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Posted: Thu, 13/12/2018 07:48 (6 Years ago) |
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Posted: Tue, 11/12/2018 02:12 (6 Years ago) |
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Posted: Tue, 11/12/2018 02:10 (6 Years ago) |
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Posted: Tue, 11/12/2018 02:06 (6 Years ago) |
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Posted: Mon, 10/12/2018 04:31 (6 Years ago) |
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Posted: Wed, 14/11/2018 07:52 (6 Years ago) |
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I think I got ridiculously lucky with getting my job. It doesn't actually use my degree and there are definitely aspects of it I wish I could change, but a lot of it is so perfect it's almost too good to be true. During college the only jobs I could get in my tiny college town were fast food places. I worked two jobs of fast food and a retail store while going to college. I tried to get an internship during those years, but no fish ever bit, and without any real engineering experience under my belt, no employer would even glance at my resume after I graduated. Over the course of ~6 months before graduation, and another 6 months after, I sent out probably 200-250 applications for jobs and got, I think, 2 interviews back. I don't even think I got a rejection letter from 80% of those applications, they just didn't reply at all. After graduation I left my jobs and worked as a service technician fixing soda machines and vending machine and the like. Bottom of the barrel kind of work, but it was better pay with 9-5 hours, weekends off, and pretty awesome benefits if you stayed there for years. Problem was, I hated the work. Yeah, I like to work with my hands and get in some manual labor, but I don't like that being the only aspect of a job. Plus the soda meant I was constantly sticky and it was annoying always having to go wash it off. In November of 2017, my roommate decided he was going to move to another state to go to school as the college in our town didn't offer the major, and I couldn't afford our apartment by myself nor did I want a different roommate. So I made a snap judgement and on December 1st we said goodbye and he moved to Washington while I moved to Oregon and proceeded to sleep on a friend's couch for 2 months while searching for jobs. That's right, I moved to a whole new state to live on a couch with no job. To be fair, I did have a job lined up when I moved. Buuuut I only spent about a week there before bailing because no where on their website or social media did it say they were freaking door-to-door internet salespeople, like jfc that's worse than greasy car sales! But anyways, the first week of January rolled in and I was getting a little restless from being unemployed and sleeping on a couch. So I made a decision that if nothing came through by the end of that week, I was going to move back home with my parents. My mom had a lot of connections and could probably find me something and maybe I could save up a little by not having to pay rent for a while and, yeah, it would suck to move back in with my parents after college but what the heck else was I supposed to do? 250 applications! 2 interviews! Both rejected! And I felt bad that 2 of the people I was living with at the time and I were talking about getting our own place and I was just going to up and leave, but I didn't know what else to do. And then I got a call. A company that does contractor hiring for a bigger company was looking for people and they found my resume online and were wondering if I was still looking for a job? They paid more than I made at my technician job back in Montana, it was a desk position where I'd be working with a team and clients and the like and did I have time for an interview? And I said yes, let's set it up. And I had the interview and it felt pretty good and they said they were going to finish with other applicants and then call me for a second interview and see from there. And I thought, cool, if they don't pick me I'm going home, if they do bring me in for a second interview then I can find out more about the job and make a decision. And then they called me and said, 'we really liked you and would like to just offer you the job! Can you start next week?' Was that the right decision? I don't know. My life had two paths that led to drastically different places and this is the one I chose. I regretted it a lot in the first few months just because I was so bored at work and I hated it because it was so boring and 100% desk work and it didn't use my degree so wasn't it just pointless? But now I'm not so green, I have so many tasks and I know how to do my job and I'm even training new people. Do I make enough to afford my own place? No, not even a studio apartment because the cost of living is so high here, but do I make enough to be comfortable where I am? Yes and then some. I can afford bills while also flying across the country to attend massively overpriced kpop concerts. I live in a bigger city and hate the traffic, but flights are so much easier to get so I can visit home, or go to the afore mentioned concerts. My job is very boring sometimes and I hate sitting at a desk for 8+ hours a day, but the work always changes even if the scenery doesn't and it's interesting enough that it keeps me coming back every day instead of dreading the morning. And they're so flexible!! I can ask for that friday off, the tuesday before it. Heck, I don't even ask I just say I'm out that day and no one questions it. There are 3-4 other people on our team that can do my job anyways, no one minds! Which is exactly what I need in my job because I go on so many mini vacations. Just a friday off here; a monday off here. No questions, no consequences, no asking for it ahead of time, it's fantastic. So yeah, flexible days off, good enough pay to be comfortable, not dreading going into work every morning? It's not the best job in the world, and I really wish I made a little more at it, but it fits all of my needs right now, so I'm happy. Plus we get a ridiculous amount of free food there. Over the summer they'd just randomly decide to do BBQs when the sun was out, I stole a MASS ton of candy on halloween (they left the bowls out, bite me), and every time a client is in town they buy them lunch and then give the leftover to the rest of the employees to pick at. I have a plate and silverware kept at my desk for such occasions. Also tupperware to bring it home :-) oh, and did I mention there's always free coffee and different flavored creamer in the break rooms? And that many of my coworkers are extrovert sweethearts who keep bringing in sweets, both homemade or store bought? A few weeks ago data services had a pizza party and no one said a thing as I slipped in and stole a few slices :} So yeah, not a bad work place. Took some effort to get here, but I'm happy to stay for a while. [Read more] |
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Rapmon OFFLINE Forum Posts: 1,274 |
Posted: Sat, 27/10/2018 01:14 (6 Years ago) |
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Posted: Thu, 04/10/2018 06:36 (6 Years ago) |
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I was listening to pandora today and some song I've never heard before came on and i was just like, 'huh, this one rapper sounds like Zico." Lo and behold, guess who it was collabing with two others I've never heard of. Zico and Brendon Urie from Panic! at the Disco are two voices I can tell in an instant. Chen from Exo too, I know his voice! [Read more] |
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Posted: Sun, 26/08/2018 22:27 (6 Years ago) |
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It's kind of crazy the amount of life we experience in the first 18-25 years of life (mostly during the schooling days, which vary for anyone that goes/doesn't go to college). During school it seems like your life is always busy, you're always doing something and experiencing something, whether because friends are asking you to do something, your parents, or maybe a school function that you're interested in. Either way, you're always doing something. But, once you're out of school it's like life comes to a grinding and immediate halt. In school my days would be: -go to class -talk with friends -after school activities (in high school- volleyball and theatre, in college- mass homework groups with friends, bar) -work -homework and then the odd going to a movie with friends, or the gym, or spending abnormal amounts of time in the school computer labs because the homework was ridiculously hard, or festivals around town. But now? Now I go to work and then come home and there's nothing else. I have 3 friends, 2 I live with, and 1 lives 20 minutes away and we meet up every few weeks for a couple hours to do something. In school you're constantly surrounded by other people to befriend. As young humans, we naturally gravitate towards others and form bonds, but as you grow and life takes people in different directions, it can be harder to form those bonds, and harder still to get people you do form bonds with to actually spend time with you depending on their and your personality. I have a handful of coworkers I get along with, sure, but at the end of the day each of us just wants to go home and be with our own families (if we have them) and rest. It's really hard for introverts like myself too- I don't go out on weekends to play sports, or look up meet up groups with people that might like the same things as me. I don't leave the house much unless I have to, like for work, so my social life consists of my online friends, and even then I barely make any effort to speak to them because work drains my entire social battery and I just want to come home to silence and rest. I still live life, I guess, and do things that a younger me could never (flying around the country for concerts, mainly), but I also don't experience half the things I used to when I was constantly surrounded by other people and experiencing dozens of learning opportunities for a growing mind. It's kind of crazy how little I do anymore... growing up kind of sucks. [Read more] |
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Posted: Thu, 23/08/2018 00:26 (7 Years ago) |
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Posted: Sun, 19/08/2018 00:24 (7 Years ago) |
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It's super interesting to me to see how different people act in the same circumstances. Little things, like an inconvenience in a store or if a child is crying loudly nearby. I wonder a lot of if it's a generational gap thing or upbringing. I don't have a lot of examples but like- One time I was manning the register at the pet store I used to work at and an old woman came in and boy was she in a mood when she came to the register. Idk who spat in her oatmeal that morning but when she checked out she actually stopped as she was gathering her things to go and said something along the lines of "I don't know if you're trained to say 'have a good day', but you should really add in to thank me. I come in here to spend money at your store, you should be thanking me!" Really? Really?? Second and only other example cause I'm lazy and don't want to try and think of more, but I've always asked the owner before I pet an animal. I probably wasn't always like that, but I think definitely after working in a pet store where we were actually required to ask "can I say hi?" before touching a customer's dog, I do that all the time now, and I think it should definitely be common practice. Animals have thoughts and feelings and issues just like humans and you wouldn't just walk up to a random person in the street and give them a hug, would you? So today, not even 20 minutes ago, there was a man with his dog having lunch at an outdoor cafe. I was waiting for my mom to come by so I stopped by him and asked, "can I say hi?" The man said yeah, but she's pretty shy so be gentle and scratch her back, she doesn't really like her head touched because she's a rescue. And then my mother came up next to us and scratched the dog's head without even a glance towards her owner. siiiiiiiiiiigh Things like that really get me. I find how different people act in the same situations interesting, but it's not always a good kind of interesting. How introverts vs extroverts handle a situation is pretty interesting, but how you treat a waiter or cashier, not so interesting, I'm really just judging you. [Read more] |
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Posted: Sun, 12/08/2018 04:57 (7 Years ago) |
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I’m an army of almost 2 years!! November will be my 2 year mark and if you can’t tell I’m a Namjoon bias haha [Read more] |
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Posted: Mon, 30/07/2018 14:25 (7 Years ago) |
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who is that?? [Read more] |
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Posted: Fri, 13/07/2018 21:26 (7 Years ago) |
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Anything that’s missing, thank you! [Read more] |
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Posted: Thu, 12/07/2018 18:18 (7 Years ago) |
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Side note- when I searched for the song, another channel had reposted the MV and had nearly 4x the views on it than the actual MV... I hope the company takes that into account and doesn’t disband them. Right now they have around 600k views between those two videos. That’s not bad for a new group! Don’t disband;;; ;v; [Read more] |