too bad i don't live in wichita......i gave up teaching art - and i taught it for 10 years - b/c not enough hours, and no even half-way decent public school has been hiring in like, forrreeeeevvvvveeeerrrrrr. where i am it's all who you know on the school board b/c schools around here have amongst the highest salaries in the country, so you've got to wait out reitrements or deaths for an art position to open and then it's given to someone's niece or nephew in any case. :P i taught in private schools, but the hours and pay were soooo lacking. i finally decided to change careers. i changed a lot more drastically than i had initially intended, haha, but far more work and $$$....and i like it well enough.
So you think this is a career choice I shouldn't make?
i would seriously NEVER say such a thing, it's so individual!
i did love teaching, but was definitely growing a bit weary at the time. i was an excellent teacher and probably still would be if at the time i decided i had 'enough' at my last school (private and cut my days along with other *specials* teachers) if i was able to make the jump to a good public school. i probably stayed in the private sector too long, and when i first left college it was impossible to get into a public position, so i went with what i could find locally, taught part-time went to grad school part-time...and stayed private even after completing. i was happy and comfortable where i was, until a new principal...and then days cut. i think if i went public then - and i DID interview for numerous positions, 3 of which i was PERFECT for (and it was obvious they already had who they wanted, just going thru the motions b/c by law in NYS, must always interview others) i am sure i would've stuck with it, got reinvigorated, etc. i DID get numerous calls for less than desirable schools/districts/areas....but yes, it was my choice that after 10 years in education i was unwilling to go there. i thought i would stay in education/art, at least semi-related......and tried and tried for a good long while (working retail to get by )....and then finally, by pure dumb luck ended up where i am now, totally unrelated but an excellent firm, excellent position/pay/benefits, entirely unrelated. for me, it works. i am happy, i also ironically have more time with my husband though obviously less time off...but since he wasn't a teacher and his vacation picks were slim, we rarely had time off together when i taught.
so blah, blah, blah...sorry for rambling. :P teaching is an excellent career choice and there ARE jobs out there. in all honesty tho, art, music and elementary ed are fairly saturated and/or hard to come by positions......but if you are willing to go just about anywhere, stick it out until you get some experience so you look good for better districts, you definitely can succeed. i do not regret teaching one minute, but for me personally, while sometimes i miss aspects of it, i don't really miss it that much and think i am happier. perhaps if my husband taught too, would be entirely different. the high need subjects are math and science, special ed, languages, ESL...all levels. obviously tho, there has to be openings for all subjects at all levels, somewhere...all the time. as i said, i happen to live in an area where teachers are paid extremely WELL, far better than most of the country, so yea....far more competitive and people don't tend to leave, especially if/when they have tenure. it could be a very different market by you. just be sure you LOVE it (b/c even with all the time off, you still manage to work a LOT, on your own time) overall, the pay isn't spectacular given the education requirements....and remian flexible at about where you will go to teach. there are definitely a LOT more careers out there with better pay and all....but teaching, if it's your passion, most definitely can be worth it. i always say maybe someday i'd go back to it....but the longer i am out, the more i realize that is quite unlikely. i know lots of teachers who taught 5 or less years, and i also know lots of people who had first careers and then swithced to teaching. so just do what you think is right for YOU! good luck!
sorry for such a long-ass response......you really should know better than to ask me a question, haha....;)
More layoffs today. As of June 12th,the tv station that I work at will have an automated master controll, so 4 people got the ax today. That's 7 so far (3 from sales a few months back). There is a meeting today to "talk" about budget cutting methods. Still worried about my job. The reporter that I work with is leaving the end of May, and my shift is up in the air (I'm a newsphotographer).Kinda worried, but shit happenes.....
when you get confused just listen to the music play........
"You damn well can't lick the system,but you can sure give it a good fondeling."-sleazy estate man(Hugh Laurie on A bit of Fry and Laurie)
"Judas Priest on a two stroke moped!"(Stephen Fry)
Yeah, I already told my boss I am not going back. This isn't Cancun or Cabo. This is shithole town up in the desert mountains. Big manufacturing city. I told her she can take me to HR if she wants but I am not going back. I don't get paid enough or do an important enough job to warrant it. I am not saving babies or anything.
But the way my job works, once we implement a new location and train up everyone, we rarely if ever go back. So it may be a moot point anyway.
well, if you need a bodyguard....i know a few guys...who know a few guys....hehehehehe
DAMNED RIGHT YOU ARE NOT GOING BACK!!!!!!!
wtf?? that must make your wife sick to her stomach worrying about you....
Yeah, she was worried. It looks like Iraq in some places. Military convoys and bunkers and chekpoints and humvees, etc.
Anyway, I am glad to have a job but no more Mexico. At least that part of it anyway.
too bad i don't live in wichita......i gave up teaching art - and i taught it for 10 years - b/c not enough hours, and no even half-way decent public school has been hiring in like, forrreeeeevvvvveeeerrrrrr. where i am it's all who you know on the school board b/c schools around here have amongst the highest salaries in the country, so you've got to wait out reitrements or deaths for an art position to open and then it's given to someone's niece or nephew in any case. :P i taught in private schools, but the hours and pay were soooo lacking. i finally decided to change careers. i changed a lot more drastically than i had initially intended, haha, but far more work and $$$....and i like it well enough.
So you think this is a career choice I shouldn't make?
i would seriously NEVER say such a thing, it's so individual!
i did love teaching, but was definitely growing a bit weary at the time. i was an excellent teacher and probably still would be if at the time i decided i had 'enough' at my last school (private and cut my days along with other *specials* teachers) if i was able to make the jump to a good public school. i probably stayed in the private sector too long, and when i first left college it was impossible to get into a public position, so i went with what i could find locally, taught part-time went to grad school part-time...and stayed private even after completing. i was happy and comfortable where i was, until a new principal...and then days cut. i think if i went public then - and i DID interview for numerous positions, 3 of which i was PERFECT for (and it was obvious they already had who they wanted, just going thru the motions b/c by law in NYS, must always interview others) i am sure i would've stuck with it, got reinvigorated, etc. i DID get numerous calls for less than desirable schools/districts/areas....but yes, it was my choice that after 10 years in education i was unwilling to go there. i thought i would stay in education/art, at least semi-related......and tried and tried for a good long while (working retail to get by )....and then finally, by pure dumb luck ended up where i am now, totally unrelated but an excellent firm, excellent position/pay/benefits, entirely unrelated. for me, it works. i am happy, i also ironically have more time with my husband though obviously less time off...but since he wasn't a teacher and his vacation picks were slim, we rarely had time off together when i taught.
so blah, blah, blah...sorry for rambling. :P teaching is an excellent career choice and there ARE jobs out there. in all honesty tho, art, music and elementary ed are fairly saturated and/or hard to come by positions......but if you are willing to go just about anywhere, stick it out until you get some experience so you look good for better districts, you definitely can succeed. i do not regret teaching one minute, but for me personally, while sometimes i miss aspects of it, i don't really miss it that much and think i am happier. perhaps if my husband taught too, would be entirely different. the high need subjects are math and science, special ed, languages, ESL...all levels. obviously tho, there has to be openings for all subjects at all levels, somewhere...all the time. as i said, i happen to live in an area where teachers are paid extremely WELL, far better than most of the country, so yea....far more competitive and people don't tend to leave, especially if/when they have tenure. it could be a very different market by you. just be sure you LOVE it (b/c even with all the time off, you still manage to work a LOT, on your own time) overall, the pay isn't spectacular given the education requirements....and remian flexible at about where you will go to teach. there are definitely a LOT more careers out there with better pay and all....but teaching, if it's your passion, most definitely can be worth it. i always say maybe someday i'd go back to it....but the longer i am out, the more i realize that is quite unlikely. i know lots of teachers who taught 5 or less years, and i also know lots of people who had first careers and then swithced to teaching. so just do what you think is right for YOU! good luck!
sorry for such a long-ass response......you really should know better than to ask me a question, haha....;)
Thanks for the honest reply.... This is my 4th career choice and I can't think of anything else I'd like better than teaching the love of art to kids!!
"I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
I work in an arena box office, and luckily we are pretty much isolated from the economy (as far as job losses). The building has a pretty small full-time staff, so who gets hurt are the part time/event workers.
Shows have definitely struggled in the last 12 months.. both the quantity of shows (a lot of acts just not touring, or if they do, they aren't coming to B-markets like Albany), and ticket sales for the shows that we do get.
But this spring/summer seems to be turning the corner and is shaping up to be our busiest summer in years.
My whole life
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
More layoffs today. As of June 12th,the tv station that I work at will have an automated master controll, so 4 people got the ax today. That's 7 so far (3 from sales a few months back). There is a meeting today to "talk" about budget cutting methods. Still worried about my job. The reporter that I work with is leaving the end of May, and my shift is up in the air (I'm a newsphotographer).Kinda worried, but shit happenes.....
Little off topic but I actually thought about making that switch( I was a photojournalist for newspapers etc..) until a few years ago and was getting a little bored with still photos. I looked at the market back then and I thought it was to saturated plus I wasn't willing to pickup and move across country for a job. How is that market holding up overall these days? If you lose(lets hope you don't) your job do you think you will be able to find another? I know in the PJ filed is was damn near impossible to find a staff job or anything. Do you think you will move to another city/town for employment?
Don't hate me, but I have 23 years of seniority in a Union protected job..........so I think I'm pretty safe.
Plus, I love my job!
If I had known then what I know now...
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VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
The past year has been a long strange trip for me personally. I left a job at one of the mega-banks that I had been employed at for five plus years. They had started to outsource many of our jobs to Mumbai and I didn't feel comfortable working there anymore. Plus, in the very specialized work I did, there was little room for advancement.
So, I left in January of 08 to go full time at my part-time weekend job. I was an account manager for a software company that serviced fast-food franchises across the country. It was great work and allowed me the opportunity to network and develop my b2b skills. Unfortunately, in August I was let go as we started losing many clients to the poor economy. Turns out that fast-food is a nickel and dime business and a lot of our clients just couldn't afford to keep the software system in their store. Since I was the last hired in, I was also the first to go.
So I sat on my ass and felt sorry for myself for a day or so, then went out and got a job at a call center contracted to support Verizon FiOS service. They hired me on the spot. To be honest, it was the worst job I've ever had. The pay was sub-par, the management were all 22 year old WoW addicts and the benefits were laughable. Still, it was a job and I helped offset the income reduction by working nights delivering pizzas and taking in a roommate.
Meanwhile I spent six months looking for something better. There were times where it felt hopeless. I would email thirty resumes out at a time and get no response. I felt hopeless and started making plans to move back to the west coast. I was crumbling under my bills, even with the roommate, and seriously felt that I would have to move back in with the parents to survive. Those were dark days.
Then, this last month, I got a call from that bank I had left last year. They called me in to interview for a Customer Care position in Home Mortgage. I had no experience in that field, but thought I might as well give it a shot. I aced the interview and was offered a job within the week, making nearly four dollars an hour more than I was prior. I've been in training for a week and a half and I can already tell that I'm going to love this. I love working with people and really enjoy helping people through their problems...and this job will allow me to do that. I don't say things like this often, but I feel really blessed, especially given the state of the economy, especially here in Ohio. Ironically, this whole mortgage mess that killed the economy also directly led to the creation of my job, as the bank is expanding it's work force in mortgage lending to handle the new Obama plan.
Make your life a mission - not an intermission. - Arnold Gasglow
that's what i say everytime i pick my failing mega millions numbers....
Reading 2004
Albany 2006 Camden 2006 E. Rutherford 2, 2006 Inglewood 2006,
Chicago 2007
Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
Seattle 2009 Seattle 2009 Philadelphia 2009,Philadelphia 2009 Philadelphia 2009
Hartford 2010 MSG 2010 MSG 2010
Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016 Fenway 2, 2018 MSG 2022 St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023 MSG 2024, MSG 2024 Philadelphia 2024
"I play good, hard-nosed basketball.
Things happen in the game. Nothing you
can do. I don't go and say,
"I'm gonna beat this guy up."
our department and all our posts are required by statutory law.
so i feel safe... but i worry about other members of my family... but they've not been affected so far.
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
As a business owner I always have to be concerned, but my product isn't too expensive (fitness center) and I'm not so big that I can't maintain a personal connection with the customers. I keep my overhead low and work hard to create a positive experience and excellent class for my customers, so I have been fortunate in keeping just about all of my customers. Working extra hard to do it though.
R.i.p. Rigoberto Alpizar.
R.i.p. My Dad - May 28, 2007
R.i.p. Black Tail (cat) - Sept. 20, 2008
we're still opening new stores...which is good!! but we're being cautious and not having merit increases with our reviews this year. there's still the opportunity for bonuses which is good...and quite a reward for those who are able to make the sales to receive it!!
and...they're paying to move me out to seattle soon best news EVER!!
Mine is actually really good. Our company is still expanding on schedule, and I got a huge raise right after the recession started. On top of that, a hefty bonus came my way in February. I cross my fingers every day that things stay as good as they are.
Pitt 98, Pitt 00, Cleveland 03, Pitt 03, State College 03, Toledo 04, Toronto 05, Pitt 05, Cleveland 06, Pitt 06 & Chicago 07, Chicago 1&2 09, Philly 2,3,4 09, Cleveland 10, Columbus 10, Alpine Valley 1& 2 11
Right now, most tv stations are not hiring. Sucks, but that's the reality for now atleast. I'm giving it another year in Reno (starting the job hunt in Dec.).
More layoffs today. As of June 12th,the tv station that I work at will have an automated master controll, so 4 people got the ax today. That's 7 so far (3 from sales a few months back). There is a meeting today to "talk" about budget cutting methods. Still worried about my job. The reporter that I work with is leaving the end of May, and my shift is up in the air (I'm a newsphotographer).Kinda worried, but shit happenes.....
Little off topic but I actually thought about making that switch( I was a photojournalist for newspapers etc..) until a few years ago and was getting a little bored with still photos. I looked at the market back then and I thought it was to saturated plus I wasn't willing to pickup and move across country for a job. How is that market holding up overall these days? If you lose(lets hope you don't) your job do you think you will be able to find another? I know in the PJ filed is was damn near impossible to find a staff job or anything. Do you think you will move to another city/town for employment?
when you get confused just listen to the music play........
"You damn well can't lick the system,but you can sure give it a good fondeling."-sleazy estate man(Hugh Laurie on A bit of Fry and Laurie)
"Judas Priest on a two stroke moped!"(Stephen Fry)
Update on what happened at my work place on Tuesday. Well I won't be getting my yearly raise on my anniversary date and a 1.5% pay cut (I won't bitch about that b/c I've seen worse pay cuts with other people on the pit) and I'll be paying more for my insurance. And they've also cut the matching 401k bennifits too, but I saw that one comming.
There will be an update in June, but I think it will be worse then. I think the next step will be unpaid week off furlows for people. Oh well, I'm moving into a smaller apt. (still nice,but I'm saving about $300 a month). I'm just going to keep on going.........
when you get confused just listen to the music play........
"You damn well can't lick the system,but you can sure give it a good fondeling."-sleazy estate man(Hugh Laurie on A bit of Fry and Laurie)
"Judas Priest on a two stroke moped!"(Stephen Fry)
Gone from really busy to very quiet in the last 2 weeks for me personally.
Down to 10 emails in my inbox as opposed to 50 or so.
And the workshop fitters are left with no work, not looking good.
Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
Pretty tough situation here. They laid off 15% of employees in november/december 08.
Last month, they asked us to work 80% of the time (of course with a 20% pay cut). I have until saturday to agree with this pay cut. And two days ago they announced they will lay off 10% more ...
I work at my family's new auto dealership. I've been working here for a couple years seeing if I want to take it over or not. I moved to Chicago after college but came back because I didn't feel like I gave it a fair shot. So here I am. I have great job security- where I basically am untouchable. The only problem is with the big wigs at GM. We are a Chevrolet dealer and normally sell about 25-35 new cars a month. We are steady and only off last year's pace by 4 cars YTD- which is actually remarkable. We run a solid business (which is paid off thank god) and employ 35 people. However, if GM goes bankrupt- they could just say that they don't need us anymore and pull our franchise. It's really scary for me because I have no idea what I want to do. I'm 25 and feel like I'm 45 and can't do anything else. I know I can, but I feel trapped. I don't know how my skills would translate to another job. I have a degree and all that, but I still worry I wouldn't be able to find something. I don't know if I want to stay in Ohio or move elsewhere. I have trouble sleeping at night just thinking about it. I see my friends advancing in their careers and I get worried that I will be thrown to the side left to start over with no direction in my life. I also feel that I could be worrying for no reason. I'm still not sold on whether this is what I want to do when I get older, but I want the decision to be mine, and not someone in Detroit/Washington's
I just got hired at the local University to a tenure track position during a statewide hiring freeze, so I got major lucky. My wife is a speech pathologist at a nearby hospital so, it seems finally at 30 and 28, we are a solid two-job family. The nice thing is that, while the jobs aren't as lucrative as working in corporate America, they are two that stand on firm ground once you get in. Good luck to everyone struggling to get in, I spent 12 years going to college with little to no pay so I feel your pain.
So far so good. I’m technically in health care – work for the Red Cross and there is always a need for blood donations, so I’m pretty confident.
And quite thankful that I am gainfully employed. Don’t take that for granted one bit.
I hear ya....
only a short time ago i would read on these boards .....statements like...
"i can go get a job anywhere"
"my company would never let me go"
"my company needs me"
"i dont care if i get fired, i will have no problem finding a job"
"the best thing that happened was my company letting me go" (thats my personal favorite)
its funny how things change in a years time.........
It's strange cos, even though I'm in hard times at the mo, I'm still glad my company let me go... I just can't afford as much crap anymore but I've learned not to care and the creative side is coming out in me so at the mo it's still good... so yeh, almost a year on and it's still the best thing that ever happened to me I was getting bored in Dublin... was starting to really HATE my job and fearing the long term health problems... we were working on excavating a landfill... the pages upon pages of potential biological diseases were pretty fucking scary :shock: so if I were still there, I'd still be bored, I'd not appreciate the fact that I had a job yet I'd still be thinking I was safe and I would still be worried about long term health problems.
The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
my boss had a heart attack this morning. he's a total jerk, but you cant wish that stuff on anybody. work will be different for a couple weeks!?
Oh that's horrible... hope he pulls through :oops: I went in one morning with my last company and was wondering where my boss was... he'd got a brain tumour :( it was really really shit but he was a slave to the company (of his own choice... even the MD was ordering him to go home constantly... I'd FREQUENTLY come in in the morning to find him still there from the day before... this happened at least twice a week :shock: so it wasn't a huge surprise that he had some health problems) but he was back at work a couple of months later
The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
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i would seriously NEVER say such a thing, it's so individual!
i did love teaching, but was definitely growing a bit weary at the time. i was an excellent teacher and probably still would be if at the time i decided i had 'enough' at my last school (private and cut my days along with other *specials* teachers) if i was able to make the jump to a good public school. i probably stayed in the private sector too long, and when i first left college it was impossible to get into a public position, so i went with what i could find locally, taught part-time went to grad school part-time...and stayed private even after completing. i was happy and comfortable where i was, until a new principal...and then days cut. i think if i went public then - and i DID interview for numerous positions, 3 of which i was PERFECT for (and it was obvious they already had who they wanted, just going thru the motions b/c by law in NYS, must always interview others) i am sure i would've stuck with it, got reinvigorated, etc. i DID get numerous calls for less than desirable schools/districts/areas....but yes, it was my choice that after 10 years in education i was unwilling to go there. i thought i would stay in education/art, at least semi-related......and tried and tried for a good long while (working retail to get by
so blah, blah, blah...sorry for rambling. :P teaching is an excellent career choice and there ARE jobs out there. in all honesty tho, art, music and elementary ed are fairly saturated and/or hard to come by positions......but if you are willing to go just about anywhere, stick it out until you get some experience so you look good for better districts, you definitely can succeed. i do not regret teaching one minute, but for me personally, while sometimes i miss aspects of it, i don't really miss it that much and think i am happier. perhaps if my husband taught too, would be entirely different. the high need subjects are math and science, special ed, languages, ESL...all levels. obviously tho, there has to be openings for all subjects at all levels, somewhere...all the time. as i said, i happen to live in an area where teachers are paid extremely WELL, far better than most of the country, so yea....far more competitive and people don't tend to leave, especially if/when they have tenure. it could be a very different market by you. just be sure you LOVE it (b/c even with all the time off, you still manage to work a LOT, on your own time) overall, the pay isn't spectacular given the education requirements....and remian flexible at about where you will go to teach. there are definitely a LOT more careers out there with better pay and all....but teaching, if it's your passion, most definitely can be worth it. i always say maybe someday i'd go back to it....but the longer i am out, the more i realize that is quite unlikely. i know lots of teachers who taught 5 or less years, and i also know lots of people who had first careers and then swithced to teaching.
sorry for such a long-ass response......you really should know better than to ask me a question, haha....;)
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
"You damn well can't lick the system,but you can sure give it a good fondeling."-sleazy estate man(Hugh Laurie on A bit of Fry and Laurie)
"Judas Priest on a two stroke moped!"(Stephen Fry)
Yeah, she was worried. It looks like Iraq in some places. Military convoys and bunkers and chekpoints and humvees, etc.
Anyway, I am glad to have a job but no more Mexico. At least that part of it anyway.
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MTL-9/15/05, OTT-9/16/05
PHL-5/27/06,5/28/06,10/30/09,10/31/09
CHI-8/2/07,8/5/07,8/23/09,8/24/09
HTFD-6/27/08
ATX-10/4/09, 10/12/14
KC-5/3/2010,STL-5/4/2010
Bridge School-10/23/2010,10/24/2010
PJ20-9/3/2011,9/4/2011
OKC-11/16/13
SEA-12/6/13
TUL-10/8/14
We're a huge Mail Order Pharmacy...I work in the IT department..last month was my 8 year anniversary
I guess people need more drugs in this environment
My wife on the other hand was told they had to take a 10% pay cut :evil:
She is a Senior Sales Manager for a Hotel so the economy is hitting them hard
The ONLY thing better than a glass of beer is tea with Miss McGill
A protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers
Shows have definitely struggled in the last 12 months.. both the quantity of shows (a lot of acts just not touring, or if they do, they aren't coming to B-markets like Albany), and ticket sales for the shows that we do get.
But this spring/summer seems to be turning the corner and is shaping up to be our busiest summer in years.
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
Little off topic but I actually thought about making that switch( I was a photojournalist for newspapers etc..) until a few years ago and was getting a little bored with still photos. I looked at the market back then and I thought it was to saturated plus I wasn't willing to pickup and move across country for a job. How is that market holding up overall these days? If you lose(lets hope you don't) your job do you think you will be able to find another? I know in the PJ filed is was damn near impossible to find a staff job or anything. Do you think you will move to another city/town for employment?
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Plus, I love my job!
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
So, I left in January of 08 to go full time at my part-time weekend job. I was an account manager for a software company that serviced fast-food franchises across the country. It was great work and allowed me the opportunity to network and develop my b2b skills. Unfortunately, in August I was let go as we started losing many clients to the poor economy. Turns out that fast-food is a nickel and dime business and a lot of our clients just couldn't afford to keep the software system in their store. Since I was the last hired in, I was also the first to go.
So I sat on my ass and felt sorry for myself for a day or so, then went out and got a job at a call center contracted to support Verizon FiOS service. They hired me on the spot. To be honest, it was the worst job I've ever had. The pay was sub-par, the management were all 22 year old WoW addicts and the benefits were laughable. Still, it was a job and I helped offset the income reduction by working nights delivering pizzas and taking in a roommate.
Meanwhile I spent six months looking for something better. There were times where it felt hopeless. I would email thirty resumes out at a time and get no response. I felt hopeless and started making plans to move back to the west coast. I was crumbling under my bills, even with the roommate, and seriously felt that I would have to move back in with the parents to survive. Those were dark days.
Then, this last month, I got a call from that bank I had left last year. They called me in to interview for a Customer Care position in Home Mortgage. I had no experience in that field, but thought I might as well give it a shot. I aced the interview and was offered a job within the week, making nearly four dollars an hour more than I was prior. I've been in training for a week and a half and I can already tell that I'm going to love this. I love working with people and really enjoy helping people through their problems...and this job will allow me to do that. I don't say things like this often, but I feel really blessed, especially given the state of the economy, especially here in Ohio. Ironically, this whole mortgage mess that killed the economy also directly led to the creation of my job, as the bank is expanding it's work force in mortgage lending to handle the new Obama plan.
Make your life a mission - not an intermission. - Arnold Gasglow
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Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
haha!!
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that's what i say everytime i pick my failing mega millions numbers....
Albany 2006 Camden 2006 E. Rutherford 2, 2006 Inglewood 2006,
Chicago 2007
Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
Seattle 2009 Seattle 2009 Philadelphia 2009,Philadelphia 2009 Philadelphia 2009
Hartford 2010 MSG 2010 MSG 2010
Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016
Fenway 2, 2018
MSG 2022
St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023
MSG 2024, MSG 2024
Philadelphia 2024
"I play good, hard-nosed basketball.
Things happen in the game. Nothing you
can do. I don't go and say,
"I'm gonna beat this guy up."
our department and all our posts are required by statutory law.
so i feel safe... but i worry about other members of my family... but they've not been affected so far.
5% pay cut
No more tuition reimbursement
No more food discounts
Restructuring of job titles
No raise this year
R.i.p. My Dad - May 28, 2007
R.i.p. Black Tail (cat) - Sept. 20, 2008
and...they're paying to move me out to seattle soon
CHILLIN LIKE BOB DYLAN!!!
though get an extra 8 hrs of time off each month as compensation.....
"You damn well can't lick the system,but you can sure give it a good fondeling."-sleazy estate man(Hugh Laurie on A bit of Fry and Laurie)
"Judas Priest on a two stroke moped!"(Stephen Fry)
There will be an update in June, but I think it will be worse then. I think the next step will be unpaid week off furlows for people. Oh well, I'm moving into a smaller apt. (still nice,but I'm saving about $300 a month). I'm just going to keep on going.........
"You damn well can't lick the system,but you can sure give it a good fondeling."-sleazy estate man(Hugh Laurie on A bit of Fry and Laurie)
"Judas Priest on a two stroke moped!"(Stephen Fry)
Down to 10 emails in my inbox as opposed to 50 or so.
And the workshop fitters are left with no work, not looking good.
Last month, they asked us to work 80% of the time (of course with a 20% pay cut). I have until saturday to agree with this pay cut. And two days ago they announced they will lay off 10% more ...
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
"Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon