Risso Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 Everybody elses job is easy, right? Yours is! Press the start button, then press the stop button. Even the guards open the doors! (Massive winky thing!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 Being an ESL teacher is pretty easy and you can flit between countries whenever you want. Unless you get married and have a ball and chain around your ankle... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 Care worker at nursing home.. Awful job, minimum wage, have to work crap shifts, can get punched/kicked/scratched by patients and have to wipe people's asses That's not true. Looking after pets is not part of the job. Eh? Yeah, this one lost me too. Chris just explained though - asses = donkies Get ya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voinjama Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 Binmen have been quite well paid for years. My dad spent his career as a carpenter for the city council and even when he was starting out in the early 70s binmen were amongst the best paid manual council workers and also had the best contact package. It always used to be the case that there was a lot of racial discrimination on the bins - it was a well-paid job, with thieving perks, and the white guys made sure they had a monopoly. You never saw a black or Asian binmen (not sure if you do now, come to think of it). So I was rather surprised when I went to the USA and found that (in Baltimore at any rate) ALL the binmen were black. In Baltimore, no shit sherlock. Most of the binmen in Nigeria are black as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted September 18, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted September 18, 2013 (edited) I'm being recruited for a firm in Northern Virginia which develops software to enable various and sundry organizations* to quickly analyze vast quantities of data...*: they don't really list any customers, which is strange for analytics software firms, but whoever's paying them, they're paying a lot. Edited September 18, 2013 by leviramsey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meath_Villan Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 all this talk of binmen .....Its a load of old rubbish .....huh ....huh.......anyone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted September 18, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted September 18, 2013 Binmen have been quite well paid for years. My dad spent his career as a carpenter for the city council and even when he was starting out in the early 70s binmen were amongst the best paid manual council workers and also had the best contact package. It always used to be the case that there was a lot of racial discrimination on the bins - it was a well-paid job, with thieving perks, and the white guys made sure they had a monopoly. You never saw a black or Asian binmen (not sure if you do now, come to think of it). So I was rather surprised when I went to the USA and found that (in Baltimore at any rate) ALL the binmen were black. In Baltimore, no shit sherlock. Most of the binmen in Nigeria are black as well. Good point! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PompeyVillan Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 Working in a sales call center is my idea of job he'll, and the idea of doing the bins ain't so bad to me. You get to drive a massive truck and finish work very early. You are always moving and probably get some good mates. Not that I would want to be mates with our binmen, they're words removed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voinjama Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 I have worked in a sales call centre. It wasn't for me. the constant rejections from cold calling and the repetition of having to make so many calls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 It's also not a very 'worthy' job, is it. In fact, people would probably prefer it if you didn't do that job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 When I was between building jobs I took a temp job at a factory that made jubilee clips to hold electric fire alarms cables together, my job was to sit at a machine and cut strips of 3 metre long metal into 6 inch strips then pass them on. Completely depressing for the 3 or so weeks I was there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockingbird_franklin Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 When I was between building jobs I took a temp job at a factory that made jubilee clips to hold electric fire alarms cables together, my job was to sit at a machine and cut strips of 3 metre long metal into 6 inch strips then pass them on. Completely depressing for the 3 or so weeks I was there. I work in a factory as an electroplater, but could never see myself sticking to a repetitive production line job, I have loads of variability and the need to make decisions and think creatively to solve problems. It's actually quite a skilled job, unlike the dippers that often populate the electroplating industry. money isn't all that considering you're working with loads of nasty and potentially cancer causing chemicals, but it's only a couple of grand off average wage as I work within the Aerospace industry, but for electroplating it's very well paid, Are bin men worth 8-10k a year more than me for the jobs we do, never in a million years, I think to gain the level of knowledge, experience and skill required to do my job would take a fair few years more than taking away rubbish to a proficient level would require,. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted September 19, 2013 Moderator Share Posted September 19, 2013 Bin men are used to massive tips, as well. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Bin men are used to massive tips, as well. Good point. Greedy buggers. Could always refuse them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted September 19, 2013 Author Share Posted September 19, 2013 I wish I'd picked something less controversial to kick it off, like footballer, whore or MP. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Hand jobs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 When I was between building jobs I took a temp job at a factory that made jubilee clips to hold electric fire alarms cables together, my job was to sit at a machine and cut strips of 3 metre long metal into 6 inch strips then pass them on. Completely depressing for the 3 or so weeks I was there. I work in a factory as an electroplater, but could never see myself sticking to a repetitive production line job, I have loads of variability and the need to make decisions and think creatively to solve problems. It's actually quite a skilled job, unlike the dippers that often populate the electroplating industry. money isn't all that considering you're working with loads of nasty and potentially cancer causing chemicals, but it's only a couple of grand off average wage as I work within the Aerospace industry, but for electroplating it's very well paid, Are bin men worth 8-10k a year more than me for the jobs we do, never in a million years, I think to gain the level of knowledge, experience and skill required to do my job would take a fair few years more than taking away rubbish to a proficient level would require,. Its probably the only time I've ever got so down over going to work, after the first hour I was clock watching there, Everyone else there was 50+ so I had to listen to saga fm all day, I wasn't allowed to take my mp3 player to listen to, the times i was ready to just walk out but i needed the cash, easily the worst job I've ever had. Luckily having a trade now im pretty much free to work wherever i want, i could never do an office job, i like being able to look at something and think I've built that, that will still be there 100 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 I once had a temp job which was just scanning. I had been taken on to scan all the invoices the company had raised or received in the last 5 years. Even the guy who took me on said he felt sorry for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelVilla Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 I slaughtered chickens as one of my first jobs, I rarely complain about my work nowadays because of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted September 20, 2013 Author Share Posted September 20, 2013 I slaughtered chickens as one of my first jobs, I rarely complain about my work nowadays because of that. a lot of jobs were lost when the cut out the middle man and streamlined the whole process Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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