Ok, this is kind of a rant/question to see how you guys view this. Until I get more into camming, I'd like a part-time side job to qualm my fears about money. But it seems like every job wants so much "experience." I mean, I get that certain jobs require some experience and I realize that employers would prefer it in most cases, but sometimes I can't help but feel that some people lose sight of just how easy a lot of jobs are to learn in a few weeks. I don't think anybody who doesn't have some sort of mental disorder needs at least 2 years experience filing paper to be considered qualified or that a server needs to have 5 years experience... I mean, come on.
I realize there are certain nuances to every job that are only learned through time and practice. But it usually doesn't take that much time to learn these things in basic jobs like this... Like, my old job at a convenience store/deli for instance: I was one of the best workers there. I knew how to do pretty much every job, I had basically memorized the opening/closing checklist, and I knew how to do everything quickly and efficiently. I would often get annoyed with people who had no clue... but here's the thing. I know that I wasn't the best employee at that job because I was just super-smart, I was just the only one who wasn't a lazy bitch. Everyone else didn't know how to do shit because they would just pretend stuff didn't exist and wait for someone else (like me) to take care of it. These jobs require a little time to learn, yes, but they're not difficult in the sense of learning a super-hard skill set - anybody who doesn't know how to do basic jobs like this after a couple months is usually just a lazy schmuck.
So that's my opinion on the matter: I don't think things like office work or serving require oodles of experience, if they should even require experience at all. Unless it's a really upscale restaurant or huge, well-run office. I think employers tend to get too up their own ass thinking that these jobs are super-awesome and hard and they want people who have devoted a good chunk of their lives to them... Do you guys find this to be the case too? If you were an employer of filers/servers/bartenders, how much experience would you require?



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