Do you have a part time job or full time job?

[RomerJon17]

I finally have my first work experience and I will work in the electronic store called "The Good Guys."

Now I can save money and I'M HAPPY +D

I will work Every Friday and Saturday +) No stress, no mess...
During Christmas day, I will plan to work every 5 days if possible. =)

[maxon]

Part-time - they call it a 0.5 which means basically half of full time hours. I'm older than you though so it's a 'proper' job, so to speak (i.e. a career job). Anyway, good luck with your new work. I hope you enjoy it and save LOTS of money to spend on something nice.

[RomerJon17]

Part-time - they call it a 0.5 which means basically half of full time hours. I'm older than you though so it's a 'proper' job, so to speak (i.e. a career job). Anyway, good luck with your new work. I hope you enjoy it and save LOTS of money to spend on something nice.

Well I'm 17 and I will be 18 this year =) I will work 12pm to 6pm and I think that's a good part time job for me. =) I don't want to be clumsy or worry about something..

Sometimes I don't speak much but I am happy to socialise to other employees. =)

I wish I can reach to $2,000 for my savings...

[simsample]

Congratulations on the job! :)

When I was your age, I was working full time doing an engineering apprenticeship, which was 40 hours per week plus evening classes to get qualifications. I earned £40 per week, which was a pound an hour! And I still managed to smoke 40 cigarettes a day, run a car and save up for a new bass on that money. Oh, the good old days! I hope you enjoy your money! :)

[frankokomando]

I work part-time at an animal shelter.

[maxon]

Congratulations on the job! :)

When I was your age, I was working full time doing an engineering apprenticeship, which was 40 hours per week plus evening classes to get qualifications. I earned £40 per week, which was a pound an hour! And I still managed to smoke 40 cigarettes a day, run a car and save up for a new bass on that money. Oh, the good old days! I hope you enjoy your money! :)
Sooooo - did you live in a paper bag?

[Mistermook]

I'm rich and my peasants do the working for me, of course.

[VerDeTerre]

I finally have my first work experience and I will work in the electronic store called "The Good Guys."

What a great name for a store! Congratulations and I hope you enjoy!

[Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust]

Congrats!

Tell us how your first week goes, I'm curious if your customers are as nasty as some of ours :P

[RomerJon17]

Congrats!

Tell us how your first week goes, I'm curious if your customers are as nasty as some of ours :P

I will work as a technical support =)
If any customers bring back their buggered up product...
I just smile to the customer and replace a new one for them =)

[Ive]

Congrats on the job! :up:

Customer service can be hell. But the happy/pleasant customers far outweigh the few crazy ones out there.

[simsample]

Sooooo - did you live in a paper bag?
I mostly lived in my car, but my address was my parent's house until I was almost 18.

[Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust]

Congrats on the job! :up:

Customer service can be hell. But the happy/pleasant customers far outweigh the few crazy ones out there.
I dunno... at the end of the day I always seemed to remember customers who felt the need to talk down to me a lot more than the ones who complimented me. Makes me so thankful that I mostly deal with paperwork now but I guess I never really considered myself a people person :rolleyes:

ps. congrats on 1000 posts!

[HarVee]

I'm rich and my peasants do the working for me, of course.

Heh, so that's what the American dream is.

[annoainthere]

Well for the past 4 years I've held a full-time job at a small online science retailer, for 2 years before that I worked part-time for them.
Before that I also worked full time at the local electricity company, before that I was a casual at the local $2 store. Before that I did a paper run for ~1 year.
Before that I worked casual in two jobs, a school-based traineeship in retail in the school tuckshop/canteen and an after school job at a photocopy shop. So yeah I've held a range of jobs over the years. I love this job the best, best bosses, best coworkers, best atmosphere, horrid customers though lol :) but hey we can't all have our cake and eat it too!

However - good luck and have fun!

[SpookyOkyBatGirl]

I normally do writing commissions and help teachers at my school with grading and other random stuff. I consider it a full time job.

[ElementMK]

Jobs are a myth, just like leprechauns and unicorns. I have looked for many and never found one.

[RomerJon17]

I finally got the job for work experience but I will get paid for $5 per day...
I have only 5 weeks for work experience and if I work hard there =) I will be employed to work at the Good Guys for more than 5 weeks =)

God look after me =)

Wednesday 9am to 11:30am
Friday 9am to 5pm

[kampffenhoff]

I have 8 kids.

[TrillianRikku]

I use to deliver newspapers before I got hurt (from 2 in the morning till about 6) I know It's pathetic but it's a job until I can get funding for my own business starting a moible pet grooming facility as the area in which I live is mostly rural with only small towns around

[Bananas8338]

I got my first part-time job in November 2010 when I was 15, as a check-out chick at a local supermarket. I got $8 an hour, which increased to a whopping $11 when I came off probation. However, in August 2011 I was promoted to the supermarket's cash office, where my job now consists of counting large sums of money, balancing safes, using payroll/roster management programs, being a receptionist, etc... a very different job to what I first applied for!

Anyway, congrats on your new job, RomerJob, and good luck! :gjob:

[DigitalSympathies]

Full time, but I'm my own boss. At seventeen! Well, my dad technically owns the place (it's the basement) but he lets me have free reign to fix computers with a couple buddies for quick cash. He just foots the bills.

[maxon]

I got my first part-time job in November 2010 when I was 15, as a check-out chick at a local supermarket. I got $8 an hour, which increased to a whopping $11 when I came off probation. However, in August 2011 I was promoted to the supermarket's cash office, where my job now consists of counting large sums of money, balancing safes, using payroll/roster management programs, being a receptionist, etc... a very different job to what I first applied for!
That was practically my first job too except I worked for Boots the Chemist in the UK. It's a very large firm. It's the only time I've ever seen a half a million pounds on a table with my own eyes (large store and very popular at Christmas). I was the Cash Office's Saturday girl and I worked for them for a while after I left school too.

[haricots]

I...do what others do. No job, let my parents care about my financial problems.

Don't blame me. 14 years old with no chance of having part-time job, even the informal one (selling things, etc.). Blame my school!!! FUUUUUUUUUUUU!! *F U rage*

[Bananas8338]

That was practically my first job too except I worked for Boots the Chemist in the UK. It's a very large firm. It's the only time I've ever seen a half a million pounds on a table with my own eyes (large store and very popular at Christmas). I was the Cash Office's Saturday girl and I worked for them for a while after I left school too.

Funny you should mention that, I'm the office's Saturday girl too! I start at 6AM every Saturday, to set up the store for the day's trading. To get there on time, I have to wake up at 5AM, which is hard after a long week at school... but the office pay rate makes it worth it. xD
You didn't have to count that half a million pounds, did you? I can only imagine how long that would take!

[RomerJon17]

Well went for my first and second work experience....
I did a great job and my employees and supervisors were proud of me for doing a good job.
I didn't get paid yet but I will get a full amount for working hard.. XD

Best of all, if I work hard and complete my work experience. I hope my employer will employ me to work at the Good Guys and will have good income...

[maxon]

Funny you should mention that, I'm the office's Saturday girl too! I start at 6AM every Saturday, to set up the store for the day's trading. To get there on time, I have to wake up at 5AM, which is hard after a long week at school... but the office pay rate makes it worth it. xD
You didn't have to count that half a million pounds, did you? I can only imagine how long that would take!
Oh no, we were a team - about 5-6 of us. It took all day though. We must have emptied the tills about 10 times - you had to go round the store with a large bloke in body armour and a locked box. Christmas was extremely busy. Then the security man came in his security van and took it all to the bank.

[aeval99]

I'm a kept woman ;)

I'm a homemaker and I work retail during the holdiays to pay for x-mas...stops the credit cards from melting on a yearly basis.

[Undercovers_Agent]

I'm rich and my peasants do the working for me, of course.

Unfortunately I have to work for this person.

It's not all bad though you get to meet some nice other simple folk; it's not all fun and games though, we have to practice subsistence farming and 70% of the crop is taken. I have just enough to keep the clothes on me back >.>

Being serious though I have a full time job as a firefighter; I work 2 48 hour shifts each week though sometimes I can run 96-120 hours (Eek) if the going is bad (Like there's a brush fire, or we are in some sort of emergency phase.) Hard managing with the misses when that happens as well >.>

[hannahmh87]

I have a part time job - 20 hours a week but the pay is fairly good and allows me to help my husband pay the bills. I enjoy my job I work for a charity.

[clay4kelly]

I'm a casual worker at my local supermarket, I only do 10-15 hours (but at $23/hr it isn't so bad), while I complete a double degree full time at Uni! Busy life.

[joandsarah77]

I'm a SAHM/homeschooler. :) That is I look after the house and home school our two children. My husband is the towns locksmith and we have a shop down the main street and I am technically a partner in the business so I guess that also makes me a...locksmith's shopkeeper's partner? Dh just said that he's an entrepreneur thank you very much. :rofl:

[Johnny_Bravo]

Does work after school counts as part-time job? If yes, I work after school at a gasstation :)

[Undercovers_Agent]

I'm a casual worker at my local supermarket, I only do 10-15 hours (but at $23/hr it isn't so bad), while I complete a double degree full time at Uni! Busy life.

Canadian, other country, or American dollars?

[clay4kelly]

Canadian, other country, or American dollars?
Australian dollars, which are roughly equal to American/Canadian anyway.

[Carlsn]

This is my second year working at an amusement park. I work in a department were we hand out the uniforms to the employees. It's alright for the most part, mostly just busy work. Some of pros are that we don't deal with any guest (yet employees can be just as rude, too), we work inside which is great during the summer, and I like mostly everyone that I work with (except this one guy that no one else really likes). Unfortunately, I only get paid minimum wage ($7.25) and even though there is a bonus, you basically have to work all season to get it which I won't be since be able to since i'm moving to college in the fall.

[Yalayna87]

I'm a Certified Nursing Assisstant that works Monday thru Friday from 3pm-11pm. It's hard work but very enjoyable. You get to learn alot from talking to your residents especailly ones that are over 100 years old. I have a little lady that is 104 and she is the sweetest lady, and she talks about all kinds of things from way back in the day.

[Gabrymato]

I'm working in a mountain restaurant as a waiter this summer. It's not that bad, even though it's pretty far from my house so I have to take a shuttle bus to get there.
The past two years I worked as a waiter in a luxury hotel, and the year before I was in a pastry shop.
I'm 19 and I go to college, so it's crucial for me to earn some money in order to travel a bit and buy designer items.

[RomerJon17]

I didn't get employed but I worked experience at the Good Guys for 2 months!
I get paid $25 per day and I worked for 1 day per week :(
But the girls made me a special last day party for me and I was happy about that...

But anyway I have found a good I can work at. It is not work experience and it is part of school course.
I will work at HOYTS Cinema and I will get $11 per hour.

Wish me luck to get employed because I really need a job to work...

[vhanster]

I once worked in a restaurant that paid me $5.5/hour, and work at least 20 hours a week.

I quit when the manager started asking me to come during exam period, and caused me to do badly in most of my modules.

[iCad]

Being serious though I have a full time job as a firefighter; I work 2 48 hour shifts each week though sometimes I can run 96-120 hours (Eek) if the going is bad (Like there's a brush fire, or we are in some sort of emergency phase.) Hard managing with the misses when that happens as well >.>

As a Coloradan, I salute you. Fervently and whole-heartedly. Even if you've never fought a Colorado wildfire. Thankfully, the big fires this year were on the other side of the mountains from me, but in 2002 there was a really big one not far away from me at all, in a town I visit often to go grocery shopping 'cuz they have a Walmart and we don't, and...Yeah, we here in Colorado love firefighters. :)

Me, I'm a musician, so I'm basically self-employed/a contractor. These days I teach for most of my money, but I do a good number of studio gigs for movie and TV-show and, lately, video game soundtracks. It's fun work, being in the movies without actually being in the movies and all the stress/goldfish-bowl living that goes with that...but studio days can be very long. I'll long remember the movie where we in the orchestra were in the studio recording...for 48 hours straight, with only a few short breaks to eat/drink/pee. Not long enough breaks to actually sleep. That was killer. Especially because after those 48, we got 10 hours off...and then we were back in the studio. For ANOTHER 48 hours. *headdesk* We were all about ready to kill the (rather big-name) director because HE was the *$@&er who was hounding the composer for all this extra stuff which we, then, of course had to record. :p

And the sad part is that you're paid by the day, not by the hour. Which is nice if you're only in the studio for four hours. Not so nice if you're in there for 24. :lol: Followed by another 24. I also do concert gigs, but those are a lot rarer than they were when I was younger and didn't have kids.