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The hunt for a job....

#84
This little trick has always worked for me. At the end of the interview, almost all interviewers will ask, "Do you have any questions for me?"
My response is always, "Yes, when would you like me to start?" It always takes them aback and often they will give you a date.

My first summber job when I was 12 was working in a plant that manufactured and serviced those rotisserie machines you see in super markets they use to roast chickens. It was a metal building in Fort Worth, Texas, where summer temperatures are mostly in the 90 - 100 degree (f) range. My job was to clean machines that had come back in so they could go out for lease again. I made 75 cents an hour. But, that wasn't bad for a kid in 1955.
 
#85
^Very good money for 1955. I took on caddying since it was the only real job a 13 yr. old could get.


Darth Handsome said:
My head's actually really small. I need like a kids size hat. We'd clean up in that booth.
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Head size is very deceiving. I have a long face so people like my wife assume I'd wear a small hat. OMG, I frequently can't find one that fits. I need the XXL.
 
#86
OP: Are you planning on going to college using loans and grants for assistance? If needing a large wage isn't an issue, get a job at an old folks home or volunteer at a charity organization, meals on wheels perhaps. That kind of stuff looks really good on grant applications.

Or find something that involves buckets. Almost any job you get later will seem like a step up. You know, spittoon cleaner, grease trough emptier, horse stall boy. Or KFC.
 
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#87
nukes_da_bass said:
Carnie- get the job at the dart booth where they need to pop 3 balloons.
"Hey you with the face! $5.00 three chances. Wanna be a man?"
Experience of a lifetime.
Save some crank for us.
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True story:

I was walking through the midway here and Cal Expo when I was 15 or 16, when I hear a carnie bark out "Hey you, with your sisters shirt on, come win your mom a prize." That carnie got the mother of all beat downs before the other carnies could help him. Turns out the guy he was talking crap to was a pro boxer... His face looked like hamburger.
 
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#88
yup.
Immigrant said:
OP: Are you planning on going to college using loans and grants for assistance? If needing a large wage isn't an issue, get a job at an old folks home or volunteer at a charity organization, meals on wheels perhaps. That kind of stuff looks really good on grant applications.

Or find something that involves buckets. Almost any job you get later will seem like a step up. You know, spittoon cleaner, grease trough emptier, horse stall boy. Or KFC.
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I'm actually planning to go with a scholarship, and minimal loans. In Georgia they have the HOPE scholarship which pretty much pays most of your tuition if you did good in high school, so I'm going on that. I would only work at KFC if I could get in here:
GAMARchicken.jpg

No big Chicken, No KFC.
 
#89
edpal said:
^Very good money for 1955. I took on caddying since it was the only real job a 13 yr. old could get.


Head size is very deceiving. I have a long face so people like my wife assume I'd wear a small hat. OMG, I frequently can't find one that fits. I need the XXL.
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I caddied for one summer and it was a pretty fun job, but after that, I found I made more money with a lawn chair and a cooler full of soft drinks positioned on the outsided of a barbed wire fence around the country club right between the #7 green and #8 tee.
 
#90
basshoundx said:
yup.


I'm actually planning to go with a scholarship, and minimal loans. In Georgia they have the HOPE scholarship which pretty much pays most of your tuition if you did good in high school, so I'm going on that. I would only work at KFC if I could get in here:
GAMARchicken.jpg

No big Chicken, No KFC.
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Good for you. You will be happy later in life that you are ahead of your peers who start life $250,000 in debt.
 

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