What are some of your previous jobs? Worst jobs?

[Lauren B.]

I was just corresponding with a friend today and she told me a story of how horrible it was that she once worked in a fish processing plant. It really made me laugh, so I thought I'd start a thread on what some of our previous jobs were. Here are mine.


- Sales girl at Just Pants

- Shampoo girl/receptionist at hair salon

- Hairstylist (cosmetologist)

- Cashier at grocery store

- Cocktail waitress (by the way, this was the job I hated most. I'm terrible at holding heavy trays and I don't know anything about alcohol and drinks)

- Assistant to the Medical Coordinator at an animal control facility


Every job that I've had has been really cool, with the exception of the grocery cashier (even though it was a fun job, a fun store, and I kind of liked it). The cocktail waitress was a cool job, but I hated it because I sucked at it.

[Chrona]

Local berry farm

Pizza Hut delivery boy (fun because I got to drive around, but annoying because everything smelled like pizza)

Sold Cutco knives (lol)

Local Hardware store

Bayer Material Science (Internship)

I haven't really had any really terrible jobs. At most, they are a bit boring (ie the dreaded cubicle)

[cocoa_pleco]

work at a restaurant, thats it. do garage sales count? lol:1:

[Lindsay_D]

working at mcdonalds....soo bad

[Lady Hobbs]

I am years older with a bunch more jobs to hate. LOL

Full time waitress at 16.
Starting tending bar at 18 before doing so was legal at 18.
Then a stereo factory on the assembly line.
Then another factory all electrical as a press operator.
Another factory running huge presses called "sheerers."
Painted houses.
Drove tractor working in Christmas trees.
Back into tending bar (34 years total) and managed 3.
Had my own cleaning business.
Worked as a waitress.
Worked as a cashier in 3 different stores.

Sounds like a lot of jobs but I never had only one job at a time. Always worked 60 hours + a week at "something." Had 4 kids to raise.

You guys don't know what long hours and work is all about yet! :)

[Chrona]

Hey, I worked 62 hour weeks at the hardware store to pay for college! :P

[*Sarah*]

-I started picking cucumbers at 9 (summers)
-at 13 started working in tobacco (summers)
-16 worked at Pizza Hut, making pizzas
-Tim Hortons, night shift (HATED it)
-continental breakfast preparer at Comfort Inn
-pet food store cashier/storefront
-groomer apprentice/pet foood storefront worker
-factory labourer
-ENTREPRENEUR! Groomer :D

[hungryhound]

I think I am in the minority. I haven't hated most of my jobs. okay minus the first one as it was 7 days a week.

Asphalt sealcoating

Ohio Department of Natural areas and preserves concervation worker (ie. I helped manintain a couple of natural areas and preserves in souther ohio.)

US Forest Service seasonal botinist (Best job ever. I got paid to hike 6 to 8 hour s a day)

Animal Research (Perfromed necropsies for pharmeceutical research studies)

Cardiology Research (lab technition: CPR research)

[Lauren B.]

-I started picking cucumbers at 9


This one made me laugh! I can see your resume....

"Sarahmom, Professional Cucumber Picker since age 9. References available upon request."

[jweintraub]

Worked for a top 1% in the nation Realestate agent (gopher)

Moved onto a structural engineering firm as a "hey you" kind of guy, did a little bit of help for everyone in the office

Then off to the Army... been in for over 6 1/2 years now... can't complain!

[jeffs99dime]

i hate all jobs! lol i wish you could get paid to sleep for 8 hours. maybe once in awhile you work a little overtime lol. that would be awesome. lol

[Lady Hobbs]

I think I am in the minority. I haven't hated most of my jobs. okay minus the first one as it was 7 days a week.

Asphalt sealcoating

Ohio Department of Natural areas and preserves concervation worker (ie. I helped manintain a couple of natural areas and preserves in souther ohio.)

US Forest Service seasonal botinist (Best job ever. I got paid to hike 6 to 8 hour s a day)

Animal Research (Perfromed necropsies for pharmeceutical research studies)

Cardiology Research (lab technition: CPR research)

I know all about seal coating! My son owns an asphalt paving company. :)

[Lady Hobbs]

Tell me Jeff! I'd have to work somewhere now that allowed 4 -1 hour naps per shift. LOL

[jeffs99dime]

Tell me Jeff! I'd have to work somewhere now that allowed 4 -1 hour naps per shift. LOL

not naps. i'm talking about getting paid to sleep an 8 hour shift. lol with full benefits.

[*Sarah*]

This one made me laugh! I can see your resume....

"Sarahmom, Professional Cucumber Picker since age 9. References available upon request."

lol, my parents grew the cucumbers, and it was REALLY hard work, especially for a 9 year old. However that and tobacco work, did help me get the job at Pizza Hut. The manager used to work in tobacco and had seen people picking cucumbers, and she knew it was hard work, so she hired me knowing I knew how to work hard lol. SO, it did benefit me.

[crackatinny]

I started working at 14, so the list is long and varied

Selling apples door to door
Hay carting
Farm hand
Welder
Wheat grader
Tomato chipping
Asparagus cutting
Truckies offsider
Factory hand in wood furniture factory
Factory hand in cannery
Teaching (Woodwork, OH&S, Job seeking skills)
Course co-ordinater at local TAFE
Packer in bed factory (worked my way up to dispatch foreman)
Harvesting lucerne
Harvesting st johns wort
Tractor driver at vineyard
Computer upgrading and repair
Cleaner (current)

I still do some computer work, welding and cabinatemaking for pocket money.

Worst job: the bed factory, only because they grew to big to quick and it went to there heads.

[crackatinny]

i hate all jobs! lol i wish you could get paid to sleep for 8 hours. maybe once in awhile you work a little overtime lol. that would be awesome. lol

Yer, I reckon they have it all wrong, we should work the weekends and have the weekdays off, same paycheck though:thumb:

[Drumachine09]

Well, at the ripe old age of 16, i have only worked two jobs.

-Every year i do inventory in an airplane hangar. I count nuts, bolts, and EVERYTHING that goes on a plane. A little monotonous, but i get to work with alot of cute girls, so it makes up for it:ezpi_wink1:

-The job that i like the most is working in ammunition retail. I sell ammo at the local (and non local) gun shows. I always work the biggest one in the world, that is in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I get payed about 500 a weekend, plus tips for hauling ammo. One guy didnt have any cash on him, so he gave me a 24 pack of soda. And when i was 13, a guy told me i was younger and more "able bodied", so i shoud go pull his truck around for him. I was a short 13 year old, and a guy asked me to pull around his HUGE dodge ram. I could barely reach the pedals and see over the steering wheel at the same time. IT WAS AWESOME!

[crackatinny]

Well, at the ripe old age of 16, i have only worked two jobs.

-Every year i do inventory in an airplane hangar. I count nuts, bolts, and EVERYTHING that goes on a plane. A little monotonous, but i get to work with alot of cute girls, so it makes up for it:ezpi_wink1:

-The job that i like the most is working in ammunition retail. I sell ammo at the local (and non local) gun shows. I always work the biggest one in the world, that is in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I get payed about 500 a weekend, plus tips for hauling ammo. One guy didnt have any cash on him, so he gave me a 24 pack of soda. And when i was 13, a guy told me i was younger and more "able bodied", so i shoud go pull his truck around for him. I was a short 13 year old, and a guy asked me to pull around his HUGE dodge ram. I could barely reach the pedals and see over the steering wheel at the same time. IT WAS AWESOME!

That is scary, you count the nuts and bolts that go into a plane, and you have all those cute girls distracting you, 98,99,100 (cute girl walks by) 105,106,107, (she winks at you) 79.80.81:18:

[Drumachine09]

Yeah, really. Shake the tray "Sounds like 58 *she winks* IM TAKING AN EARLY LUNCH!"

[Chrona]

So you're the source of all of those "mechanical failures"...... :P

[Drumachine09]

Uhhhhhhh, oops.

[Severus]

First job was washing dishes ( hated it)

Then i pumped gas for a few years and loved it

Now i cook at a restaurant