Jobs II

[Dorothy Wood]

I've been trying real hard to find something else. I went through some hoops and interviews, but nothing panned out. Meanwhile I keep getting raises, which is great but has made me lazy about searching.

I think the way employment works is stupid. One place I had a phone interview, then had to wait 3 weeks for an in person. Then 5 weeks to hear "great to meet you, your experience is impressive, but we offered it to someone else". What if I was unemployed?! That's like 2 months of waiting. Plus they never even asked me specific skill questions, just character questions, like "what is your natural role?" then badgered me into saying I'm a leader...but why? I'm just a normal smart person, I lead when I need to, which happens to be a lot because I'm more sensible than a lot of people. I can follow orders though, I love to follow orders! I should've said that. Why does that matter? Wouldnt "what's your record of accuracy?" be a more relevant question? Anyway who cares, on to the next thing.

Maybe I should just walk dogs....

[abbott]

I like my dog

[TurdBerglar]

yeah, who doesn't like dogs

[Bob]

i have a friend who walks dogs for a living and she loves it.

her husband kinda makes bank though, i dunno how much money professional dog-walkers pull in. enough, hopefully!

[Dorothy Wood]

I do like dogs better than humans, but I don't think walking them pays that well. Maybe I'm wrong though? I almost became a dog walker 11 years ago, it paid about $11/hr back then, but only for a max of like 30 hours a week. You usually have to have a car, but there's one "green" place that demands you bike everywhere. I go to their website and hem and haw a lot, but never apply.

I helped out a community arts organizer today on a public art project, who may be in the position of offering me something. She said "how do you feel about working in the hood?" and I was like "uh fine?" I mean Vice made a documentary about the area because it's so violent...but it'd probably be fine at a school. "Chiraq" is an overstatement I think. Anyway, it was cool that she just talked to me and didn't ask me buzzwordy HR 101 type questions.

Does anybody know of any professions that pay well with minimal training? I am strongly considering learning a trade like machine programming.

[Waus]

Does anybody know of any professions that pay well with minimal training? I am strongly considering learning a trade like machine programming.

In my limited experience: private school teaching (including Montessori), cosmetology degrees take about a year, Certified Nursing Assistant takes a season to learn.

[Dorothy Wood]

In my limited experience: private school teaching (including Montessori), cosmetology degrees take about a year, Certified Nursing Assistant takes a season to learn.

Thank you for the suggestions, I may try going back into teaching. In all honesty though, I don't want to be around people that much.


Nothing I've tried has worked out since I posted this. I just keep doing well at work and actually had to hire more help. Funny being on both sides of the hiring process. At this point I'm numb to rejection, so at least I'm more calm. And I realize that a lot of people in charge of hiring are not that bright, and terrible at email. Very odd, my standards have been way too high. Oh well thanks for listening, message board friends.

[Loppfessor]

I can follow orders though, I love to follow orders!

That's hot! meeeow