Okay worst job ever thread

[Europhyllia]

Oh my. Poor Sherita. You are one tough chick!

[ramsey]

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.

I did some of that as a kid. I learned to drive when I was 11 or 12 on my grandparents ranch in south texas. I also worked in a feed store in Waco when I was in high school. That included going out to fields and picking up bales of hay to sell in the store. I actually didn't mind that job too much though. Sometimes I wished I could do it again making what I make now. I was in decent shape and pretty strong since I was loading 50lb bags of feed and (at least) 50lb square bales. The only thing I really hated is when there was ants living in the hay. Anyone have that happen to them?

Worst job for me was the single day I lasted at West Telemarketing and Wal-Mart. I worked at wally world about 9 months after I graduated high school. Honestly, I loved the work. I worked in sporting goods which was pretty cool. I liked getting to mess with and sell guns. What I didn't like is that I got paid $6 an hour and that I was only allowed to work 32 hours a week so they didn't have to give me benefits. They treat employees like dirt which is why I try to avoid shopping there. Costco and even Target employees seem much happier.

[Sherita]

It was pretty nasty. BUT I sure wish I could pick up something right now that paid as well as that did. I am dealing with some devastating vet bills at the moment on one of my yearling pups. I could have bought a car for what I have already spent, and we are nowhere near done :(

Oh my. Poor Sherita. You are one tough chick!

[FireWater]

I did some of that as a kid. I learned to drive when I was 11 or 12 on my grandparents ranch in south texas. I also worked in a feed store in Waco when I was in high school. That included going out to fields and picking up bales of hay to sell in the store. I actually didn't mind that job too much though. Sometimes I wished I could do it again making what I make now. I was in decent shape and pretty strong since I was loading 50lb bags of feed and (at least) 50lb square bales. The only thing I really hated is when there was ants living in the hay. Anyone have that happen to them?

Don't get me wrong. I love it now, but at the time it sucked as a kid going back to school and listening to all the other kids talk about swimming pools and vacations. My swimming pool was the stock tank and vacation was the 20 minute drive to the next field. LOL Ants in the bales and critters in the feed sacks always made it interesting.

Karin, You might have had to scythe your way around the filed, but it was a German engineered scythe so it had to be good. I had to run by the trailer and throw bales while going uphill both ways.

[Europhyllia]

Haha. Throwing bales sucks. I am glad I drive the truck through the field while somebody else throws them on the trailer.

At current hay prices though you may soon see me in some ditch on 1604 making hay this way: