A New Start

Lt_PatchLt_Patch Join Date: 2005-02-07 Member: 40286Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Patch gots a job :D</div>Ok, so i'd been working at a holiday camp, as a waiter (effectively the head waiter by the close of the season). So, after 5 months of an understaffed restaurant, I figured I was due a holiday.
By the time I'd got back, my mum (bless her) had already found, and accepted a job on my behalf.

Now, not knowing what kind of job it was, i turned up as you would to any office, smart, but not too smart...

Anyhoo, I got a new job as a "Business Assisstant" at a little firm called Kværner. Very little thought, let alone skill needed. And all for (and this will make some folk sick)... £9.55/hr....

To collate, and photocopy...

Anyhoo. Go me, and go Cherrie (my mum)!!!

(btw, posting this on my XDA. painful enough, but laying in bed, and tapping the screen ftl... )
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  • DepotDepot The ModFather Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7956Members
    Having no desire to convert your weird currency I will assume £9.55/hr is minimum wage. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />
  • ChronoChrono Local flyboy Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18989Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1585971:date=Dec 8 2006, 05:44 PM:name=Depot)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Depot @ Dec 8 2006, 05:44 PM) [snapback]1585971[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Having no desire to convert your weird currency I will assume £9.55/hr is minimum wage. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />
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    i thought £ were close to double what $ are right now so that would be like $18 a hour? if so that is DAMN good
  • eedioteediot Join Date: 2003-02-24 Member: 13903Members
    edited December 2006
    <a href="http://www.xe.com/ucc/" target="_blank">http://www.xe.com/ucc/</a>

    Edit: Ignore previous edit. I thought it was euro, not pounds. Yeah, that's good money.
  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1585972:date=Dec 9 2006, 01:46 AM:name=Chrono)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Chrono @ Dec 9 2006, 01:46 AM) [snapback]1585972[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    i thought £ were close to double what $ are right now so that would be like $18 a hour? if so that is DAMN good
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    18+ Min wage = 4.35
    21+ Min Wage = 5.05

    9.55 is very good <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />
  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1585971:date=Dec 8 2006, 05:44 PM:name=Depot)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Depot @ Dec 8 2006, 05:44 PM) [snapback]1585971[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Having no desire to convert your weird currency I will assume £9.55/hr is minimum wage. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />
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    That's almost 19 bucks an hour <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
  • DepotDepot The ModFather Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7956Members
    I cannot conceive my mother finding and accepting a job for me. I would hide behind a <img src="http://www.nsmod.org/forums/style_emoticons/default/bag.gif" border="0" alt="IPB Image" /> if she did.

    <!--sizeo:1--><span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->I guess they do things differently accross the pond.... ... .. .<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec-->
  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1585997:date=Dec 8 2006, 06:37 PM:name=Depot)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Depot @ Dec 8 2006, 06:37 PM) [snapback]1585997[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    I cannot conceive my mother finding and accepting a job for me. I would hide behind a <img src="http://www.nsmod.org/forums/style_emoticons/default/bag.gif" border="0" alt="IPB Image" /> if she did.

    <!--sizeo:1--><span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->I guess they do things differently accross the pond.... ... .. .<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec-->
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    I think it's different when you're younger than 50.
  • DepotDepot The ModFather Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7956Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1586003:date=Dec 8 2006, 09:50 PM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ Dec 8 2006, 09:50 PM) [snapback]1586003[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    I think it's different when you're younger than 50.
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    Maybe when <b>YOU'RE</b> younger than 50, LOL <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />


    If I was old enough to work I'd find my own darn job.... ... .. .
  • TheDestroyerTheDestroyer Tooobah Join Date: 2003-07-12 Member: 18123Members, Constellation
    Congrats.

    Shoot, if my mom found me a job where little skill was involved, and a nice per hour wage was included, I wouldn't be embarrassed. I would, infact be very grateful, instead of having to get jobs like McD's cashier, Wallymart Clerk, Home Depot checkout person, or any other retail job at my age.

    Just curious, is <a href="http://www.kvaerner.com/" target="_blank">this</a> the place?
  • DepotDepot The ModFather Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7956Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1586073:date=Dec 9 2006, 12:16 AM:name=TheDestroyer)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TheDestroyer @ Dec 9 2006, 12:16 AM) [snapback]1586073[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Congrats.

    Shoot, if my mom found me a job where little skill was involved, and a nice per hour wage was included, I wouldn't be embarrassed. I would, infact be very grateful, instead of having to get jobs like McD's cashier, Wallymart Clerk, Home Depot checkout person, or any other retail job at my age.

    Just curious, is <a href="http://www.kvaerner.com/" target="_blank">this</a> the place?
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    Actually, a Home Depot checkout person can be quite a lucritive position, young man. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink-fix.gif" /> Not to mention the killer perks you'd get. <img src="http://www.nsmod.org/forums/style_emoticons/default/taz.gif" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
  • SLizerSLizer Join Date: 2003-11-07 Member: 22363Members, Constellation
    LOL! gz pathylovy <3 Im off to army soon :>
  • DepotDepot The ModFather Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7956Members
    Good deal Slizer. It ought to be mandatory for all high school grads to do a two year hitch, but that's another topic. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink-fix.gif" />
  • MamboKingMamboKing Join Date: 2004-03-06 Member: 27169Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1586009:date=Dec 8 2006, 09:58 PM:name=Depot)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Depot @ Dec 8 2006, 09:58 PM) [snapback]1586009[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Maybe when <b>YOU'RE</b> younger than 50, LOL <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
    If I was old enough to work I'd find my own darn job.... ... .. .
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    Yeah but if your mom gets the job for you they have no idea what a horrible person you are. ^.^
  • DepotDepot The ModFather Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7956Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1586191:date=Dec 9 2006, 08:02 AM:name=MamboKing)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(MamboKing @ Dec 9 2006, 08:02 AM) [snapback]1586191[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Yeah but if your mom gets the job for you they have no idea what a horrible person you are. ^.^
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    You're right, of course. I believe I saw a Seinfeld episode where George's mom got him a job, and we ALL know what a horrible person he was, HA!
  • GeminosityGeminosity :3 Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20667Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1586187:date=Dec 9 2006, 12:56 PM:name=Depot)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Depot @ Dec 9 2006, 12:56 PM) [snapback]1586187[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Good deal Slizer. It ought to be mandatory for all high school grads to do a two year hitch, but that's another topic. ;)
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    If you think they could've got me anywhere near an army camp when I left high school then you're very, <b>very</b> mistaken :p
  • Lt_PatchLt_Patch Join Date: 2005-02-07 Member: 40286Members
    Depot, my mum has this insistency of fixing other people's problems (even though the lack of a job, at that point, wasn't a problem, because I was on holiday).

    Destroyer, yeah, that'd be the place. I'm working for Kværner, under contract to a DCC center in Yarmouth. Not bad at all, and it's fantastic when the photocopier dies after deciding to pull an A3, and 2 A4 sheets through the fuser unit at the same time, and you just sit, and wait for the repair guy to come fix it.

    Which takes around 90 minutes vefore I can use it again...

    Which I'm still getting paid for...

    Huge companies can be great sometimes <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />

    Oh, and its not being embarrassed, as Destroyer put it. Every other job is crap, and is minimum wage, or thereabouts. Personally, when it comes to money, I'm the kind of guy that grabs it with both hands if it's offered to me.
  • BlackMageBlackMage [citation needed] Join Date: 2003-06-18 Member: 17474Members, Constellation
    that reminds me, i need to get a job before the food fund runs dry

    mittens cost money and that makes me sad
  • SLizerSLizer Join Date: 2003-11-07 Member: 22363Members, Constellation
    ahh, so lovely to see you around too deppy and Ive been in sparse contacs with patchy! get that nsradio up you oldgoof!

    +1!
  • Lt_PatchLt_Patch Join Date: 2005-02-07 Member: 40286Members
    edited December 2006
    Everyone's been out of contact with me, except my darling Femmeh, seeing as I've been at hers for 2 weeks, on holiday <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />

    Add working 0900-1630, getting home at about 1700 (rush hour ftl, even with a motorbike) and my s**tty connection dying repeadly from about 1800 until 2300 (Tiscali ftl), at which point, I'm usually playing Guild Wars or Freelancer until about 0200, at which point I'm snoozing, and dreaming of intergalactic gameshows (I s**t you not, that was what I dreamed about last night <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" /> ).

    So pretty much anyone who doesn't live within distance of me has about an hour to chat to me, before my connection repeatedly drops my MSN connection, and generally craps out.

    But, hopefully I can "persuade" my mum to change ISP, probably through some kind of router rule magic ^^. At which point, i'll be online a lot more, hopefully.

    Still no IRC though. 6 years and getting more s**t than laughs put me off for life.
  • DepotDepot The ModFather Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7956Members
    Nowadays it seems people entering the job market are interested more in making an easy buck, than starting a career.

    By the time you're 21 I'd think you'd have a fairly decent idea of what you want to be when you grow up... meh.

    I know few in that age bracket (or younger) who haven't held down several jobs. I just don't get it. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />
  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1586404:date=Dec 9 2006, 03:49 PM:name=Depot)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Depot @ Dec 9 2006, 03:49 PM) [snapback]1586404[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Nowadays it seems people entering the job market are interested more in making an easy buck, than starting a career.

    By the time you're 21 I'd think you'd have a fairly decent idea of what you want to be when you grow up... meh.

    I know few in that age bracket (or younger) who haven't held down several jobs. I just don't get it. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />
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    The media has been scaring people, saying all their jobs are going to be outsourced and Social Security is going to go bankrupt and evil accountants and CEOs are going to take all the money and abandon the company as it fails and they'll encourage people to put all their retirement money into Enron stock right as it's about to tank and stuff like that. I thought with that sort of thinking rampant it would be blindingly obvious why people are looking to make a quick buck rather than work at Giant Company X long enough to get really old but not long enough to survive being replaced by someone in Bangalore while their retirement stock becomes worthless.
  • Lt_PatchLt_Patch Join Date: 2005-02-07 Member: 40286Members
    I know quite a lot of people who have been just the same Depot, changing job every few months.

    I, however, am not one of them.

    My CV since leaving college reads but 3 jobs, one of which is the one i'm in now. I left college 4 and a half years ago (amazing to think i'm only 22 as well...).

    The first was as a PC engineer, which was my ambition...
    I left that, because of there being NO career prospect, I was working at a small PC shop, so there were no prospects. A dead end job in a still growing industry...

    Next, I became a waiter, because I was bored of being unemployed, waiting for anywhere to want a PC engineer.

    This new job at Kværner is basically the same. Except this has the prospect of a contract offer to move to Perenco and work in data control. If that happens, then i'll still be happy, despite not being an engineer...

    You should remember that I'mnot like the rest of them. Maybe your memory is failing, Depot...
  • DepotDepot The ModFather Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7956Members
    Kids today have no work ethic, and that's sad. We hired 300 casuals for the Christmas season and maybe 10 or 12 give a days work for a days pay. Everyone wants a free ride...

    I love working circles around the whole lot of them - in two weeks they'll be outside lookin in and my wallet will be getting fat.

    You don't have to work for a Fortune 500 company to have a decent career, duh. You DO need to know what your calling is early on though, else you'll be meandering through life, trying this job and that job, never amounting to diddly-squat.
  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    <!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    You don't have to work for a Fortune 500 company to have a decent career, duh. You DO need to know what your calling is early on though, else you'll be meandering through life, trying this job and that job, never amounting to diddly-squat.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Figuring out your calling is the problem. There are alot of things I'm plenty good at, but none I'd want a career in. Why would I want to work in computers, really? There's not THAT many different types of high-paying careers out there.
  • DepotDepot The ModFather Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7956Members
    Local community colleges offer aptitude tests for a nominal fee. Often one will find they're linked to occupations you'd never guess you're suited for.
  • Lt_PatchLt_Patch Join Date: 2005-02-07 Member: 40286Members
    And my Kudos (that was what it was called) test said that I should be a make-up artist....

    Go figure that one.

    I used to work circles around the senior engineer there, mainly because he'd start an installation of ANYTHING off, and go take a puff on a cigar...

    I wanted to be a PC engineer, or working with them in some technical way. I knew that from pull them apart all the time when I was about 8. My old 486 was stripped down, and rebuilt so many times out of sheer boredom, it was a wonder that it still worked. And all of that from when I was 8.

    I know what my calling is, and I had been doing it for coming up to 4 years when I decided to stop, because of the pay being minimum wage (which at the time was about £4.30/hr, which is around US$8), and no prospect of that rising, unless the minimum wage changed. I even remember the woman who did the wages saying "We're not paying you more because we want to. We're paying you more because the government says we have to". I worked my ###### off for the for nearly 4 years, and I don't even get a sodding payrise? Not the kind of job that I'd call a career, kthnx.

    Even if I don't forge a new career in PC engineering, I'll still know that I did it, it was what I wanted to do, and that's more than what a hell of a lot of other people can say.

    Who knows, my darling girlfriend has nearly completed her degree in Computer Science, maybe if she gets a job at somewhere big, then I might be able to squeeze myself into there somewhere, and reforge my engineering career.

    And as for the "work ethic", there needs to be some kind of give and take mentality with most companies. Performance related incentives and the like tend to work best. Just being on a salary wage tends to force the air out of some people, and they just sit back into a trend of monotony.

    Just remember Depot, sometimes you've got to take that 2 pair, instead of going for the flush. You never know, you might end up making a better hand of it.
  • Garet_JaxGaret_Jax Join Date: 2003-02-23 Member: 13870Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1585964:date=Dec 9 2006, 01:37 AM:name=Lt_Patch)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Lt_Patch @ Dec 9 2006, 01:37 AM) [snapback]1585964[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> Ok, so i'd been working at a holiday camp, as a waiter (effectively the head waiter by the close of the season). So, after 5 months of an understaffed restaurant, I figured I was due a holiday.
    By the time I'd got back, my mum (bless her) had already found, and accepted a job on my behalf.

    Now, not knowing what kind of job it was, i turned up as you would to any office, smart, but not too smart...

    Anyhoo, I got a new job as a "Business Assisstant" at a little firm called Kværner. Very little thought, let alone skill needed. And all for (and this will make some folk sick)... £9.55/hr....

    To collate, and photocopy...

    Anyhoo. Go me, and go Cherrie (my mum)!!!

    (btw, posting this on my XDA. painful enough, but laying in bed, and tapping the screen ftl... ) <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Oh you sonofa######.

    After gaining a biomedical science degree with honours from Sheffield, I <b>just</b> managed to get a job in the NHS working as a medical lab assistant- all for a measely £12k salary (I think that works out to about £6.15/hour- it's such a small amount that I'm not actually required to pay back my student loan.) That's after 6 months of searching for a new job (during some of that time I worked in a food testing lab for even less money- working 10am-10pm days).

    Lesson learned- science doesn't pay. I might turn to crime. Or business.

    ######.
  • DepotDepot The ModFather Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7956Members
    What's important though is that you gain employment with a stable company, making a decent wage and reaping great benefits, while performing tasks you actually enjoy. Did I mention preparation for your future is of the utmost importance? Save for your retirement, invest wisely, and for Pete's sake try to look beyond the ease of what you're doing and the nice paycheck - get the BIG picture and think about later.

    Otherwise, when you're 52 you'll STILL be living in an apartment with your cat and driving a bucket of bolts, having accomplished very little and needing to work until the government can subsidize your income.

    Sad... <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wow.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":0" border="0" alt="wow.gif" />


    And Patch, ya shoulda opted for the make-up artist position dude. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
  • MoquiaoMoquiao Join Date: 2003-05-09 Member: 16168Members
    but its not that easy in some/most cases..

    take me, i am 21, i am a qualified electrical engineer, currently jobless, i despise engineering, i dont find it fun.

    however, i have a flat to maintain, and with savings rapidly depleeting, what are my options? i have to find any work, specifically engineering since it pays more, but, i dont enjoy it, but i cant afford anything else.

    i would LOVE to go and retrain, and take a gamble on another career path, but to do that i would have to find some crappy 40/50 hour a week job on minimum wage, and then come home, and study, and still i'd need to pull some overtime to afford my place, and moving out isnt an option since im signed in a 14 month tenancy agreement.

    so realistically, i have a choice of minimum wage crap. or a job i despise. i dont want to do either, but i have no choice.. i dont think work is that important in my life, its something we/ i do to make money, and HAVE my life. simple as that.. next year, i want to 'customise' my life.. i want to step things up a notch.. i have a list of new pc bits i want, new paint and furniture for my flat, to make it.. mine. i want to visit the arctic next year, i owe a friend a motorbike rally around holland. i have goals.. in my mind, the job side.. is just to achieve them..
  • DepotDepot The ModFather Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7956Members
    Sounds like you have a plan Moquiao, good luck.
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