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10-29-2006, 05:44 PM #1
Lookin' for tailwinds
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To train a dog, you must be more interesting than dirt.
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10-29-2006, 09:00 PM #2
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Oh, jobs. I have a black hole of one every summer season. Absolutely horrid working conditions (HOT, polyester, cleaning human excrement out of campground showers without proper equipment, questionable management)--but it pays (government), it has steady hours. That's why I keep going back.
I live in a tourist town. The work is seasonal. Fine for me, as a student.
I used to work as a restaurant hostess. Couldn't take the summer tourists. I switched the kitchen for a few seasons--four years I worked for the same people doing the job of at least three people and never got a raise above student minimum ($6.40CDN). I was working 80+ hours a week at age fourteen--labour board? What's that? We didn't get breaks, even after 10-12 hours straight. Kitchen management was awful, so I left.
Worked nights for two years in my current position--SAD really got to me in the winter, so I took days last summer. Which is worse: trying to stay conscious cleaning up vomit in the wee hours (11pm-7:30am), or trying not to pass out from heat exhaustion (12pm-8:30pm) pushing your way past tens of tourists to remove the poo pile someone left in the shower? The question is rhetorical, at best. It's the pay I can't turn down. NO ONE wants to do the job I do. The pay reflects that. But even then... some messes I come across are a real struggle to justify going near no matter WHAT they pay me.
But hey, nothing could be worse than cleaning maliciously placed feces on a daily basis, so I will appreciate every other non-fecal job I have just on that basis, right?
Remember: no matter how bad your job is, at least you don't have to scrape poo off the floor. Doesn't that make you feel better?
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10-30-2006, 04:39 AM #3
Homegrown
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Found this article this morning, and thought it might be useful: http://bostonworks.boston.com/news/a...you_find_work/
Good luck!
SheFly
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10-30-2006, 05:41 AM #4
bride to be 10/19/08
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some interesting suggestions - thanks!
Originally Posted by SheFly
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
John Lennon, "Beautiful Boy"
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