Thread: Working for Free

Thats the spirit to have while you're locked up in prison. You might even drop the soap on purpose

Originally Posted by OfficerFarva

Thats the spirit to have while you're locked up in prison. You might even drop the soap on purpose

I play hide the soap, dropping the soap is for fags.

Are you doing missionary work or an internship? I thought a job implied a paycheck, otherwise it is volunteering.

Originally Posted by ponyboy

Are you doing missionary work or an internship? I thought a job implied a paycheck, otherwise it is volunteering.

Its a research position. I have a lot of catching up to do before I will be getting payed. I'm actually having to pay to be there

Originally Posted by ROID

Its a research position. I have a lot of catching up to do before I will be getting payed. I'm actually having to pay to be there

That's cool - I didn't know that type of situation existed. Good luck, because obviously it is something you are passionate about or you wouldn't be doing it for free.

We pay our summer interns minimum wage, usually electrical engineering students wanting to get into alternative energy, but we also get high school only educated kids who just want to install. I try to expose them to what real projects they should be focusing on. Too many want the grand slam solar or wind farms that take up massive swaths of land, I try to instill that covering roofs with mini systems that can add up to those megawatt farms will save land that could be a park, farmland or whatever.... It also provides redundancy because if one residential small inverter goes down it won't impact the grid like a hundred kilowatt inverter, all the neighbors who have overproduced make up for the down time of that one residences down time.

But good for you excepting a loss to make gains, not many would do such things in this day and age they want to get rich even if they don't have the skills, they expect to get out of school and make the big bucks. A lot of my fellow students from college who I run into are working at jobs not related because they didn't get out of school and land that awesome job they were expecting so they dropped their dreams for the first opportunity that came along. And I blame my school for partially instilling that false idea in their heads. One day they brought in a kid who had recently graduated and had landed a network consultant job and was making 60k already, what they failed to tell us was his parents had spent thousands more getting him every Cisco and Microsoft cert and his father and the owner of the network consulting company were alumnus of the most prestigious private school on the Island, you all might know it our President went to the same one.

Originally Posted by maniclion

We pay our summer interns minimum wage, usually electrical engineering students wanting to get into alternative energy, but we also get high school only educated kids who just want to install. I try to expose them to what real projects they should be focusing on. Too many want the grand slam solar or wind farms that take up massive swaths of land, I try to instill that covering roofs with mini systems that can add up to those megawatt farms will save land that could be a park, farmland or whatever.... It also provides redundancy because if one residential small inverter goes down it won't impact the grid like a hundred kilowatt inverter, all the neighbors who have overproduced make up for the down time of that one residences down time.

But good for you excepting a loss to make gains, not many would do such things in this day and age they want to get rich even if they don't have the skills, they expect to get out of school and make the big bucks. A lot of my fellow students from college who I run into are working at jobs not related because they didn't get out of school and land that awesome job they were expecting so they dropped their dreams for the first opportunity that came along. And I blame my school for partially instilling that false idea in their heads. One day they brought in a kid who had recently graduated and had landed a network consultant job and was making 60k already, what they failed to tell us was his parents had spent thousands more getting him every Cisco and Microsoft cert and his father and the owner of the network consulting company were alumnus of the most prestigious private school on the Island, you all might know it our President went to the same one.

I have a good feeling about this situation. Worst case its something to add to a resume.

I wish I would have realized 7 years ago what it takes to land that kick ass job. Having just a 4 yr degree sure wasn't the way.

"Everyone wants the big time but doesn't wanna work to get there"......Capt. Phil Harris , RIP

Originally Posted by ROID

Starting my new job tomorrow and I will not be getting payed a single dollar.

Funny thing is I can not wait to begin.

Good for you, I would never, ever do it.

Good luck!

Right on! Even though we need money to live, it certainly doesn't make us happy. Have fun

Originally Posted by ROID

Starting my new job tomorrow and I will not be getting payed a single dollar.

Funny thing is I can not wait to begin.

Better have a solid savings account. Life ain't cheap....

Originally Posted by DecaConstruction

Better have a solid savings account. Life ain't cheap....

He has a sugar momma like me who supports him...ain't that right sara? Of course he probably has to massage her feet on command or something.....if not he better.....ain't that right sara?

Who do you think is behind World Pharma ?

I got all these suckas fewled on here.

Yeah right. Doubtful they care.

Originally Posted by Gena Marie

Right on! Even though we need money to live, it certainly doesn't make us happy. Have fun

I completely disagree with that statement, but kudos to you, ROID.

I wish you the best of luck!

Originally Posted by maniclion

He has a sugar momma like me who supports him...ain't that right sara? Of course he probably has to massage her feet on command or something.....if not he better.....ain't that right sara?

Do they even make sugar daddy's anymore ??

maybe I'm the rich one, I do play the lotto every week.

Originally Posted by ROID

maybe I'm the rich one, I do play the lotto every week.

If that were the case, you shouldn't be on here ad nauseum.

Originally Posted by ROID

I have a good feeling about this situation. Worst case its something to add to a resume.

I wish I would have realized 7 years ago what it takes to land that kick ass job. Having just a 4 yr degree sure wasn't the way.

"Everyone wants the big time but doesn't wanna work to get there"......Capt. Phil Harris , RIP

Could you elaborate on that, for the youngins who think a degree is what it takes.