Housepets!

I'm just now starting to go job-hunting, and this seems like an appropriate time to open this thread.

So I ask you, fellow Housepets fans, where do you work? If you don't work, have you worked before?

Don't currently work because of school. I work sometimes during the summer, when I do, it's always been as a temp clerk at the IRS.

Extremely boring work but it pays well enough, and it's really really easy.

I go to school now, but until about a week and a half ago I worked as a lab technician intern (basically a full lab technician) at the local neighborhood genome center. Before that I worked on data entry on a radiotherapy research project, at Sonic (which sucked, and I was fired for being too slow at the job I was never trained for) and at Steak 'n' Shake (which is pretty much as good as you could possibly get from a job making/serving cheap or cheap-ish food).

As said before, school, now. But when I'm not in school, I work at PetSmart. Or occasionaly I help out at the law firm that... Everyone else... In my family works at. ... Huh. It just now occurred to me that I'm not only the random one in my family, but I'm also the one making the least money-per-hour.

Sleet wrote: Before that I worked...at Sonic (which sucked, and I was fired for being too slow at the job I was never trained for)...

You're too slow! You should have stepped it up!

But seriously.

Sleet wrote:I go to school now, but until about a week and a half ago I worked as a lab technician intern (basically a full lab technician) at the local neighborhood genome center.

This sounds like an awesome job that I wish I could have. Not permanently, but if I were to get into the sciences, this would probably be an intern job I'd like.

Senator_Sunburst wrote:You're too slow! You should have stepped it up!

But seriously.

The irony would be stronger if the restaurant wasn't itself very slow.

Well, the irony is just as strong, but concentrated elsewhere.

I've never had any problems with it personally, other than their food is overall bad. Their drinks are good though, so long as the people mix them properly, which sometimes they don't.

Also, I had a friend get all but fired from there because he asked "What condiments do you want?" instead of "do you want mustard or mayo?" His reasoning was that asking the latter sometimes caused people to say "yes", leaving him confused as to what exactly they wanted.

Senator_Sunburst wrote:I've never had any problems with it personally, other than their food is overall bad. Their drinks are good though, so long as the people mix them properly, which sometimes they don't.

Also, I had a friend get all but fired from there because he asked "What condiments do you want?" instead of "do you want mustard or mayo?" His reasoning was that asking the latter sometimes caused people to say "yes", leaving him confused as to what exactly they wanted.

Talk about a strict boss.

Senator_Sunburst wrote:I've never had any problems with it personally, other than their food is overall bad. Their drinks are good though, so long as the people mix them properly, which sometimes they don't.

Also, I had a friend get all but fired from there because he asked "What condiments do you want?" instead of "do you want mustard or mayo?" His reasoning was that asking the latter sometimes caused people to say "yes", leaving him confused as to what exactly they wanted.

I think their food is delicious. We must get different things.

The funny thing is that a week or so before I left, we had a manager get in a shouting match with an employee over an innocent comment she made that he interpreted as racist and then made a huge deal about it. They were both still working after the incident. Their priorities are out of whack.

I don't work.

I go to school, and I be on here when I'm not x3

Or sleeping.

*sigh* I work as a groundskeeper and I HATE it.. but the pay is decent. So I will continue untill I can afford an apartment, then my best friend will move in so we can be roomates, then I will get a part time job (and prlly enjoy that more, my past jobs were part time ones and I liked them alot more) and be able to go back to college. Once I figure out what to go to college for though. I'm not sure if I should go and be a Vet Technician, go for Art, or go for Writing..the one good thing about my current job is that it's seasonal. So in the winters I don't have to work and still get paid unemployment for it

You could get the best of both worlds and be the groundskeeper for a hotel up north or something in the winter when it's closed down and use all that extra time to be a writer. You could even bring your family.

Sleet wrote:You could get the best of both worlds and be the groundskeeper for a hotel up north or something in the winter when it's closed down and use all that extra time to be a writer. You could even bring your family.

sounds reasonable, I hear the Overlook hotel may be hiring soon..

At a sign store. I work on the computers and design signs.

I work as a general dogsbody at my Dad's hairdressing salon, mostly cleaning and making coffee, but any non-hairdressing jobs nobody else wants to do.
My weirdest task so far was searching the whole town for Irn-Bru bars when the rest of the staff had a craving for them (The finest in bright orange soft drink based confectionery, 100% artificial ingredients).
I made some good money when Dad closed one of his two shops, and decided that seeing as he had my, and my brother's services on offer, and that the shops are walking distance from each other, that removal companies were for saps. twin brothers carrying large items of furniture through the city centre has a kind of laurel and hardy slapstick feel to it.

Chemical labs technician intern at a college.

Typhon wrote:Chemical labs technician intern at a college.

so.. like.. if you ever find any potions that might make someone into a furry you can always send me them! XD

Shyanne wrote:

Typhon wrote:Chemical labs technician intern at a college.

so.. like.. if you ever find any potions that might make someone into a furry you can always send me them! XD

I recently brewed something following a recipe from Harry Potter. I drank it and was given magical powers to rival Pete's. Huzzah

I finished the application for a job at the local cinema. I hope I get that job!

Best of luck!
I am currently seeking some better work than the hairdressers. It pays less than minimum wage, and since the other shop closed there isn't enough work to keep me busy.
I have applied for a few bar tending and waiting jobs to keep me going through university.

i breed different types of penguins.
...
im a penguin breeder. :|







just kidding, i don't have a job.

Jack wrote:i breed different types of penguins.
...
im a penguin breeder.


just kidding, i don't have a job.

That would have been so cool :/

Typhon wrote:

Jack wrote:i breed different types of penguins.
...
im a penguin breeder.


just kidding, i don't have a job.

That would have been so cool :/

ya it would! xD

but, if it counts, i volunteer as a first aid giver. just yesterday i was medically securing a soccer game. i swear to god, those professional players are a bunch of whiners! so you fell, stop making a scene! at least that means i was seen on tv every time we were called out to take the player away. ^^

Jack wrote:

Typhon wrote:

Jack wrote:i breed different types of penguins.
...
im a penguin breeder.


just kidding, i don't have a job.

That would have been so cool :/

ya it would! xD

but, if it counts, i volunteer as a first aid giver. just yesterday i was medically securing a soccer game. i swear to god, those professional players are a bunch of whiners! so you fell, stop making a scene! at least that means i was seen on tv every time we were called out to take the player away. ^^

They make a scene for a reason. The more they whine and whimper about a scratch the higher the chance they can get FOUL called.

I need a job. I've been looking but nobody will hire.

Typhon wrote:They make a scene for a reason. The more they whine and whimper about a scratch the higher the chance they can get FOUL called.

It's also really bad in college and especially high school basketball. I love (nonprofessional) basketball as a sport, but I hate how fouls are pretty much part of the game at this point. Referees should be more conservative with their foul calls, but then they'd have fans cussing all over them about it.

I work at a music store.

I am professional dogsitter, and some kind of super hero since I once stopped a hand bag robbery and earned money for it.
But I´m out of work

If I don´t work, I go to school of course.

At my school, as a student, with no pay.
Yup, that's the life

Medli wrote:I am professional dogsitter, and some kind of super hero since I once stopped a hand bag robbery and earned money for it.
But I´m out of work

If I don´t work, I go to school of course.

Did he/she have a gun??

i worked for a week as a dishwasher at a Chinese Buffet, i even got free dinner
i also worked at a cafe/bakery my family owned. we called it Om Nom.
i am currently unemployed

You had/have a bakery called "Om Nom?" How cool is that?

i thought it was pretty good, but we had to sell the store because we weren't getting enough customers

also on one of the walls of the store, we had a bunch of random om nom pictures, like this

mariomarc wrote:i worked for a week as a dishwasher at a Chinese Buffet, i even got free dinner
i also worked at a cafe/bakery my family owned. we called it Om Nom.
i am currently unemployed

You worked at a place called Om Nom????

way cool