Wow! That's awesome, Fendi! I really hope things will turn out great for you. Let us know how things went :D
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Wow! That's awesome, Fendi! I really hope things will turn out great for you. Let us know how things went :D
Well well, I got a new job offer a few days ago. I'd be working in a specialized clinic for dental prosthetics, and it's in a city called Queretaro, about 200km away from Mexico City.
It's not exactly the place I wanted to go to, but it still seems very promising, and it looks pretty gorgeous! The University there also has the specialty I want to study, so I might as well do my masters there, if possible.
This might just be the kind of new beginning I need :) I think I'll take it.
Another plus is, I'll be able to easily go to Mexico City and see TLKoB, woohoo! :D
Ooh, that's exciting news Leor! I feel like I want a new beginning too. :p Good luck with everything and congratulations!
New beginnings sound great, new people to meet and places to explore :cheese:
Congratulations Leor, We're all proud of you man. :cheese:
Nice to know that Emilio, I wish you all luck in your new challenges there.
I'm not looking forward for the event to be honest, I have been delayed couple of times. :lol:
Actually I'm looking forward for record more music for the band, I was at the studio and they treat the band equally and full of ideas. I'm looking forward for next session than anything. :cheese: :wow:
Congrats on the new job Leo! Hope it's going well.
I also recently made a career switch...guess that new beginning vibe is floating around, neh? ;)
I resigned from teaching this summer and moved 800 miles from home to basically take a year long sabbatical to work on my art. After 5 years of trying to make it work I decided I just had to go all in for illustration instead of trying to find time for it in my crazy packed schedule. I figure if I fall flat on my face at least I can always go back to teaching or use the education degree to get into some other line of work since education is one of those ubiquitous type careers.
So...I guess technically my new job is that I'm unemployed right now? xD Or rather, self-employed. But hopeful! I actually made some cool animation/illustration industry connections before I left Texas that I will be keeping in touch with as I improve. Hopefully they can help me get to where I'd like to be.
Just wanted to say that me and my band performed in Northern Malaysia on New Year's week, sadly it didn't get paid because there's absolutely zero crowd except for other bandmembers and photographers. So there's no absolutely paycheck sadly.
2 weeks ago, I had an evaluation from my current job, amazing! I'm super social, I'm super nice according to my boss, I make an effort to fit in, the team-building day she was amazed on how well I did (even with the panic disorder, being dumped in a clue-room with no way out).
All extremely positive things.
Where with my previous job, nothing but lies and negative comments about me, and me being anti-social and bla bla.
My boss now keeps saying the person I'm replacing is not going to come back, neither is the other person (1 has MS, the other healing from cancer). So that's 2 people they lost, so hopefully I get to stay there for a longer time (now, I'm only guaranteed untill the end of the year).
That's really great Nath, congrats! :D It's always nice when someone recognizes your efforts.
Yeah, I was almost gonna cry, haha!
'Cause my previous job was that bad. The job wasn't bad, the people were! I'm in a very different envirement right now, so people are very different there in opinions and such, I just fit in more.
My boss also told me she recognizes a lot of her in me, and I kind of feel the same way about her, hehe.
That's so awesome Nathalie, very glad to hear it :)
Hey, just want let you guys know that I'm working with Uber car now, This is typically my type of job to be honest, working way before the sun rise and go back home after noon around 2 or 3pm. Hopefully this paycheck is even better for building my new PC.
Uber? The cab company?
That's Nice zack, I just hope there is no fight with the taxis drivers, as here there is a lot of violence of the taxi drivers against uber drivers. They don't want the competition...
I still work on the same job, but I received an upgrade and no longer work directly with the public (which was a real gift for me, I was becoming stressed of so much stressed people in front of me)
Right now I'm producing smartcards which our clients will use to access the on-line system. As that card has it's signature and photo, I do the upload of those, adjust, then print the card itself
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Well, is not the best job in the world but is better than many others :)
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Sooooo ... End of this month I should be able to know if get to stay for a bit longer at my job.
It's merging with another company. I also got the e-mail where I need to pick what I'd like to do after the merge.
I feel it's really unsensitive of them to ask me what my choices are, if they don't wanna take me along after the merge :/
And as much as I hated my old boss, that much I'm loving my new boss, haha, she's amazing.
My supervisor not so much, but I've managed to put her into place every single time (in a polite way off course, hehe).
Keep saying I did stuff wrong, while I didn't, but I can clean up the mess, how is that making the one who made the mess learn from it?
Considering I'm 17, I've only had two jobs. One was a lifeguard at a pool, and currently I'm a lifeguard at a resort water park. The first one paid minimum wage and the second one gets me eight bucks an hour. As for difficulty, the water park job is incredibly taxing and usually leaves you drenched in chlorine and your own sweat. But, money heals all pain I suppose.
As for a career, I'm looking at commissioning into the Air Force and either flying, working in the Office of Special Investigations, or fighting as a TACP special forces operator.
Nice, what a great choice for your future. I know few of the members I know here are working with the army. Working with the Special Forces sounds promising. :cheese:
Thanks, Guntur! Ever since I started doing things as a cadet, the military, and the Air Force specifically, has absolutely drawn me to it. I want to do important, exciting, perhaps a bit dangerous, and meaningful work that has me traveling around the world and doesn't leave me at a desk. TACP is a really interesting career field, too. They're the Air Force guys who fight on the ground with Army Rangers and call in close air support. Really high speed group of people, they are.
I am currently a science teacher on summer break. :timonrelax:
It is nice, yes. But I don't really have summers off. I've already earned my paychecks for the two months I'm off, but the state holds it back so they can pay me then. I also have trainings starting next month (boo).
You're welcome. :) Science teachers are a special kind of crazy. :evilgrin:
I am a supervisor at a factory conducting many different forms of heat treatment, my own department specialises in Plasma Nitriding and that's all I'm allowed to say about that. I Have been here for a number of years now and I'm currently under going training internal and external to become the next Quality Manager.
Before that I spent a few months working at a Jaguar Land Rover site working on the production line. Reason for leaving - got a better offer.
Before that I worked I a warehouse painting furniture for events. Reason for leaving - it was bad for the environment.
Before that I sold sandwiches on a wagon - awesome in the summer. Reason for leaving - it got awkward.
Before that I worked I a garage painting cars and doing body work. Reason for leaving - argument with my boss.
Before that another garage doing the same. Reason for leaving - it shut down.
In have never not worked since leaving education.
I got a new job today! ^____^ Hostess at Benihana (Japanese restaurant). I'm currently working at Walmart (Sales Associate); have been for 4 years.... Gonna give my two weeks notice on Thursday.
Congrats Nalas! I've never heard of that place before but I looked it up online; I realize i have heard of it. :lol: It looks like a great place to work! :)
I think i last posted about my terrifying workload of a job in September 2015. All the hard work paid off; I was recruited for an Associate Analyst position within Cyber Security for the credit card company! I've been in the role for a month and am their first hybrid (Cyber & Physical operations). It about doubled my income, so I am overly excited naturally. I'm also way ahead of my game too, nothing but great praise.
I can FINALLY SAY IT!
I HAVE A CAREER!
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Thanks, Utora! I had my orientation on Wednesday, and it went smoothly. I gave my two weeks notice to Walmart yesterday.... I'm excited to fully start my job at Benihana.
And congrats on your career! :D
I got fired last month. In very strange circumstances.
I'm doing my 2 months notice now, and my last day is September 23rd.
Shame. I really loved my job, not to mention the hours, and Thursdays off.
I didn't like my supervisor though, kept blaming me for stuff I didn't do, and I had to clean up everyone's mess.
The administrator director gave me some reasons.
Then my boss gave me some reasons.
I was great, I was fast, eager to learn, I'm great on the phone, nothing but great and good things. Why fire me? lol
So they hired someone new for the front desk, and moved someone else from front desk to my position. So that's 2 people they need to learn new stuff. Instead of just keeping me, who already knows how to do everything?
But turns out my supervisor didn't really like me. I'm her help, so if she doesn't like me, then that's tough luck for me.
Other collegues have been telling stories about her to me these past 3 weeks, that made my jaw drop!
Also, she was on holidays and back last week Tuesday. It then took her 4 days, to read the e-mail that our boss had send, that I'm leaving.
Strange.
When I casually told her last week Friday "You know I'm leaving at the end of September?" she started looking at her PC screen and says "oh yeah, I'm just seeing the e-mail right now".
1. no, you didn't just see that e-mail, you've been back for 4 days already
2. how on earth could you not know that I got fired? You are my supervisor, I'm your help/assistant, surely you were the first to know
I told this to my other collegues tomorrow, and they broke down in hilarious laughter, telling me she was indeed the first to know I wasn't staying.
Why does this crap always happen to me -_-
I've been nothing but nice to her, but I guess whenever she told me I did something wrong, while it wasn't me, I opened my mouth!
I'm not going to let someone accuse me of doing things wrong, while I didn't! And I made sure the entire office could here.
I didn't want other to think, that I kept doing stuff wrong, while I didn't.
I guess you're interested in knowing now ha ? haha :p
You could just easily ask him, hehe ^^
But yes, there's unemployment "benefits".
But only if they fire you. If you quit, you get nothing.
They keep paying me monthly for as long as I'm there, which is normal/obvious.
If I had decided I didn't want to do my 2 months notice, then they would have payed me those 2 months in 1 time, and I didn't had to work anymore those 2 months.
Once you stop working, you can apply for the unemployment things, and you get a monthly pay, which gets less and less every few months, untill you find a new job.
:lol: Well I'm curious for you primarily.
Good....You have done Great Job.