Your Job

[Corleone]

This topic has probably been created in the past, but the world is an ever changing place. As of today,
what are you currently doing for a living? What tasks do you have to do?

Hands down, BEST part of your job. What do you like the most?

Worst part of the job?

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I am a produce associate at a grocery store. In addition to working produce, I am cross trained to work the floral department. As a produce clerk, my job is basically to stock the floor. In other words, I bring the product from the backroom onto the floor for you to buy When I work floral, I mostly blow up boons. The flowers we get in are already pre-packaged and ready to be sold. Therefore, I rarely have to make a special arrangement for anyone.

Best part of the job is my co-workers. While there are a couple lazy ones, they are nonetheless hilarious! We are always cutting up and laughing at one another. Overall, I enjoy going to work just to mess with them and to get in a good laugh.

Worst part would have to be the negative, nasty customers. I had no idea anyone could be so disrespectful until I worked retail.

 

[Nebulous]

I used to work in retail too, I was a stocker. They always tried to get me register trained so I could play cashier when they were short handed. I didn't want to do that, that wasn't the job I signed up for. Whenever they called "all register trained employees" up the the front over the loudspeaker, I didn't have to go.

 

[xlovelyxrosesx]

I'm a gymnastics coach. I personally love it since I am a gymnast. The best part is I am able to be in a place I love. (You could call the gymnastics gym my second home)
The worst part is we have no air conditioning. So it is SUPER hot. Basically I have to teach kids different skills in the gymnastics gym.

 

[Rebel]

Surgical Technician, Senior Airman, United States Air Force.

 

[TommyTooter]

i'm a self-employed multi-disciplined artist. my overhead is covered by disability insurance. i write gonzo journalism because i'm irresponsible and have a death wish. i play music for the love of it and it brings me money without even asking because people love to hear it. i cut, carve and mount stone for jewelry to make serious money. i'm gearing up now to start doing shows at least on weekends after a fifteen year hiatus due to two total wipeouts and hope to be back on the road by halloween.

i call my peers in the indie music and arts family 'F-Troopers' who put the woodstock notion in motion by doing real things together in symbiotic synergy with real people spreading the message of peace and love through music and arts, while hustling the tourists for their walking around money and the use of their credit cards if we're advanced enough to carry an android with a square reader at flea markets, street fairs and music festivals.

truly if you've never been to an indie event, especially some of the busker festivals , you should. they're the most fun of anything i know. if you're walking down any street and a busker makes you smile, that should be worth at least a quarter. if you take their picture, that should be at least a dollar or your local equivalent. here's a link to our most recent event, jammin for clamons, a benefit for one of the elders in the local family:

https://www.facebook.com/events/610980765685461/

the internet has been a tremendous boon to us, radically extending our reach, while providing a platform for planning and promoting our events.

the absolute best part of the job past the fabulously creative, loving fun people doing it is that i name my own hours. i work when i want to and slack off when i want to. i don't have to perform for anybody but myself.

the down side of that and working long hours on the weekends instead of the other way around, is that it's hard to prioritize your time during the week, rehearse, cut, polish and set stones, take care of the groceries and laundry and all the other little things that want you to do them so you're ready for the next gig.

there's a joke about indie musicians loading $5,000 worth of sophisticated gear into a ratty $500 car to drive 150 miles for a gig they're only going to get paid $50 for. i've gotten around that with the stones and stuff, so for me when you're whooping it up with happy feet and chicken wings crowing TGIF, i'm rubbing my forehead thinking OFIF already because i'm trying to think about the noise i'm going to need to make to get those feet jumping and wings flapping, reaching for your wallet and pocket change.

 

[Dee]

This topic has probably been created in the past, but the world is an ever changing place. As of today,
what are you currently doing for a living? What tasks do you have to do?

Hands down, BEST part of your job. What do you like the most?

Worst part of the job?

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1. I work two jobs: retail (shoes) and tutoring.

Retail tasks: Cashier, floor recovery, customer service, merchandise (at times), acting janitor (we don't have a crew that comes in), but basically we do everything the managers don't do.

Tutoring tasks: I tutor 3 kids at the moment, but one of them is coming back in September, I believe. I tutor in Language Arts, so I help them with work books we work through, depending on what level they're at and what pace they need to go through. We will test them with formative and summative assessments throughout the course of their time with me, and then I log their progress and work from there.

2. BEST part of my job as a sales associate is that I have the most awesome team to work with. I mean, it used to be amazing when we had Stephanie T_T But she moved to become a store manager! So happy for her. In any case, my store manager is amazing and did wonders for the store we work in, and the rest of the team is fun and incredibly helpful.

Best part of tutoring is that I get to help kids, see them blossom, and enjoy their quirkiness.

3. Worst part of retail is the customers, overall. Not everyone is an ass, but a good number of people I deal with are disrespectful, rude, self-entitled, sloppy, selfish, egotistical pricks. xD Of course we have nice customers. Then again, the former outweighs the latter.

Worst part of tutoring is when I am not achieving the results we're after. I work for a Korean tutoring company, and so the parents are i.n.c.r.e.d.i.b.l.y. picky about everything, whether or not their kids are actually making progress, etc. Quite honestly, I don't think many of the parents realize that teaching/tutoring is very complex and it takes a lot of time and effort from EVERYONE involved. That means the parents cannot just drop their kids off at the center and expect me to wave my magic wand. Kids have to do the work, the parents have to monitor that work and illustrate good habits (like reading, writing, and doing other educational stuff so their kids are influenced from it), and they have to come to me with concerns without a hot head.

Unfortunately, I have had to deal with a couple parents who flipped out and took their kids out of the program without coming to me or trying to work out a plan. It sucks, and I felt like a failure, but fortunately the tutoring center has kept me and I've tried my best to keep my ducks in a row.