kids and "work"

BUGGER · 2003-12-06, 02:09 AM

You know I'm young and shit....so don't make me feel too much like a kid.

So i was on the bus today, 2 kids got on the bus (one in 6th, the other in 7th). The one in 6th does babysitting and gets 20 bucks a week. But today is the 7th grade kids b-day, but her mom signed her up to work late (to 10). So she was all pissed off that she couldn't go to the party, saying its not fair.

Ask me, this is just plain funny. Its called work bitch, get use to it.

Such newb's to the real world.

And dont lecture me on my old "is this fair" thread, cause I'm gona make a new thread like that soon again cause it just annoys me.

Squeeky · 2003-12-06, 04:19 AM

I had a job at a Pizza Factory, i got fired after one week

. Didn't work a day, oh well. Looking for a job now.

Rayder · 2003-12-06, 04:38 AM

So, they were gonna have a party with the host?

Onizuka · 2003-12-06, 09:22 PM

Doesn't seem fair to me. A 6th grader doesn't need the real world yet. She should go to the party.

Hamma · 2003-12-06, 09:34 PM

Yea no shit, play with legos or something.

Rayder · 2003-12-06, 09:37 PM

I was doing some ass kicking in T2 whilst in the 6th grade

Glaynor · 2003-12-06, 11:33 PM

Enjoy life while you are young. Right now I'm 29 years old, an attorney who also works two other jobs. Why? Because my wife is pregnant (that is a really good thing

) and we want to buy a house within a year. Problem is that houses around my area are expensive as hell. So, I work 50-60 hrs at my office, teach four college courses on thursday and friday nights and also plow snow in the winter (did it from Friday 6 pm straight until 1/2 hour ago). When I don't plow I do some general home improvement stuff with my father in law and sometimes with my cousin. I've also bartended.

Am I bitching? No. I want to do this so my future kid can start off in a great place. Should a kid who is 12 have to work? FUCK NO. She should be pissed. Jr. high is about going to parties, not having to work till 10 p.m. There will be plenty of time left for that.

And bugger, you aren't much older, right? Life and work gets much, much, much harder. Wait till there are bills and shit like that. Work and school aren't that bad compared to 90 - 100 work weeks (did that for about 3 years when I was a prosecutor). The older you get, the more you realize what you had freedom wise when you were younger.

Corrosion · 2003-12-07, 12:11 AM

God damn that reminds me how easier middle school was compared to high school

AztecWarrior · 2003-12-07, 12:11 AM

When I am going through some obstacle in school, some insurmountably hard challenge, I just realize that I'm pretty much fucked until I can stop aging and flunk 10th grade forever. It only gets harder from here.

Squick · 2003-12-07, 01:03 AM

The real epiphany for me came when I realized that my level of success truely does come from the effort that I put into it.

Ever since high school I was always the person that did as little as possible to pass as acceptable. But maybe a year ago, the highest paid consultant at my company (who also was just like me, doing as little as possible) get a 40% pay cut (yes, 40%!), then ultimately fired for not going beyond the norm. That really hit close to me... Because I realized that I was now him... In almost every way possible... I am the highest paid consultant, I did as little as possible... So how much longer would it be till I was in the crosshairs and then out on my butt trying to find a tech job in THIS economy?

So I took four week off of work, took a vacation to Europe with my sweety and came back a different person... I am paid salery, that means that I get paid the same amount if I put in the 45 required hours, lie and only put in 30 (one of the key things that got my predecessor canned), or 90 hours. I started being the first person into the office, the last person to leave, the highest billable person, and bring in the most new contracts. I started spending every waking moment improving myself; I live ~60 min from work, so I started listening to MCSE training CDs on my drives and started piling up certifications to hang on my wall... It looks like a mosaic right now.

It is just about 1 AM, and I just finished working today, that was 15 hours on a Saturday, after a 13 hour Friday. Two years ago I wouldn't have even looked at my e-mail on a Saturday.

So what is my point you might be asking? It is that if any of you reading this are like what I was... Doing as little as possible to 'scrape by.' Then I highly recommend you take a deep look and see if that is really what you want others to see you as? Will that get you what you want? What DO you want? If you are just going into college now, and are looking at a tech degree, heed my warning: do well, go above and beyond your peers, or you will not be making more then $20,000 a year with a four year degree... The economy is not what it used to be, only the best of the best are getting the good job!

Squick

Hamma · 2003-12-07, 01:45 AM

I need a job

Octavian · 2003-12-07, 02:54 AM

Originally Posted by Rayder

I was doing some ass kicking in T2 whilst in the 6th grade

So was I, I still am. Plus I'm still in year 6, going to year 7 next year.

Squeeky · 2003-12-07, 04:00 AM

I have a gig working 4-midnite tomorrow babysitting some kids. $50 +tip. r0x0r. Plus i got $100 coming from the grams for my early x-mas present, plus $60.00 from paypal. This is gonna rock

Ait'al · 2003-12-07, 04:15 AM

God damn that reminds me how easier middle school was compared to high school

Really? My middle school was tuffer than my high school. 8) They loaded you with tons of crap in Jr high to the point you couldnt get it done if you wanted without having ot take it home. Especially cause tehy insist you did it hte long way on paper or you got bad grades. But when i got to high school you could just take the paper fill it out in 2 minutes and turn it in in half the classes.

And ive never had a job. Mwhahahahaha! not on purpose. Was going to but parents insisted on telling people i was schizzo to make there lack of attention to things in my life make sense so i couldnt get a damn job while i was younger cause htey wanted me to get on disability when i didnt even meat the damn requirments till now! Thank you fucking family!!!!!! GGGRRR!!!!!! I wouldve been free and making crap loads of money and had a nice fucking relationship right now with someone i really cared about. No i was "schizzo" cause they didnt understand how they could be complete idiots or be wrong about somehting??!!!?? Coming form a womens whos answer to anything i complain about is im not responsible for you emotional welfare i just have to put a roof over you head!! Yea! not responsible for a 7 year olds emotional welfare. HHAAA!!!

ZeusCali · 2003-12-07, 04:24 AM

i made 50$ for 15 minutes work one time and yes it was legal, i designed a nifty website lol
but dam squick nice speech almost got me off my lazy ass to go do my schoolwork(home school meaning i can go as fast or as slow as my lazy as wants)
and you party in middle school? i never partied in middle school grr i missed it :-( i hate being the outcast nerd