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Re: Jobs with physical movement [Re: resonant111]
#19060535 - 10/30/13 09:43 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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resonant111 said: i basically run the office for a local company. it's my first "real" job of out college and i'm not exactly making bank lol. only earn $10 an hour before tax which is kind of ridiculous for all of the stuff i do in there.
my duties include scheduling appointments, dealing with complaints, typing and sending out estimates for work, running payroll for all company employees, invoicing and paying all bills, reconciling company credit cards, scanning and sending legal papers, driving to get the company's mail everyday, depositing all of the payments for the company, and basically doing whatever busy-work the owner tells me to when it's slow. i also had to gather hundreds of old pages of tax documents last month for an audit lol.
i don't mind doing the work itself, but the low pay to high mental stress ratio is just ridiculous. i tend to get REALLY stressed out if i'm just sitting in one spot all day having to mentally keep track of all these things i have to do.
it's not the work i hate so much, but the physical stagnation that occurs from being sedentary all day with my mind scrambling to get things done. the only thing that keeps me sane is my lunch break where i can go outside to get the mail, otherwise i'd go crazy lol. it's just this horrible feeling of being chained to your office desk that i just cannot stand...i need to MOVE and i love being outside when working.
this will probably be the last time i ever work in an office because it's just not enjoyable for me at all. if i'm going to be doing hard work i want to be able to burn off the stress by moving and being physical...at least to some extent.
It sounds like you have alot of responsibly and have a terrible wage. In my experience incurring stress at work is absolutely not worth it (at least not unless your being compensated very well for it.)
Do you think it would be hard to find a job better than you have now? Are you holding onto it just to build experience? In my experience, i've never had a hard time finding bottom tier jobs paying considerably more than your making. (although depending on your location we might be comparing apples to oranges regarding wages.)
I quit a job I hated *although made an ok living with* in the spring and I am quite happy with where i've ended up now. Sometimes you just need to take a chance.
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Re: Jobs with physical movement [Re: PDU] 2
#19088187 - 11/05/13 12:23 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I run copper and fiber lines for cable/phone/internet in residential and wire up banks, hospitals and apartment buildings for the commercial side. I make about thrice the median income for my area. This winter I'm going to be doing $1600/wk with housing and food. I don't see the demand for internet or cable going anywhere any time soon.
I started out doing work for dish network and related companies. They'll take anyone. A year or two of that landing me the residential side of my job, and the residential side of my job got me the business and commercial. I'm the first employee in the company to be on my own in his first 30 days, first to get a raise at 3 months, first to get a promotion and raise at 6 months. My yearly is going to double. I get bonuses for upsales during residential installs.
I went to college for 6 years and got an MA in comparative literature and social discourse (aka "english"). I make more than all the teachers and non-tenured professors.
I lost over 60 lbs in my first six months. I'm a valued employee. The harder I work, the more I get paid. Company truck/gas/phone/laptop.
I go into work every day and I love it. I have no complaints except their pay cap, but before I reach that point I'm likely going to be full business/commercial making double of what I do now.
I highly recommend it. It's demanding work with shit hours unless you're stuck on residential cakewalk work which is just M-F 8am-6pm.
Learn a trade. This post could easily be about electrical work, plumbing, carpentry etc.
Makes life worth living. Spent over a decade in offices and I'll never go back. I'm all set on that office politics bullshit with fake people who don't appreciate what they have. I wouldn't take back college and all the related experiences during those years but I could be making over $100k a year now if I started doing this right out of high school.
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Re: Jobs with physical movement [Re: Adden]
#19114104 - 11/10/13 10:17 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Dystopia said: I run copper and fiber lines for cable/phone/internet in residential and wire up banks, hospitals and apartment buildings for the commercial side. I make about thrice the median income for my area. This winter I'm going to be doing $1600/wk with housing and food. I don't see the demand for internet or cable going anywhere any time soon.
I started out doing work for dish network and related companies. They'll take anyone. A year or two of that landing me the residential side of my job, and the residential side of my job got me the business and commercial. I'm the first employee in the company to be on my own in his first 30 days, first to get a raise at 3 months, first to get a promotion and raise at 6 months. My yearly is going to double. I get bonuses for upsales during residential installs.
I went to college for 6 years and got an MA in comparative literature and social discourse (aka "english"). I make more than all the teachers and non-tenured professors.
I lost over 60 lbs in my first six months. I'm a valued employee. The harder I work, the more I get paid. Company truck/gas/phone/laptop.
I go into work every day and I love it. I have no complaints except their pay cap, but before I reach that point I'm likely going to be full business/commercial making double of what I do now.
I highly recommend it. It's demanding work with shit hours unless you're stuck on residential cakewalk work which is just M-F 8am-6pm.
Learn a trade. This post could easily be about electrical work, plumbing, carpentry etc.
Makes life worth living. Spent over a decade in offices and I'll never go back. I'm all set on that office politics bullshit with fake people who don't appreciate what they have. I wouldn't take back college and all the related experiences during those years but I could be making over $100k a year now if I started doing this right out of high school.
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Re: Jobs with physical movement [Re: Adden]
#19127473 - 11/12/13 05:02 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Dystopia said: I run copper and fiber lines for cable/phone/internet in residential and wire up banks, hospitals and apartment buildings for the commercial side. I make about thrice the median income for my area. This winter I'm going to be doing $1600/wk with housing and food. I don't see the demand for internet or cable going anywhere any time soon.
I started out doing work for dish network and related companies. They'll take anyone. A year or two of that landing me the residential side of my job, and the residential side of my job got me the business and commercial.
wow, that sounds like a pretty legit gig. how did you get into that? did they hire you and train you or did you have to go take a few classes to learn how to run the wire?
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Re: Jobs with physical movement [Re: resonant111]
#19128352 - 11/12/13 07:52 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Learn as you go. Get trained, practice, do a good job and keep doing it. Be a professional and get paid like a professional. Find something you love and find someone to pay you to do it.
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