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What is the worst job you have ever had?

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JGWI
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I worked at a hotel last summer as a housekeeper (aka a maid) to pay for some new gear. I had to listen to some foreign lady yell at me all day for not getting all the pubic hairs off the bathroom floor. The hours sucked (I worked 6 12's), it was humiliating, and exhausting. Needless to say it was one of the longest 3 1/2 weeks of my life.

What is the worst job you have had, and what did you learn from it?
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rballs_
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Menchie's Frozen Yogurt. My boss was an extremely pervy Asian man who smelled like brussel sprouts all the time. And the frozen yogurt there is shit.
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soulskier
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Worst job I ever had was being a roustabout, turning a wrench on gas wells for 10 hours a day

Money was great and it was a hell of a workout but it wiped me out and I didn't have any time/energy to enjoy anything
10 years ago
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caucasian_chad
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Worked at McDonalds during high school and college. It was the worst, managers there would treat everyone like shit and nit pick about stupid things that didn't matter, and a lot of the customers were just as shitty. I never would have stayed there as long as I did except for the fact that scheduling was super flexible and I could take time off whenever I wanted, which was a big deal to me during the ski season.
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Sno.
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I was a telemarketer for a mortgage company. I'd call people and say "hey you currently have a 6% mortgage rate, did you know you qualify for a 5%?" and then they'd hang up and I'd want to hang myself.

So then I just started to hang up on people whenever they answered. They'd say "hello?" and I'd just hang up because I couldn't bring myself to talk to them anymore.

So if you ever answer your phone and you're like "hello? hello? helllllo?" and then you hear a "click"-- that's a disgruntled telemarketer.
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ryano
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Wal Mart as a cashier.

It made me slightly racist against mexicans who live here and refuse to speak english, yet are buying all their groceries with food stamps. and THEN they try to buy the brand name stuff which the computer wont allow, (you can only buy certain stuff with the food stamps) which they know full well, yet they try to do it anyways, then act stupid and get mad at me for saying no. and to top it off, they look at you like you're the dumbass.

seriously, it was only the mexicans, the asians would at least try to speak english, and everyone else on food stamps would follow the rules and get the correct brands..
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Sno.
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oh also, here's my list of my jobs--i think most of them-- and most of them sucked.

babysitter (14)
latte stand barista (16)
cashier at Illusionz (family entertainment center)(16)
bookkeeper at GI Joes Sporting Goods (17)
busser at a steakhouse (16-18)
salesperson at Nordstrom during sales (19-21)
hostess as the cheesecake factory (18-20)
busser at anthony's on the seattle waterfront (18-21)
barista at starbucks (21)
barista at the fake starbucks inside barnes and noble (21)
telemarketer for the D.A.R.E. program (22)
checker at albertsons (22)
Telemarketer at a mortgage company (23)
Loan officer (23-24)
HR Analyst at ski resort (24)
Ski Instructor (24-25)
Temp recruiter at staffing company (25)
Temp video game salesperson at microsoft store (25)
group administrator at microsoft (25)
trick shot pool vixen at the parlor (25)
administrator at Intel (26)
Administrative assistant (26-27)
Sr. Administrative and Technical assistant (27-31)
Business Process Analyst (31)
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Mixy
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I was an undertaker for a few years. It was a real dead end job!



All credit goes to my dad...
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deleted5
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Life guarding job, the job itself wasn't that bad, but my boss made it awful.
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.frenchy
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snobunnytrick shot


FaZe??
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deleted5
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snobunnyI was a telemarketer for a mortgage company. I'd call people and say "hey you currently have a 6% mortgage rate, did you know you qualify for a 5%?" and then they'd hang up and I'd want to hang myself.

So then I just started to hang up on people whenever they answered. They'd say "hello?" and I'd just hang up because I couldn't bring myself to talk to them anymore.

So if you ever answer your phone and you're like "hello? hello? helllllo?" and then you hear a "click"-- that's a disgruntled telemarketer.


Some people just aren't cut out for cold calling, after a week it just stopped bothering me.
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zzzskizzzLife guarding job, the job itself wasn't that bad, but my boss made it awful.


I had the worst boss ever life guarding, a navy seal wannabe who couldn't pass the mental exam.

Everything else about the job kicked ass.
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Sno.
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.frenchyFaZe??


haha, no. billiards.
10 years ago
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cobra_commander
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I spent a week digging through a landfill by hand looking for some really expensive pieces of plastic.

That was the worst thing I have ever done.
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louie.mirags
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waiter at Friendlys at a bad time in my life. For a lazy stoner who didn't smile that was a horrible job. Actually was a great job though for being 18.
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Barefootin_Fiend
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cobra_commanderI spent a week digging through a landfill by hand looking for some really expensive pieces of plastic.

That was the worst thing I have ever done.


wtf? care to elaborate?
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Bombogenesis
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Wow some of you have had mundane jobs that you consider to be "bad".





i worked for a company that cleaned out oil tanks. That sucked. Id get up around 330 am, get to the shop by 430 and sometimes have to drive an hour to 3 hours to and from the job sites EACH DAY. Didn't stay over... Had to return so it was like 2-6 hours of driving every day but at least it was paid and in a company van so that was really nice.


anyway... Ships come into port and unload millions of gallons of oil into these huge tanks. Every so often, the tanks need to be inspected to make sure they're not leaking etc... Especially being really close to the water.

The hole to get in is barely big enough for a person to squeeze through and it's the one access point so lights must be disassembled and reassembled inside becUse they were too big to fit. since the inspectors were mostly concerned with the floor we had to sandblast the sludge off of the entire floor. Now these tanks weren't like 40X40 feet... They were like 300x300. It took for fucking ever.

while sandblasting you had to wear this hot ass suit with a full respirator and hold the hose in one hand (while it was slung over your shoulder) and a light in the other hand. Unfortunately the visibility dropped to a few feet rather quickly from all the dust so even with a light you couldn't see very far in front of you. The stuff smelled so horrid even through the respirator and suit and it would find a way to get into your eyes, mouth etc.

each tank took a full day for 3 guys to sandblast ... A full day being like 10 actual working hours. 10 hours with a fucking hose, light and a pitch black oil tank.

then the worst was yet to come... All the media had to be shoveled out by the bucket. Yes, you had to shovel the shit into a bucket, walk it to the little porthole and hand it to someone to be dumped out so the inspectors could see the floor. After two full days of that the whole floor needed a vacuum which took several more hours and then we were done. Each tank took almost a week.


Timeline went:

330 am wake up
430 get to shop
630-830 get to job site
Work til 6 or 7 pm, sometimes later
Back to shop at 8-10 pm
Back at home around 11-1130
Repeat Monday-Friday



So keep complaining about your walmart cashiering and mcdicks jobs, pussies
10 years ago
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ModMommy
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I was a table girl at at strip club for 3 weeks, essentially we lead guys into the club, and got them seated in booths/ at tables.

Obviously that didn't last long.
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Bombogenesis
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immasI was a table girl at at strip club for 3 weeks, essentially we lead guys into the club, and got them seated in booths/ at tables.

Obviously that didn't last long.




Cause you got a promotion to stripper, right?
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ModMommy
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BombogenesisCause you got a promotion to stripper, right?


Goodness no. It's a strip club, I really didn't want that on a resume, and it had lost the thrill.
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Peach.
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immasGoodness no. It's a strip club, I really didn't want that on a resume, and it had lost the thrill.


I've always wondered about the, um, management at a strip club. Like, is there a head stripper? Is the boss/owner really some sleazy dude in a white suit? Do they send managers off to training? How's the pay for people who aren't on stage?
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ModMommy
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Peach.I've always wondered about the, um, management at a strip club. Like, is there a head stripper? Is the boss/owner really some sleazy dude in a white suit? Do they send managers off to training? How's the pay for people who aren't on stage?


We had a manager, they weren't sleazy surprisingly. I never met the owner. The pay wasn't bad. It was above minimum wage in Nevada.
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SmotSmoke
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I worked for a roofing company they were sketch as fuck and didn't give any shits about my safety or well being and my first job was dangerous as hell and they just sent me out to work alone with shitty a shitty ladder that didn't reach the roof unless I put it on the steps. She forced me to risk my life 40 feet up on a mossy wet roof.

After that I called up and told her my concerns and she did nothing to improve my safety and wouldn't get me a new ladder saying I don't need a ladder, when I fucking need one to get on a god damn roof. I quit and she got hella mad threatened with the police for some reason and they couldn't do shit, and she still hasn't paid me my paycheck of $400.

Her business may be getting shut down because she is a bitch and wont pay me and if she pays me she is going to have to fork up 2 grand including my paycheck interest and fines to the state. So she is hella stupid.

Owed me $400, now owes about 2 grand and the state is asking for its money just because she got mad at me about quitting. She was such a crazy ass I am glad I don't work with her she doesn't know what the hell she is doing and I strait up told her that and clearly she has yet to show me she knows how to run a business.

She had clients calling me on the first day like what? thats her fucking job Im on a damn roof and cant schedule every person that calls. The whole thing was fucked and I didn't like it.
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ZeMagnificentKev
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12 hour shifts at a PVC manufacturing plant for one summer, shittiest job ive ever had for sure. So damn loud and hot in there, and the machines never stopped producing so you'd go for your 30min lunch then the parts would be all piled up but they would be cold so it would be tough as shit to cut the excess plastic off. Didn't think it could get worse, then they put me on fucking night shifts,at least they gave me an extra 50cents. Oh ya they advertised the job as 15$ an hour but then told me id be hired as a "seasonal student worker" instead of just part time and got 11$
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Mingg
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I was Salad Bitch at a restaurant for a while.

That sucked. I was getting money taken out of my paycheck for food I wasn't eating. I had taxes taken out of my check without ever giving them my social security number, and they were pocketing the money. Also, I was getting clocked out for breaks that I wasn't allowed to take. So you can say I was getting screwed over pretty hard there.
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_CC_
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Bombogenesisi worked for a company that cleaned out oil tanks.


Yeah I think you win. That really fucking sucks.

I used to wash dishes in a huge college dining hall. The work was easy as fuck, but I worked the Sunday morning shifts, guaranteed vomit on plates.

Changing oil sucked.

Part of my job last summer was cleaning culverts and dredging irrigation ditches, which was pretty shitty. So much cow poop, garbage and unidentifiable grunge. I also almost got killed skidding giant logs out of a river, which was also shitty. We also had to kill wasp nests, fill potholes, build fence, shovel shit, and cut down some really sketchy trees. I think we had 10 hospital visits that summer. Oh well I got to cut down trees with my friends and live in the Aspen Valley, worth it.

I really needed job a few years ago and took one of those environmental canvassing jobs in Boston. Man that blew. I lasted about three days because no one would tell me what I was actually doing this for. Also a homeless guy hit me with a shoe.
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Blurst
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My worst job was working for Frito Lay delivering potato chips to large format stores, (i.e Wallmart, grocery stores, etc.) I worked 2-12 A.M saturday to thursday and the entire time had to deal with shitty grocery store lifers. Fuck those guys, people who work in grocery stores for 30 years have something seriously fucking wrong with them.
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JGWI
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BlurstMy worst job was working for Frito Lay delivering potato chips to large format stores, (i.e Wallmart, grocery stores, etc.) I worked 2-12 A.M saturday to thursday and the entire time had to deal with shitty grocery store lifers. Fuck those guys, people who work in grocery stores for 30 years have something seriously fucking wrong with them.


As a flow team member at Target, I know exactly what you are saying.
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KravtZ
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Working as a barista back in the day. The customers who buy a $5 late are horrible...couldnt stand talking to those coffee granolas. Not to mention I worked for a totally incompetent illegal immigrant and his jahova's witness friends who would always call in sick for religious reasons.
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SFBv420.0
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no disrespect cause the peeps that do it and can hang kickass
and i wouldn't trade the experiences for anything
mostly cause it makes every other job ,including years of roofing, gravy
more of a worst job for me best experience thing
didn't take long fore i learnt
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cornholio
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BombogenesisWow some of you have had mundane jobs that you consider to be "bad".





i worked for a company that cleaned out oil tanks. That sucked. Id get up around 330 am, get to the shop by 430 and sometimes have to drive an hour to 3 hours to and from the job sites EACH DAY. Didn't stay over... Had to return so it was like 2-6 hours of driving every day but at least it was paid and in a company van so that was really nice.


anyway... Ships come into port and unload millions of gallons of oil into these huge tanks. Every so often, the tanks need to be inspected to make sure they're not leaking etc... Especially being really close to the water.

The hole to get in is barely big enough for a person to squeeze through and it's the one access point so lights must be disassembled and reassembled inside becUse they were too big to fit. since the inspectors were mostly concerned with the floor we had to sandblast the sludge off of the entire floor. Now these tanks weren't like 40X40 feet... They were like 300x300. It took for fucking ever.

while sandblasting you had to wear this hot ass suit with a full respirator and hold the hose in one hand (while it was slung over your shoulder) and a light in the other hand. Unfortunately the visibility dropped to a few feet rather quickly from all the dust so even with a light you couldn't see very far in front of you. The stuff smelled so horrid even through the respirator and suit and it would find a way to get into your eyes, mouth etc.

each tank took a full day for 3 guys to sandblast ... A full day being like 10 actual working hours. 10 hours with a fucking hose, light and a pitch black oil tank.

then the worst was yet to come... All the media had to be shoveled out by the bucket. Yes, you had to shovel the shit into a bucket, walk it to the little porthole and hand it to someone to be dumped out so the inspectors could see the floor. After two full days of that the whole floor needed a vacuum which took several more hours and then we were done. Each tank took almost a week.


Timeline went:

330 am wake up
430 get to shop
630-830 get to job site
Work til 6 or 7 pm, sometimes later
Back to shop at 8-10 pm
Back at home around 11-1130
Repeat Monday-Friday



So keep complaining about your walmart cashiering and mcdicks jobs, pussies


out of curiosity, how much did that job pay?
10 years ago
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PacificRimJob
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Overnight manager at a hotel. 5 days a week, 11pm-7am. Doing fucking NOTHING all night, and basically being paid to have a supremely fucked sleep schedule..
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PacificRimJob
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BombogenesisSo keep complaining about your walmart cashiering and mcdicks jobs, pussies


How is 4 hours of off-work even legal? Not to mention, shit you better have been paid an absolute assload to do that..
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I worked at a Chili's long enough to fund a pair of skis, a season pass, and my drinking habit so like 2 months maybe. Definite low point in life.
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cobra_commander
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Barefootin_Fiendwtf? care to elaborate?


An idiot managed to put about 25 PEQ-15s in the garbage and we had to go find them
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J.D.
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I haven't really had any bad jobs per se. I was a server at a chain family restaurant for about eight months and that was probably the least good but it wasn't like it was terrible or anything, I just didn't like the place or the management.
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snwbrdmilf
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Working for UHC in their call center. I wanted to die on a daily basis and that is just not like me. Shit was bonkers with rules.
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.frenchy
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Really haven't had any job that I hated, maybe I didn't like them at times but it was nothing to cry about like cleaning a fuckin oil tank

dishwasher

lift operator (still do it, awesome job)

worked on a farm this summer- getting paid cash is fun, i didnt mind the manual labor, the heat was a bitch sometimes in jeans and shit kickerz
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90053
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BombogenesisSo keep complaining about your walmart cashiering and mcdicks jobs, pussies


this thread:
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90053
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tusken_assraiderthis thread:

fail
http://youtu.be/Xe1a1wHxTyo
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louie.mirags
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People hate hearing this but being in the military SUCKS. I am sure some people get out after 4 years with an easy gig and no complaints. However, on a submarine we worked nonstop. Duty every 3 days (forced to be on ship overnight in port) 12 hour work days, we were micromanaged to shit, cleaning on our hands and knees for no reason, they gave you shit for taking leave days, some people in charge were huge dicks for no reason, etc. So much bullshit. The free college is worth it. The experience - not worth it. I had an amazing time on my off days in france and greece, but those few days did make up for the shit we went thru to get there. I hated almost every minute in the navy and my life is exponentially better since I got out.
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deleted5
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louie.miragsPeople hate hearing this but being in the military SUCKS. I am sure some people get out after 4 years with an easy gig and no complaints. However, on a submarine we worked nonstop. Duty every 3 days (forced to be on ship overnight in port) 12 hour work days, we were micromanaged to shit, cleaning on our hands and knees for no reason, they gave you shit for taking leave days, some people in charge were huge dicks for no reason, etc. So much bullshit. The free college is worth it. The experience - not worth it. I had an amazing time on my off days in france and greece, but those few days did make up for the shit we went thru to get there. I hated almost every minute in the navy and my life is exponentially better since I got out.


Are you kidding me they wear helmets so they're fine, nothing bad can ever happen to them. Such an easy job for such easy pay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBjUv_T9CYU go to 45. If this ever gets bumped in 10 year, I'm going on record and saying that was sarcasm.
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louie.mirags
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zzzskizzzAre you kidding me they wear helmets so they're fine, nothing bad can ever happen to them. Such an easy job for such easy pay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBjUv_T9CYU go to 45. If this ever gets bumped in 10 year, I'm going on record and saying that was sarcasm.


crazy
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_CC_
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louie.miragsPeople hate hearing this but being in the military SUCKS. I am sure some people get out after 4 years with an easy gig and no complaints. However, on a submarine we worked nonstop. Duty every 3 days (forced to be on ship overnight in port) 12 hour work days, we were micromanaged to shit, cleaning on our hands and knees for no reason, they gave you shit for taking leave days, some people in charge were huge dicks for no reason, etc. So much bullshit. The free college is worth it. The experience - not worth it. I had an amazing time on my off days in france and greece, but those few days did make up for the shit we went thru to get there. I hated almost every minute in the navy and my life is exponentially better since I got out.


I can imagine very few things that suck that bad. A good friend of mine is ex navy, my old boss was a marine and due to vet preference with the feds I work with lots of ex-military folks. Man, the shit I hear from them is unbelievable. Everything from guys walking in lines with weed-whackers to mow a lawn (and other such pointless tasks) to certain guys getting targeted and fucking tormented for no reason. The epitome of suck.

Wildland firefighting also sucks, its militaristic history/ IC system makes it suck even more but, damn does it work. Unless it's on a huge high profile fire like Storm King or High Park no one ever gives a shit about it either. Hot, dirty, 40% chance of survival in a shelter, and peppered with cocky shitheads.
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louie.mirags
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caroline.I can imagine very few things that suck that bad. A good friend of mine is ex navy, my old boss was a marine and due to vet preference with the feds I work with lots of ex-military folks. Man, the shit I hear from them is unbelievable. Everything from guys walking in lines with weed-whackers to mow a lawn (and other such pointless tasks) to certain guys getting targeted and fucking tormented for no reason. The epitome of suck


yep it blows. Just that made me think of even more shitty times I had. It is such an unpopular opinion with people though because the military is so highly praised and it seems unpatriotic. But, it sucks and I wouldn't recommend to anybody who has other options.
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Bombogenesis
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DingoSeanHow is 4 hours of off-work even legal? Not to mention, shit you better have been paid an absolute assload to do that..



$10 an hour lol.. I was 19.
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RRhighrider
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I was a chimney sweep my first summer living in Mammoth Lakes.
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SKI.ING
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Fruit packing warehouse. 10-12 hour days, barely any days off, and while it beats being outside in 100 degree plus heat, the cold storage, lighting, and constant rattling of the machinery gets to you after a while. And you have to tread carefully to not get stabbed by a gang member. Coworker got a knife pulled on him while I was stacking boxes right next to him haha.

Granite and marble restoration. Not a bad gig when working at billionaire's houses, but some worksite's were just tedious and awful. Hands and knees hand sanding blows when you're doing it all day.

Substitute teacher. Some days are awesome like "I get paid to do this?!" and other days are "I don't get paid enough to do this". So just depends. My other jobs I've liked decently well.
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Ghoster
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Being your dad because your mom was a real slut
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JGWI
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GhosterCoasterBeing your dad because your mom was a real slut


Wow, that was harsh.
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dmski
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GhosterCoasterBeing your dad because your mom was a real slut

I'm surprised the kiddy filter didn't kick in here.
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