What life lesson did you learn from your first job?

>>1212290
never work for another man again

>>1212294
How's that working for you then?

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That you should never work without a contract that hasn't been negotiated either by yourself or with collective bargaining.

>>1212290
If you show up and do the work, you will get moar money.

Stay far away from office gossipers

Nobody is going to hold your hand and very few people will help you out if you ask.

>>1212290
That I could buy things and sell them at a profit.

>>1212301
this

also putting in a little effort will move you up faster

>>1212290
People in general suck.
Black managers will scare off white applicants and slowly ghettofy the workplace.
Never work min wage after your first employment gig.
People shit on you for the most petty of reasons, even if your only interaction with them is them being wrong about something.

Nobody works hard. This was a $20/hour blue collar job.

Don't let your coworkers' negativity effect your performance. Just keep doing your thing.

>>1212290
Never confide in a co-worker about your personal life. Never go drinking with your boss' peer in the company. Never make fun of the ugliest woman in the office because the CEO might be fucking her.

>>1212290
Black people are as bad as /pol/ makes them out to be.
Indians, Arabs, and Jews really are cheap.
Hooking up with coworkers is fine too

>>1212290

My first job was like 8 years ago. Was essentially working fast food at a grocery store.

Thing that jumps right out to me is that there are very different kinds of minimum wage jobs. I would have much rather have worked the cash registers than the fast food section (coming home covered in chicken grease).

My first job was at a restaurant and I loved it and made a lot of friends.

Greeks involved in diners never pay taxes.

still in my first job

nothing

>>1212290
Skills like project management, organisation, time management and presenting are the key things that will seperate you from the crowd.

#1 You don't know jack about jack coming out of school

#2 No one will give you a significant raise, so keep job-hopping at reasonable intervals

#3 A great job can appear boring and sucky at first glance

#4 Start working an hour early and leave an hour late for the first year of your employment.

Can't think of anything else right now.

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>>1212290
was at my high school's parents association giving books to students or their parents. some of the parents had me fill their checks for them because they couldn't write. i had barely filled checks myself before.
lesson: a lot of people don't have it as good as me and still deserve respect.

1. Women are terribly incompetent leaders
2. If a close coworker is a narcissist, find a different job immediately
3. When socializing, stick to safe topics like sports, tv/movies, and music. Don't discuss personal finances, politics, or religion.

That you shut up even if your manager sucks serious ass. It's quite easy to tell them off but in doing so, YOU lose money and a job. Literally, on my first day, my bitch manager yelled at me for not getting it right. Didn't help that she skipped a ton of steps which I was to know somehow. Apparently, she was having a bad day and what better to relive stress than to pick on the newbie. Anyway, just stay for awhile for the "experience" and then find something better.

>>1212311
fucking this (learned that at my second job tho)

>>1212290
Many people stay in a job that overall leaves them severly dissatisfied because with their specialisation switching jobs would mean less pay for more work. Kind of a sunken cost fallacy, althought it's not objectively a fallacy, it's just trading certain unhappiness with solid finances and a good lifestyle for uncertain happiness and lots of hassle.
Talking about health care here.

That being a wageslave is an absolute shit way to go through life.

>>1212411
>forcing overtime pay

>>1212411
>#4 Start working an hour early and leave an hour late for the first year of your employment.
You're a retard. Nobody should be expected to work for free. Never be late is sound advice, but showing up an hour early is stupid.

>>1212318

> be me
> get job interview; manager is black
> he asks "how are you?"
> I say "WE"
> he looks at me quizzically
> "WUZ...."
> he is now clearly bewildered
> "KANGS!!!!!"

>>1212472

That is correct. I will take tons of shit from a "client" but taking any shit from an "employer" offends my dignity.

>>1212290
>Doing your job twice as fast and better then your co workers makes them hate you for being better then them.
> Kiss ass and pretend you like them. It pays off in the long run.
>only work as hard as they pay you. If you do extra work and favors for others all the time, you'll be loaded with every one else's work and never be promoted. (why pay you more when you do all the work for free. Fucking beta)
>if you can show up to work early to show you are serious. Just wait around till your shift starts. Read a book or something.
Also always have multiple incomes. Even if it's just a little extra. Like ebay resale, dropshipping, draw furry porn for money I dunno whatever you like.

Some mid level managers only care about meeting their bullet points laid out by their boss. As long as your unit is meeting those, they likely won't give a shit how hard you do or don't work.

I don't want to travel for work, ever

Don't be over-productive, no one appreciates that, if you stand out too much, others will bring you down. Know your thing and do your thing, no less, no more, don't let anyone put on you more work than it's included in your responsibilities, if they do, fuck them or fuck this work.

>>1212364
>Never confide in a co-worker about your personal life.

Same here man, I wish I knew about this sooner.

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>>1212364
>Never make fun of the ugliest woman in the office because the CEO might be fucking her.

if I only knew sooner

>>1212519
What's wrong with traveling? I love it.

>mileage
>per diem allowances
>free hotels
>get to see the world

I jump at every chance I get to travel overnight because it's usually a good time and the mileage and expense allowances sometimes are as large as my pay for that week.

It gets lonely though I guess and I don't have a GF at home...maybe that's why.

Can make a lot of pancakes with the right tools.

>>1212510
Kek.

>>1212472
Fucking this.

don't fuck your coworkers, especially subordinate.

also, a poorly run business is a very fun place to work temporarily.

>>1212563
I fucked my subordinate and it was fucking great. To this day some of the best sex I ever had

>>1212553
>coming home from work to an empty hotel room 6 months a year
>living out of a suitcase
>get sick of going out to eat about 3 months in
>nothing to do in the middle of the country
>never get to see friends/family/gf
>get sick of coworkers after about 3 days of being with them
>hotel breakfast sucks
>feel like a whore

I could go on and on its not all its cracked up to be, there's no way per diem, airline, hotel, and rental car points are worth being treated like a whore

>>1212573
You do kind of get those feelings.

Like I said maybe it's because I don't have a GF, so coming home to an empty hotel room is almost the same as coming home to an empty apartment. And I only travel one or two weeks out of a month, I definately wouldn't want to go six months like you described. Also I'm always alone so I don't have to worry about coworkers.

Still, for an unattached single male I think the perks are worth it. The money adds up fast if you can resist the temptation of getting hammered every night at the bar out of depression and loneliness.

>>1212290

That I'm not a quq and shouldn't have to work for anyone else.

>>1212290
>never trust or rely on your employer beyond the absolute necessity
>nothing that is not written down means anything
>never admit any faults (even innocent ones) unless it's true and you're forced
>always have two month's pay in case you need to drop everything and change jobs immediately
>everyone, and I mean EVERYONE who talks to you, regardless of how nice/cool/benevolent they seem, have a non-trivial agenda
>there's a reason why NCOs are sent to command another unit when they're being promoted to COs
>people don't like winners (related to above)
>change jobs every 2-4 years if you're looking to double up your salary within the decade
>always keep looking for a better deal

>>1212531
If you're looking to make a career, you need to go beyond the basics. In that context, I'd say that's horrible advice.

>>1212294

/thread

>>1212294
This, but with the special addition of never, EVER, working for a woman

I can't stand being around negative people

>>1212786
all very true anon. Especially the agenda part which leads me into:
>keep your fucking mouth shut, you are there to work not make friends, all networking you do isn't making friendship it is an exchange of benefits disguised by superficial relationship

Anyway, quit my first cuck job and have learnt a lot, but my other advice is.
>nobody is forcing you to work there
if you find yourself bitching and moaning about the job and its non-trivial things that are slowly eroding your soul and being then just fucking call it quits, it doesn't have to be tomorrow but call it quits in your mind, prepare the next step so you don't fall flat on your face and pull the trigger. You don't owe your workplace shit if they are making you feel miserable.

>>1212290
I will never be treated the same way a white person will, even if they're poorer or dumber than I am

>>1212290
Being popular is more important than being productive.

>>1212540
Tfw did this with no negative repercussions

I will however, not ever do it again

>>1213134
This

Smiling and being friendly can take you farther than most people think

>>1212290
Become self-employed or I will be miserable for the rest of my life.

>>1212290
My first job was delivering newspapers.

Carry your own weight, nobody really wants to help you.

Help others when they ask for it(and it's not unreasonable of course), and be genuinely nice about it.

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>>1212290
whenever a new manager/owner comes along i better find another job and quit because it would only be a matter of time that the new boss is going to want to get rid of all the old people in order to bring in his/her own

>>1212411
>#4 Start working an hour early and leave an hour late for the first year of your employment.

I'll counter this. Any time you're at work and your supervisor isn't there, it's assume you're screwing around/not there. Even if someone rats you out and says you leave right after he does, it doesn't matter because that's what's assumed anyway.

>>1212294
this

>>1212311
so true. at my first job which was a car dealership i worked in the service dept as a tech/mechanic. when i needed help diagnosing a car not much people wanted to help me out. one guy said "its not my job to help you" another said "i dont know so i cant help you" and the guy who was in charge of helping others out was too busy hanging out when i needed him and he was pissed on how i always need help to get the job done right. i hate how people who already have experience forget where they came from, they started at the bottom too not knowing anything. the boss just put me doing easy things so i wouldnt have to bother anybody for help and i never got the chance to do real work at the job only gravy work i got (oil changes, tires, state inspections).

>>1212364
>Never make fun of the ugliest woman in the office because the CEO might be fucking her.

why would you do such a thing to begin with? making fun of another person.

>>1212411
>Start working an hour early and leave an hour late for the first year of your employment.

baka why would you work for free? bosses dont give a fuck, if you did that they would expect more from you for free

>>1212549
hope you lost your job fag and they give you a bad reference. its not a nice feeling having people talk shit about you especially at a job. i'v been through that. that was the last push i needed to quit my old job apart from new managers running the place like shit. i was the youngest guy there so older guys saw in me what they werent at my age

I learned that the whole "start low and work your way up in the company" thing is mostly a meme. The hardest thing for a company is to find competent and dependable workers to fill those shit positions. If you're retarded enough to actually try and work hard, you'll just get worked to the bone indefinitely because that's what they need. In some rare cases, you may get lucky and be the most qualified for an immediate hire to a slightly better position if no one else is available. This is really the only time this meme comes true, but it's based on luck. There are probably some outliers with family owned businesses etc...but for the most part you will never move beyond these entry level positions.

>>1213471
this one guy at my old job worked his way up in the company by kissing the bosses ass

>>1213428

This is what lions do in nature

>>1212290
internships are worthless

>>1213479
how? you can get to know people and if they like you you can get a job after the intern is over. at my old highschool there were internships, some guys got jobs being mechanics for the police cars. after the intern was over so was their job. but they were told to go to a vocational school get the degree and they were able to come back. sense they already knew people and must have gave a good impression they were pulled back in. usually a job like a police car mechanic is hard to get and its years of waiting to called from a list

work hard shut up
work harder when boss is around
crack funnies with boss
also be generally amiable and polite
slack off when it cant get blamed on you

>>1213466
>hope you lost your job fag
He didn't know you were taking anal from the boss.
I had to tell him.

>>1212290
>>1212294
This

How you hold the beer mug with your colleagues is much more important than hard work

>>1212290
Nice thread OP, we should have more of this.

Never follow the crowd. Establish your interests and goals from it, and then jealously defend it. If you go with the flow, you'll end up being mediocre for the rest of your life.

>>1213690

I hold it casually inside the handle near the top, with my fingers. Is this right?

to speak up for myself

>>1213695
grip, angle and confidence in flourish also matters

>>1212411
>#4 Start working an hour early and leave an hour late for the first year of your employment.
get the fuck off the clock brad

>>1212573
>no per diem
damn

Train yourself to be a hypocrite. Social engineering is my only known skill to up your employers perception of you

>>1212861
Doubling down on this.

>>1212290
If something needs to be done, you'd better do it yourself, now. Because otherwise it ain't happening, or someone else will fuck it up.

>>1212290
i dont want to work with computers

>>1213479
They are worthless if:

a) The company deliberately uses you as a coffee-boy and acts like cunts.

b) You don't use your internship to build relations and show drive/competence.

>>1213707

He said there is no way per diem, etc is worth it.

>>1213725
oooohhhh lordy this

the boss also told me to not get stuck anywhere and live a life while you still can so i moved to the city and yadda yadda

>>1213744
oops

>>1212786
>>change jobs every 2-4 years if you're looking to double up your salary within the decade
you nailed it m8

Two things

>never do repetitive work
>if you do varied work, make sure the organization behind the job isn't a complete anarchy

owning a shop
find out that those mobile games full of micro transaction is actually quite realistic because in that games when you are run out of money/resource you are virtually out of moves and have to wait, just like running business in real life.

>inb4 credit card/loan
my people don't do that

Always approach a situation from a position of power.

If you live in the EU and your company's full time contract is for "40 hours a week" don't sign it. If it is for "39 hours a week" it's fine. EU directive on allowable work hours means they can't rota you in for a 50+ hour week without your explicit permission unless you signed it in your contract.

Performance management is code for 'I care about numbers and bonuses not actual performance, sustainability or staff quality'.

Minimum wage gets minimum effort.

Build your team well, but not so well that other departments may steal your staff before you move on.

Always have your employer need you more than you need your employer.

>your first job
most of you disregarded this and just gave a bunch of your favorite job advice

>>1212364
>Never confide in a co-worker about your personal life
care to explain what so bad about it? i think unless you got really bad history and have someone really mad at you it's quite safe

>>1213801

>Always have your employer need you more than you need your employer.

gee easier said than done anon

>>1212301
This

>>1213466
Retard who was a loser in highschool detected

>>1213826
Hmmmn. Depends on the job/field I guess.

It's a miracle the world even functions at all. Most people have no idea what they're doing. Everybody is faking it. Nobody knows how anything works. Most technology is outdated and held together with duct tape. The 10% of people who know what they're doing are carrying the other 90%. The deadweight could drop out of the workforce tomorrow and everything would still work, but we decided that everyone needs an "income" so we created busywork for them. You will never use education or theory to solve problems, just trial & error. People only care about what works and hate change.

>>1213693
This nigga knows.

If you work somewhere permanently, never go beyond performance you are actually paid for.
If everyones performance is okay, but there is a issue somewhere, its literally a Health and Safety issue, not your personal drama.

the lesson from the first job was like: you better study hard to avoid physicall work in future. I took it to my mind - one of the best students on year with the highest scholarship.

>>1213876

This guy knows.

I work in the IT of a major bank and it's mind boggling that, from the outside, things seem to work so well.

From the inside you realize how much of a clusterfuck everything is.

There are dozens of systems that contain the same redundant informations, and none of them are ever synchronized with each other.
You end up with a customer having 5 different addresses across the whole network and shit like that.

I'd guess over 70% of the code I write is error handling code needed to handle all the inconsistencies between the various systems.

It's crazy.

>>1213953
>you better study hard to avoid physicall work in future.
That do not tell us anything useful. Why did you learn that?

>>1212290
1. Supermarkets are bitchy places to work
2. Banging girls at work is easy
3. Watching men go through mid-life crises is funny
4. Some people above will try to find literally anything to shit on you about.

>>1213960
Then why don't you suggest to reorganize the system?

>>1212290
Doing your job well doesn't mean jack shit if you don't do the little things to make your boss's life easier, and always have a growth strategy in mind, because the minute you stop growing is the minute you start decaying.

>>1213983

>implying it hasn't been suggested a million times

You're talking about legacy systems that have been in place for decades.

IBM 3270 mainframes are still the backbone of the entire banking world, and there's no end in sight.

Nobody wants to disrupt the status quo.
They just make the minimum necessary adjustments to keep everything sort-of-running, because no one really knows what would happen if you tried to pull off a major infrastructural change in the system.

>>1212290
Never give it all, they'll get used to it and it will get you tired.

>>1212411
#4 is stupid and wrong. If you're working ten hour days in an entry level menial job, even one that actually requires thinking, people are going to think you're retarded. If anything, you clock on and out on time, and ask for more work so your boss knows you're productive with your time.

Also, your work product matters the most when you're new, because that's when it's scrutinized the heaviest.

>>1212861
This is good advice. Good male managers outnumber good female managers by a country mile, and there's no easy way to really know if any manager will be good or not; your best bet is to play the odds.

I've had 3 female managers and two male managers. All my female managers had at least one critical failing they were totally blind to (one was spineless, one was egotistical and hyper competitive, one had such bad mood swings she alienated her entire staff). My experience with male managers has been a much more easy going and consistent experience.

>>1213471
Some companies still value good talent and hard work and reward it, but it doesn't really exist in small or mid size firms for various structural reasons. I know of a handful of f500s that are good at bringing up and training staff, but that's mostly because they're large and diverse enough (using the portfolio definition of diverse here) to move you around the company so you can gain new experience and training (so you're basically job hopping without having to leave the company).

>>1213876
This is money right here.

>>1213983
This isn't about the system being spaghetti glues together into separate working systems. Thats fine.
This is about the fact that systems grow into spaghetti, then they get glued together with other clumps of spaghetti.

Because there is no real plan. Its just a attempt to staying ahead of the curve. Then the company buys out some other company, and try to eat their IT system.
Or in times of dire need, a consult firm was hired, to do something, which made something new.
And people coming and leaving in this time frame. And different parts of the companies having different departments.
And the fact that merging the systems is expensive from a time perspective.

So its not that nobody cares, its about the natural state of spaghetti, to evolve into strands of mess.
Even in the best case, a company will eat other companies.

>>1212290
Are we counting childhood jobs?

If so, having a paper route taught me that outsourcing the assembly part of production to poor children is highly profitable.

Big Mac sauce goes on the bun before the lettuce

>>1213876
>Pretty much.
I first learned this in the Corps. Almost verbatim, the stuff we were taught in the last month of boot was taught all over again (a month later) in combat training. Then they repeated it a third time once we got to Infantry training.
I know the intelligence bar is low for servicemen, but holy fuck, what a waste of time.

>>1212290
go to college or youll be stuck with asshole coworkers

1. If you don't know how to play golf, learn it, and get good at it
2. Work for a small company to start (I found that people were friendlier and more willing to help)
3. Make sure where ever you work you get trained very very well. Its like college except the knowledge is useful.
4. Teach yourself how to write and communicate well
5. Realize that life is absolutely meaningless and your sole purpose on earth is to make money

>>1214088
Oh ya also. Working hard is a pointless meme. Most people don't notice or don't care. Only do it if it directly makes extra money. Go in at 9 leave at 5:30 and enjoy your free time. If your compatent that is all success required

>>1212290
Being a dishwasher... I learned to never wait for work to pile up. I would feel smothered on holidays and weekends due to the dishes piling so high... At one point I became so infatuated with having a cleared dish pit that I would run to the line to get things before they could hand me them. In my current job, I beat people to doing things before they can tell me to.

>>1212376
Deli eh?

>>1212290
Socializing is pretty much necessary, even if you don't want to.

People don't like it when you just show up, do your job, and leave.

>>1214096
What the fuck are you talking about?

Putting in the extra, when it counts, is what makes all the difference. It's why I'm getting paid more than people who have been at my job for years over me. It's why I'm getting better benefits and free schooling. It's why I only have to work 4 days instead of 5 and still taking home more.

>>1214118
I washed dishes at panda express in college and did the exact same thing

>>1212290
If you work for over a month and the employer still postpones signing your contract you might find yourself having worked illegally like a fucking spic

>>1212290
Being competent means you get stuck with more and more and more work.
Showing you can think independently gets you tasked with more interesting work.
Classical conditioning is real, and it can happen accidentally. (I dealt with mailbags every day, and got shocks from railings due to static buildup. This developed into a mild phobia of touching industrial railings, which I had to deprogram.)
Women don't work. They just gossip and chatter.
If there's nobody on the roads, the roads are YOURS.
Working full-time means lots of money compared to not working.

>>1213973
>3. Watching men go through mid-life crises is funny
I always found it sort of sad.
> MY WIFE LEFT ME, THAT BITCH
> I HATE WOMEN
> I FUCKING HATE THIS SOCIETY
> BITCH KEEPS STEALING MY MONEY SO I HAVE TO GET MY WAGES PUT IN SOMEONE ELSE'S ACCOUNT
> How's your boat going, mate, need me to come work on it so I feel valued?
> Anon, come drink with us after work on friday, I'll buy you drinks

Competing with coworkers to appease the boss is a losing strategy.

>>1214127
sadly, this.

as a couple anons mentioned, personality and socializing are far more important than having a technical skillset.

>>1212294
there you have it OP

>>1214381

Well from the bosses perspective you have two guys. One of them is a genius at the technical stuff but he has sub par communication skills. The other guy is much less capable but understand the technology enough and he can lead and is sociable.

Who will you put as a leader? Not the genius, because then you won't have anyone doing the work. The other guy know just enough to be able to manage. Of course you put him as the manager.

The middle managers are always the guys who got Cs and Ds in class.

>>1214073
it is called drilling, you don't need to know a lot of shit as a marine, but it has to be drilled into you that you aren't even supposed to think about it but just handle.

>>1214398
True, and they do a good job of it, but that's not the info I'm talking about.
More like the specs and model numbers of various weapons and equipment, which is really more for officers, it's not like any infantryman needs to know that kind of shit.

>>1212294
kek
>inb4 wageslave

Most of your coworkers will lie to you if they sense they can get something from you

>>1214128
There's a difference between putting in extra time when the work warrants it and "hurr durr work late every day even if you have nothing to do because commitment blah blah".

Bosses appreciate you putting in the time for results. They hate morons who are here late every day because they think it'll get them ahead, and pro tip: it's easy to tell the difference.

Never had a job before but most of the essential tips are just general life lessons.

>Don't gossip
>Don't trust anything not in writing
>Don't fuck around in general
>Try not to bang co-workers
>Try not to become social out of work with co-workers

And probably the most important;

>Never be an ass kisser, always be respectful but never suck up, nobody ever respects or values a barnacle stuck to their asshole, even if you're a bit of a cunt to your boss because you won't back down over something, he'll have more respect for you, whether he fires you or not

>also try getting out of being a wageslave as fast as possible

My first job was at a burger joint
I'm having a hard time think of a thing I learned aside from pure work ethic. Fuck illegals I guess, they're shit-teir workers

Never be the employee.

1) Never stick your pen into company's ink sink.

2) If something feels very fishy (your workload, your tasks compared to your education level) - it usually is.

3) Don't trust people being extra nice to you. They are looking for ways to expoit you, leach your work etc.

4) Don't trust shiny medals, awards, extra bullshit - if you do your job better than anyone else, demand a raise or scale back/leave for the competitor.

5) Don't befriend coworkers or superwisers by default. Do befriend the performers or workers from divisions not related to you (technitians, secretaries etc.)

>>1212290
420 blaze it

Don't work for retail, all they'll do is take advantage of you and you'll never move up.

>>1214495
Thank you. That was the point I was trying to make

>>1214495
it is SO easy to tell the difference.

>>1213134
Also this, being social and charismatic is like having a rocket in your ass while others try to climb the ladder...

>>1214084
>get lucky or you'll be stuck with asshooe coworkers
ftfy. or even just
>coworkers are assholes

>>1212882
This!!!

>>1212290
Don't work at a gas station.

karma is real

>>1214849
>>1214761

Hmm...

>>1212382
lmao so true.

greeks are so bad, i'm half greek.

>>1212290
Middle aged women who own restaurants are always seconds away from a complete breakdown

I learned that I had a silent partner that always took his money off the top.

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>>1212290
Better to work 40 to 60 hours for yourself than 40 grueling hours for some jagoff that's making a fuckton of money off of your hard work.

I bagged groceries at 17 at publix. I instantly left the drug free lifestyle and never ever looked back. Greatest lesson i ever learned.

>>1214971

Pretty much the consensus of this thread it seems.

But seriously, aren't there SOME people who enjoy working for others - or perhaps some people who are enjoyable to work for?

Learn excel inside and out and you can do work 90% faster than your coworkers

>>1212411
>Start working an hour early and leave an hour late for the first year of your employment.

Kek, unless you're at a top New York law firm or something this is ridiculous

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>>1212290
I leanrt
>don't make excuses if you fuckup

>>1214997

Get a load of this cuck

>>1215751
On a later job i learned that if you do fuck up, analyze it. There reason you fucked up is usually that you are doing something fundamentally wrong, but you just did the one task where doing it wrong results in disaster.
Being a fuckup can be fixed.

Working in academia is very enjoyable if you are competent which few aspiring academics are.

Though it never pays well.

Worked tech support for a major telecom company.
Realized that the majority of people are nicer than you'd expect but also a lot dumber.

I don't get along with my boss very well. Innovation is not appreciated.
Fuck people, fuck the customer and fuck my co-workers.

>>1212290
fuck my stem degree.

>be 15 and start working as model
>did that shit ~10 year

first thing that I learned from the agency was how to cheat on taxes,,
>best lesson ever

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>>1212294
what is there more to say

Life's not fair.

>>1214958
holy kek this

>>1216759

I am not a degenerate fetishist but for some reason I want to put her feet in my face.

>>1212290
Nobody cares about your problems unless they in any way involve them
People aren't good or bad but they are selfish
Yet there are a few rare gems that always show up with a smile on their face and a helping hand for everyone who needs it
If you stop being a bitter cunt the world won't seem so grim and your coworkers might actually turn out to be decent people

>>1212290
Get a good sear on the patty, toasted buns are better and cold fries taste like ass

>>1214335
So true I work at my restaurant job and all the women in my section just gossip and shit while if we have a all male team we get shit done 100x faster and don't complain like the females.

>>1212290
Managing people is easy and anyone who is bad at it and complains about it are fucking retarded

>Do slightly more than you have to, but not too more. Bosses love to pile on the workload to 'good' workers.
>Be friendly with everyone (Theres a possibility of developing real friendships here)
>Make it look like you have priorities and ambitions outside of work (even if you dont, you fucking virgin)
>Never kiss ass, stick up for yourself (Bosses will fucking abuse kissasses, while they'll respect you, even if they dont show it immediately)
>Never complain about the work, always make it seem like its a breeze

I find these tips are the best way to ensure people treat you like an actual human being, rather than an automaton wagecuck, whos scared to lose their job.

I got fired from my first job like 2 weeks after starting, because I wasn't sociable enough. Apparently my co-workers complained about me. I did all my work diligently and put in extra hours. When I got fired the boss just said to me that I don't fit into the company. I don't know, that just tells me that my work isn't really appreciated and that I will always have a tough time working with other people.

More things I have learned: Most colleagues were extremely incompetent and should have never gotten their job. They used any chance to spend time doing things not work related. The company sent them to a paid 1 week SAP course (I joined after that and hadn't worked with SAP before) and after just 2 days I had learned enough to become my departments "SAP help desk". The company literally spent thousands upon thousands on my former colleagues and they came back from the seminar and couldn't do the most basic things in SAP.

>>1217598
Fuck, that sucks man. I'm worried about something like that happening to me. I'm not a total sperg but I tend to just stick to myself and just tend to be focused on work. Couldn't care less about being sociable.

But maybe I should care.

You can get away with a lot of people like you.

Also, the customer is always wrong.

Also, retail is hell.

>>1213489
>>1213737
>made zero money
>put a year's worth of juicy experience on a resume and nobody gives a fuck, like it's not even there
>made a bunch of business connections with people in the industry who can't get me a job that actually pays money

Whenever I tell someone about my internship they go: "oooh, that's impressive," and that's it. That's all my internship has ever netted me. It was a dead end.

>>1217654
No one respects people who work for free.

Interning is just to filter poorfags out of certain sectors

>>1214096
>If your compatent

Advice disregarded.

>>1212290
"Quit ASAP and find an alternative to 'having a job' "

>>1217630
im the same way, but think of it as investing into social skills

smile and nod, smile and nod, chime in a bit and eventually it will become second nature. its harder at work because i dont have an incentive to do it, but for example at school participating randomly and staring at the teacher every once in a while paid off, because to the teacher i was the only one paying attention while everyone else couldn't care less, and i got better grades for that.

so you know, a tiny effort