Jobs

[Yar]

A few weeks from now will be my first anniversary at the company where I am currently employed. I work as an in-house interpreter-translator.

Deep down, I enjoy it. But I'd be lying if I said that it isn't extremely smurfing hard somedays.

I prefer document translation at my desk to simultaneous interpretation in highly intense meetings. But, they pay me to go both ways (ha)

Which is another thing. I think I am paid fairly nice, particularly for being just some little trout fresh out of college with no kids to take care of.

Some days I'm just really pissed off. Like when people use Google Translate for whatever stupid reason they have. Like the other day, some guy sent me a 12 page document that he had Google translated from Japanese to English, asking me to proofread. It was so painful that it literally gave me a headache, and it was much easier to just delete it all and translate it from scratch. Y U DO DIS?!??

So yeah

LET'S TALK ABOUT JOBS. Also, let's ask about jobs.

[Night Fury]

I don't have a job. I should have a job, but RULES. Urgh.

[I Took the Red Pill]

I think that he was a good businessman with a good sense of what the consumer craves, but the cult that sprang up around him, especially after his death, was absurd

[Shiny]

They are making a new Jobs movie with Christian Bale apparently because it seems we need another one.

[Fox]

I think the Jobs system was pretty cool, but it could be a bit restricting when characters were locked to it. The best variant was definitely X-2 where you could change mid-battle.

[Shlup]

I've worked at Disneyland for like two and a half years. I'm a floor or office manager (different shifts on different days) for some of the stores. It's a lot of responsibility with high expectations for a ridiculously small amount of pay. I'd get a lot more for the same job with another company... but I really like Disneyland. I took my daughter yesterday and we went on The Haunted Mansion. It's her favorite.

Like the other day, some guy sent me a 12 page document that he had Google translated from Japanese to English, asking me to proofread. It was so painful that it literally gave me a headache, and it was much easier to just delete it all and translate it from scratch. Y U DO DIS?!??

That's hilarious.

[Shorty]

The Haunted Mansion is the best.

My job is easy but mundane. I am a gopher, a fixer, a babysitter, a maid, a marketing analyst, a financial reporter, an office manager, a scapegoat, an IT expert and a jack of all trades wrapped up nicely with the shiny title of Administrative Assistant. I manage to get most of my work done quickly and spend much of my day screwing around online. While I am paid reasonably well for my position within this region, I'm not paid enough to care more than doing the bare minimum of what needs to get my by on acceptable job performance.

[Freya]

I'm holding an Accounts Payable position. But like Shorty, I also play IT, Bid Estimator, Receptionist, Legal intern, Admin assistant, and accounts receivables, and general fix crap for everyone else-er. All under the cruddy pay of just an accounts payable clerk paycheck. I do like 10 mins of work for every hour and play on the internet most the time. They think I'm magical because i'm "so smart with computers". I'm not. It's super easy stuff. I just made the mistake of offering to help people. Now my desk gets trashed with other people's work.

[escobert]

I don't have a "job" right now. I do stuff around the farm. I'm trying to find a somewhat decent production position so I can save some monies.

Going in to apply for a farmhand position on a cattle ranch on monday.

[Shoeberto]

I deal with the god-damn customer. I'm a people person.

[noxious.sunshine]

I don't job.

I need one. I haven't worked in well over a year. But I have a lot going on in the next few months in which I'll need time off .. So there's no point right now.

[Colonel Angus]

I'm holding an Accounts Payable position. But like Shorty, I also play IT, Bid Estimator, Receptionist, Legal intern, Admin assistant, and accounts receivables, and general fix crap for everyone else-er. All under the cruddy pay of just an accounts payable clerk paycheck. I do like 10 mins of work for every hour and play on the internet most the time. They think I'm magical because i'm "so smart with computers". I'm not. It's super easy stuff. I just made the mistake of offering to help people. Now my desk gets trashed with other people's work.

The lesson here, children, is to play ignorant.

Seriously, letting them know you know anything, even something small, is a bad idea. They will abuse the trout out of it. Then, when it comes time for recognition ($$$$$), they suddenly forget.

[Dark_Valentine]

I work about 12 hrs a day for a job that everyone was told would be a regular 8 hrs and don't get paid enough to put up with the headaches in the system. I type...that is all.

[Crop]

My job is easy, well paid, and very close to where I live. That said, it is very mundane and the Company sucks.

I'm starting to debate quitting, emptying my bank account, and going travelling.

[Shiny]

My day job so I can have a steady influx of money is at NBC. My everyday job is in the film and video production industry at which I am jack of all trades, but particularly passionate about producing and getting in to writing screenplays again.