Where do you work and what do you do?

[tgpo]

I'm a Junior In School, I'm a communication major with my focus in Video Production. I currently work for the government at Savannah River Site doing video production and basically all media handling.

[The village idiot]

I'm a Junior In School, I'm a communication major with my focus in Video Production. I currently work for the government at Savannah River Site doing video production and basically all media handling.

I feel sorry for you. Television can be a really crappy career. If you are good at kissing @ss you might do OK. But I wouldn't let that Govt. job get away. If it is full time when you graduate, you could use it to step higher up the govt. ladder.

[tgpo]

It's only a CO-OP position now, and I have no plans to continue it once I graduate. I hate it too much!!

[g_shocker182]

damn, where yall getting these jobs at? i haven't been employed in a couple of years (still in school).

Low level jobs are always available, it's just that nobody wants them. Take mine for example. I only have it because I am a student, but it was relatively easy to get, though it is hard to understand the foreign people I work with.

[pyrate83]

G_shocker is right too. Spanish can come in handy at a lot of restaurant jobs now. I had to speak some spanish when I did some landscaping last summer. It was just a temp. job but they paid you for hard work. Now, I have a very cushy job with Radioshack and I get a hell of a lot more benefits than I did at any of my previous jobs. The only downside is that my income depends solely on my sales so if we are having a slow period, things aren't as good.

But thank God for the holidays.$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ LOL!

[SLICK RICK]

2 jobs back, I worked in a furniture warehouse. If you did not know how to speak either spanish or chinese, you damn near could not talk to anyone.

SLICK RICK

[pyrate83]

Even with the spanish I could understand, some of these guys would speak so fast or use Spanish slang and I couldn't comprehend what the hell was going on. I think they made fun of me....joking. :P

[g_shocker182]

Spanish can come in handy at a lot of restaurant jobs now.

I can't say it's right to say a certain "people" come in handy. And Spanish describes their language, as usually most of the low-level job immigrants America has come from Mexico, so it's better to say Mexicans, or Hispanic.

But thank God for the holidays.$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ LOL!

I'm in the eyesight of Isabelle, so tomorrow I got school off.

[pyrate83]

Ah, you're right. I should refer to them as hispanics, but Spanish is what they speak. It's just a little different for where they come from. You know, Venezuela, Mexico...totally different types of people and slightly different variations of the Spanish language. My partner that landscaped w/me was from Venezuela and spoke very good Engish...he was very cool. Oddly enough, he majored in computers and spent 5 years in college back in Venez. Interesting stuff.

As for the hurrican...enjoy your day off G_shocker!

[SLICK RICK]

I can't say it's right to say a certain "people" come in handy.

I am pretty sure pyrate83 was talking about "spanish" as a language not as a people, I know I was.

And Spanish describes their language, as usually most of the low-level job immigrants America has come from Mexico, so it's better to say Mexicans, or Hispanic.

Mexicans.......Low-level job immigrants.......... That is very untrue. My father came here from Mexico when he was 15 and now is a very successful buisness owner in Atlanta, Georgia.

SLICK RICK

[g_shocker182]

I can't say it's right to say a certain "people" come in handy.

I am pretty sure pyrate83 was talking about "spanish" as a language not as a people, I know I was.

Noted. Thank you.

[g_shocker182]

And Spanish describes their language, as usually most of the low-level job immigrants America has come from Mexico, so it's better to say Mexicans, or Hispanic.

Mexicans.......Low-level job immigrants.......... That is very untrue. My father came here from Mexico when he was 15 and now is a very successful buisness owner in Atlanta, Georgia.

SLICK RICK

To many adjectives in one post, maybe I got messed up. Meant to say about the mexican immigrants who do work in low-level jobs. Hey, there are americans that have low levels jobs, too.

[pyrate83]

I wasn't trying to talk down to anyone in that respect. As I said, Eduardo who was Venezuelan is one of the smartest and friendliest persons I have ever met. And he would always be completely offended when someone would think he was Mexican just because of the way he looked and talked. He didn't want to be associated with Mexicans if you can believe that. I learned a lot from him. 8)

[housepig]

though it is hard to understand the foreign people I work with.

the social service place where I work has a large Refugee Services department, with walk-in clinics for sponsorship and Green Card issues.

so every day, I get to try and help people who natively speak Hmong, Croatian, Somali & Oromo (some of whom have just enough English to tell me they don't speak it) figure out who they need to talk to...

[g_shocker182]

This one woman co-employee of mine kept yelling at me in spanish (how would I know why?) so I just walked away.

Rude, but I don't understand spanish.

[gmatov]

I have to express some sympathy for the younger of you fellows who may be on the first or second jobs of your working lives.

The day is gone when you got a job at one place, earned a half decent living, and retired after 35 or 40 years with enough to live on for the first 10 years, after that, inflation reduced your income to half what you need.

Today, you get an entry level job, learn the ropes, the company is taken over, redundant people are let go, you go to a new job, ditto.

Experts say you can expect to have 8 to 12 jobs over your careers, rather than 1, after you get done with your schooling, and get into the work force in general.

For myself, I worked 23 years at the Westinghouse. Shut the plant down, went into the steel mill, hey, I'm a card carrying Journeyman Machinery Repairman. I fixed precision machinery, the machines that make machines.

Now I use hundred ton jacks and 20 pound sledges. From tenths of a thousandth precision to get it within a half inch and weld it up..

Hate the f'in job, but it pays well enough.

I'm glad the Village_Idiot isn't bitter about his former job.

The other guy on page 1, the one with networking experience and no job prospects.

Have you considered networking houses for people who'd like to have a computer on 2 floors or 2 rooms. Just learn how to drill small holes, saw outlet box sized holes in drywall, put in an old work box and wire the jacks.

Not hard yto do, and there should be a buck in it, at least to help you out till a job opens up.

And, if it's an old house, with a sooty, dusty attic or basement, or filthy stud spaces, the "technicians" don't want to touch it.

I know I made money re-wiring old houses because all the "real" electricians wouldn't touch a house that had a speck of dust in it. All they wanted was "new work, open studding.

By the same token, go to local builders and offer to wire their new houses.

Electricians, and I should put quotes around that, dont like to work with anything smaller than 14 wire.

Good luck to most of you. The in-house Doctors should do well, long as our insurance companies don't get a foothold in their countries.

Cheers,

George

[The village idiot]

I'm glad the Village_Idiot isn't bitter about his former job.

If you knew what they had done, you would understand. I still hope bad things happens sooner than later, just like Dazzle

[energy80s]

Well I work for the BBC in Belfast looking after all the gear needed for radio and television outside broadcasts. I also deal with eight news crews daily. So I do know a lot about what is actually happening in TV production in the UK at present. Money isn't great, but the job's interesting and you get to play with a lot of cool (and expensive) gear!! :P

[SLICK RICK]

To many adjectives in one post, maybe I got messed up. Meant to say about the mexican immigrants who do work in low-level jobs. Hey, there are americans that have low levels jobs, too.

I figured you did not mean it in a insulting way.

SLICK RICK

[VCDHunter]

I am an "Admin Analyst" for a major logistics firm. I have no idea what an Admin Analyst is and I have no intention of asking - if I find out I may have to do some work

I've been with em for 12 years in various jobs - and they all suck.

[freak_in_cage_10k]

im a student at aston Uni Studying to be an Optician. during my holidays i work in an Opticians as a Dispensing Opticians and also as a receptionist.

Will- You work in Yorkshire? check out:

www.cclcomputers.co.uk

if you visit their warhouse you can hand pick components (such as CPUs with v good stepping making them highly overclockable. fone them up first to check it out with the manager.

pc mania- you work in B1mingham? i go to Aston University!! im staying in Erdington

[Craig Tucker]

I buy all my bits from CCL, online though, bit to far to travel.

[Will Hay]

Will- You work in Yorkshire? check out:

www.cclcomputers.co.uk

I know them, but thanks
In fact I knew them when they had that tiny place in Shipley.
They're not far, I'm in Leeds but to be honest I've been using ebuyer.co.uk lately (although last thing I bought was Dec 02!)
Will

[rallynavvie]

Well I have a 4-year in commercial aviation but that does me no good. I'm glad I spent well over $50k in schooling to have some terrorists bring the aviation industry to its knees

Meanwhile I work for Kinko's as a computer support and technology specialist. I'm reminded of the garbageman from the Dilbert comic strips. A guy came in the other day getting a section of his logbook copied and I was talking to him about flying. He was pretty surprised to hear the guy making copies for him had a B400 rating once upon a time

Oh and I'm back at school for video production just for fun. I'm still hoping the aviation industry comes back around. There's no better office in the world than the cockpit of a plane in my opinion.

[FoolishBrett]

pyrate is correct. Now is one of the worst times to get a job. I have been unemployed for about 6 months now. It is twice as difficult for me because I am trained in computer harware and networking. I have gone to several recruiters, and I am not joking, without seeing my resume first, one let out a little chuckle that I am looking for an entry level position. Then he said "Good Luck" in one of those "I doubt you will" tones.

It royally pissed me off. I kept my cool on the phone, but I never called him agian. But every recuiter I have talk too has said the same thing. There are basically no entry level posisitions because there is a huge surplus of experienced people looking.

I'm in sales for a staffing company. We tell (more sadly) recent grads that entry level is very hard to come by. My suggestion is to do more then send a resume in. Make an appointment or drop off your resume with the HR contact. It will pay off eventually.

[galactica]

Getting into this kind of late in the game but here's my reply

1. Work? I use to work in reasearch. I did cancer research for National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, MD. Worked in clinical oncology lab where we tested new drugs on patients with terminal ( that was going to kill them shortly) cancer.

2. What do I do? Im a student now at Logan College of Chiropractic. Thus, im in the process of becoming a chiropractor.

wish there was an emotioncon with a smiley face adjusting another smiley face, but i looked all over and cant find one

[mrtristan]

I thought I had already replied to this, but I must have typed out a response, then cancelled.

I make ukuleles for a living.

[kas187]

im due to start my 3rd and final year at university in business studies but i had to take one years work experience and that was at my local city council (Southampton, UK) as an adivsor for recruitment, retention, equality (sex, race etc etc) and took on corporate projects for the authority.

After uni i plan to go into consulting.

kas

[curryman]

I have 2 jobs
1. Postman - crap pay.
2. Full time Dad - No pay (but very rewarding)

[kamuixtv]

I'm a part time model