What line of work are you in? (Page 3 of 3)

Hi all

I've been a labourer, a vegetable processor, a kitchen assistant, a frozen vegetable processor, nine months in the Royal Navy, shop worker, telephone operator, taxi driver, shop assistant, team leader and shop manager.  Currently full time bus driver and part time Police Officer - hoping to do that full time... 

There is such a variety of profession/trade on this site all bound together by the love of music... don't see any politicians though!  Read into that what you will

Nothing wrong with washing dishes. Just make sure you protect your hands with clean, dry gloves. I did a short stint washing dishes in a psychiatric hospital and the chemicals from the soap cracked my hands all to pieces. It took a month of being away from that job before my hands healed. Actually, I was fired from that job for putting on a fake wrestling match with two frozen chickens, one on each of my hands. All of the older ladies were laughing uncontrollable at my antics and then the laughing suddenly stopped. Our boss had snuck up behind me and witnessed the "chicken-fight." She wasn't as amused as the majority of the kitchen staff. I was immediately sent home never to return again. Bach, bach..............

Daddy Cool,
I understand what you're talking about.
You feel like a number, and I've been told that I was just a number.
The corrections field is always hiring.
I could quit, I could get fired, I could even die, and noone would care.
Just like the inmates, there's always someone out there ready to take my place.
Corrections could care less about the years of experiance. So why do I stay, simple, Factories are alays laying off and I'm just tired of moving from job to job. I've put up with lots of crap over the years, most from supervisors and peers.

Hang in there.

Badeye,
I aint even about getting respenct anymore. I would just like to see everyone stay out of my area and let me do my job. Sometimes people will come to my area looking for problems, their areas are so messed up that if they can show fault in other areas it will take heat off them. Our faults are so few that when they are made it becomes noticable.

Everyone,
If you don't work corrections, then don't. It's a trap. Over time you become comfortably numb. You become numb to everyone and everything. You can see someone in pain and you just don't care. you can see death and you just don't care. you'll see humans mistreating other humans and you just don't care. You become numb. Befor it's all over with you'll either pick up smoking, drinking, swearing, lying, or you'll get a worse habit. You'll become numb. In this world noone will ever believe the truth, but a lie is believed. It is believed by both officers and inmates.

Corrections is a trap. Don't get caught.
It ruins relationships, the mind, and the body. Noone cares. You just get numb.
So why stay? It's a garontied paycheck. In a world where it's hard to find work or jobs layoff. It's a paycheck.

agreed  so true.   Badeye

I've been retired from the Government for  almost three years.  Now I finally have enough time to practice every day and I have gotten better.  Practice really does help.  I notice a real difference from week to week.

I work at a movie theater. its poor pay but decent work and decent people

I retired from the local government back in June of this year after 40 years in only 2 different departments;  San Bernardino County Library Administration offiices, where I did a wide variety of things over a 27 year period, and the last 13 years was spent with the local Welfare department in the warehouse where hundreds of thousands of cases are kept and 2,000 different forms are stored (after all, the welfare department needs a place to store all that paperwork before it gets sent out to everyone).  Don't ever let anyone tell ya that when you switch from a "paper" office to a "computerized" office, there is less paperwork involved.  That is pure BS, and everyone knows what BS stands for......Big Storytellers!  Anyway, now that I am retired, I stay busy working part time as an on-call/relief driver for a company that provides transportation to train crew to and from the work site.  In my position, I acquire a large van from a person going off duty and wait for a call from dispatch (which could happen at any time during a 24 hour on call period) that could send me to the yard to pick up crew to go  to down town LA or anywhere in Orange County, or as far north as Bakersfield, or clear over to Yuma, AZ (an 8 hour trip), or the middle of the desert to a town called Yermo in the middle of the night.  I certainly hope this has not been too long or boring for you all to read.

carpenter  and woodworker by trade, but i am currently disabled and playing the guitar for some peace of mind.