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Does anyone else work dead end jobs

Im currently in my first year of uni and I registetred with my Universitys jobshop as a casual worker so now they just ring me up when they need an extra pair of hands and thats good experience for getting to know the university and sometimes I can be stuffing envelopes, colllecting glasses and just doing menial tasks. They just ring me up when then want me. I also do a bit of freelance mystery shopping for companies.
 
Any job IS better than dead end for sure.
Just something about the idea of a dead end job for a long period of life or my future or something place huge anxiety upon me.

And the only jobs I HAVE worked have been "dead end" so to speak... but I guess that comes with the territory of being younger and degree-less and "inexperienced"
 
I don't exactly feel like my job is a dead end job per se, but its definately a job that would be more rewarding and i'd get further ahead if I were to apply myself more.

I work as a technical consultant for an ISP/Telco company, so I basically do phone support for our customers who are having problems with their connections, mobile phones, dial up, landlines, selling services and also maintaining accounts related functions and some low level management. I'm a supervisor with another senior supervisor above me and if I were to really push myself and focus on learning more about my role, then it could go as far as I wanted it to, but sometimes I don't feel like excelling, so that is a little sad.

I love the job because I get to help people, but if anyone of you guys have worked in this type of field, it can get so tedious and annoying. I'm on call and on standby 24hrs a day for two weeks straight, then the other two weeks, after I do my 8 hour shift, I go home, have an hour break, then start again for another 3 hours and then go to bed and get back up in the morning and do it all over again. Every 5th weekend, I have to do my 8hr days every day, then an extra 3 hours on the Friday night, 12 hours saturday and sunday each, then get up and start my work week off again without a break.

I've been offered a tattoo/body piercing apprenticeship, but i'm struggling to work out whether I should give up a sure thing for a job that I may not make enough to live on. I'd love to be in the industry, its my dream job but what if the bottom falls out of the shop and i've then given up one job to do another and then can't go back?

Anyway, back to those who are in dead end jobs, jobs are as dead end as you want them to be, you can still excell in those jobs and use it as a stepping stone to something better.
 
I agree. Just because a job is dead-end doesn't mean your career is. Once you're at the point at your job where you don't see any mobility in the near future, it's time to start leveraging your experience and look elsewhere.

It's unfortunate, because many jobs aren't necessarily bad, but due to their nature, just don't offer much in the way of mobility.
 
Sweet P said:
A dead end job is better than no job. I've never had a proper job.
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QFT, my last job was at a recycle center, it sucked the pay sucked but it was better than nothing, now I have no job and really it sucks hard.
 
PK555 said:
QFT, my last job was at a recycle center, it sucked the pay sucked but it was better than nothing, now I have no job and really it sucks hard.
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Would you rather go back to the shit job or stay jobless?
 
The only jobs that seem to be available these days in my area are the "dead-end" jobs.

I've worked both good jobs with good pay, full benefits and opportunity for advancement. They can be incredibly stressful and the problem I had with those is that you couldn't really "leave it at the office" at the end of the day. I was always thinking about what I had waiting for me to do the next day, how hectic the next day was going to be, etc. I always went home mentally exhausted. With the "dead-end" jobs there are certain advantages, making less money means less taxes are taken off your pay check, you're not thinking about what you have waiting for you the next day. Hell the next day is going to be repeat of what you do every day. All your co-workers are in the same boat as you and I find you develop a comaraderie with them in these jobs.

My last job was at an in-bound call center. At first I liked it quite a bit. Did my job and went home. I did notice towards the end that I definitely had developed an attitude problem, it had become so deadly boring. Before I could work on trying to develop some kind of enthusiasm I was laid off along with several hundred co-workers.

Georgie don't ever think of yourself as a loser for having these types of jobs. You're doing honest work providing a service to others. It maybe a loser job but you are not a loser!!
 
I think any job is better than no job, I think if you think in terms of serving others just the act of being selfless for a few hours a day is going to be possibly more valuable than the shitty pay. I'm always happiest when I'm working but I work freelance doing what I love to do. However there have been times when business has gotten really slow and in hindsight I think I might have been better off just taking a "dead end" job until things picked up. Sometimes it's good to lose your pride, a lesson I'm still learning.
 
seriously.

i could and need to give some-one a dead-end-job, as a state paid primary-care giver... the benie's would be ridicules, for the the talented and imaginative.

a whole new realm of freedom included. +$$$

they would actually get paid more then i, the disabled one haha.
 
panic in paradise said:
seriously.

i could and need to give some-one a dead-end-job, as a state paid primary-care giver... the benie's would be ridicules, for the the talented and imaginative.

a whole new realm of freedom included. +$$$

they would actually get paid more then i, the disabled one haha.
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I have a friend that does that for his neighbor, he just chills and smokes weed with him and sometimes cleans his house and does errands. Mad chill job actually.
 
Trained for 3 hours first day today. Dude training me said I was the fastest learner he's ever seen. I've got pretty much everything down already cooking the food in the first day which takes some other people at least a couple weeks to accomplish. By the second hour I was making sandwiches myself without any help at all. Was a good time :)
 
Man. I just got a job at Sonic. So don't feel bad. But, having some form of income. Is better than no income, I suppose.
 
Georgie25 said:
Trained for 3 hours first day today. Dude training me said I was the fastest learner he's ever seen. I've got pretty much everything down already cooking the food in the first day which takes some other people at least a couple weeks to accomplish. By the second hour I was making sandwiches myself without any help at all. Was a good time :)
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That's great Georgie!! I'm really glad you had a good day, actually it sounds like a great day! :)
 
Outofclosetlurker said:
That's great Georgie!! I'm really glad you had a good day, actually it sounds like a great day! :)
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Thanks bro, it was. Met some new cool friends and learned my new job pretty fast so that's always a plus. It's real fast paced work so time usually flies by as well.
 
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