[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 f\*\*k)

[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.

[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????

[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

[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.

[tltaylor89]

lol

[LLXC]

In High School, teaching little kids math/reading beyond their years...and trying to make them not cry when they couldn't do it.

[TomDwan]

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...

[stevek173]

When I was in college I thought (the 1st time ) I'd be cool and go into management for one of the companies I worked for, Rite Aid.
Wouldn't you know it they promptly transferred me to the straight up ghetto, Asbury Park Nj, in charge of a bunch of reverse racists.
I'll never be racist, but that was my lesson on blacks hating whites automatically. Damn I was so nice - f*ck you to this day Harold (the turncoat security guard) and wtf ever your name was that hid that $100 bill so I had to find it.
Lol time for me to go drink another.

[Reload]

I worked at a supermarket one summer during college as part of three different jobs I had at the same time. No car and just walked around town to all three jobs.

The supermarket hired me as a cashier for like 4.25/hour which I did most of the time at first. But eventually they trained me on the recycling counter and my shifts for that seemed to grow right away. We had to touch everyone's dirty bottles and cans and feed them in through the machine.

You also had to keep track of whether it was green glass, brown glass, etc. since they had different big barrels for it to all end up in. Then every couple of hours lug all that to the back of the store and dump it in these big piles.

It was tough on them because they had to have people do the recycling counter that they could trust. You would just ring up every can or bottle at 5 cents each and give out the receipt. People were known to get fired for purposely ringing up higher amounts up for bottles or cans that didn't exist. So their pick of people for the job was kept pretty small and that's why once you were on it, they kept you there a lot.

[just4phun]

When I was in high school I had a job as a landscaper ... sucked ... big time... We started work a 7am and ended at 5-6pm everyday rain or shine. Laying sod for weeks on end - hated it!

[iceminers26]

roofing, it is killer on the knees going up and down a ladder and those SOB roofs get hot as heck in the summer time....pay was great, but glad I pursued other avenues.

[Crash]

manager at a restraunt in a 65 and older community!!!

[btraband]

had a job where I had to carry at least 2 bags of ice up 2 or sometimes 3 flights of stairs

[SBR_John]

With the season and all it reminds me I got a gig selling Christmas trees one year. That blew too. Shaking those trees and standing them up while some lady shook her head no. Of course it was icey and bitter cold out there.

[Lockitup1x]

manager at a restraunt in a 65 and older community!!!

Manager of a restaurant in the ghetto. Easily the worst 3 years of my life.

[MichaelC]

When I was 11, my neighbor who owned an interstate tourist trap in Florida decided I had to learn the value of work, so he convinced my mom to let me work during school break.

It entailed being lifted up in a fork lift and deposit in a vat of oranges. I would bag oranges until I got to the bottom of the vat and was brought back up.

This was 12 hours a day- 2 dollars an hour in 1988.

I couldn't eat oranges for 2 years after that.

[sickler]

While still a teen, weekend job as a parking lot attendant/cashier, locked in one of those small boxes for 10 hrs/day.

Boring.

[jjgold]

Washing windows and washing cars for bookmakers I owed money to

I will never forget I would be washing the cars, windows and they would have parties with chicks, etc and I felt like a fukkin dick boy.

Once in a while they would throw me a burger or something

Fuk that

If you play you pay one way or another

[Jasonal_98]

Had a summer job in high school working at a candle factory. No air conditioning, boring assembly-line job. Terrible 3 months.