I need a new job, help if you would. Options

[duders]

Congrats on the new job. 12 hours a week was ridiculous! I work at a supermarket called Publix in Miami. I roughly make 7.25/hr. 30 hours a week. I can barely pay my bills. Insurance is kind of high. I'm going to community college so it's not gonna be expensive. I hate the job, to much labor.

Exactly, too much work for the pay. I do and know enough at my job to make a couple bucks more but i don't cause they are all about saving money.

Yeah, I know dealing with customers in a grocery store can be a pain in the ass man. Least you got out of it. I've been thinking off applying at a(n) Advance Autoparts.

[cHinaman727]

New job worked out pretty well. Made 52 bucks in tips today, worked 9 hours, put 100 miles on my car (poor celica)

but i gotta tell you guys somethin that happened

I was droppin off food for this family a ways off, i was dead tired from the long day at work

The family had two little girs who weere really friendly.

Anyways, as I was walkng back to my car, I heard one of the little girls say to her dad, "that boy has a nice car"

haha that made my day.

Im tired, my legs hurt from shifting.

Good night

[duders]

So in this job you have to use your own car for the deliveries?

[cHinaman727]

So in this job you have to use your own car for the deliveries?

yeah, thats one thing i am skeptical about, but i need money

btw, what is bad about stopping/starting my car alot?

[duders]

Wearing your brakes, I would assume. Why?

Also, I would be worried about using my own car to, since I have high mileage and I don't want to add excessive miles, I also applied at Autoparts and Papajohns. So I hope AAP comes through, or I'm going to be delivering pizzas in my car.

[6strngs]

So in this job you have to use your own car for the deliveries?

yeah, thats one thing i am skeptical about, but i need money

btw, what is bad about stopping/starting my car alot?

well, in those few seconds of starting your car, it puts more wear on the engine then several hundred miles of freeway driving. make sure you do your oil changes as if under "severe" conditions as the owner's manual calls it. Which, for our cars is ever 3750 miles, but I'd do it every 3000 just to be safe. other than that, you''ll be going through brakes, tires, sprark plugs, and practically everything faster than before.

[cHinaman727]

thats alls well cause i need to do sparks and brakes soon enough.

besides im gettin around 50 in tips each shift, infact this week i will have made about 250 which is more than twce what i made in a week at my old job.

anyway, im comfortable at jasons deli right now, and when i go off to college in another city, ill probably get a more...serious job

I already change my oil every 3k

oh just rememberd that when I start my car, the oil light stays on for about 5-10 seconds and then flickers off... just wondering if that was normal.

anyway, thanks for the input guys

[6strngs]

thats alls well cause i need to do sparks and brakes soon enough.

besides im gettin around 50 in tips each shift, infact this week i will have made about 250 which is more than twce what i made in a week at my old job.

anyway, im comfortable at jasons deli right now, and when i go off to college in another city, ill probably get a more...serious job

I already change my oil every 3k

oh just rememberd that when I start my car, the oil light stays on for about 5-10 seconds and then flickers off... just wondering if that was normal.

anyway, thanks for the input guys

yep, that's normal. the airbag light should do it too, though it might only do that after you have disconnected the battery, I can't remember.

[cHinaman727]

yep, that's normal. the airbag light should do it too, though it might only do that after you have disconnected the battery, I can't remember.

thanks! ive been getting paranoid about my cars since i messed up my old one... i dont have the money to have a new car every month

[xs94st]

sh*t..i need a job.

i workd at vons for about 3 years. im so noob. then kmart ownd me with slave labor for 7.50 an hour n only 15 hours a week. lol.

i guess pizza deliv would be alrite, considerin im near a UC

[duders]

Hey, how much miles are you adding per like week delivering?

I ask because I just applied at Papajohns and I'm going to consider using my car for the job.

[cHinaman727]

So far, with two days of driving, i put about 100 each day i worked and that was a double.

So I guess a single, 4-6 hour shift would put around 50 on your car, and a double puts around 100... of course I am doing driving in downtown humble and i have to go on some deliveries 10 miles away.

I did a bunch of calculations and i should be making a net of 8k a year, which isn't bad for a freshman in college working 20-24 hours a week.

[Sh0gunkid8721]

when i was in college, id go to classes...16 credits. id put in about 3-4 hours of lab per day and work about 25 hours per week. red bull and coffee become ur best friend. learn to multi task while ur in college cuz ur gonna have to deal with it at ur real job and in life outside of college.

[duders]

Not bad. If I get the job at AAP and Papajohns, I'll work all 3 jobs. Those two jobs and my current one so, I don't know. No days off but I really, reaaaally need cash.

I will probably be putting like 80 miles a day. going to each job and deliveries, since all 3 jobs are close to each other.

This post has been edited by duders: Aug 22, 2007 - 2:24 AM

[eggman40]

right now i work at Graves Motorsports here in Van Nuys. Im making 12 an hour and will be starting school on friday. Ill just be coming in part time during the semester whenever i can. That works out pretty well for me.

[cHinaman727]

just came home with 65 dollars from a 64 mile day/10 hour day.

that means I am making 120 bucks and spending 7.50 on gas.

FROM ONE DAY!

w00t i love this job, plus the people i work with are badass