[SBR_John]

I answered an ad for “Commodity Broker”. I was young and although I had dropped out of college I still fancied myself as a financial man up-and-comer. The first day I was cold calling CEO’s and presidents of corporations while they were working trying to sell them an interest in a stinking oil well.

It was hell, never sold anything in my two week career. I was yelled at, cursed at and simply crawled my demoralized ass into bed at the end of each depressing day. My career as an aspiring financial guy was officially over.

[Senator7]

I sold cars at a Chrysler dealership for 8 months. Absolute worst and lowest time of my life.

Senator 7

[Mudcat]

I have an awful lot of candidates to choose from in my life.

I think the worst for me was on an assembly line. I was putting little springs into car door handles. That was the whole job. All day long. One after another after another after another . . .

And I suppose I could have stuck with it and kept doing it for decades. People actually do that. I'm not putting them down; but it's just mind-boggling to me.

I should have known better than to even try that with a personality like mine but the money tempted me.

I quit after half a day.

[Sean]

I was the “shop boy” at a metal fabricating shop during one of my summer jobs in high school. Boss came to me one morning and asked if I knew how to operate a backhoe. I said, “Yeah … I think so.” So, boss hands me the backhoe keys, a chain, a .22 rifle and a box of shells and tells me to go down the road and bury a sick cow for one of his friends.

I get out in this pasture where the sick cow is laying and, as she watches, I proceed to dig a giant cow-sized hole right in front of her. After the hole looks deep enough, I load a shell in the .22 rifle and “pop” the cow in the head. I wrap the chain around 3 out of her 4 legs, lift her up with the backhoe and position this “dead” cow upside down over the hole. Just as I begin to lower the cow into the hole, she comes back to life and goes nuts.

Leaving her hanging there, I jump down from the backhoe and shoot the cow about 6 more times before finishing the job. Never did volunteer for anymore backhoe work after that, but I did learn that a .22 caliber rifle may not be the weapon of choice when dispatching sick cattle.

[square]

sean,

funny story just too funny man, really enjoyed reading it.

Sure must have been something else actually being there buddy.


unreal,
sq

[SBR_John]

Yea I think Sean left off the part about the bong hits on the way to his errr hum . sacerfice. )sick fvck)

[Bill Dozer]

Framing houses in 20 degree weather. It didn’t take long for me to realize I wanted a desk job. The foreman liked to only put 2 nails in a roof cleat. No one ever wanted to stand on the bottom one.

Sean,
That is a rough day at the office. That might make me go vegetarian.

[jjgold]

I was a security guard making 4$ an hour and hated it and just had to stand there and watch a parking lot. I had to take job because the bookmaker owned the company and it was a way to knock off debt. I had no choice.

[Brick Tamland]

$4 ?? Was that in 1986??


The worst job I ever had was working where I do now at the chip plant.

[HAPPY BOY]

Hey Brick What Chip Company??? Do Ya At Least Get Free Bags

[HAPPY BOY]

OH YEAH i ALMOST FORGOT, i HATE F***ING SYRACUSE WHAT A PIECE OF HORSE DUNG FOOTBALL TEAM THAT IS, NOT ONLY IS IT BAD LOOSING 5 UNITS BUT IN THIS GAME BUT IT WAN'T EVEN ENTERTAINING. BOTH TEAMS, SYRACUSE AND W VIRGINA SHOULD FORFIT THE DAMN SEASON, ANYBODY ELSE SUFFER THRU THIS HORSECRAP????

[Brick Tamland]

Sorry to hear Happy. I work at a Frito-Lay company. I always smell like chip grease. I get free bags but the stuff will kill me. I also get free Grammas cookies and Pepsi to wash down my heart attack.

[pags11]

first and only "real" job I've ever had...other than playing and teaching baseball...I was a bagger at Albertson's when I was fifteen...it sucked...they made me clean toilets one time...it was bad...

[Illusion]

Taco Bell when I was 16. Now that job sucked.

[pags11]

ouch, Illusion...

[bigboydan]

had 1 job in my day and, let me tell ya. working 24/7 weekend shifts were brutal back in the day but, the pay was well worth it

[Brick Tamland]

"had 1 job in my day and, let me tell ya."

So tell us, what the hell did you do?

[Michael_G]

Very topical subject since I just gave two weeks notice at my job working in a bank as an investment/customer service rep in Aventura, Fl. For those of you who know Aventura, no explanation necessary. For those of you who don't, it's in Miami and consists mainly of very old, angry, retirees. The average age of customers at the bank is 78 years old. You just get verbally slammed on a daily basis. You also have to make cold calls. They are a special breed of human found no where else on this planet. I'm going back to acting, which I did previously for 5 years, and although it's not a steady paycheck by any means, I had the most amazing experiences and worked with great people. I definitely echo the sentiments of SBR_John. I was a commodities broker as well as a stock broker years ago and I would rather shovel dirt on a chain gang for eight hours a day than cold call. Any cold calling qualifies as the worst job ever.

[Illusion]

Welcome to SBR Michael G.

[Point Spread]

I worked 3 months on a tuna fish boat, just pulling this fvking smelly bastards all the way to the ice rooms, making $25 a day..... what else can i say...... it didn't suck.... it STANK!

PS.