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How would I get a decent summer job?

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LW07

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Alright, I've just turned 18, and I want to know what would be a decent job for me to get until I get into college this fall.

I'd prefer a job where I didn't have to work with people so much. Any suggestions?

Is walmart a good place to apply?
 
Fast food. You will learn a ton about treating people with respect, whether it be your bosses, your co-workers, or the customers. You will learn to be calm and patient when things are hectic, when customers are rude, and when your boss acts like a dick.

You will learn how shitty some people have it, seeing as their 9-5 involves coming to work at a fast food joint.

You will appreciate college and won't take your education for granted, because if you do, you'll end up back where you started.
 
Originally posted by: scorpious
Fast food. You will learn a ton about treating people with respect, whether it be your bosses, your co-workers, or the customers. You will learn to be calm and patient when things are hectic, when customers are rude, and when your boss acts like a dick.

You will learn how shitty some people have it, seeing as their 9-5 involves coming to work at a fast food joint.

You will appreciate college and won't take your education for granted, because if you do, you'll end up back where you started.
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Thing is I don't want to go to McDonalds or such places where managers are pretty much on your case yelling at you over 9000 times a day, and where you can get fired if your sick and need a day off.

I also tried telemarketing last year and absolutely HATED it. People hanging up on me, yelling at me, and the managers not helping either by telling me to "smile and dial"(I personally don't like smiling and acting pleasant when someone is giving me an earful over the phone) all the time and constantly hounding me and then when someone else was lucky enough to make a sale they'd act like gameshow hosts and say "so-and-so made a sale boss! way to go! way to go!"

I quit that job in 3 days.
 
Originally posted by: LW07
Originally posted by: scorpious
Fast food. You will learn a ton about treating people with respect, whether it be your bosses, your co-workers, or the customers. You will learn to be calm and patient when things are hectic, when customers are rude, and when your boss acts like a dick.

You will learn how shitty some people have it, seeing as their 9-5 involves coming to work at a fast food joint.

You will appreciate college and won't take your education for granted, because if you do, you'll end up back where you started.
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Thing is I don't want to go to McDonalds or such places where managers are pretty much on your case yelling at you over 9000 times a day, and where you can get fired if your sick and need a day off.
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Just make sure to maintain your stance of dominance and the manager will not yell.
 
You won't be able to avoid people so much at that age due to the nature of jobs you'll get. Why don't you do landscaping?
 
So i guess no matter what I'll have to put up with old grouches, hounding bosses, and screaming babies(which would probably be the bane of me working at a retail/fast food store) all day.
 
I worked at a pizza place and really enjoyed it. At that age I'd take whatever job sounds the most fun.. for me it was tossing around pizzas
 
Originally posted by: LW07
Originally posted by: scorpious
Fast food. You will learn a ton about treating people with respect, whether it be your bosses, your co-workers, or the customers. You will learn to be calm and patient when things are hectic, when customers are rude, and when your boss acts like a dick.

You will learn how shitty some people have it, seeing as their 9-5 involves coming to work at a fast food joint.

You will appreciate college and won't take your education for granted, because if you do, you'll end up back where you started.
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Thing is I don't want to go to McDonalds or such places where managers are pretty much on your case yelling at you over 9000 times a day, and where you can get fired if your sick and need a day off.
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That's the point. You deal with stuff like that to build your character. When some person down the road starts bitching at you, say in your corporate office, and you are responding in a cool and collected manner while your co-workers are watching, it's going to speak wonders about your maturity level.

A manager will yell at you only if you're a fuckup. If you learn how to deal with a boss at the fast food level, it will be much easier to deal with the boss at the corporate level.
 
Don't get too picky with jobs. If something pays enough for how much work you'll be doing, apply. Just go pretty much anywhere that looks like it would be an ok place to work - most places don't put out "for hire" signs when they need people. Just go in and ask for an application. The one thing employers like is persistence - let them know that you want the job by calling and asking about it if they're taking awhile to get back to you on interviews, show up for all training sessions, etc.
 
Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Don't get too picky with jobs. If something pays enough for how much work you'll be doing, apply. Just go pretty much anywhere that looks like it would be an ok place to work - most places don't put out "for hire" signs when they need people. Just go in and ask for an application. The one thing employers like is persistence - let them know that you want the job by calling and asking about it if they're taking awhile to get back to you on interviews, show up for all training sessions, etc.
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Last year when I tried that follow up thing at a McDonalds the manager was a complete ***** to me.
 
Originally posted by: LW07
Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Don't get too picky with jobs. If something pays enough for how much work you'll be doing, apply. Just go pretty much anywhere that looks like it would be an ok place to work - most places don't put out "for hire" signs when they need people. Just go in and ask for an application. The one thing employers like is persistence - let them know that you want the job by calling and asking about it if they're taking awhile to get back to you on interviews, show up for all training sessions, etc.
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Last year when I tried that follow up thing at a McDonalds the manager was a complete ***** to me.
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You don't really sound like you want a job that badly.
 
Originally posted by: LW07
Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Don't get too picky with jobs. If something pays enough for how much work you'll be doing, apply. Just go pretty much anywhere that looks like it would be an ok place to work - most places don't put out "for hire" signs when they need people. Just go in and ask for an application. The one thing employers like is persistence - let them know that you want the job by calling and asking about it if they're taking awhile to get back to you on interviews, show up for all training sessions, etc.
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Last year when I tried that follow up thing at a McDonalds the manager was a complete ***** to me.
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Then show him your stance of dominance. That's odd though; put yourself in the employer's shoes: Are you going to hire the druggie kid who hands in his application and never comes back, or the kid who shows up in a button-down shirt and comes back asking if he got the job a week later?
 
look into fedex/ups distro centers. they pay better than fast food. the only thing you may be turned off by is that it is actually pretty physically demanding. but they both offer tuition reimbursement iirc.
 
Originally posted by: waffleironhead
look into fedex/ups distro centers. they pay better than fast food. the only thing you may be turned off by is that it is actually pretty physically demanding. but they both offer tuition reimbursement iirc.
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I do need to lose some weight so that would actually be a good job for me.
 
When I was a senior in HS and my first year in college, I worked at Pep Boys. Better pay than fast food. Yes it is retail, but you can actually learn about useful stuff. I eventually moved from the parts desk to service writer.

And yes it is physically demanding as well. Stocking tires for 4-5 hours after a truck is hard work.
 
Originally posted by: LW07
So i guess no matter what I'll have to put up with old grouches, hounding bosses, and screaming babies(which would probably be the bane of me working at a retail/fast food store) all day.
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It sounds like it's just what you need.
 
Originally posted by: LW07
So i guess no matter what I'll have to put up with old grouches, hounding bosses, and screaming babies(which would probably be the bane of me working at a retail/fast food store) all day.
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No matter where you go you will have customers (may be internal, not just retail) and managers and bad attitudes. How you respond to a bad attitude is, in large part, what makes you a good or bad employee.

See if a local ISP is hiring. You could do some tech support or whatever, may be less people interaction than other jobs.
 
get a job with Greenpeace standing on the street corners in major cities/college towns with the other fools and be horribly dehumanized each day while making little to no money.


It's what they call "character building."

 
Originally posted by: LW07
So i guess no matter what I'll have to put up with old grouches, hounding bosses, and screaming babies(which would probably be the bane of me working at a retail/fast food store) all day.
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welcome to the real world. It isn't all fun and games like you think its going to be. Most people's lives end up exactly like they DONT want them to be...
 
I'd go for construction, moving, landscaping. Any kind of physical labor will pay pretty good and it will do your body good.

I made 8.50 an hour back in 1989 as a mover and worked 60 hours a week. Not bad scratch back then.
 
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