Worst job you ever had

[Institutional Control]

Growing up shoveling crap on the hog farm, I would have killed to be living the pud life of a dairy farmer.

You don't shovel crap on a hog farm. Try shoveling stalls and barns on a dairy farm when the stalls were bedded with straw and then that gets mixed in with 200 tons of crap and urine. Pro-tip: SHOVELS DON'T WORK! Hog farms...phhht....except the horrible smell thing.

Also, I am so thankful for farmers, they feed the world and stuff.

I shoveled a shitload of crap on our hog farm.  Shoveled/scraped it out of the pens every morning and evening.

[ben ji]

Forgot that I caddied for about 2 months at Indian Hills CC in highschool. I had just seen caddy shack and saw a help wanted add at the local high school.

It really wasnt that bad at the start. Get paid around $10 an hour to carry golf bags for old rich people and free golf on mondays. Then it started getting hot and they started having caddies carry bags for 2 people but you only got $10 more. I never showed up after the first day above 80 degrees.

[RickRampus]

Question for the farmers:  how many times did you take a deep breath, exhale, smile and say "nothing like the smell of money in the morning."

0

[slobber]

I performed this job for 1 day, then I quit....

I got a job at Weber Hall when I was in college, paying about twice what I could make anywhere else hourly at the time.

The job was cleaning the kill floor and meat processing labs.  You suited up in rubber scrubs and blasted scalding hot water all over everything.  It was the most vile thing I have ever experienced.  Piss, crap, guts, giant vats filled with dead cow and sheep heads and innards....

Two of my buddies used to do that at the local locker when we were in HS. I'd go there and drink with them while they worked at night. No biggie.

[slobber]

Question for the farmers:  how many times did you take a deep breath, exhale, smile and say "nothing like the smell of money in the morning."

0

crap is not worth money, unless you sell crap. "0"

[Emo EMAW]

Oh.  Well when I go hunting out west that's what I do/say.  Thought I was fitting in.  Welp.

[Bloodfart]

another great job i had was carrying those old fashioned kegs w/o handles down those shitty stairs and into the basement of auntie maes on a busy friday night with a band playing, in the wintertime.

Do you have any idea how many buckets full of grain I had to carry in the wintertime, summertime, any time?

Do not under estimate the difficulty of schlepping kegs down steep narrow stair wells.  A few years ago I rode along with my friend delivering beer in a resort town in Colorado during New Years weekend.  I was totally wiped out by the end of the day.  The truck driver was popping pain killers all day cause his back was ruined from delivering 80+ kegs a day for 2 weeks straight.  My friend was showing off taking 2 kegs on the hand truck down a stair well and lost it.  He got flung over the the top of the load and took a nasty digger into the cement wall and floor at the bottom.  Keeping the party going is hard work.   

[slobber]

Oh.  Well when I go hunting out west that's what I do/say.  Thought I was fitting in.  Welp.

No, you are fitting in. I have heard lots of farmers say it, but they usually say it to city people who complain about the smell. Also, old farmers are more likely to say it. Nothing wrong with you saying it.

[Kat Kid]

McDonald's, high school janitor, dairy farm, lab worker grinding fecal samples.

[slobber]

McDonald's, high school janitor, dairy farm, lab worker grinding fecal samples.

Stud!

[8manpick]

Worked as a pharmaceutical technician one summer while in college. I counted pills all day long. It was really, really boring. And people were always coming in and telling us their health issues. One smelly old guy came in, took his shoes and socks off and stuck one of his feet on the counter asking me why his feet smelled like rotting ham.

Did you "lose" lots of pills?

[The Big Train]

I stacked boxes at Amazon my first year in college, unlimited boxes would come down a conveyor belt and I would stack them on pallets.  Wrap the pallets with huge rolls of Saran Wrap, then would wrap coworkers with Saran Wrap  needless to stay it "didn't work out" very long

[star seed 7]

sounds like goEMAW.com has a lot of FP, TC's etc.

[SabiNation]

Worked at ManKo one summer while in school.  Long hours and physical labor.  Worked 12 hours a day for a few weeks because we were busy.  Came in hungover multiple times, which didn't prove to make it any more enjoyable.

KKK was also supposed to work there, but he "broke his arm" and quit before the summer even started.   

[Emo EMAW]

What's ManKo?

[star seed 7]

commercial window company.

[EMAWmeister]

Question for the farmers:  how many times did you take a deep breath, exhale, smile and say "nothing like the smell of money in the morning."

I have a friend who probably says that once a week. Yes, from a small farm town.

The first time he said it was mindblowing.

[SabiNation]

What's ManKo?

Ya, window manufacturing company in MHK over by Wal-Mart.

Oh also, I worked in the same department as K-State great Joe Rheem.  He was a cool dude

[The1BigWillie]

Bartender in a strip club for 3 years.   

[Institutional Control]

Bartender in a strip club for 3 years.   

Luked.

http://goEMAW.com/forum/index.php?topic=25162.msg691408#msg691408

[sys]

i've lived a fortunate life.

[steve dave]

Probably cow/farm work was the worst but I really liked a lot of it. Mainly hated the getting up before school in the cold to do stuff. Almost all summer cow/farm stuff is fun.

[slobber]

Probably cow/farm work was the worst but I really liked a lot of it. Mainly hated the getting up before school in the cold to do stuff. Almost all summer cow/farm stuff is fun.

That is why I put it in the best job ever thread, also. I wouldn't change any of it. It sucked, but was awesome (like Stacey, which I also put in the best job thread).

[AppleJack]

Mail Boxes, Etc in high school 

I was, um, asked to leave because I really screwed up someones really important fax, only sent like half of it. I also coudln't grasp the James Bond copy machine.

[TheKatsofWar]

Customer service technician at Sykes, summer job that basically people would call everyday pissed off because their sbcglobal internet wasn't working, had to "help" them fix their internet. Sat in a cube all day, made little money and got bitched at.