I work at a gadgetshop in a mall. We sell everything from smartphoneshells to cables, gears towards pc/videogames (headsets, mouses, keyboards), sextoys, hoverboards, rubics cubes, squishies, slime, boardgames, kitchen utensils, radios, mp3players, RCs, quadrocopters, gopros. You name it, 99% chance is we have it. Best part is we get to play with everything (well not some certain toys ;)) on workhours so we learn how everything works so it's like being in a huuge daycare playing all day :lol:. One day I accidently crashed a 100usd quadro in a wall and my boss just laughed at me. It's a blast being there :biggrin:. If I could just not have to deal with customers, that would be great, lol.
invaderhorizongreen I spent five years in a grocerystore. I feel your pain :hug:
Nothing too out of the ordinary here. I am an OBGYN phone nurse in our OBGYN clinic. I field questions, triage, am a liaison between my assigned providers and their patients. I have heard some absolutely crazy things working here, so the job is rarely boring. Before that I was a postpartum nurse up on labor and delivery in the hospital.
Well hard question.
I usually call me an "artist" but in real, I'm struggling with myself (lost confidence and fate in a personnal problem and depression) so I've got some boring and absolutely uninterresting part jobs to gain just enough money to live.
One day I hope I could fight myself and go on a full time illustrator job.
BTW I'm not complaining :blush:
I do production work in a sheltered workshop (I had to look it up in English, I hope I got the right translation). Which basically means that I am folding boxes from 08:00 to 16:30. It's my dream job, really. >_<
I'm a Registered Nurse working full-time in a busy general medical ward in a small city hospital. We get a little bit of everything to keep things interesting ;) I do love nursing, but it is exhausting. There are days when I want to burst into tears, and other days where I go home deeply satisfied from knowing I've made a real difference. Much as I love nursing though, I feel like I'm ready to retire already. It's so physically, mentally, and emotionally demanding that I can't imagine bedside nursing on a ward for another 30 years :(
My first and longest lasting job was as a checkout operator on the registers of a major supermarket. 15 years I lasted there, and to this day I still don't know how! It wasn't exciting but thankfully the rosters were flexible and it allowed me to work part time from 14.9 years of age until I finished my postgraduate degree. Throughout that 15 year period I worked a variety of other jobs to supplement my income; 2IC of a childcare centre, histological pathology lab technician, para-professional interpreter, School Learning Support Officer in a large urban high school. I actually started out studying education with the goal of being a primary school teacher, but I got half-way into the degree before I realised there's no job security in Australian schools anymore. I'm glad I switched degrees in the end, I'd so thankful that nurses tend not to have to take home lots of paperwork (but we fill in plenty on the job :P )
Aw ColdRuru I hope you find yourself in a happier place soon. Being an artist full time and making enough money is sooo hard - all my artist friends have part time jobs doing other stuff to supplement their income too. We have two Art technicians at my work who are fantastic and very successful artists but they still work in my school part of the week so they have a steady wage. That’s part of the reason why I went into teaching. Have you ever thought about doing painting workshops for adults/children or teaching?
Aw ColdRuru I hope you find yourself in a happier place soon. Being an artist full time and making enough money is sooo hard - all my artist friends have part time jobs doing other stuff to supplement their income too. We have two Art technicians at my work who are fantastic and very successful artists but they still work in my school part of the week so they have a steady wage. That’s part of the reason why I went into teaching. Have you ever thought about doing painting workshops for adults/children or teaching?
Well here we need a special graduate to teach here and I was not thinking of it when I left my studies, so I don't have it. Also, I would be lucky to found somethin' like that. My father used to teach art, but it was another world when he got the job.
It's so HARD to got a job today, so an interresting one... well... :blush:
How come teaching jobs in Aus aren’t secure? Surely everyone needs teachers?
QuoteHow come teaching jobs in Aus aren’t secure? Surely everyone needs teachers?
When I was growing up, school teachers worked largely in permanent positions. They tended to keep those jobs until they either retired or expired. So it was great for those teachers on a permanent full-time contract, they had incredible job security.
However, these days the vast majority of teachers are forced into casual roles (at least in my state, honestly am less certain about the rest of the country). If they are lucky they can pick up "blocks" of work which may last a few weeks at a time, or hit the jackpot and take over a position replacing a teacher on maternity/paternity leave. For every other teacher, they're often stuck in a cycle of picking up a few stray casual days at different schools, and the whole time they're still job hunting for the rest of the week trying to secure work anywhere they can. They have practically no job security, and have enormous amounts of stress trying to get enough casual shifts to make ends meet, and that's without taking into consideration the amount of stress which comes from teaching in the first place.
Some teachers are so talented and passionate educators, but it is heartbreaking that they're left struggling to survive and overwhelmed with stress. There is a really high burnout rate in recently graduated teachers, many leave after the first 2 years because it is just unsustainable. Very few of the people I met through my teaching degree are still working as teachers now, they've had to reboot their career goals. It's really sad.
QuoteHow come teaching jobs in Aus aren’t secure? Surely everyone needs teachers?
When I was growing up, school teachers worked largely in permanent positions. They tended to keep those jobs until they either retired or expired. So it was great for those teachers on a permanent full-time contract, they had incredible job security.
However, these days the vast majority of teachers are forced into casual roles (at least in my state, honestly am less certain about the rest of the country). If they are lucky they can pick up "blocks" of work which may last a few weeks at a time, or hit the jackpot and take over a position replacing a teacher on maternity/paternity leave. For every other teacher, they're often stuck in a cycle of picking up a few stray casual days at different schools, and the whole time they're still job hunting for the rest of the week trying to secure work anywhere they can. They have practically no job security, and have enormous amounts of stress trying to get enough casual shifts to make ends meet, and that's without taking into consideration the amount of stress which comes from teaching in the first place.
Some teachers are so talented and passionate educators, but it is heartbreaking that they're left struggling to survive and overwhelmed with stress. There is a really high burnout rate in recently graduated teachers, many leave after the first 2 years because it is just unsustainable. Very few of the people I met through my teaching degree are still working as teachers now, they've had to reboot their career goals. It's really sad.
I think we call that a warehouse in English!! But good translation, I got what you meant :lol:
What would be your dream job if you had to give up folding boxes?
I'm a housekeeper... sorry Environmental Worker-gag me- at a Nursing Home/Rehabilitation Center. I
really thankless job but its one of the bestI'm a housekeeper... sorry Environmental Worker-gag me- at a Nursing Home/Rehabilitation Center.paying jobs in this dumb town with benefits.
really thankless job but its one of the best paying jobs in this dumb town with benefits.
really bad side of it is I have no life so i literally go home, go work go home go work and it just... drags.
if I can find the energy and care I tend to draw but no one likes my work enough to buy it so I have given up on commissions
really bad side of it is I have no life so i literally go home, go work go home go work and it just... drags.
if I can find the energy and care I tend to draw but no one likes my work enough to buy it so I have given up on commissions
really bad side of it is I have no life so i literally go home, go work go home go work and it just... drags.
The really bad side of it is I have no life so i literally go home, go work go home go work and it just... drags.
I've been a graphic designer for 5 years and counting now. Some days I absolutely love it, other days I want to pull my hair out, but that's more to do with my work environment than the job itself, haha. Let's just say there are some administrative issues. I'll never leave though - in the area I live, it pays so well compared to other jobs, and my husband also works at the same company, so we can share one car :)
Before that I was a proofreader for 5 years at the same company, same department. Also a decent gig if a bit boring at times.
Before that I worked as an assistant to a K-12 school art teacher for a year. It was a lot of fun with the smaller children but I didn't like the Junior High or High School kids at all. (I was only 22 at the time, right out of college, and I'm painfully shy so dealing with / trying to help discipline kids who were almost as old as me was NOT fun.)
And before that I worked for about 6 years part-time in a grocery store through high school and college (bagger->cashier->courtesy desk assistant->night manager LOL). At the same time I also worked as a periodicals assistant and re-shelver in the college library for the four years I was there.
oh i know the feeling of not really having nice clothes, my 'nice' clothes are my work scrubs XD Nurses do soooo much too. there are a couple in my work place that I am all 'why bother hiring these guys if they don't wanna work' but we have some really good ones workingQuoteThe really bad side of it is I have no life so i literally go home, go work go home go work and it just... drags.
Can so relate. When I'm not at home I'm at work, and when I'm not at work I'm at home. I love nursing most of the time, but I'm so beyond exhausted by the end of a shift that I rarely go out. By the end of a 5-6 day run I'm comatose. Have started to question why I even have regular day clothes - I only ever wear scrubs or pyjamas! :P
I work customer service at a call center for insurance. It's kind of a drag, but it pays really well for an entry level job and the company offers insanely good benefits, so I'm ultimately pretty happy with where I'm at. Turns out I'm much better at customer service on the phone than I am in person, it must be because no one can see how tired or irritated I really am :P