What do you do for a living?

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I'm currently incarcerated in a maximum security prison. I've been able to pay off the screws to give me more Internet time as I basically run the tits game here.

When I get out I hope to be a birthday party clown, or a field agent posted to Ruckersville.
 
Dormiebasne said:
The weirdness of Disney is a little alarming, though. You have to learn a completely new language as you work there, and you have to change your habits down to how you point at things (YOU NEVER use your index finger alone to point at something, for some reason). Other gems include the fact that you can't say "stuffed animal" (plush doll), if you are asked how many "mickeys/donalds/etc" there are you must say there is only one and you must pretend you are actually dealing with that character. All uniforms are referred to as "costumes" and all employees, no matter their job, are called "Cast members". You are never "on the clock", but rather "onstage"...well, it's a living.
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Yeah, I've heard all kinds of weird things about working for Disney. I feel like if I got hired there, I would get fired in a day for something minimal.

I hate my job right now, but I'm going to be quitting in a few months to go back to school for my bachelor's and if that pans out, hopefully I'll have get an actual career instead of working shitty pseudo-retail jobs that keep me living under the poverty line. I really never should have stopped going to school, but 2008 was a rough year for me.(:_(
 
pickleniggo said:
Yeah, I've heard all kinds of weird things about working for Disney. I feel like if I got hired there, I would get fired in a day for something minimal.

I hate my job right now, but I'm going to be quitting in a few months to go back to school for my bachelor's and if that pans out, hopefully I'll have get an actual career instead of working shitty pseudo-retail jobs that keep me living under the poverty line. I really never should have stopped going to school, but 2008 was a rough year for me.(:_(
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It's actually pretty hard to get fired there, so long as you work within their general guidelines (as eccentric as they may be to outsiders). They do have pretty stringent restrictions on all their employee's appearances, though, even ones who don't deal with the general public. You cannot have any visible tattoos, piercings, "unconventional" haircuts, etc. I had to shave my head for the job, but that was it cause I'm a boring sod.

But the thing that makes the job really different is that I'm not permitted to be surly on the job. I HAVE to help guests and, because I can speak Spanish, I am going to have that listed on my nametag so Spanish-speaking guests passing by my work area will know to ask me WHATEVER they need to know. And, regardless of what I'm doing, I have to stop and help guests who ask for my assistance. And I have to be polite and cheery to do it, no matter how ridiculous their question or obvious the answer. They're on vacation, and thus disinclined to think and unfamiliar with the area, and why the hell do we want them thinking anyway? You imagine people who're really using their brains would pay $28.00 for a child Minnie Mouse shirt? So you just help them and out and always smile...always smile.

Also, good luck with going back to school.
 
Dormiebasne said:
And, regardless of what I'm doing, I have to stop and help guests who ask for my assistance. And I have to be polite and cheery to do it, no matter how ridiculous their question or obvious the answer.
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This is exactly why I would get fired, I have permanent bitchface and I don't even mean it!:sighduck: But being surrounded by excited people and Disney everything sounds really fun, I hope you guys get your pay raise!

Dormiebasne said:
Also, good luck with going back to school.
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Thanks! :heart-full:
 
Holdek said:
Do they send you a boot camp or something first?
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Nah, nothing like that. I shaved my head cause I had an undercut, and so just cutting it short wasn't an option to avoid having an "unconventional hairstyle". They do, however, make you sit through an 8 hour orientation called "Traditions". You're paid your hourly wage for sitting through it, though.
 
Dormiebasne said:
Nah, nothing like that. I shaved my head cause I had an undercut, and so just cutting it short wasn't an option to avoid having an "unconventional hairstyle". They do, however, make you sit through an 8 hour orientation called "Traditions". You're paid your hourly wage for sitting through it, though.
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RIP undercut. (:_(
 
At the moment I'm working from home, doing a pretty big archive organization project for the company I was working at until I moved four hours away with the goal of finishing up my last semester of college first thing next year. When the project runs out, I'll be hunting for something clerical in the area.
 
I'm a security jerkop. I've been thinking of what I want to do for a career and so far I've come up with a male nurse, veterinarian assistant, dental assistant, and heavy machinery operator like bulldozers and dump trucks.
 
Student, music therapy major which (assuming I stick with it) is a pretty easy way to get a job right out of college, even despite the limited number of music therapy positions in the country. At school I do work study, which mostly consists of me tutoring the freshmen in music theory.
 
I use things to make other things into things that do stuff and junk.
 
Once I was a jewelry maker. But after a year and a bit, I became a room attendant at a hotel.
 
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