Should i be thankful for being hired at a Subway restaurant? (unemployement, applications)
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I just came home from an exhausting day from Subway today, lots of cleaning, re-racking the doritos chips, standing all day figuring out how to make subs, sweeping, moping, etc..
The good part is that they are giving me 42'ish hours, but the pay grade is generally going to be 8 to 9 dollars.
Should i just sucker it up and be thankful, or do i mentally pride myself from not taking this position because I know that i can do better?
Personally, I believe that you should take the "42'ish" hours as frequently as possible and more if you are offered (and be darn grateful for it). Whenever the exact place and time arrives where you can actually "do better" with a concrete position elsewhere...go for it!
Please be sure, when that day arrives, you provide two weeks notice and thank Subway for the opportunity to have worked for them; just always seems like the 'right thing' to do, imo.
Best of luck to you now and in the future...and many years of learning and success to you as well.
Screwed around too much in life, college drop-out after 1 year in Community College for a computer operations degree that i didn't felt on pursuing.
Mostly just retail(shoe salesman) and computer repair experience, but I always took the easy way out, always hanged out with the bad crowd, always enjoyed the gaming life, the social life, the party's, drinking, etc...
It's been damn near impossible to find any half-decent job. Everything on craigslist has 9000+ applications, and even when a job that i thought I'd really secure, I never was able to receive it.
I just came home from an exhausting day from Subway today, lots of cleaning, re-racking the doritos chips, standing all day figuring out how to make subs, sweeping, moping, etc..
The good part is that they are giving me 42'ish hours, but the pay grade is generally going to be 8 to 9 dollars.
Should i just sucker it up and be thankful, or do i mentally pride myself from not taking this position because I know that i can do better?
You should feel very proud of yourself. You have a full time job and you will put in an honest days work and be rewarded for it. Just keep working hard and learn as much as you can. There is learning to be done in any job you work. Maybe one day you'll open a competing sandwich shop or maybe you'll move on to something else after putting in your time and setting some money aside. But never be ashamed of honest and hard work. And enjoy your time off when you get it.
Times are tough. Many of us, even with STEM degrees (especially in life sciences and other research fields vs. engineering) and years of experience, have had our salaries frozen for nearly a decade.
I'm sorry.
When I was your age, I had a salary but I was also working 60+ hours per week for that salary, and yes, I was grateful.
No, no, no, don't ruin your health over a job that pays you so little and that is likely to impede any forward movement by sapping your energy and taking up so much of your time. Yes, yes, yes, ask the manager who is concerned and kind to you to continue to talk with you and help you - perhaps ask him to set you at 20 hours, and RETURN TO SCHOOL. Is there a community college where you can try again? Get a useful skill, either a blue-collar skill or something like an accounting certificate. WHAT are your interests? You mentioned gaming, you mentioned computer skills. Can you revisit that educational area with a more mature attitude now, and gain enough courses/skills to work in that area? Do you live in a part of the country where there are enough jobs, or would you be willing to relocate, once you have useful skills, to one of the (very few, sadly) boom areas such as Midland/Odessa? We are CRYING for accounting staff, for mechanics, for IT people. You have had some setbacks, but you are young and you can move FORWARD in life!
Yesterday, i felt like my life was literally crumbling down when i had to sweep the floors several times. I never had to work this much hard -for a paycheck, even in my Shoe salesman & computer repair job, it was stressful, but i was able to manage and not let it get to me.
My world sort of came crumbling down - when i had to wash some of the subway plates and organize everything. I never cleaned a bathroom in my entire life.
My mom spoiled me, she did everything for me, she cooked, cleaned, laundried for me, nurtured me, i took her for granted, and now in the real world, I'm left to do the things in which seem absolutely unjustifiable to me. I regret spending 5 grand on my mom's credit card for partying and dropping out of college, i regret not doing something with my life in my early twenties, i just damnit, why am i such a lazy s.o.b? Why do i want everything handed to me in a silver platter? Why don't i have that discipline/5% mentality?
My manager was cool as hell tho. He was the one training me, he told me to text him any time, to come to his office anytime. He told me stick around me, and you're going to learn a lot more to know about life and stuff in general, and upkeeping and other future-responsibilities of when i get married/kids or just a girlfriend.
I guess when you just sort of came from that lazy, cozy, all-bubble-go-lucky cloud, you think you're going to be move at that pace.
It's not that I'm refusing to do the job, it's just that my eyes have never been opened up as drastically as it has, upon working at such a quick-paced, multi-tasked / do-everything-for-less type of position/ordeal before.
Lots of people here need to read this and learn. Your biggest problem is that you didn't get this job, at least part time, when you were fifteen or sixteen.
Before my husband got his current career, he worked at Chick Fil A at the mall working 20hrs for $8/hr to support our family. It sucked. The hours sucked. He hated it. BUT he took it and made it work. Now he is in his career position and happy.
You should be thankful. Practically worshiping your boss's feet.
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