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re: what was your "welcome to the real world" moment after finishing school?
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:02 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:02 am to GreatLakesTiger24
The first year i was making pretty decent money and i saw how much after that year i had paid in taxes. It actually pissed me off.
I remember thinking 100k a year would be like making it rain and then after taxes, insurance, retirement, etc came out of my pay and i saw what was left, it quickly deflates reality of what “making great money” actually is
I remember thinking 100k a year would be like making it rain and then after taxes, insurance, retirement, etc came out of my pay and i saw what was left, it quickly deflates reality of what “making great money” actually is
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Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:02 am to GreatLakesTiger24
2nd day as a pharmacist, at Walgreens on Government and they had been down 2 techs that day.... the pharmacist i was overlapping and relieving was 2 hours behind as i walked in the door... it was an absolute shite show from the jump and never got any better.... 
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:03 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Working for my uncle as a gopher. Making $8/hour in Louisiana heat. No thanks.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:04 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Driving across the country to my new home with no money, no job, and a POS car.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:04 am to LSU Coyote
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Realizing that I learned nothing and experience matters
This. 4 years of college and a one year internship and I had no idea what the hell I was doing.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:07 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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mine was seeing a horde of pasty white, morbidly obese women (and a couple men) waddling out of the downtown high rise building where i had just started working. it was a major adjustment from the quad.
moved to houston after graduating LSU in 1990 and expected 'the big city' to be a bunch of men in suits and hats walking between buildings downtown with a rainbow overhead.
so, similar to you.
i somehow got out of college and expected to be transplanted to 'mad men' when starting a job in a big city.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:09 am to GreatLakesTiger24
quote:You better look better because a lot of men are obese these days.
and a couple men
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:11 am to BRgetthenet
quote:Were they using a leaf blower at midnight?
I could hear them having conversations and arguing while I sat in my backyard.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:12 am to GreatLakesTiger24
What really hit me hard was the no breaks. Just bullshite 1 day holidays and your standard 2 weeks vacation. No fall breaks, no 3 week Christmas break, etc etc. That was a tough pill to swallow. I remember playing turkey noises from my computer very loudly my first year working as I'm sitting in my office the Wed before Thanksgiving waiting for my boss to leave. He finally got pissed off and said "go on get the hell out of here!". I fricking hated the first year
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:13 am to GreatLakesTiger24
When the judge said we 5 years in the state pen and not
Juvenile Hall.
Juvenile Hall.
This post was edited on 1/30/23 at 10:15 am
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:15 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Graduated in 2008 at the start of the downturn. Finding a job was, uh, difficult, to say the least. "You'll make $18/hr with no benefits and you'll like it." And I did like it because I had no other choice. It wasn't like I had a bullshite degree, either. I had a very practical degree from the top program in the country.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:16 am to GreatLakesTiger24
I don’t know what exactly the task was but there was something that I had to do that a lot of money (to me at the time) was riding on (maybe $10k or $20k) and my boss just handed me the task and said get this done I remember thinking to myself “holy shite, they expect me to do this on my own and not check up on me before I frick this up”.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:18 am to A Smoke Break
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Taking my first IT job out of school, having my first real help desk day at the MSP i was working at, and taking in literally 28 cold calls that day.
I do NOT miss help desk, but it was eye opening.
IT as well here, here were mine:
-People are mind-numbingly stupid in general. Lawyers and nurses in particular..it's a wonder they manage to function at all.
-School doesn't really matter once you actually join the workforce. No matter how good your resume looks, there will always be someone with more experiece than you and his accomplishments may not even compare to yours.
All common knowledge now...but my past 2008 self got a rude awakening.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:19 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Went to basic training for the Army two weeks after graduating high school at Fort Bennington in Ga. Two weeks after finishing that, I went offshore and started working to pay for lazy fricks to suck off of my hard work! Still doing it. I was raised strictly and was tough about the real world and wasn’t lied to about life.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:20 am to StringedInstruments
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But it’s true: most people age poorly and don’t give a shite. That’s the worst part of the adult world. Avoiding those kinds of people.
This is the roughest part, IMO.
Especially if you're in an environment where most people don't give a shite, you're fighting against the current.
Biscuits every Monday
Breakfast on Thursdays
Donuts on Friday
Resisting the food is the easy part, because a lot of the time its cold. It's the judgement you can get from others if you're in an office where everyone else is partaking. I've been in offices where food is provided by HR and it sits because most people take care of their nutrition (Boise, ID) and I've been in an office where the food lasts an hour (Alexandria, LA). I'll let you decide which environment was generally healthier.
It can be shocking too if you move away and see slim people everywhere and realize how fat you are. Then you lose weight and go back to where you're from and everyone seems obese (because they are).
It's really rough. Rougher also that you can do your best and the fatty shoving donuts down their throat might outlive you because you're predisposed for cardiac events.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:21 am to GreatLakesTiger24
My adult work life is ten times easier than high school was, high school was brutal
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:22 am to GreatLakesTiger24
When Starbucks tried to schedule me for an 8 hour shift
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:23 am to TheWalrus
quote:for sure. soph-junior year of high school was much harder
My adult work life is ten times easier than high school was, high school was brutal
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:23 am to GreatLakesTiger24
When I had to bang on the glass for 15min begging the corrections officer for some bob barker TP so I could take a shite
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:23 am to GreatLakesTiger24
When the first paycheck but and I realized I wasted my time in college
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