Okay worst job ever thread

[txmike]

Tire recycling when i was much younger .Drive around all day in a 24' truck loading with used tires from all the big box tire shops .We would load and unload truck 2 or 3 times per day .After truck runs done each day we had to sort tires junk went into a truck to go to recycling plant all good tire's had to be sorted by type and grade .Most days started at 5 am and ended at 9 or 10 pm .

[Kristy]

After HS I had a summer office job for a mortgage company. It was mind-numbing data entry, calculating penalty and interest amounts, and filing. I sat in a cubicle with an endless stack of files, didn't talk to another soul all day, and worst of all, the dress code required skirt/dress with pantyhose every day for us girls. I think that is the only job I ever had that I didn't like anything about. It was not for me!

[Glenn]

The worst job I ever had was a BS oilfield job about a year ago. I was blatantly lied to, mislead, and basically owned by the company I was working for. I had to drive out to Alice everyday with a bag packed at all times because you never knew if you would be coming home that day, or being sent out on a job for a week or more. After finishing all the various training and safety classes I got sent out on a few jobs that kept me away from home for a total of 9 days in a 2 week period. Once I got my first "real" check from those jobs I was almost too embarassed to bring it home and show my wife. Long story short, I didn't work another day in the oilfield and went straight back to working in the bars. I actually cleared more money in 3 nights than I did in that hellacious 2 week pay period.

Ironically I plan to get back in the oil & gas business but in a completely different direction from what I was doing.

[Paraletho]

Hey Glenn don't see you on SETRS anymore. You oughta just pop in and say hi to everyone.

Worst job 19 yrs old basically living on the streets of Houston. Barnum and Bailey was in town and I got a short term gig with the elephants. Three guesses and no it wasn't training them or riding them. Just input and output duties.

Second worst was oilfield pipeline gathering station. Fill the 50,000 bbl. tank up and then put it on a barge watching the gauges so you didn't load to much. Kinda like sitting watching a clock for 8 hrs straight.

[Mike]

I answered an add and went 1 of the days of the 2 day unpaid training to sell Kirby Vacuums. They are a good name, but I knew it was not for me because they cost $1200 and my car at the time cost $1000. I couldn't imagine pulling up to someones house to sell a vacuum that was worth more than my VW Rabbit.

[FireWater]

I have a whole list of them.

13 years old - got a job with all my football buddies working for one of their uncles picking up trash on the highways. We worked 37 from San Antonio city limit and finished the summer just shy of Corpus. People would drive by and chunk trash out the window at us or swerve and honk horns. Mostly it was mind numbing, hot, and repetitive.

Summer between junior and senior year of high school and summer after I graduated- Another buddy's dad owned a steel construction company. I either spent time carrying pearling across beams at dizzying heights or I was laying roof deck and flat tin roofs. If you stood still too long your boots would melt and stick to the roof.


I can't believe there is no love for landscaping. I still like doing it and wished I didn't sell my company.
And no love for the drunk cowboys either.

[FireWater]

I didn't even mention all the hours of "working" on the Grandparents farm either. Baling and loading hay, cleaning pens, feeding, and what ever else I could get talked into. I got to drive the old farm truck by myself all the time though - I learned when I was 10. My Mom had a fit when she found that out.

[Europhyllia]

I can't believe there is no love for landscaping. I still like doing it and wished I didn't sell my company.
And no love for the drunk cowboys either.

drunk cowboys aren't exactly full of love for foreigners either. And when you are only making $2.45 an hour cleaning up and being tortured by somebody who is going to leave you a 3 cent tip after a couple of hours of abuse... not cool

If you start your landscaping company again and need employees... don't call me lol

Cleaning IH37 all the way from here to Corpus - that actually sounds like a huge accomplishment!

[Europhyllia]

Baling and loading hay, cleaning pens, feeding, and what ever else I could get talked into.

Well let me tell you (... a barefoot in the snow story):
we made our hay using scythes- thanks Sherita: cresent shaped long blades and a long handle with one hand grip in front and one on top. And later you had to go turn it with pitchfork like things. And no matter what you wore you had hay every where (your ears, your underpants, etc.)
But I actually didn't mind it so much. I figured it's good practice since some day I would have a horse! (and not just stinky stupid sheep)

[Sherita]

Karin, the word you are looking for is "scythe". Yep, I know how to operate one

My worst job ever was last year, when I stepped in to help another local contractor replace sewer lines under a commercial building. This building is over 100 years old, and is pier and beam. The reason I got called is I am the only one local who is small enough to fit under the building. Did I mention that the sewer lines were ruptured and draining under the building (for MONTHS)? And that there was a 75 gpd water leak under there too. Yes, it involved being flat on my belly, dragging myself around in the, um, mud, yeah we will call it that. While dragging sections of 4" sch40 pvc and all my needed equipment and tools. I made good money on that job. It wasn't enough.