List some crappy jobs you've had

[Carbon]

Job Title: Will call.
At Macy's in 2002. I was seasonal help during the winter holidays. I essentially was a gopher and picked up racks of clother hangers, lifted furniture and misc. stuff. It was pretty frigging horrible. You can only hear the same Xmas song so many times until you wanna stab someone in the neck with a pencil.

Newspaper job: Delivery. for about 3 or four years with my dad. The job itself wasnt bad, as essentially you were an independent contrator for the Newpaper company. The worst part is you had to do it everyday, rain, sleet or snow. I can remeber developing a pretty decent arm, but it wear you out quick.

Dug ditches: Literally, for a contarctor. Probably the crappiest job. Paid under the table, which was nice.

[Carbon]

Food Service/restaurant:
As a busser/food runner in a tourist trap part of town (about 1 block away from the Monterey Bay Aquarium). Not so bad, despite the fact pretty much every one working there was a coke head or druggie of some sort.

[SCpoloRicker]

Door to door private business sales. For SBC (phone service). In a suit. Everyday. Commision only.

1st job out of school... got better from there.

[Warewolf50]

Loader at pikes, got treated like poo by the managers, and paid horrible.

[Eagle]

where do I begin? Lets see, not counting the summer I spent working at a summer camp, or all the small businesses my dad owned (mobil truck washing, parking lot sweeping, janitorial) there was the first real job of washing dishes at a steak house. Then there was sales at a office supply store. You had people who would come in and buy a giant desk and expect you to load it solo into their compact car. Then there was the fast food place that all the high schoolers liked to hang out at on friday nights without buying anything. Then there was sales at a home center. Then there was 5 years in the Navy where I was trained to be a STS (SONAR Tech Submarines) but was really paid to be a DCE (Dirt Combat Engineer-read janitor). And now I'm back at the home center where in the last 2 weeks my longest day has been just over 3 hours long.

So take you pick

[MicroMiniMe]

Working as a corn detassler when I was 14. One of the few jobs available at that age. That lasted all of two weeks to get one full paycheck. Heat and it just plained sucked.

Summer after that worked at an apple orchard/strawberry fields for a few summers and weekends during school. Spraying trees/plants wearing a 1/2 body rubber suit for dangerous pesticides. Pruning branches on the apple trees and pick off fruit on trees with too many so the weight doesn't break them. Apple trees get old and very weak limbed. Though driving the tractors wasn't bad, and I got to drive my dirt bike to work was neat.

After that did the old convinience store clerk, and got to work the liquor store side when I was 18. Closing up had its benifits. Just ring yourself up for a personal stock of booze.
Strangely I never did drink much, still dont.

[MonsterMag]

Paper Boy , 50/month Long route and had to use about 20 bucks for gas for the driving portion of the route

Toms Family restaurant (local dinner)
Smelled nasty , very unsanitary and was a horrible job. 6 bucks/hour and was 7 hours of lifting dirty dishes and clean ones. 20/30lb stacks. Consistent work , no breaks

I settle at quality markets were I am currently employed. Great job.I am going home with 80-170 a week and get a good amount of breaks.

[PyRo]

I've had a couple jobs as a carpenters assistant. Those wern't to bad, unfortunatly the company no longer exists so neither does my job.

I had a job cleaning up a construction site. That sucked for a while until I figured out various methods of cleaning up quickly, making the place keep itself neat and getting people to stop making such a mess. Then I sort of forced my way into being a carpenters assitant again because all I had to do was empty a garbage can or sweep up every now and then.

Now I do landscaping or whatever else they need done. Today I got to paint and do spackleing. Landscaping can suck on some days and be fun on others. Weeding for ten hours straight sucks, raking dirt sucks, but cutting the grass, planting, stuff like that isn't to bad. And I get to do other things like in the past couple weeks I had to extract an old corvette from a collapsed garage then demo the garage and today do paint and spackle work in an apartment.


I've had some temp jobs like selling christmass trees, working for the church feast. The feast sucks because I get to clean up garbage and venders feel the need to buy the cheapest bags they can find, stuff them to the top making them weight 80lbs so that it's impossible to pick the bag up without ripping it. But aside from the garbage it's a fun job. Selling christmas trees is the same way I had fun doing it but at times it can suck.


So I guess I've never really had a crappy job because I just walk away from anything like that before getting involved.

[Bear_Claw]

Transit/Highway Bus washer.

$10/hr 12 hr shifts 7pm-7am (did this while Still in school).

Job included sweeping out interiors, fueling and topping fluids, exterior hand washing, and the BEST part Dumping the "HUMAN WASTE CONTAINERS" and then cleaning them and washing the toilets and facilities.

Job was hard and tireing and litterally STANK. Id finish school at 3:00pm go hom shower grab food and go to work for 7:00pm. Then id work till 7:00am sleeping as mutch as i could on my breaks Id showering and chang at work and go straght to school for 8:30am and buy ALOT of coffee LOL.

[wad04]

janitor: cleaned my old middle school. 6am-5pm 5 days a week.

what did i do: cleaned ****, bathrooms obviously the worst you had to wear a plastic shield on over your face so when you pressure washed the bathroom stalls you wouldn't get poop on your face. something i will never do again, but gives you a great incentave to go to college.

[bam wannabe]

nothing too bad... dishboy at a bbq restaurant
and working on roofs after all those hurricanes that ripped through FL last year. hey, 90 degree weather gets really annoying when you are a roof. it feels a lot hotter than it actually is

[Recon by Fire]

In the past 20 years I have only worked in three different fields (soldier; investigator; DoD contractor) but in my teens I had a crappy factory job: I worked from the time I got out of school at 4pm until 4am then got up after a few hours and went to school again. This was a plastci injection molding factory. I had lots of cash as a teen but the work hours with school really sucked and I eventually was let go because the bosses son wanted his friend to work there (bosses son just sat in office and watched TV and talked on phone though he was supposed to have same job as me). I bet that personel switch turned out real good for them, LOL.

I worked at a Taco Bell for a few years, starting when I was 14 but that was awesome actually. Used to meet a lot of girls there who thought I was older "hey baby...."

Worked at Popeyes in my early days also for about 2 hours, then told told the manager I would be leaving

[Cameo]

I have pretty much worked in the service industry all my life.. I rather enjoy it.. Just didn't enjoy the restraunts that you just wanted to tell the people how dirty the kitchen was... No matter how much you scrubbed the grime from 10 years ago would not come off.. disgusting.FYI restraunts are breeding grounds for druggies, one of the few places you do not have to take a drug test.

I do however work as holiday help at sears portrait.. If you ever think your kids are bad just do something like this, 10 hour days trying to get screaming little snotty nosed brats to look good enough to snap a picture..Then once you have one, convincing the parents that said child was most adorable and well behavied you have ever had so that they will buy pics.. On the rush months (late october, november, early dec) you have 5 appointments each hour.. that makes for alot of screaming kids, all dressed up in their xmas clothes and thier parents getting mad cause they just spit up all over themself.. Did I meniton how much more I love my kids now??

[ArmySyko]

Sales

Broadcast Account Execuative. It was $7.50/hr with a 10% commission. The problem was trying to get people to buy advertising on the radio. The chance of getting someone on an A-M tri-country radio station that's under the umbrella of the 13th largest FM radio market in the country is nearly impossible. Uber-ugly business. I went from that to being deployed to Bosnia. I took the deployment as a blessing but it was a feeder for Iraq.

[mobsterboy]

I have pretty much worked in the service industry all my life.. I rather enjoy it.. Just didn't enjoy the restraunts that you just wanted to tell the people how dirty the kitchen was... No matter how much you scrubbed the grime from 10 years ago would not come off.. disgusting.FYI restraunts are breeding grounds for druggies, one of the few places you do not have to take a drug test.

I do however work as holiday help at sears portrait.. If you ever think your kids are bad just do something like this, 10 hour days trying to get screaming little snotty nosed brats to look good enough to snap a picture..Then once you have one, convincing the parents that said child was most adorable and well behavied you have ever had so that they will buy pics.. On the rush months (late october, november, early dec) you have 5 appointments each hour.. that makes for alot of screaming kids, all dressed up in their xmas clothes and thier parents getting mad cause they just spit up all over themself.. Did I meniton how much more I love my kids now??

I love you Cameo, you seem to bring the worst out in every thread, which is amusing.

I dont know, I guess my jobs bad. I work for my dad, and my dad owns a cafe/bakery. Most of the time, I just sit around bagging up bread and taking money from customers. Then theres those days where I move around 1000 to 1500 pounds of flour in about 15 minutes, repair and replace toilets, kill ants (They seem to be everywhere), fix broken crap everywhere, and just when my day seems to go good, things like the coolers stop cooling and i have to spray out their intake vents (dust everywhere). On top of all this, I get 7 someting an hour, and i say 7 something because for 3 months, i didnt get paid simpy for the fact that any money i got was either spent on paintball stuff, or saved to later figure out what i wanted to do with it. I think if i got the full ammount of my payment, i'd be getting around 400 to 600 a month.