One of my biggest frustrations over the years with respect to looking for a job has been the fact that you need to visit many different employers to basically drop off the same piece of paper (your resume) at each one.  Not only is this a big waste of time but it can result in one getting very frustrated with the lack of results during a job hunt.

So for the past couple of years while applying for accounting jobs in Australia, I have been looking for some kind of one-stop job shop where I could do all my job hunting as well is fill out as many applications at one time as possible.

It wasn’t until I was talking to a good friend who had found some Australian customer service job listings on a website that I found what I was looking for.  He mentioned to me a great website that listed many jobs in Australia and had the facilities to allow you to submit your application as well.

From now on, I’ll rely on the resources provided by the site as well as others on the Internet to make my job hunting as efficient as possible.

It seems that every year, our company likes to offer a unique calendar to our customers.  Now, that is perhaps our crowning marketing vehicle as most people wait all year for a copy.  Though that may sound like something exciting, the problem comes down to that we do it at the last minute each year, which usually results in an all-nighter.

That is exactly what is happening tonight, and it is seven hours since we closed for business for the day.  In that time, we have been searching for some stock photos royalty free that we can use for the calendar.  We used to get a photographer to take the pictures for us, but the amount of money that we were charged was getting out of hand, so we switched.

Now, we find any stock photo that we need online at the many stock photography websites out there.  In some respects, it has become easier, but it would be nice to not have to work all night for a change - maybe we can start early next year.

For the past few summers, I have taken a job at a local greenhouse.  Not only does it let me get out of the house, but it allows me to learn how to take better care of the plants I have at home.

The greenhouse that I work at provides a number of training seminars over the growing season to the staff so that we are better prepared to answer the questions that our customers ask us.  We have studied many subjects in the past including tree selection, lantana care, proper amounts of water to give plants.

But today, our training session covered the topics of traditional landscaping designs versus the new landscaping design ideas.  We were presented with a number of real world examples in the presentation and we will be better equipped to give good advice when it comes to landscaping.

Well, my break is over… time to get back to work.

As I have been trying to make my way up the corporate ladder, there have been many tasks that I’ve been assigned to do for my superiors.  I’ll admit that some of them have not been very pleasant whereas others have just made me feel like a gopher.  Irrespective of my feelings on the matter, I know that by catering to my superiors that I am paving my way up the corporate ladder.

A good example of the things that I’ve had to do would be exactly what I’m doing today.  You see, my boss asked me into his office early this morning with a list of errands for me to do.  Unlike last week when I was filling out business forms, today my task was going to involve running errands.

I was asked to deliver some company registers to one of our clients in town as well as to take care of mediating a couple of the company resolutions that we are presiding over.  These tasks are going to take up most of my day and will mean that I won’t be in the office for most of the day.

I am hoping that by being eager to please my superiors that my path up the corporate ladder will be quick and easy.  I guess only time will tell.

The one thing that I have to say about my employment history is that it isn’t boring.  I am not ashamed to admit that I have worked at a large number of companies over the past 10 years.  Even though I may have worked at many different companies, they have all been in the roofing industry and that has given me a diversified set of skills.

I started out at 16 working at a roofing Bristol RI company and work there for about three years.  It was at this point in my life where I learned that I truly enjoyed working with my hands.  I wasn’t fired from the job, but rather the company shut down.

I spent the next five years working at a flat roofing Bristol RI company.  This was a nice change as instead of working solely on residential properties, I spent a lot of time working on commercial buildings.  There is just something truly exciting when he went to work on a roof 20 stories above ground.

I moved on from there to work for a commercial roofing Bristol RI company and that is where I am today.  I still enjoy working on high-rises and very much appreciate the fact that I never have to work on residential houses.

The past 10 years and been very educational and am interested to see how many new jobs I will do over the next 10.

When I was in high school, I was not at all sure what I wanted to do with my life. I thought that I might be an accountant, as I had always been good with numbers, but the more I thought about it, the more I didn’t like the thought of doing it for the rest of my life.

I knew that I needed to do something with finances and I went to talk to a guidance counselor about my options. She suggested that I take several finance courses during my first year of college and make my decision from there.

Never in a million years would I have thought that I would be spending my working years counseling people about debt consolidation loans. But, that is exactly what I am doing and I really do enjoy it. I feel like I am helping people who are hopeless and that makes the job worthwhile.

Most people with artistic talent realize their skills at an early age, and develop them through their childhood years.  But for me, that just wasn’t the case.  You see, my parents didn’t have a lot of money when I was a kid, and we couldn’t afford paper for me to color on - in fact, I was punished a number of times for coloring what little paper we did have.

It wasn’t until I was in college that I realized what I wanted to do with my life.  You see, by that point, I had moved out of my parents home, and I was finally able to pursue my artistic interests.  I enrolled in a graphics art course, and that is where I was finally able to shine.

You see, it turned out that I had a knack for business logo design, and my marks showed it.  I continued my studies and received an art degree.  I had no problems finding a job working for a logo design firm, and that is where I am today.

I’ll have to admit, it doesn’t seem like work at all - I am finally able to do what I love.

While at school learning how to operate a Bobcat, we did many other training sessions that involved our heavy equipment.  Such things as simple maintenance and care of the Bobcat was an essential component of the course.

One of the hardest parts of the course (for me at least), was to change the rubber track for Bobcat mini excavator.  It was not like it was hard or anything, but for whatever reason, I just had a lot of problems to get it to work properly.

It got to the point where I had to have separate instruction from my professor just to get me to figure it out.  After a lot of trial and error, I was eventually able to get things worked out.  I was able to barely pass the practical test on changing them, but I did finally make it out of school.

Honestly though, I still struggle each time that I have to change a rubber track - I just hope that someday I will figure it out.

The summer after I finished high school, my friend and I decided that we were going to take a trip backpacking through Europe.  I enjoyed everything about it and knew that I wanted to be a part of this culture so when I got home, I started looking into possible job prospects in England.

I found quite a few advertisements looking for teachers to help people learn English UK and I knew this was something that I could do, as I had always planned to be a teacher anyway.  I decided to do a little bit of further digging to find out what I had to do to get a job and work over there.

I contacted a UK language school to inquire about their policies for hiring American teachers and during that first phone conversation, I found out that it would not be a problem at all for me to get hired on there.  I started the process right away and soon I will be packing up and leaving for England for good.

Once a week I work for an online help service for a hosting company based out of my hometown.  It is a very convenient job as most of the help I give it is typed in a window.  I am only Level 1 support, so I answer basic questions about difficulties that our customers are having with our hosting service.

Once in awhile we get customers that are contacting us, praising us for our great service.  Today though, I did get a request that was different than any I have received before.

It was from an older lady that ran a little e-business selling makeup she created.  She told me that her sales were going great but that she was looking for a local web designer to redo the look of her website.

She was based out of New York, so I went online and did a search for "web design New York" and found her a couple of companies to check out.  She was very happy that I took the time to help with her question and I told her that it was all a part of our customer service.