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kbergren21
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28 Aug 2008, 9:21 pm

Ugg I'm conscripted into middle management in the Armed Forces. Its alright Ive learned alot of my eight years in forced servitude. Anyone else have to manage a good number of people? Pretty much I write reports for funding request, hold accountability, and destroy my people at physical training... But I dont really find it a fulfilling job! Anyone else in the same shoes?



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28 Aug 2008, 11:42 pm

Linen room attendant at the local hospital, food prep at Mrs. Fields, and now pizza delivery driver. I'm going to quit the Mrs. Fields job. I just can't get it over there. I'm the weakest link, and I'm already thriving at my new delivery job, where I can can take home tips every night, which is the instant gratification anyone wouldn't mind. It's only four towns which I drive around in, which are all rather rural settings. It's perfect, I think. Hopefully this is what I need to get more money and move out soon.
I think I might have some sort of auditory processing disorder. I'll have to look into it, though i think I already missed one of my therapy appointments.
Seriously, though, I love this job, mostly because I've realized how good I am at finding places so much as I have a map and a decent idea how to get to my destination, which work provides just fine. It's the best job I've had so far. Still not my chosen field, but one step at a time, right?



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30 Aug 2008, 2:56 pm

I'm a Quality Control Analyst. I enjoy my job I don't have to interact with too many people during the day, I get to play with chemicals and enzymes all day and the few people I interact with I've learnt social skills from :D



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01 Sep 2008, 10:53 pm

I assist a public accountant as an entry-level accountant doing mainly bookkeeping and assisting with payroll and occasional sales taxes.


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02 Sep 2008, 4:01 am

Tally wrote:
I stack shelves in a supermarket.

In my dream world, I would like to be a pharmacist or accountant, but I can't afford the training.


tally you could do it,. i do accounting and tax preparation with a accounting background learned on the job and some brief coursework that did not cost hardly anything..



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02 Sep 2008, 4:10 am

alex wrote:
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Cool alex Im going to school to be a network administrator, altough I don't know much programming, just a little bit of VB and HTML :(. i start my internship sometime later this year. You just got out of high school and you got a job like that, thats pretty awesome man, Good luck man! :D


good.. my cousin is 24 never speaks unless spoken to and now works as an aerospace engineer/rocket scientist. Started at 23. Never talks.


I haven't gotten out of HS yet, but i will in June. Its a good job though. I can work from home and at the office (which is really a dorm suite) and I don't have "hours" in that I just come in when I'm needed or when i want to.

I'm really excited about it. I got my first paycheck after working for only 8.75 hours.



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02 Sep 2008, 4:30 am

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I'm more the creative type and unfortunately arts is much harder to succeed in because it's more a 'who you know' field (as opposed to a 'what you know' field) and that can be hard for aspies.[/quote]


Dont use excuses! I knew NO ONE and got a job before ever leaving high school at the prestigious playhouse square theater in Cleveland.. you CAN do it! and i am so aspie-like that I developed whole soap opera characters in myhead and on paper from age 6 and on and developed alltheir generations, too, just like adays of our lives'.. soap opera.



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02 Sep 2008, 6:30 am

As it says in the name..Thane of Bar and Cellar.

I'm a Personal license holder working in a bar/music venue as barman, cellar supervisor, handyman, and general all round chap who does random jobs, working security etc. From jobshy long term unemployed to tradesman in a year. Good Times.

Even though the hours are shocking, and i spend most shifts three inches from a fight, and am now effectively responsible for hundreds of fully grown inebriated morons and my feet are killing me and I cant stand most of the people I'm forced to meet, and i'm not actually allowed to damage them...


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02 Sep 2008, 3:17 pm

I proofread and edit scientific articles for a university that wants to start making a name for itself in the academic arena. Judging from what I've read so far of their work, I wish them luck.



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06 Sep 2008, 10:51 am

I'm a Photoshop monkey for a pretty large website, it's about 30% image processing/touching up, sometimes creating ad banners for customers, and 70% data entry (which I've always enjoyed). Good relaxed environment, though a bit noisy, I pretty much have to work between 6am and 6pm, 40 hours a week, breaks and lunch whenever I want, as many as I want as long as my work is done. Aaand...NO PHONE WORK! I don't even login to my phone most of the time. We're not supposed to do that :)



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09 Sep 2008, 5:25 pm

I've done fast food, I really hated it. I've done IED patrols in Iraq, and I can't say it's as dangerous as its made out to be. Right now I work in an army hospital as medic (about the lowest skilled position) I'm just working on my RN.



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10 Sep 2008, 6:29 am

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10 Sep 2008, 10:41 am

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Icky but it pays the bills.



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18 Sep 2008, 9:22 pm

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DTI Associates, Arlington VA office of Haverstick Consulting, a subsidiary of Kratos Defense (San Diego)



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18 Sep 2008, 9:30 pm

I passed under the Pentagon on the subway about 9:15 (23 minutes before impact)
My ex colleague Mary saw Flight 77 approach the Pentagon
My ex colleague Chris saw the smoke rising
Someone had a TV going.... I immediately thought about the B17 that hit the Empire State Building in 1945 but that was an accident
Our manager, a former Navy electrical engineer, got us into the concrete stairwell after a fairly loud boom, but we concluded that was probably the Air Force scrambling fighters (maybe from Andrews, in an emergency, screw the sonic boom). Though he asked us not to use our cell phones, I briefly informed Mom I was safe.

They were single tracking on the subway over the Potomac River that night past the Pentagon: there were delays. I think I saw smoke for about another day and we saw the gaping hole for a while.



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19 Sep 2008, 5:24 pm

Just finished my first week at my new job. I am a DEO for the state.