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[aebbarfo]

Working at a job in Silicon Valley at a major IC manufacturer. My hobby was building and designing micro-computers, LONG befor the IBM-PC, including BBS setups. You always go to job fairs every weekend to get raises, that is how you get ahead. So I saw CRI, only an hour from where I was born, and said " What the hell " and gave them my resume. " We only hire top level people. Get your masters and we MAY interview you ".. I understand they got no candidates that time. 3 Months later, all the HR people were not there but the hiring managers were. I said " What the hell " again and gave the hiring managers my resume. They in turn, gave it to the one who had a brand new $5 MILLION wafer fab operation and no-one to get it running, He dragged me back into the interview area and with the same language used back home he said " Your not B---Sh-tting me, did you really do all this stuff? ". I said " Yes, I really have ". My only lack was the degree in an area where they did not have any training for: Bleeding edge technology. The on-site interview was two weeks later, and the job offer almost beat me home. I got TWO letter I should have framed. One was the HR form letter saying I was unqualified and the other was the job offer and how fast could I start? I have always hated HR since that day. I spent my 22nd birthday driving a U-Haul loaded with stuff from my room and my first two cars I owned. I spent nearly 8 years at CRI in Chippewa Falls, WI. I as offered a lifetime job there, however it was their life that died, not mine. I did get the training to help built this new communication system that DARPA had designed. I became one of the builders of this new system everyone uses call the World Wide Web AKA the Internet. Around 30 years ago. I also helped design and build supercomputers and my original dream was getting computers to communicate with each other. Yes, I am that old and watched the world change, with more good then bad. I chased my dream and caught it. One of the few that did it.

[sldwiseowl]

Not a job but university. I was a second year doing a degree in music, I got a part time job by accident. I applied for a job as a cashier but messed up the interview because I couldn't do maths very well. I was walking out and remembered something I'd read on reddit earlier that morning and said "thank you for showing me everything I need to impove on" I didn't get the job but got a call a week later from the cook at the shop asking of I wanted the job mentioning that being the think that made her want to hire me. I am now working as a cook and just dropped out of university. I make good money working full time and am taking my dad, his gf and my brother to Europe next year for my dad's 50th birthday. I absolutely love cooking and making food. I have never been so happy

[dajacra]

I left a job that I've worked at for 20 years to go to another company that was my dream job (albeit with a huge paycut). The old job was steady, but slowly shredding away at my soul. Cut to 3 months after I started the new job, they laid off all the people that they hired within the last 5-6 months because the amount of growth that they were having wasn't the amount of growth that they projected to quantify all the new hires. Here I sit a few weeks later unemployed, and depressed from the whole ordeal.

[arrohart]

My boyfriend left his job at advance auto parts to work at a privately owned car tuning shop. The job started off as an internship that quickly became a part time job which now ends as him being the right hand man and the best decision in his life. It was a risk because he knew nothing about the owner other than he was the owner and it could of ended really badly if things went south

[yourlunch]

My friend stopped molding so he could be eaten.

[kayq]

I have a passion for sewing and history. I have a decent job but I've applied for at theater 2 states away to work in their costume department. Got to be smart.

[zacreea]

i tough english in china, hated it but it paid really well, like amazingly so. i deiced instead to follow my dreams and went back to the states to join the navy. i loved it till i got blinded in my right eye and was found medically unfit due to said blindness to continue in the navy. now im heading home and dont really know what i want to do. ive never loved anything like i loved the navy and i dont think ill truely find the same excitement and fulfillment in another job.

[OfNoImport]

Not in this video: Every single story where someone did this and flamed out spectacularly.

But I guess My Story: Graduated college, spent a year looking for work ( software dev ); Took a job as a security guard on my mothers advice ( thanks mom );
Finally got a job 3 states away ( 'murica ). Accepted the job ( stupid decision; should have done some research on the company first but whatever ).
Job payed way under market value for even entry level software devs. Culture was $#!+. Supervisors were @$$#0!3$. Company only cared about the bottom line.

New employees were forced into an 18 month ( later 24 month ) contract in order to mitigate turnover ( "How do we keep people from quitting?" "Make them sign a contract?" "Nerf Guns!" "Pay them well and make them feel valued?" <thrownOutAWindow /> ). At the end of two years pretty much everyone who was hired on with me had left. Got an opportunity to work from home doing the same thing for even less money. Took it anyway because f*** that job and f*** those people. That was about 5 years ago. Maybe longer. I forget.
Anyway, still making way less than market value but getting to decide when and how much work I do more than makes up for it because I am generally lazy and unmotivated, so I only have to work enough to pay the bills and afford to eat.


I still think I enjoyed the do-nothing of being a security guard more than anything else I've done to get paid. I would actually whittle away the midnight hours by imagining zombie apocalypse scenarios and what I would do to deal with them. Probably just get eaten since I wasn't an armed guard.

[LordVittaminn]

At 8:30 they talk about how if the oxygen masks in an airplane drop, you have to put yours on first before you help anyone else. I say this to people SO OFTEN when they're busy dealing with other people's shit while ignoring their own problems. Your first priority is to look out for number one before going down the list. You can do shit if you're a wreck or worse. Use airplane safety logic, people. It'll do wonders for your quality of life.

[QuestionThings]

26:40 this could have been me. When I was in junior high a looong time ago (back in 2000), I decided I wanted to be in band and specifically be a percussionist. The problem was that I decided this a whole year after band actually started, and the band directors didnt think that I'd be able to catch up with the rest of the class since at this time when i decided I wanted to do it, i had zero experience and my mom just knew I was passionate about music and really wanted to do it, so convinced the band director that if I could take lessons on just the snare drum and piano (any percussionist knows this is a must as well), and came to the try-outs before school started the next year, and managed to at least hang with the rest of the percussionists, that he'd allow me into the class. Long story short, I practiced all that summer on both snare and piano and just had a natural talent for it, and come try-outs, I beat out all the seasoned kids for 1st chair. In the following years growing up as a teen, I got busy with other things and really just completely stopped practicing...but somehow I was naturally talented enough that come every semester try-outs, I still beat everyone out for 1st chair, including all the kids that practiced their asses off. This continued on even though to high-school, where I rarely ever practiced, but still ended up beating everyone out to 1st chair. I was literally undefeated in this regard. The problem was that when I got to my 1st year of high school, I beat out all the seniors even, for 1st chair...in the SENIOR band...without practicing...and even went on to do the same, achieving 1st chair in All-Region, and All-State competitions, without much effort. This pissed the other percussionists off immensely, as I was just a regular dude, and all of these people were seasoned 'band nerds' at this point. Another long story short, they ended up pulling the ducking Uno reverse card on my ass, and I became the one who was bullied, by all of them, because I had natural talent and they were envious that I seemed so nonchalant about it all. I was harassed constantly, and by the time I reached the beginning of my senior year, I had had enough of that shit. I ended up completley dropping out of band my senior year due to this specifically, where if I had stayed I could have literally had a full band scholarship to any college in the area most likely. The high school band director was just str8 pissed that I did this, because he was an adult, and knew what I was throwing away, whereas I, being a stupid teenager, did not. He tried his damndest to get me to reconsider, but I being the dumb teenager I was at the time refused every time.
Now as an adult, I am more passionate about music and percussion than I probably ever was back then even, and often wondered what I could have made of my life if I had not been a dumbass. I have no regrets in life, dont get me wrong, I still believe that everything I've been through shaped me into the person I am today, and I'm okay with that. I have a decent job, and turns out I was just plain pretty good overall at anything that I did, no matter what it was, as long as I held some sort of interest in it. I just sometimes wonder if I could have gone on to be a band teacher, because I think it would have been something that I probably would have been passionate about...albeit I would've probably been a pretty unconventional band teacher, as I really enjoy a lot of obscure black metal and orchestral music, but I think I would have done well at it and enjoyed a chance to help other young adults find their musical passions in life. But life is what it is, and sometimes things just don't turn out the way you'd expected, and oftentimes I've found that a thing you may have a huge passion for may not make for the best career choice, as it can potentially burn you out really quickly to the point of not enjoying your passion/hobby any longer. So maybe it's for the best. Just things to keep in mind if you're a younger person and considering pursuing a career in a field you enjoy as a hobby. Either way, best of luck to all out there.

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[skylinefever]

I didn't want to work in a pet shop. I want to be a lumberjack!
It was a good Monty Python skit. It was made immediately after the pet shop owner made excuses for his dead parrot.

[poppasmurf]

not a job, but i dropped out of college in my junior year (engineering) to go from playing in bands part time to house jobs where we only had to set up every few months. it took us an 8 hour day to set the equipment up and do sound checks, and our roadies were mostly just groupies that would work all day for beer and a few lines. my decision was not for the money, which was barely enough to live on, but the culture. like we used to say, sleeping with 3 different women a day was not a record, but it was a damn fine average. this was in the 80s, and STDs, especially aids, was not yet a problem in the hetero community among non iv drug users, so we skated past all that. this was in the deep south, classic rock and country.

[MS-pdyo]

If you're not that smart or not that tough, don't do it

[texasoutlaw]

Quit arena football to go back and fight MMA

[emotattuuz]

I stopped sleeping so I can follow my passion of being a zombie

[TheYashakami]

I hate everyone that decided to do something stupid