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Bloodbath posted:I'm not sure if this is the right thread to ask but I wasn't sure. Essentially I'm asking for advice/experiences with moving into a new type of career, without anything in the way of experience. I don't have a degree or any qualifications of value as I moved from England to Australia at 21 (previous jobs were temp stuff), and have worked a full time job pretty much since then. It's an office job, working in superannuation and I'm really good at it. I started at the bottom with no experience but I did well in the interview, and over time have progressed through roles, learned a lot and I get paid pretty well considering my total lack of experience/qualifications. I can rattle off stuff that doesn't need a degree. What are you interested in? Do you want money, a 30hr week, violence, sex, a job 10 minutes commute away, what?
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Amazon are bastards. Even more so than most 'Merica companys. Ask for $15-20hr and see what they do.
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Jerome Louis posted:Any advice for writing resignation letters? I'm interviewing now for a few different positions, looking to leave my current company mid to late June. I've never written a formal resignation letter because most of my previous jobs were low-level retail or kitchen kinda stuff where I just told the manager I was leaving in two weeks. Is two week notice still standard in the corporate world? Two weeks notice is the general rule. Tell them face to face, in writing you just have to put "as per my conversation with John Doe on the 18 march 2014, I'm giving two weeks notice, and my last day of work will be." Also just because you're doing the right thing doesn't mean the company will. Check your contract and state laws. You could give notice and they say well don't bother coming in tomorrow and be within their rights.
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Mar 23, 2014 04:49
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Ask in auspol in debate and discussion. Depends what you want to do, why you're leaving your current job. You'll have more opportunities in the eastern states. If it's quality of life; try and get a council or state or federal govt job. 36.5hr week, 12% superannuation, 55k starting. You won't set the world on fire with money but you can actually have a life.
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Mar 23, 2014 09:05
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Oilfield services might have something for you where you get to use IT and be hands on. Schlumberger, Halliburton are the big boys you want to look at. Before you chuck in your webdesign, make sure you get as many certs as you can before you head out of the door. Welding is pretty boring, depending on what you're making. You'd be better looking up oilfield services and see what they like about you. You could be heading out to the Dakotas for oil and gas drilling or support before you know it. You would not necessarily be a roughneck. There's mud work, cementing, admin support etc roles you could do.
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Apr 17, 2014 01:20
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lazy old sun posted:As a person who went the other direction (spent years working as a mechanic, went back to school and now have an office job), working with your hands sucks. Every day that I'm not getting filthy and breaking my body at work is a blessing. If you're under 30 there's always the longing among some to go to sea, drive a truck, run away to the French foreign legion, etc just to experience something different than the office. It'll make going back to the office later easier having done something. With the economy in the new normal if you've got a middle class job you want to hold on to that, because they ain't making many more.
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Apr 19, 2014 04:24
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Rolled Cabbage posted:I like my current job, but I hate the corporate culture that goes with it. The company I work for is a medium business that's never lost its small business mindset, which means its not very good at operating as business as opposed to some kind of ideological vehicle. An example, my computer was an XP machine, I have a completely computer based job and do a lot of heavy duty graphics stuff, along with databases and stuff, so I would spend about 3 hours everyday just staring at the screen (this is not an exaggeration) waiting for it to finish crashing. It's been this way for years, the company knew about it, but didn't want to do anything about it, I'm not senior enough for a better machine. Fair enough. In a normal company you'd add up the hours of me sitting on my rear end vs cost of the computer and work it out, so when they hired my new boss and I told her about it, of course she went apeshit. Anyway, long and short of it is, there's only so much you can to do change corporate culture if you're not on the board or whatever, even if your manager's in your corner. Cut and paste the work section from your resume. Have you got good samples of work you've translated and copy edited? What do you want from the job and how much do you want to be paid?
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Apr 24, 2014 05:17
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Pistol Packin Poet posted:I've been a bank teller for about 8 months at a local regional bank and I was thinking about jumping ship to another competitor. I built a lot of good relationships from my current branch, but felt that there was an opportunity waiting for me to advance on my career path while making more money.
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Apr 24, 2014 05:23
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There's more money and future job options in analysis. You can always use your existing experience in investigations to show you have a more developed idea than any of your revivals. I hate he cold but out of the options, you'll have a clean start, with people who enjoy their job, and are setting yourself up for future job moves. If you put up with the cold for a few years, you'd be able to jump up to the $80-100k. Your existing company has hosed you around and will continue to gently caress you around. Don't reward that behaviour. The easiest way to think about it is which job sets you up for the next state of your career and the job you'll be applying for in 3-5 years time. Other legit factors being where's best for kids, family etc. your partner will probably have more options in Chicago than DFW.
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Apr 28, 2014 08:33
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Take a chance with the biomass, it's not like the UK or the Great Recession are going away any time soon
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