I get to make pies and croissants today!

[Rye]

For my job right now, the most rewarding thing is just working with the autistic children in general! Whenever they write out a sentence, or read a whole book, or converse with me I feel elated. I'm working with the same student this summer as I was last summer and he's using so many more words this year, I'm so proud of him.

And we sang a song before swim therapy yesterday, and he actually sang along with me, following the sequence of actions that the song was asking without a prompt from me. That is rewarding.

For my other job, at the deli, it's rewarding when I'm told that I make the best damn sandwiches.

And for my OTHER job, as a writing tutor, it's rewarding when I have my clients tell me I taught them better than their own professors after a long session of editing and writing lessons.

That sounds fantastic. It really gives you an amazing feeling when you can see an autistic child progress, no matter where they are on the spectrum. My brother has gotten so much better from a few years ago in his speech, it makes me feel so happy. From someone who has a lot of autistic kids in the family, what you do is a really important thing, Clo, and I appreciate people who do it.

[Bunny]

Not having a job is my favorite part about my job. :|

[Madame Adequate]

The favorite part of my job is definitely being able to order the extermination of billions.

[aquatius]

My favourite part is not having a job :P

But I do do babysitting casually for my mum's friend sometimes, and the best part is being offered any food and drink I want xD

[Raistlin]

I suppose actually seeing my work used in a case is pretty cool at first, whether it's my pleading being used or my research and recommendations being acknowledged and followed. That started wearing off when the workload increased.

Although for things not related to the actual work, the people I work for and with are pretty great.

[DarkBahamut]

When I worked at GameStop, i'd love it when people would ask for recommendations. And when ppl asked about FF games, I'd talk for hours.

[fire_of_avalon]

My favorite part of my job is all the puzzle solving.

My least favorite part is when people double cross, stab me in the back or let me down.

[Nominus Experse]

wef3

[Clo]

For my job right now, the most rewarding thing is just working with the autistic children in general! Whenever they write out a sentence, or read a whole book, or converse with me I feel elated. I'm working with the same student this summer as I was last summer and he's using so many more words this year, I'm so proud of him.

And we sang a song before swim therapy yesterday, and he actually sang along with me, following the sequence of actions that the song was asking without a prompt from me. That is rewarding.

For my other job, at the deli, it's rewarding when I'm told that I make the best damn sandwiches.

And for my OTHER job, as a writing tutor, it's rewarding when I have my clients tell me I taught them better than their own professors after a long session of editing and writing lessons.

That sounds fantastic. It really gives you an amazing feeling when you can see an autistic child progress, no matter where they are on the spectrum. My brother has gotten so much better from a few years ago in his speech, it makes me feel so happy. From someone who has a lot of autistic kids in the family, what you do is a really important thing, Clo, and I appreciate people who do it.

Aw, thank you. And it really is amazing to see kids who need a little extra help be successful.

[oddler]

Bishop: "Jeff, got a copy?"
Me: "Go ahead."
Bishop: "John flipped me off."
Me: "John, go to time-out."

[Iceglow]

Best part? Probably the regular live performances and signing sessions in store where I get to abuse being staff and either get signed stuff or to just stand around and watch from the sealed section where the press generally go.

Worst part of the job? Well working on a section where I have 0% interest in the product is always a downside, though really I would be tempted to say the way the company operates.

[Zeldy]

I've met some (and some really not) amazing people at my place. That's about the only positive there is. It's a job though, at the end of the day.

The downside is the rubbish pay, the fact that they change the timetable every week so you never have set working hours and can never plan ahead, the fact that they mither you and ring home to get you working extra hours, the fact that it's a sports store and I know nothing about sport!

The ladies section I can blag, same with junior and mens, but when they put me on replica dealing with all the football shirts and the like, I get completely confused when someone asks me "is this home or away?". I don't watch football, I DON'T KNOW.

It also gets incredibly hot at work in the summer. euuuuugh.

[Iceglow]

The ladies section I can blag, same with junior and mens, but when they put me on replica dealing with all the football shirts and the like, I get completely confused when someone asks me "is this home or away?". I don't watch football, I DON'T KNOW.

It also gets incredibly hot at work in the summer. euuuuugh.

If someone is approaching you in a football shirt section of a store and asking if it's the home or away shirt they're probably testing your ability to answer it. Essentially the customer 99% of the time is being a real jerk about it. Trust me, I know...I get customers like that all the time, "Oh can you tell me where to find this artist?" when I counter ask them "Well, I'm not too sure, do you know what type of music it is?" I get the answer of like "Oh it's easy listening" it's at this point I tend to think: 'Well if you smurfing know what section it is going to be in and you're standing in the middle of that smurfing section why the smurf don't you just smurfing go get the CD or ask me if it's in stock not where you find it?' I can't however say this, what I have to say is something along the lines of "Well um, sure that should be just over here..." whilst then basically hand holding them to the CD the other thing I get is "Oh, can you recccomend me something just like < insert random artist > please" often I'll have never heard of the artist or when I have and I reccomend something it's "Oh well I'm not sure I like the sound of this..." or I get the immortal "hmm no, sorry I am not looking for something like that" I end up thinking "man/woman stop being a mother smurfing douchebag and either find something you want to listen to on your own or accept that you asked for my opinion."

As for hot during the summer, I can relate on that my store's A/C has been dying since a good couple of years ago. The company makes up excuses every summer as to why it cannot be fixed or replaced. The system is apparently from like the 60s or something and can no longer be repaired but they won't replace it because the lease is still being renewed (same story as last year funny but I'm one of the only ones to remember this, not to mention the odds of HMV Oxford Circus ever moving from it's current location? Slim to none most likely) It took an e-mail to the head of the company to get the rule about men having to wear jeans/full length trousers to work regardless of the heat reviewed for our store to allow shorts to be worn to work, that being said I would still rather wear jeans to work in because shorts at work means when I have to crawl/kneel on dusty/dirty carpets and flooring every day my knees would look atrocious after an hour or so.

[missaira]

i work at australia zoo, so that's pretty cool

every thursday i have to go help out with the elephant feeding. i kid you not.

[Meat Puppet]

Slicing my finger on a mandoline

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