What is the Best/Worst Job you have ever had?

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Two4Tuesday wrote: »

I write iPad and iPhone apps in a very specialised field. It's the only thing I can do now as I'm stuck in a wheelchair, and luckily I do it very well

I was way off! building!! haha. I'm an idiot
Cool job, though. Good for you.

hbk4894

andydiysaver wrote: »

best - stewarding freshers week at university - involved drinking and meeting girls, what more can you ask for


worse - working for a genuine office psychopath, very disturbed individual, drunk on the power and highly abusive.


current job far nearer scenario 1 than scenario 2, no girls, no beer, but sane and civilised!

was the money atleast good?

dacouch

When I used to be a cocktail barman, on a few occasions I had to supervise the topless barmaids on the ad hoc strip nights the club had.

Surprisingly difficult to hold a normal conversation with a topless woman when you're aged 18

andydiysaver

hbk4894 wrote: »

was the money atleast good?

it was so so - I get more in my current role and less abuse, you never wanna stay in a job where a boss thinks they're God

outtawork

best job was working my way up from 4 hrs weekly meals on wheel delivery driver to full time manager after 4 years. sadly got made redundant, after 2 years. worse job was gluing the labels on dishwasher powder tubs at a factory.

Flat_Eric

Worse job for me was probably at a store I don't quite know how to describe. I suppose it was a second hand furniture shop of sorts. I didn't stay very long (I can't even remember if I lasted even a week) but I remember the boss being quite strict, you must do this, you must do that - they wanted us to be really pushy with the customers. I think boredom and the pay sent me running.

My best job I think was my part time job at b& q. I was young, it was a laugh and I enjoyed it.

hbk4894

andydiysaver wrote: »

it was so so - I get more in my current role and less abuse, you never wanna stay in a job where a boss thinks they're God

course fully understand.

topaztiger1983

Best

TripleQ Ltd - Trainee Antenna Systems Engineer

Probably the best as it was my longest job & I got to travel all over the UK

Worst

Zenith Windows - Tele-Canvasser

Crap work, crap employer & only paid on commission, so never got paid

TELLIT01

Best - My first job, as a trainee Quantity Surveyor. Unlike most places we did the entire range of work from going to sites to measure up to writing up and pricing our own Bills of Quantity.
Sadly the owner was a total lying ******* who made all sorts of promises about training to obtain formal qualifications but never carried through on them.
Karma got him in the end as the tax man discovered he'd been on the fiddle for years and he lost everything, house included.
Worst - by a mile was working in the Civil Service. I didn't believe it could be as bad as the stories I'd heard but it was far, far worse.

t0rt0ise

Worst job I had was a holiday job while at school, working in a chicken factory. It was revolting. I became a vegetarian soon after and still am.