Never really had bad jobs. Mostly only jobs I was bad at. The worst was probably office temp work. The placement company was getting annoyed with me because I kept turning down all the crappy jobs they called me about. So they pressured me to accept one handling reception at a wealth management company. I was let go before noon because I didn't know what the hell I was doing, but it was cool because I got to talk about art with one of the principals there. I've done residential construction with my father -- roofing, painting, demolition, etc -- which was hard work, but good work. I sold cutco knives, but talking to strangers was so stressful for me that I quit before I ever did anything. I had a summer job changing lightbulbs, but that was really rather a lot of fun. I did manage to entirely avoid retail and service jobs, a path I highly recommend.
So if you can't do sales, customer service, or office work, what do you do now? Engineer/construction?
Interesting. What didn't you like about it? This was my first real job after college. Worked there for 3 years. Hard work for sure, but we made it fun.
Delivered food for Burger Boy in college station. Worst summer job I've had. Being told to "keep the silver man" by a hippie at a guitar store... The dime as my tip, was the final BS I could take. I quit that day. It was a beer money summer job any ways.
I worked a temp/seasonal job doing inventory at the Dillard's in College Station (Post Oak Mall) for a little while during high school. Had to be there at like 4 or 5 in the morning and worked until the store opened each day. Just had to scan in all sorts of merchandise. The pay was alright for doing basically nothing, but it was the most monotonous work ever and waking up early sucked. Luckily it was only for like 2 weeks every so often.
Yes it was lol. Straight cash under the table (no taxes) . I liked the coworkers I worked with and the owners, but hated the job. I did it for a month or so.
I did that for like a semester . . . .. back in the 90s I only wiped out on my bike once Cash back then was a GOOD thing Always had money . . ..In college that was a GREAT THING Rocket River
My bad jobs don't seem as bad as the others posted. My worst job was working housekeeping at a hospital. I worked 4-midnight. They had me scrub the baseboards of the entire hospital because wax would build up from when they cleaned the floors. I worked on this one area pretty hard, and I couldn't tell a difference from before to after. The boss came by and said something to the effects of "this looks amazing". So, I started just doing it faster, hoping I would get something better to do after that. Shortly after that, they had me actually clean the machines that cleaned the floor. Then I cleaned the wet floor signs. The entire time, I didn't talk to anyone, because I was the only one who spoke English. I left the job because I started college in about 2 weeks and wanted a break before leaving for school.
I also worked at a psychiatric ward. I was hired as an orderly without any qualifications (muscles) or experience. Everyone else on the staff was huge and had college football experience. I worked the graveyard shift and did almost no work because everyone was afraid for my life. I would sometimes watch the kids by myself and spent a number of hours literally sitting on a patient to restrain him. They told me my role was to communicate with aggravated patients but mostly the patients would talk trash to me about being white and scrawny. I also got hit up repeatedly by patients for weed who would yell in front of my bosses that they knew I smoked. Probably the worst experience there was injecting a guy with tranquilizers while 3 other guys were restraining him. He kicked multiple holes in the wall and broke a pair of handcuffs somehow.
Yall remember those guys on the side of the 120 degree summer blacktop that the surveyor was looking at? That was me.
Door to door sales The rude people aren't really the problem -- the heat and the neighborhood dogs were plus your knuckles swell up from knocking on doors
Worked at the Vitamin Shoppe back in highschool. After awhile i got sick of dealing with all the roided up idiots and supplement freaks who think a ****ing mushroom extract will make them "smarter". Once i had a guy call me and cuss me out because he didn't understand google maps. Dude came in and was clearly on some horse pills. My manager was also an *******, always made me pick up other people's hours and since it was my first job i never said no. If it wasn't for my awesome hot assistant manager it would have been hell. I eventually said **** it and quit. I did manage to take as much free **** that i could as an employee though. I had pre workout power for dayz.
yeah i had a pretty bad one as well in a similar fashion, fish processing plant...my job was to stand in a tub full of dead fish from 10pm - 4am and gut the sobs....damn disgusting and the smell was horrible (although it did seem to disappear after a while). The pay on the other hand was GREAT!!! $50/hour, not bad for a weekend job as a student
Burger King, did one day and got the he'll out. Retail for a little over a year, absolutely the worst!
