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Why not save up as much money as you can, practice your skills for art and/or design and apply to an art or design school next year?

Photoshop and such are pretty simple to use, there's about a billion different guides and how-to's for them as well (Ctrl-Paint is a good site for painting in Photoshop).

But it does. No offense but let me offend you.



Why is it more necessary for an artist to take their work or studies more seriously than any other calling?





Edited, Apr 3rd 2014 4:04pm by Elinda

Correct. There's a reason why the phrase "starving artist" exists, but not so much "starving engineer". Fair or not, it's going to be a harder struggle for an artist starting out to get that first jump into a career related job. And there's usually a longer period of time spent doing things that aren't related to the desired field (which was the exact case I originally responded to).

Doesn't help when you take more terrible pictures than a Japanese tourist either.

I have more respect for photographers since I discovered I am terrible at it.

Your "free reign" translates to come up with exactly what he wants to see and free or not you'll be treated as if he's doing you a favor with this. It'll end with him doing a really, really bad job himself and then showing it to you expecting you to be all impressed.



Or maybe he'll love what you've done, it's good to be prepared for the worst anyway.

I'm in, too.

I work three part-time jobs, about 62 hours a week total (one job is only one day a week, so I guess it's mostly two part-time jobs). I've been looking and applying places looking for something full-time, but my resume is pretty garbage. Every job I've had is a flavor of retail, and I dropped out of college.

Oh well, at least I have Obamacare now, right? But seriously, maybe getting treatment for depression and going back on some ADD meds will help me break out of this funk. I'd like to go back to school, but it's been so long that it's not like I could just jump back into my former major (electrical engineering). Regis University has an accredited online computer science degree, so I've been thinking about that but it's hella expensive. I could transfer most of my credits, though, cutting out at least 2, if not 3 years.

Anyway, one of my jobs is at a liquor store, and my boss is a pain in the ***. He's the kind of boss who always finds the one thing that you missed to harp on you about, and there is never any positive reinforcement. I know, I know it's a ****** retail wageslave job, what do you expect? But, I don't slack, I'm always doing something, I'm courteous to the customers. You really don't need to lecture me about how on Thursday night, I apparently failed to change the water in the mop bucket, and when he opened on Friday, he was alone for an hour. What if a customer broke a bottle? The mop water wasn't fresh and it could take "upwards of a half hour" to clean it up. Now sure, I'll admit that even though I had no need for the mop bucket on Thursday, I maybe should have taken a look at some point during my shift, but all that needs to be said is "hey, you missed the mop bucket last night" and I'd say "OK, sorry" and make sure to do it next time. I don't need to hear about it for 10 minutes while I could be doing something productive instead.

He also runs the store very poorly. Employees ring on whatever register they are closest to at the time, instead of being assigned a register, and tills are not counted down at a shift change. There are no cash pulls at all during a business day, so by the end of the night there can be several thousand dollars in cash in each register, plain for anyone to see. There's no drop safe. Nightly deposits and change for the registers are kept in an (unlockable) file cabinet, in an "office" right near the front door. Oh, and there's conveniently no camera coverage there. He shuts the cameras and DVR off at night because "that's what the alarm is for".

So in other words if I want free money and booze you know a place where that could happen?

You don't think so?


I do.

Don't misunderstand my comments above as having anything to do with the topic of this thread (job hate), because it sounds like you have a real winner there for a boss. Also, when have I ever posted a comment that had anything to do with the topic of the thread?

I think all tech courses expire after 7 years as well, so likely you'd have to more or less start from scratch.

Yeah. Same thought. This is a "bad sign"(tm). Usually, if an owner is doing this kind of thing, it's because he's skimming his own profits (and yes, there are reasons to do this). Does this business have high turnover, by any chance? Long lists of newish employees getting accused of stealing from the till and being let go?