Taking surveys at an agricultural festival. I really half assed that one!
shareWhen I was much younger I worked as a landscaper.
I loved working outside and learning about plants and irrigation systems.
I didn’t love working in the desert when it was 110 degrees and digging
into ground that was as hard as cement.
I worked in wire assembly for cars,six months night shift 12 hours per day
shareWashing dogs at a groomer's shop. Some of them had cards attached to their cages with a laundry list of warnings, written in red -- "Bites if you look at him/her," "Won't let you touch his/her feet," "Bad heart, could drop dead at any moment."
I was gentle and never got bitten, but one dog was so badly infested in fleas, they jumped off of it and onto me! That was fun.
The worst part were the dogs that needed their anal glands expressed 😬
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I love animals, but that was NOT a good job! I'm glad you've been lucky enough to have never had a really bad one.
Was there one of the non-bad jobs you liked least?
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A mail carrier sounds like a decent job, except for the part about carrying a heavy sack of mail during hot summers and cold winters.
I want to hear some of your security guard stories!
I worked at a printing company once, which was one of my favourite jobs because it was so varied and the people were great! Needless to say, I didn't run the presses :)
Kentucky Fried Chicken. I lasted 3 days and then quit.
shareI once worked as a park ranger. These bears kept stealing my salmon. One of them disguised himself as a baby in a basket. I took him inside, and true enough, got away with all my salmon and honey.
Another time, I was a truant officer. One day I discovered that my three nephews weren't attending school and were eating ice cream in their tree house instead!
Lost my job a few years back and although I was flooding the jobs in my field with resumes and even going on a few interviews I wasn't getting a new job in my field as fast as I wanted so I went to a temp agency to get some work and bring in some income and got a job as a Break Press Operator in a manufacturing factory. Hot, dirty, long, dangerous, worked six days a week instead of five. I only did it about a month or so and ended up getting another job in my field.
shareI can't pinpoint one or another as the 'worst' but I'll name five (in no particular order):
1. 2003 : Outbound phone agent for The Republican Party - On my a** the 1st day. Not trying to help me be 'better' but a just do this or else attitude. The floor mgr. embarrassed & insulted me in front of the whole room. I went to his manager, stated what he'd done and (keeping it cool as possible) let them know... "I resign!"
2. Fast Food Chicken (1985 age 17: A place called Pioneer Chicken now out of business). - Unfortunate;y worked with two jerks from my high school. Harassed me all the time and worst, made me clean a grease trap. Our actual manager did nothing. (This is long before laws about ANY kind of harassment were thought of. (School was starting back up so I'd have left one way or another.)
3. 2007 : a 'temp' job. Painting 'red zones' for an apartment complex. A 2 week job and the cheap-o's at the place gave me 2 paint brushes and 3 cans of red paint. In that time, I painted ever single place they indicated...this place was HUGE. Top things off, it was summer and humid. The last day, when I finished, not even a 'thank you for all your hard work."
4. 2015 : A place that 'sold vacations' outbound over the phone. It's a legitimate place but I don't want to name them here. You never know who's reading. Anyway, the training for this place was a big joke. "let's sit you in a room, tell you all about us, write it all down, rake a tour of the place." Next day comeback and they give you more lecture and a few more bits o info. , then, sit you down at a phone station and basically say, "Well? Go ahead, do the job." Yep, next day, I went there and immediately resigned and told them exactly (cleanly) what I thought of their so called 'training'.
5. 2011 : Outbound calling/sales. Run out of business, after I left. Imagine a place with broken down chairs,cubicles& carpet. LOUD music,. Foul language and 'antics' from others. 3 weeks kater, I found far better work.
Dang, I miss Pioneer Chicken. Long live the spicy rice!
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