First Job

[ZEGH8578]

I sorted mail for city centre PO boxes, which tend to be firms and companies and such

One very fun discovery I did was that I learned about city centre expansion plans years ahead, I felt like a spy. In fact, I knew about it so many years ahead, that I begun to doubt it was gonna happen, like, just another plan that never comes to be, especially because it seemed so dramatic (shut down one of the main veins into the city, and transform a whole "shabby" stretch of city into green park with shopping streets, and opening instead an impressively long tunnel right underneath the same road)

By now, the tunnel is complete, so, it took time, but they're actually sticking to the plan

[Gopher Gary]

One very fun discovery I did was that I learned about city centre expansion plans years ahead, I felt like a spy.

Were you sworn to secrecy? 

[ZEGH8578]

One very fun discovery I did was that I learned about city centre expansion plans years ahead, I felt like a spy.

Were you sworn to secrecy? 

Now that you mention it, I think so. Not necesarily an oath, with a sword touching my shoulders, but a general "remember you work with private and sensitive material" kind of deal

[Gopher Gary]

One very fun discovery I did was that I learned about city centre expansion plans years ahead, I felt like a spy.

Were you sworn to secrecy? 

Now that you mention it, I think so. Not necesarily an oath, with a sword touching my shoulders, but a general "remember you work with private and sensitive material" kind of deal

That counts. 

[ZEGH8578]

That's why the city-plans excited me, because it was the only place I heard anything about it, untill they begun to announce it more officially years later, and actually build

[El]

Friend of mine in high school had a post office job. It paid really well for a high school job, something like $20 US an hour.

Yeah, I've always heard that postal jobs are hard to come by in the US, not only because of the civil service exam but also because people don't leave them.

Though they're fucking miserable jobs to have, yeah.

['andersom']

Friend of mine in high school had a post office job. It paid really well for a high school job, something like $20 US an hour.

Yeah, I've always heard that postal jobs are hard to come by in the US, not only because of the civil service exam but also because people don't leave them.

Though they're fucking miserable jobs to have, yeah.

Postal jobs were cool and good jobs to have here in the Netherlands, till recently. Decent pay, decent conditions. Now it belongs to the lousy jobs. Within 10 year it changed completely.

[sg1008]

Thank you Gary for this thread.

My first official job was as a student at university: I was a computer lab assistant, kept the lab space clean and helped students with tech issues and questions. It was an awesome job....crazy hours all night though.

['Butterflies']

My dad worked for a training provider.When I was around 16, I showed no sign of ever wanting to do a proper job, so he got me a job as a secretary, on some kind of youth training scheme. He emotionally blackmailed me into doing it.
I had to do a lot of phone work, and speak to suppliers. Not surprisingly, I sucked big time. I lasted a month or so. I can't remember if I got sacked, or if we just agreed that I should fuck off and never return. Leaving that job was a big relief,
I've never felt any urge to do a proper job again.

[odeon]

/shrugs

A proper job is one you get paid for doing. It's funny how people sometimes try to define it as more than that.

["couldbecousin"]

/shrugs

A proper job is one you get paid for doing. It's funny how people sometimes try to define it as more than that.

  Yeah, some people get reverse-snobby about it and go all working-class-hero on people with
  "cushy" office jobs, or careers in the arts or academia.  Like the 80-year-old man (yes, 80)
   who was working at my current job when I started.  (Rest in peace, Henry.)

 
  "I'm a professional dishwasher!  Everything I ever learned --- school of hard knocks!
 
   I can barely read and write!"   

[odeon]

Although my current proper job at the cinema kind of sucks.

[Gopher Gary]

Although my current proper job at the cinema kind of sucks.

I always thought you did that as a volunteer. 

[odeon]

Although my current proper job at the cinema kind of sucks.

I always thought you did that as a volunteer. 

Well, I do, in the sense that it's not a steady job, but I get paid. The reason it sucks is that it's not at all what it used to be, and the current owners of the cinema are abusing it.

[Gopher Gary]

It's not a volunteer job if you're getting paid.