Rick 'N Roll said at 1:29 PM 04-16-2001: The government's money goes mostly towards certain "obligations" ( interest on the national debt, Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid, et ceterra ), regulatory agencies such as the Justice Department & the FCC, government corporations such as postal services, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, other programs such as Department of Agriculture & Defense, & wierd little doohickeys like the U.S. Information Agency. I hope that helps.
Gen said at 1:44 PM 04-16-2001: Same here in Canada: Monster.ca is quite good. For student jobs, McGill has an online job bank, and that's how I landed my research position at the RVH.
shelly said at 1:49 PM 04-16-2001: i know some people who landed a jobs from monster. but all of them had extremely specific technical skills. and all but one were looking for jobs in the place they already lived.
they weren't entry level either.
josh, gen, what were the people you know like?
mary said at 4:19 PM 04-16-2001: What Shelly and Josh said.
My friend Chris made the move from Baton Rouge to DC with a job he found on Monster.com, but he is a programmer.
When I abandoned my plans to work for the USDA up here, I tried using the Web to find a job in environmental science. No luck.
I worked for a temp company for about a month until I found my first newspaper job.
My best advice is to try the temp route while you makes the contacts you need to get the job you really want. I'm guessing you're ultimately hoping to land a theater job?
mary said at 4:21 PM 04-16-2001: As for what the government does with our taxes: You can read the budget. 400 pages of eye-bleeding statistics, available for $2 at the OMB in DC. I'll send everyone a copy for their birthday. *lol*
craig said at 5:03 PM 04-16-2001: Sotheby's advertises positions on hotjobs.com. I found this position through a temp agency. Temping is really not a bad route to go to get your first job. There are no commitments involved, so if you do not like it, you can leave.
Meredith said at 9:42 PM 04-16-2001: Do a lot of temps end up getting picked up by the jobs they temped at? I pretty much thought that it was just ... well, temporary.
mary said at 10:07 PM 04-16-2001: I had three temp jobs, and they ALL tried to hire me full time. Even the ones that were "temporary." Basically, the company's use the temp thing as a cheap, low-risk way to figure out if you're a slug or not.
If you can use basic spreadsheet and word processing programsm, they will kiss your ass.
josh said at 10:13 PM 04-16-2001: Some companies, like Microsoft, use temps as de facto permanent employees without benefits. Some MS temps had been there for four and five years. They sued for benefits and won.
mary said at 10:26 PM 04-16-2001: More companies are doing that with part-time workers as well.
For example, I am officially a "part-time" worker here at the Post. And I work 40 hours a week, sometimes more. And I won't get benefits until I've been here 6 months. Most places don't give benefits to PT workers at all (those places don't have a union like the Post's), such as Wal-Mart.
I was surprised to learn that each Wal-Mart store has only 2 full-time workers: the manager and the pharmacist. Every one else is officially PT, and has no benefits.
josh said at 10:46 PM 04-16-2001: Hmm. I think you're wrong.
Just an hour ago I was at Wal-Mart and talking to my friend Steve, who works at Wal-Mart, and he was saying how he could get benefits once he works there for a year, which is coming up in a few weeks. He also gets a week paid vacation, which he is going to spend looking for a better job, so he won't get the benfits. It may be a regional thing or something.
Linus said at 11:14 PM 04-16-2001: Yeah, but what are the chances of making a year at Wal-Mart before getting fired for stealing or stealing.
I got my job from Hot Jobs. Still trying to figure out if that's a good thing. I also got a few offers from monster, headhunter, and some of the others before I took this one.
mary said at 11:46 PM 04-16-2001: Maybe it is regional, but a year for benefits? What is that crap. I don't believe health coverage should be tied to employment, but what kinda crap is that?
josh said at 12:12 AM 04-17-2001: I don't know if that's universal or what.. I think he would get promoted at a year. Right now he is only working like 25 hours a week. My work only pays benefits if you work 40 a week. I don't but they let me slide. I know someone else who is a career wal-mart employee who said the benefits are really good.
Why do Wal-Mart workers need unions? The people who care, the career Wal-Mart people have benefits. The others, like my friend, are just working there until they get something better... He actually said that when he realized he had been working there a year he know he had to quit.
Meredith said at 2:22 AM 04-17-2001: With all due respect, I don't aspire to work part, full or temp at Wal-Mart. It would destroy the vision of beauty that the Mart presents to me as I now know it.
mary said at 10:33 AM 04-17-2001: Wal-mart workers need unions for the same reason we all need unions: without them, companies will rip us off one by one.
I've been union, and I've been non-union. I swear to you that union is sooo much better ... about $27K more a year and an extra week of vacation better.
josh said at 10:58 AM 04-17-2001: I really doubt Wal-Mart employees will make $27,000 a year extra, no matter what happens. They start at $7 an hour.
I also don't think unions can really work unless you are skilled labor. I mean, if the guy that waves to you and says "Thanks for shopping at Wal-Mart" went on strike, I don't think it would bother them that greatly.
Meredith said at 2:32 PM 04-17-2001: That's true, in order to be in a Union, it would seem that you would have to band together people who had something they could collectivly deprive people of if they were not treated properly. If every Wal-Mart worker striked for one reason or another, say they thought waving was demeaning and didn't want to do it anymore, they could go to the back, shuffle through the stack of applications of people they haven't hired but have kept on file, and probably get enough to keep the store running until more Jr. High Graduates came to apply to run the cash register.
Aunt Suzan said at 2:44 PM 04-17-2001: Meredith -- I can give you lots of job searching tips if you're willing to talk to an "old one" about it. There are lots of things you can do so you don't end up with a career at WalMart. Temp agencies are a good idea -- so is the internet. Moving across the country to a city that is new to you is very different than looking locally. I've done it -- I was very successful. I can help. You know where to find me!!
PS -- I'm excited for you!! When you figure out where our tax money is going let me know, because I've sent the government thousands over the years.
evan said at 5:25 PM 04-17-2001: i think this 'mary' person just makes stuff up, and in fact, probably doesn't exist at all? if she does, i will cut her. you wanna go?
Brandon said at 12:05 AM 04-18-2001: Yep, Mary's real. I used to date her. As for cutting her. Well once I hadn't trimmed my toenails for a few weeks and well we were in bed...
