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Ok so this morning I was late for work.. Like really late.. Im always sleeping in, Ive been like it my entire life.. I just cant be woken up by an alarm clock.. Either it will be going off for like hours and I wont hear it or Ill actually get up and shut if off without even being aware of it. Regardless.. my phone was ringing and I knew it was my dad (he owns the place). Hes totally pissed at me for being late for work. He accuses me of 'f*cking the dog'. When I go to work hes not actually there though.. He just owns the place and has a manager and me that run things. So its the manager that I am actually with all day. I only see dad like once a week. Anyway its apartment buildings that I work at and really there is not much that gets done over in the office, some filing and I run out alot and run erins (in the mx of course).
Anyways I just dont know what he thinks is going on in there.. he wants me to be like an executive in there or something.. wearing a suit or something.. I dont know what he wants because I have to run out all the time anyway.. I could be doing anything in a given day. The problem I have here is I dont know what the hell to do sometimes. I know I absloutely CAN NOT do this forever.. its boring as s---! Im definately not cut out for school and if I was I wouldent even know what to take.
What do you guys do or what is your 'master plan' as it is known? I would really love to get into a job with cars or something but not as a mechanic or something working of ford tempos. I recently discovered that I can tune standalones really good and im pretty good with computers. You always see these guys that are professional tuners tuning supras and rx-7's and stuff.. What kind of a living do these guys make? God I cant do this forever! LORD SHOW ME THE WAY!

Hey look around your area find a job. If your late for work ok everyone is not purfect so blah to him. I say get a better job man i work for a software company i just pulled out a $610 pay check (1000 amp or light weight flywheel hmmm...) so i am living good. Look for a job that you will like not a job that makes you fill like s---. Where i live best buy just opened up and people get payed $10 a hour thats crazy for where i live. (North Dakota is the cheapest state to live in). Just look around you can find someplace that would fit you. Alot of my friends work in construction i got a buddy with a $70,000 ing. and he makes $20 a hour.

I LOVE HIS CAR!!



Its called MOMMY BOYS!! alot of the people here there parents pay for everything...... pisses me off but then when i go and look back at what my car looked like and what it looks like now i am proud of what i am done. You see ya supra is fast ya bmw is fast but babyblues mx3 is a dream =) for the fact that he made a not so fast car go REALLY fast so i say screw them. If you are proud of what you have done i say good for you and thats cool. Dude you got a torboed MX-3 man i wish my car was turboed. But i am going little buy little just work your way up.

P.S. hey you come down here i could get you a job where i work. computers/$1000 sign on bonas you no the good stuff =)

You can work on cars and not work on ford tempos and crap like that. I do autobody at porsche audi vw dealer and it kicks a--.

Well don't get offended, but being late for work anywhere else would get you fired pretty quick, then u would be screwed so u need to discipline yourself some how to be on time. If the money is good and u see your self taking over your dads company in the long run and making good cash hang in there. Nothing like being successfully self employed. If not or u really hate it for genuine reasons u may want to go to school and pick up a trade. I dont see much scope in tuning cars, esp in a more remote location. Grab something long term. The market for that is saturated and I see that trend growing old fast since most new car are a lot faster from the factory. Thats just my opinion.

You can work at performance shops, doing dyno's for people, that pays good. Tuning their cars for them, fun and pays good

a guy my bro works with here owns a performance shop in nfld somewheres and apparently he pays pretty good also so id recommend going and doing what ud enjoy doing not something that would make someone else happy.

sorry to say but unfortunately to work in a performance shop they still might require you to have some sort of formal training. Theres that Canadian Government funded project... ummm mode action, or mode of action that subsidizes your costs to learn a skill trade, like mechanics. My cousin is taking it and it seems pretty fun. You do like 3 weeks of shop time and then a week or 2 of class time, then back to the shop again. I'm not sure if it's offerred out there though. Something you might wanna look into.

Are you kidding me!!! Im going to be as nice as I can in this post I dont mean to offend Franko or anything but this is truely unbelievable, you post that you can't handle the job your at because its shat as you put it, you know what you are lucky you have that job and im positive the only reason you have it is because of daddy. Watch the movie tommy boy maybe you will see why this post makes you look well lazy....you say you don't know what to do there maybe you should ask someone or learn your responsibilities there, or are you just there as a managers assistant because daddy had to make a position for his son, man go to bed earlier or set 2 alarms one near u to wake u then the other one across the room so you have to get up to shut it off. There is people that work 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet and they have to bust butt for the pay yet you have 1 job you cant make it to on time, you need to learn responsiblilty then I'm sure they would trust you with harder work then going to get coffees for everyone. Like im not trying to be rude or anything but thats the impression I got from reading your post, sorry.

Well said cdngrl420.

As an employer for many years, I can say without doubt that punctuality is the singular most important thing. Late or absent employees disrupt the work flow and is a sign of disrespect.

Franko you need to fix that and be thankful that your family supports you. The fact you don't understand your responsibilities at work indicates that the job is probably just a role made up by your dad to try to give you employment. The fact he puts up with your tardiness strengthens the point (would he accept that behaviour from the manager? I think not).

At some stage your going to have to cut the ties and start making your own way in the world. Now is always a good time to start.

cdngrl420 wrote:Are you kidding me!!! Im going to be as nice as I can in this post I dont mean to offend Franko or anything but this is truely unbelievable, you post that you can't handle the job your at because its shat as you put it, you know what you are lucky you have that job and im positive the only reason you have it is because of daddy. Watch the movie tommy boy maybe you will see why this post makes you look well lazy....you say you don't know what to do there maybe you should ask someone or learn your responsibilities there, or are you just there as a managers assistant because daddy had to make a position for his son, man go to bed earlier or set 2 alarms one near u to wake u then the other one across the room so you have to get up to shut it off. There is people that work 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet and they have to bust butt for the pay yet you have 1 job you cant make it to on time, you need to learn responsiblilty then I'm sure they would trust you with harder work then going to get coffees for everyone. Like im not trying to be rude or anything but thats the impression I got from reading your post, sorry.

I have no doubt that I am lazy... Probally the laziest person that I know. However, from what I gather, you are speaking from a completely different point of view and therefore do not understand my situation. I actually left here once, I went to work for a car audio installation shop and did really well there.. I was always on time and learned alot. Unfourtinately the place was going through hard times and the owners made some bad decisions with money and ended up going out of business. So back here I came. When you work with something that actually intrests you it makes you want to be on time and strive to do better but here it is the exact same thing day after day with no gain or real future. I know people who have gone to school and gotten degrees in engineering and still work dead end jobs. The undeniable fact remains that it is not what you know but who you know.

Also I am well aware of other peoples hardships and trouble with getting work but thats their problem and not mine. I dont know what kind of skills these people have, if there working 3 jobs then they all must be minimum wage positions. They proally just do not have the skills to do anything better. People who are in this situation obvously need to take some sort of schooling and try to earn some sort of trade. My situation, however, is very different. I am in this position where I feel that my skills that I have for what I love are going to waste working here. There is no way for me to apply what I know best in this place.

I couldent help but notice the predominant use of the word 'daddy' in your post. It seems of a pretty snobby way of saying it, its very similar to saying "daddys little girl" or something similar. Its like your trying to put me down for working for my father.. Yes he helps me out alot but alot of people work for their parents more than you would think. I do alot more than get coffees I basically do everything that the manager does, and run out if something needs to be done so she dosent have to. A job wasent, by any means, made up for me.

You also compare my situation to a FICTIONAL movie... However, real life is quite different. Im here now but I could be doing so much better.
What exactily is it that you do cdngrl? From the sounds of things you hate it.. Dont you feel you have talents that are going to waste? Like you could be doing something much better with your life? Something that you would enjoy and be successful at? If not then you couldent possibly understand my situation and how I feel and are advised to keep your impressions to yourself.

Yes I took offence..

Also I am well aware of other peoples hardships and trouble with getting work but thats their problem and not mine.

If you think that of others then why should we care about your problem, at least for some people its not because their lazy its because they have barriers beyond their control.

I dont know what kind of skills these people have, if there working 3 jobs then they all must be minimum wage positions. They proally just do not have the skills to do anything better.

You know what your a lazy american thats all there is to it, you try coming from a different country where you were a doctor or teacher or something that pays good to a country where you do not know the language are you going to be that arrogant to say they do not have the skills to do anything better or maybe is it just the fact that they do not know english? I live in a city thats mostly made up of italians, polish, natives and the left overs are canadians the funny thing is the majority that is on welfare here is the ones that have lived here their whole lives the natives and canadians not the immigrants at least they are attempting to find work at timmies workin their minimum wage jobs so for you to sit there and say they dont have skills or schooling if you expect anyone on this board to feel empathy towards you, I think you may be losing whatever anyone did have so just don't bother

People who are in this situation obvously need to take some sort of schooling and try to earn some sort of trade. My situation, however, is very different. I am in this position where I feel that my skills that I have for what I love are going to waste working here. There is no way for me to apply what I know best in this place.

What exactly is your situation that you are too lazy to go back to school, to go apply for a new job one you might like? Face it to me you are doing nothing but making excuses for your laziness.

I couldent help but notice the predominant use of the word 'daddy' in your post. It seems of a pretty snobby way of saying it, its very similar to saying "daddys little girl" or something similar. Its like your trying to put me down for working for my father

I am not putting you down for working for your father, if I wanted to I could work for my father too but don't want to because I would hate it. All I am saying is get a back bone and stop relying on your dad for everything.

What exactily is it that you do cdngrl? From the sounds of things you hate it.. Dont you feel you have talents that are going to waste? Like you could be doing something much better with your life? Something that you would enjoy and be successful at? If not then you couldent possibly understand my situation and how I feel and are advised to keep your impressions to yourself.

What I do is my business I dont come on here and complain about my jobs because if I hated them as much as you obviously hate yours I would take the inititive to find a better one. Your right I do see your situation but my family had to struggle to live the life we live now, not have it handed to us on a silver platter.

I apoligize to whoever else may take offense to this but I just want to make it clear to franko that not everyone has life easy and that his problems are nothing compared to what others go through, and that in order to get what you want you have to work for it not sit on your rear and complain.

I say be happy with what you do. If you got a crapy job ok whatever as long as your happy its all good.

Franko let it out man just cry.

cdngrl420 wrote:Also I am well aware of other peoples hardships and trouble with getting work but thats their problem and not mine.

If you think that of others then why should we care about your problem, at least for some people its not because their lazy its because they have barriers beyond their control.

I dont know what kind of skills these people have, if there working 3 jobs then they all must be minimum wage positions. They proally just do not have the skills to do anything better.

You know what your a lazy american thats all there is to it, you try coming from a different country where you were a doctor or teacher or something that pays good to a country where you do not know the language are you going to be that arrogant to say they do not have the skills to do anything better or maybe is it just the fact that they do not know english? I live in a city thats mostly made up of italians, polish, natives and the left overs are canadians the funny thing is the majority that is on welfare here is the ones that have lived here their whole lives the natives and canadians not the immigrants at least they are attempting to find work at timmies workin their minimum wage jobs so for you to sit there and say they dont have skills or schooling if you expect anyone on this board to feel empathy towards you, I think you may be losing whatever anyone did have so just don't bother

People who are in this situation obvously need to take some sort of schooling and try to earn some sort of trade. My situation, however, is very different. I am in this position where I feel that my skills that I have for what I love are going to waste working here. There is no way for me to apply what I know best in this place.

What exactly is your situation that you are too lazy to go back to school, to go apply for a new job one you might like? Face it to me you are doing nothing but making excuses for your laziness.

I couldent help but notice the predominant use of the word 'daddy' in your post. It seems of a pretty snobby way of saying it, its very similar to saying "daddys little girl" or something similar. Its like your trying to put me down for working for my father

I am not putting you down for working for your father, if I wanted to I could work for my father too but don't want to because I would hate it. All I am saying is get a back bone and stop relying on your dad for everything.

What exactily is it that you do cdngrl? From the sounds of things you hate it.. Dont you feel you have talents that are going to waste? Like you could be doing something much better with your life? Something that you would enjoy and be successful at? If not then you couldent possibly understand my situation and how I feel and are advised to keep your impressions to yourself.

What I do is my business I dont come on here and complain about my jobs because if I hated them as much as you obviously hate yours I would take the inititive to find a better one. Your right I do see your situation but my family had to struggle to live the life we live now, not have it handed to us on a silver platter.

I apoligize to whoever else may take offense to this but I just want to make it clear to franko that not everyone has life easy and that his problems are nothing compared to what others go through, and that in order to get what you want you have to work for it not sit on your rear and complain.

Ok, whats your problem.. You came on here giving me $hit and Im just defending myself.

I noticed a few errors there.. Let me correct you:
-"Also I am well aware of other peoples hardships and trouble with getting work but thats their problem and not mine" Perhaps I phrazed that wrongly.. My bad..
-I didnt say people didnt have better jobs because they were lazy.
-I am not an american
-Not everyone is cut out for school.. Im one of those people.
-"I am not putting you down for working for your father" YES YOU ARE!

Dont you dare think that I have had things easy.. Its only the past few years that things have actually been going good for me. Ive hardly had things handed to me on a silver platter. My parents split up when I was 7 and my mom took us and moved to B.C where we knew NO ONE. Id say the whole time I was in school I was forced to change schools mabey 8 times.. Every time loosing all my friends that I had made. We were living in B.C with barely enough money to keep the lights on. Then my mother got sick with cancer so we had to move back here where she died shortly after.. I was 12 years old.. Back here things werent much better.. I had to live with an INSNANE step mother.. like a complete lunatic! So dont think that I have had things easy.
The past few years have been great.. our family has gotten on a good track.. I have a great girlfriend and I got the mx-3 to make me happy.
I just want to work at something that Ill be good at and most importantly be very happy with.. Is that so wrong?

I don't think it right that you attack people for responding to your post. I think you should try to read your own posts from a 3rd person perspective so you can better understand the responses. Your initial post comes across as quite pathetic. You can't wake up, you can't go to school, your jobs boring, you can't go on with it, you want to be paid for doing your hobbies....

She didn't come on here to give you s---, she responded to your post with some comments that should be a bit of a wake up call to you.

Franko wrote:What do you guys do or what is your 'master plan' as it is known? I would really love to get into a job with cars or something but not as a mechanic or something working of ford tempos. I recently discovered that I can tune standalones really good and im pretty good with computers. You always see these guys that are professional tuners tuning supras and rx-7's and stuff.. What kind of a living do these guys make? God I cant do this forever! LORD SHOW ME THE WAY!

THIS is what he was looking for, not for people to get on here and start putting him down for working for his father. He had his story there first, not to be pathetic, but to show you why he doesn't like his current job, and to show you that he is not motivated to work there, and to also show that he wants out.

He is looking for suggestions on places to work where he can tune standalones, etc. He is not whining about working for his father. He is just saying that he feels he is not "being challenged" enough at his current job.

Here's an analogy. Some students in my school got to skip a grade. Why? Because teachers recognized potential. That potential becomes wasted when the students aren't challenged. If everything is too easy for them, they become bored and stagnant. When they are moved to a higher level, they become challenged, and thus, are kept interested and motivated to excel. The same applies to Franko here. He is saying that he feels his skills could much better be utilized than working where he is now.

So, the bashing of each other aside, will someone help him with his original question and offer some suggestions on where he can find places to work that involve cars?