Job Hate

I wish I had seen this thread earlier.

I attend college full-time and have two jobs. The primary position has me training people to work with software and I recently received a promotion to Supervisor since I was basically the only one of four workers that wasn't graduating that didn't get in trouble for skipping or sleeping on the job multiple times. Internet surfing is fun, but it can be SO BORING in there that I even start nodding off. Why does it suck? First of all, my boss realizes that I do work and he thinks that I can do the work of two to three people at once. Also, since the college has it listed as a "worker's grant", I don't get paid minimum wage until this semester when I offically become Supervisor (even though the college claims that they are paying their students $15 an hour, they steal money any way they can).

Oh, my secondary position as a technical writer for a newspaper sucks even more. I am not only in charge of the technical writings, but I have to be prepared to write any random story that comes my way. Which means, while everyone else is enjoying Homecoming week, I am doing homework, attening class, competing, and trying to cover an extra story on top of my usual 2-3 stories per week b/c I'm not married or heading out-of-town.

The newspaper used to run every other week since the town is BORING! However, we received a lazy editor who decides "hey, I'll wear a suit everyday, make the paper WEEKLY to waste more paper and create more stress, and hang out in the lounge with my SGA buddies and sweetheart while everyone else does the work". Now, we have this new girl who makes Avril Lavigne's skater image look like a caffinated cheerleader and she doesn't understand that you can't follow the "inverted pyramid" with certain abstract stories and the most experience she's had was a class in Beginner's Journalism (which she took WITH THE EDITOR).

I remember one time I was told to write 2-3 articles during finals week and one of the articles were assigned to me last-minute. I worked almost all night on the story and submitted it to the editor. Three days later, he sends an e-mail saying "Oh, by the way, we're not having another issue until next semester". And he forgot to send in our stories so I could compete for my first journalism contest. Oh, and the pay is only $3.25 an hour and it's not the lowest-paying position.

Don't get me wrong, both jobs have their perks, but it seems as though the secondary position is getting worse and worse every year. Frankly, the new editor is intimidating and I have the feeling if I were to disobey her she would pull an inverted pyramid out her butt and use it as a chakram. I don't like to be pushed when I know what I'm doing with a story.

Jam it back in, in the dark.