What's your Job?

[~YuckFou~]

Originally posted by xenon2000

1. What job do you have/want?
2. What qualifications/skills did the employers look for when you applied?
3. What does it briefly involve on a day to day basis?
4. What do you like about it?
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1. 
   
   
   
   Business Development Manager, Document Management Solutions Company.
   
   Sales skills, 20+ years experience, starting in retail as a lad, then capital equipment (faxes, copiers etc), and then 7 years in an IT sales environment.
   IT skills, Bsc in Computer studies taken as a mature student (30 at the time)
   
   Meetings, phonecalls, and hours putting together solution proposals. All of this is basically selling, at a "higher" level.
   
   The money, and the fact that I am almost my own boss, I also get to work from home if I'm not on the road.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

I'm also in a similar situation to good ole xenon here, with a few differences.
Uni isn't really an option unless I spot something amazing in clearing - given that I hate education, everything about it and have no interest in pretty much anything as a subject D), I very much doubt I will spot anything remotely suitable for me.

This leaves me with the job route. This leaves me with a problem. I'm 18. However, as I have little interests, and only general skills (i.e. I'm not great at anything, but can just about handle most things - except coding or design) - even spying a job to apply for that I wouldn't hate is a fucking task. Got some experience in Quality Assurance (read Games Testing) for Sports Interactive, testing some Champ Manager stuff (more temp work with them in August to come for a couple of weeks), but after that.. nothing. Went for a full-time QA job similar to that I do on a temp basis with SI, only I didn't get it.

I don't want to go into full-time work into a "dead-end" job - I don't want to work in a shop as a sales assistant, or a call centre. I know these jobs do bring up future possibilities, but they're very limited.

Anyone feel like recommending something for me? I could do with some help as I laze the days around doing nothing.

 

[throdgrain]

How about making telescopes ?

 

[Munkey-]

I have absolutley no idea wtf I'm gonna do with my life atm. Have some vauge general ideas orientated between Journalism and the RAF but from there on I have no idea

In journalism I'm considering working for a monthly magazine reveiwing stuff or perhaps being one of those war-time correspondants who always gets shot.
RAF I'm most probably planning to become something along the lines of an Intelligence officer (am semi-fit so cant really qualify for the regiment)

Basicly I'm after something that gets me outside, pays ok and doesnt leave me surrounded by a bunch of suits for the rest of my viable career.

Bad thing so far is that my old private school had already started offering careers advice which I found helpful. Out here they dont even have careers advice which will kinda fuck up my a-level choices.

Basicly I like and prefer English, Biology and History. However my teacher says that if I was to go into a medical career they'd want chemistry as theyd expect me to know biology already which AGAIN fucks up meh chances as I'm utter crap at understanding Chemistry.

 

[granny]

Originally posted by Wazzerphuk
I don't want to go into full-time work into a "dead-end" job - I don't want to work in a shop as a sales assistant, or a call centre.

Education is your best way of avoiding a "dead-end" job to be honest.

I laze the days around doing nothing.

... and that's the best way of ensuring you end up in a shit job I'm afraid :/

 

[L_Plates]

Im a Fish filleter on the Docks ina small town called fleetwood near blackpool.

Pays its way so im happy, but the missus is the big earner. Ill just have to get use to the factthat im just a umperlumper for life

 

[granny]

Thanks for reminding me L-Plates, I was gonna say in response to your earlier post, never be ashamed of who you are - if it pays your way and you're happy then that sounds pretty good to me

 

[Summo]

Originally posted by Wazzerphuk
I don't want to go into full-time work into a "dead-end" job ... I laze the days around doing nothing.

Exactly what granny said up there! Couldn't have put it better. It's either education or (as I did) get an entry-level, dead-end office job and leave after two years. Exaggerate the experience and skills you gained in your next interview.

There's no easy and 'cool' way out, Wazz. Nobody walks into a job they can be proud of first time round. The fact is you're going to need to spend some time doing stuff you don't enjoy.

 

[Summo]

I wub j00, L-Plates! Just don't fillet your wife!

 

[JohnyWishbone]

Originally posted by xenon2000

1. What job do you have/want?
2. What qualifications/skills did the employers look for when you applied?
3. What does it briefly involve on a day to day basis?
4. What do you like about it?
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1. 
   
   1 currently work for (scared to put CO name)a big I.T player supporting users. but i would like to get into web related and or java related stuff (but im not too sure)
   
   2 Have been working in I.T for 14 years now, so quals didnt really come into it. Am currently working towards my MCSE. Experience is important, but dont discount quals.
   
   3 Helping users who constantly arse about with their machines, then wonder why it breaks. having responsibilities taken away from your team until your job could be done by a monkey. have to smile and take shit because they are the "customer" when you really want to punch them.
   
   4 Not much anymore, exept colleagues who i get on well with and you can have good banter.

 

[JohnyWishbone]

Originally posted by L_Plates
Im a Fish filleter on the Docks ina small town called fleetwood near blackpool.

Pays its way so im happy, but the missus is the big earner. Ill just have to get use to the factthat im just a umperlumper for life

were you the one too embarrassed to put his occupation up b4 ?? if so never be embarrassed about anything like that. Whats important is being happy in your work, as that I have found reflects into your personal life. Unhappy at work usually means unhappy at home.

I was unemployed for a while and any job would have suited me, just for my own self esteem.

 

[*Kornholio*]

Re: Re: What's your Job?

Originally posted by Damini


1) I work in a supermarket

2) The ability to breath unaided. Toilet trained.

3) Pondering the banality of my existence, hiding in the toilets, walking very slowly from a to b, weighing fruit, putting things in alphabetical order (almost), hiding in the toilets.

4) The sandwiches in the canteen are cheap.

But they taste of decay.

Top class post Damini

 

[granny]

Originally posted by Sawtooth
Evil scientist

Planning ultimate destruction of all life on this planet

Skills

Evil planning and gardening

lol

Need a skilled minion? Will supply own evil laboratory equipment and gardening tools.

 

[~Lazarus~]

Originally posted by L_Plates
Im a Fish filleter on the Docks ina small town called fleetwood near blackpool.

Pays its way so im happy, but the missus is the big earner. Ill just have to get use to the factthat im just a umperlumper for life

So...... both you and your wife smell of fish ???

Dont know I I could do what you do.

I can bait a hook with ragworm.
I can catch a fish
I can gut a fish.

But I hate the smell -- too much would prolly make me boke.

 

[throdgrain]

That is true . I was made redundant in 1989 and spent a year or so on the dole, it was shit I can tell you. In the end I worked for a bloke in a shed fixing old motorbikes for £15.00 per day. 11 years later we have a turnover of 1.75 million a year and employ 8 people.
You never can tell ...

 

[PR.]

1. What job do you have/want?[/list=1]

1. 
   
   I work as an IT Technician at a small company that employs about 70 staff
   
   
   

   • What qualifications/skills did the employers look for when you applied?[/list=2]

   • 
     
     They didn't seem to be looking for qualifications as such they wanted someone who was computer literate, they were offering a training course, but I haven't taken that up yet....
     
     

     • What does it briefly involve on a day to day basis?[/list=3]

     • 
       
       I have adopted the role of self trained novice web designer when they wanted to replace there old website with a new one, since then I've done about another 3 websites plus an Intranet for the office. My other role is tech support for the staff in Office/Windows
       
       

       • What do you like about it?[/list=4]

       • 
         
         Always something to do, never get bored, its just a 15min drive to work
         
         
         Salery was £8k and has since gone up to £11k, not that much, but seing as I live with my parents the experience I am getting is more valuable than the money... well almost
         
         Hope this helps

 

[Wij]

L_PLates

Fish filletting pays quite well these days I thought. I have honestly thought that if I left the IT Industry I'd quite fancy it Just hope years of computing haven't fu><0red my fingers too much :/

Sar

I beg you to reconsider. I swapped from psychology to philosophy at Sheffield Uni. Apart from Neuroscience it's ALL UTTER COCK !!!

Psychoanalysis: Utter bullwank. Just trust me. Only spouted by arty types trying to sound intellectual and make you feel worthless.

Psychometrics: These ppl aer teh gh3y !!1

Social Psychology: You spend 10 weeks researching whether left-handed people look left first when crossing the road rather than right. And get no conclusion. Or you research something blindingly obvious for 2 years and publish it as a major finding. Oh, and you have to believe that schizophrenia is caused by bad mothers.

Stats: Psychology involves MASSES of stats.

One of my old lecturers (Geoff Beattie, now at Manchester iirc) used to do some of the commentry on Big Brother where they try to figure out who likes who and who is giving off what signals. Amiable chappie but he talks cock constantly.

Trust me. Sit in a room full of Psychologist wankers for more than 5 minutes and you will develop a strange form of psychosis where you want to rip their little fucking beards off and sledgehammer their trainers up their arses !

 

[Insane]

Originally posted by xenon2000

1. What job do you have/want?
2. What qualifications/skills did the employers look for when you applied?
3. What does it briefly involve on a day to day basis?
4. What do you like about it?
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1. 
   
   (*) Commonly reffered to as the "I.T. Guy" Im more a "Senior Technical Support Engineer" by name, Note the Senior branding is only there to say we get paid £400 more than the new starts....
   
   (*) Only an NVQ lvl2 in PC Hardware and Software Support and a Partial pass in BTEC computer studies to start with, my previous job was with FG Wilsons and gave me 3yrs experience within computer repairs 7 GCSEs underneath everything as well.
   
   (*) General IT based Work. Systems administration of users and servers, Exchange 5.5 Administration, etc. Computer repairs, upgrades, movement of IT equipment around the building. Also upgrade and maintenance of Network switches and hubs.
   
   (*) getting to piss about with expensive equipment most of the day As well as working in a call centre environment so theres a LOT of F.I.T. birds floating about during lunchtime
   
   Qualifications are always good for IT jobs, specifically for the Interviews, it doesnt really matter how much you waffle about what you've done or that you got 8+yrs as a technical engineer, if they dont see certain stuff like BTEC or A LEVEL then your as good as a road sweeper to them. Im looking into enrolling on a night course later this year for AS level in computers, just to give a bit more on the CV

 

[Mellow-]

Unemployed atm, (i've had a few office jobs already that were boring) with an Adv IT qualification.

I'd like a job as some kind of IT Technician, but the industry's a bit dry round these parts. Perhaps something that has on the job training would be good, i'd certainly like to give it a go

What do I do! Any helpful suggestions?

 

[L_Plates]

Originally posted by Summo
I wub j00, L-Plates! Just don't fillet your wife!

hehe tempting as it is at times ill try not to summo

 

[L_Plates]

Originally posted by Johny Wishbone


were you the one too embarrassed to put his occupation up b4 ?? if so never be embarrassed about anything like that. Whats important is being happy in your work, as that I have found reflects into your personal life. Unhappy at work usually means unhappy at home.

I was unemployed for a while and any job would have suited me, just for my own self esteem.

I love the job its just i wish i had respected what education had to offer instead of kicking it into touch.

 

[stu]

#1 requirement of any job: it has to make you happy. If it doesn't, all the money in the world won't help.

I used to be an IT/Strategy Consultant, but ditched it because of the implications it had on my life as a whole. Now I'm training for something more vocational - which will pay about half what I was on before (if I'm lucky), make me work longer hours, and actually do something within that time. But (hopefully) I'll be happy doing it.

 

[Cod]

Originally posted by xenon2000
Light discussion thread on the outside, maybe, but it has some serious motives behind it.

OK, so I quit college a month ago with an unfinished BTEC advanced level in computing looming over me... I hated it. I've basically been lazing around the house ever since (I have a small weekend job but the weekdays have been dead). Basically I think it's time I started planning for this september coming.

From the advice given by the careers advisor, my ideal choices would be either a straight job or a training course such as a modern apprenticeship. Up until now, computing and IT have been my primary interests, but after visiting a Connexions branch and phoning around asking about IT training possibilities, the chances look pretty dull, especially with no qualifications beyond GCSE (9 C & above). Guess there's not as much demand atm as there was five years ago :/

So, my questions to all of you who work (or are looking to work), are...

1. What job do you have/want?
2. What qualifications/skills did the employers look for when you applied?
3. What does it briefly involve on a day to day basis?
4. What do you like about it?
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   (A high salary really isn't that important atm. I'm still living with my parents and will do so until I'm at least halfway to being financially stable and have someone to share with.)
   
   TY in advance to all who can offer help

1. 
   
   Im in the exact same position.. i quit college because i never really went and i might aswell get a job or move schools. Not a clue what to do, I left about 10 days ago, just been lazying about the house like yourself.

 

[MYstIC G]

Originally posted by Summo
Nobody walks into a job they can be proud of first time round. The fact is you're going to need to spend some time doing stuff you don't enjoy.

That’s not exactly 100% true. My current job is my first and I'm dead proud of it (sorry Summo not intentionally killing your argument here, its actually true this time). Although I do 100% agree with the "doing stuff you don't enjoy" comment. Being unemployed sucked, I hated it completely. To be honest when I was on the dole, I'd have done any job to get off it.

Anyway, now the Summo bashing is over for the moment Onto those answers to xenon2000s questions:

1. What job do you have/want?
   I currently work for AlienPants (http://www.alienpants.com) primarily on the multiplayer side of the BTopenworld site GamesDomain (http://www.gamesdomain.co.uk).
   
2. What qualifications/skills did the employers look for when you applied?
   I really couldn't tell you to be honest. My current job came out of basically being in the right place (strangely enough that was IRC) at the right time (on a web design course in Peckham - http://www.pecan.org.uk) and asking the right question (can i have a job please? gowan I’ll be your friend!!!!! ). I think to get a serious answer you'd have to ask MikeyBear & Cro for this one. I do think though that the fact I pretty much play any PC game (well any game really) somebody throws at me helped for my current position.
   
3. What does it briefly involve on a day to day basis?
   This essentially varies. On a core level it’s very much "If given something, get the job done" which is actually something I'm very comfortable with. Because personally I'm very much a "if it works, it’s the business" kind of person so I don’t end up fussing over anything unless I think it’s important.
   
   At the present time the main concern for me would be the GamesDomain Online Championships. I work with the other guys at GD on it and it essentially takes up my evenings four nights a week (less beer time *sob*). The GamesDomain Forums are, although not on my directly given responsibilities, something I feel very much "godfather" to, essentially because I'm a forum junkie (btw I wish I could convey the sweetness of banning llamas & stripping there posts in 10 seconds).
   
4. What do you like about it?
   Everything. I work from home, the hours are good, it lets me be my Game/Forum/IRC junkie self, my colleagues are all great (although if they're reading this, fo!). The post itself has also allowed me to see a whole other side of gaming which I doubt I’d ever have stumbled across otherwise.
   
   At the end of the day it allows me to just be me doing what I love. If you'd have asked me if I ever thought I'd be doing this, I’d have probably laughed (just like the people at the job centre did when I put down I wanted to get into gaming as my 3rd option on there form). Never did I imagine there being a day when signing onto IRC as MYstIC_G would be work. Hell I never imagined coming back to IRC with as MYstIC_G for a second time.[/list=1]To be honest with you xenon2000 I don't have any big flashy answers. All I can say is that I totally agree with Stu, make sure you do something that makes you happy. I'm not saying "don't do anything" because that really does suck, but there’s nothing wrong in doing something your not quite so keen on if it helps you get where you want to go.
   
   Also those who aren't really sure about committing themselves to further education, I'd think long & hard about the university route. I wasn't sure & all it landed me in at the end of the day was a student loan debt. Apathy is costly.
   
   Btw anyone reading my story & thinking "woo I can get a job from being on IRC" go see a doctor about your delusions, because I still can't work out how I got so lucky, so I don't want anyone getting there hopes up.
   
   Hope some of this helps.
   
   This post brought to you by the commission for balancing out spam vs. serious content........ and the letter G

 

[Fergus]

I won't bore you with the history, basically 'cos it's nothing exciting. Left school at 18 with 8 O levels and a couple of shitty A levels. Had had enough of education so went straight into working in retail, it sucked. Stuck with that for 5 years or so, then went into banking, it also sucked. Now an Executive Pension Consultant, the title means fuck all, I'm just a paper shuffling gimp. :sleeping:

I would have to go with what has been said before, get all the qualifications you can while you can, you'll appreciate it honestly!!

Oh yeah and the pay sucks aswell, still waiting for Mystic to give me the winning lottery numbers, when he has finished whoring the forums, eh meg ?

 

[charl8tan]

My last job was Functional Tester for the X-Box. Was a team lead and stuff as well which wasn't too bad after only doing the job for about 3 months .
Didn't really need any qualifications, although my GCSEs (or lack of because I lie about them so much even I can't remember the truth anymore ), and IT qualifications helped a bunch. Though the main thing is being able to play absolutely any game to a high skill level (fo you lot who know me, my skills are universal ) was the main factor. You've also got to be able to think fairly logically.
There wasn't really anything I disliked about the job, apart from it was when I got a really shite game to test.
Good points were that I got paid to sit on my arse and play games all day long, free drinks, free food, and if I was lucky enough, free smokes of the management . Oh, and also looking back on each day and realised I'd managed to have the entire lab in fits of laughter due to my swearing vocabulary when on certain games .
I'd say it's fairly hard to land your first job in the games industry, no matter what area you're looking at, but once you've got industry experience they love you and the next job is a lot easier to get. I chose testing to start in because its probably the easiest area to get into as they don't require qualifications or experience, just a love of games.

 

[MYstIC G]

Originally posted by Fergus
Oh yeah and the pay sucks aswell, still waiting for Mystic to give me the winning lottery numbers, when he has finished whoring the forums, eh meg ?

1 2 3 4 5 6 <- try them

 

[Fergus]

FS, you theiving gypsy, how did you get the combination to my underwear drawer.....pervert....

 

[old.Jas]

Wooo Hooo! I can change my post in this thread already.

Just been offered, and accepted a job with Volvo near Cambridge. "E-Commerce Content Manager" - yeah baby!

Now time to work out how to get a new house and shift all my, and my girlfriends, gear down from Manchester. Fun!

 

[Damini]

I want to be a writer. I *will* be a writer.


Anyone know anyone who needs a writer?


I'm currently on £4.80 an hour , so any job is considered


Well, nearly any job - to pre-empt the Wij smuttathon