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[Manta]

Wow, I really need to get a job. I'm pretty much the stereotypical college bum right now :laughingsmiley:

[Spritzie]

Manta, you can have my job. You'd get to play LOTS of Neopets. :D

[Manta]

Sounds good to me! What are the qualifications, and when can I start? :D

[Spritzie]

Ummm, you need to be good with having lots of downtime. (Around 9-10 hours a day) and general computer knowledge, as well as knowing how to properly handle tapes and computer equipment/robots. (But that can be an on-the-job training thing.)

 

Saturday. That's when I'd be going back to work. (Normally Sunday, but I'm covering a shift on Saturday.)

[Manta]

That sounds perfect! Do you know if they have a branch hiring in my area, or do I have to move to Colorado to get the job? :laughingsmiley:

[Spritzie]

:laughingsmiley: I don't know where else we have people. I know my company is building a new data center in Alaska.

[Manta]

Lol if they have one on Long Island, that'd be awfully convenient. Hours and hours of downtime sounds perfect for me. Do I need to interact with customers or people on a regular basis?

[Syrin of Neopia]

Hey, let me know if they open a branch in Southern IL, Spritzie. I'm looking for a good job right now, too!

[Spritzie]

Generally, you only interact with people on the teams that backup the data. (And usually, it's not all that often you deal with them.)

[-Ryan]

Let me know if in 4 years they open a branch in AZ. :P

[Naamah D.]

I want to move out, I've had it with my entire family. You shouldn't have to keep secrets from your own parents. EVER!

[Manta]

The thing that stinks is that by the time i go about getting a job for the summer, there's only two months left, so i wouldn't be working for very long :worried: And most people aren't looking for just summer help.

 

Half of the people don't believe I'm 20, anyway. Which is aggravating. I asked one girl if they were hiring, and she asked me if I could drive. Urgh! I wanted to kick her, but that wouldn't have helped me :P

[Spritzie]

:laughingsmiley: Do they have Barnes & Noble stores there, Manta? B&N is big on hiring college kids. They generally let you come back when you're home from school, like summers and Christmas.

[Syrin of Neopia]

We have a Barnes and Nobles near us (I'm in college currently) but it's forty minutes away & we're going down to one car because of gas prices. I hate how no one in my town is hiring for part-time. It's all full-time & must have associate's degree & 3 yrs experience minimum. Grr. . .

[Spritzie]

The job market is really hard. I was looking for quite awhile after I moved back to the town I was born in, and I think I only found the job I have now because it turned out my dad knew the site manager for my current job for 5 years.

 

I actually didn't get it when I interviewed for it. He told me that I was his first choice for the position, but some guys he'd worked with for a few years had just gotten laid-off, so he was going to offer the positions (there was a day and a night shirt available) to them. It turned out, there were more people interested in the job, then there were positions. He just called me a month or so later, saying they were opening up a new team and asked if I was interested. I didn't have to interview again or anything, thankfully.

[Blurrz]

XD. Citadel Squirrel. I feel that 15-0 and 16-0's are really easy on 3+1/1+3 teams. And I've gotten 17-0 a couple times already today ^_^.

 

But finally, I have reached the pinnacle, All-Star! Yay yay yay ^_^.

[-Ryan]

Oh... Lulz, i've only played YYB against 2+2 teams. xP

 

And gratz! ^^

[Manta]

Really? I'd try applying for a job at Barnes and Noble, but i'm afraid I'd get stuck reading. I'm also not very good at the retail department, so I'd want to be the one checking the shelves and whatnot. I guess it's worth a shot though! :D

[Spritzie]

When I worked there, I did cashiering mostly. For 7 hours of my 8 hour shifts. Once in awhile, I did some time at the help desk, but mostly I did the cashiering, then the last hour of my shift was just straightening stuff around a certain section.

[Manta]

Ugh, I'm terrible at cashiering. I always freeze up when I need to interact with people, and then I freak out. I have such awful social anxiety, it makes me really nervous about trying to find a job where there's people involved.

 

My mom hires me sometimes to help out with her store, but that's just as nerve-wracking

[Spritzie]

I always enjoyed the cashiering. It wasn't really all that much interaction, except with a lot of people, but each person it was short.

 

But I do prefer how it is at work now. We communicate with everyone by either email, or Office Communicator. (It's pretty much just an instant message program, connected to Office Outlook so you can look up anyone within the company.) It's very, very rare to have to talk to someone on the phone. I think I've had to take 3 phone calls in over a year and a half. And I've only had to deal with someone in person, twice. (And it was the same person. I've only met one of the dozens of people I deal with through OC or email.)

[rachiee]

I've never had an actual job as I'm too young to start working, but I've done volunteer work at the library for a class for school. It was just shelving and organizing stuff, which I'm pretty good at. I might consider volunteering again sometime over the summer, that is, if I'm old enough. :P

If I get a real job next year...I don't know if I'd make a good cashier. My social skills have greatly improved over the past two years, but I've never sold anything. I just have to remember not to be rude to anyone...I have a tendency to rage at people if we're not cooperating well. =/

[Manta]

Yeah, my problems with any social-skills involved job, is that I either have no patience for stupidity, or i just get anxious and freeze up :laughingsmiley:

[Spritzie]

It depends where you work. I worked a retail job when I was 16, where I was the only employee in the store for my whole 6 hour shift. So it was my job to stock, cashier, and sell stuff. But at B&N, I simple rang up people's already picked out purchases. If they needed more help, I called the information desk to send someone. We had too much going on for cashiers to do anything else.

[Callie.]

Ugh, I'm terrible at cashiering. I always freeze up when I need to interact with people, and then I freak out. I have such awful social anxiety, it makes me really nervous about trying to find a job where there's people involved.

 

My mom hires me sometimes to help out with her store, but that's just as nerve-wracking

 

I used to be just like you. Like I had horrible social anxiety, whether I was at the mall or with a group of people or sitting in a class room, talking to people would just freak me out. I used to think that everyone was judging me or looking at me when they really weren't. After I got on medicine though, everything got a lot better. The medicine helped to calm me down so that I wouldn't have as much anxiety. And now, I can actually talk to people and interact with people without being nervous. Especially, the more and more I cashiered, the more I got comfortable with small talk and carrying on conversations. Now I'm working on the sales floor at my store.

I seriously used to be the quietest girl that everyone knew. But now, with the anxiety taken care of, i'm finally normal :P

I'd suggest looking into a few anxiety medicines. Because as you get older, you won't be able to avoid interaction with people. The medicine works wonders. Well, at least it did for me :)