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10 Dec 2010, 8:24 pm

Clyde wrote:

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Maybe do some volunteering.

Like what kind? My big flaw is working with people.

Look for a local volunteer organisation that can place you.

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10 Dec 2010, 9:40 pm

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Look for a local volunteer organisation that can place you.

Like an animal sanctuary?

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11 Dec 2010, 2:15 am

To be frank, your standards are BS.
If you haven't reached the point where you will work in fast food then you are spoiled.
Sorry to be so blunt, but someone obviously needs to say it to you.

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11 Dec 2010, 3:34 am

Schala wrote:

To be frank, your standards are BS.
If you haven't reached the point where you will work in fast food then you are spoiled.
Sorry to be so blunt, but someone obviously needs to say it to you.

I have privileges other people do not have, yes. But that doesn't make me spoiled.

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11 Dec 2010, 1:31 pm

Clyde wrote:

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Look for a local volunteer organisation that can place you.

Like an animal sanctuary?

Sure, if there's one near you, write to them. Co-incidentally, I had an interview at an animal sanctuary just last month.

I really meant that there's probably organizations that hook volunteers up with businesses and charities that want volunteers. I don't know what they'd be called in your area, but a googling might help.

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11 Dec 2010, 1:48 pm

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I know one of the animal sanctuaries wanted someone to fix their website for them and write newsletters.

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11 Dec 2010, 2:54 pm

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I'm so sorry I have standards. That just isn't an environment for me. Obviously you don't know me. One I'm vegan, which means I haven't really had any meat products in a year. Just the smell alone of cooking meat is disgusting.

I hate public restaurants to begin with. I mean I already sent in applications for places like Ihop, Red Lobster, etc. Sit in restaurants.

People talk so loud in public places, the voices begin to penetrate my brain and they bounce off and echo around. I feel dizzy, then everything seems brighter and seems to get louder. When I use to hang with my friends after school and they went to places like Mcdonalds, and it was really busy. There was a lot of people, I couldn't focus on what other people were saying. I became almost over sensitive. I swear I could hear the grease popping.

I just can't. Because if I did...I'd probably one out of there. I need air. I need space. I might be desperate. But I'd never want to put myself into harms way either. I can be desperate and still care about my personal sanity.

Standards? You're not looking for a date but a job - it's the employer who is able to have standards. There are many days I hate going to work and many tasks which I have to do that are difficult for me but I have to do it for a wage. I've never had anything unless I worked for it, even as a child so maybe the issue is what's already been said - you're spoilt!
Oh and that BS about smell is pathetic - you weren't born a vegan, it was a choice you made.

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11 Dec 2010, 3:03 pm

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My mom is vegan and my dad is vegetarian....so yes...I was sorta born into it.

Look, I have a different family structure then you. I believe that has given a sound enough base to start off somewhere like Ihop, or Outback.

I will not work in fast food. I want to start at a higher rung of a ladder then most people. And that's what my parents set up for me years ago. That's what my dad wanted for me. That's why he educated and taught me the way he did. Because he didn't want me to start where he started.

It isn't that I'm spoiled. Its that I have luxuries and privileges to start higher then you did. I was given a family structure and given an education structure that gives me the possibility to work at a higher rung of ladder then fast food.

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11 Dec 2010, 3:22 pm

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Well clearly you didn't pal, I've never worked in fast food, supermarkets or any similar 'lowly' job (besides bar work, but that was a second job to try to improve myself socially) and have been better off than my parents for years. The difference is, I would do these jobs if, like you, I had no better options - just because I'm advocating it, doesn't mean I had to use the route.

You're expecting a good job to be handed to you because of 'luxuries and privileges' rather than your own hard work - I think you need to get over yourself, to be honest.

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11 Dec 2010, 3:25 pm

I'm confused, what's so different about fast food and sit down restaurants? They are both public places and loud. They both have meat and are minimum wage.

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11 Dec 2010, 3:31 pm

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I'm confused, what's so different about fast food and sit down restaurants? They are both public places and loud. They both have meat and are minimum wage.

I think it's the OP's pre-conceived ideas about the workers of each of those type of establishments.

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11 Dec 2010, 3:51 pm

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You're expecting a good job to be handed to you because of 'luxuries and privileges' rather than your own hard work - I think you need to get over yourself, to be honest.

No. My privileges and luxuries gave me opportunities to work harder. You obviously have no clue what kind of life I have had.

I think that at current as long as I have this stable base, I will not work at fast food.

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I'm confused, what's so different about fast food and sit down restaurants? They are both public places and loud. They both have meat and are minimum wage.

I don't need to be close to the kitchen, I can work at the counter and usually Ihop counters are farther from the kitchen. I can walk people to their tables or something like that.

Location of kitchen really.

I'd work somewhere like Subway which is fast food, but nothing is cooked in grease and has that smell. Though I may refuse cheese. I can't stand the smell of cheese, it smells so rotten.

I also can't really stand the smell of fish either. But there is no fish there...so safe.

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11 Dec 2010, 4:07 pm

Clyde wrote:

Obviously I don't but it was you who said they were the reason you could start higher than me:

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Its that I have luxuries and privileges to start higher then you did.

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You'll still have to serve the food and smell it that way so there's no escape. Once you're used to it it won't be a problem and could actually help you handle it in other places too.

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11 Dec 2010, 4:20 pm

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You also conveiniently didn't respond to my answering of your asumption about my life.

It's clearly your choice as to what you apply for but clearly you're struggling, otherwise this thread wouldn't exist so it seems silly to narrow your choices due to snobery.

You'll still have to serve the food and smell it that way so there's no escape. Once you're used to it it won't be a problem and could actually help you handle it in other places too.

It has nothing to do with snobbery. It has to do with preferences.

No. Host don't serve food.

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11 Dec 2010, 4:28 pm

Clyde wrote:

It has nothing to do with snobbery. It has to do with preferences.

No. Host don't serve food.

A job seeker only really gets to have a preference when they have a number of job offers. You're not getting what you're going for so maybe you're aiming too high.

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11 Dec 2010, 4:45 pm

Mark198423 wrote:

A job seeker only really gets to have a preference when they have a number of job offers. You're not getting what you're going for so maybe you're aiming too high.

I tend to go for newly established places. Like they are building this store that will need workers, and they just rebuilt the Target who needs more workers.

I went for Kohls as well which was newly built.

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