Job's anyone?

[Souske]

Well lets start off by saying, if this topic is in the wrong area..please correct me.

So I've told about my good day, I am working for a company called Diebold, I will be fixing ATM's and what not, which is a BIG responsibility in my opinion since I am only 19 lol. I start this Saturday (US time) at 8 in the morning till 10 at night, for Saturday and Sunday @____@ LONG hours I think.

But pay is good and I will get 11$ an hour for the 1st time.

So what kind of jobs does everyone have? and tell us about what you do.

 

[Tsuyoiko]

Wow, 14 hours is a long shift! And only 10 hours between shifts too. I think that's illegal here. But it sounds like an interesting job, and as you say, a lot of responsibility for someone your age. I'm sure there can't be many people who get the opportunity to get great experience like that so early in life, so well done

I work in the timetabling office of a university. Most of our students study dual honours programmes, so it's our job to ensure that all lectures and tutorials fit into the timetable so that students don't have any clashes. We also schedule everything into appropriate rooms with all the right equipment, allocate students to tutorial and lab groups and model new programmes so that we can advise academics on whether they will fit into the timetable. I also administer the annual space audit, which involves contacting all departments across the university, asking them to confirm the rooms they own and recording this in a database.

Sometimes my job is very boring. There are days when I have practically nothing to do. Some of the work is very mundane: booking a room for a one-off event, that sort of thing. The modelling work is what I like best, because then I get to do some advanced database work, including SQL.

I guess it's a bit vulgar to tell people how much you earn. My pay isn't great - it's well below the national average wage. But what the hell, the full time equivalent is around ﾂ≫??8.5k, although I only work part time. It works out at about ﾂ≫?? an hour. I think it's a little too high for the mundane tasks and a fair bit too low for the advanced stuff, so I guess it evens out. At least I don't have to pay back my student loans LOL

 

[Souske]

lol talk about student loans, I hope to pay mines off right after I graduate lol.

Yea 14 hours is long but they add up your breaks, the driving distance and everything so it add's up, can't complain though since I think most jobs require an off the clock break, but here your always on call and on the clock. OJT (On the Job Training) gives me more hours I need hehe.

well, I could never do a job that required me to do any booking, scheduling for others, I would end up clashing everything at once lol...but at 19 working as an ATM tech and everything is provided such as a cellphone is awesome, McDonalds does not do that haha.

Eh, telling someone how much you earn isn't rubbing it in someone's face, now telling them how much money you have in the bank is different.

 

[Tsuyoiko]

On-the-clock breaks is a pretty nice perk, wish I had those

 

[Davey]

I'm an Assistant Language Teacher (although I teach 80% by myself) in Kobe, Japan. I start work at 8.30 have 4 classes (3rd to 6th graders) have lunch with the kids, then after the break I will have another class. Before I go home (4.30) I have to prepare for the next time that I go to the school, and have meetings for that.

I enjoy my work, but I'm getting tired of going from school to school for already 2.5 years now (I've been to over 30 schools now) so I am ready for the next step in my life.

I got a nice job offer last week, not to far from here and payed holidays. But I will not cheer before I sign the contract.

(beside the elementary schools I go to, I also have a Saturday class for kids from 3 up to 9 years old)

 

[Souske]

Hey dutch! well I am glad your enjoying your teaching life, I can under stand why you would teach english 80% of the time, since isn't your native language English?

But it would be nice to stay permanent at the job you like.

I can't wait till tomorrow for me, since I start my 1st day on the job, but most of it is maining Training purposes, I still get paid though hehe.

 

[Zulan Grey]

I work in the POI FEB RAS (that is abbreviate of scientific institute). I am programmer. Work with our computers, sites etc... I work more then 10 years

 

[Grandpa Frank]

Many many different jobs if you live long enough.

Let's see? At 15 , a dishwasher and then salad/desert maker. Then the US Navy as a communications Tech. Then college with security guard jobs for extra money. Then a cop for about a year. Then 20 years in the automotive industry as a inventory/purchasing agent. Then 1 year in a transmission repair shop. Then a file room manager for Blue Cross/Blue Shield for 4 years. And now, for the last 14 years, taking care of elderly people in their home as a Home Health Aid/Certified Nurseing Assistant. I am finding my body can not handle heavy lifting of patients anymore, so I hope to try a new job soon.I hope before I retire, I can get in a few more interesting jobs.

Uncle Frank

☝

 

[becki_kanou]

I came to Japan as an ALT like Dutch Baka, then when my contract finished I came back as an eikaiwa teacher at you-know-where. I was lucky and had an offer to buy a private school a few months before the big collapse so I got out without any ill-effects (unfortunately I can't say the same for many of my friends).

So now I have my own private eikaiwa in my house with about 60 students per week. I love not having to commute and I love being my own boss. I also love being able to choose my own students. When I worked at the big eikaiwa they were only concerned about money and often admitted students who were rude, or sexually harassing to the female teachers, or just plain mentally unstable. Now I only admit nice, friendly, pleasant students and I enjoy my job every day!

 

[Mike Cash]

Wow, 14 hours is a long shift!

Fourteen hours is my average workday, six days a week. When I was in the Navy and my ship was underway, it was a minimum of 12 hours a day, seven days a week.
What sort of work have I done?

1. Fueler/Flunky/Air Traffic Controller at a one-horse municipal airport (I was 14).
2. Busboy/Baker/Grill Guy at a steak house
3. Cabbage harvesting
4. Dishwasher at a different steak house
5. Operations Specialist in the USN
6. Making/delivering pizzas
7. English teacher
8. Truck Driver

 

[-Rudel-]

I don't have as many years in the work force as Mike or Frank,

But I've done my fair share at Ford Company cleaning shop, detailing & arranging cars on the lot.

I enlisted in the Marines as a Radio, Switchboard, Computer Tech, and have re-enlisted as a Satellite Tech.

 

[Davey]

work experience...

Well not as many years as most of you, but this is what I have done until now:

Delivering news papers, and advertisement pamphlets (shity job that was when I was 13).
I worked in a snackbar when I was 15 for a couple of months (where I ate fried chips every day... lol).
I filled shapes in a super market (16).
Had a summer job at the main office of a cleaning company (sorting papers etc).
I worked as a cleaner in companies such as Heineken, KLM, and TNT Post.
I was a shop clerk in a clothes store for 2 years (H&M Amsterdam).
I was a phone tester for Docomo (I-mode Europe) for 6 months... which was a really relaxing job sitting in the WTC Amsterdam highest floor with a view over the whole city.

When I was in Australia for 9 months I did a lot of fruit picking, fruit pluming, wine botteling, car washing (in a rich area... where you can wash very very very nice cars), Subways (yes the sandwich shop), building Green houses, and putting forks and knifes in plastic bags for everyone in the airplanes.

In Japan, I have only worked as an English teacher (can you believe that lol) at a couple of international schools, and 2 dispatch companies (Interac and W5SS).

I do hope to find something that I really like in the future.

 

[becki_kanou]

In high school I worked as a video shop clerk, and at the one-hour photo lab.

At uni I worked as an assistant in the faculty nursery, as a stage hand building large props in the theater department and as a teaching assistant/tutor in the Japanese department tutoring first/second years and grading homework.

During summer vacations I worked in the local mall at a housewares shop and a framing shop, and as night shift service desk attendant at K-mart.

Right before I came to Japan I worked at the corner liquor store for about 2 months selling beer and lotto tickets.

In between being an ALT and working at the big eikaiwa I was a housepainter for 3 months in the States while I waited for my visa.