Posted on 07/12/2012 11:58:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The GM at the pool even told me it was below minimum wage and said, “Do you know how I can pay you below minimum wage? Because we're the city.”
Heck, I didn't care. Lots of great looking chicks. I worked there for several years :) I also worked at a couple gas stations and as a masonry laborer for a summer.
Great job as a kid.... so, what are you doing nowadays?
“Unfortunately, the parasites seem to win even when they lose.”
Hopefully, they’ll be too lazy to vote.
I test software. Thinking about going to nursing school though, believe it or not.
My step daughter simply couldn’t understand why she couldn’t bring a concert schedule to a job interview just so as to “set expectations”. My wife, her mom, did her best to try to talk her out if it. I usually try to absent myself from such discussions but I butted in. I told her she didn’t need the schedule since the actual dates would be unimportant because no one would hire a kid with that sort of approach. She told me, an MBA with 35 years in the financial services industry, that I simply didn’t understand business. I butted out.
First job would be totally illegal today. Worked washing cream cans at a produce and feed store for .50c for a 4 hour day and when no cream cans to wash pumped up the Mobil Oil gasoline pump to the top of the glass container so I could measure the amount of gasoline used by the next customer. This was equiv to less than .13c per hour and I was only 7 years old. But at the end of the day I could buy 2 Mounds bars, my favorite candy, and a big chocolate ice cream soda at the local soda fountain. This was in 1946.
Was talking to a friend of mine today who does network security. He says that he could put 3 people to work this coming Monday, if he could find people with the experience he needs.
Jobs are out there, even high paying ones, as long as you have the right experience.
Irony of ironies, I now help the unemployed get jobs. I concentrate on vets, especially returning recently separated vets, and I help qualified candidates get training funds to update their skills or to change careers if need be.
The pay sucks, but it’s pretty cool when you get an excited call from a client telling you they just got hired.
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