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Got a job....At the Drive-In.

Alright....


So....To start....A little back story....


Awhile ago I was in this work program.....For awhile I noticed my legs had this rashy appearance to them. So I went the Doctors and a bunch of blood tests later. Determined I had Hep C. They said I got it from being pre-mature and getting a blood trans back in 1984, since they didn't start testing till 1990.

So they put me on this treatment for a year and a half. Which I had to put the work program on hold. Just got off it on Monday. It was a pill in the morning and evening and a shot every Thursday. With a blood test every month. The tests have detected no viral level for quite some time and the Doc says i'm lucky as success rate for this treatment is slim. So I kicked Hep Cs ASS.

Alright so my sister is a cook at the Drive-In, she is best friends with the Boss.... So I get offered the job of working security on weekends and since I need work experience and such as well as money. This seems like a good foot in the door and is only on weekends and till Fall.

Two movies for $8 BTW, awesome deal.

Some of the job duty's involve:

-Directing traffic and telling people where to park.

-Emptying trash cans when there full as well as checking the garbage cans when there half full and taking some garbage out and putting it in a smaller bag and throwing it in the dumpster to try and extend the use outta the bags as they are expensive. I really don't want to reach in and take some things out!

-Cleaning the bathrooms.

-Picking up peoples garage in the lots after the first flick is over.

While wearing latex gloves of course.

Wait wasn't I hired to do security?

I just did my first night tonight. I think I did alright....

The directing cars where to park was kinda scary. I don't even know half the names of different cars. So there like go tell that so and so to move closer to the so and so by it and I'm like huh?

I also haven't really busted out in the real world....I got outta High School. Enjoyed the Summer, then went to College for Film Making for a year. That didn't work out. Slacked off.... Worked at Kirby Vacuums for a day as door to door sales was not for me then went to a work program and was going really well then went to the Docs to get my legs checked out and couldn't work while on treatment as it made my moods swing and I got tired allot and my blood platelets were really low, they said to take it easy. So now that I'm off treatment I can go back to the work program in the Fall.

Anyways it's the picking up garage and cleaning rest room and shit that has me worried. I don't want another disease thank you very much. I am also kind of an air head and this job.....I had no real training just a quick walk through and jumped right in on a Friday night and did what my co-workers told me to do. My Boss said I either pick it up or I don't.

So I'm perplexed. What should I do?

It's $8.75 an hour for about......6-8 hours on Friday till Sunday. Get paid every two weeks.

I mean i'm an adult and been livin like a kid. Embarrassed to say. Yeah I live at Home....Have a truck but haven't took the time to even bother to get my license.....God I can't believe i'm being open about this.

I do plan to study for the written during the week and get that done. I do want a life on my own and to be happy and make money. Just had so many road blocks in my way....Not all of it was in my hands....Except the no license part, that's all my fault. The job thing....I was so close then had to relax while on this treatment. So that was an unexpected event. I also wanted to get my license sooner but on January 9th I had to be there for my Mom as she had to get Heart Surgery on the 19th and didn't come home till the end of February. Then I had to always be with her and help her for awhile. She is doing better now. Much better.


This seems like a good start, if I stick with it. I just don't like cleaning up after people. I am paranoid about germs and shit. I don't need Hep C again or something worse. My social skills are meh, unless I know a person. I kinda have a hard time understanding directions when told. I mean for the lots it's trucks and suvs in the fist two rows or back three or to the sides of the rows. Have to make sure they are parked close together and when the movie starts to make sure there lights are off and so forth.

I also don't like that my co-workers know my sister got me the job. If I fuck up, which I will as I'm a noob. They will be like "That fuck up is only here cause of his Sister." You know?

Also I can't wait for my glasses to arrive as I can't see very well far out. So the far rows are kinda a blurrrrr. lol.


Anyways I got off work a few hours ago and need to sleep, so pardon any spelling or grammar problems. I don't go back till 7pm. I just wanna hear your views and opinions.

I will stick with this for a few weekends.... I just feel so lost and dumb.... Like I am a push over and panic when having to make quick choices.


I just got in the bad habit of slacking off and playing around and putting important things off or telling myself.......I'll do that later.....Which now I'm suffering for it.

Is this job worth the experience and pay though?

If I wanted to pick up garbage i'd be a Garbage Man.

If I wanted to clean public rest rooms i'd be a Janitor.

Both jobs pay a hell of allot more, have better hours and benefits.

Seems like i'm being milked for a bunch of extra crap? My job title is Security? Even the Cooks have to enemy trash and clean the restrooms.

Everyone does everything, I guess.
 
So you got an initiation in cleaning the invalid litter dept? I know this sounds like a non-zero possibility but you should have become a cosmonaut instead...
 
OP. sometimes you just have to put your head down and keep plugging because, the alternative is to give up and admit to yourself that you are dependent on your family. Being a leach is worse than picking up trash.
 
Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
OP. sometimes you just have to put your head down and keep plugging because, the alternative is to give up and admit to yourself that you are dependent on your family. Being a leach is worse than picking up trash.
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leach /lit?/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [leech] Show IPA
?verb (used with object) 1. to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
2. to cause (water or other liquid) to percolate through something.

?verb (used without object) 3. (of ashes, soil, etc.) to undergo the action of percolating water.
4. to percolate, as water.



leech /lit?/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [leech] Show IPA
?noun 1. any bloodsucking or carnivorous aquatic or terrestrial worm of the class Hirudinea, certain freshwater species of which were formerly much used in medicine for bloodletting.
2. a person who clings to another for personal gain, esp. without giving anything in return, and usually with the implication or effect of exhausting the other's resources; parasite.
3. Archaic. an instrument used for drawing blood


Grammar Nazi's of the world...UNTIE! 😀


OP, sometimes a shitty job is better than NO job. Are you related to Tridentboy? 😉

As I see it, your options include:

Keeping this job and doing all the crap work that comes with it.

Quit and find a better job. (hell, even flipping burgers sounds better.)

Quit and go back to school to learn a trade. (you don't sound motivated enough to learn a profession.)

 
Originally posted by: BoomerD
Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
OP. sometimes you just have to put your head down and keep plugging because, the alternative is to give up and admit to yourself that you are dependent on your family. Being a leach is worse than picking up trash.
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leach /lit?/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [leech] Show IPA
?verb (used with object) 1. to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
2. to cause (water or other liquid) to percolate through something.

?verb (used without object) 3. (of ashes, soil, etc.) to undergo the action of percolating water.
4. to percolate, as water.



leech /lit?/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [leech] Show IPA
?noun 1. any bloodsucking or carnivorous aquatic or terrestrial worm of the class Hirudinea, certain freshwater species of which were formerly much used in medicine for bloodletting.
2. a person who clings to another for personal gain, esp. without giving anything in return, and usually with the implication or effect of exhausting the other's resources; parasite.
3. Archaic. an instrument used for drawing blood


Grammar Nazi's of the world...UNTIE! 😀


OP, sometimes a shitty job is better than NO job. Are you related to Tridentboy? 😉

As I see it, your options include:

Keeping this job and doing all the crap work that comes with it.

Quit and find a better job. (hell, even flipping burgers sounds better.)

Quit and go back to school to learn a trade. (you don't sound motivated enough to learn a profession.)
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Thanks for the correction Boomer. Maybe it's leaching liquid assets from society? 🙂

Unfortunately, flipping burgers often doesn't pay better and, if he is honest on his app, Hep C disqualifies him from any food service position.
 
Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
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Thanks for the correction Boomer. Maybe it's leaching liquid assets from society? 🙂

Unfortunately, flipping burgers often doesn't pay better and, if he is honest on his app, Hep C disqualifies him from any food service position.
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Good catch. I forgot about the HepC.

Sometimes it's not about making more money, it's about the job itself.

I've done some "shitty" jobs in my life, but I don't think I'd want the OP's job.

A friend of our daughter's drives a "honey truck"...cleans porta-johns...I tell him that while we were ALWAYS happy to see him show up on the jobsite, none of us ever wanted his job. 😀 He makes decent money though...$15+/hr...with LOTS of overtime.

But hey...SOMEONE's gotta clean the toilets at the drive-in, right?
 
Well I don't want to do crap jobs for the rest of my life that's for sure. lol. Or flip burgers....Not my cup of tea.

Isn't it funny how I said security and there isn't much security wise....

You make sure there are no open flames and when people arrive at night to kinda watch to make sure the amount of people that paid get out and such.


Yeah i'm a late bloomer. It happens to more people than you think, doesn't mean i'm hopeless or anything. I just wanted to know if the work experience on this job was worth the stuff I gotta do and the pay I get for it, lol.

I haven't had to clean a toilet yet.... I'd most likely ask someone else to do it. *shutters in the mere thought of having to clean something like that.*

Plus it's only till Fall...... I never thought of myself as a Leech? Maybe because I want to go get something outta this life. If I end up like this when i'm 30......I'll invite you all out to kick my ass. Lol.
 
Well, you're getting the opportunity to work at an American icon, the drive-in theater. The work kind of sucks, but it's special in it's own way. Drive-ins are a part of our glorious past which is quickly fading.

Any money's better than no money. Keep your eyes open for another job, or go the entrepreneurial route. Drive-ins are pretty slow during the day time. We used to have one around here that held classic car shows on the weekend. If you could rent the drive-in, and produce such a show, you might be able to make a nice chunk of money. It would take a good bit of time, and much work on your part, but it's doable :^)
 
This is like, 3 posts in 1:

1.) I beat Hep C
2.) I got a new job!
3.) I don't like my job, should I switch?
 
Stick with it just to learn that you are a cog in the machine, you will have to put up with bullshit at jobs, deal with other people's stupid perceptions, and not run from shit you don't like. I'm not saying bend over, and take it up the ass forever. Just put up with it for a month or two, and you will appreciate workers "lower" in the chain more.

You're not going to get hep C from picking up trash. I mean, what's the worst you may have to pick up? Rubbers? (honestly, find a pole to deal with those) Put on gloves, wear long sleeve shirts, or get a jumpsuit. Not all garbage men are walking plague bearers.
 
Yeah well having to grab half full restroom garbage or from any of the cans and putting it in a smaller bag and tossing that away to stretch the bags life out, is gross. I should only have to change the bags when there full, were to check the cans and take some garbage out at the half way mark. People blow there noses or get a bloody nose and then throw it in the trash and such or spit in the trash cans and what about dirty exposed needles, etc, etc. The gloves only cover up to my wrists.

Some of my co-workers don't even bother to put on gloves.
 
Don't know why but I feel sorry for this guy. Crow550 I was in your situation before. A struggling young man trying to find where he fits in life. I respect that your trying to work. Any job is a good job. Its better than stealing or selling drugs. Anybody that looks down on you because your picking up trash or cleaning restrooms is the one that needs to look in the mirror. Hell when I was younger I cleaned restrooms, picked up trash, bused tables. All I'm saying is just keep plugging along. Try your best and if that isn't good enough for them get another job and try again. Its part of life. My motto is that as long as I'm trying I'm winning. The day I quit trying is the day I become a loser. Hey a late start is better than no start at all.



 
Hey man, it's a job. Starting at the bottom sucks but you do what you have to do. I wouldn't worry about dirty needles too too much but you could always double glove and carry some alcohol based sanitizer with you.
 
Jesus you people are harsh. Everyone who's had a job knows bottom jobs suck. You get yelled at by bosses who think they're more important than they are, you struggle with shitty training, etc. He's put himself into the ring enough to get into the work-force, which is more than most of the "I live in mom's basement but I'm still entitled to more respect than you" - ATOT can say.
 
well if you need the money, then you just gotta suck it up and do the stuff you don't like. all jobs have parts you don't like. it's just a matter of whether the pros outweigh the cons. the experience is probably going to be relatively pointless once you get more experience in the work program. good luck!
 
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