This is pretty sad. Only three days into a new job and I already have the "I don't feel like going to work" syndrome. Even more sad this is the easiest highest paying job I have ever had. I am making about 3x as much as I was just two years ago and the job is incredibly easy compared to some labor jobs I have had. I think what might be contributing to this is I just got done spending 4 months not working and getting workers compensation checks for staying at home. That gave me a whole new level of lazy. Sitting at home getting paid for doing what ever I feel like > almost any job. I think it would take about $50 an hour for me to always want to go to work and basically have bells and whistles about it.
I am a limousine driver. I am extremely happy with my new job and it is really bad ass. I also drive limo buses, vans, nice cars etc. The pros are it is really easy and good money. The cons are I am kind of on call. It is a locally owned company. They just kind of call me at home when they got work for me. I guess if I am busy I can say so but since it is my first week I plan on not declining work for awhile.
Yeah, I think you are dead on with that. I remember getting this syndrome a lot when I worked at AT&T wireless selling cell phones/plans at a kiosk. That job was basically 80% standing around goofing on the internet and 20% actual work. When it is a difficult job like my last I kind of just sucked it up and prepared for the worst.
I think it may be the four month layoff. I quit my job last year and took about 4 1/2 months off, part of the time traveling, the other part just sitting on my ass a lot at home. When I got back to work it took me almost a month before I actually looked forward to going into the office again.
If you explain to them that you are posting at 5/8, I am sure they will be okay with you not making it.
"Sorry, Mr. ___ I will not be able to pick up at the airport after all. I am busy posting at 5/8. Sorry about the inconvenience".
I am in kind of a funk myself. I have so many goals set for myself but I am the kind of person bad at doing things without some kind of pressure (ie. deadlines, whipcrackers, etc.) I killed some of my motivation by burning out while studying, took a month where things were easy and now I have to snap back into full gear... thing is all the first tasks are these really boring things to do with databases.
enough, I am not content staying at some clerk job working at a video rental store for 4 years climbing up to middle management. A job is a job and my goal is to make as much money as possible. With this job I am now making around $25 to $35 an hour. If I wish to expand my education and return to school while working this job on the side it would a perfect job to do so. If not, it is good money.
Just wanted to know a number, out of curiosity. Since I started working back in June 2003 I've had 2 jobs. June 2003 - Dec 2005 @ Nike, promoted 3 times. Dec 2005 - today @ Tommy Hilfiger, promoted 1 time. Have you ever have fear regarding "stability"?
$25-35 is AMAZING hourly for someone who has not kept a steady job and who has not attained a college degree. That is not something to give up, Lee. I've had to work pretty damned hard to get the $14.50 I'm getting now. I'm hoping to make that kind of money once I have my degree in another 3-4 years.
Sorry, I have used the forums for 5 years and I am pretty defensive when someone asks how many jobs have I had. Usually it is a crack towards me. It seems like everyone knows I have had dozens and dozens of jobs over the years. The only part I have a problem with stability wise is filling out an application. Like especially if they want a 7 year work history. I usually will give them 3 to 4 years and no longer have the contact information for the others. If I worked a job for two weeks I don't bother putting that down. As for stability my wide experience in my mind is my stability. I can return to retail, I can sell jewelry, car audio, home theater. I can detail cars, I can operate a tow truck, drive a bus, drive a dump truck. I can also sell cell phones and wireless plans, telemarket, give wireless customer service over the phone etc. The trick is finding a job which I have quite a bit of experience looking for work and interviewing. The other thing is every time I quit a job I want to move up. I want to make more money or have a better lifestyle. This does not always go as planned and I have had a lot of ups and downs. Thanks. It is kind of unscheduled work. So I doubt I will be getting 40 hours a week. I guess at times it could be really slow and some days I could have to work a lot of hours or really late until 4am. Even if I only work 20 hours a week that is a lot of money.
Cool, no worries. Have you always make steps further? I mean, every change was for the better option? Companies use to refuse profiles like yours around here , gotta tell ya.
No things have been up and down. I have had times where I have had barely enough money to pay the bills. I have even been so bad off where I only had $10 a week for food. I have other times like back in 1999 to 2002 when I was in Alaska where I was making great money. It was a big change and learning experience moving to Reno back in 2003. I think it is a new generation thing. People my parents age that grew up in the 60's would hack out the same job for 10 to 20 years to go from a starting wage to a middle class wage. It was really true if you were loyal to your company you would get rewarded. Now days I think it is harder to find these middle class wage jobs. Companies are trying to cut costs and there is not as much reward for staying at a company for 10 years. Now people can spend years working at a warehouse and be stuck making $10.50 an hour. Now days I think it is more acceptable for younger people to change jobs more often if they think there are greater opportunities down the street(I saw a news story about this the other day). I think it used to be that a guy could crawl his way up to middle management and make a decent living. I believe the truth of it is now middle management gets shitty pay for what they do. A lot of the time they are not making that much. The only big money is getting to upper management and these jobs are far and few between. This may be a personality flaw of mine. I am not working at some retail store or shitty warehouse job for 5 years to make $45,000 a year and hate my job. You know it is like the term "step yo game up". If you are making $8.00 an hour try to be making $10.00 an hour next year and keep moving up. I can't say I will be at this limo company for years, maybe I will though. Maybe there is even more money at the limo company that is larger down the street. I will say so far I am really happy with my new employer. The company is owned by a married couple. I really feel like they respect me and treat me nicely.
I just want a place to rant. This job is really not working out so far. About three weeks ago they scheduled me for a Friday night wedding rehearsal dinner. I had no idea it would run 3 hours late but I guess this is common. They also scheduled me for a somewhat early Saturday morning. So I ended up getting through the door at 1:30 am and needed to leave again a bit before 8am. I couldn't sleep fall asleep right away. I ended up tossing and turning. I called in which made the male owner drive the job. I didn't feel it was safe to be driving on only a few hours sleep. Since than I feel like they have held a grudge. I feel like since they have owned a limo business that maybe they should have thought about that the wedding rehearsal might run late. I feel like they are giving me the bottom feeder jobs. I spoke to the receptionist who acts like she runs the business. She was complaining about my availability. I am available 7 days a week from 10:00 until the wee hours of the morning. Basically I am available 7 days a week 18 hours a day. I guess that isn't good enough and rather it be 24/7. They hardly ever have anything scheduled in advance for me. They are only working me like 2 days a week. $25 an hour but only working 10 to 15 hours a week equals shit money. All they do is call me last minute to try and get me to work. Yesterday they called me at 10:00am wanting me to be to work at 12:30pm. Even though I was really sick I still went in. Yesterday they said that I had Saturday off and than they called today to change there mind. I told them I already made plans. I feel like in the job interview it should have gone something like this: Hi, yes here is what working at this limo company will be like. You will never have a schedule. We would like you to be available 24 hours a day 7 days a week. We would like to be able to call you at any time of the day and for you to be available to drop what you are doing and come in. If you can't drop what you are doing and come in than we will be resentful. TO show our resentment we will give you less work. On top of not having a schedule some weeks we may only work you 10 hours even if you are available. We are rude and not very polite to our drivers.
i don't think i'd be able to deal with having no schedule and being on call. i suck at switching to going to work mode if i'm not expecting to work that day x_X
The being on call most of the time doesn't bother me too much. It is the fact they I feel like they are trying to stranglehold me out by cutting my hours. It pisses me off that they complain about my availability and than give me like 10 hours a week. I think 18 hours a day 7 days a week is actually pretty damn available. It also pisses me off that the receptionist is the one who seems to be running the place when she is really difficult to get along with. The vehicles are complete shit as in quality. One bus had a headlight out and a few days later it still wasn't fixed. Another bus had an air bulge in the side wall of the tire. It is basically just a ticking time bomb until the tire blows out. Two weeks ago they sent me home with this 2 hour long training dvd with a test. I wrote down the time I spent at home on my time sheet. The male owner called me rudely telling me how he isn't going to pay me for that. He was like we have never paid someone to watch that. I told him fine I am not going to argue. I really wanted to tell him I have never worked a job that doesn't pay for that kind of forced training and quit being so cheap. ....my gut is saying it isn't going to work out. So I think I should start looking for some other job.
Like this. Only my companies suck and are pieces of shit for them to charge around $170 to $180 an hour.
True, if you're quite busy and concentrating time will fly by...not clock-watching. I was much more bored at work when I was sitting around doing nothing. I did end up buying a little Flash music player.
Nah I know it seems like and I can't totally see your perspective. It isn't the case. The owner called me yesterday morning "to talk". I asked about this receptionist and if she is also like a manager. He said absolutely not. I told him about her being rude to me, her practically saying she ran the business and her suggesting the idea that I can quit. She was fired later that day. I think she had something personally against me and I think she had a big hand in me getting a bunch of last minute bottom feeder jobs. They must have been pretty pissed with her because they don't have anyone to replace her. This just means more work for the owners. When taking to the owner he also rudely made fun of me on a few different subjects. One was about my sleep. Saying it is difficult working with someone who has to sleep 15 hours a day. Another was about me taking a week vacation for when I adopt a puppy. I asked the female owner a month in advance and she was perfectly fine with it. The thing is the business is so poorly ran. Yesterday I was driving to a wedding rehearsal. While driving on the highway I got flagged down twice to pull over by other drivers. The rear bumper cover was hanging half way off the limo bus. I tried to push/snap it on. After stopping twice I bought some duct tape and taped it back on. This same bus leaks air conditioning water right on to the driver. For the price that the people are paying they should be getting a higher quality vehicle. On Wednesday they called me last minute to work and I felt like shit but I still went in. Yesterday at the last minute I got called in and ended up working from 1:45pm to 4:30am (yes almost 15 hours). I am not badly sick but for some reason I keep loosing my voice. I sound just as low as Barry White. I called this morning because I was supposed to work and they realized that I could develop strep thought if having to work and talk all day. So they kept me home. Yesterday night was a group of guys just partying and I had to try to raise my voice a bunch of times through the night. In my eyes they have done enough to lose a lot of respect from me. I have tried my best to be polite, available and work well.
I have the "fuck it all" syndrome. I'm tired of everything. Friends, family, work, etc. I feel like I should just go live at some mountain lake, away from everything, for like two years.
There's places in the world you can live on the cheap for a good long while. SE Asia for example, you could sleep on a beach and work a couple hours in a bar and have enough money to slum around and drink and travel and be happy. Plus for $200 in Cambodia you can fire a rocket launcher, and for $50 they find you a cow to shoot it at.
Lee, you always have that syndrome. Have you ever not had a problem with a job that "isn't your fault"?
I worked on Apache Longbows, well not 'working on' per-se as they didn't have many problems to fix. Unlike, say Lynx, which were almost re-built.
I wonder if maybe some of the other drivers were giving her a kickback in order to secure the choice assignments. That would seem to be a more plausible reason for her to be fired rather than she wasn't nice to Lee.
I have no idea of what the real cause was; I was just speculating. Clearly there were issues and your conversation with the owner was the final straw.
Don't cop an attitude like you think I believe everything isn't my fault. To answer your question yes. One of my first driving jobs being a tow truck driver was just too difficult. When I started I hardly even could drive a manual transmission and I had no tow truck experience. I was fired but they said it was nothing personal and I completely understood there reasons. I tried my best but. At the time with my limited experience I was just over my head. I think it was mainly because she was a secretary who worked there for 6 months who was a bossey bitch with too much attitude. She was acting like she owned the place, literally. Like I mentioned before. I told her that things don't seem to be working out and she told me if I want I can turn in my keys and credit card and quit. The owner said that was absolutely out of line.
Add that one to the list... dude you've only been there how long? Why are you taking a week off for anything? Work harder and earn their respect.
I havent read this thread yet, but I have "I don't feel like going to uni" syndrome and have currently wagged the first 2 classes.
I asked them like a month off in advance. another issue today. I got a pt time job and this 2nd job wants me to come in two days next week to do some training. I asked my work at the limo place what two days would be good for them and it could be any two days. Basically what ever they want. They gave me an answer this morning. I told my 2nd job and than this afternoon than the limo job changed their mind. I am having to tell my 2nd job to wait until the last second before they turn in their scheduling because this limo place can't make a commitment 5 to 7 days in advance. Once again they are being impossible to reason with. See this is making me look very bad and like a jackass for this 2nd job. I really try not to make personal threads like this because you all piss me off. The the little peep hole of the internet doesn't give enough perspective. To you all I am a lazy worker with bad morals and no respect. The truth of it is this limo job wants to have their cake and eat it too. They want someone available 24/7/365. They want someone who can at the drop of a phone call to race in to work. They don't want to generate any type of scheduling in advance(even if they do have plenty of work in advance). They want to use an employee like a tool how ever and when ever they want. They want this tool/employee waiting at any given time. They didn't specify any of that when I was interviewed. The problem is a lot of jobs do not give the whole picture when interviewing. They just getca in the door and try to iron out the wrinkles later. I asked several times how the scheduling worked and the owner pretty much dodged the answer. For a non career job, with no benefits, insurance, that doesn't give enough hours the paycheck is not worth their drama. The ridiculous part is the actual job is SO EASY but dealing with the office and their horrible management skills is what makes things so difficult. Yes, let me wait by the phone 24/7 so I can MAYBE make $400 a week. ....my perspective is this. If after tax a job is going to pay $20,000 to $25,000 a year it better not own my life and better be pretty stress free. That amount of money is laughable this day and age. You can't afford a house or to get ahead in life. It is basically a job just to get by. I would be entirely willing to bend over backwards and work damn hard for a job that offered enough opportunities and reward. Unfortunately for a guy with only a high school diploma and only a commercial drivers license those jobs are extremely hard to find. Seriously, shame on me for not going to some school after high school but I had my reasons. I should have at least got some 2 year medical tech assistant degree. I could have had a 9:00pm to 5:30pm Monday thru Friday and made $40,000 a year. Instead I am expected to be at someones beck and call for MAYBE $400 a week. The rich get richer and the poor get more poor. In this day and age with how expensive things are $20,000 is like making $12,000 a year around 10 years ago. That was near the poverty level. I am by no means in poverty mainly due to low bills and good money management. With $20,000 a year I will never be able to afford to buy a condo, let alone a house or to be able to start a family. 30 years ago, one man could work a single job and afford to pay for his family. 20 years ago the mom and dad might have both worked to live a better more plush life. 10 years ago a mom and dad both needed to work to live a normal life. It is stupid now, two people working is barely enough to get by. It just pisses me off. Where are all the middle class jobs? Every single job I run into is just another stupid fucking low income job. I have been out of high school for 8 years. After tax for every year for the past 8 years I have made between $18,000 to $22,000. That is no where near middle class. If I knew the special key to make $40,000 to $45,000 a year I would run after it. Obviously a higher education seems to hold that key. and to you all that are judging.....I seriously hope you are not some 22 year old schmuck living at home because than you have no idea.
