SCANNER vs Jobs

I've had a few jobs and went into volunteering schemes in my life. You never have chance to be bored whilst working, no time to consider the banality of existence, so the void isn't really present. I think it is a NEET thing.  You get to be around people and work as a team, learning of each others interest, and if you're lucky you get good co-workers, they're like a second family. Keeping busy helps fight against depression. Some jobs I loved, some I hated; I'll go through them and tell you how they combated the emptiness.

Betfred
Working for Betfred was a fun job. What I had to do was put bets on through a computer and handle money, also collecting money from Fixed Odds Betting Machines. I could play the betting machines on demo mode and could even make myself a cup of coffee and drink it in shift. I felt I was working towards a career, made friends with the co-workers and started to understand the nuances of gambling. But problem is I got a bit too chummy and started to talk about inappropriate subjects. Example, a customer said 'I'm going to drink 8 cans of lager and cry myself to sleep', and like an idiot I responded with 'That's nothing, I used to take 8 ecstasy tablets and vomit the day away'. He then later told management about my utterance and I got pulled in for a disciplinary, but was way too freaked out over it so they fired me on the spot. Also didn't help that when I wasn't working, I went in one night with a bag full of cans of lager and only the regional fucking manager saw this and was like 'You're not allowed to bring alcohol in the premises'. Felt like a total tool. Still, I have fond memories working there, it's a shame that I got fired.

Smyths Toystore
Now this is one of my most favourite jobs, hands down. What I had to do in night shift was to open cardboard boxes full of toys, take that cardboard in the back and bale it with a cardboard crusher/baler. And I got to listen to my ipod whilst I was working. I made some good friends in that job, and also if I was in the day shift, I would walk around and help customers to the toys they want. Sometimes I worked behind the tills and handle money. I felt like I was Willy Wonka just showing the customers all our merchandise. I got through a lot of podcasts whilst working night shift. Don't know what more I can say apart from how I loved working there.

Kapak
This is one of the worst jobs I was in, fucking hated it. But meh, at least I wasn't bored. What I had to do was open cardboard boxes of cookies and place them in reach of my other co-workers who were working in the assembly line and putting those cookies into packaging. But that wasn't the worst of it, I could easily deal with that. The hardest part of the job was working in what is called 'the Walkers line', where you had to open 3 big bags of crisps (or potato chips if you're a Yankee) a second, fill this blue bucket with said crisps until it was full, then take that full bucket to one of the machine hoppers where it got repackaged further down the line. I couldn't get up to speed and I fucking hated it, I never felt so useless in my life. But at least the void wasn't there, gnawing at my being. At it was at that point I vowed never work in a warehouse again.

Hermes
This was quite a chill job where I was a groundskeeper for a warehouse (thank god I didn't have to work in it). I had to clean up all the outside of it from plastic tags and wrapping, pull out weeds and dealt with the odd rat corpse. Quit the job so I could work in Smyths again. Nothing much to talk about, made a friend who I forgot the name of.

So how does having a job combat the void?
Well, having a job fills in your life. To work is to do something and keep busy, to feel useful in your craft. I reccommend getting a job to take away the apathy in your life. One day I hope to build a career, I'm studying how to become a Teacher's Assisstant so one day you might see me teaching kids. Hope to find somewhere I belong.