<p>Seriosly, I have worked at Wendys and McDonalds. I worked at Wendy's for 7 months and quit. I hated every month of it. I was without work for 6 months and really needed money so I got a job at McDonalds through a friends. This is my second week there and Im really hating it. For one, Fast food is extremely repetitive. Today I pretty much spent 7 hours doing the same thing over again. You always have multiple people yelling at you telling you to drop something in the fryer or laydown more meat. They say more nuggests and I run down to the fryer and drop a bag of nuggets. Or I need a tray of Reg meat. SO I drop 8 patties on the grill. Not only is it very repetitive but its very stressfull which is the worse part. I plan on being a pharmacists so I can handle repetitiveness. At fast food though you have to be VERY fast. Everybody is always bumping into each other and yelling and every 10 seconds a timer goes off and you have to hit the button and pull whatever went off. If you run out of meat or something people get mad. There is very little down time. You dont get any rest besides your break. Its constantly cracking eggs for breakfast and working the hot grill which you often burn yourself because you have to work so fast. .The coworkers of them pretty much have no future and sing to every fricken song on the radio that plays in the kitchen. There all a bunch of crappy college students. I think it actually helps to be dumb to work in fast food sometimes. Smart people tend to relize that the working envirement degrading. I need to have a job where I can sit down and actually use my head. Not just some boring repetitive job where I have to work my ass off and get minimum wage for it.</p>
<p>If you want a job go to a clothing store, or anything really. I would love to sit and stock or something and relax just a little bit. I think Mnimum wage is going up to 6.95 so I will try and hold out for as long as I can. I think Im going to continue to look for a job and quit when I find one even though Ive only been working for 2 weeks.</p>
<p>Work at the library==> PERFECT job for a high schooler. chill people, and ALL you have to do is shelf books...not boring at all (at least not at my library)..plus you get to know where all the good books are..i'm such a nerd :)</p>
<p>but hey, i get paid 8.75 an hour..how's that for a high school job?</p>
<p>That sounds like a horrible working environment, and you should probably quit, BUT...</p>
<p>Just as an anecdote:</p>
<p>My friend just got into Harvard (he's terribly smart, and not the least bit an ******<em>) and his first job was, in fact, at McDonald's. He was promoted to Manager pretty quickly (for someone of his age) and now gets a big kick out of the fact that someone who started working at McDonald's actually *is</em> "going somewhere".</p>
<p>Of course, this is the same guy who graduated high school with a number of AA's in subjects like Accounting...</p>
<p>If you're so smart and fast food is so bad why do you keep going back to fast food? There aren't grocery stores or coffee shops or libraries or restaurants or malls around? Also, I'd reccomend if you do go to a job interview not complaining about the speed of the fast food job. It makes you sound like you couldn't even keep up with a "degrading job."</p>
<p>puppetzz,
maybe you are being a little hastey..I mean, 2 weeks. Give it some time. You may not like it after working for a while; but at least you'll get used to the way things are done. The longer you work there, the better you'll be at the job.</p>
<p>well, in cali minimum wage is 6.75 and their raising it to 8.00, so starting wage would probably be around there. I work at coldstone creamery right now, but i start working at a labratory in a couple of months (10 an hour, but you have to be strong in chemistry)</p>