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re: what was your "welcome to the real world" moment after finishing school?
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:53 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:53 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Finding and paying for an apartment by myself.
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Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:54 am to GreatLakesTiger24
When the chick I just met said “I’m pregnant”
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:57 am to Odysseus32
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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.
Oh my God, you’re so much better than everyone. Here’s your applause…
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:59 am to GreatLakesTiger24
For my first job I realized that what I learned in 4 years of undergrad I never used in the real world. The degree was essentially a checkbox.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 11:01 am to GreatLakesTiger24
First week out of college found me surveying for a new natural gas pipeline across the Maurepas Swamp down to Reserve. Had to carry my 45 to keep water mocassins and gators off of us during their mating season.
My first office was the stump of a tree that one of the rodmen had just cut down. In hip waders all day during the summer. Fun.
My first office was the stump of a tree that one of the rodmen had just cut down. In hip waders all day during the summer. Fun.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 11:03 am to GreatLakesTiger24
We are pregnant.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 11:06 am to bird35
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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.
Probably a month into my first job out of law school, I came in hungover on a Friday and was working in a conference room with the managing partner. He smelled me and made some comments. Then that afternoon he asked me to draft a letter for him; when I would bring it to him he would have the most unnecessary changes for me to make. shite like moving the Re: and date line down then back up. I finally realized he was just keeping me there until he left as punishment
Posted on 1/30/23 at 11:06 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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This post was edited on 5/22/23 at 10:22 pm
Posted on 1/30/23 at 11:16 am to GreatLakesTiger24
When I got my first paycheck and saw how much money was taken out for taxes.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 11:20 am to OlGrandad
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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".
4+ years after graduating, I was trying to make a living as a mortgage broker. It wasn't easy and since it was 100% commision-based, you didn't make much money when interest rates when rates were high. Back in 1987 rates jumped from 9% to 11.5% in a matter of months. It just so happened that I took a loan application from a friend of mine who was a UPS driver. When I found out how much money UPS drivers were paid, I jokingly told him to tell the Division Manager, who I knew because he had been married to my best friend's sister, to give me a job. My friend called me a few days later and told the the DM wanted me to call him. I took my degree over to UPS and gladly humped packages for 10 years before going into management.
This post was edited on 1/30/23 at 12:00 pm
Posted on 1/30/23 at 11:21 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Recognizing how difficult it was to get a job after graduation.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 11:24 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Early 2015 at my first job out of college for an O&G consulting firm.
Sitting in the bullpen when 1/3 of the analysts were suddenly locked out of their desktops and asked to go to the conference room. Their stuff was packed while they were told they were being laid off.
Sitting in the bullpen when 1/3 of the analysts were suddenly locked out of their desktops and asked to go to the conference room. Their stuff was packed while they were told they were being laid off.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 11:24 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Starting as a first time pharmacist on the evening shift for Walgreens in New Orleans East. 
This post was edited on 1/30/23 at 11:25 am
Posted on 1/30/23 at 11:25 am to chillygentilly
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Sitting in the bullpen when 1/3 of the analysts were suddenly locked out of their desktops and asked to go to the conference room. Their stuff was packed while they were told they were being laid off.
hopefully that left an impression, it's likely that they were being replaced by cheap labor(you)
Posted on 1/30/23 at 11:29 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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what was your "welcome to the real world" moment after finishing school?
I lived at home during college at LSU and my mom pretty much spoiled us boys.
So when I graduated and headed to Dallas, it was the first time out on my own. One night right after moving in my apartment, I remember throwing a food wrapper towards the garbage can and missed. I saw the wrapper sitting there on the floor next to the trash can an hour later and it hit me, "That wrapper will stay there until you pick it up. You're gonna have to clean up after yourself now, ya frickin slob."
Sounds trivial but it had a profound effect on me that I remember well 23 years later.
This post was edited on 1/30/23 at 11:30 am
Posted on 1/30/23 at 11:30 am to MSTiger33
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Starting as a first time pharmacist on the evening shift for Walgreens in New Orleans East.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 11:32 am to Breauxsif
They used to cut the plastic handles off the diaper bags. I asked why. Manager said that people could only steal two at a time vs four or six at a time if they cut the handles.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 11:34 am to mikelbr
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it had a profound effect on me that I remember well 23 years later.
must have been about the time you first watched gay porn too
Posted on 1/30/23 at 11:40 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.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 11:42 am to poochie
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Oh my God, you’re so much better than everyone. Here’s your applause…
I'm not attacking you.
I don't care what you do.
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