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]

My brother worked construction jobs over college summers. Like you said Kiln, brutal but the pay was excellent. He spent one summer as a roofer and another on a paving crew. After the paving job he learned to wait tables!


All right so here’s the next entry on my resume. When I was 10 we moved downtown where we could walk everywhere (school, friends, grocery store, bank, pool, the projects). I started babysitting for a friend of my mom’s for $2.00 an hour. She wanted me to do some little things around the house to keep me busy (!!) while I was there after school. Seriously, I had her two kids and my homework plus I fed them dinner, what the heck? Since the cleaning wasn’t working out she had me come over on the weekends to clean her house. For $2.00 an hour. I was ten years old. That was before I learned to say, “Screw you.”

A couple of years later she and another friend started up a small manufacturing business. It was literally a sweatshop under the one friend’s garage. In the winter they had to haul in a space heater because it was so cold the paint wouldn’t dry. They paid me $2.50 per hour though, so I was moving up in the world. Plus the one partner was also a caterer and she gave me awesome food. I ended up working for them on school breaks and as a second summer job all the way through my sophomore year of college. It was incredible experience to be in on the ground floor of a company. A lot of what I did opening new profit centers much later I learned as a kid at that company. But there was a funny moment when an inspector came to check their first rented building after we moved out of the sub-basement. We had all sort of forgotten that I wasn’t technically allowed to be working. So when he asked what I was doing there they quickly said I was the babysitter. About two seconds later when he saw the chemicals, power tools and such that were all over the place (because I had been working!) he said to me, “You need to get outside RIGHT NOW.” He was protecting me! Lol.

[King Coin]

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Yeah... as I was reading I kept thinking "That is not legal."


I think the worst job I've had was being a cashier at a grocery store. It was mindless work, and then you get the pleasure of telling customers that NO this item is ringing up at the correct price, you just didn't read the sign correctly/at all.

I seriously preferred my janitor job at a factory scrubbing toilets over being a cashier. YEAH.

This post has been edited by King Coin: Mar 11 2013, 06:44 PM