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Yeah, well I started working when I was...16 I think. So the first job was in a restaurant, which sucked. I was there for a year and a half, but I decided it was too high stress for too little pay. Plus I had already missed one summer due to work and I wanted to have the next one to myself. Then Safeway I worked at for about six months until I found the work to be so mind numbingly boring and pointless and the checks were none too great either.
I only quit that job for Petland because I had a few friends who worked there and I knew I could get away with doing absolutely nothing and still get paid. But the novelty of that wore off pretty quick, especially after I just got finished working 8 hours as labor, and again, the checks sucked. I figure if you're working two jobs and you quit one and you don't notice a difference in income, the second job wasn't worth it. Mind you while the novelty of that "job" was still there I got some good stories out of it. While I worked there we had a couple of water fights and the new girl set off the fire alarm.

But the job I have now is good. Every day I'm presented with a new challenge and different kinds of work. Like when we first start up with the bees in spring we need to feed them. When we're done feeding we unwrap. Then we split the hives...etc. It's always different. And I like my bosses. And when it comes to the winter it's the same kind of idea. There's a bit more of a "same old, same old" system to cleaning snow, but there's always some kind of new challenge for some reason you have to get by.
That's why I like the job I have compared to retail. Yeah retail is easy, but there's ******** all to do. While I was at Safeway on more than one occasion I spent almost an entire 4 hour shift doing absolutely nothing but visiting other departments and screwing around in the back. I served maybe five customers, and cut that many steaks. The rest of the shift I didn't do squat. And this wasn't just once. And did they call me out on it? No. Why? Because they didn't notice no work was done, because the jobs they give you are unnecessary.
And I already said I didn't do any work at Petland. For the two months I was there I must have worked around 80-100 hours, maybe more, I really can't remember. Either way I probably only did an actual 4 maybe 6 hours worth of work the entire time.
But with the job I have now, you can't say "I have no work to do." because that would be a downright lie. There is always something to do.
The reason I didn't mind going between all of those jobs is because that's exactly what they were. Jobs. Now the place I am now I'd like to make my career if possible.


And I think I just made a helper in the Entertainment forum extremely happy. I made a thread about LOTR on bluray, asking when the extended versions are coming out. Only I put it in the main forum because after a quick glance on the subforums I must have missed the LOTR subforum. So after the thread was made I contacted the helper to ask them to move my thread to the proper forum. They gave me the additional note of "Your topic was moved per your request... biggrin "

Ladies.

How goes it?

Oh it goes. It goes like crazy. You had better believe how crazy it goes.

I bought seasons 2+3 of Samurai Jack.

Hey, sorry to hear about this. I've lost many flash drives along the way, so I empathize. It must be even harder for English majors since papers are key to classes.

I would say keep everything from now on uploaded to google docs or if it exists, your school webspace. Even if you have it on your desktop and/or external, physical media can always fail and for something that important, have multiple copies.

Hopefully it'll turn up. In the meantime, good luck on your work.

I'm still alive, I promise

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I require clarification good sir eek