How did you get your job?

kingshankly

Train driver - nepotism

Stinicker

It was a case of collect ten crisp packets and become a priest.

ringadingding

Got Chucked out of school, took a job as a pot wash, saw the cooks had more money than me.
I Wanted to be a cook.
A cook killed himself, I asked for his job.
I was a cook.
Cooked and cooked and cooked and turns out I'm good at it.
Went from better restaurant to better restaurant to better restaurant working my arse off in each one.
Became head chef, still working my ass off, but I love it.

The best part is that I've helped many young fellers come up through the ranks.
I always thought I'd end up in prison, so did everybody else.

JillyQ

Family business which is completely the opposite to what i trained in!

gctest50

kingshankly wrote: »

Train driver - nepotism

Noooooo - 'tis genetic engineering


( http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=77FxXIYshpA )

Claregirl

Late 80's went to London, rented a crappy bedsit my landlady was head of department in a large hospital and gave me a job to make sure I paid the rent every month.

Right place, right time - no experience, qualifications or leaving cert - promoted within a year - under new head of Dept. got excellent references which led to work here in the public sector in the early 90s - I work hard, enjoy my job and have a keen interest in what I do - I've been promoted twice more but that's it for me I can't go any further without that bit of paper that says I've got a degree. Experience, hard work, aptitude and ability count for nothing these days.

Dave!

Worked for a web design agency for a year.

Left that to work for a small software place.

That was a waste of time, so I started applying for other jobs.

Around the same time, the business started having cashflow problems and let a few people go, myself included.

One of the other guys there applied to my current company, and he was offered the job pretty quickly while I was still going through a tough interview process with another company.

The other guy decided to start his own business instead, but told me to apply (through an agency) to the company he turned down the job for. He put in a good word for me too AFAIK.

Phone interview and 3 separate face-to-face interviews with different people, and they offered me the job.

Been here about 1.5 years and I love it (most days).

Strumms

Was bumming around between call center jobs and this and that. Always wanted to work in aviation as that had been my interest. Ended up getting an interview via an agency for two big players in the world of air freight on the same day. The first interview was a jumped up little prick with small man syndrome who was pure insulting because I didn't have a driving licence at that time and questioned my ability to get to work on time despite never have been late a day in my life for work. An hour later I was interviewed by the competitor who were much more pleasant, they called to offer me the job on my way home in the bus from the interview. The other crowd called soon after to offer same and I had the pleasure to tell them to stick it.