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RE: Job interviews - twisteroo - 03-30-2011
I want to be a fireman or a cop when I grow up. But as luck would have it I run a milk evaporator.
Anyway, I do remember filling out job applications and writing on the bottom of them, "I could fly a jet airplane if you just show me how". Shit, when you need a job, you need a job, give me anything, I'll learn.
RE: Job interviews - LKTraz - 03-30-2011
I have always tried to be the best at whatever I'm doing. Sometimes it pans out and other times it doesn't. Then there are some things I simply suck at.
That's just my work ethic......do your best and strive to be better. If it doesn't work out then at least you gave it your best effort.
As well though......if you suck at it then know when to quit.
RE: Job interviews - LH - 03-30-2011
After getting out of the service the best thing I ever did was take all my college money and invest in an HVAC company. I had no clue how evaporative cooling worked at the time.
RE: Job interviews - Havoc - 03-30-2011
(03-30-2011, 01:24 PM)Jamminitin Wrote: That's the problem with working for yourself. You get paid the least, the hours are brutal, and you're the one the buck stops with.
I love the people who thinks it's glamorous and that you must be rich, um yeah.
No paid vacation, no paid time off, no paid insurance benefits and a nice stack of bills to pay every month.
In my particular case you would have to include several other sub contractors who had to monitored and any screw up would ring my phone and come out of my pocket.
Ya, self employment is everything that a person could want and more.
RE: Job interviews - Havoc - 03-30-2011
(03-30-2011, 06:00 PM)twisteroo Wrote: I want to be a fireman or a cop when I grow up. But as luck would have it I run a milk evaporator.
Anyway, I do remember filling out job applications and writing on the bottom of them, "I could fly a jet airplane if you just show me how". Shit, when you need a job, you need a job, give me anything, I'll learn.
No reason why you still can't pursue your dream man.
Just do it.
In some jurisdictions and the new DPS frame work, the police are firemen and firemen are police.
RE: Job interviews - Rhubarb - 03-31-2011
(03-29-2011, 06:19 PM)twisteroo Wrote: Do any of us get to pick the job we want? I sure the hell never figured I'd be boiling water out of milk for a living.
Careers advisers are to blame, they have no idea of the great work force when as teachers they have never left school themselves.
Both my brother and myself were directed to the same jobs as my parents policeman and wages clark.
I wanted to study boiling test-tubes etc. He wanted to be a silversmith.
I never got to the first interview- because my qualifcations were over shadowed by graduates applying. A couple of years later I found the man who would have interviewed me is now my Father-in-law. He said I would have got very bored.
My brother got to be a coppersmith briefly then when into building computers. He used his inheritance to go back to school and after getting his degree still builds computers but speciality machines that are usually just one offs.
We were lucky
Rich and Ceris have been given bum-deals from teachers who didn't know the person or the career scope of the jobs they pushed them to take training for.
Rich took a college course in a Btech not realising Forensics needs Alot more than a knowledge of Pharmacy, a degree for a start. Not many men do my job- no ladder to climb.
Ceris did an animal care course only to find that every pet-shop salesperson, checkout girl or dog walker is hoping to be a Veternarian nurse too. At least she is more realistic and does have a job...as a checkout girl.
RE: Job interviews - LKTraz - 03-31-2011
Hell Twist, the vast majority of firefighters in the U.S. are volunteers!
Evidence >>>>> Clicky here!
I did it for 26 years and never got nor wanted a dime for doing it. I found that the career (paid) folks had less of a "professional" attitude than the "vollies"! The career firefighters (mostly) were there for the paycheck and retirement bennies and the vollies were there because they WANTED to be.
Many times I was asked why I did it for no compensation and there are plenty of stock replies I could have given, as is the case with most vollies:
SOMEbody has to do it.
I feel a need to serve the community.
I want to give back.
I know i want someone there when there is a need so I take it upon myself to help.
All these are very noble reasons and for the most part true for damn near every volunteer. BUT.......the reason most volunteer firefighters are sheepish at least and ashamed at worst to admit (which I chose to honestly admit) is: I'M AN ADRENALINE JUNKIE AND I GET OFF ON IT!
The point is ....... whatever your reason to do it is, there is NO reason you shouldn't go for it!
Your neck of the woods has a good number of volunteer fire companies. Go to your local station and start asking what you have to do to get involved. In most cases you'll have to take some basic training classes (yeah it WILL take up some of your free time) and put in some time as a newb/probie. You damn sure will be asked/expected to put time into helping with fundraisers and maybe digging into your own pocket to help put things "over the top" so needed things can be obtained.
You'd be surprised at how damned great you feel even though you bitch about the demands.
You also get to be part of the WORLDWIDE brotherhood of firefighters. Believe me when I say that this is a fantastic group of people to be a part of! I have been in plenty of places far from home yet found instant kinship with folks I met only minutes before due to this common connection.
DO IT DUDE.....JUST DO EET!
RE: Job interviews - twisteroo - 03-31-2011
I don't really want to be a fireman or cop, I just said that because I couldn't spell astronaut right off the top of my head.
My point was you just adapt to what is available, I could be anything I wanted to be, still could, but I'm pretty sure my salary and standard of living would suffer quite a bit.
RE: Job interviews - LKTraz - 03-31-2011
(03-31-2011, 05:59 PM)twisteroo Wrote: I don't really want to be a fireman or cop, I just said that because I couldn't spell astronaut right off the top of my head.
My point was you just adapt to what is available, I could be anything I wanted to be, still could, but I'm pretty sure my salary and standard of living would suffer quite a bit.
Oh I know you were just being a smartass Twist. But I just couldn't resist doing the sales job for volunteer firefighters
After doing it for 26 years you take every opportunity to try and drum up some new blood whether it's tongue in cheek or serious.
RE: Job interviews - Rhubarb - 04-05-2011
Update:
Rich' has an interview at the county hospital for Pharmacy work. This is were he should be, so I hope he doesn't blow it!
Ceris hasn't heard about the nursery, but that isn't bad news, yet.