Some employment questions!

[Plurralbles]

I just got off the phone asking for glowing reviews of myself from adults who I've volunteered with in various areas and have prepared a small pile of applications for various area businesses. I need a job badly. It's a tough market out there but I gotta' get myself out there anyway. There's almost always low-skill jobs in the area. If they all are douches i can always fall back on my sister's husband's acquaintance but no matter what I need money and a past employment reference for the fall job fair at my university next year.

Now, after that tangent, I'd like to ask a few questions of you guys.

1. Did You graduate high school?

2, What was your first real job? As in you received a paycheck from an established company.

3. Did you go to college? Field of Study? Graduate? Degree?
a. What was your first real job in the field you have your degree in?
b. How long did that take from the time of graduation to the time of your landed job?
c. Did the college you graduated from help you with finding that job?
d. Did your college have job fairs and did you land any co-ops or internships, etc from one of those?
4. Do you support Minimum Wage?

 

[BlumiereBleck]

1. No I'm still in it.
2. Cat sitting
3. Still in high school buddy
a. *ahem
c. uhhh
d. >:l

 

[esperandote]

1. Did You graduate high school?
A:Yes

2, What was your first real job? As in you received a paycheck from an established company.
Arogammer

3. Did you go to college? Field of Study? Graduate? Degree?
A:Yes, Computer systems, Yes, Engineer
a. What was your first real job in the field you have your degree in?
Arogrammer
b. How long did that take from the time of graduation to the time of your landed job?
A:It didnt take me time, i was an intern and when my internship ended they hired me
c. Did the college you graduated from help you with finding that job?
A:No
d. Did your college have job fairs and did you land any co-ops or internships, etc from one of those?
A:Yes it has and no it didn't
e. Do you support Minimum Wage?
A:Im not sure i understand this question, language barrier :/

 

[Chester41585]

1. Yes
2. My first job was a bagger working for Publix.
3. Yes. I went for computer programming the first time, I forgot what I went for the second time. I did not complete college, however I went on to a trade/technical school and got my certification in Law Enforcement
A. I worked for a local police department.
B. It took me about 4 months.
C. No
D. No. However, we were welcomed to make visits to local police departments.
E. Yes, all around. Even waiters should get the standard minimum wage. I believe this because in most restaurants, the waiter has to divide his or her tips with the bus and bar.

 

[Hulyen]

1. Did You graduate high school?
- Yes

2, What was your first real job? As in you received a paycheck from an established company.
- OfficeMax copy center

3. Did you go to college? Field of Study? Graduate? Degree?
- Yes, Tech College. Graduated with a 2 year degree in Marketing and Graphic Design and a 1 year diploma in Offset Press Operation

a. What was your first real job in the field you have your degree in?
- Worked for a small design company for a bit

b. How long did that take from the time of graduation to the time of your landed job?
- Ended up there before I graduated

c. Did the college you graduated from help you with finding that job?
- Helped me make my portfolio and build the skills I needed, so sure.

d. Did your college have job fairs and did you land any co-ops or internships, etc from one of those?
- Yes and no in that order.

e. Do you support Minimum Wage?
- I most certainly do.

Hope this helps a bit.

 

[MattRooney06]

1. Did You graduate high school?
A:Yes

2, What was your first real job? As in you received a paycheck from an established company.
Arogammer

3. Did you go to college? Field of Study? Graduate? Degree?
A:Yes, Computer systems, Yes, Engineer
a. What was your first real job in the field you have your degree in?
Arogrammer
b. How long did that take from the time of graduation to the time of your landed job?
A:It didnt take me time, i was an intern and when my internship ended they hired me
c. Did the college you graduated from help you with finding that job?
A:No
d. Did your college have job fairs and did you land any co-ops or internships, etc from one of those?
A:Yes it has and no it didn't
e. Do you support Minimum Wage?
A:Im not sure i understand this question, language barrier :/

Minimum wage is a set amount of cash a worker has to get from a company

sooooo

say you worked as a cleaner for me

Minimum wage would force me to pay you at the very least £3.00 (for example)

its to stop busineses paying there workers shit

 

[sms_117b]

1. Did You graduate high school?
I did indeed, well passed my GCSE's(16)/A-levels (18) not sure which applies to high school per say.

2, What was your first real job? As in you received a paycheck from an established company.
I was a lifeguard at a holiday site, £5 an hour, huzzar, 17 years old. Good times.

3. Did you go to college? Field of Study? Graduate? Degree?
I'm currently at University studying Astrophysics, I've never worked in the field, my jobs thus far have been public service.

a. What was your first real job in the field you have your degree in?
b. How long did that take from the time of graduation to the time of your landed job?
c. Did the college you graduated from help you with finding that job?
I'll find out in a year or two.

d. Did your college have job fairs and did you land any co-ops or internships, etc from one of those?
It has open days frequently but I'm always occupied when they're on.

e. Do you support Minimum Wage?
Seeing as i've worked for it, yes, most definently yes.

 

[ZeLunarian]

1. Yessir... eventually :/

2, Kitchen hand... bar staff and everything else in that damned restraunt and bar. minus running the place... Got it when i was 15 worked there till i was 18.

3. I got a bachelors in Arch. Technology and am now nearing the end of year 1: Film Tv and video production.
a. I did do work placement in a construction engineers office during my second year.. so not really anything :/

e. Do you support Minimum Wage? complicated answers i dont have the heart to dive into right now.

 

[nohorsetown]

1. Yes.

2. Cashier at Frontier Restaurant, a sorta local fast-food feed trough. Surprisingly good quality tho, considering the massive piles of food they churn out at such a pace.

3. Yeah, but I dropped out. Maybe if I had gone to a more prestigious college it would've seemed to be worth my time, but I had just had a kid and I was sick of showing up to learn stuff I already knew, or could have learned much faster on my own.

a/b/c/d: N/A for a thru c, and I dunno about the job fairs. They probably had something, and I probably ignored it.

e: Sure, I support minimum wage, and I support raising it as well. Minimum wage jobs are usually pretty full-on work-intensive, and it sucks that "unskilled" folk get paid such shit wages. The Ivory Tower can't run itself; someone's gotta mop the floors. And I've met so many unskilled idiots with degrees it's not funny. Why is this question "e" and not "4"? I don't see what makes it a sub-question of "3".. maybe I'm just not educated enough.

 

[Valksy]

Answering as a British citizen:

1. Did You graduate high school?

Our version of it, yes

2, What was your first real job? As in you received a paycheck from an established company.

Unlike my peers my parents insisted that I devote my time to study. When I graduated at age 18 I came top in my year but fark all actual work experience

3. Did you go to college? Field of Study? Graduate? Degree?

I read Law at University and have a Bachelor's degree with honours.

a. What was your first real job in the field you have your degree in?

I didn't. Law was a mistake and I did not pursue the profession. My degree still had value as proof of the capacity to study, learn, reason etc. The subject is a respected one.

b. How long did that take from the time of graduation to the time of your landed job?

It actually took me almost 18 months. Although I had academic qualifications up the whazoo I had no practical experience. In hindsight that was a mistake. It was a lousy 18 months of limbo when I couldn't get my foot in the door as I had no experience when it was demanded, and was considered "over qualified" for everything that didn't demand experience.

c. Did the college you graduated from help you with finding that job?

No. I did it myself by applying/interviewing over and over and being persistent even though it was a year and a half of shite.

d. Did your college have job fairs and did you land any co-ops or internships, etc from one of those?

I could have attended those in my final year. But by then I was sure that I did not wish to practice. I was never aware of a more generalised non-subject specific employment drive, I would have attended that. But the work faires did not seem to cross subject.

e. Do you support Minimum Wage?[

Absolutely. But then I am a European socialist =D It needs to be a little higher over here as there are some people on jobseekers benefit who are finding that getting a job actually makes them worse off (at a time in their life where ends barely meet at the best of times).

=D

 

[Plurralbles]

1. Yes.

2. Cashier at Frontier Restaurant, a sorta local fast-food feed trough. Surprisingly good quality tho, considering the massive piles of food they churn out at such a pace.

3. Yeah, but I dropped out. Maybe if I had gone to a more prestigious college it would've seemed to be worth my time, but I had just had a kid and I was sick of showing up to learn stuff I already knew, or could have learned much faster on my own.

a/b/c/d: N/A for a thru c, and I dunno about the job fairs. They probably had something, and I probably ignored it.

e: Sure, I support minimum wage, and I support raising it as well. Minimum wage jobs are usually pretty full-on work-intensive, and it sucks that "unskilled" folk get paid such shit wages. The Ivory Tower can't run itself; someone's gotta mop the floors. And I've met so many unskilled idiots with degrees it's not funny. Why is this question "e" and not "4"? I don't see what makes it a sub-question of "3".. maybe I'm just not educated enough.

sir... I apologize for that, I really should have made it question 4. I will edit my OP though my mistake is permanently imbedded in the peoples' quoetes.

 

[Ultress]

1. Yes last year

2 I finally got one yesterday at a Taco Bell
3.In the middle of it to transfer to study to become a mortician
4. Yes, I see no reason not to.

 

[dmccune]

1. Yes
2. I worked as a bagger at a grocery store all through high school.
3. Currently finishing law school, polisci/history major in college.
a. Looking like an ADA position.
b. Should have upon graduation.
c/d. are N/A
4. Do you support Minimum Wage? No, because there is a lot of statistic economic data that shows that a minimum wage actually artificially depresses wages. In other words, without a minimum wage, you might actually be making more.