Avoid this job like the plague, unless Michigan PIRG is radically different from Maryland PIRG, which would surprise me. Basically, you go door to door soliciting for donations (and possibly selling stuff, I don't really remember). You get a cut of whatever you collect. I knew three guys who signed up together in college, and they all quit within two weeks. None of them made more than pocket change. It sounded like the work environment was weirdly borderline cultish.
Thanks for the heads-up, LJ...and Cindy...and Hil....oops. I'll still go to the observation day, cause it's not like I have anything else to do on Thursday (he wanted me to come tomorrow, but I want to wrangle a
Batman Begins
viewing, or at least watch
The Inside
live). Dammit! Why do I end up with all the cults? First TEAM, now this. I'm so young and impressionable.
In a....show? Like Cabaret?
Ha! Nope, in the shower. That one was after a long walk in July, when I just walked straight into my aprtment and stepped in the shower fully clothed and turned the water on.
Ugh -- Okay, I am done typing meeting notes for the day, which gives me 45 minutes to use the PC to imagine my classroom and curriculum.
Fun.
Also, but damn. It made me feel all worthwhile and qualified for a few minutes.
I hope all these pharmaceutical companies and CROs I'm applying to aren't cults.
By the way, since we're both here...Emily thinks I made up the word caddywompus. Please tell her I'm not the only person who uses this word. Please. I'm not totally weird, am I?
Cattywampus. I say it all the time.
Cindy, on the plus side, you've got a package heading your way which will probably arrive tomorrow with Buffy you've never seen.
Wait, how is there
Buffy
Cindy's never seen?
There's a still a fair amount of S2 and S3 Buffy I haven't seen.
Hec and P-C, you both just made me smile. Thanks.
Also, it's 40 degrees cooler here than it was yesterday (maybe 35). I am going to have to wear a jacket or sweater, out tonight. If the meeting goes badly. I will take it off, and whip people with it. Things are coming together!
I hate people like PRIG (yeah that's intentional), and TEAM and PRIMERICA and all those asshats who know people need jobs and use them for their schemes. People want to work, real actual work. What makes PRIG even worse is that there are people who want to work to make a difference (Exactly the kind of job I'm trying to get) and so they're not only preying on the need for a job, but people's consciences too.
Luckily, I've been doing research into who I want to work for, otherwise I'd have probably gone for it too.
ASSHATS!!!
Florida PRIG is the same way. Sometimes instead of going Door to Door they are in the parking lots of grocery stores and things asking to sign petitions.
You should look into retail, I worked retial for years and really liked it. My favorite job was at Suncoast Motion Picture Company. My brother worked at Barnes and Noble and had a really good experience.
