This is so pathetic...

[BigToque]

I know my parents are forcing me up at 6am today, and I'm still farting around on the AT forums at 3am!

Someone shoot me!

 

[Soybomb]

/me draws his sniper rifle.....

why 6am.....ugh!

 

[BiggieN]

why do you have to get up at 6 today?

 

[BigToque]

cause my parents are making me look for a job!

There telling me "you gotta get up early and start knocking on the doors if you want a job"

meanwhile, I'm thinking "fsck you... the stores dont even open till 8 at the earliest"

so I tell them I dont want some piss poor job moving boxes. I want to work somewhere where I will actually learn something (I just applied at a local ISP). They just dont stop bugging me!

damn parents. why do they gotta be parents, and not be cool and let me sleep in till 3pm?!?!

 

[DAM]

how old are you?




dam()

 

[BiggieN]

tomorrow is not the time to be applying at retail stores.

 

[BigToque]

Dam,

I'm 18. I obviously need (and want) a job, and I have been looking for one. I think my problem is that I think too highly of myself. I refuse to work at places like McDonalds. I want a semi-decent job, but I think its eventually gonna hit me that without university education, I dont mean jack-sh!t to anyone out there

BiggieN,

I live in Canada. We already had thanksgiving, so tomorrow is not a special day here. (although I wish it was)

 

[IBhacknU]

as a former retail manager of many years, don't go bothering the shops that early in the morning. A manager has enough other things on their mind at 8:00am. Wait until at least mid-morning.

 

[BigToque]

<< A manager has enough other things on their mind at 8:00am >>



Ya like wanting to wake up like the rest of the world at 12pm

 

[BiggieN]

i went applying when it settled down so that a manager can give me an semi-pre-interview so that they would have me fresh on their mind. i think the best time would be 2-3? right after lunch.

 

[IBhacknU]

BiggieN is right. Mid afternoon is best.

also, do a bit of research. Know what the store/shop sells or does. Don't just walk in and say &quot;Hi, my name is Stefan, I'd like a job. I'm a hard worker&quot;

SELL YOURSELF!

 

[BigToque]

2 hours before I'm rudely awaken by the beasts down the hall.

 

[IBhacknU]

and oh yea....

GET SOME FRICK'N SLEEP!!!

Who's gonna hire you looking like you just got 2 hours sleep?

 

[BigToque]

adios... I'm gonna try to get to sleep before 5.

 

[Ausm]

I got my first job when I was 12 and went fulltime when I was 14...times do change

Ausm

 

[Isla]

Yup Ausm...

I was babysitting by 12, a floor guard at a skating rink at 15, and working with the veterinarian by the time I was 16.

Maybe it was because my parents didn't have much money, and they were spending what little they had to send my 3 older siblings to college? And not just any colleges... the very best that my brother and sisters could manage to get in, which generally meant far away and more expensive.

 

[Viper GTS]

18 years old &amp; you don't have a job? That's really sad, I can see why they're pushing you. I've been paying $400 a month rent to my parents since I was 17, so I don't have too much pity for you.

Viper GTS

 

[NicColt]

at 15 I was on my own with no money, my own alcoholic parents put me out. Luckily I got a job on a farm that same day with room and board, for the summer. Then I had to leave, so I took the bus to the city, spent the night in a motel and then rented my own 1 room App. I had to buy my own food, everything. I had 1,800 save up from the farm job. That same week I got work at Mickeys it served two purposes hehe. Took some computer courses at night and the rest is history. but I still did it all on my own. Thank God my wife is loaded hehe, I smell retirement soon.

 

[Ranger X]

Stefan, you're such an addict.