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sounds like most folks on here are doing well now,but what were some of the worst jobs you all had in your lives?mine was working in a soap factory when i was 18. the woman that owned it made the guys clean her house and she was a b... there was about 6 inches of soap powder everywhere.lasted about a month.and when i was learning to do auto bodywork they taught me how to sand,and sand and sand somemore:D

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Shortly after I graduated from high school, I started a full time job at Maytag. I had to suit up in one of those paper coverall suits, a heavy rubber apron, rubber boots and safety glasses, and put the enamel inside of the oven cell. The enamel was pretty much the consistancy of wet mud, and came out of the wall in a big wand that you used to spray the wet stuff inside the oven. It was 120 degress in the summer( no AC). After about an hour, you were covered head to toe in enamel.

So, I decided pretty quickly this was not going to be a very good job for me.

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probably the worst was the farm job I had on weekends and summers during high school. It built character but it didn't pay good, nor was it very glamorous haha.

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cooking burgers at Tanglewood for rich snobs and making sure they have the right avocados and sundried tomatos on their "feta" burger... ugh... highschool.
Barnes & Noble stocking shelves in colleges... most boring job in existence...still can't set foot in there w/out breaking out in a cold sweat.
did get to read some good hunting books though!

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My worst would have to be Buckin Hay in the 100 degree heat of south west Idaho! It doesn't get much worst then that!

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i used to work for farmers as a kid. anything from fixing fences to throwing rocks out of fields to cutting cain. it paid 2 to 4 dollars an hour then but it is paying big for me now that i can hunt almost anywhere i want near my hometown.

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I got .10 cents a bale!

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Toss up between bucking hay bails in the fields then putting them in the barn and walking soybean fields and pulling weeds. I don't even remember how much I got paid back then (around 1980) but it sure wasn't enough.

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Paving asphalt in the middle of the summer down here in NC where it hits 95 and humidity hits 95%...The asphalt has to be kept at 85 degrees or hotter if I remember correctly for it to spread properly...And this was done during the weekends after working 55 hours elsewhere...

I am lucky though, this was a part time job...I'm 53, started working when I was 13, dad was a John Deere dealer and by the time I was 16 I was rebuilding diesel motors by myself...Good thing I had that training because 5 days after my 20th birthday my dad died and we had to sell the dealership...

At 22, I moved to Atlanta and was teaching diesel motors, hydraulics, power trains and electrical systems within 6 months to Deere mechanics...I stayed with them 13 years, lived in Richmond, near Greensboro and near Savannah...In 1990 my father in law passed and I came back to NC to start my own business...I recruit medical device sales reps...With this economy it's tough but I'm making it work...

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Can't imagine many kids now willing to throw 3000 bales for an x-box:D

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Ive done the hay thing off and on, Ive been a laborer for brick masons (my dad, as well as other outfits), Ive worked in an archery shop, Ive done wetland delineation (PITA in the summer with all the things that like to bite you and suck ur blood and poke u and stick u and sting u in the summer, winter was GREAT), but the WORST job Ive had was a fry cook in a local BBQ place. I HATED THAT WITH A PASSION!

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I dont see what is so bad about stacking hay or general farm labor. I love doing it, but I grew up doing it. Heck, I even get paid $15 an hour helping out the neighbors too.

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ya same here i love it. i get 10 an hour

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$10 an hour, would not be bad. Worth it, .10 cents a bale is BS... The illegal's won't even work for that!:D

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Working at a public lake in college. I would sit around and sell people passes to take the boats out on the water. I would also empty out the trash cans.........I would get so bored I would take out the axe and throw it at trees from various distances. I could throw an axe like Bravehart by the end of the summer!

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I worked at a football helmet factory. My job was to melt a serial # inside the plastic helmets. All I did was open a box, remove the helmet, stamp it with a machine and box it back up. Did about 11-12 pallets a night. Nothing like the smell of melting plastic to remind me how much I hated that job.

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Shoot, Kids around here wont even drive an A/C tractor or heavy truck w/ A/C for 15-20 bux an hour.[:@]STUPID KIDS!! THIS GOOD JOB HUR why u not take it!![>:] I can't git any body to halp out at meh farm, been relying on family to do work[:'(]

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heck,where you at switchback,ill come work for you. cant buy a good job here in indiana.they only want to pay a dump truck drive about 10 bucks hr15-20 hr is dam good money lightfoot

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Picking up the trash on a jobsite, in the summer. I would sit around all day in the heat just doing whatever the crew asked and when the end of the day came I had to go around and pick up all of the trash that was thrown on the ground, mostly shingles. Worked three months and got just enough money to buy a Browning BPS, but I was only 12.

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garbage truck wasn't so bad, except when we did chinatown.
landscaping was OK, except in my allergy season.
CAD operator was probably the worst, 50hrs a week under florescent lights staring at a computer screen is not my thing.

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the guy i work for, he spend more money on his baler than on his first house he said! he uses metal wire instead of twine becasue they get them so dam tight, my fingers are always sore form trying to pick them up with the bales being so tight. he sells them for 9 dollars a bale!

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Ha, thank god everyone aound here still uses the plain old baler twine. Nothing like stacking 90-110 lb bales. One farmer I help loves to bale them while somewhat green and stack them on their sides and salt them. Talk about making it seem like it goes on forever. Mossberg, good tip is to use gloves if you are working with the wire;) lol

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I did the farm work in high school, shoveling manure, grinding feed, walking soybeans, making fence, painting buildings, baling hay, you name it. Didn't stop me from buying my own farm.;)

Worst job ever? A toss up between detasseling corn and working at Proctor and Gamble. I think P&G was worse. I blistered every finger numerous times snapping pump containers of Crest toothpaste into 12 pack rings and putting them in a case. It was a Union shop and I was a scab because the union laborers wouldn't do it. They hired it out to Manpower Temp Services and I needed to pay tuition. I quit when my U bill was paid.

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I think the worst job I had was as a marketing temp at a truck accessories manufacturer. I was paid to make as many phone calls as I could and lie about my true intentions all day. I wouldn't have been a bad gig if I hadn't been brought up to be 100% dead honest. By the end of the summer I felt like I had sold my soul because I was so good at throwing down a hefty pile of b.s. whenever I needed to - but it helped pay tuition and send me to Greece the following January...

I also worked in the factory for a while that summer. 120 degrees easy on an average day, 12 hr shifts, I enjoyed that job more than my cubicle, phone, and AC in the marketing dept. The factory was fun, the way I looked at it was this - I was getting paid to work out in a sauna all day - and I looked damn good when I moved from the factory up to the offices because of it ;):D.

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lol man i wear gloves, i go through a pair of gloves a week, the fingers get tore out

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Im in MO. Tell ya what, u show up on time and work gud for us an u get to hunt on our farm! Them deer is eatin our corn! COME QUICK!!

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would if i could swithchback,wish i had your offer about 20 years ago.tell them kids out there how good that job is.shoot 15-20 per hr.is dam good money nomatter what.if i could afford to pack up and move was and a little younger id be beating down your door.:) good luck lightfoot

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hay hooks work good once you learn how to use 'em.

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I worked in a fiberglass factory, between getting glass shards in your hands and all the chemicals used that job sucked. I then got my first state job where I worked in a lock down facility (last step before prison) that housed sex offenders and gangsters up to the age of 21. That would have been a fun job if 95% of the other staff members weren't pussies. I transferred from that job to the State child abuse hot line, 8hrs of physical and sexual abuse reports from all across the state that we called into the local Children and Youth offices. But i then transferred into my current job, which is freakin awesome.

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Growing up I;

worked as a floor installer (stepfather was a flooring contractor),
poured concrete,
hung suspended ceilings,
worked cattle.

After that I went in the military.

All of that was my incentive to go to college, get my accounting degree, pass the CPA exam, so that I can stay in the AC all day.

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Gotta be bailing hay all day in 95 degree weather when your 12 yrs old. And the first day, before you knew better, you showed up wearing short pants and no shirt. After more than 40 years, I think I'm still picking out splinters and treating scratches from that job.

Blessings.....Pastorjim

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x2 - I'm going into my final year of an accounting degree, hope to sitting for at least one part of the exam around this time next year. Also contemplating going for the CMA at some point as well.

Are you in public accounting now or in corporate, if you don't mind me asking?

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i dont like them personally

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The worst job I ever had was working a processing plant that converted chicken guts, grease, and cow blood into cattle feed. Sometimes the trucks would come in late Friday and left in the warehouse ( a tin building ) until Monday morning, after cooking in the Texas heat for several days the smell and maggots were disgusting. On the good note; most of us were so sick by lunch that we saved our lunch money :D.

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-Working on a farm in 1989 for $2.50 and hour when I was 13.

- Bailing Hay in 95 degree weather in a pull barn when I was 17

-Washing Dishes at the Chinese place when I was 17

-Dragging Cement during the summer of 1992...it was hell.

Sometimes I look at the stresses of my job now as I'm a manager in Manufacturing.....dealing with 300 different personalities...

Sometimes I wish I was outside doing manual labor...

I guess the grass is always greener everywhere we turn...

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i have worked on the farm bailing hay. i have humped lumber all day.
but the worst job i ever had was one that i thought was going to make my life easier.

i worked at a RV dealership in Lapeer, MI. and i went to the owner and asked if he would promote me to run the service area. so i became service manager. it sounded good giving me a huge raise and all but i found out pretty quick that people can be pretty nasty. the RV is supposed to be something that they can relax in but if it is in the repair shop you would think their life was on the line. they freak out if something goes wrong or if the part didnt come in on time. all of these things i could not control but it was my job to tell them and explain it to them. so i got all the crap from everyone who was upset. the worst of it was a guy who threatened to have me killed by the mob because he was friends with them and i was 'messing' with him. if i did not have his trailer done by the 4th of july. i just looked at him and kicked him out of my office and told him to not step foot in it again.

the worst part of it is that my 'raise' was contingent on the performance of my mechanics so if they wanted to loaf around or take a day off i would get hit in the pocket book so needless to say i never seen any part of my 'raise' and the grief was not worth thestress.

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My worst job was the summer I spent in Alaska milking sow grizzly bears.

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you serious?

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ur S***in me[>:]

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When I was 13 I had to walk/run a mile down the road and help a farmer during the summer... He had the meanest cows of all times and they chased me almost every day... Think he paid me $3.00 an hour.