Great Demos
04-09-05, - 07:21 PM
I hate to ask this but 34 jobs by the time you were 33? What on earth happened? To be ludicrous, if you started working at one year old - that was more than one dismissal a year! I am sure you were much older when you started work. What happened???? And what made you finally change? :)
Yeah CG, it was rough -- caused me not to learn the trade/profession I liked. It is said that few people get to learn and practice the kind of work they really wanted to do.
Could be that I was a bit short of patience during my early years. My two older brothers used to always be a bit angry with me for not being able to hold jobs for long. The eldest one worked on only 2 different jobs, the other, on about 3 -- maybe they had more patience or maybe they were fortunate to have better managers/bosses.
Many of those 34 jobs only lasted like 3 or 4 months. The manager would call me aside and cuss me out 'cause a technical piece of work he showed me how to do just once and it turned out I didn't do it as professionally as HE would have done it. Then I would tell hin a few choice words back and walk off the job, never to return, thinking it was not a fit place to work.
Then sometimes there would be a clique of persons on the job one of whom may have messed up a vehicle or equipment then go and lie to the boss that I did it! The boss would come and accuse me without even an investigation, a heated exchange woulld follow and he'd either fire me or I would quit as above.
Then I found some of the jobs had pimps (you know persons wo would tell lies to the boss on you just to make themselves look good in the boss's eyes). It is said there are at least one pimp on every job. You can always tell who they are -- usually the dumbest person on the job, whose job is to tote news and lies on others. I could go on and on.
I think the schools in those days should have told the students upon graduating that the work world was not going to be all sweetness and light. They should have given us SOME hint or idea of the kind of world we would face. But no, they make you believe that it was going to be just great and and joyful, without any headaches. And we used to be just anxious to go out and work!
I got married at the age of 30. And after that kids started to come, there was mortgage and other bills to pay, so I just decided to bite the bullet and settle down on one job no matter what!
LOL good thing I got married or else I still would have been an angry "young" man who would have worked on every job in the Bahamas!
Yeah CG, it was rough -- caused me not to learn the trade/profession I liked. It is said that few people get to learn and practice the kind of work they really wanted to do.
Could be that I was a bit short of patience during my early years. My two older brothers used to always be a bit angry with me for not being able to hold jobs for long. The eldest one worked on only 2 different jobs, the other, on about 3 -- maybe they had more patience or maybe they were fortunate to have better managers/bosses.
Many of those 34 jobs only lasted like 3 or 4 months. The manager would call me aside and cuss me out 'cause a technical piece of work he showed me how to do just once and it turned out I didn't do it as professionally as HE would have done it. Then I would tell hin a few choice words back and walk off the job, never to return, thinking it was not a fit place to work.
Then sometimes there would be a clique of persons on the job one of whom may have messed up a vehicle or equipment then go and lie to the boss that I did it! The boss would come and accuse me without even an investigation, a heated exchange woulld follow and he'd either fire me or I would quit as above.
Then I found some of the jobs had pimps (you know persons wo would tell lies to the boss on you just to make themselves look good in the boss's eyes). It is said there are at least one pimp on every job. You can always tell who they are -- usually the dumbest person on the job, whose job is to tote news and lies on others. I could go on and on.
I think the schools in those days should have told the students upon graduating that the work world was not going to be all sweetness and light. They should have given us SOME hint or idea of the kind of world we would face. But no, they make you believe that it was going to be just great and and joyful, without any headaches. And we used to be just anxious to go out and work!
I got married at the age of 30. And after that kids started to come, there was mortgage and other bills to pay, so I just decided to bite the bullet and settle down on one job no matter what!
LOL good thing I got married or else I still would have been an angry "young" man who would have worked on every job in the Bahamas!