Poll of the Day > Frustrating that my mom won't let me go unemployed for a while.

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Because she is insistent on making me work even though it is almost impossible to get a job that will work with my hours and doesn't suck complete ass to work at.

I am currently enrolled in school, and I want to use this as a means to get out of my job while I do other stuff at the same time as school like Uber, volunteer work, and actually looking for another job and better job.

I'm willing to work, I just don't want to work an insanely shitty job like Whataburger. Like holy shit.

Waiting for calls and doing interviews is also super annoying and frustrating. Especially when you have a job that you just want to get the fuck out of ASAP.
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you think you're the only one that doesn't want to clean toilets? pick up a brush and start scrubbing.

NEET lifestyle > *

thedeerzord posted...

Because she is insistent on making me work even though it is almost impossible to get a job that will work with my hours and doesn't suck complete ass to work at.

So.... entitlement issue?

thedeerzord posted...

I'm willing to work, I just don't want to work an insanely shitty job like Whataburger. Like holy shit.

Then work retail instead of food services.
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thedeerzord posted...

Because she is insistent on making me work even though it is almost impossible to get a job that will work with my hours and doesn't suck complete ass to work at.

I am currently enrolled in school, and I want to use this as a means to get out of my job while I do other stuff at the same time as school like Uber, volunteer work, and actually looking for another job and better job.

I'm willing to work, I just don't want to work an insanely shitty job like Whataburger. Like holy shit.

Waiting for calls and doing interviews is also super annoying and frustrating. Especially when you have a job that you just want to get the fuck out of ASAP.

That's why you get money to go in to work, rather than paying for the privilege.
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Zeus posted...

So.... entitlement issue?

Not so much as a an entitlement issue as it is an issue with my ability to get another job through interviews and such.
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@EvilResident posted...

NEET lifestyle > *

Wrong because tc is in school
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thedeerzord posted...

Waiting for calls and doing interviews is also super annoying and frustrating.

It is but hey at least you have a job. I'd rather be in work looking for work than not.
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Never work a crap job for too long. It WILL kill you. Working a crap job while attending school just multiplies the problems. I had five friends die from heart failure in the ten years I worked for a phone company, and I was frequently experiencing defibrillation which was putting me in cardiac arrest almost every month, until a few months after I quit.
If you want to weed out terrible jobs, get an account at Glassdoor (or use a browser extension to block their cookies and whatnot) and look for the negative reviews of the location or company overall. The negative reviews of the company I worked for seemed to be the same issues people had at my location. Random pay cuts, massive increases in workload, elimination of sick days, being fired for submitting your two-weeks notice, being fired for complaining "anonymously" about management, removal of incentives, people being cheated out of hundreds or thousands of dollars in bonuses by management, who got to keep the money that wasn't paid out to their subordinates, bed bugs, fleas, communicable diseases, being attacked in the parking lot, and hundreds of other things that make work miserable.
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MisterXiado posted...

Never work a crap job for too long. It WILL kill you. Working a crap job while attending school just multiplies the problems. I had five friends die from heart failure in the ten years I worked for a phone company, and I was frequently experiencing defibrillation which was putting me in cardiac arrest almost every month, until a few months after I quit.
If you want to weed out terrible jobs, get an account at Glassdoor (or use a browser extension to block their cookies and whatnot) and look for the negative reviews of the location or company overall. The negative reviews of the company I worked for seemed to be the same issues people had at my location. Random pay cuts, massive increases in workload, elimination of sick days, being fired for submitting your two-weeks notice, being fired for complaining "anonymously" about management, removal of incentives, people being cheated out of hundreds or thousands of dollars in bonuses by management, who got to keep the money that wasn't paid out to their subordinates, bed bugs, fleas, communicable diseases, being attacked in the parking lot, and hundreds of other things that make work miserable.

One my managers once asked me if I was going to go to school while I was working full time, with some weeks being 50+ hours.
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MisterXiado posted...

Never work a crap job for too long. It WILL kill you. Working a crap job while attending school just multiplies the problems. I had five friends die from heart failure in the ten years I worked for a phone company, and I was frequently experiencing defibrillation which was putting me in cardiac arrest almost every month, until a few months after I quit.

If you don't work crap jobs, you're going to be less prepared for workplace stress.

thedeerzord posted...

One my managers once asked me if I was going to go to school while I was working full time, with some weeks being 50+ hours.

That's what I did at times.
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Broken_Zeus posted...

If you don't work crap jobs, you're going to be less prepared for workplace stress.

It's not that I'm not prepared for it. Its just that I know there are a lot less stressful jobs out there that probably pay just as well.

I had a coworker leave to go work at a retirement home, and she told me that its so much less stressful and far more relaxed than at Whataburger. But the pay is the same.

Broken_Zeus posted...

That's what I did at times.

Did you have to pay all of your rent at the time? Or did you have roommate or two to help you financially?
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thedeerzord posted...

I had a coworker leave to go work at a retirement home, and she told me that its so much less stressful and far more relaxed than at Whataburger. But the pay is the same.

Then get a job at Whataburger until you can get a job at a retirement home.

thedeerzord posted...

Did you have to pay all of your rent at the time? Or did you have roommate or two to help you financially?

I had a *lot* of different living situations throughout college, which included roommates, girlfriends, camping, renting rooms in peoples' homes, couch surfing, etc. You gotta do what you gotta do, bro.
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What's your housing situation? How's your finances? Your mom may be short on money and just wants additional help. If she isn't and she's more worried about who you're becoming and you're work ethic or something, you probably just have to communicate more and better.

Applying for jobs sucks. Most places just ghost you. I recommend creating a portfolio of your works (make sure they look nice and don't suck), a resume that indicates clearly what skills you have (especially software skills), and a filing system for all the places you've applied.

If you're good with Excel, specify that you know how to create sheets, write formula, use vlookup, create pivot tables, etc. I don't know why some companies have such a hard-on for basic Excel, but saying you're proficient in it is not enough (plus, some people lie about their proficiency, which I saw a lot since I trained a lot of new employee).

Maybe sign up for a job searching website. I still have recruiters emailing me about positions even after I closed my accounts. I don't know how they're finding me. Must've missed one or something when I was closing them. Making a filing system is mostly for your own moral and benefit because it's gonna get demoralizing to not get any responses, but the system should keep a count for you to know that you're working and making progress. You can even borrow stuff from previous cover letters if positions are similar.

Anywho, life is a big waiting game a lot of the time and most people have no patience. Just keep doing what needs to be done.
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Sounds like TC needs a big change in residence. I was in the same boat and I left to a completely different province for the better.
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SpeedDemon20 posted...

Anywho, life is a big waiting game a lot of the time and most people have no patience.

Which does make sense, though. Most of the time, when people need a job to pay bills, its hard to have patience sometimes...
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