Today’s music open thread features: songs that describe your job! Here is mine:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oMGC80_x-U
Do you all have any songs that describe your job?
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Today’s music open thread features: songs that describe your job! Here is mine:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oMGC80_x-U
Do you all have any songs that describe your job?
28 replies on “This Open Thread Makes Minimum Wage”
Ascension Day was quite a nice day, with scones and an old friend. How was yours (or are you still.. Ascensioning?)?
As a museum curator, I live by this song at work. It applies for staff and visitors alike.
Listen to your friend the Cookie Monster: Don’t eat the pictures.
I don’t believe that there’s a song for overworked executive assistants, but somedays I think my work theme song is ‘Eleanore Rigby’.
However, in my prior librarian life, this would be the theme song:
http://youtu.be/a_uzUh1VT98
There are very few songs relating to math, accounting or auditing…
I’m just going to listen to Marry The Night instead. :)
Also – ugh, I made a mistake in reading a policy and it affected a woman who is HEINOUS to work with. I need to correct the error but keep her temper down. If it was with any other client, this would be an easy fix but with her? I want someone else to fix this. Bypass me all together. (oh and today is the first day back from a nice, enjoyable vacation – good to that feeling…)
Make that “good BYE to that feeling…)”
God. Today.
I have a Skype interview with a school (I’m doing Teach For America) on Friday and I need some advice on what to wear. I have a black blazer, a grey blazer, black slacks, two pairs of grey slacks, a couple black skirts, a couple patterned (but professional) skirts, and assorted blouses. However, the black blazer doesn’t quite match the black slacks or skirt and the grey blazer definitely doesn’t match either pair of grey slacks, but I can’t afford to go buy a suit right now.
Would it be better for me to pair the black blazer with black slacks/skirt and hope the lighting is bad so you can’t tell the blacks don’t match, pair the grey blazer (which is also much nicer than the black blazer) with the black slicks/skirt or patterned skirt, or pair the black blazer with one of the pairs of black slacks?
I would go with the black pants or skirt, grey blazer, and a bright-ish blouse. The contrast and lighting on a Skype interview probably won’t be great, and they likely won’t see your bottom half all that much, so go with the nicer blazer.
Ok, awesome. Thanks!
I agree with pileofmonkeys. If you are going to be sitting for the interview then worry more about your top half. You want a colored shirt under the blazer, nothing neutral. If you are standing to present, then the black bottom (pants or skirt) would look fine with the black blazer. But most of all, of reek confidence! So long as you look professional and carry yourself with confidence, the interviewer should see your positive attitude more than your clothes , especially over skype.
BTW – Best of Luck!!
Thanks for the advice! I definitely followed it and just got done with the interview, which I think went really well.
Awesome!
I just got done, and grey blazer, blouse, and black pants was definitely the right thing to do. Thanks for the advice!
Yay! Let us know when they offer you the job!
I agree with the others – grey blazer, brightly coloured top underneath. I don’t think a matching suit is a must when interviewing for a teaching position, as long as you look well put-together, and the different colours will look good together on skype. Too much black might overwhelm you. Good luck!!
Thanks! I followed your advice and I think everything went well; the grey blazer and brightly colored top combo definitely looked good on skype.
I’m a bartender and occasional prep-cook at one of the most kick ass brunch restaurants EVAR. The food is ridiculously good. And this was the first thing I could think of:
Eat It, by Weird Al : http://youtu.be/ZcJjMnHoIBI
As an underemployed bookstore staffer, I think the best comparison isn’t so much music as Black Books clips. Like these. In which I am Manny.
Emphasis on the first line, obviously:
I work in a different sort of bio lab than the one in this Lady Gaga parody, “Bad Science,” but I like it, especially the outfits the woman made out of lab equipment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl4L4M8m4d0
Of all the songs we listen to at my job this is the one that consistently gets stuck in my head.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjNoENLIP4I&w=425&h=349%5D
(let’s see if this works)
Oh that’s going to be a truly heinous earworm…
I actually like(d) the song but going around with it in my head every day that we play it in class does drive me nuts.
Not a song, but… as of next week, I won’t be able to truthfully say that I sell cadavers for a living. This is my last week shilling dead bodies.
Holy what. What is your job, exactly?
Seriously! And congrats on not selling dead people anymore!
I sell specially-treated cadaver bone for medical use (i.e. bone grafting).
Wow. What kind of cadavers do you use? Ones donated to science, organ donors? I read Stiff by Mary Roach and am fascinated by this stuff on an ongoing basis.
How did you get into this job?