(08-04-2013 02:54 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(08-04-2013 02:34 PM)dawgitall Wrote:  

(08-04-2013 01:19 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(08-04-2013 01:03 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  After working 8 years in the cable TV business I decided to get out and one of my friends was making a fortune selling Hondas just as Japanese cars were being accepted more and more (mid 1980's) so I tried it. Selling stuff sucks, it really, really sucks and I sucked at it really bad. After a month I went back into cable TV and have been there ever since.

Did it myself at AutoMax of Greenville in 2011. I did it for a month.

One of my former students just flunked out at NCSU and started selling Nissans. He seems to be pretty good at it according to his Mom. But it is definitely a young single person's game. Long hours, unpredictable results, and constant rejection.

At least he was a franchise dealer. Being an indie used car lot that didn't finance sucked. The last straw was when the managers gave me a ton of sh*t when I had to go to drill that month. They took my appointments for that Friday, scheduled other customers that I had been working on, and made those sales "house deals". I got nothing from them.

Yeah, that does suck. But there is more money in used cars than new ones. The only good thing I got out of being a car salesman for a month is I now know their tricks, it's all a mind game.

I was 15 and pulling weeds/cutting grass on a plant/tree nursery in eastern NC. Hot as heck in the summertime. One day, a bus full of immigrants pulled up and I was no longer needed. Never been so happy to lose a job in my entire life. Went and found a new job the next week that had air conditioning.

Store Manager at a troubled 7-Eleven. Once I worked 32 straight hours because nobody was showing up to work. It was literally the worst period of my life... to the point that I had suicide in the back of my mind. 16 hour days (double shift) x 7 days per week were the norm just to keep the doors open.

(08-04-2013 11:55 AM)dawgitall Wrote:  

(08-04-2013 11:29 AM)blunderbuss Wrote:  Probably my first job as a dishwasher for a popular steakhouse chain. I was paid minimum wage and people are disgusting, I'll just leave it at that.

Land Surveying was sometimes the best and sometimes the worst. My crew had to do a lot of topographical surveys, boundary surveys and wetland locations. Basically stuff in the middle of nowhere sometimes a couple of miles deep into the woods or along a river. It was awesome in late fall and though the winter. Cutting line through swamps in August 100 degree weather was torture. However, I was in the best shape of my life at the time.

That would be brick mason's helper for me. Tough work that convinced me that a college education was in fact a very good idea.

I did that one summer as well. Wasn't a lot of fun, but I was still living at my parents and was able to quit/take days off. Nothing compared to the 7 Eleven manager when I was on my own with bills to pay.

i was an umpire for our community baseball league when i was 14. mostly i umped 7-12 year olds, mostly by myself. the sh!t grown men will say to a boy for a blown call or a missed strike, or if i lost track of strikes and balls. i threw games to avoid extra innings, called them due to inclement weather (even if i was the only one doing so) whatever it took to be out of the complex. i was a terrible umpire. sometimes i didn't trust the catcher in front of me for catching some 60 mph heat so i flinched and guessed judging by the catcher's mitt. i was mostly terrible because i was afraid of the coaches. i think i made $100 that summer.

I've been lucky enough not to have horrible jobs. I think the worst was either working at Putt-Putt golf or the 12am-6am shift at the easy listening radio station. I use to sneak in some MC Hammer between the Micheal Bolton, Kenny G sets. Bossman would get pissed but who else was he going to get to work that shift?

Worst job I ever had? Convenience Store Clerk.. but about my only "primary" responsibility was cleaning out the car wash at least twice per shift... You know the crap that gets stuck on your cars? Stuff that came off those vehicles was sickening... and do you know how hard it was to clean tar out of a car wash pit?

(08-04-2013 07:44 AM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  One of my first jobs out of college in the mid-1980's was as a mortgage collector for a bank that financed mobile homes in TX, OK, AR, and LA. I had a company car and my job was to collect on past-due loans in person.

Once, in Arkansas, I met with a real hillbilly family that hadn't made a house payment in nine months. After I introduced myself, their high school kid said to his father, "Daddy, let's take him out back and shoot him". He was totally serious. Fortunately, the father told me that he had filed bankruptcy and a lawyer would take care of it.

There were a couple situations like that and I was only making about $8 or $9 per hour. After a year, I had enough and took an office job with an insurance company.

Edit: I hold no grudge against Arkansas. My family goes there often for vacations. We rent a cabin on a lake and it's really nice.

And you are still alive? How many times were you shot at?

(08-05-2013 10:22 AM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  Worst job I ever had? Convenience Store Clerk.. but about my only "primary" responsibility was cleaning out the car wash at least twice per shift... You know the crap that gets stuck on your cars? Stuff that came off those vehicles was sickening... and do you know how hard it was to clean tar out of a car wash pit?

I applied for one of those jobs. I'm glad that I didn't get it. My mom (RIP) begged me not to work in one of those.

I look at my worst job - cleaning bugs off of the front of school buses during an Illinois summer in Farmville, with a cleaning solution that if you left it on the bus for too long, would eat away at the paint - as proper penance for my next two following jobs - as lifeguard at the local private country club, with evenings working at Blockbuster. The lifeguard job consisted of watching rich women and their daughters lay around the pool all day, and at Blockbuster I could take home and watch as many movies as I wanted, often getting the first releases at midnight before they were available to the public.

Summers detassling corn is probably the worst job in the Midwest.

When I was 13-14, I was paid about $20 a day to work on a farm.. We picked corn, peas, watermelons, fixed fences, shoveled ****, baled hay, hauled hay, and even herded cows from about 6 in the morning until 6 in the evening. On Fridays he let us knock off around 4 so we could go swim somewhere.

In the fall from 74-78 I sold peanuts at Houston Oilers football games. I walked up and down the aisles at the Astrodome lugging a 20 pound basket & load of peanuts. But I at least saw some of the game. I made 5 cents off each bag I sold.

One summer detasseling, followed by three summers working at seed corn research farm doing various tasks (counting plants, detasseling, pollinating, inoculating, etc.)

(08-04-2013 10:25 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(08-04-2013 10:23 AM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  Every job I've had has been a good one. No matter how much stress was involved I chose to be there and they chose to pay me.

I see what you did there.

Working American Citizens probably have the worst job... You work 20 hours/week for roads that haven't been paved in 20 years and bridges with rebar exposed while your neighbors' kids go to school on your dime to learn about how great Obama and Socialism is, even though it's failed every time it's been tried.

There is essentially zero return on my investment except for Social Security that I'll never see and a new generation of morons.

(08-05-2013 02:15 PM)Jerry Falwell Wrote:  Working American Citizens probably have the worst job... You work 20 hours/week for roads that haven't been paved in 20 years and bridges with rebar exposed while your neighbors' kids go to school on your dime to learn about how great Obama and Socialism is, even though it's failed every time it's been tried.

There is essentially zero return on my investment except for Social Security that I'll never see and a new generation of morons.

George Bork... I had a very similar experience for Pioneer Corn in BG.

Bailing Hay for 2 dollars an hour .. the barn stacking was the worst.

I commercially fished for two months my junior year in hs. That sucked.

(08-05-2013 02:30 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  George Bork... I had a very similar experience for Pioneer Corn in BG.

Bailing Hay for 2 dollars an hour .. the barn stacking was the worst.

I commercially fished for two months my junior year in hs. That sucked.

Hope it wasn't green hay.

(08-05-2013 02:36 PM)gdunn Wrote:  

(08-05-2013 02:30 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  George Bork... I had a very similar experience for Pioneer Corn in BG.

Bailing Hay for 2 dollars an hour .. the barn stacking was the worst.

I commercially fished for two months my junior year in hs. That sucked.

Hope it wasn't green hay.

Is that anything like yellow snow?

I've bailed hay.

Stay in school, kids.

(08-05-2013 02:37 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  

(08-05-2013 02:36 PM)gdunn Wrote:  

(08-05-2013 02:30 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  George Bork... I had a very similar experience for Pioneer Corn in BG.

Bailing Hay for 2 dollars an hour .. the barn stacking was the worst.

I commercially fished for two months my junior year in hs. That sucked.

Hope it wasn't green hay.

Is that anything like yellow snow?

No..

Green hay is kinda like hay that hasn't been dried out and can combust. Think of when you drive by a lumber yard and you see sprinklers on top of logs.. That's to keep'em cool so they don't burst into flames. A many a barn has been lost due to that. The same thing happens with silos and silage.