by Bronies Are Cool » 29 Oct 2014 19:50
I definitely do not want to go into retail or food ever.
I applied for Office Depot but I wasn't accepted.
My first job, I was lucky enough to know the CEO of a company. So I asked him for a job and it turned out well. It's a construction equipment sales, rentals, and repairs shop.
Basically like a combination of a car dealership and a garage and car rental all in one, but with equipment instead. And I says its like that because it literally is, just different stuff.
But we are a bit more laid back than a car type place. Like, people can come and there really ain't any security around my shop.
But anyway, construction was a good choice first job because it pays pretty good. I have gotten only two raises in the time I have worked there, but the amount of money each raise gives me is quite significant. Like, I started at 8/hour and one raise later I'm at 9.5/hour and then another raise later I'm at 12/hour with a promotion.
I get a raise every year, so I'm guessing my next raise will be really nice. I've worked there for about two to three years now. It's nice.
My original task was just to clean machines inside and out. Like, washing a car and detailing the inside, but with machines. And it's a lot harder because they are covered in dirt, concrete, bird poop, and also stuffed with it too. Cleaning the outside is easy, cleaning the engine compartments and interior is less fun. It takes several hours to thoroughly clean machines, gives me a lot of thinking time.
My promotion included me to also inspect machines for damages, photograph machines and upload them to the company data base, upload instances of machines into a website for rentals and sales, and do that again for a second website, check to make sure images in the database are up to date, and also clean machines still.
I also do odd jobs, like crushing fuel filters. It's actually kind of scary. I use a machine where you out the filter inside and it compresses it down. In case you don't know, the filters are made of metal, so it takes high pressure to crush them. The crushing machine uses an air compressor and it kind of small and light weight. With a lot of force being used, the crushing machine moves easily and often. The door to the machine must be closed for it to be on, and you must hold the doer closed with your hand in order for it to work.
Sometimes, the pressure makes the door open by itself with high pressure and it freaks me out.
And sometimes it won't open so I freak out because there is a ton of pressure being exported and I can't make it stop.
But it's still kind of cool.
I also pull weeds and kill bugs at work. And also I have changed the transmission fluid on a haul truck which is basically like a pick up truck that can pull 40 tons at a time.
I am planning on going into computer networking and also web design. I would be able to keep doing what I'm doing at the construction job with more website based work with that knowledge.
Or I could look for another job with that knowledge.
But if nothing comes my way, I would apply to work for the people who drive around collecting trash. That actually seems kind of interesting. Idk I also read on ifunny that it pays really good. Which I like good pay.
And I am a good worker. Which would do me great for this job.
But anyway, yea. Exo, go do construction. It pays quite nice and you don't need to know anything to join the ranks. I know moths out machines still after working for several years around them other than how to drive them, refill their fuel, and how to change the transmission fluid.
You could make friends in the construction business too. Like, literally everyone at my workplace is really cool and super friendly. Like, that stereotype of people who work in construction is not real around my place. Everyone is nice and smart and well kept. We tend to flush out the people who are not.