Do you like your job?

[CovenantJr]

Agreed. I did retail for two years, and I will never do it again if I have any kind of choice.

[balon!]

It's amazing the level of stupidity you can find working in a mall.

[sgt.null]

i love my job.

[Vain]

I absolutely love my job. Keeps me busy and keeps my brain working so it's all good

[[Syl]]

53. Put on the headphones from your stereo set, but don't plug them in.
Hang a paper cup around your neck with string. Go stand in front of your
stove. Say ... to no one in particular "Stove manned and ready" Stand
there for three or four hours. And say again to no one in particular
"stove secured." Roll up your headphones and paper cup and place them in a
box.

What the hell?!

This one refers to manning a mooring station or a battle station. On either one, you're usually in a three or four-man team. One guy has to stay on the sound-powered phone. When you enter the circuit (plug in the antiquated headset), you have to tell the circuit controller that you're online. At least you do if the phone's working and you don't have to run down to the IC shop to get another one. Before you remove it, you have to tell them you're going off-line.

GQ isn't so bad, since there are regular comm checks and you might occasionally be told to do something. And in my case, you're in an air-conditioned space. But the mooring station... You're usually stuck in a fairly small space, a large portion of it taken up by the capstan, with stinking lines and nothing to do for gods know how long.

Even though it means having to pull on big ass saltwater-soaked lines (and not the good kind of salt-water, either. the nasty stuff in port), you'd rather do that than be on the phone. Because by the end of it you'll rest your head on the deck if it means taking the weight off your neck. Not that the phones are all that heavy, just that the placement of the mouthpiece is set at such an angle that the laws of physics demand you have to have a thirty pound head to balance it, and the neckstrap is peculiarly designed to pull the top of your towards the ground rather than providing any kind of support.

God I miss the navy.

Of course, even that beat selling stereos at Circuit City.

I like my current job, though. I make semiconductors.

[lucimay]

oh my god those simulate being in the navy ones are freaking hiLARious!!!

i was rolling.

i LOVE # 53!!!!!!


anything's better than nine years of taking shoe orders and talking about bunions and high insteps and shoe trees and molded soles and...

sigh. i love shoes but i hate my job.

[Elfgirl]

I'm a bit Imelda about shoes too, Luci...

My 'work' is mainly drawing pictures on a computer. Occasionally it gets boring and I have to do signage, or edit text for the illiterati (yes, the even the grammatically challenged have library jobs - wtf?)and the pay is average, but on the whole it's not high-pressure, or demanding, or even performance based, and I get free internet, 4 weeks annual leave, 10 sick leave days a year (cumulative) and 3 months long service leave after 7 years.

pity some of the people (mainly direct 'superiors') are such arseholes. Well, they do say shit floats to the top...

Me, I'm happy to stay low on the food chain. Less meetings, report writing and weaselling goes on at the 'grunts' level...

[Avatar]

Thank the gods Syl. I thought you were gonna say you'd signed up again.

--A

[CovenantJr]

53. Put on the headphones from your stereo set, but don't plug them in.
Hang a paper cup around your neck with string. Go stand in front of your
stove. Say ... to no one in particular "Stove manned and ready" Stand
there for three or four hours. And say again to no one in particular
"stove secured." Roll up your headphones and paper cup and place them in a
box.

What the hell?!

This one refers to manning a mooring station or a battle station. On either one, you're usually in a three or four-man team. One guy has to stay on the sound-powered phone. When you enter the circuit (plug in the antiquated headset), you have to tell the circuit controller that you're online. At least you do if the phone's working and you don't have to run down to the IC shop to get another one. Before you remove it, you have to tell them you're going off-line.

GQ isn't so bad, since there are regular comm checks and you might occasionally be told to do something. And in my case, you're in an air-conditioned space. But the mooring station... You're usually stuck in a fairly small space, a large portion of it taken up by the capstan, with stinking lines and nothing to do for gods know how long.

Even though it means having to pull on big ass saltwater-soaked lines (and not the good kind of salt-water, either. the nasty stuff in port), you'd rather do that than be on the phone. Because by the end of it you'll rest your head on the deck if it means taking the weight off your neck. Not that the phones are all that heavy, just that the placement of the mouthpiece is set at such an angle that the laws of physics demand you have to have a thirty pound head to balance it, and the neckstrap is peculiarly designed to pull the top of your towards the ground rather than providing any kind of support.

God I miss the navy.

Of course, even that beat selling stereos at Circuit City.

I like my current job, though. I make semiconductors.

I'm not joining the navy. Ever.

[Nav]

31. Make your family menu a week ahead of time and do so without checking
the pantry and refrigerator.

32. Post a menu on the refrigerator door informing your family that you
are having steak for dinner. Then make them wait in line for at least an
hour, when they finally get to the kitchen, tell them that you are out of
steak, but you have dried ham or hot dogs. Repeat daily until they don't
pay attention to the menu any more so they just ask for hot dogs.

This reminds me of something the old Commodore of our Rescue Service. He was the biggest man I've ever met, standing at 6' 8" and weighing a reasonably lean 300-and-something pounds and he was ex-Navy. Obviously when you're that size you need to eat a lot and he used to hate moving to a new ship because each time he would spend a number of weeks wasting away on the standard meals before either the doctor or the captain made told the cooks to give him as much food as he wanted.

[Marv]

I feel a little foolish in light of Syl's comments. I've been toying with joining the armed forces for a while now-going back to the time I left school-but, due to changing personal circumstances, have finally commited myself to joining the navy. I had the interview and fitness test about 6 months ago but pulled out before basic training began. Last week I got back in contact with the recruitment office and they arranged for me to skip the interview process and do my medical this week. Once that's done I'll have a couple of months and then basic will start.

I'm going in to logistics so I should have some marketable skills when I leave. Maybe I could go in to admin, human resources or I.T. Who knows, I could make a career in the navy! I'm also commited to getting some academic qualifications while in the service. Judging from what Syl had to say this might be easier said than done, although I did speak to a bloke who got a good economics degree while serving AND it only took him 5 years(for a home learning degree while in full time employment I think that's quite impressive).

What i REALLY!!! hate is that I recently found out about an ex-girlfriend of mine (we were stupid and engaged at 16!) who has just got a job in the financial sector and will be earning an absolute bomb! She was intelligent and she has a degree in Classics, but I suspect she had to pull a few strings to get the job. Her dad was some sort of foreign exchange trader. What makes it worse is that i looked her up on Myspace and she's still really, really hot! Damn!

[Waddley]

No, I don't like my job. It's mindless, dull, degrading, repetitive, slow, boring, blah blah blah... (how many other ways can I say it's boring??) but I don't hate it either. It's just something to do while I go to school. I swear, I'm going. Really. I'm not just saying it... /sigh

[[Syl]]

Heh. Well, even though everything on those lists is basically true, or at least rooted in truth, it's really not all that bad. I could probably go through every item and find something positive about the same experience.

If I had it all to do over again, I'd still join the navy. Of course, I stand by my opinion that anyone who can be dissuaded from joining up should be.

[Lady Revel]

I definitely like my job. I am a bookkeeper for a newspaper in the Daytona Beach area. It involves doing the same thing every day at the same time for the same reasons.

Being obsessive-compulsive, I love this. I am great at it. I catch just about every mistake there is to catch. I suppose one pretty much likes stuff one is good at.

In fact, I catch so many mistakes, that my nickname at work is the dentist, because no one wants to see me by their desks, because its always painful when I point out their errors.

However, I do find that if my routine gets thrown off somehow, I get all sorts of out of whack, and never quite pull it together for the rest of the day.

I'd never make a good news broadcaster or a salesperson. Or god forbid, an improv comic!

I just reread this and decided that I do not sound like a fun person to hang out with. But I am! Truly!

[dANdeLION]

Tell them they're all just a whining bunch of anti-dentites!

[Phantasm]

Prison sucks, but you knew that anyway.

I quite like my job, though it would be better without the inmates

[sgt.null]

amen to that brother!