How did you land on your first job?

I still cannot forget that fateful day. I still had a year on my college and I came to know of a company that was recruiting people. They were giving flexi timings so that college students could also join in if they were really good. So for fun's sake I had just walked into the interview. The interview was on C++ which I was teaching in some computer institutes already, so I was feeling supremely confident. As the interview began, the first question came up and suddenly I was all worked up as the question was a direct lift from my favorite C++ book!! A book that I had read cover to cover some 20 odd times and which I could recite entirely!! Then the second, third and all the questions started coming from the book and you could really understand the fun I was having. It all boiled down to one question which when the panel asked I told them that the question was incorrect and there was a lot of jostling in the panel how this arrogant boy is challenging a well known book!! I then proceeded to explain them why it was wrong. Of course, some time back I had written to the author of that book and had confirmed that this portion had got wrongly printed!! So overall for me it was a cakewalk. Later on when I joined the company, I came to know that they were just about starting their C++ division and that is why the interviewers were picking the questions straight from the book!! :) Cheers! Ram

My friend offer me a job, she introduce me to his boss and I got the job. I didn't find the job interesting, for I see myself working for nothing. I always wait for 5pm to come, my time out. So I work only for 3 months. After that looking for a better job, until I worked again in other Company where I enjoy now.

My very first job I got through my mother. She worked (still does) in a shopping mall, and the owner of another store in the mall needed help and didn't know anyone who could fill in on short notice, so my mom said she would ask me. And I wound up working there for awhile.

My mom helped me get my first job. I wanted to work in daycare for a long time. She knew a woman who owned a daycare. I went and talked to the woman and her partner for an interview. They hired me right away. I worked there for awhile before I ended up moving out of state with my boyfriend. I liked the job for the most part.

I have been a marketing guy from the begining. It was not my choice but chance. I have been in marketing since then. I did work for call centre for some time. But now i am back to marketing.

I did volunteer work for the local library and museum during junior high, and was offered part time jobs there when I got a bit older. The resumées from these jobs landed me substitute teaching positions during college, and then it was easy to get at "real" teaching job later. But I'm very lucky, there is almost no unemplyment where I live; less than 5 %. My husband is like you. He has worked as a programmer for 20 years, and hates it more and more. He has tried to apply for everything; shop clerk, janitor, security guard, etc, but the only jobs he get are programming jobs. Even when he applied for a janitor job for a computer company, they offered him a position as programmer. Now we are trying to fix things so he can work part time selfemployed, and part time be a house"wife".

Why dont you like programming?.. its a fun and exciting job. I am also a programmer and I've been working for 3 years now. I started as a trainee and I could say that im still enjoying my job until now.

i think it is because you dont understand why you must work like that...

I searched the Internet. And I got the job. It was not easy as well. Spending nine hours sitting there putting or filing data and files in and out, and then noting. After 3-month, I quit.

I got my first job after handing out lots and lots of cv's. I work at primark along side my uni studies, and it not something i enjoy too much (i mean, i'm a guy, dont care so much about clothes etc), but i find making friends there makes it much more bearable. Its a bit ironic that you ended up in a job in one of the web things that you didn't want to do, i hope that it works out for you in the end.

If you want to be happy then do a job that makes you happy. I can clearly see that you are not satisfied with your job. I too was one of your kind when I landed in the wrong job. Although I got good salary and that initially made me go for the job. After few months I realized that I am not being fair to me, so I quit the next day. Although I had trouble to get a job that I wanted but eventually I got. Though I am earning less compared to my previous job but I am really happy with what I am doing. Good luck for you as well.