How did you feel about your first "real" job?

[Syringer]

Was it something you enjoyed doing? Was it useful to your career path? Could you have seen yourself doing it for..a while?

 

[krunchykrome]

I start my first real job on the 22nd of this month. Im excited.......about making some money.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Syringer
Was it something you enjoyed doing? Was it useful to your career path? Could you have seen yourself doing it for..a while?

Hell no, No, hell fvcking no! I was there for 4 years and it was pure hell.

 

[GeneValgene]

Originally posted by: Syringer
Was it something you enjoyed doing? Was it useful to your career path? Could you have seen yourself doing it for..a while?

i still keep in touch wtih people from my first job. i met some great people there. only stayed for 2 years.

 

[NuroMancer]

Still work there, going on 4 years (going to school, good part time job)

For what it is, it isn't bad. Love the discount.

Anything with customers helps most carrer paths. Retail for a first job is a good foundation.

 

[Tuktuk]

I thought myself an idiot for ever wanting to jump out of school and into the real world. Three months later, I was back in school. 2 hour work days > 8 hour work days.

Although I quit just as I'd got settled and the money was starting to pile up.. I imagine that would've made things better. The sad thing is I'm a liberal arts major so ater I graduate I probably won't even be making the 26k/year I got there.

 

[Lola]

I thought it was going to be just a part time job, but i realized i was quite good at it and that was it. I am still doing it today.
My first real job is now my career.

 

[2Dead]

I guess I'm still technically on my first job (over 3 years) but much further than where I started. Yes, I still see and say hi to everyone.

 

[DVad3r]

My first real job is where I am at now, a teaching assistant at a catholic elementary school. It's pretty good. My past jobs included:

Telemarketting
Security at various nightclubs
Computer tech with aunts bf and his peon company

 

[slsmnaz]

I just hit my 7 year anniv. at my first real job and still love it.

 

[bignateyk]

hmm.. i like mine. Work for a research lab at Penn State that does defense contracting, so I get paid well, great benefits, get my TS clearance paid for, and get to do some interesting work.

I will probably go out into industry after a few years just to boost my salary, and then I plan on coming back to this job so I get a higher salary, and still get to do the same fun stuff.

 

[Aikouka]

It's alright and in my field, but it's more of the... non-analytical aspect I guess you could say. Personally, I love getting out a piece of paper and working out formulas to figure out a difficult problem, but I don't get that fun right now .

 

[MisterJackson]

I was 13/14 and started working at a nursey (The garden variety, not a kid nursery). It was hard, back breaking work and I loved it. I think it set the tone for my work ethic for every job thereafter. My favorite one was after that, I worked with a land survey crew when I was 16 and that job made the first one look like a peice of cake hard work wise. It was awesome though, always being outside, had a tan you wouldn't believe, and long hair to boot....the ladies loved it. Now I run a PC repair shop and I'm not quite as tan .

 

[goatjc]

Leaving my 1st job this Friday. . .only after 4 months. I thought I'd be learning a whole lot of stuff when, in reality, I'm basically a grunt on the line that just pushes out orders day in day out w/o any advancement opportunities.

 

[Art Vandelay]

I left my first real job a month ago. I hated the job and people there so much...

Anyways, I got a new job offer on Monday and I start on March 1st

 

[monk3y]

It was an OK and yes it was related to my major. I really didn't mind it but it definately wasn't what I wanted to continue to do for the rest of my life. I found a better position 6 months later.

 

[theknight571]

Still at my first job... sorta... due to mergers and internal shuffling the job has changed since day one... but I'm still here after 13 years.

 

[NuAlphaMan]

I loved it! I was being paid to be a programmer! I would have done that for free. Well, maybe room and board. The environment was pretty hectic (a bunch of layoffs were happening). I stayed for about 2 years and got another job. I'm still a programmer, but now I'm trying to get more into project management and leave to coding to the younger folks!

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: DVad3r
My first real job is where I am at now, a teaching assistant at a catholic elementary school. It's pretty good. My past jobs included:

Telemarketting
Security at various nightclubs
Computer tech with aunts bf and his peon company

I used to tutor at a Catholic highschool.

Believe me, that's where it's at.

- M4H

 

[slikmunks]

didn't like it, didn't require much thought, basically grunt work and a waste of my degree... so i found something better and quit. new job? awesome!

 

[LS20]

not exactly what i wanted to do, and i cant see myself doing it for long, but its very easy and the pay is great. the job is awesome per se. kinda like a ferrari guy driving a porsche.

 

[trmiv]

I hated it. Just like my second real job and now my third real job.

 

[Rudee]

I got into the trades after I graduated high school in 84. After nearly a decade of working in the trades I decided I wanted to have a white collar job with better pay and more opportunity for growth. I went back to University and got my degree in Mechanical Engineering. What I remember from the days of working in the trades (sheet metal) was the filth, noise, dirt, and poor attitude. The money was good for being young a the time, but God, I hated getting up everyday to go to work.

 

[erniec]

first real job? the one i have now been here for almost 8 years

 

[Muse]

Um, what's a "real" job?

My first job was as a young teenager working at a local movie theater. I think my cousin worked there. I was an usher. I worked one night and next time I came to work my boss asked me where I'd been. He claimed he told me I was supposed to come in on an earlier day. Total BS. So, I was fired. Work sucks! Unless you love your job/work. I've had a few of those, but just a few.