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What do you do for work? Any fellow employees skate? Full time, part time? More or less skating in your life?
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forever mackin'
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https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=40108.0
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Any fellow employees skate?
Hell no.... skating is an escape from my job
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Been working in a machine shop for 4 years and October started learning to run CNC mills. It’s probably the best job I’ve had. I’m working now and loitering slap.
Before I started at the shop I’m at now I never had time to skate or was too tired so I’m trying to go more often now that I am able to and relearn stuff and learn some new stuff
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Work in insurance, few people below 30 here. So I think not.
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What do you do for work? Any fellow employees skate? Full time, part time? More or less skating in your life?
Analytical instrumentation and mass spectrometry for an oil company. No current employees skate, but one of my homies from high school got me my first job in the field. We have a few surfers though. Full time gig. I skate more than I have in years mostly just to keep from getting too fat from sitting on my ass watching chromatograms all day.
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I'm a teacher. I find time to skate when I'm not injured. My school is experimenting with Project Based Learning right now, so grading comes sporadically in waves.
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Just graduated college with a degree in business management. I've always worked as a bartender during the past few years. Applying for anything marketing/mgmt related. I always dreamed of working for crailtap or sole tech or vans.
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If i got a dollar for every person who came on here just to talk shit about slap, I'd be a paid unprofessional skateboarder
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In and Out hopefully got an interview soon
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Just graduated college with a degree in business management. I've always worked as a bartender during the past few years. Applying for anything marketing/mgmt related. I always dreamed of working for crailtap or sole tech or vans.
Have you looked at Malakye? That's where all of the industry jobs get posted. They're always looking for freelancers and inhouse.
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i am 29 and work in sales and sit at this stupid desk all day, not skating that's why i am here. the slap tab is always open
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I used to manage a skate team, shoot photos, and make videos, but no longer work for that company.
Currently unemployed, but I have been studying cyber security for the last few years and have an interview coming up, so that's where I'm at.
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I'm a Director of Label Operations for a label under Sony. No one skates here, which is about as much as I do as well. Summer is about to hit and i actually plan on skating more even at 34 years old. They re did the death trap shit part at McCarren in Brooklyn so i'll cruise over.
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i am 29 and work in sales and sit at this stupid desk all day, not skating that's why i am here. the slap tab is always open
I’m 28 and work in sales for a weekly newspaper. I’m on SLAP at work more than anywhere else
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32 and own my own animal care business.
Used to have an office job and was on SLAP all fuckin day. Now I’m out in the woods with dogs most days and it’s sick.
I daydream of moving to Europe and becoming a TM though. I’ve got the experience and have dual citizenship so any company owners reading this, hit me up ;)
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I don’t have a job
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32 and own my own animal care business.
Used to have an office job and was on SLAP all fuckin day. Now I’m out in the woods with dogs most days and it’s sick.
I daydream of moving to Europe and becoming a TM though. I’ve got the experience and have dual citizenship so any company owners reading this, hit me up ;)
Wow that's awesome, what woods you in?
I work alone in an office all day, at a company that does financial consulting for nonprofits.
No one else here skates, I watched the Andrew Reynolds EL episode with a coworker one day though.
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I work a 9-5 office job for a major bank. Great work life balance for skating but at the same time sitting down all day takes its toll.
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I split my time between cutting and styling hair, applying makeup, and arranging flowers.
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Facilities manager for a 1.2 million square foot distribution center. Manage a team of 12 people that hold this place together. Usually out in a decent time to roll around for a bit.
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I do donkey shows for nickels in TJ
Usually get to skate about 8 hours a week at least.
I’m trying to teach my donkey bff to skate down stairs like beagles doggo
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Just graduated college with a degree in business management. I've always worked as a bartender during the past few years. Applying for anything marketing/mgmt related. I always dreamed of working for crailtap or sole tech or vans.
holy shit just checked now thats awesome thank you
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32 and own my own animal care business.
Used to have an office job and was on SLAP all fuckin day. Now I’m out in the woods with dogs most days and it’s sick.
I daydream of moving to Europe and becoming a TM though. I’ve got the experience and have dual citizenship so any company owners reading this, hit me up ;)
I work alone in an office all day, at a company that does financial consulting for nonprofits.
No one else here skates, I watched the Andrew Reynolds EL episode with a coworker one day though.
Thanks! I live in the western part of Massachusetts in a very small town called Ashfield. It’s in the five college area (UMass, Hampshire, Amherst, Smith, Mount Holyoke). I love it here.
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I work a 9-5 office job for a major bank. Great work life balance for skating but at the same time sitting down all day takes its toll.
I just graduated in accounting/finance recently and I'm looking for something similar. What type of position are you in? the work-life balance is definitely a huge factor for me.
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Power washing dumpters... the ultimate absurd and meaningless task. Some days I fell like sisyphus, pushing that boulder up the hill only to have it roll back down so I can start all over.
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Provide captions on a special telephone for elderly, deaf, and hard of hearing people.
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I work at a foreign car repair shop. Mostly German and Japanese. Started as a detailer (glorified car washer) and now do basic repairs like headlights and oil changes. It’s located near that rail pat Duffy skated in the rain.
Skated to work my first week. boss and co workers all think skating is pretty rad, one of the mechanics skates as well. Test driving fancy German automobiles is pretty fun too. You hit the gas one time and realize “ohh this is why this car costs over 100k”
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Video/event production, tech company. Travel 1-2 weeks internationally out of the month, trying to cut that down.
People skate in my company, just not in my office. Try to meet up with them when I'm in europe.
Edit - no one asked to see my shit pay
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45 Carpenter. Had a young buck showed up with a wrist brace and One stars said he'd be ready for real work when he healed up, we had him sort wood and clean up. Another guy on the crew is an ex pro snow boarder and rad skater and one of the guys who left and started a drywall business on his own skates on the regular. I broke my ankle last week in a bowl just got whipped too fast I guess. Maybe I'll get back to some small ledge sessions before the snow comes back.
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Provide captions on a special telephone for elderly, deaf, and hard of hearing people.
Fuck yeah! My daughter is deaf, not sure what provider you're with but thanks!
I work at a foreign car repair shop. Mostly German and Japanese. Started as a detailer (glorified car washer) and now do basic repairs like headlights and oil changes. It’s located near that rail pat Duffy skated in the rain.
Skated to work my first week. boss and co workers all think skating is pretty rad, one of the mechanics skates as well. Test driving fancy German automobiles is pretty fun too. You hit the gas one time and realize “ohh this is why this car costs over 100k”
I used to valet for a high end restaurant, loved driving the cars and not having to make the payments.
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I work a 9-5 office job for a major bank. Great work life balance for skating but at the same time sitting down all day takes its toll.
I just graduated in accounting/finance recently and I'm looking for something similar. What type of position are you in? the work-life balance is definitely a huge factor for me.
I work in account recovery so I mostly get yelled at all day by people who don't pay their bills on time hahah
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when i was in college back in the the mid 2000's i roofed houses and my boss was this man. He was the best, still ripped. kept a box on the truck
(http://skately.com/img/library/print/medium/xrookie-skateboards-jon-klein-back-tail-2000.jpg.pagespeed.ic.pUh_CU9pNj.webp)
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Software Engineer for a non-profit in downtown SF. Work/life balance is pretty chill with work from home days and such, I live out in the east bay 'burbs. The only time i get to skate is when my 3 year old busts out her scooter, or the odd days I used to commute into the office quicker, which isn't frequent. pretty sad as my younger self would be insanely stoked to commute via skateboard through the SF financial district. A lot of millennials work here but I don't think anyone skates apart from the odd person that might just use it as a commuter device.
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35 / Systems Administrator
Nobody I work with skates, thank fucking gawd…. would not want to be bumping into coworkers at the skate park / spots.
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i havent had a job since 07, im a full time turd
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30, Marketing Manager. No one else skates. I go skate on lunch breaks sometimes, it's chill
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IT for a hospital system
this is my first IT job and that mf slap tab is ALWAYS open
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20, full Time Arthur Murray Ballroom instructor, kinda sick job to dance all day..but my hours are 1-10 everyday which fucking sucks, basically have become a weekend warrior...no one else skates, one dude ripstiks full time lol
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I work a 9-5 office job for a major bank. Great work life balance for skating but at the same time sitting down all day takes its toll.
I just graduated in accounting/finance recently and I'm looking for something similar. What type of position are you in? the work-life balance is definitely a huge factor for me.
I started on a three months contract in a large insurance company doing nothing special, got another 6, then full time employed in accounting (pension). I'm switching to Mutual Fund Exchange unit, in a couple of weeks.
Get your foot in a door, show what you're made of, then apply within the company. Don't be one of those cock suckers that think a degree from a mediocre college will directly lead you to 100k/year manager position. Too many shmucks have a degree these days.
Be humble and hard working and get involved into projects and other things.
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Provide captions on a special telephone for elderly, deaf, and hard of hearing people.
what city?
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30. Dentist specialist in oral rehabilitation (crowns, dentures, that stuff). As you can imagine I'm the only skater in the whole Hospital. I work from 8 till 5 and then go out and skate as much as I can.
I have a few other friends who are also dentist and skate, when we were studying we used to call out team #SKATEDENTAL ;D
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I’m a freelance graphic designer / art director (that’s what they say haha) in Paris. I mostly work in the French music industry and there are a few good skateboarders in the bands I work with. Some of actually made me want to skate more and motivated me to do so. I’m 29.
My skateboarding / work ratio is not like I want but i’m happy to make a living from one of my passion and as a freelancer no work means no money.
I’m lucky to have a skatepark in my neighborhood, so when I needed a break i went there one morning. It became my little routine.
But yeah sometimes miss the 16yo me who was riding a bike in my small French city or 20 kilometers in the countryside to find a ditch between an highway and vineyards...
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Used to be a middle school history teacher years ago. None of my co-workers skated, but a lot of my students did and I'd see them at the skatepark all the time. Some of them would hang out in my class during lunch and just talk skating/watch skate videos. That was super fun. Loved being a teacher.
Now I'm an occupational therapist working with kids that have special needs (vision impairments, autism, cognitive impairments, etc). No one at my company skates and I've just kept it to myself my entire time there.
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Environmental inspector for large municipal projects in Ontario (highway expansion/bridge works etc). Some days its amazing as you get paid to walk in the woods and some days I'm waking in construction boots all day over broken ground looking for a spill and am so dead by the time I get home I'm done (mid 40s). It has in the past got me to Alaska/Washington State for fisheries work which was amazing.
No one else skates but lots of dedicated mtn bikers who are kinda knowledgeable about skating.
Re- habbing meniscus tear/muscle damage so skating is on a mini hiatus but still use my cruiser to get places.
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Im in rental bussines. I work for the biggest LED screens rental company in my country, maybe in central Europe. My official job title is logistics coordinator, but we are a small team so Im also a LED technnician and whatever needs to be done. But yeah, slowly transfering from events to a office job.
Its great, good money, and really interesting, Ive been part of amazing projects, but the downsize is that I really have to be at work alert prettty much all time. But yeah, I can skate maybe 3-4 times a week, that is good.
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https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=40108.0
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I work for an insurance company as a claims agent; full time, nine hour days. I know a couple people who skate that work there; been out skating with them a couple times too.
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I'm still a network engineer.
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Just graduated college with a degree in business management. I've always worked as a bartender during the past few years. Applying for anything marketing/mgmt related. I always dreamed of working for crailtap or sole tech or vans.
Damn, I've been emailing companies all this time asking. Wow.
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Professional development, training and support for higher ed.
still trying to go pro but I can't find a program that has a plan for me.
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I've been tailoring since I was like fourteen, it's a family business and I'm still doing it in my twenties. I'll have to find something else to do eventually however.
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Im in construction, formwork and concrete sometimes a bit of steal fixing. It’s hard on the body so mainly skate on the weekend or if I have a day off. It’s handy but because I have access to plenty of materials and tools for helping out at the local diy
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I was just selling tv's and headphones, fitbits and all that stupid shit at target but I just quit because it sucked. Now my life is fucked
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I was just selling tv's and headphones, fitbits and all that stupid shit at target but I just quit because it sucked. Now my life is fucked
You are now free from a job you hated, plenty of other opportunities out there. Nothing is fucked here.
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24, quit my job as an IT security install guy, waiting to hear back on a robotic process automation dev role, and otherwise will probably start doing software sales if all else fails. Skate like 2 times a week in the evenings, and then try to never miss a saturday street filming session.
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Provide captions on a special telephone for elderly, deaf, and hard of hearing people.
what city?
Salt Lake
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Full time accountant. No one in my office skates but this one dude that’s around my age used to play THPS all the time and we were chatting about Jamie Thomas for a little bit.
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29, work full time in Hollywood on movies, tv shows, and occasionally commercials as a motion motion picture studio grip. I’ve been on a tv show for the past three months that’s wrapping up in three weeks. Working 5-6 days a week 10-12 hours a day. 12 is usually a standard day, but 16+ hours aren’t unheard of. I skate when I can, so lately it’s weekends. Sometimes it’s 3-5 days a week. In three weeks I should have a month off till all of the network tv shows start coming back in. Some of the people I work with skate or used to skate, a lot of people surf, and a lot of people are interested to hear about/see skating
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I was working in porn for a minute at the Armory but now doing sanitation for the summer and then bartending in the Mission come Fall
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I was working in porn for a minute at the Armory but now doing sanitation for the summer and then bartending in the Mission come Fall
You were let go prematurely, huh?
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Provide captions on a special telephone for elderly, deaf, and hard of hearing people.
Can you elaborate on this? I work for a company where we help elderly people transition into retirement communities and I haven't of this before. Is it like subtitles for your phone?
I also bartend and walk my neighbors dogs for beer money.
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I'm a social work counselor for individuals with intellectual disabilities. Absolutely no one else skates at my job. I'm one of the younger ones in the office. I guess you wouldn't be able to tell I skate from how I dress at work, slacks, long sleeve dress shirts, ties, etc. I have some younger clients who are in High School and think I'm pretty cool since I use to skate/still skate. They trip that I'm familiar with brands, especially that I know what "Thrasher" is. I'll always be a skater but I find myself doing a lot less nowadays. It's rad to see what everyone else does and how much some of still skate. I admire that. You guys inspire me.
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I was skating at the three up three down before I knew exactly what went down at that big ass building. In fact I don't think me and the homies even gave a fuck... it was just '3 Up 3 Down', not even 'the Armory', and I guess those were innocenter days. But lo and behold I met a chick who was the chef or some shit there, cooking in some capacity, and she was all fucked up on meth. I figured if this dumpster fire of a pleb can work at this place, I have to be able to do something (My rent had just jumped by 600 dollars overnight). Plus she also said that part of the job working there was in having to constantly turn down sex it was offered in such abundance... like chicks she met that called themselves lesbians looking for the D in dudes restrooms and apparently gay dudes butt banging boriquas with blindfolds on after breakfast, drunk and high as fuck around the clock.
So enter my naive ass, not even considering in full how much of a lying sociopath my then-friend was and that there had to be a catch to working as "Editor" with very fine print entailing ZERO interaction or contact with the porn stars. I mean I figured it would be tough with fresh ass up in my face but I'm a decent dude and just figured in the worst case scenario I could get bops or rub one out before work.
But thankfully my experience studying TV/Film in school and interning all over the Bay Area and in SF-proper paid off big time. My job interview entailed three martinis, watching porn, and listening to SWANS. My first assignment ended with a dude no-showing for a bukake gang bang and me needing to nut into a shot glass for an extra 20 bucks and a bag of weed (And a 6er of Schlitz and a coupon to Beauty Bar).
I guess I was so fucked up that day that I thought nothing of it, and ended up passing out on the roof and just walking down to work the next day. And this pretty much went on with every variety of porn you can imagine for 3 years straight.
In the friend my sketchy friend OD'd, a bunch of people from the industry got sick as fuck, other offed themselves, people manic depressed and depraved to an extent where I had to check myself. I didn't mind getting the occasion sore for banging unlimited ass all day; my then was that my skating started to suck.
I guess I was starting to look dirty as fuck as well because whenever I'd go shred after work people were constantly asking if I could like take a shower and then come back. I was then briefly inspired by the movie "Taxi Driver" and thought of saving some of the more hopeless women involved in the Armory, but after about five minutes I realized I didn't give a fuck about them, heroism, or morals. I just needed to get the fuck out of there is all.
Sanitation was hiring right away. Pays good dough and forces me to not imbibe in the night life. I was pretty much drunk and high for three years straight editing a ton of shit on pornhub now and altogether it was cool. The dudes on the truck are always stoked to hear my stories. It's a filthy business with a ton of disease and depression, but when folks are well-made up, having drinks, and feeling high, it is like another reality altogether. I would recmmend anyone at least inquiring for work if you have a perverse bone in your body, a relative skill-set, and can function well high and drunk at a top-notch level and don't mind never being home.
I look forward to starting bartending in the Mission this Fall. More on that later. For now it's hella sick to get off work at 1:30 PM and bomb a hill straight to the park or whatever, getting all my tricks back on lock. I still smell like shit, due to the garbage truck and everything, but it's more of a noble filth. People say I look a lot healthier these days. That shit is tight with me.
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why did I bother posting in the thread about this same topic that already has 25 pages...
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Iron, are you driving the truck making $18?
I'm driving a sweep truck at $15, 5 days a week at nights..
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I work a customer service job in a shop that rents snowboards in winter and bikes in summer.
It's kind of lame to work a name tag job in your 30s but the hours are great, the pay is surprisingly good(for an unskilled job in Japan anyway) and the job is easy so I can skate every day in summer and snowboard every day in winter.
I know slap thinks snowboarding is lame as fuck(and it is full of kooks) but I think if you came over here to Hokkaido and made some turns in powder most of you would have a great time.
There are always some seasonal winter kids that skate, no one really in summer though.
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I am UX Designer for a software company. The pay is good, the free coffee is gourmet, and they let me wear my dickies. I just hate working with techies because inflated egos and poor social skills are the worst combination of traits to deal with.
I'm 30, most of my coworkers are mid 20s to early 30s.
I don't think any of my coworkers skate, never see them at the spots or the parks. One guy said he longboards and I hate him for it.
Sidenote: I'm married so I'm out the game...but don't sleep on some of these nerd bitches, my job is full of them. You can get yourself a low maintenance 7 that's horny as shit because all she do is read harry potter and play overwatch.
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i yell at birds at the airport to get off the runway.
you're welcome
it's amazing that slap has not one but two people whose job it is to yell at birds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPyKD1nRVPk
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Iron, are you driving the truck making $18?
I'm driving a sweep truck at $15, 5 days a week at nights..
Fuck, every time I drive by the guys running those trucks I think to myself that they have the most useless jobs ever. I could hire 5 teenagers to clean a town cheaper, quicker, and better than those stupid ass trucks. That's what I tell myself at least. I hate those things.
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I am UX Designer for a software company. The pay is good, the free coffee is gourmet, and they let me wear my dickies. I just hate working with techies because inflated egos and poor social skills are the worst combination of traits to deal with.
I'm 30, most of my coworkers are mid 20s to early 30s.
I don't think any of my coworkers skate, never see them at the spots or the parks. One guy said he longboards and I hate him for it.
Sidenote: I'm married so I'm out the game...but don't sleep on some of these nerd bitches, my job is full of them. You can get yourself a low maintenance 7 that's horny as shit because all she do is read harry potter and play overwatch.
Congrats on being a boring ass millenial.
Can't hear you, bitch nigga. I'm too busy brewing my kombucha culture 8).
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I worked home remodeling for a few years and am currently going to tech school. I cam and sell nudes and makes tables and shit. I have made money before selling old used skate shoes before. Probably to one of y’all
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Work 45 hours Mon-Fri at a client resource management company for storage software.
Skate Sat and Sun sometimes Fridays after 5pm. Highly doubt any co-workers skate, pretty sure I’m the youngest here and I’m 30.
I definitely skate less than i used to but i think i skate an alright amount compared to others who work 45 hours a week and skate
but i’m just maintaing my dwindling bag of tricks instead of learning new ones but i’ll re-learn a trick here and there when the session has the right vibe.
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I work at GoDaddy and barely make it by each month and owe 100k in student loans
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I worked home remodeling for a few years and am currently going to tech school. I cam and sell nudes and makes tables and shit. I have made money before selling old used skate shoes before. Probably to one of y’all
Pops, is that you?
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Assistant manager at a commercial paint outlet.
5 days a week but i get thursdays off in place of working saturdays
try to keep my thursdays free as a go skating day but it doesnt always pan out
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Iron, are you driving the truck making $18?
I'm driving a sweep truck at $15, 5 days a week at nights..
Naw I started at $25.00/hour but includes shifts in Hunter's Point, the TL, and some other rough shit workin w/ Jaquell Buttfuck & Steampunk Nolan
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Provide captions on a special telephone for elderly, deaf, and hard of hearing people.
Can you elaborate on this? I work for a company where we help elderly people transition into retirement communities and I haven't of this before. Is it like subtitles for your phone?
I also bartend and walk my neighbors dogs for beer money.
It’s called CaptionCall and I worked in the Scottsdale location along with half the Arizona skate scene. It’s a great way to pass the time being crafty and contemplating suicide.
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Work as a Senior General Inspector for the oil&gas industry here in Sarawak, Borneo.. 2 of my younger colleague's used to skate.. 10yrs younger than me. I'm 40 and still skating..
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Tile work,usually bathroom remodels. I work for my friend under the table 15$ a hour. Im usually busting my ass tearing shit out,or if were layin tile I make cuts, mix grout ,clean buckets all that easy shit
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Cabinetmaker
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Operations Manager for a 3PL. In layman's terms I manage delivery companies and monitor them in a computer while I lurk slap all day. Have the option to work from home and mobile when needed which gives me time to do the "Slap Pal" stuff while I'm technically at work. Cant complain.
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Iron, are you driving the truck making $18?
I'm driving a sweep truck at $15, 5 days a week at nights..
Fuck, every time I drive by the guys running those trucks I think to myself that they have the most useless jobs ever. I could hire 5 teenagers to clean a town cheaper, quicker, and better than those stupid ass trucks. That's what I tell myself at least. I hate those things.
Sweep truck, not street sweeper
Tymco 435 on a NPRxd
We have contracts with shoping complexes and big box stores. We put in work and we are better/more capable then the competition at this time. Also contracts cleaning construction sites before opening to the public
You can't hire people on foot to deal with the glass, nails and long list of stuff smaller than a quarter all over town. We can
To the generating revenue comment --
Yeah man, the owners are snakes with degrees also franchising other businesses.. The work really gets done though, I'm just a little person working keeping them paid.. Don't get it wrong, there's no loyalty to this company.. Just the most I've made in life so far.. $15 in Texas and I don't have to deal with people or traffic
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I am UX Designer for a software company. The pay is good, the free coffee is gourmet, and they let me wear my dickies. I just hate working with techies because inflated egos and poor social skills are the worst combination of traits to deal with.
Any suggestions on getting a contract gig doing (qualitative) UX research? I've done social, political, and market research, but I can't seem to convince the tech people let me do UX research. I'm not even looking for anything permanent short-term/contract work would be awesome.
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Iron, are you driving the truck making $18?
I'm driving a sweep truck at $15, 5 days a week at nights..
Fuck, every time I drive by the guys running those trucks I think to myself that they have the most useless jobs ever. I could hire 5 teenagers to clean a town cheaper, quicker, and better than those stupid ass trucks. That's what I tell myself at least. I hate those things.
Sweep truck, not street sweeper
Tymco 435 on a NPRxd
We have contracts with shoping complexes and big box stores. We put in work and we are better/more capable then the competition at this time. Also contracts cleaning construction sites before opening to the public
You can't hire people on foot to deal with the glass, nails and long list of stuff smaller than a quarter all over town. We can
To the generating revenue comment --
Yeah man, the owners are snakes with degrees also franchising other businesses.. The work really gets done though, I'm just a little person working keeping them paid.. Don't get it wrong, there's no loyalty to this company.. Just the most I've made in life so far.. $15 in Texas and I don't have to deal with people or traffic
Ah OK, sorry I'm an idiot. I meant no offense either way, I would gladly do a useless job for decent money.
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I'm a civil engineer and for the last 2 years have been project management the construction of skateparks.
Around 80% of the crew (4-6 guys) skate and we skate try to skate together once on the weekend and a night after work.
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Section 8
SSI
Food stamps.
Before that I did crime lived outside ate trash.
Yeah plenty of bums skate. You’d be surprised who can back lip a dumpster while looking for a snack
Do you have a valid reason why committing crimes or sucking the government's teets are your only two options for supporting yourself?
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What do you do for work? Any fellow employees skate? Full time, part time? More or less skating in your life?
Part time Nurse (outpatient methadone clinic) and full time manage a medical laboratory for greater phx area. No one at works skates. A few of my employees know I skate only because of instagram. I usually skate on weekend mornings. Like 7-11ish. Sat-Sun. Recently tore ligament in my foot so I’ve been laid up for a bit.
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Section 8
SSI
Food stamps.
Before that I did crime lived outside ate trash.
Yeah plenty of bums skate. You’d be surprised who can back lip a dumpster while looking for a snack
Do you have a valid reason why committing crimes or sucking the government's teets are your only two options for supporting yourself?
He's ahead of the game if you really think about it
Aquired passive income and has the ability to do certain things others can't. Not even talking shit
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Section 8
SSI
Food stamps.
Before that I did crime lived outside ate trash.
Yeah plenty of bums skate. You’d be surprised who can back lip a dumpster while looking for a snack
Do you have a valid reason why committing crimes or sucking the government's teets are your only two options for supporting yourself?
He's ahead of the game if you really think about it
Aquired passive income and has the ability to do certain things others can't. Not even talking shit
As a law abiding tax payer I can't get behind that. If you think that's cool then you have the mind of a child.
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I work as an independent insurance broker. Before that I was cooking and running a bakery, which I left due to burnout and the fact that my wife and I wanted to have kids. The schedule is good for skating - I make my own hours so I if I want to hit the park in the morning I can just make up for it later. That's been slower lately since we have a baby but when she's a bit older it should get back to having some free time.
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Section 8
SSI
Food stamps.
Before that I did crime lived outside ate trash.
Yeah plenty of bums skate. You’d be surprised who can back lip a dumpster while looking for a snack
Do you have a valid reason why committing crimes or sucking the government's teets are your only two options for supporting yourself?
He's ahead of the game if you really think about it
Aquired passive income and has the ability to do certain things others can't. Not even talking shit
As a law abiding tax payer I can't get behind that. If you think that's cool then you have the mind of a child.
There’s nothing commendable about paying the government 40% of the money you earn. There’s also nothing commendable about leeching off the government. You’re both equal, so treat each other as such.
One day, as all our jobs become outsourced and automated, a universal income for a lot of people will be a normal thing. Get used to it.
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SSI
Food stamps.
Before that I did crime lived outside ate trash.
Yeah plenty of bums skate. You’d be surprised who can back lip a dumpster while looking for a snack
Do you have a valid reason why committing crimes or sucking the government's teets are your only two options for supporting yourself?
He's ahead of the game if you really think about it
Aquired passive income and has the ability to do certain things others can't. Not even talking shit
As a law abiding tax payer I can't get behind that. If you think that's cool then you have the mind of a child.
There’s nothing commendable about paying the government 40% of the money you earn. There’s also nothing commendable about leeching off the government. You’re both equal, so treat each other as such.
One day, as all our jobs become outsourced and automated, a universal income for a lot of people will be a normal thing. Get used to it.
So what you're saying is you're unemployed.
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SSI
Food stamps.
Before that I did crime lived outside ate trash.
Yeah plenty of bums skate. You’d be surprised who can back lip a dumpster while looking for a snack
Do you have a valid reason why committing crimes or sucking the government's teets are your only two options for supporting yourself?
He's ahead of the game if you really think about it
Aquired passive income and has the ability to do certain things others can't. Not even talking shit
As a law abiding tax payer I can't get behind that. If you think that's cool then you have the mind of a child.
There’s nothing commendable about paying the government 40% of the money you earn. There’s also nothing commendable about leeching off the government. You’re both equal, so treat each other as such.
One day, as all our jobs become outsourced and automated, a universal income for a lot of people will be a normal thing. Get used to it.
So what you're saying is you're unemployed.
I work at a skate shop, so yeah.
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29. I am an Able Seaman. I work on Military Supply ships for 4-6 months at a time. I have plenty of coworkers who skate, and I just hurt my knee at Rockridge Bart curbs last night while skating with some friends. Our Union Hall is a famous Skate spot.
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SSI
Food stamps.
Before that I did crime lived outside ate trash.
Yeah plenty of bums skate. You’d be surprised who can back lip a dumpster while looking for a snack
Do you have a valid reason why committing crimes or sucking the government's teets are your only two options for supporting yourself?
He's ahead of the game if you really think about it
Aquired passive income and has the ability to do certain things others can't. Not even talking shit
As a law abiding tax payer I can't get behind that. If you think that's cool then you have the mind of a child.
There’s nothing commendable about paying the government 40% of the money you earn. There’s also nothing commendable about leeching off the government. You’re both equal, so treat each other as such.
One day, as all our jobs become outsourced and automated, a universal income for a lot of people will be a normal thing. Get used to it.
So what you're saying is you're unemployed.
I work at a skate shop, so yeah.
I don’t actually have section 8 yet.
I have child I’m taking care of full time again. When I first got here she was 2yrs behind and couldn’t read or right. Her mother is an alcoholic and I have 16yrs clean and out of criminal activities aside from skateboarding and the occasional freight piece.
Now she’s in the top of her class and has a chance of not ending up like I did. I also babysit for the neighbors who are struggling.
I bring other skaters to program and hospitals around New England and I give narcan to the homeless.
If you give back you should be able to eat and have a room somewhere especially since I’m disabled.
Basically I’m a Nanny with a past
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What do you do for work? Any fellow employees skate? Full time, part time? More or less skating in your life?
I work as a freelance video editor, right now i work from home. I thought i'd have more time to skate than i did when i worked 8-4 in an office, but i get 2 days out of a week if i'm lucky. Lately i've been getting up early to skate in the morning for and running on a treadmill at night to keep my stamina up.
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I work as an independent insurance broker. Before that I was cooking and running a bakery, which I left due to burnout and the fact that my wife and I wanted to have kids. The schedule is good for skating - I make my own hours so I if I want to hit the park in the morning I can just make up for it later. That's been slower lately since we have a baby but when she's a bit older it should get back to having some free time.
I am an insurance underwriter. Been doing it oddly for 10 years when I was just a temp pretty much being their receptionist at a huge fucking company at the time before the recession. Hate the job personal but as you stated, it's good for having a family. I just had a daughter and my wife is going to be off for like 5-6 months while I get to work at home a lot. Mentally it's draining cause I always think I can do something more creative (I went to school for graphic design) hate working white collard jobs but it pays good money and the Bay Area is expensive as shit.
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29. I am an Able Seaman. I work on Military Supply ships for 4-6 months at a time. I have plenty of coworkers who skate, and I just hurt my knee at Rockridge Bart curbs last night while skating with some friends. Our Union Hall is a famous Skate spot.
This is basically what I wanted to do.
I was going to become a merchant marine. Unfortunately it just wasn’t my path.
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I own a restaurant. I used to work all the time, burned myself out, and nearly shut it all down. But I worked on finding a better balance, with making sure I skate a few times a week being a big part of that.
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Currently IT crap, it sucks.
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I currently work in logistics as a freight broker. talking to truck drivers all day. I go into the office @ 7 Monday thru Friday and get off @ 4. most of my friends still work in restaurants so its hard to find people to skate when I get off
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I am UX Designer for a software company. The pay is good, the free coffee is gourmet, and they let me wear my dickies. I just hate working with techies because inflated egos and poor social skills are the worst combination of traits to deal with.
Any suggestions on getting a contract gig doing (qualitative) UX research? I've done social, political, and market research, but I can't seem to convince the tech people let me do UX research. I'm not even looking for anything permanent short-term/contract work would be awesome.
I have two suggestions. Have a portfolio of some sort that shows your thought process. Even more important is that you are visible at your local UX events. Mingle, talk design, become familiar. After a few events people will start giving you leads on shit. You want to be in consideration for stuff before it's posted on the job boards.
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I currently work in logistics as a freight broker. talking to truck drivers all day. I go into the office @ 7 Monday thru Friday and get off @ 4. most of my friends still work in restaurants so its hard to find people to skate when I get off
I live about 2 hours from where all my skate friends are. I feel your pain, you can only skate alone at the park so many times.
Making friends after 30 is weird
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29, OUPV 6 pack captain. I also sling kayaks and do eco tours part time. I try to skate a few times a week if I have time. I don’t really have fellow employees any more, so it’s slim chance no one skates.
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Wholesale and account management for a coffee roaster. I start at the roaster then go around the city taking care of any restaurants and cafés using our coffee, try to sell to new ones, train baristas etc. I’m underpaid but getting paid to be out and about all day feels like I’m cheating the system, this is the first job I’ve not been stuck inside one place all day.
No one here skates other than a couple dudes who “used to skate“. We did talk about skateboarding at the morning meeting today. The owner told me that one of my accounts, a couple that runs a business out here, their son who was “known as one of the fastest skateboarders in San Francisco” was just killed by a truck. So apparently I know P-Spliffs parents. RIP.
Also my first time having weekends off in my adult life, which has actually resulted in less skating. I’m more likely to be hungover/tired plus the wife is always off the same time, as opposed to when I would be off on a Tuesday or whatever solo and nothing would stop me from dedicating at least one full day to skating. I still get it in though.
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Been working for DELUXE of almost 11 years now. As the Production Buyer of hardgoods ( and wear a lot of other hats in the office too) Most people here skate or use to or try….I don’t really skate into the office any more since I moved really close a few years back… But get out and ride when I can!
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I currently work in logistics as a freight broker. talking to truck drivers all day. I go into the office @ 7 Monday thru Friday and get off @ 4. most of my friends still work in restaurants so its hard to find people to skate when I get off
I live about 2 hours from where all my skate friends are. I feel your pain, you can only skate alone at the park so many times.
Making friends after 30 is weird
I live about an hour and a half from my skate friends I grew up with because I moved about 2 and a half years ago. I'll be 29 in a couple weeks and I've made a few skate friends around where I live now but I know what you mean by it being kind of weird. I feel like moving away from my skate buddies is sort of what made me start being more active on slap.
I do IT work for a health insurance company. It's not exactly what I expected to be doing when I was growing up but I am really grateful for my job. I work full time and they treat me well. I'm usually pretty busy with work, but I go on slap every once and while during my breaks or lunch.
I skate a few times a week weather permitting. My normal sesh time is weekend mornings 8 am to 10 am. I worked nights for like 5.5 years but all this sitting at a desk does make it hard for me to warm up. I'm doing a project that has me on days for now so I am getting more time skating during the week as well.
I don't think anyone I work with skates. They may have tried before but it was nothing that they did habitually or enjoyed enough to learn tricks.
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well, I'm a Virgo, 41 years of age. Favourite colour is grey, fav number is 3.
Size 10/10.5 shoes. Large shirt. 36 waist by 30 pants.
I owned a skate shop form 1998 to 2007 or 8... a few hiccups in there with a break in ... that I took far to personal and shut down for a year.
Then when the shop had to close for good I struggled... Linus syndrome. Eventually ending up as a support worker for over a decade. That job is amazing... I think any patient skateboarder can excel at it. You just show up tp work and be yourself, help people out... it's almost as if being a skater prepares you for that job... but you need patience and know how to fight fires with water, not fire.
Eventually though my skate injuries caught up to me. And so I lost my patience... in turn my wife split and I got burnt out at work. Then I got for real injured... 2 years later it leads me to this post looking for work again. Linus syndrome has snuck up on me and I have no clue what to do at this moment.
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I work as an independent insurance broker. Before that I was cooking and running a bakery, which I left due to burnout and the fact that my wife and I wanted to have kids. The schedule is good for skating - I make my own hours so I if I want to hit the park in the morning I can just make up for it later. That's been slower lately since we have a baby but when she's a bit older it should get back to having some free time.
I am an insurance underwriter. Been doing it oddly for 10 years when I was just a temp pretty much being their receptionist at a huge fucking company at the time before the recession. Hate the job personal but as you stated, it's good for having a family. I just had a daughter and my wife is going to be off for like 5-6 months while I get to work at home a lot. Mentally it's draining cause I always think I can do something more creative (I went to school for graphic design) hate working white collard jobs but it pays good money and the Bay Area is expensive as shit.
Claims here.....can't say I hate it...but I can't say I love it. It's steady though and I wrote for a Canadian skate mag for years and could have easily slipped into 'the industry'. I thank my lucky stars all the time I didn't do that and kept one foot in the office. Doing both I got all my creativity out of me and still got to buy a condo....
There's definitely days....no doubt.....oh....no one knows I skate, I'm ok with that. Most people that I skate with don't know what I do for a living....I'm guessing no one gives a shit....
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Seeing "success" in this thread has me knowing I'm living life the wrong way at 24
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Seeing "success" in this thread has me knowing I'm living life the wrong way at 24
your age explains a lot of the dumb shit you’ve posted here. get your shit together little man.
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Supervisor of operations for a major airline. The benefits are great, so it's tough to complain too much when you travel for freeish. I skate at least 30 minutes a day 4 days a week. Tough with a 1.5 year old and can't really skate in my driveway because I'm in a new construction neighborhood, so I go early to the park and let him run around while no ones there.
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29. I am an Able Seaman. I work on Military Supply ships for 4-6 months at a time. I have plenty of coworkers who skate, and I just hurt my knee at Rockridge Bart curbs last night while skating with some friends. Our Union Hall is a famous Skate spot.
That career title has always really spoken to me.
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It's been a sad reminder of why I don't have children....
Nah....I just hate kids.....
Nah.....I just hate parents!
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I work at a skateshop
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37, happily married, no kids yet
medical column writer for polyneuropathy patient communities
freelance finance writer for a large finance company in Delaware south of Philly
licensed real estate salesperson for a national real estate brokerage
side hustle for Narragansett brewing, it allows me drop oodles of cash on skate stuff and hoodies with triangles on them.
I usually skate plazas on weekday afternoons and in the evenings on weekends.
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I'm a graduate student. Hopefully will be working in the nonprofit sector to write grants soon:)
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your age explains a lot of the dumb shit you’ve posted here. get your shit together little man.
It's to easy to troll/stir the hive on slap. I don't think I'll ever lose my "little mind" when I can see the insanity of the lives you live. Is it not written euro tm..
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I swear I have no idea what half of these job titles mean.
To all the guys with complicated/technical sounding jobs - how did you end up where you are? I've never had any idea of what I would do for a legit "career", so I've been stuck in low paying jobs I hate my whole life. It sounds like plenty of you make good money, and I'm curious how you decided on your career paths in the first place. I don't picture many young guys thinking to themselves 'I wanna be an integrated marketing systems analyst when I grow up', because who even knows what that is?!
I always thought I'd be able to find a good/fulfilling job in the skate industry when I was younger - NOPE. The skate industry sucks ass. Once I figured that out I couldn't really think of anything in particular that interested me, career wise, so I've been spinning my wheels in dead end warehouse management jobs (non-skate) ever since. I've always been poor, so I can't afford school, and frankly it's hard to even consider taking on massive debt when nothing really appeals to me.
Really hoping I can transition into video editing as a career - just feel like I may need some sort of training to fill in the knowledge gaps that only editing skate videos has left me with.
Advice? Being over 40 and living with room mates is depressing.
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I work as an independent insurance broker. Before that I was cooking and running a bakery, which I left due to burnout and the fact that my wife and I wanted to have kids. The schedule is good for skating - I make my own hours so I if I want to hit the park in the morning I can just make up for it later. That's been slower lately since we have a baby but when she's a bit older it should get back to having some free time.
I am an insurance underwriter. Been doing it oddly for 10 years when I was just a temp pretty much being their receptionist at a huge fucking company at the time before the recession. Hate the job personal but as you stated, it's good for having a family. I just had a daughter and my wife is going to be off for like 5-6 months while I get to work at home a lot. Mentally it's draining cause I always think I can do something more creative (I went to school for graphic design) hate working white collard jobs but it pays good money and the Bay Area is expensive as shit.
Claims here.....can't say I hate it...but I can't say I love it. It's steady though and I wrote for a Canadian skate mag for years and could have easily slipped into 'the industry'. I thank my lucky stars all the time I didn't do that and kept one foot in the office. Doing both I got all my creativity out of me and still got to buy a condo....
There's definitely days....no doubt.....oh....no one knows I skate, I'm ok with that. Most people that I skate with don't know what I do for a living....I'm guessing no one gives a shit....
I always think that too. I applied to Street Corner distribution to be a catalog designer of some sorts right after collage and hated how they never hired me. I wouldn't go as far as saying that was a dream job but I guess I dodged a bullet since they have gone under now.
Advice? Being over 40 and living with room mates is depressing.
This is how I did it but I am not sure if this applies or other industries. I went to a temp agency. The temp agency I worked with plugged me into corporate jobs with my limited experience. Most of it is office services stuff (printing, mailing out internal packages, file distribution in the office, etc) but it gets you trained in that "white collared world". From there, I was fortunate to know some internal HR people and they liked me enough to want to send me job listings that I think I could apply to. There was one that was just an assistant job and I got hired (mostly due to offering me a low salary) and I worked from the ground up. 10 years climbing the ladder and 4 companies later, I where I am now.
And I know a lot of people that are killing it as freelancers whether it be a photographer, DJ, graphic designer etc but this is in the Bay Area where people don't think twice to pay top dollar to get something they see on Etsy. But if you have a skill set, try and whore yourself out in the online market.
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^ Thanks for that. I've done so many random jobs that I actually have a lot of skills, so maybe the temp agency approach or entry level corpo world job may be a decent idea. I know video editing can pay well also, and I already have some background there so I'm still gonna see if I can finesse my way into doing that first, but I really appreciate the insight.
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well, I'm a Virgo, 41 years of age. Favourite colour is grey, fav number is 3.
Size 10/10.5 shoes. Large shirt. 36 waist by 30 pants.
I owned a skate shop form 1998 to 2007 or 8... a few hiccups in there with a break in ... that I took far to personal and shut down for a year.
Then when the shop had to close for good I struggled... Linus syndrome. Eventually ending up as a support worker for over a decade. That job is amazing... I think any patient skateboarder can excel at it. You just show up tp work and be yourself, help people out... it's almost as if being a skater prepares you for that job... but you need patience and know how to fight fires with water, not fire.
Eventually though my skate injuries caught up to me. And so I lost my patience... in turn my wife split and I got burnt out at work. Then I got for real injured... 2 years later it leads me to this post looking for work again. Linus syndrome has snuck up on me and I have no clue what to do at this moment.
Sorry to hear that.
Are you in danger of ending up homeless?
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Really hoping I can transition into video editing as a career - just feel like I may need some sort of training to fill in the knowledge gaps that only editing skate videos has left me with.
I'm 27 and work as a video editor at a mobile game studio.
I've been making skate videos since I was a little kid and learned 10 times more about editing from that than I did at film school. In my experience, having a degree/diploma on a resume (especially as an editor) is more important than a good reel if you don't have a bunch of previous non-skate work/references. I worked at a skate distribution at one point, and even though I've made a handful of full lengths/edits/tour clips/etc, they told me that one of the big reasons I was hired is because I was a film school grad. If people in the skate industry care about shit like that so much, you can only imagine how much a real-life-non-skate company would.
I'd probably recommend taking some kind of cheap or free online course so that you can add it to a resume, even though it may not mean too much to you personally. I also applied for dozens and dozens of jobs before I randomly got this video game job without actually applying and with 0 experience. Sometimes you just get lucky.
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I work on the public policy team for a non-profit. Current administration makes our work tough, but I feel like my work has an impact. No coworkers skate, but they don’t mind that I keep my board at my desk.
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Really hoping I can transition into video editing as a career - just feel like I may need some sort of training to fill in the knowledge gaps that only editing skate videos has left me with.
I'm 27 and work as a video editor at a mobile game studio.
I've been making skate videos since I was a little kid and learned 10 times more about editing from that than I did at film school. In my experience, having a degree/diploma on a resume (especially as an editor) is more important than a good reel if you don't have a bunch of previous non-skate work/references. I worked at a skate distribution at one point, and even though I've made a handful of full lengths/edits/tour clips/etc, they told me that one of the big reasons I was hired is because I was a film school grad. If people in the skate industry care about shit like that so much, you can only imagine how much a real-life-non-skate company would.
I'd probably recommend taking some kind of cheap or free online course so that you can add it to a resume, even though it may not mean too much to you personally. I also applied for dozens and dozens of jobs before I randomly got this video game job without actually applying and with 0 experience. Sometimes you just get lucky.
Thanks! I read that whole reply before I realized it was you, haha. Two of my other friends with jobs in video editing (Drunk History, the other full time freelancer) told me somewhat similar things. I'm worried that I won't like video editing at all if it's not my own skate projects, but I'm not sure what else to do at this point. I did the film industry orientation course at Cap College years ago and left halfway through because the pretentious attitude was through the roof - so that's also been a concern about getting into editing. I have zero desire to work in the film industry. Kinda just thinking of skills I already have that I can expand on to make better money.
I already tried to get into a school via applying for student loans, and the loans didn't even cover the tuition, so I have to figure out something I can work my way up in with what experience I already have.
You get that job though Benny?
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37, happily married, no kids yet
medical column writer for polyneuropathy patient communities
freelance finance writer for a large finance company in Delaware south of Philly
licensed real estate salesperson for a national real estate brokerage
side hustle for Narragansett brewing, it allows me drop oodles of cash on skate stuff and hoodies with triangles on them.
I usually skate plazas on weekday afternoons and in the evenings on weekends.
I just moved to North Wilmington, DE where are the spots. I'm currently trying to get friendly at Kinetic
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Really hoping I can transition into video editing as a career - just feel like I may need some sort of training to fill in the knowledge gaps that only editing skate videos has left me with.
I'm 27 and work as a video editor at a mobile game studio.
I've been making skate videos since I was a little kid and learned 10 times more about editing from that than I did at film school. In my experience, having a degree/diploma on a resume (especially as an editor) is more important than a good reel if you don't have a bunch of previous non-skate work/references. I worked at a skate distribution at one point, and even though I've made a handful of full lengths/edits/tour clips/etc, they told me that one of the big reasons I was hired is because I was a film school grad. If people in the skate industry care about shit like that so much, you can only imagine how much a real-life-non-skate company would.
I'd probably recommend taking some kind of cheap or free online course so that you can add it to a resume, even though it may not mean too much to you personally. I also applied for dozens and dozens of jobs before I randomly got this video game job without actually applying and with 0 experience. Sometimes you just get lucky.
Thanks! I read that whole reply before I realized it was you, haha. Two of my other friends with jobs in video editing (Drunk History, the other full time freelancer) told me somewhat similar things. I'm worried that I won't like video editing at all if it's not my own skate projects, but I'm not sure what else to do at this point. I did the film industry orientation course at Cap College years ago and left halfway through because the pretentious attitude was through the roof - so that's also been a concern about getting into editing. I have zero desire to work in the film industry. Kinda just thinking of skills I already have that I can expand on to make better money.
I already tried to get into a school via applying for student loans, and the loans didn't even cover the tuition, so I have to figure out something I can work my way up in with what experience I already have.
You get that job though Benny?
Ah I didn't realize who this was until I checked your previous posts haha.
I learned early on that "work" is "work" and the goal is to make the client/employer happy, even if it's with a final product that I'm not happy with. I'm at the point now where I'm trusted enough that I can usually make things that I'm actually stoked on, but every now and then I have to just bite my tongue. At the end of the day, they are the people paying me, and I'm just here to provide a service.
I felt the same about film school too, but just kind of did my own thing and got through it. It helped me realize that I didn't want to work in the "real" film industry, as much as I enjoy making videos and stuff. Working at a small studio is really nice since I'm the only video person and I can just sit and work and listen to music all day. I never would have guessed this is what I'd end up doing though.
And yeah, Benny basically got me a contract job at a different studio a few years ago. It went out of business pretty soon after which led to me getting hired by a small studio with some of the same staff (not him or the other skaters there unfortunately).
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Really hoping I can transition into video editing as a career - just feel like I may need some sort of training to fill in the knowledge gaps that only editing skate videos has left me with.
I'm 27 and work as a video editor at a mobile game studio.
I've been making skate videos since I was a little kid and learned 10 times more about editing from that than I did at film school. In my experience, having a degree/diploma on a resume (especially as an editor) is more important than a good reel if you don't have a bunch of previous non-skate work/references. I worked at a skate distribution at one point, and even though I've made a handful of full lengths/edits/tour clips/etc, they told me that one of the big reasons I was hired is because I was a film school grad. If people in the skate industry care about shit like that so much, you can only imagine how much a real-life-non-skate company would.
I'd probably recommend taking some kind of cheap or free online course so that you can add it to a resume, even though it may not mean too much to you personally. I also applied for dozens and dozens of jobs before I randomly got this video game job without actually applying and with 0 experience. Sometimes you just get lucky.
Thanks! I read that whole reply before I realized it was you, haha. Two of my other friends with jobs in video editing (Drunk History, the other full time freelancer) told me somewhat similar things. I'm worried that I won't like video editing at all if it's not my own skate projects, but I'm not sure what else to do at this point. I did the film industry orientation course at Cap College years ago and left halfway through because the pretentious attitude was through the roof - so that's also been a concern about getting into editing. I have zero desire to work in the film industry. Kinda just thinking of skills I already have that I can expand on to make better money.
I already tried to get into a school via applying for student loans, and the loans didn't even cover the tuition, so I have to figure out something I can work my way up in with what experience I already have.
You get that job though Benny?
I learned early on that "work" is "work" and the goal is to make the client/employer happy, even if it's with a final product that I'm not happy with. I'm at the point now where I'm trusted enough that I can usually make things that I'm actually stoked on, but every now and then I have to just bite my tongue. At the end of the day, they are the people paying me, and I'm just here to provide a service.
I felt the same about film school too, but just kind of did my own thing and got through it. It helped me realize that I didn't want to work in the "real" film industry, as much as I enjoy making videos and stuff. Working at a small studio is really nice since I'm the only video person and I can just sit and work and listen to music all day. I never would have guessed this is what I'd end up doing though.
And yeah, Benny basically got me a contract job at a different studio a few years ago. It went out of business pretty soon after which led to me getting hired by a small studio with some of the same staff (not him or the other skaters there unfortunately).
Thanks again for all that. I definitely couldn't go to VFS, cause I'm not rich, but I'm getting ei right now while my job is on break and curious if I can get ei to pay for a course (my good friend had ei put him through school last year) that's relevant. I think BCIT has a tv/video program, and that's where ei paid for my friend to go for pipe fitting or whatever it was he took.
You're right that employers love to see degrees etc on a resume - some Mag Minutes probably aren't gonna sway the corpo world, lol. I do have to put together some sort of CV though, I guess.
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I currently work in logistics as a freight broker. talking to truck drivers all day. I go into the office @ 7 Monday thru Friday and get off @ 4. most of my friends still work in restaurants so its hard to find people to skate when I get off
I live about 2 hours from where all my skate friends are. I feel your pain, you can only skate alone at the park so many times.
Making friends after 30 is weird
I do IT work for a health insurance company. It's not exactly what I expected to be doing when I was growing up but I am really grateful for my job. I work full time and they treat me well. I'm usually pretty busy with work, but I go on slap every once and while during my breaks or lunch.
I skate a few times a week weather permitting. My normal sesh time is weekend mornings 8 am to 10 am. I worked nights for like 5.5 years but all this sitting at a desk does make it hard for me to warm up.
I feel like anyone who works in an office knows they have to have some kind of website to lurk to distract you from the fact that youre at work. Don't know why its specific to office/corporate life but it is. when i worked in restaurants/odd jobs i didnt really need anything to pass the time
Also, all this sitting at a desk for 8-9 hours a day really takes a toll on your body. You eat out more and are less physically active. Currently tryna fight the beer/fast food gut comin in.
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I always think that too. I applied to Street Corner distribution to be a catalog designer of some sorts right after collage and hated how they never hired me. I wouldn't go as far as saying that was a dream job but I guess I dodged a bullet since they have gone under now.
I remember I really wanted to work at Street Corner as well. Well, at least until my sales rep told me he was in his 30s and was living with a few of the guys on the team. I thought to myself there is no way I want to be 30 something and living with 17-22 year olds skaters.
The industry is brutal. It never ceases to amaze me how small the companies actually are and how little most of the employees get paid.
I have two suggestions. Have a portfolio of some sort that shows your thought process. Even more important is that you are visible at your local UX events. Mingle, talk design, become familiar. After a few events people will start giving you leads on shit. You want to be in consideration for stuff before it's posted on the job boards.
Thanks for the advice.
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I always think that too. I applied to Street Corner distribution to be a catalog designer of some sorts right after collage and hated how they never hired me. I wouldn't go as far as saying that was a dream job but I guess I dodged a bullet since they have gone under now.
I remember I really wanted to work at Street Corner as well. Well, at least until my sales rep told me he was in his 30s and was living with a few of the guys on the team. I thought to myself there is no way I want to be 30 something and living with 17-22 year olds skaters.
The industry is brutal. It never ceases to amaze me how small the companies actually are and how little most of the employees get paid.
The funny thing too is the guys that were the graphic designers at the time went to SF State where I went to school and didn't know general things about the skateboard industry. Granted that is not why they hire designers in general but from what they told me, they never talk to riders when they do graphics and just do things that they think presents the company well.
They made these graphics and I think they left shortly after I had my interview.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/211/507417570_cfa87c1acc_z.jpg)
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Used to be an apprentice for Pluhowski but haven't worked much this year because I was finishing grad school. Any NYC pals wanna send a man a job, hit me up ;)
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I currently work in logistics as a freight broker. talking to truck drivers all day. I go into the office @ 7 Monday thru Friday and get off @ 4. most of my friends still work in restaurants so its hard to find people to skate when I get off
I live about 2 hours from where all my skate friends are. I feel your pain, you can only skate alone at the park so many times.
Making friends after 30 is weird
I do IT work for a health insurance company. It's not exactly what I expected to be doing when I was growing up but I am really grateful for my job. I work full time and they treat me well. I'm usually pretty busy with work, but I go on slap every once and while during my breaks or lunch.
I skate a few times a week weather permitting. My normal sesh time is weekend mornings 8 am to 10 am. I worked nights for like 5.5 years but all this sitting at a desk does make it hard for me to warm up.
I feel like anyone who works in an office knows they have to have some kind of website to lurk to distract you from the fact that youre at work. Don't know why its specific to office/corporate life but it is. when i worked in restaurants/odd jobs i didnt really need anything to pass the time
Also, all this sitting at a desk for 8-9 hours a day really takes a toll on your body. You eat out more and are less physically active. Currently tryna fight the beer/fast food gut comin in.
This is not a guaranteed at all. I'm at a desk 30 hours/week with the remaining 10-15 hours off-site. I make my own coffee and lunch from home every single day. It's not that hard.
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I swear I have no idea what half of these job titles mean.
To all the guys with complicated/technical sounding jobs - how did you end up where you are? I've never had any idea of what I would do for a legit "career", so I've been stuck in low paying jobs I hate my whole life. It sounds like plenty of you make good money, and I'm curious how you decided on your career paths in the first place. I don't picture many young guys thinking to themselves 'I wanna be an integrated marketing systems analyst when I grow up', because who even knows what that is?!
I always thought I'd be able to find a good/fulfilling job in the skate industry when I was younger - NOPE. The skate industry sucks ass. Once I figured that out I couldn't really think of anything in particular that interested me, career wise, so I've been spinning my wheels in dead end warehouse management jobs (non-skate) ever since. I've always been poor, so I can't afford school, and frankly it's hard to even consider taking on massive debt when nothing really appeals to me.
Really hoping I can transition into video editing as a career - just feel like I may need some sort of training to fill in the knowledge gaps that only editing skate videos has left me with.
Advice? Being over 40 and living with room mates is depressing.
For creative fields, nobody gives a shit about a degree. If your reel/portfolio is good, if you can talk about your craft in a professional way, and if you can make a deadline, it doesn't matter if you learned it on YouTube or film school. You may have to slug it out as a temp/contractor for a couple years and you won't make as much as a degreed person at first. Work your ass off on every gig. Experience and client satisfaction is the only currency that matters.
As far as filling gaps in your knowledge, go to your library and get a physical library card. Lynda.com gives free access to all of their tutorials if your library is a part of their program, which it probably is if you're in a decent sized city. But you need an actual real library card.
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Used to be an apprentice for Pluhowski but haven't worked much this year because I was finishing grad school. Any NYC pals wanna send a man a job, hit me up ;)
Nice. Pluhowski is a sick woodworker and the furniture he makes is dope. His kickflip and nollie fs flips are dope too.
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37, happily married, no kids yet
medical column writer for polyneuropathy patient communities
freelance finance writer for a large finance company in Delaware south of Philly
licensed real estate salesperson for a national real estate brokerage
side hustle for Narragansett brewing, it allows me drop oodles of cash on skate stuff and hoodies with triangles on them.
I usually skate plazas on weekday afternoons and in the evenings on weekends.
I just moved to North Wilmington, DE where are the spots. I'm currently trying to get friendly at Kinetic
Good people at Kinetic. I live in South Philly, but 7th Street in Wilmington is a fun little park.
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Used to be an apprentice for Pluhowski but haven't worked much this year because I was finishing grad school. Any NYC pals wanna send a man a job, hit me up ;)
You better not come back here and tell us you're apprenticing for popps....
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Advice? Being over 40 and living with room mates is depressing.
The only advice I can offer is definitely start building up a CV, and definitely take any volunteer positions you can find that are close to videography/video editing/anything else you like. Volunteer work helps immensely. So basic, but I wish I'd absorbed that wisdom earlier on in life.
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Actor, director, producer.
Damn. When do you find the time to skate? Bummer about Friends From College.
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Urban/environmental planner right here (and long time slap lurker). Work remotely from home part time with no need to ever go to the office and have the kids with me full time so not much skating beyond the occasional Friday night at the park or out the back it’s the kids. Also got a few rental properties on the side I’ve renovated and rented out. All in all it’s not too bad down here
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Work on the creative team as a photographer for a pretty big streetwear/luxury menswear retailer.
A whole lot of skateboarders who I grew up with work in the warehouse, and one of the stylists here skates too, and if we need to shoot some Vans or something me and him just use it as a reason to go skate.
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I work at a playhouse that also has a restaurant on the bottom floor. The building itself is from 1663, so it's pretty cool. People say it's haunted, blah blah, I ain't seen shit. Legit one of the oldest structures around that is still up and running. It used to be a mill.
I'm the "captain" for the restaurant. Got a sweet vest with my name and shit embroidered on it. I just try and make sure the waitresses, front door and kitchen all are on the same page. It's a decent gig and I really do enjoy it, but I'm on the lookout for something else.
Edit: I used to be a substitute teacher, but that got old really fast.
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Actor, director, producer.
This is still the greatest account on Slap and you all need to recognize that.
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I swear I have no idea what half of these job titles mean.
To all the guys with complicated/technical sounding jobs - how did you end up where you are? I've never had any idea of what I would do for a legit "career", so I've been stuck in low paying jobs I hate my whole life. It sounds like plenty of you make good money, and I'm curious how you decided on your career paths in the first place. I don't picture many young guys thinking to themselves 'I wanna be an integrated marketing systems analyst when I grow up', because who even knows what that is?!
I always thought I'd be able to find a good/fulfilling job in the skate industry when I was younger - NOPE. The skate industry sucks ass. Once I figured that out I couldn't really think of anything in particular that interested me, career wise, so I've been spinning my wheels in dead end warehouse management jobs (non-skate) ever since. I've always been poor, so I can't afford school, and frankly it's hard to even consider taking on massive debt when nothing really appeals to me.
Really hoping I can transition into video editing as a career - just feel like I may need some sort of training to fill in the knowledge gaps that only editing skate videos has left me with.
Advice? Being over 40 and living with room mates is depressing.
Going to echo what the other pals said and suggest online training and lynda courses for free via library card. I've been working in the documentary world for the last seven years as an editor. The first three years were spent working as an assistant, and then I moved up to co-editor for one doc, and after that it's been lead editor or additional editor on everything else. I never went to film school and no one gives a fuck.
If you're over 40 and want to get into this, it's your attitude that you need to change first.
Most of the PAs and people just getting into this are going to be much, much younger, and they're going to have a lot of energy, and be down to do whatever it takes to get ahead. If I'm looking at qualifications for an assistant editor, and I have to choose between a young buck who has gone to film school and an older person who has done a couple online courses, and they're both at the same level of passion, then I'm going to choose the young person every time. They're moldable and more likely to be open to my suggestions. But, if that older person tells me that they work harder than everyone else, that they are making a change in their life so that they can do something they are passionate about, and they want to soak up every aspect of how to do the job properly, you can bet your ass that I'm going to go with them. Then if they show on the job that they ask questions so that their skills are constantly improving, and they go above and beyond in terms of the hours and the work, and they can learn, then I will recommend them to anyone that asks me for an assistant editor. I'll introduce them to producers I know, and when that next doc is crewing up, they'll be the first in line. Over time they'll build a positive rep as someone who works hard, has the goods, and makes work a better place. Sounds simple, but that's all you need to do. All the work I get now is a result of my previous work and the people I know.
The goal is to be someone who can handle anything that is thrown at them, and that people enjoy working with. You always want to be a part of the team that brings solutions, not problems. That doesn't mean that you always know how to accomplish what is asked of you, but it means that you never give attitude and do your best to figure out what is asked. Being ignorant of something is an excuse the first time, but not the second. I can't tell you how many AEs I've dealt with that could have moved up if they had been willing to learn more and had a better attitude. You have to bring value. And if all you have in your background is editing skate videos, then your value is limited at the moment. But it doesn't have to stay that way. The amount of information that is available online right now about practically any field is immense.
I can give more specific advice if you know where you want to work (LA, Bay Area, etc.) and in what field (commercials, fiction, nonfiction, etc.).
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I'm a part time uber driver and a full time student over here in San Francisco.
Its a pretty bad ass job if you skate. the company itself is kinda making it harder to make money if you cant drive full time, but i get by and often find myself skating parts of the bay area i usually wouldn't when in between rides.
I chuckle/get-hyped the most when I pick up riders from pier 7.
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Been working as a graphic designer for the last 4 years. Earned a degree in it in 2015. Best. Job. Ever. I’m working for a pretty big med tech company and I like it a lot. I’ve worked primarily in very small companies over the years and thought that that’s what I actually wanted in life, but it sucked. Wore too many hats and everything I did was visible. The big corpo company is a lot better. Fun fact: I’ve interviewed at Deluxe on two occasions. First time, it was me vs. another dude in the very end for the position but they went with the other guy. But visiting deluxe, getting a tour and meeting EVERYONE, especially Frank and Jim T. was a dream come true. Second time interviewing a couple or years later, I lost the position again. They did remember me and how well we got along last time so they sent me a box as a consolation prize. No complaints there. It was probably the most casual and laid back interview processes I’ve ever experienced.
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Provide captions on a special telephone for elderly, deaf, and hard of hearing people.
Can you elaborate on this? I work for a company where we help elderly people transition into retirement communities and I haven't of this before. Is it like subtitles for your phone?
I also bartend and walk my neighbors dogs for beer money.
It’s called CaptionCall and I worked in the Scottsdale location along with half the Arizona skate scene. It’s a great way to pass the time being crafty and contemplating suicide.
Hell yeah. That's cool there's some skaters at the AZ location. I think I may be the only skater here. Rad to know im not the only one passing the time on SLAP while dictating elderly convos, lol.
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If you're over 40 and want to get into this, it's your attitude that you need to change first.
Most of the PAs and people just getting into this are going to be much, much younger, and they're going to have a lot of energy, and be down to do whatever it takes to get ahead. If I'm looking at qualifications for an assistant editor, and I have to choose between a young buck who has gone to film school and an older person who has done a couple online courses, and they're both at the same level of passion, then I'm going to choose the young person every time. They're moldable and more likely to be open to my suggestions. But, if that older person tells me that they work harder than everyone else, that they are making a change in their life so that they can do something they are passionate about, and they want to soak up every aspect of how to do the job properly, you can bet your ass that I'm going to go with them. Then if they show on the job that they ask questions so that their skills are constantly improving, and they go above and beyond in terms of the hours and the work, and they can learn, then I will recommend them to anyone that asks me for an assistant editor. I'll introduce them to producers I know, and when that next doc is crewing up, they'll be the first in line. Over time they'll build a positive rep as someone who works hard, has the goods, and makes work a better place. Sounds simple, but that's all you need to do. All the work I get now is a result of my previous work and the people I know.
The goal is to be someone who can handle anything that is thrown at them, and that people enjoy working with. You always want to be a part of the team that brings solutions, not problems. That doesn't mean that you always know how to accomplish what is asked of you, but it means that you never give attitude and do your best to figure out what is asked. Being ignorant of something is an excuse the first time, but not the second. I can't tell you how many AEs I've dealt with that could have moved up if they had been willing to learn more and had a better attitude. You have to bring value. And if all you have in your background is editing skate videos, then your value is limited at the moment. But it doesn't have to stay that way. The amount of information that is available online right now about practically any field is immense.
I can give more specific advice if you know where you want to work (LA, Bay Area, etc.) and in what field (commercials, fiction, nonfiction, etc.).
Thanks for all that, though I'm not sure what you were referring to about my attitude?
I don't know much of anything about professional editing jobs, so I have no idea what field I would be going into - I didn't realize someone who edits commercials wouldn't also edit other things (or maybe that's not what you meant to allude to?) I'm just trying to find something better than low paying warehouse management jobs, and I have basic video editing skills from doing skate stuff, so friends who are professional editors suggested I go into editing.
I don't have the option of going to school, so I have to work with what I have. The online courses are my best bet for sure.
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Work on the creative team as a photographer for a pretty big streetwear/luxury menswear retailer.
A whole lot of skateboarders who I grew up with work in the warehouse, and one of the stylists here skates too, and if we need to shoot some Vans or something me and him just use it as a reason to go skate.
Can you say which brand you work for? Just curious.
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If you're over 40 and want to get into this, it's your attitude that you need to change first.
Most of the PAs and people just getting into this are going to be much, much younger, and they're going to have a lot of energy, and be down to do whatever it takes to get ahead. If I'm looking at qualifications for an assistant editor, and I have to choose between a young buck who has gone to film school and an older person who has done a couple online courses, and they're both at the same level of passion, then I'm going to choose the young person every time. They're moldable and more likely to be open to my suggestions. But, if that older person tells me that they work harder than everyone else, that they are making a change in their life so that they can do something they are passionate about, and they want to soak up every aspect of how to do the job properly, you can bet your ass that I'm going to go with them. Then if they show on the job that they ask questions so that their skills are constantly improving, and they go above and beyond in terms of the hours and the work, and they can learn, then I will recommend them to anyone that asks me for an assistant editor. I'll introduce them to producers I know, and when that next doc is crewing up, they'll be the first in line. Over time they'll build a positive rep as someone who works hard, has the goods, and makes work a better place. Sounds simple, but that's all you need to do. All the work I get now is a result of my previous work and the people I know.
The goal is to be someone who can handle anything that is thrown at them, and that people enjoy working with. You always want to be a part of the team that brings solutions, not problems. That doesn't mean that you always know how to accomplish what is asked of you, but it means that you never give attitude and do your best to figure out what is asked. Being ignorant of something is an excuse the first time, but not the second. I can't tell you how many AEs I've dealt with that could have moved up if they had been willing to learn more and had a better attitude. You have to bring value. And if all you have in your background is editing skate videos, then your value is limited at the moment. But it doesn't have to stay that way. The amount of information that is available online right now about practically any field is immense.
I can give more specific advice if you know where you want to work (LA, Bay Area, etc.) and in what field (commercials, fiction, nonfiction, etc.).
Thanks for all that, though I'm not sure what you were referring to about my attitude?
I don't know much of anything about professional editing jobs, so I have no idea what field I would be going into - I didn't realize someone who edits commercials wouldn't also edit other things (or maybe that's not what you meant to allude to?) I'm just trying to find something better than low paying warehouse management jobs, and I have basic video editing skills from doing skate stuff, so friends who are professional editors suggested I go into editing.
I don't have the option of going to school, so I have to work with what I have. The online courses are my best bet for sure.
Sorry Glurmpz, I didn't meant to imply that you had a bad attitude. What I was trying to get at is what mindset would be needed to get where you want to go. To that end, what do you like to watch the most? What would you work on for free? Once you have a clear target of exactly which field and which position within that field you are after, you can start researching and see how others got to that point. Oftentimes there's a track that people follow, or a certain set of skills that is required to hold that particular position. Once you know what that is, you'll be able to get the education to fill in just those gaps. If you go to film school they'll teach you a wide variety of things that may or may not be helpful to you attaining your specific goal. With the internet and online training, you should be able to learn all the skills necessary to start out on the road towards the job you want. If you already know editors, I would recommend asking them if they need help on anything. There's almost always some logging or organization that could use work and the more you show up and put the time in, the more you build up that positive energy and the things you want start coming to you. Shalom.
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Sorry Glurmpz, I didn't meant to imply that you had a bad attitude. What I was trying to get at is what mindset would be needed to get where you want to go. To that end, what do you like to watch the most? What would you work on for free? Once you have a clear target of exactly which field and which position within that field you are after, you can start researching and see how others got to that point. Oftentimes there's a track that people follow, or a certain set of skills that is required to hold that particular position. Once you know what that is, you'll be able to get the education to fill in just those gaps. If you go to film school they'll teach you a wide variety of things that may or may not be helpful to you attaining your specific goal. With the internet and online training, you should be able to learn all the skills necessary to start out on the road towards the job you want. If you already know editors, I would recommend asking them if they need help on anything. There's almost always some logging or organization that could use work and the more you show up and put the time in, the more you build up that positive energy and the things you want start coming to you. Shalom.
I've worked in skateboarding for years, so I guess you could say I'm willing to do a lot for free, haha. I did an internship at The Skateboard Mag(the Berrics). On my very first day shit hit the fan for them in many ways (especially financially), and it was clear that my (unpaid) internship would not lead to a work visa-worthy job (I'm Canadian) because of the new circumstances, but I stuck around for 3 months anyway to help out and make what connections I could. I was overqualified for the position and did a lot of various things for them including video editing, transcribing, content creation, news posts and some writing. I even volunteered to reorganize the whole warehouse for the online shop and help them with shipping a bit when it was a mess, since I have loads of experience in that field. They were stoked. Anyway, that's one example. In that case it was worth it for me to continue even though that particular opportunity went bust from the get-go, since I got to work with legends like Grant Brittain and skate an amazing park every day. Sticking around and becoming more of a familiar face was good since I like to spend as much time as possible in southern California.
I'll be honest, I don't have a passion for movies or anything. I don't even own a TV and haven't for 20 years. I don't go to movies. I watch things like Law & Order online. If it's fiction, I prefer it to be based in/on reality. I don't really watch fantasy stuff like Game of Thrones. I'm not trying to get into editing out of a desire to be involved in films or TV. I just need a better job that's not physical because my body is too worked from skating, and I already have the editing skills started. My own preference is for straight cuts, simple titles, nothing fancy, so I feel like I may have limited knowledge even though I've done a lot (never once even opened After Effects). Who knows?
I'm gonna see if the libraries here do the lynda thing.
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School teacher still working on his masters. I usually skate weekends. Summer is coming up so I'll be able to skate a lot.
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I'm a Junior pastry Chef at a higher end restaurant; not exactly fine dining but one of the higher end places in my city. Title sounds better than the actual job; mostly make 3-4 different breads and buns daily for dinner service. A few different ice creams. [The best part of the job] Then general line cook duties. I really love it, it kinda feels like skating passion wise. But my life has been split between cooking and skating since I started climbing in the food world and stagnating skating. Food is winning; but I will always have a board.
Surprised to not see much cooks or dishwashers? Maybe they are hiding? I really love working with food; but this industry kind of sucks for skating. It's ok for having a short session before your shift. But actually being a part of your local scene is a little tricky; I can never make it out to video premieres or late night street sessions.
Everyone knows me because I come sesh early; mostly when the scene is just warming up for the day, or scooter kids and parents with little skaters.
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I'm working at a shop. Get paid like I work at a shop. I'm 30 now and it's time to move on and get focused on a "career." Should've done this ten years ago, but better late than never I guess. Have a family and need more money.
Problem is, I have no idea wtf I want to do. Don't really have passions or hobbies besides skateboarding. Married and don't make little enough together to get financial aid, so committing to school is a big financial decision and I don't really have time or money to test the waters along the way and prolong school or anything.
I don't know, I'm so confused. How do people just decide what they want to do? haha
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Instructional designer and content development lead for a multinational company.
Have a lady and 2 kids under 3.
Started skating in 1989 and I never stopped, no non-skate phases, no addictions, no I-quit-for-my-girlfriend bullshit. Never had any major injuries, blown out ankles aside. Was shop sponsored, had a few mag appearances
(including 411) but never made it past that. Then my back problems started showing up a year ago. Turns out skating street for 30 years fucks up your back pretty good.
Nowadays, I have no patience for vids that don't get to the skating in the first 20 seconds. I miss Colin Read type vids.
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I'm working at a shop. Get paid like I work at a shop. I'm 30 now and it's time to move on and get focused on a "career." Should've done this ten years ago, but better late than never I guess. Have a family and need more money.
Problem is, I have no idea wtf I want to do. Don't really have passions or hobbies besides skateboarding. Married and don't make little enough together to get financial aid, so committing to school is a big financial decision and I don't really have time or money to test the waters along the way and prolong school or anything.
I don't know, I'm so confused. How do people just decide what they want to do? haha
I don't think it ever works out how people want it to. Minus the few that I know that have degrees in the medical field or even art field, I don't think anyone is doing what they thought they were going to do in school The idea of getting the job you love at an early age sounds so entertaining but as you get older, those passion jobs just don't make sense and you learn to just take jobs for the experience or even for the money. Of course it all depends on what your priorities are cause I hate to even think money is a priority over all things in life but it sure can help at times.
I wonder if real estate (like how some ex pro skaters are) is sort of the way out for even Slap Pals. Of course you'd have to be into sales but hopefully that is something that was sort of learned even working at a skate shop. The thing is I don't think you really need schooling for it and just need to pass the real estate exam. Depending on where you live, selling homes sort of just sell themselves nowadays. You just have to be "that networking" guy to get clients but I figure if pro skaters can do it, anyone can.
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I'm working at a shop. Get paid like I work at a shop. I'm 30 now and it's time to move on and get focused on a "career." Should've done this ten years ago, but better late than never I guess. Have a family and need more money.
Problem is, I have no idea wtf I want to do. Don't really have passions or hobbies besides skateboarding. Married and don't make little enough together to get financial aid, so committing to school is a big financial decision and I don't really have time or money to test the waters along the way and prolong school or anything.
I don't know, I'm so confused. How do people just decide what they want to do? haha
I don't think it ever works out how people want it to. Minus the few that I know that have degrees in the medical field or even art field, I don't think anyone is doing what they thought they were going to do in school The idea of getting the job you love at an early age sounds so entertaining but as you get older, those passion jobs just don't make sense and you learn to just take jobs for the experience or even for the money. Of course it all depends on what your priorities are cause I hate to even think money is a priority over all things in life but it sure can help at times.
I wonder if real estate (like how some ex pro skaters are) is sort of the way out for even Slap Pals. Of course you'd have to be into sales but hopefully that is something that was sort of learned even working at a skate shop. The thing is I don't think you really need schooling for it and just need to pass the real estate exam. Depending on where you live, selling homes sort of just sell themselves nowadays. You just have to be "that networking" guy to get clients but I figure if pro skaters can do it, anyone can.
I work in distribution/supply chain whatever you want to call it. Started before I graduated high school. Didn’t go to college, by 27/28 I was on the fast track to management. Now I’m 32 make just under $100k a year. No student debt, I may have taken longer to get my role but in the long run I’ll net more without paying any loans.
My wife hates that I’m the poster child for “the American dream” you know “working hard, climbing the ladder” she is getting her doctorate next month so she all academia.
My advice get an “entry level” thing somewhere and bomb that fucking hill into a career.
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I manage all of the finances for my university's study abroad office: creating faculty-led program budgets, invoice management, drafting contracts, account reconciliation, payroll prep prior to sending it over to HR, there's a lot of different stuff that I do. It's alright, very cyclical depending on the time of year so right now I'm insanely busy preparing for summer programs whereas two months ago I was browsing the internet all day. I get to leave at 430 every day, though, and I like being on a university campus.
But I'm going back to school in the fall for a master's in curriculum and instruction concurrent with a teaching cert for high school English. I'm pretty confident in this future path but if it doesn't work out then I'd like the get back into higher ed as an advisor of some sort, either still in international education or within a liberal arts college or something. I just really like working with students and not being isolated behind a desk all day.
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Carpenter. Realized I will most likely be doing construction for the rest of my life.
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I'm working at a shop. Get paid like I work at a shop. I'm 30 now and it's time to move on and get focused on a "career." Should've done this ten years ago, but better late than never I guess. Have a family and need more money.
Problem is, I have no idea wtf I want to do. Don't really have passions or hobbies besides skateboarding. Married and don't make little enough together to get financial aid, so committing to school is a big financial decision and I don't really have time or money to test the waters along the way and prolong school or anything.
I don't know, I'm so confused. How do people just decide what they want to do? haha
I don't think it ever works out how people want it to. Minus the few that I know that have degrees in the medical field or even art field, I don't think anyone is doing what they thought they were going to do in school The idea of getting the job you love at an early age sounds so entertaining but as you get older, those passion jobs just don't make sense and you learn to just take jobs for the experience or even for the money. Of course it all depends on what your priorities are cause I hate to even think money is a priority over all things in life but it sure can help at times.
I wonder if real estate (like how some ex pro skaters are) is sort of the way out for even Slap Pals. Of course you'd have to be into sales but hopefully that is something that was sort of learned even working at a skate shop. The thing is I don't think you really need schooling for it and just need to pass the real estate exam. Depending on where you live, selling homes sort of just sell themselves nowadays. You just have to be "that networking" guy to get clients but I figure if pro skaters can do it, anyone can.
Money is a consideration for me, but it’s more like I need $25k-30k a year vs what little I make now. 😂 So, I am trying to find something I’m passionate about or can at least tolerate while providing a bit more for the fam.
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I'm a postdoctoral fellow in evolutionary genomics- I'm into nature and am excited to learn new stuff every day.
Scottish weather permitting, I normally only have time to skate on the weekends. I've moved around loads and although making friends gets harder every time, I'm fine about not having friends who skate.
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My advice get an “entry level” thing somewhere and bomb that fucking hill into a career.
This.
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I print stickers ;D
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Head of a public media library.
And no, i don't have time to read at work 8)
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Work in aviation handling very large sums of money on daily basis (7 figures). Got a business degree and married with 2 kids under 3, turning 35 this summer and never worked in skate industry but never stopped skating since I started as a kid.
Despite long work hours, I try to skate 1-2 times a week. Requires planning and thankful for a great wife that gives me the freedom to disappear for an evening or two each week to feel like a youngster again. My first kid is small but loves to spend time skating with me so that helps as well.
In terms of progression in skating, I almost completely stopped progressing many years ago in skating but I'm fighting the regression and keeping up with my tricks - might sound boring but it's enough to get my mind on other things than work so I still enjoy it.
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I'm working at a shop. Get paid like I work at a shop. I'm 30 now and it's time to move on and get focused on a "career." Should've done this ten years ago, but better late than never I guess. Have a family and need more money.
Problem is, I have no idea wtf I want to do. Don't really have passions or hobbies besides skateboarding. Married and don't make little enough together to get financial aid, so committing to school is a big financial decision and I don't really have time or money to test the waters along the way and prolong school or anything.
I don't know, I'm so confused. How do people just decide what they want to do? haha
I don't think it ever works out how people want it to. Minus the few that I know that have degrees in the medical field or even art field, I don't think anyone is doing what they thought they were going to do in school The idea of getting the job you love at an early age sounds so entertaining but as you get older, those passion jobs just don't make sense and you learn to just take jobs for the experience or even for the money. Of course it all depends on what your priorities are cause I hate to even think money is a priority over all things in life but it sure can help at times.
I wonder if real estate (like how some ex pro skaters are) is sort of the way out for even Slap Pals. Of course you'd have to be into sales but hopefully that is something that was sort of learned even working at a skate shop. The thing is I don't think you really need schooling for it and just need to pass the real estate exam. Depending on where you live, selling homes sort of just sell themselves nowadays. You just have to be "that networking" guy to get clients but I figure if pro skaters can do it, anyone can.
Money is a consideration for me, but it’s more like I need $25k-30k a year vs what little I make now. 😂 So, I am trying to find something I’m passionate about or can at least tolerate while providing a bit more for the fam.
Throw passion out the window. Chased that dream job so many times. In the end , gets old & not earning enough. Stability & potential of advancement need to be top priorities. Especially nowadays! Job industry crazy now compared to previous generations. Work sucks no matter what you do , you spend majority of time working. Might as well make as much paper as possible
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I'm a 911 dispatcher going on 8 years. It's shift work, so quarter 2 and 3 are graves for me (seniority bids), keeps the days open so I can skate, watch my kids' sporting events, hang out with the family, etc. Some people really don't care, for cops, but has never bothered me as I don't like anyone. JK.
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I’m a camera operator and DP for a television production company. We get hired by HGTV, Discovery, History Channel, Nat Geo , ETC to go film a bunch of Tv shows . Mountain Men is probably the biggest show that we film.
It’s a weird job.
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I'm working at a shop. Get paid like I work at a shop. I'm 30 now and it's time to move on and get focused on a "career." Should've done this ten years ago, but better late than never I guess. Have a family and need more money.
Problem is, I have no idea wtf I want to do. Don't really have passions or hobbies besides skateboarding. Married and don't make little enough together to get financial aid, so committing to school is a big financial decision and I don't really have time or money to test the waters along the way and prolong school or anything.
I don't know, I'm so confused. How do people just decide what they want to do? haha
Dude, it's better to not know what you want to do than to be stuck doing something you don't want to do, like I am.
I graduated from college in May of 2008 with a B.A. in Business/Marketing. I was hoping I could get a job in a creative field that I would enjoy. I was engaged to be married in September of 2008. I was basically rushing to find a job so that we could afford to rent a place when we got married. So I ended up landing a job at one of the biggest financial institutions in the world. 2 years later my first child was born, and 4 years after that my 2nd child was born. Now, 11 years after graduating and getting that job, I am still there and am now in a management position.
I fucking hate it. I have no interest in finance whatsoever and hate going to work everyday. I can't start over now because I could never afford to pay for a house/bills/kids unless I'm making the same amount (or more) money than I'm making now. I'm stuck and it sucks.
Dude, honestly the only way to be truly satisfied with your job is if you start your own business and do exactly what you want to do. I have had thoughts of opening a skate shop or starting a small t-shirt company or something. Just doing something that I enjoy....
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Work in aviation handling very large sums of money on daily basis (7 figures). Got a business degree and married with 2 kids under 3, turning 35 this summer and never worked in skate industry but never stopped skating since I started as a kid.
Despite long work hours, I try to skate 1-2 times a week. Requires planning and thankful for a great wife that gives me the freedom to disappear for an evening or two each week to feel like a youngster again. My first kid is small but loves to spend time skating with me so that helps as well.
In terms of progression in skating, I almost completely stopped progressing many years ago in skating but I'm fighting the regression and keeping up with my tricks - might sound boring but it's enough to get my mind on other things than work so I still enjoy it.
I occasionally learn something new, but most of the time I'm skating I'm rolling around the park doing the same lines and tricks over and over to to keep them. It also feels good rolling away from things which is probably what keeps me doing the things I know I have and not trying something new. That and the small amount of time I get between work and getting home to the wife and kids.
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I've been selling cars at Toyota just over a year now but I'm pretty over it. I work about 50 hours a week and make around $50k a year. I'm 27, not married, no kids and still live home with my mom. I need to make some big life changes this year.
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I've been selling cars at Toyota just over a year now but I'm pretty over it. I work about 50 hours a week and make around $50k a year. I'm 27, not married, no kids and still live home with my mom. I need to make some big life changes this year.
Try and find a spot in health care sales. I used to work for a company that rented surgery tool kits to hospitals for spinal surgery and the sales reps all made $800k a year. And all they did was establish relationships with hospitals and answer their phones when surgeons call to get kits.
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I've been selling cars at Toyota just over a year now but I'm pretty over it. I work about 50 hours a week and make around $50k a year. I'm 27, not married, no kids and still live home with my mom. I need to make some big life changes this year.
Try and find a spot in health care sales. I used to work for a company that rented surgery tool kits to hospitals for spinal surgery and the sales reps all made $800k a year. And all they did was establish relationships with hospitals and answer their phones when surgeons call to get kits.
Those jobs are ridiculously hard to get unless you know someone.
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I've been selling cars at Toyota just over a year now but I'm pretty over it. I work about 50 hours a week and make around $50k a year. I'm 27, not married, no kids and still live home with my mom. I need to make some big life changes this year.
Try and find a spot in health care sales. I used to work for a company that rented surgery tool kits to hospitals for spinal surgery and the sales reps all made $800k a year. And all they did was establish relationships with hospitals and answer their phones when surgeons call to get kits.
Those jobs are ridiculously hard to get unless you know someone.
Yeah, the part that was crazy to me is that they had no prior medical education. They all just had sales experience. The one sales rep that replaced a dude that retired said the guy he replaced told him "never quit this job, you'll never make easier money than this shit right here"
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Shit man, I believe it. You can live like a king while doing next to no work.
It's the American dream.
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I’ve been delivering pizzas for over a decade, but now that I’m getting older(I’m 48), I’ve decided to pursue my dream job of working at a Vape shop.
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I appreciate everyone’s advice.
I don’t care what Nine Club says, Slap is a nice place to visit.
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Not to sound like a debbie downer, but you get the job you think you deserve. If you believe that you deserve a quality career position, you will put the work in to make that happen. Similarly, if you believe you deserve a low paying, soul sucking job, you will make that happen too. Your thoughts and world view dictate the choices and actions you take, and you reap what you sow.
I say this as someone who for most of my life couldn't figure out what to do, and was in a lot of denial and depression. So I worked a number of jobs that weren't even close to fulfilling. When you are in that in between stage, you're scared and worried about what the future holds, and as a result make safe choices that keep you in that same paradigm. It wasn't until I was nearly homeless and broke that I was willing to make whatever sacrifices needed to be made to make my career happen. In hindsight, I can see how my unwillingness to pursue my dreams at any cost was what was holding me back, but I literally had to put myself into a situation where there was no other choice but move forward.
Highly recommend the book "Mastery" by Robert Greene. He lays out all the steps from novice to master and the stages it takes to get there. For the pals here talking about not knowing what you're passionate about, there's chapters in there about how to rediscover it.
Best of luck. I'll leave with a Michelangelo quote,"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."
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Not to sound like a debbie downer, but you get the job you think you deserve. If you believe that you deserve a quality career position, you will put the work in to make that happen. Similarly, if you believe you deserve a low paying, soul sucking job, you will make that happen too. Your thoughts and world view dictate the choices and actions you take, and you reap what you sow.
I say this as someone who for most of my life couldn't figure out what to do, and was in a lot of denial and depression. So I worked a number of jobs that weren't even close to fulfilling. When you are in that in between stage, you're scared and worried about what the future holds, and as a result make safe choices that keep you in that same paradigm. It wasn't until I was nearly homeless and broke that I was willing to make whatever sacrifices needed to be made to make my career happen. In hindsight, I can see how my unwillingness to pursue my dreams at any cost was what was holding me back, but I literally had to put myself into a situation where there was no other choice but move forward.
Highly recommend the book "Mastery" by Robert Greene. He lays out all the steps from novice to master and the stages it takes to get there. For the pals here talking about not knowing what you're passionate about, there's chapters in there about how to rediscover it.
Best of luck. I'll leave with a Michelangelo quote,"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Alger
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Welp im here to sad sack this shit. I need advice guys. My girlfriend of four years unexpectedly broke up with me and kicked me out. I no call no showed my job out of depression for the week, ending with me being fired. This whole situation is my fault, college got pulled out from underneath me and ever since I've been finding jobs with little to no responsibility, pay or hours. After 2 years of bad luck and seeming to not care, combined with my inflated ego my girlfriend is 'finally' taking her friends advice and dumping me since I'm a deadbeat loser. I feel like everything is against me. Nothing I could do could make her happy though, i feel like I could work at 4 fast food restaurants, get 50 hours a week and I still wouldn't be making a high enough wage. I was working a decent paying job but they cut my hours alot when the guy I was supposed to replace decided not to leave. Re emerging in the scene is weird, plenty of my friends have moved away or have grown less friendly since I've been busy with domestic life. I don't have any family that can help. I just have to make some change from within and shit but has anyone been in my position before? Skating hadn't been helping, I just get bummed I'm not as good as I'd like to be. I also bought a car last year but haven't been able to save up to get it insured still. Took my drivers road test today and failed. Might sell the car? I'm too bad at driving to use it. Sorry in advance, this is a stupid rant but I seriously feel so alone at this point that I'm asking you assholes for advice. Thanks for the forthcoming belittling statements...
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Welp im here to sad sack this shit. I need advice guys. My girlfriend of four years unexpectedly broke up with me and kicked me out. I no call no showed my job out of depression for the week, ending with me being fired. This whole situation is my fault, college got pulled out from underneath me and ever since I've been finding jobs with little to no responsibility, pay or hours. After 2 years of bad luck and seeming to not care, combined with my inflated ego my girlfriend is 'finally' taking her friends advice and dumping me since I'm a deadbeat loser. I feel like everything is against me. Nothing I could do could make her happy though, i feel like I could work at 4 fast food restaurants, get 50 hours a week and I still wouldn't be making a high enough wage. I was working a decent paying job but they cut my hours alot when the guy I was supposed to replace decided not to leave. Re emerging in the scene is weird, plenty of my friends have moved away or have grown less friendly since I've been busy with domestic life. I don't have any family that can help. I just have to make some change from within and shit but has anyone been in my position before? Skating hadn't been helping, I just get bummed I'm not as good as I'd like to be. I also bought a car last year but haven't been able to save up to get it insured still. Took my drivers road test today and failed. Might sell the car? I'm too bad at driving to use it. Sorry in advance, this is a stupid rant but I seriously feel so alone at this point that I'm asking you assholes for advice. Thanks for the forthcoming belittling statements...
What kind of car/how much did you spend on it? Why would you buy a vehicle if you don't have a license and can't afford insurance? Definitely sell that thing, hopefully you can get enough for a security deposit and few months rent while you look for a new job. Go to a reputable temp agency and ask for entry level office work or factory work. Tell them your minimum wage is $15/hr. They should be able to find you something you can grow into as long as you don't totally fuck up the interview. Another option is to look at which trades interest you the most (welding, pipefitting, plumbing, electrcian, etc.), call the local (union) office for your area, and start an apprenticeship. Apprenticeships generally pay for the school required of you while you work four days a week and go to class for one. Within a few years you could be making $40+/hr. Good luck.
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Welp im here to sad sack this shit. I need advice guys. My girlfriend of four years unexpectedly broke up with me and kicked me out. I no call no showed my job out of depression for the week, ending with me being fired. This whole situation is my fault, college got pulled out from underneath me and ever since I've been finding jobs with little to no responsibility, pay or hours. After 2 years of bad luck and seeming to not care, combined with my inflated ego my girlfriend is 'finally' taking her friends advice and dumping me since I'm a deadbeat loser. I feel like everything is against me. Nothing I could do could make her happy though, i feel like I could work at 4 fast food restaurants, get 50 hours a week and I still wouldn't be making a high enough wage. I was working a decent paying job but they cut my hours alot when the guy I was supposed to replace decided not to leave. Re emerging in the scene is weird, plenty of my friends have moved away or have grown less friendly since I've been busy with domestic life. I don't have any family that can help. I just have to make some change from within and shit but has anyone been in my position before? Skating hadn't been helping, I just get bummed I'm not as good as I'd like to be. I also bought a car last year but haven't been able to save up to get it insured still. Took my drivers road test today and failed. Might sell the car? I'm too bad at driving to use it. Sorry in advance, this is a stupid rant but I seriously feel so alone at this point that I'm asking you assholes for advice. Thanks for the forthcoming belittling statements...
Every challenge is an opportunity brother, this time may be hard but NEVER lose hope. Just stay true to your authentic self and always lead with love. You’ll figure it out, stay humble and stay aware. Opportunities will present themself.
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Welp im here to sad sack this shit. I need advice guys. My girlfriend of four years unexpectedly broke up with me and kicked me out. I no call no showed my job out of depression for the week, ending with me being fired. This whole situation is my fault, college got pulled out from underneath me and ever since I've been finding jobs with little to no responsibility, pay or hours. After 2 years of bad luck and seeming to not care, combined with my inflated ego my girlfriend is 'finally' taking her friends advice and dumping me since I'm a deadbeat loser. I feel like everything is against me. Nothing I could do could make her happy though, i feel like I could work at 4 fast food restaurants, get 50 hours a week and I still wouldn't be making a high enough wage. I was working a decent paying job but they cut my hours alot when the guy I was supposed to replace decided not to leave. Re emerging in the scene is weird, plenty of my friends have moved away or have grown less friendly since I've been busy with domestic life. I don't have any family that can help. I just have to make some change from within and shit but has anyone been in my position before? Skating hadn't been helping, I just get bummed I'm not as good as I'd like to be. I also bought a car last year but haven't been able to save up to get it insured still. Took my drivers road test today and failed. Might sell the car? I'm too bad at driving to use it. Sorry in advance, this is a stupid rant but I seriously feel so alone at this point that I'm asking you assholes for advice. Thanks for the forthcoming belittling statements...
What kind of car/how much did you spend on it? Why would you buy a vehicle if you don't have a license and can't afford insurance? Definitely sell that thing, hopefully you can get enough for a security deposit and few months rent while you look for a new job. Go to a reputable temp agency and ask for entry level office work or factory work. Tell them your minimum wage is $15/hr. They should be able to find you something you can grow into as long as you don't totally fuck up the interview. Another option is to look at which trades interest you the most (welding, pipefitting, plumbing, electrcian, etc.), call the local (union) office for your area, and start an apprenticeship. Apprenticeships generally pay for the school required of you while you work four days a week and go to class for one. Within a few years you could be making $40+/hr. Good luck.
I went to school for film instead of joining the union because this is what my family deemed the 'smarter decision'. Bought a 99 jeep Cherokee for 800 bucks because I need a car to get into film work, seeing that locations often change day to day and errands are usually integral. It's been sitting in the driveway since. It was a good deal and here in Atlanta everything is so spread out and our public transit is so bad you pretty much can't live here without a car.I apprenticed to tattoo for most of my youth seeing as that was my dad's profession, an easy in, but they kept me from finishing the apprenticeship and moving up to actual tattooer just based on having too many artists already at the shop so I gave that up at 19. I'm stupid and have no basic skills you learn from your parents like driving, changing a tire, basic plumbing or anything. I feel pretty fucked over. Just entered the second half of my twenties and don't want to restart at ground level again but it seems like that's what's available. Ex told me she felt like she's been babysitting this whole time. Can't get into tech or any of that stuff, computers and me don't get along. Thanks for the positivity, it at least feels nice to hear someone tell me things will be alright.
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I’ve been delivering pizzas for over a decade, but now that I’m getting older(I’m 48), I’ve decided to pursue my dream job of working at a Vape shop.
I pray this is real.
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I’m a Masters Level Social worker in the role of a therapist. I work with kiddos in foster care of all ages, some of which are juvenile sex offenders, my favorite population to work with.
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29. I am an Able Seaman. I work on Military Supply ships for 4-6 months at a time. I have plenty of coworkers who skate, and I just hurt my knee at Rockridge Bart curbs last night while skating with some friends. Our Union Hall is a famous Skate spot.
This is basically what I wanted to do.
I was going to become a merchant marine. Unfortunately it just wasn’t my path.
It’s hard to get into, but it’s worth it. Lots of paperwork through the coast guard, and classes that you have to pay for until you get in the Union. I recommend my union (sailors union of the pacific) or the Marine fireman’s union (MFOW) and stay away from Sailors international Union. They are owned by the mafia, and steal wages.
I got a call that I’m flying out to a ship in New Jersey that’s in dry dock for awhile. Might be skating some NY spots, but my lady and I are saving to move to Honolulu because there’s more jobs in that hall.
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Welp im here to sad sack this shit. I need advice guys. My girlfriend of four years unexpectedly broke up with me and kicked me out. I no call no showed my job out of depression for the week, ending with me being fired. This whole situation is my fault, college got pulled out from underneath me and ever since I've been finding jobs with little to no responsibility, pay or hours. After 2 years of bad luck and seeming to not care, combined with my inflated ego my girlfriend is 'finally' taking her friends advice and dumping me since I'm a deadbeat loser. I feel like everything is against me. Nothing I could do could make her happy though, i feel like I could work at 4 fast food restaurants, get 50 hours a week and I still wouldn't be making a high enough wage. I was working a decent paying job but they cut my hours alot when the guy I was supposed to replace decided not to leave. Re emerging in the scene is weird, plenty of my friends have moved away or have grown less friendly since I've been busy with domestic life. I don't have any family that can help. I just have to make some change from within and shit but has anyone been in my position before? Skating hadn't been helping, I just get bummed I'm not as good as I'd like to be. I also bought a car last year but haven't been able to save up to get it insured still. Took my drivers road test today and failed. Might sell the car? I'm too bad at driving to use it. Sorry in advance, this is a stupid rant but I seriously feel so alone at this point that I'm asking you assholes for advice. Thanks for the forthcoming belittling statements...
What kind of car/how much did you spend on it? Why would you buy a vehicle if you don't have a license and can't afford insurance? Definitely sell that thing, hopefully you can get enough for a security deposit and few months rent while you look for a new job. Go to a reputable temp agency and ask for entry level office work or factory work. Tell them your minimum wage is $15/hr. They should be able to find you something you can grow into as long as you don't totally fuck up the interview. Another option is to look at which trades interest you the most (welding, pipefitting, plumbing, electrcian, etc.), call the local (union) office for your area, and start an apprenticeship. Apprenticeships generally pay for the school required of you while you work four days a week and go to class for one. Within a few years you could be making $40+/hr. Good luck.
I went to school for film instead of joining the union because this is what my family deemed the 'smarter decision'. Bought a 99 jeep Cherokee for 800 bucks because I need a car to get into film work, seeing that locations often change day to day and errands are usually integral. It's been sitting in the driveway since. It was a good deal and here in Atlanta everything is so spread out and our public transit is so bad you pretty much can't live here without a car.I apprenticed to tattoo for most of my youth seeing as that was my dad's profession, an easy in, but they kept me from finishing the apprenticeship and moving up to actual tattooer just based on having too many artists already at the shop so I gave that up at 19. I'm stupid and have no basic skills you learn from your parents like driving, changing a tire, basic plumbing or anything. I feel pretty fucked over. Just entered the second half of my twenties and don't want to restart at ground level again but it seems like that's what's available. Ex told me she felt like she's been babysitting this whole time. Can't get into tech or any of that stuff, computers and me don't get along. Thanks for the positivity, it at least feels nice to hear someone tell me things will be alright.
Keep your chin up. Take a service job or something else you think would be an easy hire close to home for now and decide if you want to be a driver or not. ATL does have public transit but if you don't want that then you need get your licence and insurance. If you drive without those you are just setting yourself up for the revolving door of "justice." So sell that car or or study up. You are still young. I had a terrible job when I was 25. It may be tired advice but perseverance and positivity are going to be super important for you to strive for right now.
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Not to sound like a debbie downer, but you get the job you think you deserve. If you believe that you deserve a quality career position, you will put the work in to make that happen. Similarly, if you believe you deserve a low paying, soul sucking job, you will make that happen too. Your thoughts and world view dictate the choices and actions you take, and you reap what you sow.
I say this as someone who for most of my life couldn't figure out what to do, and was in a lot of denial and depression. So I worked a number of jobs that weren't even close to fulfilling. When you are in that in between stage, you're scared and worried about what the future holds, and as a result make safe choices that keep you in that same paradigm. It wasn't until I was nearly homeless and broke that I was willing to make whatever sacrifices needed to be made to make my career happen. In hindsight, I can see how my unwillingness to pursue my dreams at any cost was what was holding me back, but I literally had to put myself into a situation where there was no other choice but move forward.
Highly recommend the book "Mastery" by Robert Greene. He lays out all the steps from novice to master and the stages it takes to get there. For the pals here talking about not knowing what you're passionate about, there's chapters in there about how to rediscover it.
Best of luck. I'll leave with a Michelangelo quote,"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBjz2hOJFDo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBjz2hOJFDo)
^Does that do a good job of summarizing his theory?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBjz2hOJFDo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBjz2hOJFDo)
^Does that do a good job of summarizing his theory?
That's a good summary from what I watched of it. The book obviously goes into much more detail.
And CrappyChan, I know a lot of late 30s/early 40s men who are currently trapped in a loveless marriage, paying a mortgage that keeps them stuck so they can provide for a child they wish they hadn't had, and would give their left nut to be back in their 20s and in the situation you are in right now. Congrats.
Number one thing I would advise is changing the story you tell yourself. If you truly believe you are a deadbeat loser, then you will act like one. The fact that you know you don't like the results should tell you something. That's not who you are. That's your ego comparing and contrasting and choosing to tell you that your story is that of of a loser. You can reframe it and know that you did your best and that there was simply some adjustments that needed to be made as to how you go after what you want in life. I would recommend being thankful that this all happened at once. Would you rather pull a band-aid off quickly or slowly? Now you get to rebuild from the ground up and know that you were the one that made it happen for yourself.
Currently as a society, we have a real problem with failure. Everyone seems to want to avoid it at all costs, but what they don't understand is on the other side of failure is where they want to be. Failure is just life showing us that our approach needs to be tweaked before we can get the results we desire. If you start studying really successful people, you'll see that they actually want to fail, because it means they're learning and they are now that much closer to figuring out how to get what they want.
I'm tempted to post that video about Seinfeld talking about skating and how it's a good life skill. When you try something the first time you don't know how to do it, but the more comfortable you become, you start to understand how the trick works, how your body needs to move, where to place your balance, and eventually you master that trick and move on to something else. Life's the same way.
If any of this resonates with you guys, I would also recommend picking up "The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz and "The Game of Life" by Florence Scovel Shinn. The first is ancient Toltec wisdom about how to live your life, and the second was written back in the 20s by an artist/book illustrator who laid out spiritual concepts and how to follow them to achieve what you want. Shalom.
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Welp im here to sad sack this shit. I need advice guys. My girlfriend of four years unexpectedly broke up with me and kicked me out. I no call no showed my job out of depression for the week, ending with me being fired. This whole situation is my fault, college got pulled out from underneath me and ever since I've been finding jobs with little to no responsibility, pay or hours. After 2 years of bad luck and seeming to not care, combined with my inflated ego my girlfriend is 'finally' taking her friends advice and dumping me since I'm a deadbeat loser. I feel like everything is against me. Nothing I could do could make her happy though, i feel like I could work at 4 fast food restaurants, get 50 hours a week and I still wouldn't be making a high enough wage. I was working a decent paying job but they cut my hours alot when the guy I was supposed to replace decided not to leave. Re emerging in the scene is weird, plenty of my friends have moved away or have grown less friendly since I've been busy with domestic life. I don't have any family that can help. I just have to make some change from within and shit but has anyone been in my position before? Skating hadn't been helping, I just get bummed I'm not as good as I'd like to be. I also bought a car last year but haven't been able to save up to get it insured still. Took my drivers road test today and failed. Might sell the car? I'm too bad at driving to use it. Sorry in advance, this is a stupid rant but I seriously feel so alone at this point that I'm asking you assholes for advice. Thanks for the forthcoming belittling statements...
Life is a crazy ass roller coaster, and some times it whip lashes the fuck out of you. Just don’t give up, I’ve been in the same type of situation. There is always good with the bad, it can be hard to see or find sometimes. I never would have thought I would be where I am today, I found the one positive thing and rode that horse as long and as far as I could until everything else started to fall back into place. And this chick, if what you make $$ wise is what she cares about, she’s a fucking cunt and you are better off with out the bitch.
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I have been there too. Long story short, dated my high school girlfriend for 7 years. We both graduated college and I just wanted that passion job while she went on with her career. I wouldn't say I was a dead beat boyfriend but we drifted off and we broke up and she found someone super fucking fast and seems to be living such a better life than when she was with me. I took it like a bitch and got upset. Drank a lot and even got a DUI which was dumb. That sucked a lot of money out of me as well as setting me back career wise with that on my record. I hated life, had no motivation but skated a lot and just wanted to feel like shit. I did the best thing in my life though and took a job in the city (SF) and just moved away from my normal surroundings. I ditched my friends and found new ones and just became independent for once in my life. I got a temp job at an insurance gig and then just worked up the ladder and lived poor for a while. Met my current wife at work....now we have a kid and are both doing well in our careers and this took almost 10 years to achieve.
My ex did me the biggest favor by leaving me cause I would have been that guy doing shit to this day living at home with my parents. I am 38 now and swear I have only had a strong career in the last 5 years. So you have plenty of time to get your shit back together. Just start working. My cousin works at UPS and they pay well. No real experience except obviously driving. Just be productive. Just don't let this shit get to your head.
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Welp im here to sad sack this shit. I need advice guys. My girlfriend of four years unexpectedly broke up with me and kicked me out. I no call no showed my job out of depression for the week, ending with me being fired. This whole situation is my fault, college got pulled out from underneath me and ever since I've been finding jobs with little to no responsibility, pay or hours. After 2 years of bad luck and seeming to not care, combined with my inflated ego my girlfriend is 'finally' taking her friends advice and dumping me since I'm a deadbeat loser. I feel like everything is against me. Nothing I could do could make her happy though, i feel like I could work at 4 fast food restaurants, get 50 hours a week and I still wouldn't be making a high enough wage. I was working a decent paying job but they cut my hours alot when the guy I was supposed to replace decided not to leave. Re emerging in the scene is weird, plenty of my friends have moved away or have grown less friendly since I've been busy with domestic life. I don't have any family that can help. I just have to make some change from within and shit but has anyone been in my position before? Skating hadn't been helping, I just get bummed I'm not as good as I'd like to be. I also bought a car last year but haven't been able to save up to get it insured still. Took my drivers road test today and failed. Might sell the car? I'm too bad at driving to use it. Sorry in advance, this is a stupid rant but I seriously feel so alone at this point that I'm asking you assholes for advice. Thanks for the forthcoming belittling statements...
What kind of car/how much did you spend on it? Why would you buy a vehicle if you don't have a license and can't afford insurance? Definitely sell that thing, hopefully you can get enough for a security deposit and few months rent while you look for a new job. Go to a reputable temp agency and ask for entry level office work or factory work. Tell them your minimum wage is $15/hr. They should be able to find you something you can grow into as long as you don't totally fuck up the interview. Another option is to look at which trades interest you the most (welding, pipefitting, plumbing, electrcian, etc.), call the local (union) office for your area, and start an apprenticeship. Apprenticeships generally pay for the school required of you while you work four days a week and go to class for one. Within a few years you could be making $40+/hr. Good luck.
I went to school for film instead of joining the union because this is what my family deemed the 'smarter decision'. Bought a 99 jeep Cherokee for 800 bucks because I need a car to get into film work, seeing that locations often change day to day and errands are usually integral. It's been sitting in the driveway since. It was a good deal and here in Atlanta everything is so spread out and our public transit is so bad you pretty much can't live here without a car.I apprenticed to tattoo for most of my youth seeing as that was my dad's profession, an easy in, but they kept me from finishing the apprenticeship and moving up to actual tattooer just based on having too many artists already at the shop so I gave that up at 19. I'm stupid and have no basic skills you learn from your parents like driving, changing a tire, basic plumbing or anything. I feel pretty fucked over. Just entered the second half of my twenties and don't want to restart at ground level again but it seems like that's what's available. Ex told me she felt like she's been babysitting this whole time. Can't get into tech or any of that stuff, computers and me don't get along. Thanks for the positivity, it at least feels nice to hear someone tell me things will be alright.
Dude learn a trade! Join a construction company and learn. You will start from the bottom but work your way up. Carpenters, painters, sheetrockers, you name it. Those guys get paid good.
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Im a landscaper, dont work weekends and finish my days by 2 so it still allows me to have a life
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I work for The Boardr. We work on a wide variety of skate events. I am currently in Shanghai at the Vans Park Series.
My boss is Ryan Clements, who you guys have become real fascinated with lately. He wants everyone to know that you guys give him WAY too much credit for shit that he "makes happen" behind the scenes. Yes, he is an agent/business manager for many of the top guys right now. Yes, he guided Shane through the process of starting his company. Yes, if your shop buys April boards, they will be shipped out of Tampa. He absolutely loved that diagram/flow chart that got posted here awhile back, and we still give him shit for the time a dude posted a photo of him at SPoT eating a banana.
I also sell shirts under the brand called SHAQUEEFA. Check out @shaqueefaog if you want.
I get most of my skating in when we are on these trips, which is great. Shanghai is on another level of amazing for any skill level.
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I manage all of the finances for my university's study abroad office: creating faculty-led program budgets, invoice management, drafting contracts, account reconciliation, payroll prep prior to sending it over to HR, there's a lot of different stuff that I do. It's alright, very cyclical depending on the time of year so right now I'm insanely busy preparing for summer programs whereas two months ago I was browsing the internet all day. I get to leave at 430 every day, though, and I like being on a university campus.
But I'm going back to school in the fall for a master's in curriculum and instruction concurrent with a teaching cert for high school English. I'm pretty confident in this future path but if it doesn't work out then I'd like the get back into higher ed as an advisor of some sort, either still in international education or within a liberal arts college or something. I just really like working with students and not being isolated behind a desk all day.
you and me would get on well!
I’m just about to change jobs though so I think I need some slap advice, should I chuck it in the old jobs thread, or in here?
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international commodities trading and finance.
love the job. pay is good.
cannot stand sitting down for 9 hours or more a day in an air conditioned room. it drives me bonkers.
first world problems of course. i am grateful to be where i am and the travel ops are great.
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Absolutely love this thread and also the older jobs thread, they bring slap to life for me in a new way.
I got my English Lit PhD last year and am about to start an associate professor position at a fair-to-middling uni here in China. Been in academia all my life in one way or another and will stay here I guess, I like it.
I've met a few younger university professors from various fields who skate, but it's definitely not your average Shakespeare experts' favourite pastime. I've been out with a knee injury for a year and a half myself, but am inching closer to an unspectacular comeback with every physio session.
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I'm a Product Manager at a fairly large tech company. It's a good job, that I really like, and I'm totally unqualified for it - so I figured I'd share a bit because maybe it will help someone. First - college is always affordable and almost always worthwhile. I didn't go back to school until I was 25. Didn't grow up with a family that really even considered that as an option and as a skateboarder I lumped college and school in with 'authority' - so, you know, 'fuck that!', etc. But when I did go I paid for it almost entirely in loans (and what little I could save while working as a waiter). I graduated with ~40k in debt. ouch. For the first 2 years I had to defer payment because I couldn't afford them. Then for 2 years I made minimum payments. Then for 2 years I doubled the minimum payment. Along that road it seemed like that debt would follow me forever. But sticking out the long term career game pays off and I'll rather easily pay off the remaining ~$25k in debt by then end of this year. In other words it took me 6 years to pay off $15k, but it got me to a position where I'll pay off $25k in 6 months.
Second - always think a few steps ahead of where you are. You'll likely have to do a lot of shitty work before you can do work that you want to. I graduated with a degree in International Relations - oops! Not exactly a huge field hiring a lot of people. But where there's a will.... Without boring you through all the details, I slogged through some really shitty jobs that I hated, but knowing that if I could stick it out, work hard, meet the right people, and take opportunities (even one's I didn't really want) that eventually I could weasle my way to where I wanted to be. When I started at the company I'm at now I was in sales. And I hate sales! And I hated being at a big corporation. But the benefit of a big corporation is there's lots of types of jobs and there's potential to get into them if you play your cards right. So I stuck sales out, met every product manager I could, volunteered for extra projects, etc etc. It took almost 4 years here, but I finally landed in the space I wanted to. I almost doubled my salary overnight and now I do something I really enjoy. But it took $40k in debt and ~7 years of shitty jobs that I hated.
So long story short - figure out what you want to do (realistically) and then think about the steps you can take to get there. Then just start taking them. Likely there will be many, many shitty steps to get through to get where you want. But shit, time flies, and I always figured it was better to be working a shitty job I hated but was helping me get somewhere I wanted to be as opposed to just working a shitty job I hated that wasn't going anywhere.
That was lengthy and probably self-indulgent. Sorry
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I'm an urban planner working in economic development. I run a grant program out of my city's economic development agency that gives grants to new and expanding small businesses. It's incredibly demanding and stressful but also really rewarding. It's great because I get to be involved in policy decisions but also work a lot with regular people. I love it.
If you're struggling, I feel you. It wasn't that long ago that I was waiting tables, bartending, and wondering what the fuck I was gonna do with my life. I'm 37 now, and went back to college at 32 to finish my bachelors then went straight into a masters program. The first year back in school I still had no idea how i would end up with a "career." But I was older, and I wasn't there to waste anymore time, so I got really engaged. I joined the student group in my department, I went to lectures, hung out after class to talk with professors, and I did my homework. I finished the undergrad program and was encouraged by the head of the department to apply for grad school, so I did. About half of my grad school tuition was paid for by scholarships, and an internship I was recommended for turned into my job. A little secret, not that many people actually apply for scholarships. Everyone just assumes they won't get them so they don't apply.
Honestly, going to college as an old dude was fucking amazing. I appreciated it so much more than I ever could have in my early 20's. Also, I got to travel a bunch through school trips, and I got to karmically amend some of the misdeeds of my youth by helping some kids get through some tough times. If you can do it, I highly recommend it.
As far as skating goes, I have no kids so I get to skate as much as my body allows. After 28 years things are starting to break. Arthritis in one knee, and I tore my hamstring about a month ago, had surgery two weeks ago, and have another six weeks before I'll even be walking again. After that probably about 6 months before I can hope to skate. Take care of your hamstring kids, you do not want this. But it's all part of the game. I'm hopeful that I can use this time away from skating to change my relationship with my body. I'll get to work with a physical therapist and relearn how to care for myself. New stretches, new exercises, and hopefully in about a year I'll be better than before the injury.
Again, to those of you struggling, keep the faith and know you have the power to turn things around. But you gotta do it. Get committed to something and really dig in. There is plenty of shalom in the world, sometimes the route to finding it is just a little more winding than we expect.
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in all my time of looking for jobs, the best advice I can give is, tell people you are looking for a job.
tell friends, family, tell the people you just met. #1 way people get jobs is through someone else.
if you don't have a job and want or need one, your best bet is to be out in the mix, talking to people at bars, skateshops..whatever.
similar situation if youre in school/college, knowing more people and being cool with them will bring more opportunities overall for years after
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I have a MS in library and information science and work in administration at an academic library. We do a lot of public programming and I am the lead AV/tech person (I also handle a lot of facilities related stuff). I get to skate every weather permitting day on my break and either before or after work.
If you want to go back to school, I highly recommend at least starting at a community college. You will be in an intimate setting with a lot of diverse people who are trying to get a fresh start (as opposed to typical college students) and getting financial assistance is much easier. It makes transferring to a university (if that is what you want) much easier and will increase your chances of getting good financial aide, and many of them have really excellent vocational training available.
Also, if you're going for financial aid and are in the US, do not fuck with private loans. Federal loans are way more manageable and have income based repayment plans, loan forgiveness for those who work in the public sector, etc.
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A friend of mine went to jail years back and was working in gas stations. Didn't seem like he'd do much with his life.
A couple of years ago, he got a job as a cement mixer operator by taking a few tests and getting a special licence. He also worked as a tow truck driver with auto associations as additional experience. A few days ago, he put a down payment on a cement truck and now basically owns his own business through the truck. He makes good money and is going to take off a lot of vacation time paid through employment insurance in the winter.
I'm happy for him because he turned his life around (even if he brags a bit too much about the money he makes). It goes to show that anyone can do the same.
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I have a MS in library and information science and work in administration at an academic library. We do a lot of public programming and I am the lead AV/tech person (I also handle a lot of facilities related stuff). I get to skate every weather permitting day on my break and either before or after work.
If you want to go back to school, I highly recommend at least starting at a community college. You will be in an intimate setting with a lot of diverse people who are trying to get a fresh start (as opposed to typical college students) and getting financial assistance is much easier. It makes transferring to a university (if that is what you want) much easier and will increase your chances of getting good financial aide, and many of them have really excellent vocational training available.
Also, if you're going for financial aid and are in the US, do not fuck with private loans. Federal loans are way more manageable and have income based repayment plans, loan forgiveness for those who work in the public sector, etc.
This is some very solid advice. Start at community college. I got an Associates in Fine Arts before pursuing a BSW and MSW. Community college let me figure who I was and really explore my options(some of the best courses I took were the electives there; in fact the DJ for my wedding is a now friend but was my sociology professor. Started chatting about vinyl and found out he loves post-punk)
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My wife and I are recently retired from the military. She chose a second career and I chose a second childhood. We live in Okinawa. I do some occasional photography work but other than taking care of the house (which feels like a full-time job) that's about it. I'm just happy to still be alive and relatively injury free enough to push around and skate the local parks regularly. I'm always the oldest one at the park by a long shot!
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I have worked for a major airline for 9 years, which means I finally make a livable wage but the flying for free kinda can’t be beat. I’ve been to more classic spots and new parks simply because I can just get on a plane and go
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I have a MS in library and information science and work in administration at an academic library. We do a lot of public programming and I am the lead AV/tech person (I also handle a lot of facilities related stuff). I get to skate every weather permitting day on my break and either before or after work.
If you want to go back to school, I highly recommend at least starting at a community college. You will be in an intimate setting with a lot of diverse people who are trying to get a fresh start (as opposed to typical college students) and getting financial assistance is much easier. It makes transferring to a university (if that is what you want) much easier and will increase your chances of getting good financial aide, and many of them have really excellent vocational training available.
Also, if you're going for financial aid and are in the US, do not fuck with private loans. Federal loans are way more manageable and have income based repayment plans, loan forgiveness for those who work in the public sector, etc.
This is some very solid advice. Start at community college. I got an Associates in Fine Arts before pursuing a BSW and MSW. Community college let me figure who I was and really explore my options(some of the best courses I took were the electives there; in fact the DJ for my wedding is a now friend but was my sociology professor. Started chatting about vinyl and found out he loves post-punk)
That rules! It's overlooked for sure, but it is a great way to figure things out even down to the level of figuring out how to study/schedule yourself/etc.
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We are over halfway through May and I still have not used a single vacation day out of the 4 weeks I have allotted to me. They are flying me to San Diego next month for Cisco Live, so that is cool since I have never been to Cali.
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Im a landscaper, dont work weekends and finish my days by 2 so it still allows me to have a life
If this pays decently I would take it over most jobs in this thread
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We are over halfway through May and I still have not used a single vacation day out of the 4 weeks I have allotted to me. They are flying me to San Diego next month for Cisco Live, so that is cool since I have never been to Cali.
Like let me see that thoooonnngggg Cisco?
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I played poker beginning in my teens back after the first boom following Moneymaker winning the WSOP main event in 2003 caused a huge influx of incredibly soft/dumb money to funnel into the online poker sites. Was such an easy time tom build up a bankroll from essentially nothing. Hit a roadblock when the department of justice cucked online poker in the US in April of 2011, spent 18 months wondering whether or not I would ever get back that 80R% chunk of my bankroll. Eventually moved countries to continue playing poker fulltime/going to school.
I now trade cryptocurrency full-time (have been doing so for roughly 18 months now. Although I make my own schedule and have a lot of free time, my sleep is all over the place due to following market movements that you have to capitalize on if you want to maximize your EV as a trader and ROI% at large. I've been extremely stressed and in die-hard accumulation mode for the past year or so ever since the bear market cycle began and the market tanked.
This really paid off for me since I was able to dollar-cost-average a sizeable chunk of each coin I hold a bit of in my portfolio, and with the recent market uptick of the past 10-14 days (ETH pumping from $140--->$260 before correcting to $240, I am finally feeling relieved and like I can relax and just take low-variance opportunities to jump on. Feeling like skating a whole hell of a lot more now than I have over the past 18 months in which I've just spend stressed out in front of a computer all day/night every day/night (sometimes have to be on Shanghai hours and live nocturnally at times).
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I played poker beginning in my teens back after the first boom following Moneymaker winning the WSOP main event in 2003 caused a huge influx of incredibly soft/dumb money to funnel into the online poker sites. Was such an easy time tom build up a bankroll from essentially nothing. Hit a roadblock when the department of justice cucked online poker in the US in April of 2011, spent 18 months wondering whether or not I would ever get back that 80R% chunk of my bankroll. Eventually moved countries to continue playing poker fulltime/going to school.
I now trade cryptocurrency full-time (have been doing so for roughly 18 months now. Although I make my own schedule and have a lot of free time, my sleep is all over the place due to following market movements that you have to capitalize on if you want to maximize your EV as a trader and ROI% at large. I've been extremely stressed and in die-hard accumulation mode for the past year or so ever since the bear market cycle began and the market tanked.
This really paid off for me since I was able to dollar-cost-average a sizeable chunk of each coin I hold a bit of in my portfolio, and with the recent market uptick of the past 10-14 days (ETH pumping from $140--->$260 before correcting to $240, I am finally feeling relieved and like I can relax and just take low-variance opportunities to jump on. Feeling like skating a whole hell of a lot more now than I have over the past 18 months in which I've just spend stressed out in front of a computer all day/night every day/night (sometimes have to be on Shanghai hours and live nocturnally at times).
This sounds super fucking exhausting.
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maybe I should post this in the actual OG job thread but anyway this one seems a bit more active at the moment?
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In a nutshell I used to work for a fairly well-known university in intl. student admissions for around 5 years as a contract worker, when I finished up with them they offered me some dead-end job with bad pay and no room for promotions because I didn't have the "right passport" and thus I bounced on them to work as a consultant (remotely) with another company I met through my travels even though some slap pals *winks at shit for brains* advised me not to do so.
Anyway, I think it was the right decision at the time and for the last 2 years it's been pretty cool to have a chilled schedule which I can adjust according to what's going on with my family (also helps that I can skate during my lunch break). Unfortunately though, it looks like said company is about to go bankrupt considering they now owe me two months of back pay and I'm living off fucking crumbs at the moment...
So, I started to look around for a new job and one of my better clients has offered me a position in their office as an assistant manager. At the same time another university basically matched their offer plus a little bit more $$$ and they are both now in a bit of a bidding war for me.
The university I used to work for changed its policies recently regarding who they employ and I've just passed the 2nd round of interviews with them and have a 3rd one on Monday (it's likely I'll get it). If I pass I won't start as an assistant manager, but the pay/ benefits are ridiculous even compared to the other two jobs I've been offered.
The only other thing about the other two jobs is that we'll have to relocate to a bigger city which means cost of living will go up too. Right now, we live in a fairly small town and have great connections, friends and good lifestyle to boot so basically our options are:
1.Go back to where I used to work, but do so as a full-time employee and basically earn double my old pay. It’s pretty much a stable job until I retire with good pay and benefits and I’ll get promotions etc. I know the people that work there so slotting back in will be fairly easy. I still don’t know which office I’ll work for and even though it kind of seems like getting back with an ex-girlfriend, there will be lots of new challenges for me.
2. Stay with my current remote job and go bankrupt or trust that they’ll somehow dig themselves out of the dark dark hole that they’ve dug for themselves (highly unlikely).
3. Take one of the other jobs in a new and bigger city as a fulltime employee and go straight into an assistant manager position. Both universities are fairly solid and again, I’d pretty much have a job with them until I retire unless I choose to move on. Said bigger city is fairly famous for the number of universities located there and thus I could quite easily change jobs if need be which defs is not a possibility where we live now.
4. Jump on a plane and move back to Australia. Not exactly the worst option but it would mean starting from scratch and relocating the fam which kinda seems like a pain in the arse at this point in time. Having said that, we’re not getting any younger so the possibility of us doing it 5 years down the track is pretty slim…
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Blue collar sort, painter wallpaper hanger.
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I’ve been delivering pizzas for over a decade, but now that I’m getting older(I’m 48), I’ve decided to pursue my dream job of working at a Vape shop.
I pray this is real.
Why, do you know a guy? Hook it up!
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I now trade cryptocurrency full-time (have been doing so for roughly 18 months now. Although I make my own schedule and have a lot of free time, my sleep is all over the place due to following market movements that you have to capitalize on if you want to maximize your EV as a trader and ROI% at large. I've been extremely stressed and in die-hard accumulation mode for the past year or so ever since the bear market cycle began and the market tanked.
This really paid off for me since I was able to dollar-cost-average a sizeable chunk of each coin I hold a bit of in my portfolio, and with the recent market uptick of the past 10-14 days (ETH pumping from $140--->$260 before correcting to $240, I am finally feeling relieved and like I can relax and just take low-variance opportunities to jump on. Feeling like skating a whole hell of a lot more now than I have over the past 18 months in which I've just spend stressed out in front of a computer all day/night every day/night (sometimes have to be on Shanghai hours and live nocturnally at times).
Have to admit I've had a little extra hop in my step as well this past week due to (what appears to be) the tides finally changing within the cryptocurrency market. 2018 was rough, but I'm excited for these next couple of years in the crypto world.
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Gay Imp Metal Sausage,
As someone who is somewhat prone to risk taking and spontaneously quitting jobs or moving, I'd really suggest #1. This is the result of fucking myself over on my last spontaneous life change. The "grass is always greener" shit is true and it's taken me way too long to learn that. Stable, repetitive shit can get boring, no doubt, but sometimes being bored is the preferable consequence (as opposed to being on the street). Good luck with whichever path you choose.
thanks for that mate. #1 would certainly be the easiest option and would allow us to maintain the lifestyle that we love here but sometimes it's not always better to take the easy option and moving to a new city can be quite exciting. I'm on my way to do the final interview for #1 so it mightn't even be an actual option for us if I don't pass ... will keep you posted!
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I work at a dispensary but I don't make much money and I fuckin hate having to deal with people that much, so I'm thinking about trying to get on this pole barn crew, it would be a lot less chill but I've done construction before so pretty sure I could handle it, plus I really wanna develop a sunburn and a meth problem. I skate like an hour or 2 after work everyday and try to spend one day on the weekend skating all day, maybe 2 if I'm not too hungover too function or getting guilt tripped into doing "adult" stuff by my girl. Should I go full rogowski on her?
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What do you do for work? Any fellow employees skate? Full time, part time? More or less skating in your life?
Anybody work at amazon? I’m considering taking a job there 730-5pm fri-mon. Either that or be a waiter. Just waiting on some real estate commission checks that might never come through.
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I went for an interview a few years ago for a warehouse position.
A.) There was about 20 others there, plus 3 more groups after mine all competing for 5 positions
B.)Drug test, plus randoms once you start working if you are picked out of the massive group.
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Gay Imp Metal Sausage,
As someone who is somewhat prone to risk taking and spontaneously quitting jobs or moving, I'd really suggest #1. This is the result of fucking myself over on my last spontaneous life change. The "grass is always greener" shit is true and it's taken me way too long to learn that. Stable, repetitive shit can get boring, no doubt, but sometimes being bored is the preferable consequence (as opposed to being on the street). Good luck with whichever path you choose.
I'd stay there, god knows what's going to happen in australia over the next two years after the shit show of an election we just had, I'm lucky to be transitioning into a salary role for a big company who's planning on closing two stores and making one big one... come on redundancy pay!
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What do you do for work? Any fellow employees skate? Full time, part time? More or less skating in your life?
I work in purchasing at a manufacturing plant. No other skaters that I've identified yet. Full time; finishing up BA degree online, too. Not as much skating as I'd like (twice a week at most the last couple of months) but hitting gym a few days/week and getting in much better shape for a 41-year-old; definitely helps when I do get to skate. For me with three kids, coaching their multiple soccer teams, a wife with a career and multiple elected and voluntary boards she serves on my time is definitely at a premium. Committing to more time on my board/ramp this summer now that soccer season is almost over since it absolutely helps with my own sanity.
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in all my time of looking for jobs, the best advice I can give is, tell people you are looking for a job.
tell friends, family, tell the people you just met. #1 way people get jobs is through someone else.
if you don't have a job and want or need one, your best bet is to be out in the mix, talking to people at bars, skateshops..whatever.
similar situation if youre in school/college, knowing more people and being cool with them will bring more opportunities overall for years after
life advice hammers
applying for jobs submitting CVs online is a sucker's game
+1 for being out in the mix talking to people at parties, bars and all the casual places people in their 30s like to hang out in (parks, coffee shops, yoga places etc...)
being able to shoot a quick 30-second pitch about yourself in a professional sense while queuing up in that new street food joint is an invaluable skill
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What do you do for work? Any fellow employees skate? Full time, part time? More or less skating in your life?
Anybody work at amazon? I’m considering taking a job there 730-5pm fri-mon. Either that or be a waiter. Just waiting on some real estate commission checks that might never come through.
all i know is amazon goes through employees quickly. ive heard most people dont last too long there, atleast at their main hq.
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What do you do for work? Any fellow employees skate? Full time, part time? More or less skating in your life?
Anybody work at amazon? I’m considering taking a job there 730-5pm fri-mon. Either that or be a waiter. Just waiting on some real estate commission checks that might never come through.
all i know is amazon goes through employees quickly. ive heard most people dont last too long there, atleast at their main hq.
I'm in the supply chain industry, I come across former Amazon employees frequently. While Amazon catches a lot of shit for their working conditions, most of these employees its pretty evident why they don't last. They typically don't last in our building either, and our metrics for production are significantly lower than Amazon. They're just not great employees, at least for this industry.
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What do you do for work? Any fellow employees skate? Full time, part time? More or less skating in your life?
Anybody work at amazon? I’m considering taking a job there 730-5pm fri-mon. Either that or be a waiter. Just waiting on some real estate commission checks that might never come through.
all i know is amazon goes through employees quickly. ive heard most people dont last too long there, atleast at their main hq.
I'm in the supply chain industry, I come across former Amazon employees frequently. While Amazon catches a lot of shit for their working conditions, most of these employees its pretty evident why they don't last. They typically don't last in our building either, and our metrics for production are significantly lower than Amazon. They're just not great employees, at least for this industry.
Not to shit on Seattle, but that makes sense.
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What do you do for work? Any fellow employees skate? Full time, part time? More or less skating in your life?
Anybody work at amazon? I’m considering taking a job there 730-5pm fri-mon. Either that or be a waiter. Just waiting on some real estate commission checks that might never come through.
all i know is amazon goes through employees quickly. ive heard most people dont last too long there, atleast at their main hq.
I'm in the supply chain industry, I come across former Amazon employees frequently. While Amazon catches a lot of shit for their working conditions, most of these employees its pretty evident why they don't last. They typically don't last in our building either, and our metrics for production are significantly lower than Amazon. They're just not great employees, at least for this industry.
Not to shit on Seattle, but that makes sense.
I'm on the east coast, but if you pay shit you get shit. I get in an argument almost weekly about wages. I am in management so I have the directors ear but he can only take it so far as corpo sets our pay scale.
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i work in tire recycling. used to serve/bartend then ran a restaurant .... no time for skating that much with being in the food service business so then i went into food sales and hated my life so now i work 6:30-2:30 and went from skating 1-2 times a month to 3-4 times a week and my best friend who i also had a small skate company with works with me as well so its pretty tight.
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I run a large-scale plant nursery in a small town in Washington. I'm one of 3 full-time employees which sometimes makes juggling tasks a little stressful, but I'm not complaining. The place is 300+ acres, so coming from Chicago this retreat into rural living is pretty dang sweet. Additionally, there's a sick little grindline park less than a mile away, so my skate needs are met. I also have a sweet little cabin that I get to live in rent-free.
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Gay Imp Metal Sausage,
As someone who is somewhat prone to risk taking and spontaneously quitting jobs or moving, I'd really suggest #1. This is the result of fucking myself over on my last spontaneous life change. The "grass is always greener" shit is true and it's taken me way too long to learn that. Stable, repetitive shit can get boring, no doubt, but sometimes being bored is the preferable consequence (as opposed to being on the street). Good luck with whichever path you choose.
I'd stay there, god knows what's going to happen in australia over the next two years after the shit show of an election we just had, I'm lucky to be transitioning into a salary role for a big company who's planning on closing two stores and making one big one... come on redundancy pay!
fair enough, that's a good call!
So 5 mins after I did the final interview for #1 yesterday I get a call from their HR department, I panic think it's way too early for them to have assessed me so I assume I failed but it seems that I'd already passed and the final interview was just a formality and a chance for me to meet the chancellor. They'll send me the deets later this week and then I have 7 days to give them an answer ... timing-wise it's perfect because the other two schools want an answer from me by next week too.
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I’m a Masters Level Social worker in the role of a therapist. I work with kiddos in foster care of all ages, some of which are juvenile sex offenders, my favorite population to work with.
MVP!
I've worked in Video Game Production with some dips out to dabble in film/commercials and digital experiential marketing for 20+ years.
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I sell Coke...
And by sell coke I mean I work for coca cola... Used to do some sales but fuck that shit, become a merchandiser so I just get a list of grocery stores to go to in a day and make the coca cola spot in the aisles look pretty... work 4 10hr shifts and get 3 off to skate.
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I sell Coke...
And by sell coke I mean I work for coca cola... Used to do some sales but fuck that shit, become a merchandiser so I just get a list of grocery stores to go to in a day and make the coca cola spot in the aisles look pretty... work 4 10hr shifts and get 3 off to skate.
Do you live in Philly? Coca Cola has a plant there and I have some buddies that work for them. Seems like a sweet gig, but me personally, I’m still holding out for a job at a Vape shop. I just want to kick it and talk Vape shit with teenagers all day.
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I'm a data scientist.
The job is great, super flexible, and pays very well.
I skate a few times a week - usually for an hour or two after work at one of the local skateparks. Haven't seriously street-skated in years.
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I'm a data scientist.
The job is great, super flexible, and pays very well.
I skate a few times a week - usually for an hour or two after work at one of the local skateparks. Haven't seriously street-skated in years.
What exactly does a data scientist do? Is this basically the same as being as statistician with a different title?
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I'm a data scientist.
The job is great, super flexible, and pays very well.
I skate a few times a week - usually for an hour or two after work at one of the local skateparks. Haven't seriously street-skated in years.
What exactly does a data scientist do? Is this basically the same as being as statistician with a different title?
The job itself can vary quite a bit across different companies/domains. In the simplest terms, I'd explain it as a software engineer that deals with getting value from data. 'Value' here can refer to a number of things, but typically my work involves writing algorithms to predict things ('machine learning'), reporting/presenting on existing trends(statistical inference), or deploying existing models/new data sources (this spans traditional software/data engineering).
But your assessment is on the dot for a lot of data scientists that work in more R&D oriented roles. (FWIW, I have a degree in stats myself).
I do some freelance stuff from time-to-time outside the scope of my normal job. Here's something I made that involve skating: https://pudding.cool/2018/06/skate-music/
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I have worked for a major airline for 9 years, which means I finally make a livable wage but the flying for free kinda can’t be beat. I’ve been to more classic spots and new parks simply because I can just get on a plane and go
Nothing beats those free flights. I've been at an airline job for 4 years and its awesome. Never thought I'd ever be able to afford a deck at full price, let alone a house. I drag my wife by spots when we go places. Got to check out a shop in Thailand which was awesome, didn't buy anything though because that non-rev life is crazy.
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I'm 31 and I host ayahuasca/kambo retreats and provide traditional medicines to those seeking to expand their minds or a natural alternative for health problems. Luckily I get to skate whenever I want which hasn't been much cause I like to skate rails and hubbas and I'm always hurt.
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I'm a data scientist.
The job is great, super flexible, and pays very well.
I skate a few times a week - usually for an hour or two after work at one of the local skateparks. Haven't seriously street-skated in years.
What exactly does a data scientist do? Is this basically the same as being as statistician with a different title?
The job itself can vary quite a bit across different companies/domains. In the simplest terms, I'd explain it as a software engineer that deals with getting value from data. 'Value' here can refer to a number of things, but typically my work involves writing algorithms to predict things ('machine learning'), reporting/presenting on existing trends(statistical inference), or deploying existing models/new data sources (this spans traditional software/data engineering).
But your assessment is on the dot for a lot of data scientists that work in more R&D oriented roles. (FWIW, I have a degree in stats myself).
I do some freelance stuff from time-to-time outside the scope of my normal job. Here's something I made that involve skating: https://pudding.cool/2018/06/skate-music/
The stuff you did on the skate music is pretty cool.
Also, for the R&D style jobs, how difficult are the stats? Do people get by pointing and clicking on SPSS and then making pretty charts for the execs? Is knowing the basics up to regression analysis good enough or would someone need to be able to do crazy complex shit?
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I'm a data scientist.
The job is great, super flexible, and pays very well.
I skate a few times a week - usually for an hour or two after work at one of the local skateparks. Haven't seriously street-skated in years.
What exactly does a data scientist do? Is this basically the same as being as statistician with a different title?
The job itself can vary quite a bit across different companies/domains. In the simplest terms, I'd explain it as a software engineer that deals with getting value from data. 'Value' here can refer to a number of things, but typically my work involves writing algorithms to predict things ('machine learning'), reporting/presenting on existing trends(statistical inference), or deploying existing models/new data sources (this spans traditional software/data engineering).
But your assessment is on the dot for a lot of data scientists that work in more R&D oriented roles. (FWIW, I have a degree in stats myself).
I do some freelance stuff from time-to-time outside the scope of my normal job. Here's something I made that involve skating: https://pudding.cool/2018/06/skate-music/
The stuff you did on the skate music is pretty cool.
Also, for the R&D style jobs, how difficult are the stats? Do people get by pointing and clicking on SPSS and then making pretty charts for the execs? Is knowing the basics up to regression analysis good enough or would someone need to be able to do crazy complex shit?
Thanks! And what you describe is more fitting for a 'Business Analyst'. Any job in data science will assume you have a strong background in statistics as well as computer science. R&D usually requires a PhD.
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Work as a field technician at a sewer flow metering company
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Work as a field technician at a sewer flow metering company
Do your coworkers tend to go with the flow? Or do they get jammed up with stupid shit?
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They get all jammed up man
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I sell Coke...
And by sell coke I mean I work for coca cola... Used to do some sales but fuck that shit, become a merchandiser so I just get a list of grocery stores to go to in a day and make the coca cola spot in the aisles look pretty... work 4 10hr shifts and get 3 off to skate.
Used to merchandise for Coke in Houston years ago...
Now I’m a RN in neurological trauma ICU, and have been a nurse for almost 7 years. Can’t skate at the moment due to a bad knee (can’t run, jump, or do explosive movements), but having surgery in 2 weeks so I hope that’ll change things for the better.
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Cnc machinist, all about those tight tolerances. Down to ".00005" sometimes, yes four zeros. It's pretty chill, as in everything is climate controlled. I mostly sit on my butt and watch machines run, pays the bills until the robots take over. Can't complain, a fair bit of the stuff I work on goes into nuclear reactors. I'm not aware of anyone else I work with that skates.
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Been a Sous chef/line cook etc for the past couple years but just started school for first year engineering, just turned 21 so hopefully will be done school by the time im 25
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What do you do for work? Any fellow employees skate? Full time, part time? More or less skating in your life?
Work NOCs (Nightshift, graveyards, third shift, whatever you want to call it) at a nursing home as a nurse so skating for me is rare these days.