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Janitor for a pre-school.

Filthy little monsters.

Piss, shit, vomit, handprints, paint, peanut butter - ev - ry -where.

But, I was 15 and saving up for a car. As soon as I got the money for the car I quit that horrible job.
 
I grew up out in the country and once I graduated high school I moved into the city. I was putting in applications everywhere but having no luck. So I called a relative that owned a company. She got me hired right away.

I only worked it for 3 days (actually nights) but my worst job was at a plant that made plastic pipe. How it would work is the pipe comes shooting out of a metal tube and then you grab it, put it up on a contraption that coils it up and then cut it off. Take that large and heavy roll of pipe over to an area and stack it up, all while rushing so you can make it back in time to grab the next piece of pipe and restart the process.

The job was more boring then crappy but you also didn't get a lunch (not sure how they got around this legally). You had to eat while you worked as the machines never stopped.

So the right after my second night shift I got a called from not 1 but 2 places that I had previously put an app in at. They both wanted to hire me. I picked one and took off. That next job that I picked wasn't too much better (on the boring scale) as it was a call center but it gave you breaks a real lunch and wasn't graveyard.
 
Just working at the local fairgrounds in high school in 95 degree weather with criminals.
 
I have worked a bunch of shit jobs, especially as a kid, but somehow usually made them fun or interesting somehow. First real job doing inventory for Meyer and Frank, first week sucked just counting, but second week, likely because they figured out I was not super ethical, they had me uniquely and creativity destroy every piece of women's lingerie that had been returned over the previous year. I would rip, burn, tear, stretch, use inks, make runs and any other sort of damage I could come up with so Meyer and Frank could return all the returned items to the manufactures.

My next job was as staff at the Saturday Market, where I figured out a way to charge normal people to park in the venders lot, making about $80 in five minutes.

Over time had a bunch of others that were odd, but I guess the first one that sucked was working as a bartender at the Scoreboard about 17 years ago. The cook got mad at me for calling him a crackhead and decided to get me back by putting tiny bits of crack in my cigarettes. This is back hen we smoked in bars and I was smoking and working and feeling funky. Finally, I thought the cig tasted funny so I put it out, grabbed a new one, which also had crack in it. That place sucked, the tips were terrible, the rest of the staff sucked, and some of the regulars were such total drunks is was just depressing to go to work every day.
 
I don't know why I did it, but for a few weeks in the 70's I was a Fuller Brush salesman. I felt like an idiot going door to door. "Fuller Brush man", I had to say. Making matters worse, I never got laid by any of the housewives.
 
I find it hard to personaly define a "shit job"

as a youth I bucked hey, picked fruit, drove farm equipment, pumped gas, washed dishes...all of those paid better compared to todays dollar than now.. I suppose it is an age thing..I would never want to start over in todays econemy and earn "min wage" and even try to live on ones own..I escaped what could have been a bleak life by joining the service..best move I ever made
 
I've had a LOT of jobs- breakfast cook at my dorm, waiter at business school dining room, Little Caesar's, McDonalds, bus boy at fancy Manhattan restaurant, summer stock (rehearse, build sets, clean theater, move burn pile, wait tables, usher, and of course perform), manager of a card/gift store (great fun job that paid almost nothing), several professional acting jobs including theater, television and film. They all had challenges but I loved them all in their own way. The "burn pile" was a huge pile of wood and stuff that we burned up. One day, in the hot sun, they made us move the whole pile because it was too close to a tree. That was awful but so many of the other parts of the job made it worthwhile.

The only job I truly hated was one day and night of waiting tables in a big restaurant in Manhattan, I can't even remember where. But it was so awful, I swore that night that I would never wait tables again, that I would deal drugs before I ever waited tables again. And I've never waited tables since. I don't know what I'll do if I don't find a job soon and my "Bones" residuals stop coming. I won't wait tables though.
 
Oh I worked concessions and clean up at a movie theater once too. Had to clean up after late showings of Rocky Horror. Damn, I've done a lot of stuff.
 
Current job: self employed as a legal transcriptionist.

1. self employment taxes suck
2. being your own boss means you need a lot more discipline than me
3. not only listening to lawyers and stupid ass witnesses talk all day, but you cannot zone out. YOU HAVE TO PAY FULL ATTENTION TO EVERY WORD. Every last one. Did you ever meet that person who cannot form a coherent sentence, instead opting to string together a bunch of noun phrases and dependent clauses? They were probably a lawyer. Every meet that person who talked like they had cotton in their mouth? Lawyer. Now, write down everything they have to say, and have it make grammatical sense using punctuation.
4. Carpal tunnel
 
I can think of a few crappy jobs I did.

Driving red tops on survey crew (2" X 2" stakes, a foot long) into compacted subgrade for roadways, to show were the dirt under the crushed rock stopped. Then going over the same stretch of road a couple days later driving blue tops in the compacted crushed rock, to set the grade for the top of the crushed rock/bottom of AC. Swinging a 12 lb sledge for 10-12 hours a day was a grind.

Brushing, with a machete, for cross sections every 50' on a survey crew in blackberries, wild roses, nettles and devil's club was the suck.

But the worst for me was at Douglas County Lumber in 1972. Some of you might remember the huge cold decks of logs on the west side of I-5 at Winchester, just north of Roseburg. When they would empty a cold deck, they would have me and another greenhorn take a 5 yards dump truck to the deck row to clean up the bark before they built another deck there.

We would be out there with a short-handled two-foot wide pitch fork, throwing bark up over our heads into the dump truck. Each trip to the mill to feed our load to the hog, we would have to go below the de-barking deck and clean up the ground-up bark around the return drum for the chain while the de-barker was operating. You had ground up bark in the air, and it got all over you. Between pitching it into the truck and shoveling under the chain, I would go home completely coated with fir slivers every single night. That job was the pits.

Go Blazers
 
Current job: self employed as a legal transcriptionist.

1. self employment taxes suck
2. being your own boss means you need a lot more discipline than me
3. not only listening to lawyers and stupid ass witnesses talk all day, but you cannot zone out. YOU HAVE TO PAY FULL ATTENTION TO EVERY WORD. Every last one. Did you ever meet that person who cannot form a coherent sentence, instead opting to string together a bunch of noun phrases and dependent clauses? They were probably a lawyer. Every meet that person who talked like they had cotton in their mouth? Lawyer. Now, write down everything they have to say, and have it make grammatical sense using punctuation.
4. Carpal tunnel

woah..dude so sorry..zero green font here

look for something better

have a friend that did three tours in Bagdad.. came home and did three years in collage. He had a change of heart and decided to become an under water weilder..work half the year and make seven figures..decide where he wanted to work..ya only have one life
 
Great stories guys! I just realized I've only had 3 jobs in my life! Some of you guys have had a ton!


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Working for Senvoy. They are a mail carrier service that delivers title deeds, etc from banks, etc.
I had to use my own car and drive to Oregon City (from Hollywood District) and back again twice a day. I spent over $60 a week in gas in 2003. Was only paid $9 an hour.
 
This thread is like a bunch of Republicans trying to act like they have brass balls.

Not.

Swayed.
 
I worked in a tofu factory. 1980. Got caught in a boiler explosion and had to be life flighted to Emanuel Hospital.
 
I had that Milgard job too. I lasted one day. It was awful!

2 for me. apparently they had been having a TON of turn overs with temps with that. They were pissed, but i had learned they were assholes about paying the temp agency
 
I worked in the office of some egg roll factory through a temp agency. Sucked so boring they wanted to hire me full time but I turned them down

hoop fam
 
My worst were menial retail jobs. Worked at Longs Drugs in high school (they're now all CVS's) and then Sports Authority for 6 months last year right when I got out of college. They're nothing compared to some of the crap you guys had to do but both were pretty crappy in their own ways. You get a lot of really shameless/****y/cheap/rude/scumbag customers at Longs and the management teams treats you like shiet, but on the upside there would be enough young people to BS with and I was pretty faded at work a lot of the time. Sports Authority makes you pimp their membership program and try to sell extended coverage warantees and extra crap with every purchase, but 90% of the people there were college age kids so you at least liked the people you worked around.
 
Here is another delightful job.

Scullery duty on a Destroyer on sea trials, fresh out of the shipyard, with a whole bunch of rookie crew. Flopping around in the Pacific swell in shallow waters off Southern Californian Hot, steamy and at least a third of the crew
sea sick, puking in their tray before turning it in to be cleaned in the Scullery! To live through six weeks of that is a cherished memory.
 
Inventory at Meier and Frank sucked balls. Counting towels and random crap starting at like 6am.

hoop fam
 
Here is another delightful job.

Scullery duty on a Destroyer on sea trials, fresh out of the shipyard, with a whole bunch of rookie crew. Flopping around in the Pacific swell in shallow waters off Southern Californian Hot, steamy and at least a third of the crew
sea sick, puking in their tray before turning it in to be cleaned in the Scullery! To live through six weeks of that is a cherished memory.

Hahahahaahahaa flash back! hey, at least you were on a respectable sized ship. First pat North Pacific, Bering Sea, Winter. Working 8 and 4s. on a 378, SAR at 2 in the AM, fire up the twin turbins intothe trough, taking dark green water over the bow..getting splashed on the watch tower on the big eyes with spray...
 

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