Alternate Job Titles...

[Pepin]

Ever had a job that you were somewhat ummmm shy to tell others what you do...

Like Garbageman ... Chief Sanatation Engineer / Garboligist
Doorman ... Front entrance way officer

got any others?

Pepin

 

[Ambrosious]

When I was a boy, growing up on the farm...

Professional Milk Extractor.

 

[R Nitelight]

Bum - Writer.

 

[Ambrosious]

Nitelight - Bum

 

[Cheyenne]

Ever had a job that you were somewhat ummmm shy to tell others what you do...

Nope. But no one should be ashamed of their job if they do it well.

Those "garbagemen" for example, have very physically demanding jobs, and also require more mental ability than most people give them credit for. Driving a truck takes skill- there are lots of us who wouldn't make it through day 1 on the job.

 

[Xander]

Porn actor.

Okay it was only a one time incident. But still....UGH!!

 

[R Nitelight]

Ambrosious

Don't you mean:
Bum - Nitelight?

 

[Ambrosious]

Nitelight

Nooooooo. It stands like it is.

 

[riff]

I like what Cheyenne said.

Once I went 3 months without a job. It was so hard to find another one! Finally a friend of mine hired me as a retail sales clerk for his family owned business.

It was humbling- I hated answering the question, "So, what do you do?" It occurred to me that I had it all wrong. One night while lying in bed thinking something in me rebelled against our society's stupid notion of worthiness. "If this job is not good enough for me, then I will make it good enough for me."

When inside of me came the time I should move on, I began looking for a better paying job with a better career path. I knew that my friend would be sorry to lose me because I had made the job good enough for me and this was greatly to his benefit, but I had to use him for a reference. I know for a fact that it was his glowing remarks about my work ethic that got me the job that set me on the path I am on today.

No job is beneath me... because I am in everything that I do... and I am me... and I kick ass.

 

[Cheyenne]

No job is beneath me... because I am in everything that I do... and I am me... and I kick ass.

And YOU are the kind of person I'd hire in a heart beat!

I don't always pick the person with the best credentials for the job. I pick the person who meets the requirements to be able to do the job, and who has the most enthusiastic attitude. I have one person I just hired who barely met the minimum requirments (on paper) for the job I needed to fill. And it is an important one, very visable. Could actually make or break me in my own position depending on how this guy does. He didn't have the best qualifications of everyone I interviewed, but he had skills that complimented my own, not duplicated them. Where I am weak, he is strong. And vice versa. AND he had the best attitude by far- a go getter who just wanted to jump right in and change the world. Guess what? He has been here only a month but he is kicking ass! And I'm loving it. I look brilliant for having hired him, and all I did was take a chance because he was enthusiastic. He is still in the learning stage, but he will make my life so much easier (and has already) and he will go far in his career.

So, enthusiasm everyone! No matter what it is that you do!

 

[Ambrosious]

You know what killed me? Back when I dj-ed at the titty bars people would ask me all the time when I was going to get a "real" job. I would tell them that I had a "real" job that made me "real" money that I used to pay my "real" bills with. And then I would buy them a drink. Hell, I could afford it more than they could.

 

[riff]

Cheyenne

Thanks...

I teach. And I constantly emphasize to my students that simply knowing isn't gonna get you much. Any employer can train an employee to a skill-level. But how do you teach an employee to be honest, dependable, and hardworking?

I rather have an average intelligence employee that I can count on than a genius upon whom I can't. At least the average guy is teachable.

 

[Cheyenne]

Re: Cheyenne

I rather have an average intelligence employee that I can count on than a genius upon whom I can't. At least the average guy is teachable.

Exactly. Print my comments above and take them in to your students! I'm likely to be like most hiring people they will face in their lifetime.

 

[Pepin]

Ever had a job that you were somewhat ummmm shy to tell others what you do...

Nope. But no one should be ashamed of their job if they do it well.

Those "garbagemen" for example, have very physically demanding jobs, and also require more mental ability than most people give them credit for. Driving a truck takes skill- there are lots of us who wouldn't make it through day 1 on the job.

I was a garbologist... wasn't ashamed of it... just thinking up alternate names...

 

[Guest]

Hmmm....

I suppose saying that I was a cashier for a grocery story at the age of 23...since I started that line of work at 15. ~sigh~

 

[Andra_Jenny]

Yes, I refer to myself as a consultant rather than as a teacher of...

 

[Bobtoad777]

when i was a gas/pump jockey i refered to myself as:

a petroleum transfer technician

 

[KillerMuffin]

I am KillerMuffin, Deadbeat Hunter!!! I am the highly skilled, seeker of vile malingering deadbeats everywhere. Fear me if I am on you trail, for YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CAN NOT HIDE!!! I WILL find you and I WILL make you pay. I am KillerMuffin, Hunter of Deadbeats!!!

But my boss makes me call myself collections manager. huhumpph. She has NO sense of style, I swear. Oh, and she's not goth either.


I wrote a story about a fantasy pump jockey once BT, betcha didn't know you pump jocks were hot studs in the Muff's book didja? I oughta pass it on to ya, even tho it kinda sux badly.

 

[sweetfeet]

I was a telemarketer for a month when I was first on my own. People HATE telemarketers. Only job I have ever walked out of.

 

[riff]

I was a telemarketer for a month when I was first on my own. People HATE telemarketers. Only job I have ever walked out of.

Hehehehehhe....

I did that in high school... solciting donations for the fraternal order of police...

I would get really really stoned and go in.... heheh shit....

Someone would be like "no... i don't thinks so ..." I'd say... "What's the matter, man? don't you wanna help the little crippled kids?"

heheheh I didn't last long... either

 

[Adoratrice]

Hello,I am Adoratrice , your personal financial banking assistant...........otherwise known as a teller.

 

[Never]

Ummmm, every job I've had yet.
Let me see, casher in the boonies of Maine, cashier in Boston, and now customer service at a catalog place. My job description is now lying to little old ladies who can't leave their house that they'll get their packages by Christmas.

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[Chuckus]

I am a babysitter of Professional People also known in the Real Wolrd as a Project Manager

 

[JadedHeart]

I prefer Party Girl! It is not as fancy as my actual title, but it sounds fun!

 

[FantasyGoddess]

I have two jobs, mannnn. I am a nanny and a domestic engineer and proud of it. How many jobs do you have?