Do you hate your job?

[Drewbacca]

i do prepress work. dont mind the work but hate the pay. ive seen places on monster starting at 18-25/hr (one in orlando was 78k/yr). i make 9/hr. just here for the experience atm since most places demand 2-5 years minimum.

I just wanted to ask who told you to do pre-press work for experience in the design feild? Are you planning on moving over in to the design side of things eventually? If so then doing 2 years of prepress won't help you all that much.

All of the employers and people I've talked to see prepress workers as monkeys to make the things they design work for plate production, nothing more. You may be shooting yourself in the foot by not looking around while working this job for one in the design field. I was told this by one of my teachers, and I asked during design company tours I had to do with a small group of people in my class. They all backed up his claim that prepress isn't a good route to go.

I've scored 2 design jobs and I'm not even 6 months out of college and both jobs are vastly different. The prepress guys where I work aren't allowed to even apply for the design jobs.

Anyway I'm loving my job right now. I'm designing a trade show booth for Folio, a tradeshow for publishers. I think it's the biggest one of its kind (Masthead is big too, but it's in the summer. We went to that too, although I wasn't on staff yet) so I'm excited. The project is ENTIRELY mine right now and I'm having a lot of fun with it.

Some days I work on peoples business cards. So the answer depends on the day, but on the whole I enjoy my work.

No hot chicks at my job, only dirty, smelly, grown men.

My industry is 70% gorgeous women.

[Tones]

I don't mind my job. I think that it's as good as a job in a grocery store as one could get. Basically, I just stock the dairy section. The location of my department is to the far side of the store, so it's not somewhere that managers really pass by unless they're coming to talk to me. My dad also works for the company, and my manager knows it, so he's always been really nice to me. My title isn't "customer service", nor is it considered a perishable department; basically, this means that I never have to go to the meetings.

I get vacation pay, sick pay, and holiday pay, which is a lot more than most people my age get at a part-time job.

Of course there are bad days, such as crappy customers, a pissy manager, or a really heavy backlog of work to do, but no job is perfect.

[kedawa]

still not in seminary, still trying to make contacts there

It strikes me as odd that you'd need to make contacts to get into seminary. References, I can understand, but the idea of a theological school being so exclusive is just weird.

[Rhydant]

I do tech support and web design for an optoelectronics company. I absolutely hate it. My bosses don't give me clear direction on what to do, and then when I do have something to do I've usually never done it so I'm completely lost. I don't fucking know Pro Engineer, AutoCAD, or OrCAD!! How am I supposed to fix it?!

I have been meaning to look for a new job for the past month, but I don't have enough experience to go somewhere else, and even if I did I go to school two days a week. AND it is nice to have a flexible schedule. But I still hate it. I'm the youngest person there by a good 15 years. No hot chicks or anything.

[frostwolf ex]

It strikes me as odd that you'd need to make contacts to get into seminary. References, I can understand, but the idea of a theological school being so exclusive is just weird.

no it was just mmo speak kicking into my everyday vocab, in city of heroes you get contacts..i have been playing a lot of it lately
sorry.

[Calliander]

I love my job. No complaints whatsoever. I don't mind working overtime, coming in early, covering for someone, or anything. Great place.

[TaiMaiShu]

My Job tends to have its ups and downs depending on how the management feels that particular day. But most of the time I tend to like my job.

[MarkRyan]

I hate my job.

• I have to be there by 9:30, Monday through Friday.
• My lunch breaks are only like an hour long.
• I have to play games most of the day, sometimes really bad ones.
• On a bad day, my commute is a grueling 20 minutes.

Pretty miserable, but I take it day by day.

[SpoDaddy]

How much does it pay though?

[Kev]

I work for Sodexho. Prior to today, I made sammiches. The sucky thing about it was that until two days ago, I had to handle all the duties regarding sammich prep. Outside of having to do everything concerning that station, I love my job. We're a relatively new operation, and over 1/3 of the customers who come to our location want sammiches, regardless of what the grill or the hot line are serving. About a week in I had straight up regulars. I loved my job because lots of hot chicks gushed over how awesome my sammiches were.

Today I got semi-promoted. I'm now working the grill over on the east side of campus. It's semi-temporary; If I like it well enough, I can stay.

I hated Target. While that store is a nice place to shop most of the time, the Stone Mountain location I was at sucked. They don't give you shit for benefits being part time (I'm talking little things, like discounts and whatnot), they fucked you on your hours, and the managers there didn't know shit.