I'm wondering what everyone gets out of their occupation. I'm not really getting at anything, just curious. I'll go first.


I have worked for the same company for 10 years now. It is a local business that has been around for over 50 years and is well known in the area. Cooking chicken is the main facet of the business. We are well known mainly for the fundraiser aspect where people contract us to cook and they sell dinners. I absolutely love this aspect of the job. We do a lot of hard work and it probably doesn't always reflect it in our pay as we try to keep our prices as low as possible, but the amount of praise that people will give you for helping their cause and making sure everything goes smoothly for them is pretty awesome. Also, I have a few customers that will actually seek out where I am at because they say no one else cooks like I do.
There is also a catering aspect of it. We have no hall, so we're mobile and cater at halls and in backyards for weddings, banquets and grad parties. These are usually hard work; anyone in catering would agree. The best compliment I usually get is that everything is delicious and that we made it look effortless. I may be beat dead at the end of the night, but knowing that I did something like make someone's wedding memorable for good reasons is quite a feeling.

Making people happy is a great thing to get paid for doing.

Tonight was 'opening day' at Security Field where I'm working at the Fox Den for the baseball season. This was the first night that I worked in the store, and wow was it freaking busy. I sold so many blankets, sweatshirts, and beanies! This was because of fans that came to the game unprepared for the cold weather. I swear I must have sold over 100 blankets. At $32 a pop for a blanket? whewwww.


For the first 30 minutes after the gates opened they had bag pipes playing, which sort of made sense because earlier in the afternoon I wondered why the hell some guy would wear a kilt to the game considering how cold it was.

The highlight of my night was two guys that patronized the den. One was swapping out his Detroit Tigers cap for a Sky Sox cap. We talked about both having moved to Colorado and how we'll probably have to become Rockies fans now. I asked about which cap he would wear if both the Tigers and the Rocks go to the World Series, and he grinned and waved his Tigers hat at me as he went out the door.

Nice.


The second was a guy from southern MI. He was swapping out his Red Wings beanie for a Sox beanie. He told me about how his Irish grandparents got off the boat and found themselves in an all Polish neighborhood in Detroit, so that's how his family learned how to fight and play hockey. His uncle and another relative of his played for the Wings is what he told me. So I told him where I was from and he said "oh I know where that is! It's right here!" and he held up his hand and pointed right to the Saginaw Bay.

It was nice to talk to a couple of strangers with a familiar place in common.



Most retail jobs are grueling. But this one isn't. It's light hearted and fun.


To sum it up. I really really really hope I get to meet Fox the Sox at some point.

I do not enjoy my job. Analyst. Staring at a computer all day.

just a paycheck? nothing to get out of it?

bart d. for m-v-p

I love my job.

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I like my job a lot. Moving into my new office tomorrow. I'm right next to the men's room!

that could be a bad thing

Think the gay south american mecca will stop by?

Welp, as it turns out, fortune has smiled upon me. I'm no longer being lad off on Jan 7th. I'm just transfering departments. So... I love the holy fucking shit out my job right now. Just having a job is pretty great.

If I haven't said it before.... I fucking LOVE having a job... seriously. Love it.

you guys really aren't getting into what you enjoy

I'm actually at work. And it's busy time. I'll think it over and post a more appropriate answer later. And not Jorge later. Like actually later.

Congrats, Joey.


In all seriousness re: my job, I really do like it a lot. I've been in this company for a good three and a half years and I get paid good money to do something I like. I'm well respected even though I'm the youngest person in the company. I've been promoted twice. I've met some of my best friends in this place. My hours are really flexible and I can telecommute whenever I want. And though I view it as a job and not a career, it provides more than enough to provide for myself and pay for school. I'm lucky.

I work at a radio station. It's awesome. Not just any radio station, but a big time radio station in a major market. I get to write, which is what I always wanted to do. The writing isn't anything special, but it keeps me intellectually stimulated and up to date on the news of the day. The people I work with are legends in the industry, and most of them couldn't be nicer.

I teaching Junior High.

have you had any of 4/5's experiences with bloody seats?

I might be moving to Ohio...

Take a guess...

If he had them they wouldn't be 4/5's experiences, now would they?

They converted a warehouse into an office space. No windows. Rows upon rows of squeezed in employees. There's a few hundred people in my building. As depressing an environment as you can possibly imagine. My work is pointless. Only a paycheck.