Haven't done one of these in a while. Best Percussionist for the SHSU Modern Dance Team - $20/hour to play bongos/congas while watching a bunch of chicks dance around in sports bras. Good work if you can get it. Worst Bank Teller for Bank One - I had a college degree and I was making just above minimum wage while taking orders from a bunch of pregnant high-school dropouts. Had a gun pressed against my right temple when we were robbed.
Best - Now. I finally got in with a Fortune 500 company working as a Financial Accountant & Auditor. Worst - Selling phones for Nextel. My former company had a mass layoff around October last year and no one was hiring, due to all the seasonal and temp help. So I had to take a $12k paycut and hear people whine about their phones not working. It was truly nightmarish... Makes me look back & think about no matter how bad you think things are now, they could always be worse.
Best - After-school program childcare provider - they pay was good while I was part-time. Plus, you can't beat children making things for you and giving you hugs and laughing and smiling every day! LOVED that job! Worst - KFC - grease, grease, grease, burns, slipping all over the place, crappy hours, and coworkers I couldn't stand.
best=funnest: Astroworld. that place was a chick haven. worst: first job, assembly line. it was with my mom. i couldn't keep my eyes open. btw, i was going to post this in the Almu thread, but this is a good place as any. i was offered a new position 2 days ago. i didn't mention the interview in the almu thread b/c i didn't want to jinx myself. man, that thread was good luck for everyone, except, well...you know.
Worst - Riding around in a van with some schmuck selling speakers out of the back. It was a whole con about how they were extras from a club install and we had to sell them before our boss knew. We were in the middle of selling a set in Pearland and I went inside the grocery store to make a phone call. When I came back, the guy I was with had left. He didn't come back. I'm from the Woodlands. I was stuck there for 6 hours before a friend finally made it down there to get me. Best- Between my last job as a Project Manager for a restaurant equip co. and my current one as a pm for a synthetic turf manufacturer. I finally get to work in sports.
Best: Rockets.com Web Intern-Any job at the Rockets is the best! I would get insider info first before the public when posting articles on the website. I saw the entire 05-06 Rockets squad, especially being in same elevator as T-Mac at the holiday party. CRAZY! I have been in their locker room. It's huge. Downside of it was, I didn't get paid but hey I got to see Yao/T-Mac and them. It's all good! Worst:: Don't have any.
Best - Delivering Furniture for a Lazy-Boy Store. Half the time we were just in the back warehouse chilling in sofas and massage chairs, the other half we were cruising around in the delivery truck. Oh yeah... and our secretary was the definition of a MILF. Worst - Probably deciding for some reason to pick pumpkins in a field one day. It was hot and a bunch of mexicans were laughing at me struggling to keep up pace. I finished the day and quit after that. It seemed like it never happened, like some sort of fantasy flashback from Family Guy.
The best job I ever had was 1972-74. A company called Surtran had the exclusive taxi contract for DFW airport. While I was in school I drove a cab part time. The cool thing was you charged by mileage, so in effect, the faster you drove, the more money you made. Basically it was Cannonball Run everyday. We had big ol' Caprices with honking V-8's and it was not uncommon to get them up to 100 on the new freeways around the airport. I never had a Penthouse moment but did have more than one customer pull out his stash, including a soldier just back from Germany that had a huge chunk of hash. (there weren't any real security measures at airports back then) Man, everyday was a blast, just haulin ass.
Best: Control Engineer for CITGO in Lake Charles. Great atmosphere, fulfilling work. I shouldn't have left. Worst: I worked for a friend's brother on his tree cutting crew. That is one of the worst jobs in the world. Thankfully it was my third job at the time and I quit it after not very long. Suprisingly good job: Mover. I wouldn't have wanted to do it full time, but the pay was good for college, sometimes tips were good, you'd get free stuff from the people you moved, and overnight moves were a lot of fun.
Best: Medical Assistant at an Optometry practice.. it was the longest job I had and I started out as a part-time optician and worked my way up. I did everything short of giving an actual exam, which the externs were teaching me how to do by the way. Worst: Telecheck- Bill Collector .. I collected on bounced checks.. it was ridiculous the amount of people who still use checks and wrote checks for like $1.33 and they bounce. How is that even possible.. I actually saw a $0.50 check... no joke, and I was collecting on it. I couldn't even believe it. The worst part was when they transferred me to the Wal-Mart dept... it was a nightmare.
Best - Project Manager for Environmental Remediation. It is nice on those rare occasions that I feel I make a difference. Worst - Chemist extracting semivolatiles from fish samples for analysis. The fish sample would spend about a day and a half in sealed glassware before I could dispose of sample and clean glassware. I puked a couple of times while cleaning off the rancid fish gunk from the glassware.
worst job - well there was that one time that this girl I met over the internet used her teeth...oh nvm
Best - Current job working as a consultant at an energy company. Contract money is great. Worst - Installed fiberglass security meshes on chain linked fences at a prison down near Freeport. It was summer, 95 degrees outside and muggy, and the fiberglass rolls were 400 lbs each. And the prisoners just lounged around all day watching us work. Plus I got whistled at because they supposedly 'liked small ones like me'.
Best: The one I'm in now, but I really have to add working for the Greek in Wharton and El Campo as a bartender back in the 80s. Truth is, my best jobs were/are based on how much I liked my boss, not what I actually did. Worst: Now this IS based on what I did - laying down tar on the roof of a new shopping center in the middle of summer in Corpus Christi.
Forgot to mention: Worst "Entry Level Sports Marketing" - Answered an ad for this in the Greensheet (LOL). Interviewed (if you want to call it that) and was told to show up the next day at 8am. I showed up and found out that we would be selling trinkets door-to-door to businesses. How is this "sports marketing"??? They took us to McDonalds to buy us breakfast. I said I needed to get my jacket from my car before we went out "marketing" for the day. They took me back to the office, I got in my car, laid a huge scratch as I was leaving and never went back. Don't ever get a job via the Greensheet.
Worst job One summer, I worked on a offshore oil rig as a roust-about. Our job was to paint it if it was not moving. What sucked was being below deck in the heat of the day. Think 100F, 100% humidity, inside a tin can with very limited ventilation. Extreme sweat fest. I meet some very interesting on this gig. A small set of rig workers get paid in cash when their two week shift is up. They take the cash, grab a cab, head into town, come back two weeks later in a cab with only enough money in their pocket to pay their cab fare. I initially thought that that was really f*cked up, but later realized that these guys are just living their life by their own terms. Best job Worked two years for Anderson Consulting. The best set of people I have ever worked with. Everyone was extremely motivated to make each other look great.
LOL I fell for the same thing. Except I had to spend the day watching a guy run door to door for 8 hours out in humble while I was wearing a suit
Yep. It wasn't exactly explained to me what the job was when I went for the interview. I was just told speaker sales. I thought it sounded cool. I was 19 and needed a summer job that didn't involve sacking groceries or delivering pizzas (which is exactly what I ended up doing).
