :( but seriously fooood service unless you are looking for some sort of career
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aghh sadly i work for american apparel again for my summer job until school starts. i've switched to the stock room which has improved my life there by 200% in that i don't have to deal with privileged private school White Girls and listen to viva radio all day. It's soul numbing on some days when we get a lot of boxes and have to spend most of the day folding hundreds of clothes.
Other than that it's a pretty sweet job. I work with a few other chill guys and my location works great because there is a very convenient roof top in a back alley that no one goes to (not to mention the police never cruises around the area) so we usually smoke weed or drink beer on our very extended breaks (with our stock manager that's down for it). We also get to listen to our own music 8 hours/day which owns.
and the company is gross and terribly run in ways that are more evident as every day passes.
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I actually thought working in a theme park would be really fun
Really? I would think that it's pretty obvious that standing out in the hot son WORKING wouldn't be very fun. Did you think you get to hang out and go on rides all day?
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hot son
*_*
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ahahahahaha gwhoops
you know what fuck it i'm leaving it that way
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why would you do manual labor for any less then $10/hr? advancement opportunities or something?
food service is where it is at for low paying jobs imo. i make 12/hr doing banquets which is basically 3-4 hours of settup (tables, place settings, etc.) 1-2 hours of hectic food serving, followed by another hour or so of chillllling out and free food followed by about 45 minutes of tear down after the people finally leave.
i also serve when the place is just a restaurant which can often yield even more money then a banquet.
it is also a massive concert venue where i get into all the shows i work for free.
sorry my job is not soul numbing at all :( but seriously fooood service unless you are looking for some sort of career
This is very true. Catering/party etc companies make you great money. In Australia it's generally a really solid flat rate with drunk tips (in america I imagine a lot of it is drunk tips in restaurant work).
Petrol stations also pay heaps comparatively to other casual work and you don't have as much chance of getting shot anymore.
Funnily enough fast food work is not that bad, fuck the haters. Shit is so easy and you meet lots of cool people. The pay is terrible but if there's a place nearby it's infinitely better than low-paying factory work or no job.
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god i have a terrible job where my peers are all at least ten years older than me and at least 20 iq points lower and i do everything i can to isolate myself so that i don't have to be condescended by these people in their 30 years of wisdom/job experience
its funny its not comforting AT ALL to hear that some of you are in similar situations
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god i have a terrible job where my peers are all at least ten years older than me and at least 20 iq points lower and i do everything i can to isolate myself so that i don't have to be condescended by these people in their 30 years of wisdom/job experience
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ahahahahha
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man i sure opened myself up for that one!
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boringest job
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