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re: what was your "welcome to the real world" moment after finishing school?
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:26 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:26 am to GreatLakesTiger24
I responded, but didn't answer. I think I didn't care about consequences even after getting out of school because I could work, make rent, and my mom was still down the road cooking/laundry.
The first time I felt a real "oh shite" feeling was in 2018. I was 26, my wife and I had just got married and moved across country. We had made poor choices that left us homeless for a few months. I was 60 pounds overweight, living in a car in a friend's driveway on thanksgiving, looking forward to our coming hotel stay because I could get drunk and watch LSU, with a dead end warehouse job. Talk about feeling shitty. I then realized that nobody was coming to save us.
Slowly we pulled ourselves up. Own a better vehicle now, a home, have a degree, lost 50 pounds. But it took being homeless 2000 miles away from anyone we knew.
The first time I felt a real "oh shite" feeling was in 2018. I was 26, my wife and I had just got married and moved across country. We had made poor choices that left us homeless for a few months. I was 60 pounds overweight, living in a car in a friend's driveway on thanksgiving, looking forward to our coming hotel stay because I could get drunk and watch LSU, with a dead end warehouse job. Talk about feeling shitty. I then realized that nobody was coming to save us.
Slowly we pulled ourselves up. Own a better vehicle now, a home, have a degree, lost 50 pounds. But it took being homeless 2000 miles away from anyone we knew.
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Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:27 am to poochie
Started my first job after getting that degree. Went to lunch at a crowded diner and hostess seated me at a table with an older man.
As we talked he asked about my job and I told him my job title,
executive assistant. He wished me a successful career.
He looked at his watch and said he had to get back to work as he was interviewing men for truck drivers.
I asked what did that type job pay and when he told me the starting salary it was $2000.00 a year more than I was making as an "executive".
Real world moment for certain.
As we talked he asked about my job and I told him my job title,
executive assistant. He wished me a successful career.
He looked at his watch and said he had to get back to work as he was interviewing men for truck drivers.
I asked what did that type job pay and when he told me the starting salary it was $2000.00 a year more than I was making as an "executive".
Real world moment for certain.
This post was edited on 1/30/23 at 10:32 am
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:30 am to StringedInstruments
Mine was from one specific dude who was really smart and was clearly the go to guy. After a few months on the job I learned that this particular guy was the person everyone went to when they had a problem. He knew more than anyone, including the manager, but he was a little overweight, too nice, a guy that kept to himself.. But I would have a conversation with him about other stuff not work related and it was like he was excited someone was talking to him for a reason other than work.
He wasn't the type who would stir up anything. He went to work, did his job and went home, but he was worth more than what he was making. That guy taught me that nice guys really don't get ahead. Know your value and don't let anyone push you around in the work place, no matter what their title is.
Because of him, I started being more of an arse just because I didn't want people to think "he is nice he will probably put aside what he needs to work on to do this for us".
He wasn't the type who would stir up anything. He went to work, did his job and went home, but he was worth more than what he was making. That guy taught me that nice guys really don't get ahead. Know your value and don't let anyone push you around in the work place, no matter what their title is.
Because of him, I started being more of an arse just because I didn't want people to think "he is nice he will probably put aside what he needs to work on to do this for us".
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:30 am to Rhio
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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.
Outside of theory, barely anything I learned in my program translated over into what I do today (networking).
Well, that and CLI. I do use a lot of CLI for routing, vlans, security, access lists, etc.
But even there, we're transferring over to Meraki switches so everything is going to go to a GUI interface.
I stand by my opinion that unless you're getting into management or an eventual c suite position in IT, degrees aren't worth it and you can save the time/money and get a few certs to get onto a help desk/work your way up from there.
without going into tons of detail, working internal IT for the legal side of things is leagues better than externally with SLAs written out for them at an MSP. You actually get treated fairly and they see you as a collogue, not a guy at AT&T or apple support. It's night and day.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:33 am to GreatLakesTiger24
I always assumed that once I finally got that “office job” with adults, as a manager, that I’d at least not have to deal with high school shite or with worthless employees.
Nope. I feel more and more like a babysitter every single day. I’ve fired more people for attendance issues and petty shite than I have for actual frick ups.
Come on people! You work for a fortune 500 company, you’re paid well above the industry average, we have the most “progressive” (lenient) work policies of any corporation I’ve ever seen, the benefits package is top notch … but you still can’t act like fricking adults and come to work on a semi regular basis?!?!
Nope. I feel more and more like a babysitter every single day. I’ve fired more people for attendance issues and petty shite than I have for actual frick ups.
Come on people! You work for a fortune 500 company, you’re paid well above the industry average, we have the most “progressive” (lenient) work policies of any corporation I’ve ever seen, the benefits package is top notch … but you still can’t act like fricking adults and come to work on a semi regular basis?!?!
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:33 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Bills
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:36 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Boss tried to open the first work meeting with a funny quote and then said "We are a team, we are a family here."
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:37 am to LoneStar23
1. The lack of time off. I could choose to take off the days before and after Thanksgiving if I wanted but that was two less vacation days in the summer.
2. About a month in I showed up for a meeting obviously hungover. I realized in college it was a badge of honor, but in the workplace being hungover is frowned upon.
3. I was ten minutes into my first job and realized neither college nor graduate school prepared me for my first job. I was fortunate enough to have access to the files the person put together before me and the first three months I just followed what they did. Then I gradually began adding my own touches. 26 years later and I’m still thankful to the man who had that job before me.
2. About a month in I showed up for a meeting obviously hungover. I realized in college it was a badge of honor, but in the workplace being hungover is frowned upon.
3. I was ten minutes into my first job and realized neither college nor graduate school prepared me for my first job. I was fortunate enough to have access to the files the person put together before me and the first three months I just followed what they did. Then I gradually began adding my own touches. 26 years later and I’m still thankful to the man who had that job before me.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:37 am to SlapahoeTribe
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Come on people! You work for a fortune 500 company, you’re paid well above the industry average, we have the most “progressive” (lenient) work policies of any corporation I’ve ever seen, the benefits package is top notch … but you still can’t act like fricking adults and come to work on a semi regular basis?!?!
My theory, based on nothing other than my experience in Boise after getting my degree and going into an office with a lot of young adults recently graduated, is that a lot of the people who get corporate jobs, especially ones with great benefits and good "culture", are usually the ones who least understand what a blessing it is.
A lot of the kids who graduate, even if they're very smart and driven, sometimes lack perspective and think that the benefitd you're offering are nothing because the grass is greener somewhere else. They might have had an easier upbringing, maybe financial aid paid for most of school, perhaps they've had a part-time job in school, but that's the extent. They've never been in a plumbing supply warehouse in the middle of a Louisiana summer trying to maneuver a fiberglass shower down from a mezzanine while a master plumber shouts at them for $11 an hour.
What I'm saying is, generally, they actually don't know that it can get a lot worse.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:40 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Being excited about a real world job starting at $36k…. Stayed for 3 years and moved on to make double that… Fast forward 10 years to current position is 5x’s that, damn those years sucked arse…
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:41 am to GreatLakesTiger24
When I bought my house and had kids. At that moment I knew I couldn’t just quit a job I didn’t like and had to work hard. Then at 30 I got into teaching and coaching, now I got it made.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:42 am to GreatLakesTiger24
I was working shift work full time and going to school - I was glad not to have to struggle to do both.
But only had to worry about work
But only had to worry about work
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:44 am to Odysseus32
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They've never been in a plumbing supply warehouse in the middle of a Louisiana summer trying to maneuver a fiberglass shower down from a mezzanine while a master plumber shouts at them for $11 an hour.
Holy shite. This is what I did in high school for a summer job Jr and Sr. year. It was al the motivation I needed to go to college. One guy was a year or 2 older than me and knocked up his old lady so this was his life. No way that was gonna be me.
Then after college I moved to a big city and was making just enough to live but absolutely zero margin for error. Like absolutely zero. I had to borrow a few hundred bucks from the parents one month to cover a heating bill and felt ashamed. Those 2 were probably my biggest "welcome to the real world" moments.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:44 am to cajuntiger1010
Sitting at my desk, getting ready to go into a meeting when the phone rang. I was expecting a call from our real estate agent. Had been married a year and we were buying our first house. It was the wife on the phone instead. She said she was pregnant. Hung up, and the phone immediately rang again. This time it was the real estate agent and, as expected, they had accepted our offer.
Welcome to the real world.
Welcome to the real world.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:46 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Dealing with regular people on a daily basis. I had been through a lot of higher education, military training (with folks typically very smart based on the field) and then graduate school.
I had even prepared myself for it and it was still shocking.
I had even prepared myself for it and it was still shocking.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:48 am to slacker130
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Boss tried to open the first work meeting with a funny quote and then said "We are a team, we are a family here."
when Desert Storm amped up, seemingly overnight, and everyone was getting deployed and scurrying around trying to make preparations, a friend of mine and I were watching over a beer and he said "it's time to pay for those flying lessons boys"
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:50 am to GreatLakesTiger24
My dad helping me pick out my first car right out of school and thinking he was going to help me pay for it to congratulate me on finishing college.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:52 am to GreatLakesTiger24
I was only a couple years out of college and didn't know shite. I was a young go getter; constantly busting my arse, working overtime, etc. I worked my way up to a senior project manager pretty quick at a oil field service/contracting outfit. At the time I thought I was killing it due to my promotion, but in reality my promotion was more likely due to the fact that they just didn't have enough personnel, and drilling activity was pretty hot in south Louisiana at the time. Long story short, I ended up being almost single handedly responsible for a drill barge getting hung up in shallow water for almost a month. our company got sued, I was in depositions for weeks, etc. my management took a bigger hit than me in the end, b/c they gave too much responsibility to an incompetent kid, but it was a horrid year or so. it was a nightmare and humbled me real quick. lol
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:53 am to Fewer Kilometers
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The look on the owner’s face when I asked how I was going to get paid for overtime.
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