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18 Jan 2011, 00:59
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So Crossfire blog time, feel like bragging some. I'm on course to be an Area Manager at the worlds leading online retailer Amazon! Next time you order from there anything big you can think of me as it'll be my staff sorting it. It'd be managing around 90 people - just doubling what I'm managing at the minute (although that's down from the 73 during peak but Christmas is a different time!).
Started there back in August of last year as a picker (the lowest of the low), got promoted into the L&D training new hires, following this I took on a department and ran it during the busiest period as a Temporary Team Lead- since the new year I've gone permanent and taken on a new department and just today had the Senior Operations Manager (second in command!) pull me to one side to say how great things are going and that he was looking to give me extra responsibility in order to make me an Area Manager by the summer. Just shows where hard graft can get you! (that position would be a very good starting salary plus several thousand in Amazon shares each year <3 )
And you know what? A lot of what I'm doing can be directly translated from the work done within this here scene. An ability to plan? Yep. An ability to manage people? Yep. An ability to create relationships? Yep. An ability to react? Yep.
People deride the shit that's done; and whilst I'd never mention it to an employer, there's a lot of positives that can be taken outta this here hobby. Just take a look at the jobs many others have fallen into.
And all this without a uni degree or even A levels! So all you dossers & droppouts there's nowt really stopping us. Although that said it's taken a while with a lot of shitty jobs inbetween; the character building years for when you know, I write my book <o/ Everyone's given the options you've just gotta have the bolox to take them and not give a fuck, nihilism is the answer.
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Also have this Wednesday & Thursday booked off from work to watch the Leeds v Arsenal match! Just you know, need time recover Thursday after our relatively easy win over 'the Arsenal' :o)
What jobs do you people do and are you going anywhere? The shittiest job I've done was removing staples from paper!
Started there back in August of last year as a picker (the lowest of the low), got promoted into the L&D training new hires, following this I took on a department and ran it during the busiest period as a Temporary Team Lead- since the new year I've gone permanent and taken on a new department and just today had the Senior Operations Manager (second in command!) pull me to one side to say how great things are going and that he was looking to give me extra responsibility in order to make me an Area Manager by the summer. Just shows where hard graft can get you! (that position would be a very good starting salary plus several thousand in Amazon shares each year <3 )
And you know what? A lot of what I'm doing can be directly translated from the work done within this here scene. An ability to plan? Yep. An ability to manage people? Yep. An ability to create relationships? Yep. An ability to react? Yep.
People deride the shit that's done; and whilst I'd never mention it to an employer, there's a lot of positives that can be taken outta this here hobby. Just take a look at the jobs many others have fallen into.
And all this without a uni degree or even A levels! So all you dossers & droppouts there's nowt really stopping us. Although that said it's taken a while with a lot of shitty jobs inbetween; the character building years for when you know, I write my book <o/ Everyone's given the options you've just gotta have the bolox to take them and not give a fuck, nihilism is the answer.
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Also have this Wednesday & Thursday booked off from work to watch the Leeds v Arsenal match! Just you know, need time recover Thursday after our relatively easy win over 'the Arsenal' :o)
What jobs do you people do and are you going anywhere? The shittiest job I've done was removing staples from paper!
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To quote Frank 'I'm happy and I'm settled in the person I've become' <o/
I assume the british culture is different than the israeli one, but i don't think to extreme lengths. In israel being without a diploma limits you - unless you had some sort of advanced training in the army - isn't that the same case in england? and doesn't that bother you?
You can learn on the job it's just being in the right place, having the right skills & putting in the effort.
If you were hiring would you take someone with theoretical skills never applied or someone with hands on experience that's shown success?
I guess, in the future, if you are high ranking enough they'll pay you to get one to progress in the companies ranks but that's a different story :p
"If you were hiring would you take someone with theoretical skills never applied or someone with hands on experience that's shown success? "
That really depends on what the job is. Also you have placed the latter in a very positive light (not that its wrong..). I do get your point thou :P
Working hard full time and working up is good, glad that u got promoted. U could make a decent living without academic qualifications. Just means youve got to work harder and takes longer to get higher normaly.
Im taking the academic route, although not amazing grades at GCSE/ A level just average Cs,Bs. Got a GCSE+ A level in business and am graduating this year from uni with a degree in business, hopefuly a 2,1 :D. I guess take some time out after uni and get a part time job and do some traveling, skiing etc. Not entirely sure yet. Then search for a full time job and then do a masters degree in business later.
Thats the plan atm, but plans and situations change over time :).
In the next few years il be earning a full time salary every year from share trading alone i think. Make a bit already from it. Being in a recession sucks for finding a job but it makes buying shares cheap and when the economy starts recovering theyl go up fast.
Dont see myself in a good job until i get my masters degree tbh. Since i dont have alot of actual work experiance as i took the uni route so doubt il get into anything decent straight off the bat. I thought about becoming a more active independant share trader to try make more but that means alot of time and ofc risky as i havent trained in trading.
btw where do all these people who study business stuff in unis go? there cant possibly be work for all of them, can there?
In a boom though its alot easier as companies take on more people.
sounds solid, too bad amazon failed to deliver my package before christmas. fucking shit.
what job do I do...? work for one of the 4 biggest mortgage banks in the country doing pretty much all I can find! fun, Will it take me anywhere? Probably not, as long as I have fun doing it I honestly couldnt care less :-)
Strangest sacking was for making an old woman cry. I'm still not sure why she cried - but she refused to come back till I was fired. Sucked :(
Cleaning shit wins!
Currently I am at my second job, in a hotel. A job that has no real potential or opportunity to progress (nor it pays well...), yet even if it did, no fucking way I'd stay there for a long time. A time waster.
Having no ambition and motivation is quite bad thing to possess.
and indeed you dont need an university-degree and shizzle...well, good job then mister! guess would be nothing for me, but hey :)
gratz i guess :)
E: wheres "your" amazon located?
You enjoy working there? From the jobs I've worked the staff are treated fairly well, decent pay (relative to everywhere else) & an opportunity to influence things. I'm much more a rule by consensus kinda guy (whilst carrying that big invisible stick) rather than hard ass.
And I'll take both those attributes :p
If you're speaking you're off task & losing hours! :v
but dont you have to hold your "speak" when the shift begins?
nah, guess the "leading" guys have to own a decent skill
My last job was okay, I worked as a food production operator at 8.76 an hour which is okay at 17 years of age, unfortunately I lost that job and I'm now unemployed, but looking hard every day. I really need a fucking job.
The UK's not going to change much - you can always start again if need be. You at uni atm?
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Just read a book about Stockholm Syndrome, it started off badly but by the end I really liked it.
I always like to have a picture of a cute toddler in my wallet so that when people say 'Is he yours?', I can say 'Nope'.
When a comedy DVD is just called the comic's name followed by the word Live!, I always imagine it's a plea and they're in a coma.
I'm not very good at accepting compliments. People tell me I am, but I don't believe them.
To those who have accused me of being an apologist, I can only say sorry.
To me metaphors are a closed book.
What’s the deal with rhetorical questions?
The lamb chops I’ve just bought are described as having been reared in Wales. I thought that was just a racist stereotype.
My first is in taxi, my second is in bus. What am I? A: Careless with degree certificates.
'Heh, baby, I'm the man your mom warned you about', 'Yeah, she said don't get stuck talking to him, he's really boring'.
The kids have gone out sledging. They've just told Mike Hussey they've shagged his mom.
I broke my leg and the Doctor said he's going to have to put me in a cast. How does he expect me to sing and dance in this condition?
My proudest moment in school sports was the one time I took the Captain's armband. Mind you, he did drown.
However, I can't motivate myself to take all these classes that are not directly related to what I want to do later on.
I'd like to be become something like a head of personnel somewhere, whenever I'm not connected to the internet I'm actually quite a nice guy and I have adequate leading abilities combined with initiative.
Problem is that I just can't be bothered taking 27 exams of which 2 are in my area of interest. I'm doing Law - Human Ressource Management ( It's not like a major after major, but more like a major in a major, something specific) and exactly 2 courses ( in total) have something to do with HRM.
The only reason I'm still in school is because I'm afraid of what will happen to me when I don't graduate, I'm afraid of falling into a social pit without income and prospects.
No idea why I wrote all of this, I guess it's because of the fact that your journal precisely pictures my feelings at the moment.
Oh and by the way, congratulations on your promotion, couldn't mean it more.
Worst job removing staples? wow! :D
I think the worst job I've done was working in a food processing company, was packing the goods at the end of the line. We'd pack all your sauces/salsa/dips for the likes of ASDA, Tesco, Sainsbury etc. But I'd be running 9 lines between the 2 of us, working with racist/sexist people, and a few of them ex criminals so... :(
Most fun job I've had, although hard work at times was assembling brake callipers for cars which is something I enjoy doing anyhow.
At the mo, studying motor vehicle mechanics and probably looking for an apprenticeship come September time (though will be looking for one from as early as March/April)
currently studying undergraduate communication sciences, about to finish in june. hopefully about to start 2 internships directly after, 1 at a public affairs agency, 1 at a green technology alliance who does lobbying too, basically.
in my opinion you don't need a diploma for leadership responsibilities but some stuff is just not to be learnt by experience...
I have no working experience -at all- and I'm quite lazy to find an extra job, like being a baby-sitter, etc. because my parents subsidize my lifestyle and I feel like my lack of working experience will be a handicap when I'm about to find a job which might be :
working in developing Southern countries beside poor city inhabitants or trying to prevent natural disasters, or working to protect our heritage, can't tell yet...
Just felt like sharing it with you guys :P