This has to be good for a couple of interesting story's!
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This has to be good for a couple of interesting story's!
Simple: I beat people up and survived training camp.
I went out and made it myself basically:)
Well, David, how'd you get yours???
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Im a lift truck mechanic and have been for 17years officially. My much older brother started working for a dealer ship and use to buy old power pallet trucks at the Ontario food terminal for $500 buck. He would bring them home and pay me $500 to grind off all the paint strip them repaint them and rebuild them. He would then throw in some new batteries and sell them back to one farmers at the terminal. I was 14 when he started doing this, making a $1000 bucks a month in high school was crazy. I was first guy to have his first car etc.
I went to college and got a deploma in electronics. Got a job doing that and hated it. Then got a job as a Lift truck mechanic.
It would be nice to also hear what you do as well as how you got it.
Fell into it waiting to finish school, well recession hit and no jobs came in my field of business economics! So I keep working the job ladder at my job from college. Now I am a senior insurance specialist at a hospital for Mental Health. All my friends for some reason think I am a nurse, that's always a good laugh.
So I get back to the office - I am in corporate sales. I plop down into my chair exhausted after having to listen for hours about the merits of the new line of packaging we are about to launch. My check is on my desk - nice.
I open my check - it's huge! Woot! I didn't have that good a month though - I thought. Looking at the breakdown of commissions, I note we double billed a client.
Bypassing accounting, I walk straight into my bosses office. "Oh David! They'll never know! They are growing so fast they can't remember what they did a minute ago never mind last month."
Effing tool! Not cool! I leave to go to a " sales call" and find the closest coffee shop with a paper! Time to own my own co again me thinks. I scan the business to business section and see veterinary business for sale. Why would a vet put an ad in the paper I wonder? Only vets can own vet clinics where I was - why not a vet journal? It tickled my fancy... so I called. Why not lol?
The guy asked if I had time - which I did - so I jetted over to his office for shear giggles really. We spoke for hours. He was selling the logistics side of a business he had set up.
No resume, no background checks... we shook hands. I drove back to the office and gave my notice.
I'm just waiting for Cangooner's story! :popcorn:
I signed on the dotted line of a Delayed Entry Program Enlistment contract nearly a year before I graduated High School. I left for Basic Training seven days after graduation. I have been in the U.S. Army in one capacity or another since 1995. I am currently a dual status federal technician, meaning I am a U.S. Army DoD civilian at my M-F at my full time job but I am also in the National Guard. I need to be a member of the National Guard to have my civil service job, if that makes any since. I have done a few other things and been a few different places but my specialty is aviation maintenance. I also work for myself on nights and weekends along with my wife and in laws we have a small farm growing Asian produce.
I work at the same company as I did in a former life but doing a different job altogether. Unfortunately, when I left this company 12 years ago, I did my share of bridge-burning and wasn't likely to get hired back. Lucky for me, I had a friend working as the SQA manager in the R&D group. He convinced others to give me a short, 6-week contract for some miscellaneous systems test work. I proved myself over that short time so they extended my employment indefinitely. After about a year, they re-instated me as a FT employee and counted my previous employment towards my seniority which meant I got to rack up an extra week of vacation. Bonus! :)
NICE! Lucky break! It's good to have friends in high places lol!Quote:
Originally Posted by Speedster
Being unemployed now I can tell you how I got my last job.
I worked as a software trainer for CompUSA. They went out of business so I looked at every job portal out there. One day I was looking on craigslist for some thing and realized there was a jobs section. Took a long look at some position for a company that developed electronic medical records.
I figured software for the most part is software and I can teach anyone just about anything given time to learn something new...so I applied and got the job on the first interview.
Never thought of craigslist as a place for jobs but it happened..
Just wish it would work this time around but anyway that is my story and I am sticking to it.
I was looking for work and it started raining. So I ducked into a convenient building not wanting to get wet. They were hiring and I spent the next 30 years there.
No one else wanted it and I was desperate :) That was almost 7 years ago and no one wants it yet, which makes this a pretty stable gig.
Well, I basically harassed the people who at the time worked here for a job about once a day. Always in person, cuz you can hang up a phone you know? Finally I wore them down and they gave me an entry level position... Now I am #2 at my store. Trying this technique now with another company, looking to put my education to use.
Shipping and Receiving at a local factory.
I used to manage a restaurant for 5 years. However, I fell in love with one of my severs so I had to transfer. Only problem, I fell in love with my area supervisor's ex-girlfriend. That made life a living hell! He tried everything, making unrealistic goals, refusing requested days off and getting my executive manager to get her employees to try and make it really hard to meet these goals. I eventually couldn't take it and quit, I found my new job before the next Monday. Funny thing is, my schedule rocks, off weekends and out of there by 4 pm. Pay is no where near what I was making but oh well. Now I get to go back to school, since I make less, I get more for school. Still have to pay it back, but its more than what I would have got.
And now to get off my :soapbox:
Worked my way up the food chain:
Did 5 years of apprenticeship.
Worked as a Journeyman for a year or two.
Dropped out of the union and worked non union for a few years.
Got tired of the heat and carrying tools.
Got a job on a parts counter for a few years.
Got an itch to get into sales.
Made contact with my current boss from a recommendation from my previous manager.
Wham. Bam. 5 years later and I make more than I deserve.
I've got an awesome client list, flexible hours, and 100% commission. I'll never voluntarily punch a clock again.
I am currently going back to school and part of my program requires that I volunteer in a direct care setting. I have been volunteering this semester and was going to stop at the end. I was asked to stay on as an employee so I must have been doing something right. It is really great because now I don't have to find a job that will work around my school schedule for next semester!
I put in around 200 applications across town and finally got lucky enough to get a call. While I was waiting on the interview I walked into the store and ended up fitting some guy for a suit, who unknown to me was a friend of the manager. After the interview I got no call for around two weeks until the guy picked up his suit and said what a good job I'd done. After that the manager decided to hire me even though he really didn't need another employee on the payroll. Now I'm normally second or third in the store for overall sales and sales based on hours worked.
Just before my move to Missouri I got offered a job as a bartender and bouncer after getting into an altercation with a man because he was harassing the staff (at that time all female waitstaff and bartenders) and I told him to leave. He was trying to grope them and screaming a patron and staff alike, before he decided to assault me. I taught him proper manners and loaded him into a cab, then went to finish my dinner when the manager was so great full and pleased with how I handled the situation that he offered me full time as a bartender. Would have taken the position if I wasnt moving two weeks later.
Sorry David,
You'll have to be a bit more specific. My resume is about the thickness of a medium sized city's phone book.
I dynamited more than a few bridges over the years.
My current job is totally boring. I filled out a ridiculous application, got called for an interview, shot the breeze with that clown boss, and was told I could start the following 15th. At which point I asked about the money, we negotiated a bit, he balked, I told him to kiss it and walked out. Got home had a message on my answering machine that I had the job at the money I wanted.
We didn't get along too good after that and I was glad to see him retire. He's gone, I'm still trudging along.
Interviewed for another job a while back as I was looking to make some better money. Had a panel of five guys hammering me with questions. I really didn't care if I got that job or not, so I hammered 'em back. Got asked to wait outside for a bit. Another guy came by and asked my name then asked me to follow him. We went out and played with dump trucks and trailers and equipment for a couple of hours and I was sent back to wait. Got called back by THE FIVE and asked when I could start. I told as soon as we settled on a price. They shot low, I shot high, they came up a bit and I didn't budge. They made me another offer and I told 'em I wasn't starting over again at the bottom for less than I was making where I was at and to have a nice day.
They called a buddy of mine (we all know a lot of the same people in this business ) and asked him what it would take to get me. He told 'em "Whatever that hard headed little bastard told you is what it's gonna take." Then they wanted him to talk me into working for 'em.
Before they called it off they called me and asked me again if I'd work for their money as I was asking too much. I told 'em, "If you think I'm expensive, hire an amateur." Guess they found a mullet that would play their game but it damn sure wasn't this one.
Put an app into a company that I wanted to work for. Got nothing as a response. Short time later I noticed a refrigerator magnet with the company's logo while lunching with a family from church. The wife worked there and put my name in for a different position. Been at the company ten years! I have the most seniority in my group (even more than my awesome boss) and am tied for low man on the totem pole. No, difference - I am still hourly and love my job!
It is not what you know...
but WHO you know
44 yr years before I retired. If I remember correctly, it was "bad luck" that got it for me.
Joined the Navy in '95, which was when Microsoft released the first Windows OS that wasn't just a file manager. 16 years later, the Navy finally wised up and created an Information Systems Tech rating for Submarines (ITS). I had already been doing it, collaterally, under the radar, sometimes at the expense of my normal advancement, and I was one of the very few who was fully credentialed, recognized and certified, so I became one of the first Chief Information System Techs in the US Submarine Force in 2011. I have a crack team of scary-capable men working for me and it's almost too good to be true, but alas, eventually, we'll have to leave the shipyard, put this pig back in the water and go deep. I've been a Network Administrator in a combat zone before as well, so after I retire, I figure I can do this job for anybody, anywhere. Like any job, however, what matters most is working to learn, and the quality of the people I wind up working with.
well i filled out an application, went in for the interview driving the delivery truck i was currently running for the company i was working for at the time of the interview(common i know, and maybe a little ballsy) well at the time they would just about hire anyone with a pulse. that was 14 yrs ago. in my chosen profession, working as a metal caster, you don't chose that job, i believe it chooses you.
I'm afraid how I got my job is very boring. Studied undergraduate degree for 4 years. Studied postgraduate degree for 4 years. Applied for position in Australian university via videoconference from UK at 6am in the morning. (Here comes the exciting bit....!) The video tech screwed up and I gave a 45 minute lecture to the interview panel with the camera pointed at my crotch.
James.
I replied to an ad that read "Must be computer savvy. Willing to work weekends and nights. Email or call ...". Most ads like that around here are junk and usually very misleading once you arrive. I figured it never hurts to get interview experience and proceeded to call. Up until the interview I thought the place was most likely a sham and little did I know it was a satellite uplink and television origination facility. 2 interviews, a promotion to management and another to Tier 2 tech with RF engineers and network admins I am still happily employed.
Now I just keep the glass ceiling spotless. :aargh: At least I'm still hourly.
I got fired from the last one.
Bahahahaha... I nearly bowled over laughing! Isn't that life for you. One of the most stressful days of your life, and life figures the best image of your 8 years worth of intensive education is your crotch lol!! The irony! You must teach... uh... law? :)!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimbo
Ok I'll stop laughing.... in a minute :)!
Well... me thinks that might be a good story too! Dish! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by nun2sharp
Well mine i applied for whilst still at school. Got a provisional offer on the grounds that i got good grades. Got the grades needed and i started working for the then Inland Revenue (now HM Revenue and Customs) in the recovery department.
Did a few years in the office liaising with courts and representing the IR then decided id like to have a try at being a bailiff and actualy collecting the money/taking goods. Did that for several years. I loved every minute. Have my fair share of stories and made my money.
Started talking about starting a family with my partner and decided to change career due to the nature of the job. Now working in local government managing various contracts but after 5 years im having itchy feet and im on the look out for the next challenge.
Oh how well I know that feeling lol... oh too well!! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by tbert33
Good luck!! To both of us lol!