Work Experience

[Arm73]

He works for Nintendo :lol

 

[Westside]

I got my work expience as a Communications and Electircal Engineer in Canada's army. Now that's a government job.

 

[Darkspark]

I did 2 weeks at a banks HQ in their Derivatives and Swaps dept.
I think the point of short Work experiences is to find out is what you want to do, is REALLY what you want to do.

Two weeks of shredding, drinks machines and more shredding was pretty boring. In the second week, I was allowed to do more; less demeaning work, such as set up correlation curves and finalise swaps, but I realised finance was probably not for me.

I was pretty young at the time, so maybe I didn't get enough out of the experience as I ought to, if i went back there now.

 

[muckers]

My work experiences have been at Nintendo Official Magazine (twice, both times while it was still under EMAP), Gamesmaster over in Bath and local papers and stuff.

Journalism course at Uni next year ftw. (Y)

 

[legendofphil]

I did work experience at a computer repair company and it was awful, one week before xmas holidays '99 and we had to test over 200 computers to make them Y2K compliant.

Since then I've worked as an IT tech and sales assistant at Game and Gamestation.

Need a job now as I have little money and 4 months holiday when my first year at uni ends 3 weeks today.

 

[mthrnite]

I worked at a thrift shop fixing small electrical thingies for 10 years.
I can make a lamp out of anything.
It's hard to make that sound good on an application though.

My current goal is working as a teacher's assistant in special needs classes while I school for a certificate at night.
Either some form of IT or teaching..

I can teach you how to make a lamp out of a server... there, that sounds good!

 

[pikachucrackpipe]

You have a government job and yet, while on the job, you frequent a website that has a strong focus on piracy...
Good job

i also worked for an isp for 5 years and then for a law firm as a it manager for 2 before taking this job

 

[Psyfira]

We did 1 week of work experience in Yr 12 (age 17-18). The first placement they assigned me was in a care home

I know I should probably be jealous that a mate pulled enough strings to get a placement with Pixar but I was thrilled to bits; I got to swap to the placement she was originally assigned. An ICT 4-day placement that had something to do with autocad. Allegedly. When I got there they put me on office admin stuff for the whole week, I didn't even see a computer running autocad. I spent most of it sitting around doing nothing cause apparently filing should take much longer than it did. Right.

In other words: short work experience is a farce, because employers won't take you on without it yet you spend the whole time twiddling your thumbs or doing the shitty stuff that doesn't even require an ounce of brainpower to do. How that implies you'd be a good person to hire is beyond me. Placements that last a month or two, now those are useful.

 

[Caoimhin]

I worked at a thrift shop fixing small electrical thingies for 10 years.
I can make a lamp out of anything.
It's hard to make that sound good on an application though.

My current goal is working as a teacher's assistant in special needs classes while I school for a certificate at night.
Either some form of IT or teaching..

I can teach you how to make a lamp out of a server... there, that sounds good!

Let me be your adept/novice/student/whatever. Teach me, oh great mthrnite!

 

[Harsky]

On an off topic notice. When you think that you're a horrible loser. At least remember this.

I got turned down for a job at a call centre.

Yeah. Yeah. I know.

Why would I want a job in there?
I was desperate for money

Why I get turned down?
Receptionist lost my CV and the interviewer asked me to remember everything from it. I couldn't remember the most. And they never sent me a letter saying I didn't get the job which really fucked up my expectations.

 

[dice]

Currently working in a solicitors for work experience. After a week, I stressed myself to the point that I now come home with a sore stomach. It's because they don't have a PC/computer network and trying to find files for clients is stupid because it's all in one huge pile.

Hey I also worked at a solicitors (2 years ago now), I got to go to court (and not stand traiL

), got lots of gifts and the women there were HAWT

 

[slayerspud]

Got my work experience in like 3 weeks. Going tescos for two weeks lol. Should land me a weekend job though, when i turn 16.

 

[Opium]

I did unpaid slave labour.....I mean work experience at two daily Newspapers

 

[FAST6191]

I worked for a plant care company (one week office, one week helping with research: running compost around and measuring it) for two weeks about 7 years ago, my first last and only experience of work too.

 

[Regiiko]

Worked for a mate's father in his building business.

I just did the odd jobs that didn't require supervision, like putting electric switches back into their slots, painting walls, sanding floors, cleaning windows. That's about it.

But it was fucking great, $16/hour for about 8 hours a day on average ;P

Best thing wasn't the cash, the best thing that the house that we were doing up was just next door xD