What is the best /worst jobs you have had?

[E150GT]

Worst: busboy/dishwasher at a local barbecue joint. We didn’t have a dishwashing machine so I used a screen to get all the stuck on food off the pans. Would make my hands bleed.

Best: my job now as an outside salesman for an electrical supplier. It’s tough but I’m getting good at it I think and I get to be all over and not stuck in an office.

 

[Oldmoparguy1]

Originally Posted By: CT8
Every job I have ever had was great and allowed me to learn.

I'm with you. I can't think of a worst job. Some paid poorly, some were dirty and dangerous, but I always seemed to find a sweet spot in whatever I was doing.

 

[SwampSurvivor]

The coolest job I had was a police dispatcher!

 

[TinyVoices]

Worst: start up software company. Boss who only cared about the big picture and pleasing investors and didn't give a [censored] about the day to day or even knew what was happening.

Best: my new job I'm about to start I think. Sr. geointelligence analyst at a defense contractor making the big bucks at 25 years old.

 

[ZZman]

Originally Posted By: ARCOgraphite
Best: Likely the most rewarding was working as a Mechanic in the late 70's. Most customers would appreciate the job I did and often come back with beer, booze, Pizza or, sometimes hanky panky

Sounds like a good porno theme.... Lol

 

[ZZman]

Originally Posted By: dgn
Worst: Correctional Officer in a Maximum security prison unit.


I hear some states under pay and under staff.

 

[CharBaby]

Worst job: working

Best job: retired

 

[slo town]

Worst: My first job at McDonalds. I was 16 years old and made fillet of fish sandwiches with a guy named Karl Warner. Her had a volatile and explosive temper. His mood would shift on a dime. He ended up murdering three young women in the local area. No joke, look it up. At a young age it taught me to trust my gut. Even being just 16 years old at the time, I knew this guy was off the rails.

Best: My 28 year career at Tandem Computers (not to be confused with Tandy). Tandem was a great company. At the time, Tandem and Apple were the new high tech darlings. Tandem even made the cover of Time magazine in the early ‘80s. Tandem was a special place and pretty much lacking of politics. All you had to do was know your stuff, work hard, and play the game. This was one of those rare “trophy jobs”. I could come and go whenever I wanted and never had a time clock, I had my own office, I was compensated extremely well, and worked with some genuinely good people. Even 10 years after my retirement I still see several of my ex-colleagues, now good friends, on a regular basis.

Scott

 

[92saturnsl2]

Worst: Ironworker; granted I was the low man on the totem poll and didn't do much besides haul stuff around and tighten bolts on the iron. But leaving for work every day wondering if you'll return with all your bones and body parts together sucked. Walking the iron 20-30 feet up with nothing underneath you but the cold concrete was not the excitement I was looking for in my early 20's.

Best (by a good margin): Traveling the country repairing pipe organs. I was the electronics technician, our new instruments cost $50,000 to 1.5M. They didn't think anything of sending me across country to fix a $750,000 organ that was still under warranty. Got to go to the Bahamas twice for work, nearly got to go to South Korea a couple times. Being the electronics guy made me important and special, as all the old geezer technicians knew nothing about computers or modern pipe organ technology. When I wasn't traveling, I was programming/configuring the pipe organ control systems in the factory on new and reworked instruments. Also set up diagrams for the wiring department to wire the systems correctly. Some organs had over 6,000 pipes, you can imagine the wiring involved. The old organs were cool too (company was in business over 100 years)-- they relied in the simplest forms of switching and gazillion miles of wire. Those people back in the early to mid 1900's were pretty ingenious, they could do most everything we do with computers today with just wire and electro-mechanical switches.

One of the last relays I programmed/set up in 2013, St. Aloysius Gonzaga in Cincinnati before the company [mostly] went out of business.

 

[marine65]

worst job was baiting hooks with clams for cod fishing long lines in a cold shack in the winter.
I started out as a junior baiter getting 50 cents a box.
after I got better and faster I got 75 cents a box as a master baiter.

 

[Cadenza]

Worst was as a seasonal/Holiday driver for the big brown delivery truck company. Most dis-organized and chaotic mess and the driver is the one expected to fix it every day.
Best was my last - 30 plus years as a senior aviation manager.

 

[HM12460]

Never had a bad job. From active duty in the Navy, to an industrial maintenance mechanic at a large paper mill, to my current municipal county job. They have all been great.

 

[Silk]

I'v had a lot of jobs, but all as the same thing, a mechanic, so no stories about packing shelves or flipping burgers. All have been interesting to me, otherwise I wouldn't have started them. I guess how long I was employed would be an indication of good and bad. One job I was there for 7 days, long enough to finish the 202 Holden I was putting together. I had a guy working for me who had worked at the same place, I asked him how long he lasted - 4 hrs, he put his tools in his car at lunchtime and went home. Yeah, that bad.

Longest I have worked for one place is 7 years, and was pretty happy there, and my own shop for 11 years, good and bad times. I have also worked at some places more than once, one place 4 or 5 times, and at my current employer for the 3rd time in 10 years. My current job is probably my best yet, doing my own part of the business, making my own decisions in a crew of 12.

 

[CourierDriver]

Originally Posted By: E150GT
Worst: busboy/dishwasher at a local barbecue joint. We didn’t have a dishwashing machine so I used a screen to get all the stuck on food off the pans. Would make my hands bleed.

Best: my job now as an outside salesman for an electrical supplier. It’s tough but I’m getting good at it I think and I get to be all over and not stuck in an office.
YOur job of outside sales reminds me of me in the early 80s doing the same thing, one of the best jobs I had, should have stayed,,well thats water over the dam............

 

[ls1mike]

Best job: Submarine Electronics Tech.

Worst Job: Submarine Electronics Tech.

 

[jeepman3071]

Worst job: Auto insurance claims adjuster.

I was basically forced to lie to people and try to "forget" coverage they had so they would need to pay more. The job was pretty much the opposite of helping people, and instead was about finding ways to get out of helping people, many of them were in really bad situations where they needed help. That and the company pretty much monitored every breath you took. I made people cry and received threats daily.

Best job: Infrastructure support in a university data center (while still a student)

I learned a ton, got to work with lots of cool equipment, and my boss was the best I ever had. Being on a college campus, I also worked with a ton of hot female college students which had another whole set of perks.

I've found if the working environment and the people you work with are awesome, it can make a not so high-paying job seem so much better.

 

[Schmoe]

Worse: Carry the hot asphalt on roofing jobs while on Guam....hot asphalt plus blistering outside heat...but that did motivate me to get myself through college.
Best: Touring drummer on the USO circuit. Got to play with a lot of 80's up and coming bands at the time...Katrina and the waves, INXS, Quiet Riot...to name a few.

 

[DBMaster]

I'm at the worst right now and have been for nine years.

 

[Lolvoguy]

Originally Posted By: marine65
worst job was baiting hooks with clams for cod fishing long lines in a cold shack in the winter.
I started out as a junior baiter getting 50 cents a box.
after I got better and faster I got 75 cents a box as a master baiter.

 

[Mr Nice]

Originally Posted By: DBMaster
I'm at the worst right now and have been for nine years.


Why is that, what are you currently doing ?