What would you look for in a groundie?

[Kveldssanger]

A few days of work for free is all well and good, though where is the cut-off? There comes a point where one is just being taken advantage of. As a younger person, I can tolerate working for free once in a while, though I should be paid for my time beyond a point. From a younger person's perspective, working for free (or doing an 'internship') is just a way of letting yourself get taken advantage of.

 

We all need to pay bills and keep the cash flowing, after all.

[Stoatally]

Talking to work next week to see about going onto a 0.8 contract and also working that as condensed hours. Effectively work 4 days in 3. Have 2 days spare to start gathering experience

 

That's if they say yes.

[Haironyourchest]

While we're on the subject of hard work

I just wanted to say that I always was a man to work.

 

I was born working and I worked my way up by hard work.

I ain't never go nowhere yet but I got there by hard work:

Work of the hardest kind.

I been down and I been out

And I've been busted, disgusted and couldn't be trusted.

I worked my way up and I worked my way down.

 

I've been drunk and I've been sober. I've had hard times and I got hijacked

And been robbed for cash and robbed for credit.

Worked my way into jail and outta jail

And I woke up alotta mornings and I didn't even know where I was at.

 

But the hardest work I ever done is when I was trying to get myself

a worried woman to ease my worried mind.

Now I'm gonna tell you just about how much hard work I had to do to get this here

women that I'm a-tellin you about.

 

I shook hands with 97 of her kinfolks and her blood relatives and I

done the same with 86 people that was just her friends and her neighbors.

Kissed 73 babies and put dry pants on 34 of em' as well as others

And done the same thing several times - as well as a lot of other things

just about like this.

 

I held 125 head of wild horses, put saddles and bridles on more that that,

harnessed some of the craziest, wildest teams in the whole country.

I rode 14 loco broncos to a dead standstill and let 42 hound dogs lick me all over.

Seven times I was bit by hungry dogs and I was chewed all to pieces by

water moccasins and rattlesnakes on two separate river bottoms.

I chopped and I carried 314 armloads of stove wood, 100 buckets of coal,

and I carried a gallon of kerosene 18 miles over the mountains, got lost,

lost a pair of shoes in a mud hole.

And I chopped and I weeded 48 rows of short cotton, 13 acres of bad corn

and cut sticker weeds out of 11 back yards.

All on accounta' cause I wanted to show her that I was a man a I liked to work.

 

I cleaned out 9 barnloads and cranked 31 automobiles, all makes and models.

Pulled 3 cars out of mud holes and 4 out of snowdrifts.

I dug 5 cisterns of water for some of her friends and neighbors

and run all kinds of errands.

 

I played the fiddle for 9 churches meetings and I joined 11 separate denominations.

I signed up and joined up for 7 of the best trade unions I could find

And paid my dues about 6 weeks ahead of time.

 

Waded 40 miles of swamps, 60 big rivers,

Walked across 2 mountain ranges and crossed three deserts.

I got the fever and I got sunstroke and I got malaria and I got the flu

and I got moonstruck and skeeter bit, the poison ivy and the 7 year itch

and the blind staggers.

 

I was given up for lost and dead about 2 dozen times.

Struck by lightning, struck by Congress, struck by friends and kinfolks

as well as by three cars on the highways and a lotta times in peoples hen-houses.

I been hit and run down and run over and walked on and knocked around

And I'm just settin' here now trying to study up what else I can do to show

that woman that I still ain't afraid of hard work.

 

(Woodie Guthrie)

[Stoatally]

C30/31 assessment tomorrow and a few job adverts to ring about

[Stoatally]

Right

 

I passed my C30/31 and there are a couple of jobs I'm looking at.

 

They both want a CV sending across. I don't have a current one, so I'll try and write one tomorrow.

 

What skills do I need to emphasise - they'll be all I have other than the C30/31 as I don't have much experience

 

What would you be looking for in a CV from a prospective new member of staff?

[Guss109]

Just be honest and don't come across as over confident or cocky

[humpo48]

Right

 

I passed my C30/31 and there are a couple of jobs I'm looking at.

 

They both want a CV sending across. I don't have a current one, so I'll try and write one tomorrow.

 

What skills do I need to emphasise - they'll be all I have other than the C30/31 as I don't have much experience

 

What would you be looking for in a CV from a prospective new member of staff?

 

 

Common sense, don't have to be told what to do all the time and can look, listen and learn

[felixthelogchopper]

Right

 

I passed my C30/31 and there are a couple of jobs I'm looking at.

 

They both want a CV sending across. I don't have a current one, so I'll try and write one tomorrow.

 

What skills do I need to emphasise - they'll be all I have other than the C30/31 as I don't have much experience

 

What would you be looking for in a CV from a prospective new member of staff?

 

Weren't you the bloke who had a lot of experience working on machinery? If you are, I would definitely push that.

[Stoatally]

That will be one of the things I'll be pushing. I need to get hold of the ex in-laws to see if they'll be a reference

[Mark Bolam]

I'd get some sawdust on it.

Well done on getting your 30/31 by the way.

As Felix said, your machine skills are a big plus.

Never lie on a CV, never put anything negative.