What is the Worst job you ever had?

[Julie]

Heh. I was working for them since I was like 10 or 11. I suppose it taught me things, though I was happy when I went to college to have an excuse to get out of it.

[robert s.]

during my summer holidays in university i worked in an aluminium producing plant. 4 shifts (6-12,12-18,18-24,24-6) each week changing the shift. after three months i did not know any more when i woke up if i had to have breakfast or dinner......
and the temperature in the plant was a constant 55 celsius and because of the dust you could see about 20 meters......

but it was highly paid then.......

[thegrape1]

I think the worst job I ever had was a metal parts castor for a battery manufactorer. Long hours, working over molten lead so you always had to wear a mask. On top of that the outside temp was always 40+ celcius, So I fully understand where your coming from Robert!

[Julie]

Ooh. I thought of another bad one. Newspaper delivery. I did that for awhile in high school. Getting up at 3am 7 days a week was no fun at all, especially when I had to be at school at 7:30am.

[AmySueN]

Hmmmmm... I'm not sure I've had a "worst" job, but there are worst aspects of my jobs.

When I was teaching in St. Louis I had no support from the principle. She had been a music teacher in a catholic school and thought my problems teaching music in our low-income high-minority school were just because I wasn't prepared enough. I had to do 12-step lesson plans for every class, every day. which meant 35 12-step lesson plans a week. I liked the kids and the music - the principle not so much.

I like my current job as licensed child care provider most of the time, but over the past week I've one close encounter with projectile vomiting and three separate poop-all-over-everything episodes. Again, I like the kids and the job - puke and poop not so much.

[Brian]

But H&M is not really a rich person's store, is it? I mean, around here it isn't perceived that way.

There are different varieties of the H&M store. It's a high end store in Europe but they have "low end" stores throughout the US. The one I worked at was one Newbury St which is dubbed the "rodeo drive of the east coast"... about as rich a store as you can get, it was. People routinely (every day) flying over the pond from England just to go shopping on Newbury St for a day, which of course would cause them to go into H&M since it's a familiar store to them.

When I was hired I was told the history and yada yada, and the only other H&M in the US that's more fancy than the one on Newbury was in NYC... times square maybe? Forgot the exact location.

[ewomack]

I worked for one day at a meat packing plant. It only took one day. College suddenly seemed more interesting to me...

[AmySueN]

Originally Posted by ewomack

I worked for one day at a meat packing plant. It only took one day. College suddenly seemed more interesting to me...

Yuck! I'll take my kiddos over that anyday!

[dogznbonz]

The toughest job I ever had was roofing. It was either really hot or really cold, not to mention the work in general was pretty hard.

[Nr1Host|dennis]

Ah...my first job was posting on some China Travel Forum...I don`t know anything about it and I had to do it...omg :S

[Julie]

Originally Posted by Brian

There are different varieties of the H&M store. It's a high end store in Europe but they have "low end" stores throughout the US. The one I worked at was one Newbury St which is dubbed the "rodeo drive of the east coast"... about as rich a store as you can get, it was. People routinely (every day) flying over the pond from England just to go shopping on Newbury St for a day, which of course would cause them to go into H&M since it's a familiar store to them.

When I was hired I was told the history and yada yada, and the only other H&M in the US that's more fancy than the one on Newbury was in NYC... times square maybe? Forgot the exact location.

Hmm. Thanks for the insight. I never knew that.

Yea, the H&M around here... well, there's a few now, but the first one was put in this uppity new shopping center. It seems middle of the road, but not high end or low end.

[Brian]

Yup, that's what makes H&M a powerhouse to come. Their variety.

There's an H&M store in the "downtown crossing" section of the city that I'd never go in for fear of getting shot.

[lloyd.velarde@gmail.]

I used to sell kitchen knife when I was in high school and it is quite embarrassing selling those kind of stuff in the streets.

[mabel01]

none so far..

[jdspc]

Toys R Us @ Christmas time....

[Kitchen Designer]

*** Caution! Not for the squeamish!!! ***

I used to hang freshly killed chickens on a conveyor belt inside a cool room.

First they would hang the still alive chickens (the ones that didn't escape and run around the yard!) outside the processing plant on a conveyor by their legs. Then they went through an electrocution bath and then a hot water bath for de-feathering. After that their neck would pass through some kind of stretching device and then it would eventually be cut off. Next they would continue along the conveyor belt over a stainless steel trough which collected all the blood dripping from the chickens bodies. After a while the blood congealed in the trough and had to be pumped out to god knows where. After that their feet would be cut off and then they would slide down a stainless steel chute into the coolroom where I would be waiting.

When they slid down they would come to an abrupt halt by hitting a stainless steel plate. Blood would spatter all over the place (me included) and this would continue every 15 seconds. I then had to hang them back up by their footless legs onto another conveyor where someone else would remove the eggs and then onto someone else who would remove the gizzards...

I only lasted 2 days. Still love chicken though!

[zeruel]

Thank God I didn't get to regret any chances of having a job... And good for me that I didn't get any worst job...

[Rankenstein]

Originally Posted by Kitchen Designer

I used to hang freshly killed chickens on a conveyor belt inside a cool room.

From the description, I'm still trying to work out why you would think it was cool?

[jamaine12]

Don't have yet..But I think it's about to begin..