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i finished 1 week of theatre work [mainly training].
it's my first min wage, grunt work job.
it's my first non-computer job [comedy excluded].
they tell me when to pee, how to dress, where to stand, what to do, where to go. i hate it. i have realized how great my previous jobs were. i have realized how i value my freedom.
***** QUESTION *****
have you worked min wage jobs like this? horrible, nasty jobs? did they build character? is this something i need to do? am i being a prissy prat? have i learned my lesson in 1 week? or do i need to stay a month? a year? am i wasting all my computer training by doing jobs like this?
1.22.2008
life altering decisions :: work
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Yes. Enterprise Rent-a-Car. Horrible. I dunno Steveo - DID it build my character? I just remember being horribly depressed. I do know one thing for sure - every time I think now about "oh, my job stinks..blah.." I think back to those days, and think, "you know what, my job is GREAT!"
However - sometimes you have to do the crappy ass jobs to get the good ones. Hang in there.
I guess I had the opposite experience...I LOVED working at Dairy Queen. No pressure, got to play with ice cream all day, plus make people happy.
Can you find a 'minimum wage' job that you like better, maybe? I still sometimes think I'd be happy shelving books at Magers & Quinn or something, because I love books.
Labor Omnia Vincit
Think now of Harry S Truman’s fate
As your own you ruminate
He, a mensch of greatness and of faults,
Who played a passing Missouri Waltz.
As President, was a Grade A smasher!
(Who firstly was a haberdasher.)
Or recall the early office of Albert E.
Who wasted energy in bureaucracy.
He could have patented his mangy hair,
But brooded on mass and light’s square.
Or hear the case of unfamous me
Who worked three times in Libby’s cannery.
These jobs of last resort do not maim us.
For surely they shall make us famous
perhaps i'll ask my boss to missouri waltz with me and their answer will determine whether i stay or not... good idea g. rockefeller.
I have had so many min. wage jobs I can scarcely recall them all. Two movie theaters, four espresso places, a couple of sandwich places, repairing Lambretta's, backbreaking landscaping work, and folding t-shirts.
None of them were as unpleasant as what you describe. On the plus side, working these places can provide you with useful life skills. For instance, the barrista experience got me a gig in Italy which turned out to be life-changing.
My 2c: Hang in there until you find something better. I am sure someone in NZ needs to have Kiosk sites created.
gb, what if you started an agency for Americans who stay in NZ for a year where you find them jobs?
I am a professional, but I still have a boss who is a micromanager and tells me what to do. I hear these types are everywhere. But working for yourself requires that you pay for your own insurance and that is risky. So we say, "Yes, I'll do that," cheerfully. Maybe you are just a gypsy and the lesson is that there is no lesson.
Got a paper route when I was 10. Worked every weekday (and most weekends) until I was 15, at which point I got a job as a grocery sacker (4.45/hour, 20 cents more than min. wage) near my house. Worked there for the better part of nine years. Various promotions and raises ensued, but it was all under the Joe Job umbrella, so what does it matter.
Sometimes it was awesome, sometimes it was terrible. Bosses are the same everywhere, though.
Best thing about these jobs is the people. Find some grunts like yourself, befriend them, and work becomes much easier to bear. You always have things in common to complain about. :)
Gompers, are you from the Long Rockefeller branch of the family?
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