Would you take 'any job' ?

LighterGuy

Alot of people are unemployed and its getting tougher to land a job.
So are you the type of person to take 'any job' thats going? ... Or 'within reason' ?

For example, I have seen people who wouldnt take the following jobs:

- Cleaner (Office/Shoping centre/Street Cleaner)
- Refuse Bin Collection (Bin Man)
- General Operative (ie, manual labor jobs)
- Etc. (enter your example)

So what best decribes your mentality? (poll included)
For me, I am the type of guy who thinks you gotta do what you gotta do

starbelgrade

If I was really stuck, I would work at anything.

Oranage2

I've chugged and delivered leaflets so also would do anything

Babybuff

yeah pretty much with the exception of anything that would involve having to provide sexual favours..although I'd probably make an excellent poledancer.

Samich

Handjob, blowjob, all welcome.

BraziliaNZ

LighterGuy wrote: »

Alot of people are unemployed and its getting tougher to land a job.
So are you the type of person to take 'any job' thats going? ... Or 'within reason' ?

For example, I have seen people who wouldnt take the following jobs:

- Cleaner (Office/Shoping centre/Street Cleaner)
- Refuse Bin Collection (Bin Man)
- General Operative (ie, manual labor jobs)
- Etc. (enter your example)

So what best decribes your mentality? (poll included)
For me, I am the type of guy who thinks you gotta do what you gotta do

I would be any of them, although might have to be pushed to be an office cleaner, as it's something more I'd imagine middle aged women doing!
Bin man though, they get paid well, it's a good job, and you get out and about, wouldn't bother me at all, probably more fulfilling than my stupid office job. I've been a "general operative" before in a few jobs, grand work, in factories etc, you must know some fussy stuck up people ffs!

af_thefragile

Tried chugging for half a day, absolutely hated it and left (not to mention with my social skills how useless I was at it...).

So apart from that I'ld say I could give most jobs a go...

phasers

i'd never be a chugger, or anything that pays commission only. All those jobs you mentioned are perfectly respectable though and I'd do them no bother.

Dudess

I'd rather be on the dole than: cold-caller, door-to-door sales rep, chugger.

Immaculate Pasta

Out of those jobs described I would do any of those. I would draw the line at doing anything sexual or humiliating for money. It just seems really degrading. Traffic warden is another job I just couldn't do.

A bin man is actually quite an appealing job. I know someone who's a bin man and he loves it. He says that you hang around with your mates for a few hours driving round and then you finish by about 1 or 2 in the afternoon. It's also pretty well paid. Not a bad job in my eyes :cool:

HavingCrack

I would never work in door to door sales or any commission based job. I've tried before and I just cannot sell, I don't have the talent or skill for it.

I'd never work as a kitchen porter again either. The sheer abuse heaped at you by other members of staff is horrible and it seems to be the norm.

Bin man is a handy enough job actually. You're not actually handling the rubbish-just the bins. It pays quite well also and you're finished by 1 o clock or so.

stacexD

I'd take any job, but employers are taking the piss these days. Got offered a job a few months ago as a full time webchat advisor for a well known company (but sub-contracted) minimum wage + commission, did the training days then was told my job was actually going to be part time telesales for a different company on commission only

Few weeks later my dad took a job in construction (with an agency, full time 6 months of work. 3 days later , after he had signed off they tell him that job is on hold for a few months and gave him 1 or 2 days a week for a month, so he was stuck there after signing off with the understanding of 6 months 40 hour weeks. They also wanted him to drive 4+ hours a day with no travel time and work through lunch for free.

Hundreds of CVs sent out and these are the 2 we get :pac:

I don't see why people would be snobby about jobs at the moment, cleaner sounds like a better occupation than dole bird to me :rolleyes:

Thoie

I'd take any "within reason". I'd do all the ones you've mentioned, but wouldn't apply for anything that involved working at heights, or in tunnels/caves.

I wouldn't be enthused about something like handing out drugs to junkies, but I presume that's normally done by people with medical/pharmaceutical qualifications. I'd prefer not to be a carer (for children/old people), but would manage it if that's all there was on offer and they'd have me - that sort of thing generally involves training as well.

Overheal

We had this same argument in Politics not long ago.

-Any job description is reasonable (Janitor, Housecleaner, Tesco employee, etc)
-Not all pay is reasonable. You shouldn't feel compelled to accept anything beneath the minimum wage, once you've done all your math. Be wary of job offers that want to pay you a flat amount for a days work, for instance. I've seen construction companies and staffing agencies pull this one quite frequently. One labor agency got me to sign on and within less than a day were already trying to put me to work - I asked them why so suddenly as it wasn't what was discussed and they're like "Oh uhhhh...... someone walked out on us. Erm he was sick." Alarm bells, when they can't even answer basic questions with straight answers.

StacexD's post above is a fine example of this.

My name is URL

There's plenty of jobs I wouldn't do.. though I'm lucky in being single and relatively commitment free.

imh, only a fool would end up doing something they don't like or want to do. Too many people imprison themselves.

Sky King

I'd scrub toilets all day before I would work with handicaps. I don't know how people do it. Saints they are.

XenaLady

If I didnt have money to live the life I prefere, Id take any job except selling myself... and if it was really tough and I wasnt this old, might even concider that.
I dont accept people living with social welfare, basically all those who bother to wake up every darned morning and pay their taxes for it, pay for the loosers who dont even try to get a job to make their own living.
Im not responsible if they dont have money, like.
Its another question if you have applied for a job, youve got a profession and its hard to find anything. I mean the kind of guys who dont even make an effort, really bugs me

HavingCrack

My name is URL wrote: »

imh, only a fool would end up doing something they don't like or want to do. Too many people imprison themselves.

A lot of people don't have a choice. If you have a family to feed and bills to pay you might just have to suck it up and do a job you hate to keep the wolf from the door. Not everyone has the luxury of waiting for the ideal job.

Babybuff

Sky King wrote: »

I'd scrub toilets all day before I would work with handicaps. I don't know how people do it. Saints they are.

I did this for years..I also scrubbed toilets at one stage, definitely prefer working with intellectual disabilities

Bin man is and always was considered well paid job, wouldn't mind it at all. I like doing physical work and although I've trained in specialist area I prefer having work that leaves me physically tired. I've worked in factories to restaurants and I've even done office cleaning which is actually a handy number if you can get it, (decent rates, easy hours, stress free, music in ears and away you go) But yeah, I actually like manual labour.

Sky King

Babybuff wrote: »

Bin man is and always was considered well paid job, wouldn't mind it at all. I like doing physical work and although I've trained in specialist area I prefer having work that leaves me physically tired. I've worked in factories to restaurants and I've even done office cleaning which is actually a handy number if you can get it, (decent rates, easy hours, stress free, music in ears and away you go) But yeah, I actually like manual labour.

Same as all that. I'd quite like to be a farmer

phasers

I've always thought cleaning an office would be a handy number, I cant imagine offices get that dirty like

mikemac1

I've done a few, mainly hotels. Kitchen porter is a tough job, scrubbing floors and finishing at all hours of the morning.
If you have a sound head chef it can be fine but if you have a bullying head chef, well you'll spend all days being shouted at and even have things thrown at you.



I second and third the calls that binman is a decent job.
Money can be good, overtime and shifts available, out and about in fresh air and it gets you out of bed early and working which is a stress and depression buster

Overheal

phasers wrote: »

I've always thought cleaning an office would be a handy number, I cant imagine offices get that dirty like

Will I take a photo of our fridge????

phasers

Overheal wrote: »

Will I take a photo of our fridge????

ah how do you get a fridge dirty? Everything should be in packages or tupperware boxes!

The Scientician

phasers wrote: »

I've always thought cleaning an office would be a handy number, I cant imagine offices get that dirty like

The jacks do.

jammstarr

Call centre/sales jobs I will avoid for the rest of my life.

Babybuff

Sky King wrote: »

Same as all that. I'd quite like to be a farmer

was only talking to someone about the same thing, she has phd in her field and teaches the same at university level, she's been doing it for almost 20 years and all she really just wants is to be hands on self sufficient, either running her own homestead..or building houses out of bamboo in underdeveloped countries.
(not surprising as she comes from an agri background tho)

mikemac1

Farming?
It's a seven day a week job, there are no bank holidays or weekends

And lambing season isn't business hours only . You'll be up there are two am and four am and six am watching them. Crashing for a few hours sleep when you can but it's stressful.

Or calling out the vet to see a heifer out in the pouring rain in a field and you holding a torch

However if you love it, there's nothing better
Just don't expect to get rich, it's little more then dole money that you'll be earning for many places

Father Damo

LighterGuy wrote: »

- - Refuse Bin Collection (Bin Man)
-

During the boom some councils paid bin men great money tbh. Here in Australia bin men are paid brilliant money. On the social ladder its not a job title many people would aspire too yet it pays well, is low pressure, is alot cleaner than it used to be (10 years ago you were manually throwing leaky bin liners into the truck- today its a nice clean plastic bin you attach to a yoke than throws it in for you) and you are out of work by the early afternoon. Id fcuking love it.

If I was on the dole in Ireland Id work any minimum wage job provided it gave me enough hours per week to make it more profitable than the dole.

Father Damo

Sky King wrote: »

I'd scrub toilets all day before I would work with handicaps. I don't know how people do it. Saints they are.

That is so grossly inappropriate and offensive I had to thank it :pac:

Sky King

mikemac1 wrote: »

Farming?
It's a seven day a week job, there are no bank holidays or weekends

And lambing season isn't business hours only . You'll be up there are two am and four am and six am watching them. Crashing for a few hours sleep when you can but it's stressful.

Or calling out the vet to see a heifer out in the pouring rain in a field and you holding a torch

Ah fcuk mucking around with animals. Not for me at all. I would like a thousand acres of tillage. Nothing but driving tractors, fixing them and general maintenance around the place. You;re mad busy doing 18 hour days for some parts of the year but there's times when you can take a few weeks off an it doesn;t matter!

starlit

I would try to work at most things but some are just not realistic for me. Not the best in the kitchen like. Otherwise I get stuck into most things but just there are limitations to a certain extent.

Despite that willing to work at most things still can't even get that kind of a job either, outside my field like in a shop or what ever.

Job hunting is such a drag!

Johnny Foreigner

One job I would never go back to is being a Doorman (Bouncer).
I worked some of the toughest doors in London when I was young and foolish.
I wore a stab vest to work every night and spent years throwing drunk people out for fighting and misbehaving. You get punched, kicked, spat at, abuse, people pulling knives, trying to glass you. I threw one man out and he hunted my car for weeks after. He found it in the end, and smashed every window, and light in it.
I decided to quit when I was ahead, after seeing my colleague get a pint glass smashed in his face and scarred for life. After a long Crown Court trial the man was convicted. I retired after that.
The first pub I worked for had a capacity of 450. The average age was 19, and the most popular drink was pints of cider. People would down a pint and throw it against the wall. The floor was like ice with all the spilt drink and crushed glass. It could take 10-15 minutes to break up a gang fight on the dance floor in there, and most nights my Tesco shirts went in the bin; too covered in blood, drink, and sick to wash (if they had some buttons left).
You get used to breaking up fights, taking knives off people, and throwing people out; but its hard work, both mentally and physically.
It nearly killed me one night trying to break up a fight between a Royal Marine and a skin head (1980's Ska fan). They were trying to knock each other out with some of the hardest punches I have ever seen. The skin head wouldn't give in and came back and threw bricks through the windows of the pub.
It hardened me up though. And I only choose to remember the good times. But you take a lot of abuse, threats, and violence. Its the hardest job in the world. I would do many jobs if I had to, but not door work again.

LH Pathe

No, I would not take 'any job' was happily naive enough before; unassuming .. I trusted that job agency. never again

Richard Hillman

I did cold calling a couple of years ago. I left after a week because i was pants at it and felt what i was doing was morally wrong. It should be illegal IMO, you should never be allowed to contact people in their homes for business purposes unless it was previously ok'd by the person. Knowing how much you were annoying people didnt give me much motivation to annoy them more by selling them stuff. The bloke sitting beside me sold broadband to a women in her 80s who probably didnt even have a computer. About 20 minutes later i quit.

DitzyPoo92

I'd do most things but I would NEVER be a cleaner. Wouldn't mind anything else. I wouldn't be good at cleaning anyway and I wouldn't have the stomach for sticking me hand down a ****ty jacks.

Tonyandthewhale

I'd take pretty much any job but I wouldn't necessarily stick with it. For instance, I'd happily give call centre work, door to door sales or even cold-calling a go but I don't think I'd last very long before throwing in the towel, depends how desperate I was I suppose.
The only type of job I probably wouldn't take (although I'd consider if given the opportunity) is door work or the like since I'm 5'8'' on a good day and about 60kg so I'd probably get laughed out of it within 5 minutes. If I was getting paid for those five minutes I wouldn't mind though.

LighterGuy

Interesting poll results so far.
15 people (26.79%) said they would take any job.
41 people (73.21%) said with-in reason.

Its one sided so far. Question is, is the majority of the vote people saying they'd have no issue with binman, cleaner or GO / along those lines type of jobs, then adding a reply with "...but i wouldnt do XXX job"

... or is in snobbery?

This is post number 38. Yet 56 people have voted. And theres been a few multiple posts by users. Hmmm ...

YouTookMyName

The bin man job hours/walking/out and about would be great. Just couldn't stomach the smell of some bins.

OneArt

There's a lot of jobs I wouldn't mind doing, but one job I never, EVER want to work in again is waitering. Three years is long enough. You have to constantly smile and be sociable all day: it's bloody exhausting. I get better work done if I'm more behind the scenes, unless it's teaching in which case I'm the boss :cool:.

Most others I wouldn't mind... Kitchen porter is my favourite, just peacefully washing dishes as fast as possible. I've worked with enough chefs to know that everyone gets pissy when working in a kitchen. Although the last job I worked where I wasn't self-employed I told the guy I wanted to be a kitchen porter, but they ended up making me a chef (which is even weirder considering Germany requires you having done an internship).

So if I was pushed, almost anything except waitering.

Guill

I have:

Mowed Lawns,
Packed shelves in small fruit and veg shop,
Buthchered pigs heads,
packed shelves in a large supermarket,
deleaded houses (In USA),
sold door to door BT,
Machine Operator,
CNC Technician,
Machine setter,
Extrusion Technician,
Technical Team Leader.

All in that order, would go back and do any of them again if i had to as much as i hated some of the above.

ArphaRima

I would draw the line at doing anything sexual

I voted for "any job". However I forgot about my principles there. That means no sexual acts and ABSOLUTELY no work as a clamper. I would rather die.

I'd scrub toilets all day before I would work with handicaps

Also this. I saw my friend at work with the disabled. I was shaving in a communal toilets whilst right beside me in the showers I have never seen so much p1ss, puke and sh1t. Then more helpers arrive to help clean and tackle the kid rolling in his own mess. More puke as the helpers stomachs turned.. The handicapped kid was laughing his tits off at the mayhem he had caused.

Most immediately rewarding job I ever had was working in Dixons as an electronics salesman. As the only staffmember who knew about anything I owned!

LH Pathe

I would take any job so long as I enjoy doing it.

but it 'd wanna pay good..

toco123

Obviously not, everyone has morals somewhere, so any job within reason.

matrim

If I was looking for work now the way I'd do it would be around 2 months of looking for a good job in my field. If I didn't have anything then maybe 2 months of looking for any job in my field.

During those months I'd also be looking to up-skill or do a project (e.g. join an open source project and/or learn a new language).

If after around 4 - 6 months I still didn't have anything I'd look into just taking pretty much any job within reason. I don't think I could be a chugger or cold-caller but working in Tesco is handy enough so I'd easily do something along those lines. The longer I was out of work the more I'd consider.

ArphaRima

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fluffer

signed: Fluffer

My post above still stands.

later12

benchgave wrote: »

vote for the second choice.

You're a shill; we're not expecting high occupational standards.

AngryPensioner

fcuk the dole. I would shovel **** before transferring my dignity to faceless Government bureaucrats.

Benny_Cake

AngryPensioner wrote: »

fcuk the dole. I would shovel **** before transferring my dignity to faceless Government bureaucrats.

You'll have to apply to the **** shovelling section at the Department of the Environment for a licence. You can transfer your digital in one go or by monthly installments.

AngryPensioner

Benny_Cake wrote: »

You'll have to apply to the **** shovelling section at the Department of the Environment for a licence. You can transfer your digital in one go or by monthly installments.

:pac:

Gonzor

I work with septic tanks and blocked pipes and stuff to support myself for college. Its a horrible job and I actually hate it, but its a means to an end. A lot of people in my class think Im crazy for doing it. But the majority of them also think its crazy to stack shelves in Tescos :rolleyes: