If I was to move to Indianapolis, would I be able to find a job? (school, college)

[missik999]

Originally Posted by domergurl

please enlighten us:

You don't want factory work
You don't want office work
You don't want to work hard

What is it that you do??

Don't forget the short attention span!

My company is hiring but I don't think the OP would be a good fit.

[Cosmic Thunder]

I work in a wafer fab for the past 31 years so I can be choosy.

I guess I'm bored and ready for a change. I feel like time is running out. I would work in a factory if I could work in a parts room, some place inside the factory where the work isn't so routine and tedious. But to sit or stand at a machine all day or night and do the same thing over and over I ain't gonna do that, unless the bottom falls out of everything and I have no choice.

You are right, I don't work hard. I work smart. There's a big big difference.

[Cosmic Thunder]

Originally Posted by missik999

Don't forget the short attention span!

My company is hiring but I don't think the OP would be a good fit.

I meant small towns give me a short attention span, unless I happened to have been born there or kind of familiar with the area. And I already have a job, the been at the same place for 31 years, so if I can't find a job in Indianapolis that meets my requirements, then I won't move there, no biggie.

Like I said in an earlier post, I'm just fishing around to see what's out there. It is nice to know that a job would need me more than I need the job. It wasn't always that way.

[boner]

Driving on US 31 between Indy and Kokomo I saw the plant for the new Chrysler transmission factory. I think they are going to need about 1500 people.

[Diana1975]

Lol let me know what job you find ,sounds awesome

[domergurl]

I never thought of using the line "I don't work hard, I work smart" during a job interview.

[Cosmic Thunder]

If you truly understand it's meaning and you can back it up, you oughta try it sometime. Your interviewer will probably be impressed. They hear the phrase "I'm a hard worker", from nearly every potential employee they interview so much that it virtually means nothing.

People who work smart instead of hard, they get the job done right the first time and in a least stressful and most orderly fashion and stay on top of things at all times and still remain laid back and a joy to work with. People who work hard and not smart, they get the job done, but in a very stressful and most unorderly fashion and they usually have such mess going on they don't know what's going on, and they find their selves stressed out and mentally drained and on edge and irritable, and virtually unapproachable by other co workers for fear of having their heads taken off.

My boss and every boss before him loves my philosophy of "work smart not hard".

[Toxic Toast]

This concept of "working smarter not harder" comes up often in my workplace. In fact, and maybe this is a generational thing, I find it odd that people are scoffing at it.

[domergurl]

If someone told me that they "work smarter" ... I would want them to back it up. How does one work smarter? Someone telling me they are a hard worker goes a lot farther with me. Saying you work "smarter" is silly. One has to work at a particular job for awhile, learn the ropes and then work "smart". There's always a learning curve to "smart".

It's smug and unprofessional and reeks of a former poster.

[Toxic Toast]

Originally Posted by domergurl

If someone told me that they "work smarter" ... I would want them to back it up. How does one work smarter? Someone telling me they are a hard worker goes a lot farther with me. Saying you work "smarter" is silly. One has to work at a particular job for awhile, learn the ropes and then work "smart". There's always a learning curve to "smart".

It's smug and unprofessional and reeks of a former poster.

I can't speak to how one works smarter not harder in a wafer lab; but in my line of work, in an office among other professionals, it is not hard to employ a "working smarter not harder" mindset and anyone who needs more than a month to figure out how to manage their time needs to be working elsewhere.