Finally a new entry. I keep meaning to move alot of the stuff from my profile into my jounral as archival stuff, but I keep saying "once my new layout is done"
And my new layout is still waiting on art to be finished before I can start on it xd
So in the meantime, I bring you a weekly writing thingy that Jak is doing xd
So anyways, on with the prompt xd
"Welcome to the new year! In typical "new year" fashion, what's the one thing you intend to do in the coming year? Why is it important to you that you do it?"
http://www.gaiaonline.com/journal/index.php?mode=view&p=6858971
Eli's number one goal for 2007: Get a new job, preferably one involving web design/development.
Why doesn't Eli have a job doing this already? Because I just don't have the experience that people are looking for. All the jobs I see that are interesting, they want you to have a certain number of years experience in ASP or PHP.
I have about a month's experience in both.
And I've never taken an official class on graphic design. Or web design in general. I took a course in PHP, and a course in database design, which is where I learned the ASP.
I have a minor in computer science. I'm really good at the logic that goes into all sorts of programming stuff. I just fail at remembering the syntax alot of the time. And I don't have alot of stuff I can do on my own that would require me to actually use the syntax for that sort of stuff. I've tried, but I just really don't have any sort of content that would need PHP to make it go.
And while I've once had an idea that could get me back into the whole database/php/sql world, I don't have anywhere to host a database right now.
So in the meantime, I work at Radio Shack.
I was hired there summer of '05. I just needed a job, because it had been a couple months since I had graduated college, I hadn't been able to get into anything right off the bat, and I was figuring on just getting any old job so that I could have money when I had to start paying off my loans that November.
But instead of just hiring me as a sales associate, they hired me as a manager-in-training.
And the more I was in teh manager-in-training classes, and the more I learned what the most important thing at Radio Shack was (Make More Money!), the less I wanted to be the person in charge of a Radio Shack.
So January rolls around, and they reevaluate the company and decide to actually create an official assistant manager position. The district manager calls up my store, and I talk to him and he tells me that they know I'm not really interested in becoming a manager, would I like to become just an Assistant Manager and transfer stores.
I say sure, but it's a cut in pay.
I transfer stores finally in June.
Oh god that was a big mistake.
I went from a near million dollar store to a not even 75k store. It's soooooo slow. And the pay cut was alot more bcause that store has a lower pay plan because it's in a lower volume band. And it's alot harder to make commission. Especially because I believ ethe best way to help a customer is to help them find what they came in for, and not try to pressure them into buying out the rest of the store.
I don't sell enough cell phones. I don't do enough Radio Shack credit card apps. I'm an assistant manager who's alot better at the operational side of things... and the manager who's running my store is better at the operational side of things. So they expect me to be better at the sales side of things. "You're an assistant manager, you're supposed to be the top associate in the store leading the way, we're paying you more and we're not getting our bang for our buck."
By the way, I only make maybe 75 cents an hour more than the full timers, 1.50 an hour more than the part timers.
It's just too stressful for me. I like helping the customers. I like when they tell me "oh man, you just saved me" when I help them find what they need, or figure out what's causing whatever problem they have, or even when I help them save money when something goes wrong with their cell phone and we find them an alternative to buying a new phone outright.
But I don't like the fact that the people above me feel that the best way to motivate me is to threaten my job constantly.
So I need a new job.
Steve's been working through a recruiter with a temp company since sometime in May or June. They finally in September got him a job that it looks like he'll be hired on full-time at. And before that, there was only ever a max of two weeks downtime between jobs. I know I could do jobs like he's done. I know I could do a job in web design/development if given the chance. Because I'm a quick learner. Before I started at Radio Shack, I couldn't tell you what even a third of the products in that store do. Now the associates I work with all get mad that I know where everything is in the store and rarely can't answer questions the customers have. All of that knowledge I picked up on the job. My job before that was with my college's webmaster working with coldfusion markup language, something I'd never even heard of before I started working there, but I picked it up fast. I also started learning CSS there, which I know have a firm grasp on thanks to Gaia profiles. And I'd say I'm pretty good at graphic design for someone who's never actually taken a course in the subject.
So once Steve's recruiter gets back from his vacation, I'm gonna email him and find out if there's any way for me to get hired on there as a contracted employee, and see if I can manage to have the same luck Steve did.
Now it's your turn. Tell me your big goal for the new year. Link it here in my comments, or link them in Jak's comments smile
EDIT: Guys wish me luck on this. They're demoting me at work as of the next pay period's start. I've gotta get the hell out of here ASAP. If you know anyone in the Chicago area that needs someone who can learn quickly, please let me know I've tried Monster and CareerBuilder, but those sites confuse the hell out of me when I'm looking for web development/design stuff
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ok i will!
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