Curaga Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 I work at Home Depot, and I'm in charge of all of the money, (I work in the vault). I'm applying for Office Max, they just opened a store in town. (Town population = 40,000) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lair Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 I work on this site, mining deeper and going further! ಠ_ಠI don't work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curaga Posted February 16, 2012 Author Share Posted February 16, 2012 I work on this site, mining deeper and going further! ಠ_ಠI don't work Do you earn a living? Any income? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McJobless Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 I...I really dunno. About two years ago I got a job at McDonalds. I haven't had a shift in 11 months. I assume I've been fired. I've since started handing out resumes...hopefully get a job at the local chemist or EB Games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyrem Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 I haven't had a shift in 11 months. I assume I've been fired. Did you ever check your roster? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curaga Posted February 16, 2012 Author Share Posted February 16, 2012 It's REALLY easy to find work up in Alaska, there are jobs everywhere. Not because there isn't enough people, but because there aren't enough people who are passing the drug tests. We're probably the lowest hit by the economy, it's practically unreal. Not to mention we have no crime, and everyone likes to help everyone here. We don't live in concrete cities, since we literally have a the nation's largest National Forest, (17 million acres) surrounding us. Also, with the subsistence hunting/fishing/growing capabilities, we can really maintain on our own without help from down south. If there was a national food shortage/crisis, we would literally be unscathed, just probably wouldn't see Cheetohs on the store shelves anymore. Juneau Alaska, (where I live) is the largest city in the USA by land area, at 3100 Sqr miles it's larger than Delaware. Our cost of living is a lot higher up here compared to down south, (average mobile home/apartment costing anywhere between $700 for the smallest studies, to $1400 for anywhere with 3-4 bed/bath) so we get payed a lot more in our jobs than anywhere down south. Average starting pay for any part-time retail position is usually around $10 - $11, and that's just being like a Cashier at our Fred Meyer/Wal-Mart. Jobs in the mines around the area start your pay at around $19-20 an hour. You work for 2 weeks, (get as much overtime as you want, as you're staying on-site for the 2 weeks, having food and sleep without any extra costs) and then take a week off. Paychecks from working at one of the mines can range from $4,000.00 - $6,000.00 dollars, and if you're working at the mine for 2 weeks, your bills are a lot cheaper at home. Yearly, Alaskan's who have been living in the state for over a year + get paid a "royalty" for living there. It's under the Alaskan Permanent Fund Dividend, and you can get if you're only 2 years old, or even 102 years old. The Dividend is distributed between all registered Alaskan citizens who have applied in the beginning of the year, and gets sent out in late October. The program basically is a state-run stock market shareholder, and every citizen in the state that applies, (who have been living in the state for over a year +, and must remain IN THE STATE for that time) gets a cut of what the stocks/bonds/real estate and all the other investments sell for. With the state having only 650,000 residents, the investments are obviously really big. The average payout of a years' dividend has been about $1,100.00 per registered resident a year. You can use this money in any way you want, it's 100% yours, no strings attached. For the first 14 years of my life, mine was put into a bank account every year for college. Once I turned 16, I started getting to give my own input into what I wanted to use it for, and when you turn 18, your parents aren't allowed to be in control of it anymore, and this last fall I built my $2,000.00 desktop, which if I bought from HP/Dell/Acer or even a custom computer building site, would have cost me upwards of $3,000. The only downsides to living here are really just the shipping costs/time. You can only usually ship UPS Second Day, which really is UPS Third Day because it's always delivered 3 - 4 days later. It rains about 250 - 300 days a year, so the rumors about Alaska being in 30 days of night may not be true, but it is true that we don't always see the sunlight. Most days feature overcast clouds, and are really wet. However, we do live in a rainforest, so there are a lot of exotic plants here, and the animal/wildlife flourishes in the weather, so I don't see to it as a downside. Drivers here are really impatient. I think that's the end of my Alaska sum up. I...I really dunno. About two years ago I got a job at McDonalds. I haven't had a shift in 11 months. I assume I've been fired. I've since started handing out resumes...hopefully get a job at the local chemist or EB Games. Would be cool if all of a sudden you got like $100,000.00 in a severance paycheck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addictgamer Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 I'm not yet employed, I'm looking for a job. I'm trying for the nearby Toys R Us, since they have around 10 openings. Discount Lego! If I'm accepted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McJobless Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Did you ever check your roster? Yup. Problem is, they didn't explain well enough that I had to check the instore rooster, not the one on the internet. Idiots. Would be cool if all of a sudden you got like $100,000.00 in a severance paycheck. I'd piss my pants with rainbows in joy, go and kiss my manager then run off into the sunset, proclaiming that I am now king of the trees. Storm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lair Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Do you earn a living? Any income? ... ಠ_ಠI'm sixteen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyrem Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Do you earn a living? Any income? ... ಠ_ಠI'm sixteen. Thats 2 years past the working age. You could have already had a job. Lair 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenyx Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 I used to work at a hobby store specializing in RC cars, but the store went under. By the way, ಠ_ಠLair 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baz Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Applying to graduate school, in astronomy research, specifically studying extrasolar planets. Might have a short brevia on my current research published in Science :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cirevam Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Thats 2 years past the working age. You could have already had a job. Most American jobs don't allow you to start until you're sixteen, though sometimes you can work at fifteen. I started working at fifteen but I don't know anyone who has worked a real job at fourteen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curaga Posted February 17, 2012 Author Share Posted February 17, 2012 Thats 2 years past the working age. You could have already had a job. Most American jobs don't allow you to start until you're sixteen, though sometimes you can work at fifteen. I started working at fifteen but I don't know anyone who has worked a real job at fourteen. I got my first job lifting freight/boxes and delivering furniture at 14. You can most definitely get any job at 14, you just got to find an employment opportunity down south that doesn't have anyone from 14 through 40 applying for the position. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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