Summer Jobs (opposite of summer vacations)

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Wil

#41 June 30, 2008, 12:14:15 am

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Quote from: Blitzen on June 29, 2008, 04:09:19 am

I know I was making a pun about rpg maker

OH, I didn't know you had a sense of humor!

sorrow is the key that gets our tears out of eye jail.

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PTizzle

#42 July 03, 2008, 01:01:39 am

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Quote from: Wil on June 25, 2008, 09:10:48 pm

Lol no, it's MISO. This kind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miso
It's the boiling soy paste, mixed with tofu squares, seaweed, and chives. It's also pretty disgusting.

Dude, good miso is the bomb! Cheap, tasty, fairly healthy. It's a really good snack. I do hate tofu and bean paste and stuff usually but for some reason I really like miso.

At the moment I'm studying off-campus, basically getting a qualification and building a folio to have a good chance at getting into the course I wanna do (which is fairly small and they don't take many people per year). I basically took 3 years off after school and now I want to go so hopefully this works out better than my friends who seem to not be able to stand it most of the time.

But yeah, I work three days a week as an office administrator for a mining/energy company who basically build plants that make coal burn cleaner and blah blah. It's a pretty good job, I get $17 Australian an hour (it's a decent wage but probably sounds like more than it is to people in the US) and it's fairly laid back and enjoyable. The boss can be a dick but that's about the only problem so I can't complain!

As far as summer jobs go, just pick something that'll interest you. A couple of my friends work at fish and chip shops and delis and so on, apparently it's pretty good fun for a few months. If you're changing every year then just try something you haven't done before - worst case scenario is that it'll suck and you won't do it again.

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maladroithim

#43 July 07, 2008, 10:37:35 pm

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I have a regular job but in the past couple of summers (when I don't have any classes) I pick up work in a small recording studio run by my ex-girlfriend's dad. I play keys on some songs and do arrangements and background vocals etc for $10 an hour. He pays cash and serves dinner every night so it's a pretty decent situation.

Also yes the sorts of jobs that college students pick up in the summer tend to really suck. But I guess I can't blame employers for not wanting to hire a 20 year old to work for only three months if it's a challenging, rewarding, high-paying and important position!

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Boulvae

#44 July 07, 2008, 11:19:26 pm

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Dude how do you guys look for work, theres sites with tons of job offerings for adolescents listed (I mean tons) obviously specific to a country.

I made tons flipping a sign at a consturction sight, and I earned 11.50$ Canadian for it, most of the time when I am not needed to do the sign thing I am pretty much sitting in a truck reading a book. Unfortunently it started right away after schooling hours and the weekends were few and far between.

A tool is a tool regardless. I mean if you suck, you suck, and not even the most perfect tool could save you. And if your damn good then even with the worst tool ever conceived you could chug out some high quality shit.

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maladroithim

#45 July 08, 2008, 03:27:38 pm

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Quote from: Boulvae on July 07, 2008, 11:19:26 pm

Dude how do you guys look for work, theres sites with tons of job offerings for adolescents listed (I mean tons) obviously specific to a country.

Actually I've noticed that a lot of people don't look very hard for jobs and I've also noticed a lot of employers are very poor at scouting for employees. There are jobs and there are workers available but they just don't always meet up in the middle!

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Wash Cycle

#46 July 09, 2008, 03:17:25 pm

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heh the kitchen I work in has been trying to find new employees for some time now

we find plenty of them, but they never pass the drug test/background check. nothing ever gets done about this however because I think the whole operation, the clubhouse and the golf course is about to shut down permanently at the end of the month heh

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randomuser83

#47 July 10, 2008, 01:08:46 am

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Quote from: rpg1hero on June 13, 2008, 03:18:35 am

Well, I went from a part-time $6.50/hour job at a children's secondhand store to now working full-time as a counselor at a summer day camp for 6-12 year olds where I get paid $8.50/hour to go swimming, bowling, and to the movies. I also get to peg kids with dodge balls. I'm liking my summer job...

Those types of summer jobs are typically the most fun and rewarding. Believe it or not, you can learn alot being around kids.

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Mellowchild

#48 July 22, 2008, 09:24:02 pm

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i work at mcdonalds , i clean the vats and grills and pretty much everything else (i get like 9$ an hour ) , but i know someone who had to clean chemical vats (yeah eww) and found dead birds and shit in there.

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WunderBread

#49 July 22, 2008, 09:39:13 pm

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Quote from: randomuser83 on July 10, 2008, 01:08:46 am

Those types of summer jobs are typically the most fun and rewarding. Believe it or not, you can learn alot being around kids.

The only thing you can learn from some kids that age are how much you don't want to have them. I've only got three days left at the Christian camp I'm working at now... and let me tell you, day care is the most perfect enforcer of abstinence/safe sex/contraceptives ever. I don't know how anybody could spend a week with these kids and still want children themselves. I mean, sure, a lot of the kids are sweet and adorable and all that stuff but AUGH how do their parents stand them 24/7? Or rather, how did they let them get so annoying?

Despite all that, I like my job, I guess. The kids I get are older (4th-6th grade), so they're a bit more mature and a lot less aggravating. Fun, even. It's easy to take care of them most of the time, but you know once you reach that age you think you know it all.

It's a lot more fun then I'd get working at a regular job, though I must admit that I feel really awkward around the other camp counselours for some reason, even though they're all my age.

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chanicakes

#50 July 23, 2008, 08:44:26 pm

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To be honest the best places to work are the places where you find more interest, if you love video games, work in a gaming store where more people usually share the interest and it makes it more enjoyable.

If you can education that you can use and team up with some friends you can run a day camp at the park that involves small activities and some fee's from the parents to join, like learning to play baseball (but the kids bring thier own gloves and bats), even though it does sound like a lot of work to make a day camp it can end up feeling like it wasn't any work at all.

Another thing you can do is if you work in a larger city with product testing facilities or whatever, like panel testing for films and products, or game testing join up.

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randomuser83

#51 July 23, 2008, 11:56:39 pm

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Quote from: WunderBread on July 22, 2008, 09:39:13 pm

The only thing you can learn from some kids that age are how much you don't want to have them. I've only got three days left at the Christian camp I'm working at now... and let me tell you, day care is the most perfect enforcer of abstinence/safe sex/contraceptives ever. I don't know how anybody could spend a week with these kids and still want children themselves. I mean, sure, a lot of the kids are sweet and adorable and all that stuff but AUGH how do their parents stand them 24/7? Or rather, how did they let them get so annoying?

Despite all that, I like my job, I guess. The kids I get are older (4th-6th grade), so they're a bit more mature and a lot less aggravating. Fun, even. It's easy to take care of them most of the time, but you know once you reach that age you think you know it all. It's a lot more fun then I'd get working at a regular job, though I must admit that I feel really awkward around the other camp counselours for some reason, even though they're all my age.

All I can say is kids that act like that only got that way because their parents probably never actually take care of them. By that I mean the tv is their babysitter or during vacation/summer time, they get enrolled in camps of some kind. Idk I guess I feel differently still but I do understand there is a certain age range that kids are really damn annoying. I still don't even want to imagine having my own but I still like that type of work cause kids typically havn't figured out when they should censor themselves so their opinions on things can be quite entertaining.

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