gacpa
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Post by gacpa on Jan 27, 2016 15:33:24 GMT -5
Well, it finally happened, he landed a job at a small manufacturing company about 20 miles north of our home. He started last week and is commuting daily. He reports to the mechanical engineer there and they are training him on Autodesk Inventor and Autocad. They told him it is a 6 month temporary position, but may go permanent, not sure yet. I don't really care, as he is getting good experience and the people are very good to work around so he says. No, the pay is not much, but that is not our goal yet anyway. The most important thing is experience and knowledge and the good co workers.
I am good with this, things can only get better from here.
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Post by geenamercile on Jan 27, 2016 16:48:24 GMT -5
Congrats.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2016 16:55:20 GMT -5
That sounds like a great start! DS got out of college in 2007 with a barely-respectable GPA and started in Customer Service for an insurance company. It was PT, no benefits. Within 6 months they brought him in FT and he's been promoted 3 times. (He's been great about applying for internal moves and about 1 out of 3 times he gets it.). They've been very good to him.
So, greeting his foot in the door is a great beginning for your DS!
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Jake 48
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Post by Jake 48 on Jan 27, 2016 19:16:15 GMT -5
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Anne_in_VA
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Post by Anne_in_VA on Jan 27, 2016 20:30:43 GMT -5
Congrats to your DS!
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Post by Phoenix84 on Jan 28, 2016 8:15:20 GMT -5
Temp positions with the possibility of going permanent seems to be the way of jobs now.
Glad to hear it.
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Post by alabamagal on Jan 28, 2016 11:48:11 GMT -5
Yay!
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Post by sesfw on Jan 28, 2016 12:14:30 GMT -5
WooHoo ........... yea !!!!!!!
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Post by Works4me on Jan 28, 2016 20:10:53 GMT -5
 For your son and  for you.
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Post by obelisk on Jan 28, 2016 20:41:44 GMT -5
What to go, you must be really proud! He will do well in his endeavors.
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Post by debthaven on Feb 1, 2016 16:54:28 GMT -5
I just wanted to say Congratulations! The first job is the hardest.
My DD has a Bachelors in Hotel Management. She did some very prestigious internships abroad, but they always put the interns in the restaurants, never in reception, and DD absolutely wanted to work in reception.
Her last internship ended rather badly. We were secretly very worried she would never find a job, let alone one in reception.
She was hired by a small, very prestigious, suburban hotel a week after she started looking (so sooner than your son was, but that doesn't matter. What matters is that he was hired!) She's been there for 6 months now and it's going really well! She plans to stay a full year and then go abroad again (but this time, with a year of reception on her resume!) It's a small hotel, but they have some very prestigious contracts. DD is paid shite, but she's still living at home and she's getting MUCH more experience than she would in a big Parisian hotel with a huge hierarchy, minus the grief of commuting. She often works OT and they always ask her if she wants it paid out or if she wants more time off. She usually splits it between the two.
We were SO worried, but things worked out so well! She is being promoted to night duty (I realise night duty it doesn't sound like a promotion but in that industry it is, and it's a "necessary evil" if you want to move up the food chain) after six months.
Best of luck to your son!
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