Ikonic

My first job was a softlines sales-floor clerk at Meijers -- which is just a step up from a Wal-Mart Supercenter, but not by much.

PhoenixxFire

Sorting, stacking, and bundling/strapping 4'x4'/4'x8'/18"x8' sheets of plywood, and some solid wood, (varying thicknesses) at a cabinet making company. I had to wake up at 3 AM in the morning to get to the job, and it was only minimum wage ($6.75 at the time). It lasted 3 months, and then I quit. I just couln't take getting up that early.

I'm now doing Finish Plumbing, with the occasional Rough work.

cg_

Santa you should look at the new 9600gt cards. Not really sure how they perform against the 8600 series as I don't keep up on that stuff for shit anymore but I just read that the new 9k series came out and the 9600 is the budget card.

Probably what Ill get when I get some money for a new computer. My damn setup is 3 years old.. 6800 here hehe

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Braidedheadman

My first job was as a general laborer for a family-run drywall outfit my dad and uncles ran. I started by throwing scrap materials out of 4-story apartment buildings into bins below (fun!... for the first hour or two) and began training in other, more skill-orientated tasks as time went on and have moved on to bigger, better things since then.

Over the years, I've tried out other positions in the job market - worked at a Wendy's restaurant for a couple of months, and a couple tech-support / IT positions through university co-ops later, for instance - but they all represented a fairly severe drop in my "hourly wage"... which is a bit of a misnomer since in drywall we get paid a flat rate, or "piece-work" ('x' cents per square foot), for the jobs we do. So, one calculates his hourly wage after the paycheck and all the hours are in out of interest alone - if one works his ass off during a pay period and slings lots of board, the hourly rate goes up; if he's dogging it every day, the wage drops - and is used as a metric to gauge performance on a personal level.

In any case, I didn't stick with either of those jobs for any longer than was necessary to get references to put on a resume. Drywall has given me valuable skills and has been a great fallback job to have for when the other jobs start to suck. It has been my best meal-ticket through university by far and has beaten the pants off my other burger-flipping jobs in terms of job satisfaction.

If anyone's putting themselves through school, seriously, give the construction/labor industry a whirl. It starts out as really hard work but one gets used to it (I look at it as being paid to work out/lift weights) and the pay scale generally performs better than just about anything you'll find in the service sector if you stick to your guns.

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jaymind

Agree. I did rough carpentry and mason work during college which ended up saving me a boat load when I built my house.

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Braidedheadman

^ Definitely! That's one thing I forgot to mention: Picking up skills like these makes a person handy around the house. And the chicks dig that.

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Conscript

Take a look at this setup and see what you think. The 8800GS card isnt that good and the 9600gt blows it out the water and the OC version of it is on par with a 8800gt. If you want to do SLI you would have to the change the MB I picked. A few of the items I picked are also what I am using now. A couple items also have mail-in rebates. https://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion...asp?ID=8469366

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HBrutusH

ask my parents and they'd say I was a white elephant. I prefer the term financial investor.

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Santa

Well I have a week under my belt, and absolutely hate customers. Heres a few things you can do at your grocery store to not be a total douchebag.

When I ask "paper or plastic?", its a rhetorical question for the most part. You should just say "plastic". The plastic does not rip unless you're swinging it around frantically like a diseased monkey. All paper does is slow our shit down, and cost the store a little more (though I dont care about that). The paper bags also require me to bend down to get them, and thats a ridiculous thing to ask me to do.

Getting a lot of produce? USE THE GOD DAMN TWIST TIES! I hate when apples and such are going over the conveyor belt and they're spilling all over the place. They arent hard to put on, so just do it.

Dont use your own bags. The small discount you get does not outweigh the medical bill youll be getting after I punch you in the face.

Using one of those new fangled double decker carts? Dont. They wont stack with the normal carts, and it slows down taking the normal carts back.

I cant wait till next week or the one after when I move onto deli. Then I can find new, more exciting ways for customers to piss me off

bleckuhffinity

Most people do it for environmentalist reasons and not for the discount. Also, they do it to piss off the bag boy, because who gives a shit about him?

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