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Old 05-17-2005   #1 (permalink)
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Worst Job Ever.

After reading the Happy Birthday Hypo thread and what people were doing 5 years ago when hypography was born, I was wondering... what is the worst job you have ever had?

For me it was a brief period when I had a job killing turkeys. It was awful and I still can't eat turkey or even smell it.


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Old 05-17-2005   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Worst Job Ever.

Working in a fish processing plant up north. 16 hour days of gutting fish on a slime line. i still love salmon, though, and can clean a fish in 5 seconds (given the right knife, seriously).


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Old 05-17-2005   #3 (permalink)
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About 26 years ago a band I was in went to a VFW club out of town. When we started to rock and roll they gave us $10.00 and told us to leave. That was the worst job I ever had......
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Working in a fish processing plant up north. 16 hour days of gutting fish on a slime line. i still love salmon, though, and can clean a fish in 5 seconds (given the right knife, seriously).
Dang... I can still cut chicken apart with a good knife (still won't touch turkey..), it's like riding a bike. Before that I never really knew the difference between what a good knife would do.


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Old 05-17-2005   #5 (permalink)
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My worst job was doing construction. My girlfriend at the time wanted me to get a "real" job, so her mom got me a job with her boyfriend. I only did it for 1 day, but I (a 125 lb weakling at the time) had to use a 95 lb jackhammer, and then they gave me a sledge hammer so that I could break a wall with it. That was absolutely humiliating. Now I'm a software engineer making much bucks though, so I just look back at my relationship with that gold digger and laugh, cause I ditched her after that and just continued to study programming.
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Sorting "Kimball Tickets" at a major SoCal department store's central office. In the old days before computerised point-of-sale devices, merchandise had these little price tags on them that were perforated down the middle, and when you bought them, the clerk would rip one half off and put it in a bag under the register. When I was working with them, they'd gone to bar codes, but the originals were tiny punch cards. These things were sent in from all the stores and they had to be read into the mainframe to deal with daily sales/inventory. So, you got a bag, with all these little pieces of paper and you had to stack them up and put a rubber band around them so that the data input machine operators could hold a pack of them on the input device which would zip them in and read their bar codes. I did this one summer in high school, and it just about drove me bonkers....

Not as gross as some of those above, but mentally torturous...

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Making fiberglass pipe components. Talk about an itchy, itchy job....


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secretary-like guy for an insurance company.


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let me ellaborate:
it was my fathers company and i worked on my own time and well, it was the only job i've ever had.


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Breaking rocks with a 90 pound jack hammer in a 20' deep trench with a noonday temperature of 104 degrees. Geezzzzz I love my air conditioner now. Pass that lemonade on down will ya.


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