My mum can get me a job - should I take it?

[LostMyMind]

Yes, CLEANING. I'm the kind of girl who never washes dishes, yet I would be expected to clean toilets among other things -

Take the job, there is a big difference between cleaning your "stuff" vs. getting paid to clean somebody's else "stuff". Myself, I don't clean much either (dusting that kind of thing). But when it's someone else's place, it somehow becomes a different mind set.

Beside, like it's been said. Once you have a job, your stock goes up and getting a different job becomes easier. And you never know, you might find "dull" type of work relaxing (at least you'll get a work out).

Without the "Cleaners", the world would be much much dirtier. So in aspect of proper, you can't get more proper than that.

[Rapscallion]

I think the important thing in your original post is the mention of money.

There are few on these boards who would go to work simply to work. Everyone needs money. If work was all rainbows and unicorns, this site wouldn't exist.

Rapscallion

[COMINATCHA]

Thanks for all the encouragement, I start work on Monday!
I didn't even need to go for an interview. The boss loves my mum, and when she said her daughter wanted a job, I was offered it straight away and asked to start next week.

[Banrion]

Good for you taking it. Remember this is nothing permanent, and jobs are kinda like men. Once you have one, 10 more come crawling out of the woodwork for ya. Once ya don't, they don't want ya.

I'm not sure where in Oz you are, but I have a friend in Melbourne who is having a terrible time finding a job. She recently finished her master's degree and still can't find work. It it coming down to the point where if she doesn't get a job soon, she is going to have to leave her fiance in Oz, and come back to the US to work.

[Becks]

Thanks for all the encouragement, I start work on Monday!

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!! Congrats!!!!!!

I hope it works out for you, short term OR long term.

[Rapscallion]

The other side to this is that it's always easier to get a job if you already have one.

Rapscallion

[COMINATCHA]

Well so far the job is going okay...it's such a huge difference to go from a job as a nightclub dancer to a cleaner pretty much There's no glamour about it, I cleaned my first toilet ever

Ive only been working there since monday, and today (thursday), I woke up with a rather embarasing problem i'd rather not share, and knew I had to call in sick. I was rostered to work 12pm-5pm and I didn't call them until 10.30am cause I was very reluctant to do it. My mum (who is a nurse) told me I had to fix the problem before it got worse, so I rang the boss.
I told her the situation, and she said - "If you really were sick, you would have called in earlier."

I was like

I know I SHOULD have called in earlier, but it's not like I set my alarm real early, just in case i should happen to wake up sick and need to give notice.

I didn't know what to say in response to that, there was a long pause on my part then I just said "Okay"

I feel bad for calling in sick so soon after starting a new job, but the only time I could get a doctor's appointment was 12.30

[JuniorMintz]

I was rostered to work 12pm-5pm and I didn't call them until 10.30am cause I was very reluctant to do it. My mum (who is a nurse) told me I had to fix the problem before it got worse, so I rang the boss. I told her the situation, and she said - "If you really were sick, you would have called in earlier."

I was like

I know I SHOULD have called in earlier, but it's not like I set my alarm real early, just in case i should happen to wake up sick and need to give notice.

Lesson learned. Bosses need notice just like we do-it's freaking annoying to be notified of a schedule change at the very last minute, right?

Or maybe I'm just bitter because I miss getting to sleep in like that.

[Pagan]

Good to see ya took the job. Just remember, it mostly doesn't matter how you got the job, you have to keep it! And do ya have another opening? I just did the currency conversion and that's about $13.50 USD, twice what I'm making!

I've been looking for a new job and just got one of those "although you have excellent qualifications" letters. Well, if my qualifications are so excellent, then why the hell aren't you hiring me, huh?

Side note:
PuckishOne and Crazyredhead
Do you think it's the age or the hair color? I'm 36 as well and decided that I'm going to enroll at CNM (Central Community College of New Mexico, or something like that, they just changed their name from TVI) in the Pharmacy Tech program and then look at the Pharmacology program at UNM. And yes, it is about the money!

[COMINATCHA]

Good to see ya took the job. Just remember, it mostly doesn't matter how you got the job, you have to keep it! And do ya have another opening? I just did the currency conversion and that's about $13.50 USD, twice what I'm making!

Yea It's good hey. I don't understand why they would pay so much for me to clean and run errands, but meh, i'm not complaining

[Ree]

I am very proud of you for taking the job, and I'm really happy that it's working out for you, Cominatcha.
That shows maturity.
Well done.

[LostMyMind]

on getting good pay. At least you're giving yourself a chance to see if you do like the job or not. And that says more about you than anything else

Jobs that most people "don't like to do", "can't do", or "won't do" should be paid better. In the states, those kinds of jobs would pay more but there is a "group" that will do those jobs so there is "labor competition", driving the pay down. (Not commenting on the social aspect of it, just explaining the business practice of "pay more for harder to find labor". Which is why computer science paid alot in the older days and now since the market is flooded, the is pay average.)

[Barefootgirl]

I don't understand why they would pay so much for me to clean and run errands, but meh, i'm not complaining

They pay so much because - guess what - nobody wants to be "just a cleaner". If no-one was cleaning, the hospitals would be cesspits. They could have the finest medical staff in the universe, but if the hospital was dirty and people were dying of HAIs* left, right and centre, it would be a crummy hospital.

There was a TV programme on here quite recently, called "Kim and Aggie Got To Hospital", about the cleanliness of one big, well-respected hospital in London. Kim and Aggie have a TV show called How Clean Is Your House, where they go to people with filthy homes, and help them clean. This particular hospital, while there were plenty of people trying, was actually, pretty dirty. One room, which was supposedly a sterile unit, had old, dried diarrhoea on the bedframe.

All over the world, hospitals desperately need cleaners who aren't afraid to work and who don't turn round at every opportunity and say "that's not my job". I applaud you for taking this job, and for sticking it at it, doing something worthwhile to actually help other people.

[COMINATCHA]

I'm still adjusting to a job that is SO completely different to dancing.
Like, just getting ready for work is a whole new experience now. Before, when I was a dancer, my getting-ready-for-work was a long process. I would get myself spray-tanned (when you show alot of skin, it's more flattering to be tanned, and my naturally pasty skin doesn't stand out as much). And the day leading up to my shift I would eat hardly anything so my stomach would be really flat for the stupid skimpy clothes. I'd spend ages doing my makeup, listening to music to get myself pumped, then i'd go to work.

Now I just throw on my clothes, tie my hair up, and off I go. I'm saving money cause i'm not using as much makeup, and not spray myself Paris Hilton style, I feel alot more normal and calmer, despite having a seemingly 'less fun' job, it's all good. I'm not surrounded by alcohol and sleaze anymore

[XCashier]

I feel alot more normal and calmer, despite having a seemingly 'less fun' job, it's all good.

That alone makes it a worthwhile job. Yeah, you get your hands dirty, but it's a different stress than other jobs.

I think I'd prefer a physically stressful job, like cleaning, over a mentally stressful job, like retail, waitressing, or pretty much most jobs out there. With a physical job, "taking your work home with you" means you forgot to wipe your shoes. You don't get mentally frazzled or have to deal with unreasonable customers. And a good hot bath at the end of the day takes care of the worst aspects.

Congratulations on the new job, Comi. Be sure to thank your mum!