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What are the worst 3 jobs you have had and why?

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Physical therapy aide........the people I worked for were such high strung assholes and they treated us like idiots because we did not have as much education as them yet.

Gap employee.........when I was in high school I applied at basically every store in the local mall and unfortunately this was the only one to call me back and it was one of the stores I would least want to work at. I was only a seasonal employee during the Christmas season so I the store was nuts and filled with foreigners that didnt speak any english. The store would get trashed and I sucked at folding.

Golf course maintenance........working in all sorts of shit weather conditions, dealing with mosquitos, doing back breaking work for about the least amount of money they could pay
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  • AndyMandersonAndyManderson Posts: 167
    I used to work at walmart, yeah..
  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,240
    -picked tobacco & other crops in a field
    -worked in a factory loading boxes of t shirts and moving boxes around
    -worked in another facotry in the wharehouse loading trucks with boxes
    -worked the front desk of a dormitory check in
    -worked as a tour guide and displayed artwork in a museum
    -worked customer service for a insurance company
    -worked as a retail sales person selling cell phones
    -worked as a recruiter for a 3rd party engineering firm

    Okay i'm like 30 and those are all the jobs i've had. As for the worst of the three:

    1. Working in the field in South Carolina picking tobacco and other crops. Jesus Christ that is a hard job in the 100 degree heat and high humidity.
    2. Loading trucks in a factory wharehouse. Again summer work it is hot as hell and that assembly line keeps spitting boxes and you have to keep stacking them and tehy are heavy as shit.
    3. Retail sales. It just sucked having to put up with people and all their BS and sales goals that were not realistic etc.
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  • roarroar Posts: 1,116
    1) phone fundraising campaign aka telemarketing scum
    Y: it's no fun to annoy people you aren't mad at

    2) christmas tree lot attendant
    Y: december, cold, wet, harder than you think to put a tree on top of big SUV's, christmas spirit was nowhere to be found

    3) clean-up crew after a big luau
    Y: grease, baby oil is hard to get off marble floors, i can still smell the ammonia

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  • PearlJamaholicPearlJamaholic Posts: 2,019
    does community service count??? had that a few times as a kid. but even so i never even had a good job.

    worked in a produce warehouse....lifting boxes all day having rotten jucie dripping out of the boxes, sorting through that crap. i have good reason for not eating fruits.... then the janitor quit so they asked if id do it, since i helped the guy when i wasnt busy else where. it was nearly $3 more an hour. i said no, i ended up getting the job anyways, and since i didnt apply for it i didnt get the pay increase. one day i said im not the janitor and im not getting paid for it, when they tried to assign me that crap for the day. i was not so kindly told "if you dont wanna work you can go home."

    so the next job i got was at a foundry.....you think its hot outside at 100. we had windows opened in the middle of winter cause it got that hot. i didnt need ac at home or in the car after coming home from work. anything below 90 was considered cool, haha.

    i didnt mind the foundry it was hard and hot work. but i stayed at that produce place way longer than i should have.
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    I worked at a Tim Horton's. People act like it's the end of the world when their coffee's wrong.
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  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    Well I only had 2 jobs so far.....
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  • meisteredermeistereder Posts: 1,577
    intodeep wrote:
    -picked tobacco & other crops in a field
    -worked in a factory loading boxes of t shirts and moving boxes around
    -worked in another facotry in the wharehouse loading trucks with boxes
    -worked the front desk of a dormitory check in
    -worked as a tour guide and displayed artwork in a museum
    -worked customer service for a insurance company
    -worked as a retail sales person selling cell phones
    -worked as a recruiter for a 3rd party engineering firm

    Okay i'm like 30 and those are all the jobs i've had. As for the worst of the three:

    1. Working in the field in South Carolina picking tobacco and other crops. Jesus Christ that is a hard job in the 100 degree heat and high humidity.
    2. Loading trucks in a factory wharehouse. Again summer work it is hot as hell and that assembly line keeps spitting boxes and you have to keep stacking them and tehy are heavy as shit.
    3. Retail sales. It just sucked having to put up with people and all their BS and sales goals that were not realistic etc.

    10 people who read this just signed up to take the SAT.
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  • meisteredermeistereder Posts: 1,577
    1. My first job was a dishwasher in a college dining common. We served 1500 people per meal. The first day of my job, I was in the pot room and I put on a glove to wash these enormous pots and sheet pans, and when I took off the glove, someone's used band aid was around my ring finger.

    2. I worked at a bank. People are very nasty when it comes to their money.

    3. I am now an attorney, and it sucks worst of all of my jobs. Sure, I make money, but I regularly wake up in the middle of the night in terror because of work.
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  • rival.rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    meistereder wrote:
    3. I am now an attorney, and it sucks worst of all of my jobs. Sure, I make money, but I regularly wake up in the middle of the night in terror because of work.

    because you are thinking about your case/work load? or because you are afraid someone is going to come after you?
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  • meisteredermeistereder Posts: 1,577
    singularity wrote:
    because you are thinking about your case/work load? or because you are afraid someone is going to come after you?


    Thinking about my cases. It's hard to explain, but I know a lot of attorneys and most of them have trouble sleeping. You constantly worry.
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  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,240
    meistereder wrote:
    10 people who read this just signed up to take the SAT.

    Yeah I held most of those when i was too young to work (working in the field) legally or summer jobs in HS and through college.

    Hard work can make any one appreciate life a bit more and is good motivation to go to college.

    I've enjoyed my time as a recruiter/account manager since graduating.
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  • acoustic guyacoustic guy Posts: 3,770
    Working for my father when I was younger was by far the worst ever!!
    7am...."What the fuck is the matter with you? It goes this way! Not that way! Bla bla bla. Just thinking about it gives me an ulcer.

    UPS 3am to 8am shift....fuck that!
    You unload tractor trailers and some asshole stands at the end of it with a fucking stop watch. I lasted two weeks and said fuck off.

    Not sure what other one was that bad.
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  • CollinCollin Posts: 4,931
    Hauling huge barrels of hot sour milk and pouring them out into a big machine all day.

    It ain't fun!

    edit: not all day, from 5am to 1pm
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  • dangeringravitydangeringravity Posts: 99
    1. dunkin donuts...one of my very first jobs, if not the first. hated it so much i only lasted a day, haha. the place was so gross, don't get a breakfast sandwich there please.

    2. cleary cleaners...i tagged clothing to get sent off to be dry cleaned. people always complained if their crap didn't come back looking brand new. i'm sorry that your already ripped apart sweater, is still ripped apart, and the already stained and ruined pants, still look like ass.

    3. carmen's restaurant...poorly run, i had to host, serve, bus, and run food...alone...even though there were people hired for those jobs. oh, and our main cook was rumored to have murdered someone. nice guy to have in a kitchen around a bunch of knives.
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  • pjoasisrulepjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    dangeringravity wrote:
    1. dunkin donuts...one of my very first jobs, if not the first. hated it so much i only lasted a day, haha. the place was so gross, don't get a breakfast sandwich there please.

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  • kickoutthejamskickoutthejams Posts: 18
    1. Windshiled wiper inspecter-- summer job during college, pick up a wiper look at it, but in another box -- that was it, all day in a hot ass factory, standing the entire time....that sucked.

    2. Telemarketing .... even though it was for a charity ... it still blew.

    3. Dishwasher in college dorm cafe...I lasted one shift.
  • OffHeGoes29OffHeGoes29 Posts: 1,240
    Hot air ballon crew chief

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  • Indian SummerIndian Summer Posts: 2,296
    I'm only on my third job.....

    But my worst of the three was as a Pharmacy Tech. Dealing with insurance companies and doctor's offices over the phone sucked. Also Medicaid people are mostly all ungrateful for anything. It lasted about a month.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Cleaning out an underground septic tank, and fixing on a new pipe at point blank range, when the people in the house forgot to stop using the toilet.
  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    Indian Summer wrote:
    I'm only on my third job.....

    But my worst of the three was as a Pharmacy Tech. Dealing with insurance companies and doctor's offices over the phone sucked. Also Medicaid people are mostly all ungrateful for anything. It lasted about a month.
    I agree with this one....this was my worst job ever...though I was there for 8 yrs :( (from high school thru college, and then some)
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  • gabersgabers Posts: 2,787
    acoustic guy wrote:
    Working for my father when I was younger was by far the worst ever!!
    7am...."What the fuck is the matter with you? It goes this way! Not that way! Bla bla bla. Just thinking about it gives me an ulcer.

    UPS 3am to 8am shift....fuck that!
    You unload tractor trailers and some asshole stands at the end of it with a fucking stop watch. I lasted two weeks and said fuck off.

    Not sure what other one was that bad.

    Ha! I tried the UPS thing and lasted about two weeks too. It was the holiday season and I had a conveyer belt in front of me moving at a good pace with all sizes and weights of crap that I was supposed to fit - perfectly and completely - into his enormous fucking trailer. All in like 1 1/2 hours. It was insane. I just couldn't keep up. I'm not the strongest guy in the world and my back broke down quick. The pay was great for a college student but I just didn't have it in me. My hat's off to whoever has worked at UPS.
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  • gabersgabers Posts: 2,787
    OffHeGoes29 wrote:
    Hot air ballon crew chief

    Security at a Dave Matheuws concert

    Transient Alert/Crash Recovery

    Hot air balloon crew chief!

    That sounds totally kickass!
  • OffHeGoes29OffHeGoes29 Posts: 1,240
    gabers wrote:
    Hot air balloon crew chief!

    That sounds totally kickass!

    No, it sucked. I had to unpack the ballon, blow it up, chase the owner by radio through the back roads of CT during the summer. The trees blocked my view, so he would say "David...I'm headed North by North west on a heading of 21." what the fuck...is that route 67? His name was Thadious Burr, if thats not a hot air ballon guys name, I don't know what is. Then he would tell me to tell the owners of a house that he was going to "land" in their back yard. Well after they bitch at me about how they don't want him crashing in their back yard, he gets caught up in a huge oak tree. And guess who has to rap that shit back up.....me....and for a grand total of 40$ for a days work.
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  • acoustic guyacoustic guy Posts: 3,770
    OffHeGoes29 wrote:
    No, it sucked. I had to unpack the ballon, blow it up, chase the owner by radio through the back roads of CT during the summer. The trees blocked my view, so he would say "David...I'm headed North by North west on a heading of 21." what the fuck...is that route 67? His name was Thadious Burr, if thats not a hot air ballon guys name, I don't know what is. Then he would tell me to tell the owners of a house that he was going to "land" in their back yard. Well after they bitch at me about how they don't want him crashing in their back yard, he gets caught up in a huge oak tree. And guess who has to rap that shit back up.....me....and for a grand total of 40$ for a days work.

    LOL good story for a movie or a book.
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  • in_hiding79in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    I was a waitress forever it seemed, and being a waitress was really hard and I didn't really like it, but the tips made it better...:) Although it was fun during Football season more than the other sport seasons!! :)


    I worked at Old Navy for about 8 months.....liked the discount hated folding all those damn clothes and don't get me started on the dressing room mess!!



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  • lukin2006lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    meistereder wrote:
    1. My first job was a dishwasher in a college dining common. We served 1500 people per meal. The first day of my job, I was in the pot room and I put on a glove to wash these enormous pots and sheet pans, and when I took off the glove, someone's used band aid was around my ring finger.

    2. I worked at a bank. People are very nasty when it comes to their money.

    3. I am now an attorney, and it sucks worst of all of my jobs. Sure, I make money, but I regularly wake up in the middle of the night in terror because of work.
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  • in_hiding79in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    Are you Indian?


    he didint say 7-11 !!
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
  • in_hiding79in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    meistereder wrote:
    1. My first job was a dishwasher in a college dining common. We served 1500 people per meal. The first day of my job, I was in the pot room and I put on a glove to wash these enormous pots and sheet pans, and when I took off the glove, someone's used band aid was around my ring finger.

    2. I worked at a bank. People are very nasty when it comes to their money.

    3. I am now an attorney, and it sucks worst of all of my jobs. Sure, I make money, but I regularly wake up in the middle of the night in terror because of work.



    MY brother in law is a lawyer and he feels about the same way you do!!
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
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