[ladydoc]

I was so impressed with the stories of the jobs that people were most proud of, it made me start thinking about the worse jobs we have had.

Mine is an easy choice. In grad school I had to remove brains from rats skulls, cut microthin slices and then prepare slides. ICK! The scientist in me was OK with it, but the woman was a definite ICK. They wanted me to kill and decapitate the rats too, but I drew the line at that. No way. So I would walk into the lab every evening to a row of heads in jars. Now top that for a lousy job!! Well, it did pay for that semester's fees...

[Mark1130]

I had a job briefly during the dot com era trying to sell business to consumer ordering websites.

It was a horrible job with unrealistic expectations. I hated going to work and the people I was involved with had nor morals or ethics.


I actually thanked them when I was asked to leave.

[eweissenbach]

One summer while I was in college I worked on a road crew patching potholes with hot pack asphalt. The hot pack was loaded into a truck bed and we had to shovel it out and into the potholes. Try handling steaming asphalt on a Missouri summer afternonn with 100 degree temps and 90 percent humidity. Not fun, but it made me determined to get my degree.

[ducati1974]

When I was in my early teens I worked on a tobacco farm. it was an awful job making a pittance for pay. The day i quit we were sitting in mud in the rows of tobacco suckering the plants in a steady rain. I don't recall ever being so miserable!

[ladydoc]

I was wrong; some of you had it much worse!

[villagegolfer]

Do jobs in the military count?

[Posh 08]

Thinning peaches.

[Debfrommaine]

Actually it was the people at some of the jobs that were the issue not the jobs themselves. I figure people are the same where ever you go, it's just the faces that change!

[salpal]

I was 15 and it was my very first summer job, working for the Electric company. I had to call people and inform them if they did not pay their bill, their power was going to be cut....boy, did I learn lots of new words from that experience!!!!

[graciegirl]

I worked after school for a collection agency.

Learned a lot from that. Learned every excuse in the book.

Remember my grandmother saying..." If you CAN'T pay for it, then DON'T buy it!!

[redwitch]

Middle school -- picking strawberries. Hot, backbreaking, smelly work. They used kids (12-15) and migrant workers. You filled crates, took them to the loader. Loader would claim at least half the strawberries you picked were rotten, not ripe enough or bruised. Amazingly, these bad berries were still loaded onto the truck. At the end of the day, if a kid earned $5.00, it was a small miracle. The migrant workers usually managed to earn between $10 and $15 per day. It took me five years before I could even tolerate the smell of a strawberry. It also was the beginning of my liberal leanings.

[nitehawk]

Originally Posted by ducati1974

When I was in my early teens I worked on a tobacco farm. it was an awful job making a pittance for pay. The day i quit we were sitting in mud in the rows of tobacco suckering the plants in a steady rain. I don't recall ever being so miserable!

I too as a young teen worked picking cotton - for 2 cents a pound. We crawled down the rows with a long burlap bag dragged behind - where we put the cotton we picked. We tried to pick as early as they would let you, as the dew was still on the cotton and weight more, when the sun was high we quite and weight out - the scale was a 2X4 like a see-saw If you made tobacco you got $5 a day and if you drove the mule you got $7 a day. I never worked tobacco.
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[texasfal]

I worked a second job calling people on the phone at night trying to sell them cemetary plots. The location was in the funeral home at the cemetary. The owner would lock us in at 5:30 and then open the doors at 9:00pm. Horrible job, but really horrible when we heard someone in the embalming room at 9pm. My friend and I got my .357 and went to investigate. Nearly shot the balls off the owner who thought he was being funny to scare us. We quit that second. Next worse job was working for The Villages at the Villages Golf Cart store. A woman spit in my face because the cart she rented had mildew on the back of the seat. When the mgr. told me to suck it up, I left there too.

[momesu]

WOW....I am feeling really fortunate that though I have had jobs I haven't liked all that much I've never had ones like those listed here.....The worse I had was working retail and having to deal with some really really rude nasty and demanding customers. I loved those jobs though and all the other customers.
Suzanne

[Bill-n-Brillo]

Lucky me, I guess - I never had a job that really sucked. Sure, there were aspects of all the various jobs I've done over time that weren't pleasant - EVERYONE can relate! But I'd have to say that in the mix of things, I enjoyed each and every job I've ever had.

Bill