Quake3World

Yay I just got an e-mail from them saying things went well and they want me for a 3rd interview!

Mat Linnett wrote: My second job was on a local building site working for John Laing Construction as a Chainman (a civil engineer's assistant). I can empathise with Geebs' loathing of concrete. I had hair down to the middle of my back back then, and the amount of concrete dust I got in it meant I could stand it on end. Concrete bogies aren't fun either.

lol I've had a variety of jobs but I'm happy I never had to deal with that, although working at a fisheries factory is no walk in the park

edit: actualy that fisheries job was teh reason I went to college...

Motivation ++

Yeah I'm super pumped for this job, it'll be the first IT tech support job I have that actualy has a decent pay with vacation and benefits, something my family needs. I currently have benefits that I pay for out of pocket but I'd rather it be included with my job.

What sort of benefits? Retirement, vacation, short-term disability, family medical leave, etc?

I'm curious (since you live in Canadia) as to what sort of benefits employers offer up there, and what sort they don't have to.

Well medical benefits is what I'm referring to. The job does have Vacation benefits and probably somekind of retirement benefits but I don't have the specifics.

Benefits around here typicly include medical leaves, prescriptions, usualy like 80% of the costs are covered or more and various other medical benefits that our regular medicair doesn't cover like dental so getting coverage is important, especialy when you drink energy drinks like I do and maybe you too if you've had your kid yet lol.

U4EA wrote:

Doombrain wrote:service management software, interesting.
got any examples? this is something i've been looking into.

Funnily enough, we're early in the process [demos and such] with Canon Australia, they're looking to replace their existing solution and have shortlisted a bunch of options.

Ours is a fairly comprehensive package. Does the normal stuff like field service, depot repair, tech logistics etc. It's got dynamic scheduling and integrates with google maps, lots more. Dunno, I'm not a salesman.

Get your services manager to exercise their Google fu.

just taken something up. for a small work force it's £25k outlay and £5k a year to run without any hardware.
it's making a nice hole in my SGA, fucking lucrative software.

fuuuuuuuu.

-Mall worker
-Meat Refinery
-Truck Driver (for a week)
-Movie rental company
-Health inspectors' assistant
-Tech support / minibus driver at a school (current)

Took off from the army so they gave me a year of community service = ~300$/month income. Thats Finland for ya

Hope you get the job, Kracus. A family man needs (deserves?) a steady income and security.

stuntcock wrote:much like your q3w addiction, yet much more rewarding long-term.

I see you're still bitter that I revealed you're piddla. Sorry about that.

scared? wrote:ur poor...so no...

I made more money last week than you in your entire lifetime.

Back in the day:

Warehouse work
Construction - basements
Prep cook - that was really brief. Kitchen work just sucks.
Vending deliveries
Gas jockey
Pizza deliveries
Teaching assistant at a tech college
Warehouse work
Tech support
Web design
Network administration
IT Management

Current:

Network administration
Tech consulting
University student

^misantropia^ wrote:Hope you get the job, Kracus. A family man needs (deserves?) a steady income and security.

Definitely . Good luck and let us know how it goes Kracus.

Doombrain wrote: just taken something up. for a small work force it's £25k outlay and £5k a year to run without any hardware.
it's making a nice hole in my SGA, fucking lucrative software.

fuuuuuuuu.

This the sort of thing you're talking about?

http://www.service-now.com/

ITIL is really targetted towards the IT industry, a lot of its specialized functionality wouldn't apply to other industries. Not sure what Doombrain is using it for but I imagine it'd be normal field service type stuff.

LawL wrote: I made more money last week than you in your entire lifetime.

lol no u didn't...

stuntcock wrote:

m4shke wrote:Truck Driver (for a week)

lol, driving a dump truck was probably the most stressful job I've ever had. When loaded, brakes aren't so much for stopping as much as they're for slowing down over excruciatingly long distances

I feel your pain, I especially hated that extremely slow acceleration

lots of newbs in here

14 to 15>drove a Dickee Dee Icecream Bicycle Cart
15 to 19 >Macdonalds .. was offered schooling for Manager training
19 to 21 >Canadian Tires Parts Department
21 to 24 > Chainsaw Line Cutting for the Geophysics team >Gold
24 to 27> Company short a geophysics technician so i asked if i could try>Gold
27 to 42 > Training Geophysicsts in Mineral exploration and the man in charge of the projects in the Arctic>Diamonds and Gold
42 to present> Geophysics Department Manager for 3 mining companies in Namibia>Uranium and Gold

i only have a grade 12 edumication
started at the bottom and now it's paying off

From rags to riches! Literally...

scared? wrote:

LawL wrote: I made more money last week than you in your entire lifetime.

lol no u didn't...

lol yes I did. And not only that, yesterday I got a $6500 raise with another salary review in 3 months time.

Feels good man.

£3886, lol.

no no, well done you.

do you even know what a gym looks like?

riddla wrote:upset and still trolling GD

I liked this part the best

Doombrain wrote:£3886, lol.

no no, well done you.

Not £3886, but $6500. I don't know many people who wouldn't be happy to get an extra $125 a week for the next 3 months before getting another increase.

you got me. i'm very happy for you.