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Best And Worst Jobs
- Thread starter GoFride
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Best job I ever had was as a night-shift computer operator. I was the only one in the building all night. As long as I got my work done, I could pretty much do whatever I wanted to do.
Worst. Job. Ever. was as a CSR - Customer Support Representative. Talking to people all day, every day, and helping brain-dead mouthbreathers do complex tasks. I still have nightmares some 30 years later.
Worst. Job. Ever. was as a CSR - Customer Support Representative. Talking to people all day, every day, and helping brain-dead mouthbreathers do complex tasks. I still have nightmares some 30 years later.
AliCat37
Michelle's Candied Corns!
Worst job- Bagging groceries for tips only. Nothing worse than bagging six carts worth of food, with a $2,000 bill, working hard to tetris that **** into their prius, and then having them say "thanks" and getting in their car and driving away! Or, worse than that, having a creep older than your dad ask you to go to dinner with him, or sneaking up behind you and putting their arms around you- and it taking two years, and four OTHER girls to have him fired for sexual harassment. OR the guy who would do meth in the bathroom. Worst. Job. Ever.
Best job- Working a million times harder than at the grocery store, shoveling tons of rocks, digging trenches and holes, landscaping, dealing with complete ignoramuses, dealing with irate people, just wanting to explode with anger and the complete lack of knowledge and common sense, regularly getting covered in blood and other raw meat stuff, butchering road kill, and occasionally getting peed on. What makes that better? Getting to wake up to the best voices Mother Nature ever created, digging my fingers deep into fur, looking into big amber eyes staring back at me, having my teeth cleaned off by some canine dentists, and chasing wolves around in a good game of tag.
Best job- Working a million times harder than at the grocery store, shoveling tons of rocks, digging trenches and holes, landscaping, dealing with complete ignoramuses, dealing with irate people, just wanting to explode with anger and the complete lack of knowledge and common sense, regularly getting covered in blood and other raw meat stuff, butchering road kill, and occasionally getting peed on. What makes that better? Getting to wake up to the best voices Mother Nature ever created, digging my fingers deep into fur, looking into big amber eyes staring back at me, having my teeth cleaned off by some canine dentists, and chasing wolves around in a good game of tag.
ZoologyGirl
Under Tank Heather
The best job is the one I have right now as a lab assistant at my university. It pays well for a student job though I don't get many hours, but it's quite fun, I get to essentially work my own hours, and it gives me more experience in a lab setting. I mostly deal with medically related mycology, setting up and maintaining cultures of molds and yeast.
The worst job I had was for a telephone sales/service job (people call in with their issues/complaints/payments/etc...). I was great at working the computers and navigating the system, but I hate dealing with people. I quit within the first week of actually getting on the floor and taking calls. Never again.
The worst job I had was for a telephone sales/service job (people call in with their issues/complaints/payments/etc...). I was great at working the computers and navigating the system, but I hate dealing with people. I quit within the first week of actually getting on the floor and taking calls. Never again.
cagedbirdsinging
Maya's Mama
Worst job ever was an overnight factory shift! I lasted a night and a half. It was a pathetic failure.
My best job(s) has to be what I currently do! I run two of my own businesses (small animal nutrition products and metalworked jewelry) as well as working part-time at my sister-in-law's daycare facility. It's really all just perfect for me!
My best job(s) has to be what I currently do! I run two of my own businesses (small animal nutrition products and metalworked jewelry) as well as working part-time at my sister-in-law's daycare facility. It's really all just perfect for me!
Nanci
Alien Lover
Worst job: phone sales of magazines
Other jobs: paper route, waitress, fry cook, crew chief, making fishing flies, injection molding, growing roses commercially, garden store, raising cacti, vaccinating/ear-tagging feeder pigs, training horses, dressing ducks and pheasants at a game farm, horseshoer, cashier at gas station, book editing, web page design underling, scuba instructor- hey- that's my favorite!!
I really enjoy and do really well at repetitive jobs like tying flies, trimming parts, potting plants, disbudding roses, manufacturing fly-tying hair, counting hooks, dressing birds- anything that you get paid more the faster you go- I can figure out the most efficient way quickly and then race myself.
Favorite job: scuba instructor
Current job: Supervisor of fluoro department (live x-rays where people drink barium or other contrast, or get it delivered by some other less enjoyable method, to examine mostly the gastrointestinal tract or the genitourinary system) at a large university hospital, serving both adult and pediatic patients. I love my job most days.
Other jobs: paper route, waitress, fry cook, crew chief, making fishing flies, injection molding, growing roses commercially, garden store, raising cacti, vaccinating/ear-tagging feeder pigs, training horses, dressing ducks and pheasants at a game farm, horseshoer, cashier at gas station, book editing, web page design underling, scuba instructor- hey- that's my favorite!!
I really enjoy and do really well at repetitive jobs like tying flies, trimming parts, potting plants, disbudding roses, manufacturing fly-tying hair, counting hooks, dressing birds- anything that you get paid more the faster you go- I can figure out the most efficient way quickly and then race myself.
Favorite job: scuba instructor
Current job: Supervisor of fluoro department (live x-rays where people drink barium or other contrast, or get it delivered by some other less enjoyable method, to examine mostly the gastrointestinal tract or the genitourinary system) at a large university hospital, serving both adult and pediatic patients. I love my job most days.
tsst
Deuce is watching!
Best job: middle management at a Fortune 500 company - managed a multi-state area with around 25 direct reports and 3 major facilities. Loved treating people like human beings and seeing the response in kind. Having appreciation parties at water parks and Dave&Busters. Seeing our numbers be the best in the entire region and knowing it was from their hard work. Very fulfilling.
Worst job: same middle management at a Fortune 500 company - During the destruction of the economy by those in DC having to look a guy or gal in the eye and inform them they no longer had a job. Most heart wrenching feeling knowing that they may not be able to keep their home or car. Was one of the reasons I moved back into technical engineering from management.
Edit: another best job USAF
Worst job: same middle management at a Fortune 500 company - During the destruction of the economy by those in DC having to look a guy or gal in the eye and inform them they no longer had a job. Most heart wrenching feeling knowing that they may not be able to keep their home or car. Was one of the reasons I moved back into technical engineering from management.
Edit: another best job USAF
Nythain
New member
Best job, clerk at a convenience store/mechanic garage.
Worst job, dishwasher/everyone's bitch at Denny's restaurant/diner.
Dream job, bartender.
Hopeful job, anything dealing with computers... hardware, repair, programming, network admin, ANYTHING (except graphic design, I'll leave that for the artists).
Worst job, dishwasher/everyone's bitch at Denny's restaurant/diner.
Dream job, bartender.
Hopeful job, anything dealing with computers... hardware, repair, programming, network admin, ANYTHING (except graphic design, I'll leave that for the artists).
MysticExotics
(formerly NWHeather)
Worst job: telemarketer
Best job: (the one I have now) 911 Fire Dispatcher
Best job: (the one I have now) 911 Fire Dispatcher
Zombiegirl
New member
Worst job: Daycare...
Best job (most days): current job, Vet Tech
Best job (most days): current job, Vet Tech
smigon
Old enough to know better
I just applied to be a dispatcher with the tribe I currently work for! I have always wanted to do it. I am currently a pit boss at a casino, like the job, love most of my coworkers, hate the smoke (and I used to be a smoker!) and want to go to our surveillance department or get the 911 job they just posted on the tribe's website.
Worst job: Hotel front desk clerk at a cheap motel: the girl who was training me and I had to work side by side with had hoo-hoo BO so bad it gagged me. I lasted three weeks and didn't even give notice.
Best job: tie between concierge at the Ritz-Carlton and Surveillance at a casino.
Dream job: Dolphin trainer!