Job hunting
There are 3 main types of jobs: hourly, salary and contract. I’ve worked hourly jobs since my sophomore year in high school. My experience there has taught me to avoid hourly jobs. Most of them try and squeeze every productive morsel from your body each and every hour you are at work. lunch is 30 minutes, not 30 minutes and 15 seconds. Your pay will vary from week to week and your supervisor is looking to keep you away from overtime.
Salary jobs are great. Thats why in Japan many people aspire to be a ‘salaryman‘ (free from wage slavery). You have a guaranteed income, more flexible hours and job security. These jobs are mostly careers. Something you have to do for the rest of your working life.
The rest of your life, a cog in the machine. I can’t handle that. There’s gotta be some middle ground.
Contract work allows you to choose when you’ll come and when you’ll go. It often comes with a set salary and flexible hours. It’s a great experience and no one is sad when you leave. In fact, if you do find your career in any particular field, many employers are happy to have a good employee on salary. This is perfect for someone like me, who doesn’t want to do the same thing, at least not in the same setting all his life.
With that in mind, I’m looking to ace any upcoming interviews I going to have. And I found this gem of an article on the vast wastelands of the interweb. It is a list of the top 50 questions asked by interviewers, the reason they ask them and how to answer best. I’d like to post it right here, but its from a book and I don’t have the means or time to ask the publisher to copy the excerpt.
Also look to your right for my new, work related poll. Are you a fan of sit down talk and run meetings, or do you like the sit down, brainstorm, order pizza all nighter meetings?
