Monday, May 23, 2011

Work

Today, I started my first day of work at my school. I got this job as a student worker for the summer, a maintenance job that is. I was expecting to have to do certain jobs pertaining to replacing appliances or fixing them and the like, but I was completely wrong. I'm glad I was wrong, because now all I have to do is paint pretty much. I just have to paint dorm rooms over and over, so it is not a bad job at all. Getting paid at more than $10 an hour is the real nice part.
As the first day came, I didn't know what to expect. I arrived there with my friend, and all the workers gathered in a conference room to figure out what the hell we were going to be doing. We were then broken up into different groups to work under different "sub-bosses". Our group went to these apartment style dorm rooms, and we were then told we would be mainly painting. We went around the dorms moving the furniture to the center of the rooms, so we would not get paint on it. After this we were shown how to paint, as you are shown how to do certain things at the beginning of every job.
At the end of all the talk of what we were going to do and how to do it, our crew leader stated how he did not have enough of the required items/tools for us to paint today. So he then proceeded to tell us to lounge around and not be caught. We stayed in an empty room for around an hour just sitting there. Eventually we switched rooms and buildings, but we did the exact same thing. I passed the time by having alot of smoke breaks, but it was extremely boring. Eventually 3:30 came around, and we finally were able to leave.
It was one of the most boring days of work I had had, because we had no music or anything to do, while sitting around.At the end of the day, I got paid for around 6 hours of work, while not doing any work. Pretty awesome day in my book. Now to sit back and watch Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas!

29 comments:

  1. $10+/hour. that's not bad at all.

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  2. Yeah, I can understand your feelings.

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  3. Great, in my country people get paid $5/hour and everyone's happy

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  4. Awesome! Good pay for an easy gig. Also, watch out when going through bat country.

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  5. First day off work do no work. Classic!

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  6. You gotta love a chill day at work like that, it's not often I can never find one. I saw in the comments section of another blog that you are just recently down here in Costa Rica. I have been living here for the last five years and it's pretty much the theme of my blog. I will be following you from here on out, and I can't wait to read your updates!

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  7. $60+ for lounging? ill take it

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  8. Nice job. Hopefully you'll get some work in so you won't be bored next time around. Either that or bring your mp3 player just in case. Haha.

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  9. Pretty solid haha. I wish I could stand around at work, I make subs at Wegmans, and we get raped all day long lol.

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  10. You have it pretty good. I wish I was as lucky as you are :(

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  11. Wow that's great. Perhaps bring a MP3 player next just in case? I wish I had a chill job like that... Or a job at all. Nice pay too :) Good luck with the job.

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  12. Maybe I should start to look for a job like that. My student budget need to be less tight... I think...

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  13. School jobs are nice because most of them allow you to do hw while you work.. and if you don't work with food, you will be paid to do your hw-so to speak.

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  14. Hey, at least you have a job. But anyway, congrats

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  15. Ehh, seems pretty nice to me... Maybe you will meet some cool people through work too!

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  16. lucky, min. wage here is absolute shite.

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  17. getting paid for not really working, very nice, very nice

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  18. Daaaaamn I want that job, hahaha my last job was at Dish Network :( haha following!

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  19. That it is actually a pretty decent find.
    If I had a job that would be one that would work nicely for me... LOUNGING!

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  20. cant complain about doing easy work
    follow back

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  21. hahaha i want a job like that.. some income will be nice

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  22. Quite a lot of my days seem to be like that. It's crap at the time but you do feel like you've won at the end of the day.

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  23. Most people want to get paid for doing nothing, but it is indeed quite boring. Being kept busy is actually better lol, and this is a good example

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  24. Sounds like a nice job, and yeah fear and loathing is probably one of the best movies imo.

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