Ive worked lots of different jobs…from blood and guts clean ups to working at Mac donalds (dont ask me anything coz I swear u would NEVER eat there again) to working at the Hilton in Melbourne.
But the worst job I ever had was working in a piggery!! I lasted 6 days before I quit! First and only job I ever walked away from..even tho the wage was $27 an hour. (I was 16..that was like making gold!! LOL) In that 6 days I had cuts from where Id been bitten…bruises too! My little toe and 3 of its mates had gone numb from being stepped on by a 1000 pound sow…my watch had been eaten by a litter of piglets…..I couldnt get the smell outta my hair or my clothes!! What topped it off….was the last day I was there….a sow had broken down a few fences….and it was up to me…and just me….to round up over 40 piglets on the loose!! Mud everywhere….sqealing pigs..a yelling boss telling me go that way!! go that way!! His stupid dog barking at everything. Once it started raining…that was it!! I mean how many nails can a girl break before she says IVE HAD IT!! (four…I counted)
That was the worst job Id EVER had!!
anyone else had a rotten job?
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~ If at first you dont succeed…destroy ALL evidence you ever tried to begin with! ~ :þ
Mine is nothing so exciting. Public Service – absolutley nothing to do, used to read jokes all day and surf the internet. How I wish this forum and I knew each other back then, I might have a few more brain cells that wouldn’t have wasted away.
Cheers
MelIt’s 99% of lawyers that give the other 1% a bad name (I reckon that’s close for Public Servants that I have worked, um, shared office space with)
Well… there have been a few bad ones, but not as bad as your Pinkster. [
]..turning back the clock..
– I have assembled fish tank equipment.. heaters, etc. you always came home with splinters of fine glass in your fingers..[]
– I have been a Taxi Driver ! (4 years) all i can say is I got used the smell of vomit. [xx(]
– I have panel beaten for 2 years…the grease and dust stays on you for days, its like a permanent stain on your skin. [xx(]Im sick now… [xx(]
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Arty.[
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“Why work to the age where you cant enjoy
what you have worked for !.” (Author: Me)Sorry Guy’s nothing that exciting.
I worked in a chemists (my Dad’s) and always used to get asked for condoms and tampax. As a 12 year old something new [
] !Worked in a hotel bar in a rough area of England so used to get “exciting” on a Friday and Saturday night dodging glasses, bottles and fists [
].Worked as a cleaner in the USA over the summer at a resort in the Rockies. Cleaning kitchens, toilets and room. Always had a smile on my face [
] as I knew this was not going to last too long or else I would have hung myself. Bar work again at Uni. Did tele sales for a computer company (lasted two weeks).Worked as a supermarket manager, early mornings and night shift was a killer
, I like my bed too much.Now working in HK in the construction industry where I have put cranes on a bridge pier in the middle of a river, fallen of the end of the bridge as the railing gave way [
] (luckily had a harness on) and eaten dog and a multitude of laeve and insects [xx(] in China when station there for a year.So I guess nothing too bad, mostly interesting.
Cheers
Adam
[8D]in between high school and uni – i worked 40hr weeks for 7 weeks at 4 bucks an hour making and moulding (spelling?) carpet for cars. me and another bloke would grab the carpet, when the mould press opened up throw the carpet in, close the press wch was boiling hot in order to mould the carpet. then with a stupidly sharp knife i had to trim the ends from the mould as quickly as possible b4 it cooled down. 40c room for 8 hours with the usual breaks all for aby 40 bucks a day…
then moved to buger king flipping burgers and cleaning the kitchen at 2 in the morning..
then moved to target (cleaner and more money)
then moved to jb hifi (the best uni job)
now i work in a job where i often work 70 hrs a week sometimes trading at 3-4 in the morning.
not good for the health when y’re trading all day and night especially when the trades dont go well and spend most of the time yelling at brokers from around the world. it gets worse when the market changes suddenly and yr staring at a loss in the many thousands.
very high burnout
it has its good points though
cheers
eaten dog? oooooooooooo kaaaaaaaaaaay. Does it taste like chicken? LOL As for bridges….Ima little scared of heights! LOL
Aussie…..YOU need a holiday. Maybe u could visit Gats and spend some time falling off high objects? hahahaha
~ If at first you dont succeed…destroy ALL evidence you ever tried to begin with! ~ :þ
Lets see
1st job – McDonalds
2nd job – picking tomatoes. sheer hell
3rd job – apprentice electrician. Spent 2 years working at a sewerage plant. Yummo. Got used to the smell quick, and the loadings were unreal. Most of the time we were on ‘go-slow’ and I often slept in a dark place during work hours. All the shots were a bit of a pain. On the plus side, whenever there is a drug bust, you know where the good stuff ends up. We had a free supply of weed for life, cos man it grows quick with all that fertiliser.
Once I finished the apprenticeship I battled new disgusting places in peoples homes, like under floors and in ceilings. Its no fun I tell ya. The mess I could handle, but the arrogance and patronism of the snobby North Sydneysiders wore me down. I got ripped off by many a millionaire solicitor, and turned up to hundreds of jobs where the customer had called someone else after booking me in. Then theres all the people who think they can just not pay cos they dont feel like it. Ive pulled my share of main fuses I tell ya. On the plus side, I was the highest paid electrician in Australia, earning $250 an hour. Its just that the customer never did the maths. I charged $60 a pop to put in a light which took 10 mins and cost me $20. Do 25 of em in 4 hours and you got $1000 profit. Whammo, $250 an hour and one very happy customer. Well they could afford it. Plus it added $10k to the value of their home.
I wonder if they would be less patronising if they knew I was on a higher hourly rate than them? LOL*gross out alert*
ironing rich people’s underpants in london with, um, nasty marks on them
I didn’t mind the ironing, really, at the time, it was just the underpants i minded
oh yeah once I had to sing an ad, to which the lyric went
” at the vacuum cleaner specialists, SUCTION CENTRES!!!’
of course it was the one that aired for a thousand years
how embarassing1st Working for my dad on weekends and after work from the age of 12 doing house foundations, not pleasant on 40deg hot days when picking up steel pins burnt like u wouldn’t believe.
2nd partime Fruit and veg manager at Coles New world super market.
3rd Part time self employed DJ
4th Apprentice Fitter and Turner went on to be a mechanical tradesperson special class.
5th Under cover public transport security
6th Public Relations for the Govt both on the phones and getting amonst the public
7th Owning my own lets say entertainment business and retail business strictly for adults.
8th partime social worker for a drop in centre for the homeless, where I would resuscitate about 3 overdoses a week and had knifes and guns pulled out on me and other staff members
9th Harley Tours Owner/Operator
10th Part time radio idiot on one of the breakfast shows on the FM radio it was the 2nd highst rating breakast show at the time. They called me Bear the New age Bikie.LOL
11th Counsellor for the Salvation Army
And a few short jobs that I cant think of at present. As well as the following
Playing in a few Rock Bands
Uni and TAFE student
Father of 4
Career
As far as chasing pigs go Pinky I guess I cant say that unless you talking about the 2 legged variety….LOL
Regards Bear
Geez its amazing the sorts of places people in just this forum have worked in.. its a real eye opener…[
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Arty.[
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“Why work to the age where you cant enjoy
what you have worked for !.” (Author: Me)Hi again,
LOL!!! Some interesting things you’ve all done.
I won’t mention the details…especially not so close to dinner time, but when I was working at MMC as a Recovery nurse…
Scene…Post surgery for elderly gent with gastric- bowel obstruction. I was there when it happened and as a post-graduate nurse (only 3 months out of Uni) they left me to clean up, by myself.
It’s true, nurses need guts of steel, but we still have our weaknesses and that day, each one of them happened in the gallons, literally.
Uggh!
Sooshie [][}][][}][]When a problem is created the solution is created simultaneously
sooshie….u are a braver person than me!!
I handled the kids nappy changing and all that without a worry…..even the vomiting!! (our youngest had reflux and she threw up for about 2 years non stop LOL)
But….a strangers gastric exploits? NO..I couldnt go there!![xx(][xx(]
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~ If at first you dont succeed…destroy ALL evidence you ever tried to begin with! ~ :þ
pinky – gats, high objects???? i dont get it!
are you telling me to take a running jump……
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Lets look at mine..[
][]Teaching kids[
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Door to Door Interviewer []Car wash (2 hours)[
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Kitchen hand (1 day)[!]Sales( Books )[
!][xx(]Meat Factory ( [
][]being vegetarian and working there he he![] )Leaflets [xx(][xx(]
Fruit peaking [:0)]
Telephone sales[xx(]
Driver (Pizza hut)[]Taxi[|)]
Owner (Pizza Franchisees Big jump [])[]Web developer[:X][:X][^]
Full Time Investor and retire ( Near Future )[:0)][^]
I might have forgot some….
Cheers
P’logist
Sooshie WINS!!!… LOL [
]I had enough of that sort of thing when the bubs where going through nappies..[xx(][xx(]
The first day is the worst, when they poop black tar… [xx(]Regards,
Arty.[
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“Why work to the age where you cant enjoy
what you have worked for !.” (Author: Me)lmao @ aussie…..how could I EVER ask a memeber of MY naked army to go jump!!
The way Gats explained his trip off a bridge sounded like soooo much fun I figured before ya burnt out….you should live a little!!
At least then….ya can brag about ya wrinkles! LOL
~ If at first you dont succeed…destroy ALL evidence you ever tried to begin with! ~ :þ
thanks pinky
yeh china sounds good. like gats i lived asia for a few years. and done a few other things, taken a year off here and there, so my wrinkles tell a bit of a tale already!!!!
hehe
well then aussie…..DO TELL!!! [
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~ If at first you dont succeed…destroy ALL evidence you ever tried to begin with! ~ :þ
I can’t share much with you . I‘ve done a few jobs and none of them was bad. Only I made one bad. [
] HueyHuey… how did you MAKE it bad ? [
]Regards,
Arty.[
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