Well at the moment I'm off school for work experience, and I'm working in a shop (WH Smiths) and it's so hard! They're getting 40 hours of free labour of me, full work, full time, and I have no friends working there with me I was just wondering whether any of you have done it, where you did it, and how it was.

Sounds like just about every job I've ever heard of. Welcome to that big scary "real world". Growing up is a bitch isn't it?

I was saying to my friend the other day that life is starting to get serious. I don't like it

Had that too last year. 40 hours in the network administration in a municipal authorities.
I surfed in the web all the time like 5 hours, the other three I was fixing computers, bugs on the website or just making coffee.
If my job will be like that, well...it won't be a hard life.

I shoulda done summat cool like that. I'mm hoping for a Saturday job.

EDIT: heh, the *-). I'm using MSN right now

Yeah, the real world sucks. I went from goofing off to working 40+ hours a week.

I've been working 40 hour weeks since I was 14.

Work? What's that?

I only work about 24-28 hours a week. 5 days a week though.

I work 21 hours a week most weeks and earn more than most people I know. Ah, government jobs are nice!

Real world... I hated that place... could have sworn I deleted it...

Full work, full time, no friends, no pay.

Yeah, work experience is like forced labour! *mutters* Myself, I worked in the Sleaford Development Group for the fortnight and I -still- don't know what exactly it is they do. Spent most of the time stapling at stamping various things. ANNOYING. I feel your pain. Glad I'm over and done with that. Yay for OU.

I just started this week at a IT department, answering phones, putting in work orders, and trolling the forums.

At least I get payed 15 bucks an hour. They make you euros work w/out pay? Ouch.

And, just to best the rest of you,I'm working 45 hour weeks.

I liked my work experience!

T'was 9 - 5 in a Pharmacy for a week, Llyod's Pharmacy, actually. The people were great, heh, though we had someone just about as bitchy as Erion.(More or less. *hum*) I enjoyed it, though it seems like none of you did. That week was pretty cool, for me. Didn't get paid, though I didn't matter. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Got a few things at the end which made my day, heh.

Hehe. Well, I'm not always a bitch.

I've just come in. I am knackered. Lugging crates, followed by crate lugging, a short break, then some stocking of stuff from crates, and some tidying of stuff from crates, lunch, stocking shelves using crates, followesd by lugging crates and then home.

I had a "senior internship", and you weren't supposed to be paid. BUT...I did my internship at my job and got paid during the month of May. Joy and rapture.

I was paid full 270 € for one month of work... Hard work, I must add. I had to carry computers from one building in another, and I tell you...19 inche monitors aren't nice to carry over a longer time and several stairs.

Well, I had to take stock(-Amazingly- dull and a pain on my back) in the morning, at 9:30 - 10:30 ish, then I'd do the pill-packs from 10:30. That was the main sucky thing, since it tore apart my fingers. *weep* *grabs packet of pills* *pop* *pop* *pop* *pop*... Etc. From 12 - 1 I did prescriptions, and then a 1 hour break... Then... from 2 - 4:30 I did prescriptions, and at 4:30 I did another few crates of stock taking. For 5 days, admittedly not a long time in the overall scheme, but enough to make my back ache.

I remember missing the people I worked with for ages after, because they were great. Still, glad I'm over it now. Heh