Life lessons you wish you'd picked up sooner

[t_94]

You can't make runs sitting in the pavilion!

The aim of batting is to score runs, not merely to stay in.

 

[blueboy25]

Most enjoyable jobs I've had where pulling beers and warehouse work. Damn shame they are also the lowest paid!

My most enjoyable job was doing night fill at my local supermarket when I was studying.

This was back in the days when supermarkets in WA closed at 5 or 6pm so we had the store to ourselves so no customers to bother us, the music was cranked up and you had a laugh.

The staff were like me or old girls who were trying to earn a few extra bucks.

 

[BACCS]

If you don't love the career you are in, take the risk and go do what you're actually passionate about (I made the leap recently after a decade in my career). Whether it means earning more or less money doesn't matter, you'll feel a lot happier and have far less stress in your life.

 

[Gralin]

I'd quite like a career change but the finances don't really work currently, like at all

 

[the_interloper]

My most enjoyable job was doing night fill at my local supermarket when I was studying.

This was back in the days when supermarkets in WA closed at 5 or 6pm so we had the store to ourselves so no customers to bother us, the music was cranked up and you had a laugh.

The staff were like me or old girls who were trying to earn a few extra bucks.

I enjoyed the bottleshop, worked with cool people and the customers were on the whole good (except for the campaigner that tried to egg me)

 

[conrad_437]

I just completed my degree and am looking for full time work/considering further study. I'm worried I'll look back in 10 years and say that the current casual role I am in (working at a pool/gym) will be the best job I ever had. It's so laid back.

 

[Engimal v3]

My most enjoyable job was doing night fill at my local supermarket when I was studying.

This was back in the days when supermarkets in WA closed at 5 or 6pm so we had the store to ourselves so no customers to bother us, the music was cranked up and you had a laugh.

The staff were like me or old girls who were trying to earn a few extra bucks.

Same here, worked at Woolies before my first "real" job after uni. Met my wife there, who was my supervisor haha

 

[the_interloper]

Same here, worked at Woolies before my first "real" job after uni. Met my wife there, who was my supervisor haha

You could sue her, argue coercion as she was in a position of power over you!

 

[revo333]

My most enjoyable job was doing night fill at my local supermarket when I was studying.

This was back in the days when supermarkets in WA closed at 5 or 6pm so we had the store to ourselves so no customers to bother us, the music was cranked up and you had a laugh.

The staff were like me or old girls who were trying to earn a few extra bucks.

I know a few guys who went back to doing night fill because they enjoyed it so much in their 20's, although harder to do now they have a family but if you do it long enough it's a job you can do on autopilot.

Although not too many stores in Victoria do 9pm - 6am filling anymore.

 

[the_interloper]

One of your main focuses at your job should be trying to be as low maintenance to your direct report as you can. Even if you're deficient in other areas this can really make sure they want you around (especially if other team members are high maintenance)

 

[Cookie]

Sit down with your grandparents and get them to tell you about their life. If there is any dirt to be got, get it.
It's your duty to be the custodian of secrets to pass onto your grand children.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Sit down with your grandparents and get them to tell you about their life. If there is any dirt to be got, get it.
It's your duty to be the custodian of secrets to pass onto your grand children.

Agree. There are so many things I wish I’d asked my mother about. Although I did pick up quite a bit from her conversations with her own siblings. As you get older yourself you do reflect more on your parents as people, not as your parents. For instance, their lives before you came along. It’s quite difficult to get your head around that difference.

My grandparents all passed on while I was quite young.

I don’t know, though, that our kids would be necessarily much interested in the generations before us.

 

[Gough]

My grandparents didn't bitch about their nearly health as much as their kids do, almost every time I speak to one of them conversation starts with which bit of them isn't working properly this week.

 

[Andre]

My grandparents didn't bitch about their nearly health as much as their kids do, almost every time I speak to one of them conversation starts with which bit of them isn't working properly this week.

Yeah, but this would be largely grandparents didn't / don't bitch about their health to their grandkids. My mum (84) I get the run down on everything that aches etc. most times I talk to her, yet she doesn't do that when talking to my kids (who at 16/18 are old enough to know what she'd be talking about). I think half of this is 'Well we took care of all your aches and ills when a kid and comforted you. Now it's your turn to comfort me.'

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Yeah, but this would be largely grandparents didn't / don't bitch about their health to their grandkids. My mum (84) I get the run down on everything that aches etc. most times I talk to her, yet she doesn't do that when talking to my kids (who at 16/18 are old enough to know what she'd be talking about). I think half of this is 'Well we took care of all your aches and ills when a kid and comforted you. Now it's your turn to comfort me.'

Kids don’t want to listen to a list of Grandma’s ailments. They want to tell her about themselves and soak up her love and admiration, which is a grandparent’s role in their lives.

You, though, are a different story. It’s your role to be the one she can let it all out to

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

I enjoyed the bottleshop, worked with cool people and the customers were on the whole good (except for the campaigner that tried to egg me)

Yeah bottle-o was cool. Made me realise how quickly you pick up on what 'the usual' is with regular customers, having never been on that side of the register before I had that job. I never realised how many people go to a drive through and just buy one or two stubbles or cans of beer or a premix. And follow that routine pretty much every day.

Good for the mental arithmetic too, stuff like ringing up a slab, keeping a mental note of when I'd sold three six packs of the same beer and taking the fourth sixer for myself. It wasn't condoned, but they wouldn't really bother looking if the sales, inventory and register lined up (or close enough).

 

[Soups]

Give up or limit alcohol and get up and do your morning work out at 4.30am before work. Never thought I could do this consistently and never understood people who could do it. It’s a hard slog at times but coming home from work and doing whatever you want to end the day is a good feeling.

 

[IAMDASH]

Yeah bottle-o was cool. Made me realise how quickly you pick up on what 'the usual' is with regular customers, having never been on that side of the register before I had that job. I never realised how many people go to a drive through and just buy one or two stubbles or cans of beer or a premix. And follow that routine pretty much every day.

Good for the mental arithmetic too, stuff like ringing up a slab, keeping a mental note of when I'd sold three six packs of the same beer and taking the fourth sixer for myself. It wasn't condoned, but they wouldn't really bother looking if the sales, inventory and register lined up (or close enough).

So essentially stealing from your employer?

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

So essentially stealing from your employer?

I can see how someone would look at it that way.

 

[Engimal v3]

Acting obtuse deliberately is one of the greatest powers that you have.

If someone is making a stupid point, pretend to misunderstanding/misinterpret and make them explain their stupid point in front of everyone. It's very fun, and more effective than calling them out directly.

 

[the_interloper]

Acting obtuse deliberately is one of the greatest powers that you have.

If someone is making a stupid point, pretend to misunderstanding/misinterpret and make them explain their stupid point in front of everyone. It's very fun, and more effective than calling them out directly.

I have a work colleague who is incredibly dumb, he loves a vague question "oh remember that customer who had that opportunity" or something similar. Even if I know what he's talking about i'll make him look up the details on the CRM or whatever, I'm trying to train him to come to me with the actual specifics.

I mean it hasn't worked yet but I'm trying!

 

[errant bounce]

I know a few guys who went back to doing night fill because they enjoyed it so much in their 20's, although harder to do now they have a family but if you do it long enough it's a job you can do on autopilot.

Although not too many stores in Victoria do 9pm - 6am filling anymore.

Now you'd basically be a 'where's the cornflakes?' usher and work with a bunch of sadsack immigrants who'll do anything they can to take your hours off you. manager is some 24-year old power tripping little Malaysian bloke. three hour shifts four times a week and one of them is always a weekend.

Do you still get hot chicks in those sort of uni jobs anymore? pubs probably but most would be doing part-time email job shite I imagine. used to be cool when you'd look forward to your six hour night shift knowing it was a Tuesday, the shop would be dead, and she'd be forced to talk to you. was always good because they had shitty temporary boyfriends because who's sticking with the bloke down the road when you're 20. inevitably they'd break up and get pissed with you after work and you'd get a little kissy. pretty cool.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

Acting obtuse deliberately is one of the greatest powers that you have.

If someone is making a stupid point, pretend to misunderstanding/misinterpret and make them explain their stupid point in front of everyone. It's very fun, and more effective than calling them out directly.

I did this to a colleague who would make sexist or inappropriately dirty jokes at work. I'd just play dumb and ask him to explain it a few times and he'd squirm and get super awkward. He doesn't tell stupid jokes anymore.