i can sympathise with the helping people that don't want it angle, but tbh the only advice i got there is the 'become callous, desensitized and cynical' and i kinda feel that that's basically my advice to you any time we get into politics/society etc threads so y'know, absorb the bad days sand don't become a darraghmac over it or anything is maybe what i'd say to you.
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 13:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm just tired and burning out, plus teenagers are all the most disgusting of savages, plus I don't have any transferable skills and I just wanna work with Not People for the rest of my sentence.
Plus Wednesday. Wd rather be at home playing FM tbh
― National Sockpuppet Helpline (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 13:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Pro tip: differences between Aspies and all other kids = Rizla-thin
― National Sockpuppet Helpline (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 13:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I bet you've actually got fuckloads of transferable skills, dude. Audit yourself!
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 13:58 (fourteen years ago) link
see, i could be NV in another 10 years (sorry dude if i'm overestimating yr age there) except i'd need to get nicer, and i can't see that happening.
btw intelligence is hella skillful, don't be an ass
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
(xp)
Ah I probly need to start taking some active steps here, but no excuse, taking a chance gets harder when yr 40 and you've got dependents.
Could be worse, I could own a PL football club.
― National Sockpuppet Helpline (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 14:09 (fourteen years ago) link
stfu the lowest net asset worth in EPL owners is 5m (and that's a dude with a minority stake in everton) i wouldn't be complaining.
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 14:11 (fourteen years ago) link
mind you he probably has to deal with aspie teens the whole time too.....
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 14:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I think I posted in one of these before? whatever..
working at a community college in hong kong as a assistant lecturer. on a one year contract. my job involves teaching high school level english to students who weren't able to get into uni the first time around. they hope that by doing well in community college they can get a chance to move on to a real bachelors program. the success rate is only about 20-30%, which is tremendously depressing. teaching to students in their second language is also v. v. depressing. fuck colonialism tbh.
currently bored out of my gourd but the college says they are considering reupping me for one more year and I might take it tbh. studying the lsat and hoping to apply next year - don't really relish the idea of being put out on my ass and having to find a stopover job for a year before going back to school.
― Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ (dyao), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 14:20 (fourteen years ago) link
srsly, i'm wondrin bout this 'helping peeps that don't want to be helped'
it sounds incredibly irritating but have these kids explicitly asked you to help them? if you think about rigidly folowing the terms of your contract rather than a pedagogic/altruistic imperative towards each kid then perhaps the frustration would lessen
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 14:23 (fourteen years ago) link
to be replaced with the more common employer directed resentments maybei dunno, just be thankful you're not like that person in the shoe shop with the sandals and the toes eugh
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link
so one of the benefits of where i work is my schedule's really flexible and i can get away with a lot. it's also a curse, because it's easy to claim 40 hours when i only work about 30, or take a nap on the job, etc. the problem is i keep doing stuff like this even though it makes me feel crappy. like, i won't get reprimanded per se because my bosses are my parents, i'll just end up feeling stupid for being spineless, lazy and spoiled which makes it harder to just suck it up and work in the first place. right now my "bosses" are on vacation. i have a bunch of paperwork to get through in the week-and-a-half before they get back but since they've been gone i've let myself slide even more.
i've tried setting realistic goals (i can only goof off if i get through two folders a day, "just don't open ilx today," etc.) but they're not working very well. the most success i've had in the past w/ this is just to KIP and try not get overwhelmed, so i'm working on that but... not doing much atm. i guess i'm wondering if anyone has any advice on how to do better at this sort of thing, keep working and stick w/ it or something. my job is easy but tedious (records management) btw.
― i guess you are the fattest and the ugliest (Matt P), Thursday, 20 January 2011 00:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Should be better to go by that name...
Caleb Garth called it business.
― youn, Thursday, 20 January 2011 00:37 (thirteen years ago) link
what
― i guess you are the fattest and the ugliest (Matt P), Thursday, 20 January 2011 00:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Hate my job so much. Zero satisfaction in work in any form, conceptually and in practice.
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
Irish public sector, housing schemes. 3 years, 1 more until I'm permanent, damned glad to get it when I did, as long as things stay as bad as they are I'll stick with it and get experience. Can't see myself doing it for the next 40 years but pension, conditions, training & opportunities all pretty good so there's a good chance I'll slowly smother my 16 yr old self and settle for it in the long run.
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 10:15 (1 year ago)
amended to reflect new realities
― flags post o fu (darraghmac), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
My job is only as much of a burden as I allow it to be. Cliched, but true. And also something I'm very, very bad at managing.
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
My series of jobs since graduating college in the spring: Phone sex operator (using a woman's voice, natch). Nude model. Faux finisher.
― Diary of Anne Frank, Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen (scottfree), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
what, like emile heskey?
― flags post o fu (darraghmac), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.fauxfilleddreams.com/images/Sherrel-9.jpg
― Diary of Anne Frank, Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen (scottfree), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
ive been at my job 2 and a half years now, which is the longest ive ever lasted anywhere. it's incredibly easy, there's no stress, the workload is very light, but it's incredibly monotonous and sisyphean really. this was all very well and good until i start hatching a plan to get up and move far away in 6 months or so and now im prematurely demob happy and each day is at least somewhat excruciating.
― zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
how many of you do 30 seconds of work, 30 seonds of internet screwing around,30 seconds of work, 30 seconds of internet screwing around, 30 seconds of work, 30 seconds of internet screwing around, 30 seconds of work, 30 seconds of internet screwing around,
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 26 July 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
cuz I do
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
yup. maybe i'm more like 4-5 minutes on and off depending what i'm up to.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
work-wise
can I defend myself by saying its some ADHD management strategy?
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Friday, 27 July 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
I edit a digital entertainment site, about 1m unique users a day. It's... okay, I care little for our content or audience but I am learning how to make decisions or be an editor, and also it pays well, which allows me to live my life more.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Sunday, 29 July 2012 05:07 (eleven years ago) link
god i don't know how long i can keep up this noxious blend of anxiety, boredom, guilt and eating up all my time
― schlager top (Noodle Vague), Monday, 27 January 2014 06:59 (ten years ago) link
till 67 or 68.
― mohel hell (Bob Six), Monday, 27 January 2014 08:18 (ten years ago) link
I've just had to have an interview for the job I'm already doing. Terrified that I'm not going to get it. Reckon it's ok to ask for the afternoon off? Cannot concentrate at all.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 27 January 2014 11:00 (ten years ago) link
Monday #2 at new job, actually feeling quite pos about this latest move within public labyrinthine system
― gelatinate mess (darraghmac), Monday, 27 January 2014 11:46 (ten years ago) link
so...I don't think I've got it. Despite having worked here for four years. Great.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 27 January 2014 12:44 (ten years ago) link
I tend to assume that I'll need to work until 72 (presuming I live so long).
― Word Salad Username (j.lu), Monday, 27 January 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
Ive only got 34 years left, that is 103% of a me
― gelatinate mess (darraghmac), Monday, 27 January 2014 18:16 (ten years ago) link
Yep, just lost my job.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 27 January 2014 18:19 (ten years ago) link
vice is a flighty bride iirc
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 18:22 (ten years ago) link
if only they were my employer
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 27 January 2014 18:22 (ten years ago) link
makes sense they were yr bit on the side akshully lol
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 18:24 (ten years ago) link
not sure what me writing for them has to do with me losing my actual job/source on income but keep it coming m8
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 27 January 2014 18:26 (ten years ago) link
sorry to hear that dwight, good luck
― flopson, Monday, 27 January 2014 18:34 (ten years ago) link
Sorry mayne
― gelatinate mess (darraghmac), Monday, 27 January 2014 18:35 (ten years ago) link
I somewhat foolishly assumed that was yr main job
― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 19:56 (ten years ago) link
thats pretty shit, nothing like uk 2k14 more than summary re-interviewing for long term employees
hope shit sorts itself out
― Pedro Mba Obiang Avomo est un joueur de football hispano-ganéen (nakhchivan), Monday, 27 January 2014 20:16 (ten years ago) link
http://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/01/in-the-name-of-love/
― ^ enlightening post (sarahell), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 09:57 (ten years ago) link
Cheers lads. It's a bastard this. Feels incredibly embarrassing to be in work today surrounded by the colleagues on the panel who don't think I'm up to the job.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 11:45 (ten years ago) link
times like this i always wish there was a neat Youtube of the closing line from Patty Hearst
― rock nobster (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 11:50 (ten years ago) link
Sorry to hear that DY.
― Word Salad Username (j.lu), Monday, January 27, 2014 12:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It's thinking of it this way that made me decide to go back to school to train as a nurse practitioner because although I'm unlikely to finish before I'm 40 I figure it'll be worth it to do something I really want to do for probably around 30 years.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 13:44 (ten years ago) link
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the two fastest-growing occupations projected until 2020 are “Personal Care Aide” and “Home Care Aide,” with average salaries of $19,640 per year and $20,560 per year in 2010, respectively.
― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 13:54 (ten years ago) link
do you need a personal care aide to assist you w/ that
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 13:57 (ten years ago) link
that lady otm!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 16 April 2021 20:19 (three years ago) link
if you’re a business reporter or similar there’s always a column waiting to be written about the “skills shortage” in industries x, y, and z where goldurn it they just can’t find the right people - itisamystery.gif
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 16 April 2021 20:21 (three years ago) link