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11-13-2008, 05:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: South Side Chicago | | | Help Point Croox in a new Career direction.
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My current Job situation sucks I rent Motorcycles. which means I'm only "working" April through October winter months suck. In the off season my hours get slashed, and I end up having to work some crappy part time job. I'm 25 and still living at home. it sucks. I'm a hands on guy, I've tried to get into several of the unions but with no luck my only "college" experience is Motorcycle repair. I tired that for two years before I took this rental gig. Its kinda funny, I'm certified to Tear a Harley Davidson down the the frame and re assemble it but I'm not smart enough to be an electrician and run wire through pipe 
anyway I'm not leaving the Chicago area. I've been looking into automotive repair and getting my ASE. but I'm open to other Ideas. I'm just looking to get into something else that's stable so anyone have any ideas to help me out? |
11-13-2008, 05:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NY, NY | | | Be a cook.
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Originally Posted by THand  Really, what I keep thinking is:
put "getting drunk with GE" on bucket list:D | Taking parts donations for another Drunk Rock bass. FS/FT Montreux Little Buffer Ben Lindsey Jazz |
11-13-2008, 05:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Winnipeg, Canada | | | High Speed Sailboat Drag Racing. There's money to be found lad.
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Originally Posted by SuperDuck Give a man a mirror, and it will warm him once. Teach a man to chop down his own mirrors, and they'll warm him twice. | |
11-13-2008, 05:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: South Side Chicago | | Quote:
Originally Posted by GeneralElectric Be a cook. | I hate working with food, unless there's a restaurant that needs a pro at making hot dogs ramen noodles and hot pockets I'm out of luck there. and I did my time working with food. I HATED IT. Not again Quote:
Originally Posted by CanadaMan High Speed Sailboat Drag Racing. There's money to be found lad. |  thats lame |
11-13-2008, 05:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NY, NY | | | My other two suggestions are mercenary and drug dealer. In all seriousness though, have you checked Craigslist?
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Originally Posted by THand Really, what I keep thinking is:
put "getting drunk with GE" on bucket list:D | Taking parts donations for another Drunk Rock bass. FS/FT Montreux Little Buffer Ben Lindsey Jazz |
11-13-2008, 05:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: an ignore list near you | | | I could maybe be of assistence with the pointing, but you'd most likely have to be willing to move.
Mike |
11-13-2008, 05:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: South Side Chicago | | Quote:
Originally Posted by GeneralElectric My other two suggestions are mercenary and drug dealer. In all seriousness though, have you checked Craigslist? | never really looked through the CL Job listings, I just figured they would be as bottom of the barrel as the Personals
"We need someone who can shovel diarrhea out of a ditch with a spoon, pays $5/hr, must have own spoon" |
11-13-2008, 05:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NY, NY | | | I'm from SF so I might be biased, but I use CL for pretty much everything. I got all my furniture from there for free.
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Originally Posted by THand Really, what I keep thinking is:
put "getting drunk with GE" on bucket list:D | Taking parts donations for another Drunk Rock bass. FS/FT Montreux Little Buffer Ben Lindsey Jazz |
11-13-2008, 05:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NY, NY | |
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Originally Posted by THand Really, what I keep thinking is:
put "getting drunk with GE" on bucket list:D | Taking parts donations for another Drunk Rock bass. FS/FT Montreux Little Buffer Ben Lindsey Jazz |
11-13-2008, 05:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | | Just become an auto mechanic. You could probably go right into year two or three if you are lucky.
lowsound
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11-13-2008, 05:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Winnipeg, Canada | | | Seriously, I'm having an off day for humour, dangit. Honestly though, have you thought about guitar building or working in a a music store? Or something cool like that?
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Originally Posted by SuperDuck Give a man a mirror, and it will warm him once. Teach a man to chop down his own mirrors, and they'll warm him twice. | |
11-13-2008, 05:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: South Side Chicago | | Quote:
Originally Posted by GeneralElectric | lol close But I'm a dude, and I'm not working in wrigleyville Quote:
Originally Posted by iamlowsound Just become an auto mechanic. You could probably go right into year two or three if you are lucky.
lowsound | thats what I'm leaning towards I'm seeing if anyone here had interesting career choices that may inspire me Quote:
Originally Posted by CanadaMan Seriously, I'm having an off day for humour, dangit. Honestly though, have you thought about guitar building or working in a a music store? Or something cool like that? | as awesome as that stuff would be I doubt I could make enough doing that to be able to move out of my parents house (I'm not in the basement, I have my own room upstairs on the second floor  ) It would be a good partime gig, which I tried to land before I ended up applying again at the toy store I'm at for the season now. |
11-14-2008, 11:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: South Side Chicago | | | still out looking, any day TBers wanna throw me some ideas? |
11-14-2008, 12:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Charlotte, NC | | | Start a business
If you are HD certified, and own some tools, just start a shop. The lawyers and dentists don't even change their own oil in their Fat Boys .... you could clean up. Maybe even do a mobile shop out of your car/truck. |
11-14-2008, 12:05 PM
|  | The older I get, the better I was. | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Pasadena, CA | | | Maybe check your local City listings (City website, City Hall, etc.) for job opportunities. Municipalities often pay well and have great benefits. If you're a "hands-on" kind of guy, something in the Public Works department might be a good fit. |
11-14-2008, 12:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Croox still out looking, any day TBers wanna throw me some ideas? | No interest in my idea?
Mike |
11-14-2008, 12:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Toronto, ON | | | play up the mechanical aptitude, Croox. At least that's something you're good at! I'm a desk-slave with no post-secondary education... my job options are exactly NIL at this point in time... I lack skills.
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Originally Posted by PSPookie This seems like the type of problem that will take care of itself, given time. | Quote:
Originally Posted by blendermassacre Dar-WIN! | |
11-14-2008, 03:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Cypress, TX (NW Houston) | | | Consider getting a job working offshore in the oil and gas industry. You make good money, you can live where ever you want, and have lots of time off. Down side is when you are at work you are at work for the duration of your hitch, usually 14 days, but you get the same amount of time off.
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11-14-2008, 04:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Swede lost in the 5th republic | | http://motorcycleindustryjobs.com/
do a search for chicago and see what comes up ...
D.Don |
11-14-2008, 04:18 PM
|  | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | | I'm interested to know why you weren't able to get a union job. Were they not hiring?
As for practical ideas...maintenance position at a hospital or place like that? They look for people with good mechanical skills.
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