Plenty of jobs like mine

[norml]

$6.50 per hour plus tips, no paid vacation days, no paid sick days, no health insurance, no possibility of a raise, and now no days off working just short of 40 hours per week since another one of the drivers quit.

With the price of gas what it is, and people actually tipping less, pizza delivery driving has lots of openings.

Delivery driving can be fun, but lately I see a lot of people my age and older working such jobs out of need, along with their other jobs.

In fact they all work so many hours and are so worn out, they are almost never willing to work hours for anyone else.

Do you see much of this or is it totally foreign to your experience?

I'm going to go swimming now before I go to work.

See you later!

[noahmijo]

1. When I drove for Domino's it was $5.25 /hr plus tips

I will say though with all things considered I was pulling in about $15 /hr with tips, and it was probably the most fun job I've ever had. You just cruise around listen to music (Oh how Dream Theater was my best friend during those times) and when you meet the customer it's "hello here's your pizza that will be $X.XX thank you very much have a good evening" in and out just the way I like to do business.

But alas the wear and tear on your car coupled with the genuine stress of rush hour traffic just put me to find something else eventually to help pay my college bills.

[norml]

2. I enjoy that part.

I'd enjoy it more if I were doing it less.

[khashka]

3. I see a lot of older people

doing the sort of minimum wage jobs that used to steretypically be for highschool kids, college students, and recent immigrants. Either as their main job or a second job to make ends meet.

But our economy is doing great, damn it!

Khash.

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

4. I do see a lot of older people working these jobs now

moreso than it seemed before... either in addition to another job, or it's all they can find. Thanks, Bush economy! :sarcasm:

[norml]

5. Pfizer plant plans restructuring, layoff of 300

Pfizer plant plans restructuring, layoff of 300
By SCOTT BAUER / The Associated Press

A restructuring of the Pfizer plant operations in Lincoln will result in the loss of 300 jobs, the pharmaceutical maker announced Thursday.



The Lincoln plant, which employs about 800, will focus on the production of animal health vaccines and will be transferring its pharmaceutical production and packaging operations to other plants over the next few years, Pfizer said in a release.

Nearly half of the job losses will happen in the next four months, said Rick Saffee, director of Lincoln's operations at Pfizer. Lincoln's biological clinical operation will be consolidated with a facility in St. Louis, Saffee said.

The remaining job losses will occur over the next two to three years as the manufacture of traditional pharmaceutical products for the animal health industry are transferred to other Pfizer locations, including Kalamazoo, Mich., Saffee said.


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http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2005/08/04/local/doc42f246a574adb067331158.txt

[Kire]

6. my former roommate did that on top of delivering newspapers and for UPS

he still couldn't make the rent most months