What is the best /worst jobs you have had?

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Worst: paper boy. Early morning delivery, bad weather, Sunday papers, having to collect money for bills.

Best: current security related "escort" job. High pay and no physical labor.
 
Worst: Supermarket shelf stocker and bag boy. We weren't allowed to accept tips from customers and one day a customer told me the policy was [censored]. Quit that day.

Best: I guess what I do now, but always hoping things can get even better.
 
Worst:
-A: Buss boy: the smell of chilly and cigarettes in the grinder bowl....
-B: Warehouse carts pusher in a second hand store: the smell from one old-ish lady chicken sauce...

Medium: MFG place I'm at: 20 min. commute beats all....(I love my kids)

Best: When I worked with 700k+ peoples health data... That was power data mining/data science before there was all the rage....
 
Worst: Working for a demented sadist near Detroit. This guy just loved to make people miserable and made no bones about it.

Best: Next job, working very hard with a group of fantastic people who were really motivated near Chicago. Lots of extra hours but it was worth it, at least at a time when I didn't have a kid. That company is more or less defunct now and almost all of my former coworkers have scattered to other places. This is where I really learned my craft.
 
Worst: Call center.

Best: Airplane pilot.
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Worst: Private practice attorney in a small firm
Best: Product specialist at a local car dealer
 
Worst: Selling termite treatments for Orkin Pest Control...crawling through wet crawl spaces hoping and praying I'd find termite activity. The worst was selling little old ladies on the concept that they needed to treat their house today, even though they had lived there for 50 years and nobody in the subdivision had ever had a termite problem.

Best: What I do now...death care. I help people preplan funerals and purchase cemetery property & memorialization products.
 
Worst: Selling industrial safety products. The multiple people you'd have to convince to buy, and then finally deal with the purchasing department that didn't give a rats A$$ about quality and only saw prices. Worst period of my career, some nice training from 3M as the highlight.

Best: What I do now, purchasing for automotive parts & assembly supplier.
 
Worst: paper carrier. The early mornings weren't bad and I didn't have to collect, but the problem was that I had a large apartment complex on the route. I had to leave the papers for each building inside the door and had no way to ensure that the papers actually stayed put for the paying customers. I had a problem getting docked for a missed delivery when there was no secure place to leave the paper.

Best: still looking. Present job is OK, but I wouldn't say it's 'best'.
 
Worst - Working construction in the winter with my uncle. I swear he gave me the hardest jobs on purpose.

Best - Current job in Sales. Making a killing, boss is great, company is growing like crazy.
 
Worst:

A: Cutting and assembling blinds. Owner had a seriously "improvised" cutting rig with cut line marked with a marker. Put 5 sets of blinds in the rig, and you'd get 5 different cuts. Far from a precision device. Training was pathetic, expectations were high.

B: Sales for phone company. Job wasn't bad, but co-workers were the most closed minded idiots ever. I could have had more open-minded conversations in a medieval hamlet in the year 1039 AD. I've literally been in better social situations with animals.

Best: Being a business owner. I don't care if I have to go to the warehouse right now to fight off Utahraptors with a chainsaw. At least I'll know I did it for myself and my employees (who are the greatest), as opposed to some jack holes who I don't even know.
 
Worst: unloading produce trucks at 3 AM, idiot lazy coworkers, terrible boss had a 5th grade education

Best: current job, great pay and low stress, great coworkers and boss
 
Originally Posted By: CT8
Every job I have ever had was great and allowed me to learn.


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Even the "worst" jobs allow you to learn about yourself and your career of choice.
 
A few temp jobs I had almost 30yrs ago during my college years. The worst was swapping out mattresses in a Holiday Inn. Another was emptying tractor trailer loads of kitchen cabinets by hand, non stop, all day. Third worst was working as a construction laborer at a apartment complex that was being built.

Best is what I've done for the past 20yrs.
 
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Worst: I worked at a plant nursery picking weeds out of potted plants.

Best: I was a grocery store clerk. I met more women while doing this job than all others combined!
 
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
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2nd Worst: Current Job; Lets call it customer-focused QA.
Though it pays well for what it is, there is too much unrewwarding, mindless paper pushing. The only saving grace - if you would call it that - is that many of the co-workers are fun to work beside, and the company is refreshingly lax on reinforcing some phony "professional" demeanor. Its Fun to be "causal" or "real" on the job in Southern New Hampshire. But it is still near the bottom.

Worst: Material handler at General Service Foam in Wilmington, Ma. Constant hard labour - you would collapse at break and when you got home. And I was in shape back in the mid 70's.
 
Worst job: In high school I did landscaping at this old couple's house with a friend of mine. The house was huge, on several acres. Lots of garden beds, tons of trees, and maintaining that yard was a full-time job. In the summer we would mostly sit in the flower beds pulling weeds out all day. It was like painting the Golden Gate bridge - as soon as we finished the last flower bed, the first bed was covered in weeds again. In the fall, we would rake leaves. We would spend all day doing one section of the yard, and the next day it would be covered in leaves again. In the winter when there was snow on the ground, we would do inside chores, such as scrubbing mildew off the bedroom walls.
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Best job: A: Delivery driver for an auto parts store. Easy, low-stress, get to know all the local shops and who the good ones are.
B: My current job as maintenance engineer for an electric utility. Relatively easy and pretty low-stress, pay is great, but it's very boring sitting in a cubicle all day. I feel like an animal locked in a cage.
 
Worst: Correctional Officer in a Maximum security prison unit.

Best: My current manufacting position, nights, weekends and holidays off with free insurance for the family.
 
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