What Is The Worst Job?, That you've had... Options

[Kiln]

I don't generally make topics but I thought of some of my worst jobs and kinda wondered what the worst job the other forum members have had. Probably the worst job I ever had was a janitorial job cleaning houses and apartments, average pay but the job just didn't fit me.

[Grits]

This has been fun. At first I thought that I didn’t really have any bad employment situations to share. Then I realized that they were all pretty bad in one way or another. Let’s start at the beginning.

When I was little we lived in the country. There was a big field between our house and the neighbor on that side. One year he decided to grow potatoes. He paid us cash to pick rocks up out of the field before he planted. 25 cents per 5 gallon bucket. Now we (the kids around my age) were way too small to drag a bucket full of rocks, so we would pick up all that we could carry and run them back to the buckets on the edge of the field, then run back out to get more rocks. After we got paid the older kids (ages about 10-12 years old I guess) would come over to where we had collapsed under the bushes after getting a drink straight out of the garden hose and sell us candy bars and sodas that they had likely swiped from their parents. At that time you could get a Coke or two candy bars and a pack of gum for a quarter. We would all put our quarters together to buy a Coke to share from those swindlers. It worked out great for a while though since none of us was allowed to have Coke. Then the neighbor realized that the big kids were sneaking over at night and throwing the rocks back into the field so that we little ones could keep earning quarters.

Also I should mention that while we were running all over the place with our shirts full of rocks the neighbor’s beagle would occasionally get loose and try to chase us down for the purpose of humping. That was an overly friendly dog, and what a stink on him. Poor thing couldn’t help the stink. But good grief, what a leg hound.

Anyway after the harvest there were still too many potatoes in the ground for the neighbor’s liking, so he had another job for us 5 to 7 year olds. For every bushel of potatoes we picked up, we could run home with as many as we could carry in our hands. That worked out to about three potatoes per bushel. So I have actually worked for small potatoes.