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Anyone else satisfied with their job? (yes a job, in order to live)

I work as a cashier at some girl's clothing shop and it feels really good when I get to feel their hands. And my boss plays touhou.

>> No.5198181

inb4 100 >implying I go outside posts

sage because it's not really /jp/ related. Aldo

>implying I go outside

>> No.5198192

I'm a professional neet. My job involves leeching off my parents and being a social outcast. There is no fun in it.

>> No.5198196
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5198196

>>5198181
>Aldo

>> No.5198197
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5198197

>girl's clothing shop and it feels really good when I get to feel their hands

>> No.5198198

I work at a library and listen to books on cd while doing mindless labor. It could be worse.

>> No.5198201

>>5198196
what's wrong with aldo? their shoes are nice... am i rong?

>> No.5198203

I'm a programmer. Pretty satisfied with my current job, as I only have to code business logic about half the time.

>> No.5198205

>>5198172
do you get to play touhou on the job

>> No.5198207
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5198207

>it feels really good when i get to feel their hands

Small-time, OP, I think it's really good when I get to accidentally feel their breasts.

And where I live people would just rather not make a scene about it so they don't even fucking say anything.

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5198214

>girl's clothing shop and it feels really good when I get to feel their hands

>> No.5198219

I joined the military back in febuary. mmmm government job, feels so good

>> No.5198225

I worked at a chicken farm for a while. The cock jokes got old fast.

>> No.5198233

>>5198197
>>5198214
I know what you're trying to do, you're trying to make me look like I'm samefagging my own thread by greentexting with reaction images. Please stop that.

>> No.5198246

>>5198233
Oh, no, I'm genuinely reacting.

But then I began to suspect >>5198197 of being the OP. And then I reflected on how the OP probably wrote that just to get reactions.

And then I felt used.

>> No.5198247

>>5198225
Let's make that into a general rule: if the first thing that pops into your head after hearing a person's job is a stupid joke then he's already heard it. Shut your trap.

>> No.5198254

>>5198233
Or maybe because that's creepy by normalfag standards.

>> No.5198256

I tutor at my college. It's satisfying because it gives me time to do other things (like classwork, Touhou, etc.) since people rarely ever need tutoring.

>> No.5198263

>>5198172
Yes. I'm a research scientist working at an Ivy League university and things are going pretty well for me.

>> No.5198274

arcuid staring at cpu is so moe

>> No.5198300

I'm giving out telephone numbers. Shit's annoying.

>> No.5198330

I sell my body to old hags. I've been doing this for 7 years now. I don't feel anything anymore.

>> No.5198335

>>5198330
man whore? ewww

>> No.5198363

>>5198330
What a slut...

>> No.5198368

>>5198330
>>5198363
why are you samefagging

>> No.5198378

>>5198368
New here?

>> No.5198403
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5198403

Someday I'll be a professional doujin developer.

>> No.5198410

I dunno. I'm just starting training tomorrow. Wish me luck, /jp/.

>> No.5198427

>>5198403
>I'll be a professional amateur developer

>> No.5198440

>>5198427

Doujin doesn't translate into amateur, retard.

>> No.5198500

I'm a server engineer at a major tech firm. Working on hardware that would make /g/ cream their collective pants. No customer interaction. Making enough that I'm running out of space to put figurines. Feels good man.

>> No.5198529

Is getting a part-time job in Japan as easy as anime and VNs make it out to be?

Where I live, you need an extensive resume just to get a job at McDonald's.

>> No.5198530

>>5198330
How do you get started with this? I want to do this.

>> No.5198576

I do odd jobs, and sell my possessions.

>> No.5198587

>>5198529
Getting a job is never easy anywhere

>> No.5198593

Im currently working. I show houses to people who want to buy it, and with this economy, i rarely work 10 minutes a day. Now, im nude, in a house whose owners i dont even know, fapping to their adolecent daughter undies, and taking a dump in their toilet. I just stopped for a while to browse /jp/ and read EF.
So yeah, this is my fucking dream job.

>> No.5198606

I am a Forensic Scientist who specializes in poisons and fluids.

My co-workers are all normalfags. But the pay makes it all worth it.

>> No.5198620

>girl's clothing shop
>boss plays a fashion show disguised as an STG
What are the odds?

>> No.5198629

NEET, almost homeless. life's good as long as I don't think about it.

>> No.5198653
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5198653

Everyone in this thread is unemployed.

>> No.5198666

I'm currently in employed training, doing a bunch of IT qualifications and vendor certifications. Get paid £100 a week too. Shit is actually looking good for a change.

>> No.5198692

A job?
But... I like being a hiki mooch...

>> No.5198709

Do not talk about real life on /jp/.
For fuck's sake...

>> No.5198712

>>5198692
Your existence is pathetic.

>> No.5198717

Unemployed, not sure what I want to do, maybe sit in a helpdesk answering stupid questions all day.

>> No.5198792

What's a job?

>> No.5198822

I managed to get a diploma in IT but its hard to get a temp job for about 6 months or so. Everyone wants permanent or high level shit like network engineers with 4 years of experience

>> No.5198834

been working for 2 years and some months. iiam where i work though! :)

>> No.5198847
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5198847

I graduated last year. Looked for a job constantly, and must have sent hundreds of applications and CVs and filled out forms several times a week. I got six interviews and no job. Gave up last month.

Living in England is fun.

>> No.5198852

Normalfags get out.

>> No.5198865

>>5198852

/jp/ - my secret NEET club

>> No.5198871

>>5198865
It would be nice.

>> No.5198877

>>5198403
Source?

>> No.5198880

>>5198847
I've been looking for a part time job since last year so I could buy more figures and such, and I've put out applications to any where that was a reasonable distance away, and I've not gotten one interview, even with calling the places up.

>> No.5198951

>>5198880
From what I've read, 10 months of constant applications -> 6 interviews with no success is actually a damned good return rate these days.

>> No.5199005

Software Test Engineer III at F5 Networks.
I'm pretty satisfied with the position. It pays pretty well (90k/yr) and F5 has this tendency to recognize outstanding work. I recently received one of those quarterly award/recognition things that some companies do for their employees, which includes an all expenses paid trip/vacation.

>> No.5199014

ITT: Make up your own fantasy and blog about it.

>> No.5199025

>>5198951
The part that pissed me off the most was that I had volunteer at my local library for about 2 years before that and when a position opened up to get payed for what I had been doing, they didn't even mention anything about it after I applied.

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5199040

>>5199014
>I'm unemployed and totally buttmad about it

>> No.5199054

>>5199025
Yeah, I've been volunteering for the better part of the year since I graduated and still nothing. Getting kind of sick of doing cancer fundraiser paperwork.

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>>5199014

Are you frustrated?

>> No.5199068

>>5198847
What the hell are your qualifications? Actually, what kind of job were you even applying for?

>> No.5199074

>>5198847
yeah, same happened to me after I last graduated - ended up working in a print shop for a couple of years then quit to look after my father - once I get my teeth fixed I'll start looking for one again.

>> No.5199082

>>5199068

I was thinking the same thing... Gosh there are plenty of jobs out there. It amazes me when someone can't get a job. It leads me to believe your application writing skills or CV is awful.

>> No.5199089

>>5199074

I thought your teeth were already in the process of being fixed.

>> No.5199098

>>5199082
Welcome to the UK.

There are no jobs.

>> No.5199114

>>5199005
What does your job involve and what are the requirements?

>> No.5199115

>>5199089
they are, but its taking a while - had my jaw rebroken accidently while getting an extraction - still, 3 more visits and that should be it - next is in june, NHS dentists are few nd far between here and VERY busy

>> No.5199118

It is okay.

I like that it lets me afford an apartment and food and things like that, so I don't have to deal with family.

It is much better now that they hired a bunch of other under-30 people after me. Even if they are all normal or mostly normal and dislike me, it makes things more lively and enjoyable to overhear their jokes and conversations.

I am comfortable with most of the work, but unusual situations (like attending things out of the normal office building) make me very nervous and drained and I hate them.

I dislike the lack of free time but I wind up spending a lot of the free time I do have just killing time on the internet anyway so it's not a huge loss.

>> No.5199121

I own a comic shop. I would be totally satisfied if I actually made any money at it.

>> No.5199127

I work with customer service through chat. It's terrible but at least it's better than phone.

>> No.5199128

>>5199098

The company I work for has 8 positions open in the UK.

>> No.5199141

>>5199128
>implying that anybody can hold any job regardless of qualifications, experience or social/interview skills

>> No.5199142

I am miserable where I work. If you can maintain NEETdom, do it.

>> No.5199144

>>5199127
you work for dell?

>> No.5199153

>>5199068
>>5199082
Qualifications...I got pretty good grades, 13 A*-C GCSEs, and three A-levels with decent grades (B+).

I've tried both approaches of being honest about my grades and lying about them (to appear stupid, because entry-level employers prefer people who will never attempt to get a better job elsewhere) but neither worked. I've applied to pretty much every job I've seen advertised that doesn't specifically require a degree or whatever and isn't commission-based sales (this eliminates about 95% of all jobs advertised, but whatever) and I've also applied everywhere where I think they will have jobs available. Sometimes multiple times. I've been through about a dozen different CV approaches and applications are usually just 'Tick the boxes because we know you're retarded' so it's not a matter of being bad at writing applications.

The interviews I had were pretty bog standard and I think I pretty did well except the one time Argos (a furniture/home goods store) gave me an interview around last Christmas. Everyone on the interview list was put in a room and we had to 'roleplay Santa's elves'. Yeahhh. I wish I was making it up, it was so fucking stupid. They gave us problems to solve and we had to solve them 'as Santa's elves' and other stupid shit while wearing elf ears and ugh.

But yeah I think I've had enough time to refine my CV-writing skills. There are just no jobs for people who don't already have several years of experience in paid work.

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>>5199128
Yes, and how many people do you think are unemployed and looking for a job? Do you think it's as low as 8?

>> No.5199170

>>5199153
You only have A levels and you want work?

>> No.5199175

Too many normalfags in this thread...

>> No.5199178

>>5199153
>Everyone on the interview list was put in a room and we had to 'roleplay Santa's elves'
wat

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>>5199170
Yeah I'm not shelling out thousands and spending four years of my time getting a degree that will be of no advantage to me because there are no jobs, sorry.

>> No.5199193

>>5199127

I do both for technical support. Problem is, chat operators can be responsible for 10-20 chats at a time. Theoretically, our ceiling is 420 and we only have space for 5 operators. At least on the phone you only have to suffer dealing with one person at a time.

>>5199127 related, it's me.

>> No.5199201

>>5199188
Isnt a diploma a higher qualification than A levels?

>> No.5199204

>>5199114

Real quickly, the job involves:

Taking ownership of requirements/features in terms of testing (meaning you're the sole person responsible for the feature).
Working with the devs to build out test sets based on functional spec for acceptance and regression testing sessions.
Making sure the devs actually understand the feature requirements.
Extensive automation of testing in Python.
Extensive UNIX/Linux knowledge.
Deep understanding of many enterprise-level networking technologies, including BIG-IP App delivery controllers.

etc, etc.

>> No.5199207

>>5199201
No. GCSE is equivalent to a high school education, A-levels are something a bit more than that (+2 years of school).

>> No.5199212

I'm a pediatric gynecologist and I couldn't be happier.

>> No.5199214

>>5199193

Oops, >>5199142 is me.

>> No.5199220

>>5199212
I see what you did there.

>> No.5199221

I'm currently studying at university and I'm an honour student although I spend all my time locked up in my dorm room playing VNs and watching anime. The only reason why I haven't dropped out is because academics have always come easy to me. I can't see myself ever having a real job though, I'll probably end up as a mad scientist or something.

>> No.5199228

>>5199162

Hey, 8 is better than 0 jobs open. I switched jobs a year ago and had no problems at all. I also beat out about 50 other applicants for that one position.

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>>5199212

You wish.

>> No.5199235

>>5199228
Aren't you special? Not all of us are so lucky.

>> No.5199253

>>5199235

It has nothing to do with luck my friend, it's skill.

>> No.5199263

>>5199221
Any school that doesn't require a 4.0 for honor students doesn't really have honor students.

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>>5199253
When you have 200 people applying for a job where the only relevant thing that separates one candidate from another is experience, then I can assure you that it's purely luck if you get the job.

In your case it's probably different, but applying your logic to my situation isn't going to work.

>> No.5199286

Another graduated-last-year-filled-in-more-applications-than-I-can-count-and-still-no-job UK dweller here. Nice to know I'm not the only one.

I actually broke down and went to a Job Center to talk to an advisor a couple of months back. I told them I was a graduate with zero work experience and, I shit you not, their first advise was emigrate to another country.

I'm still looking in to doing just that. Seriously, fuck this country.

>> No.5199292

I'm a ninja astronaut scientist gigolo.

>> No.5199309

Why are there no jobs?

>> No.5199310

>>5199286
I considered it but every country that isn't a complete shithole and Germany are all locked up tight. You have to be like a fucking Olympic athlete or marry a native in order to emigrate.

Job Centre just pointed me at the computers in the centre that go straight to the website that I had looked at anyway so it's a complete waste of time. I'm not quite desperate enough yet to apply for jobseeker's allowance so I don't have to go there.

>> No.5199326

>>5199309
England is kind of just banks and shops these days (since the 80s). Business has been getting increasingly worse for banks and shops and so the number of jobs is going down coupled with a rise in population due to immigrants from third world countries and said immigrants having like eight kids when they get here.

>> No.5199362

>>5199310

Why not? 10 minutes every 2 weeks for £110 or something is better than nothing at all.

>> No.5199375

>>5199362
I guess. My grandma was on it for a while and apparently it's pretty humiliating. They have you go to interviews with the career advisors and you have to explain why you haven't got a job yet and promise that you're going to do your best to get a job from now on, and so on.

>> No.5199380

I'm due to finish university at last this year, and all this shit terrifies me. Parents kinda pushed me into doing university and seem to think I'll be able to get a job straight off afterward.

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>>5199310
>every country that isn't a complete shithole and Germany
Okay I lol'd.

>> No.5199397

>>5199380
Yeah, mine were okay with me not going to university, but they still expected me to get a job immediately after finishing sixth form. They were pretty mystified for a few months why I hadn't gotten a job yet.

>> No.5199401

>>5199375

Bullshit. I've been a UK NEET for 3 or 4 years now and my local JobCentre don't give a fuck. I just sit down, sign a slip of paper and walk out of the place. Takes about 10 minutes of my time if I take my car.

>> No.5199406

>>5199265

Let me elaborate further upon what I said about skill.

I agree that if 200 people apply for a job and the only thing that separates them is experience, then it could very well be luck of the draw. Such is probably the case with retail jobs and other entry-level "warm body" positions. However, if you apply knowing you have a shitload of experience, and you nail the interview block, you should know you're already in the top running for the position.

I can't say I'm a stranger to this environment because I had the same problems when I was in my early to mid 20s. It was damn near impossible for me to get a job because I didn't have the experience, skills, etc to land the job. I had to claw my way up every step of the way, but now that I have, it's far easier to get Sr. level positions. No entry-level person can expect to land a job that requires a certain number of years experience, certain level of education, and a particular skill set...That's just common sense.

>> No.5199410

So how do you go about moving to another country? I've been playing with the thought for a while but I'm not sure where to start.

>> No.5199420

>>5199410
Me to, Britfag here, want out.

>> No.5199422

>>5199310

Shit sucks, man. No one wants anything to do with graduates these days. I mean, it makes sense from a business point of view. Why spend the time and money training people when there's others with experience out there who can just come in and do the job?

It just makes it damn near impossible to get a start, especially if you've got no word or mouth contacts in industry of whatever. I've been applying for odd part time and volunteer jobs recently, but even they're getting a ton of applicants. All graduates trying to get a start or bulk up their CV.

My mother works in HR at a Uni and they're regularly getting 100+ applications for a vacancy. And they're laying people off too.

>> No.5199431

>>5199410
Marry a foreigner.

In most countries you need to have a visa to remain in the country and possibly a separate certification that lets you be employed legally in that country. Generally you will need to pass certain criteria in order to get a visa e.g. you're married to a native, or you're the dependent child of a native, or you have a PhD or are recognized as an 'outstanding member of your profession' i.e. you're a Premiership footballer.

>> No.5199435

>>5199422
Oh god, that reminds me of an article in the local paper the other day that one of the school districts in the area got 3,500 applications for 5 or so positions. With some coming from areas such as California, and I live on the East Coast of the US.

>> No.5199448

>>5199263
Well I'm not from America so we have a different grade scale here. You're an honour student at my university when you're in the best 3% of students.

>> No.5199462

>>5199310
>>5199410
>>5199420

I had to say it, but would Seattle or the San Francisco Bay Area be out of the question? There are jobs to be had over here if you're into tech.

>> No.5199464

>>5199431
Like faking a marriage? What do you think would be an appropriate sum to offer?

>> No.5199490

>>5199462
Yeah, I'd have no problem with moving to the US. It's just the prerequisite of being married to someone there or being like a PhD holder in order to legally move and work there that's stopping me.

>> No.5199496

I'd marry some poor Euro /jp/sie to help him get out of his country but it isn't legal in my state. Sorry guys

>> No.5199499

>>5199464
They do a lot of checking. To even apply for it you need to have shitloads of evidence that you've had a relationship before, stuff like years worth of love letters, photographs, etcetera.

>> No.5199502

>>5199406

The problem in the UK is the high unemployment and all the layoffs is causing the people with the years of experience to apply for lower positions. The result is, those people are getting the jobs graduates would usually be considered for. The result of that is there's nothing for graduates. Even retail jobs are getting swamped.

>> No.5199544

>>5199496
Move to the USA? Don't think so.

>> No.5199549

>>5199490

Somehow I think that's an exaggeration. I work with a guy from Australia that just moved here. He's certainly not married to an American and he's not a PhD holder. I believe he's just using a US work visa.

>> No.5199573

>>5199544

That's kind of a shame... Just as long as you stay out of the bible belt and the mid-west, you're fine. Parts of New England, Seattle, Portland, and the Bay Area are pretty great... And it's not that hard to find a job if you're a skilled worker.

>> No.5199578

>>5199549
The work visa is temporary and you need to have real good connections to get someone to sponsor you.

>> No.5199608

I live in the US. I work because I have to.

The janitor where I work is a refugee from some Western Asian / Mediterranean country that I can't recall off the top of my head. lol amerikkkan geography skills Poor guy has multiple PhDs but couldn't get a job.

>> No.5199678

Drawing illustrations or animation is one fucking boring career. Always thought it would get better when you get professional...but no.

>> No.5199715

>>5199578

Oh, good point. The company I work for hooked him up with the visa as part of getting the job.

>> No.5199764

>>5199678

So go into concept art where you have a little more freedom to fuck around with ideas.

>> No.5200712

lol UK
the only place where being a NEET is a job in itself

>> No.5200985

>>5199175
>>5198852

I think I should point out how fallacious that comment is. It's a bit of an ad hominem to claim someone is a normalfag just because they have a good career.

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