Nice stories y'all, and some cool jobs in there too.
Love the way you make a dump-run sound poetic OGster.
Anonymous, d'you get to delve thru a back catalogue of audio-description-for-the-blind DVDs then or what?
To be fair tho, i think froggy just won the most-ecclectic-jobs award for these three alone...
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My chequered career looks like this...
-paper boy and enemy of small yappy dogs
-'Editorial Assistant' during 2 weeks work experience at News International (publishers of The Times, The Sun and other dubious rags)
-'Admin Assistant' at a hospital in North London
-Market Researcher (you have been categorised C2...)
-'Care Assistant' (giant-diaper-changer like 2wrongs)
-English teacher to internationals (and 'psychological interventionist' teacher for 18 months at the Uni of Seville - or at least, that's what i called it)
Now...
-'Production Assistant' at a lesser-known film mag none of y'all will have heard of (tho our distribution is set to expand to include a supermarket chain soon. Yay. The fame ).
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Some little stories:
-While working on a ward in a hospital....
I got a phone call which went...
*Have you seen an old guy in a red jumper and green trousers?
*nope
*Well, if you do, don't approach him, he's dangerous.
We seemed to lose people quite regularly at that place. At one point a family turned up, with their Imam as translator, to see their husband/father. He hadn't been there for the two weeks I'd been on that ward, but the computers claimed he had. (In defence of the hospital, i blame the family a bit for not visiting for two weeks . I do really hope they found him tho).
-While working in an old people's home...
Our manager/staff-nurse was mad mad mad, and incompetent. She was the type who'd be all sweetness and light when asking advice from an old-experienced nurse about paperwork, but would then go 'Of course I know that you eejut, get back to work" when she got what she wanted.
At one of our weekly meetings she was telling us about this new patient, who had to be moved every 15 mins or so coz of her pressure sores. I could see that very patient signalling that she really needed to be moved. I interrupted the staff nurse and told her. She said "She can wait, we're in the middle of a meeting", or words to that effect, and carried on emphasising how we must be ever-attentive to that patients needs, and assist her immediately .
But hey, any job where you get your thighs grabbed on the first day can't be all that bad
While working as a Market Researcher...
-Let's just say that the worst call ever was to a guy on a list of people who'd had specialist double-glazing fitted (man did that guy like to answer questions). The best call was to a woman who described the episode of star trek currently on the tele to me, and got me up to speed on the last few progs (that's how bad that job was ).
...woa, that's enough rambling for now.
Love the way you make a dump-run sound poetic OGster.
Anonymous, d'you get to delve thru a back catalogue of audio-description-for-the-blind DVDs then or what?
To be fair tho, i think froggy just won the most-ecclectic-jobs award for these three alone...
Originally Posted by chicagofrog
private teacher of Welsh in Riga, Latvia
cook in a Tibetan restaurant, Normandy, France
teacher in Martial Arts (Jiu-Jitsu, Thai-Boxing, and NHB) in Berlin, Germany
cook in a Tibetan restaurant, Normandy, France
teacher in Martial Arts (Jiu-Jitsu, Thai-Boxing, and NHB) in Berlin, Germany
My chequered career looks like this...
-paper boy and enemy of small yappy dogs
-'Editorial Assistant' during 2 weeks work experience at News International (publishers of The Times, The Sun and other dubious rags)
-'Admin Assistant' at a hospital in North London
-Market Researcher (you have been categorised C2...)
-'Care Assistant' (giant-diaper-changer like 2wrongs)
-English teacher to internationals (and 'psychological interventionist' teacher for 18 months at the Uni of Seville - or at least, that's what i called it)
Now...
-'Production Assistant' at a lesser-known film mag none of y'all will have heard of (tho our distribution is set to expand to include a supermarket chain soon. Yay. The fame ).
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Some little stories:
-While working on a ward in a hospital....
I got a phone call which went...
*Have you seen an old guy in a red jumper and green trousers?
*nope
*Well, if you do, don't approach him, he's dangerous.
We seemed to lose people quite regularly at that place. At one point a family turned up, with their Imam as translator, to see their husband/father. He hadn't been there for the two weeks I'd been on that ward, but the computers claimed he had. (In defence of the hospital, i blame the family a bit for not visiting for two weeks . I do really hope they found him tho).
-While working in an old people's home...
Our manager/staff-nurse was mad mad mad, and incompetent. She was the type who'd be all sweetness and light when asking advice from an old-experienced nurse about paperwork, but would then go 'Of course I know that you eejut, get back to work" when she got what she wanted.
At one of our weekly meetings she was telling us about this new patient, who had to be moved every 15 mins or so coz of her pressure sores. I could see that very patient signalling that she really needed to be moved. I interrupted the staff nurse and told her. She said "She can wait, we're in the middle of a meeting", or words to that effect, and carried on emphasising how we must be ever-attentive to that patients needs, and assist her immediately .
But hey, any job where you get your thighs grabbed on the first day can't be all that bad
While working as a Market Researcher...
-Let's just say that the worst call ever was to a guy on a list of people who'd had specialist double-glazing fitted (man did that guy like to answer questions). The best call was to a woman who described the episode of star trek currently on the tele to me, and got me up to speed on the last few progs (that's how bad that job was ).
...woa, that's enough rambling for now.
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