What was your hardest, shittiest, and best job you've had? - General

Hardest- Rodbuster at Pacific Coast Steel in Glendale. Basically the job was lift really heavy rebar and moving it all over the place. you dont know how hard this job is until you have done it Shittiest- Dishwasher at Spinatos pizzeria in auwatukee AZ. The job was easy until in the evening when, I am not even kidding about this, the ENTIRE restaurant would be full and there would be people waiting outside for 30-45mins for a table. There would be so many dishes and shit to clean that I couldnt move in the area and could only stand in front of the sink or risk jumping over a 5 foot gauntlet of dirty shit. and the restaurant was like that EVERY DAY until I was laid off and I bet it is still like it. I havent had any jobs that i would consider "the best" I have always had shitty jobs

Did you get payed good OP?

Best and hardest- building houses with my father, putting PVC pipe, running water lines and gas lines, and setting fixtures in newly built houses. Also digging for 10 hours a day under the sun. 10$/hr out of high school and minimum 50 hrs a week Shittiest - grocery store work. Bagging groceries for hours on end, cleaning shit off the floor, and pushing carts when it's 100 or -20 degrees out and snowing.

Best - Ski Instructor; it's fun teaching your favourite activity Worst - Ski Instructor; it isn't fun paying £200 on training and not getting paid.

[QUOTE=Kingy_ME;37909601]Best - Ski Instructor; it's fun teaching your favourite activity Worst - Ski Instructor; it isn't fun paying £200 on training and not getting paid.[/QUOTE] Where do you teach it?

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;37908782]Did you get payed good OP?[/QUOTE] yeah, at rodbusting I made 12 bucks an hour and that was the are minimum. If I joined the apprenticeship it would have boosted it by about 3.50 and eventually I could be making 25-30 dollars an hour including benefits. but I wasnt deperate enough for money to keep it. Plus the driving was like 2 hours round trip on the job sites.

[QUOTE=leontodd;37909617]Where do you teach it?[/QUOTE] On my local dry slope in South Wales. It was run by the council and they stopped allowing the guys running the place from hiring people just as I finished my training, which is strange because it wouldn't have cost the council any more because I'd only be working on a casual basis.

by eventually I mean after 4 years [editline]4th October 2012[/editline] ninjas [editline]4th October 2012[/editline] and I am not being racist, but i swear that mexicans are the only ones that can the job I was doing. there was only one black guy doing the same work. everyone else was mexicans. the supervisors were white, just standin there with their clipboards

The work I do now has to be the hardest and best job I've done, and that's working for staging companies. It's hard as shit unloading trucks, shoving boxes around, and building stages for 10 hours, but there's usually some good perks and occasionally you get a really cool gig. The last two that I did were setting up for Earth, Wind & Fire, and I got to see the shows for free both nights. Good pay, too.

Hardest: Loading an entire U-Haul truck with 3 people actually doing work out of 40+ people. Shittiest: Fixing a bunch of broken shit Best: Building my friends computer.

Hardest: none Shittiest: Door-to-door knife salesman Best: Pizza delivery driver (only best because it didn't fit into the other categories, and because hopping fences is loads of fun)

I guess being a parade cleanup guy cleaning up horse poop would qualify as all three. Best because of my only job. Crappiest because of what I had to scoop. Hardest because it didn't come out solid.

Hardest: Army, it's not easy being shot at, running, shooting back, and almost getting blown to all hell. Shittiest: Grave Digger, back in Scotland, I did this as a sidejob once I turned 16, not exactly fun, especially when some woman tosses herself on her husband's casket and delays me for another few minutes. Best: Model Shop where I work now, my manager is the nicest guy, and I actually get paid quite a bit for a retail job.

Hardest/shittiest: Kitchenhand. Never again.

Hardest and Shittiest: Wasn't really a "job" per se, but toilet plumber. Hard, due to trying to fix the sewer system whatever in the toilet and shitty because the toilet didn't flush and someone [I]just happened[/I] to use it at the time. Best: Employee in a music store.

[quote]What was your hardest, shittiest, and best job you've had?[/quote] the one straight after anal.

Shittiest: posting in this particular thread.

Shittiest: Cinema Projectionist at a 35mm film multiplex (which was a thing that still existed when I worked there in 2006). 8 hour shifts, mostly on my feet, alone in a big, dark, cold, noisy room. It was good because I didn't have to deal with the [del]retarded shitheads that crawled in off the streets[/del] customers, but I did have to keep all 15 projectors running, get films ready for upcoming showings (and start them up ON TIME!), do maintenance and cleaning, pretend to care when somebody radioed up about customer complaints... And what extra pay did I get for all this extra work? None. Contractually, I was exactly the same as a ticket-ripper, they just let me do the technical stuff out of the goodness of their hearts. Then, when I said to my friends that I was a projectionist, everybody thinks that I got paid to sit and watch films all day. But you know what? It was seriously fucking cool at the same time. I was a god among mortals! None of the management knew how any of the machines worked and the rest of the staff would have a hard time writing their name, let alone deciphering the showtime schedule. There was generally only one projectionist on-site at any one time, so I was literally the only person keeping the place running most of the time that I was there. Sometimes I needed an extra pair of hands to move a film to another projector, so I had to bring one of the dopes from the foyer upstairs to help. It was always funny to see them looking around dazed when they saw it all for the first time, while I wander through this huge room full of crazy, noisy witchcraft, not giving the slightest shit. It's a good job to look back on, but a really really shit job to do at the time. Everything's digital now, so I don't know what life is like as a projectionist these days. Probably worse. Hardest [i]and[/i] Best Job: Software Engineer. Comfortable quiet office, free coffee and occasional cakes (fruit too, but who eats that shit?), good pay and a lot of my time is spent developing and testing software (which I enjoy). Plus nobody knows/cares about me browsing Facepunch when I'm waiting for something to compile. The hard part is, the rest of the time I spend trying to help our customers' developers solve odd problems in our code/their code/their hardware/a third party's code/a misunderstanding of documentation/combinations thereof. I have to do this via email, usually without being able to see the problem myself, because we never get sent any hardware by our customers. Generally all I get sent is a screenshot of a failure in one of the standard tests and a message saying that they need it fixed 3 weeks ago. Sometimes they just say that their product isn't doing the same thing as the one made by Sony in a particular circumstance, and they want to know why it isn't. It's a really good job, but some days, after hours of emailing libraries backwards forwards to a guy in Korea, my brain is dripping out of my ears by the time I get home. I hate to think what the guy at the other end is going through, I've had emails from them at 3am their-time. I don't think they sleep, they just work until they collapse.

Hardest - Wal-Mart First job. Ran the overnight shift and we had to essentially replenish everything before we opened the next morning. Your usual big box store job. You got paid well for it though. Shittiest - Costco (Fuck you warehouse manager Mason) 4:45am-9:15am, later from 2pm-10:30pm. They didn't let you start off part or full time. You were seasonal and if they liked you, you fought your friends for a real position. Pay was bare minimum. People who were working full-time were elitist as fuck. Got fired for using the same 16oz soda cup to get multiple free refills over the span of days. They cut my EI after they told me to get it and I spent several weeks living in my car. Fuck you Mason. Best - Current job (name not given) It's a 12 hour fucking shift 3-4 days a week but the pay and benefits are fucking awesome. 80% of my co-workers are girls and the task so so repeating yet requires enough affort that the time flys past. There's awesome perks too like the boss one day shutting the factory down for half an hour so we could all go outside and eat ice cream on the company dime.

Hardest - TA soldier Shittiest - charity shop assistant Best - Level designer (current)

[QUOTE=MIPS;37922185]Best - Current job (name not given) It's a 12 hour fucking shift 3-4 days a week but the pay and benefits are fucking awesome. 80% of my co-workers are girls and the task so so repeating yet requires enough affort that the time flys past. There's awesome perks too like the boss one day shutting the factory down for half an hour so we could all go outside and eat ice cream on the company dime.[/QUOTE] Work in a factory, not allowed to specify what you're working on? Nukes

Fuck, I was a male nurse at an old folks home. I've heard a lot of horrible stories about bad conditions in other nursing homes, but I live in Norway, so yay public health care, no horrible stories. But yeah, the job was literally [I]shitty[/I] anyway. Wiping asses, washing old people and handling the demented patients. The worst was physically holding down a poor woman with Alzheimer's who didn't' even know what was going on as the doctor shoved 70 Ml of poofluid in her rectum, then extracting it, with the contents of her bowels along it because she hadn't been moving her bowels lately. It's what we call "assisted bowel movement" Ib4 [I]Shitty[/I] job joke

Best Job: Car Wash assistant (Seriously just pissed about all day for money with the occasional car wash) Worst: (Current) Cleaning and cooking at a care home. Cleaning just fucking sucks, and is well, imagine fireworks and chocolate pudding. Cooking I always have to work over a hour over time (Which I don't get paid for) Can't wait to goto university and qualify as a architect :D

[QUOTE=inebriaticxp;37916649]Hardest: none Shittiest: Door-to-door knife salesman Best: Pizza delivery driver (only best because it didn't fit into the other categories, and because hopping fences is loads of fun)[/QUOTE] was the knife salesman that bullshit VECTOR company that I got letters in the mail about

Hardest: At a transport company, coordinating trucks around the country. Fucking hell man a bit steep for someone who is only working for a school course and is completely new to the thin don't you think? Went pretty well, but it wasn't easy. Shittiest: Working at a large electronics store. They also had vacuum cleaners and whatnot, me and a friend had to re-organize the whole vacuum bag shelf which took all day. Not only as it the most boring product imaginable, it was also very boring in the sense that it was all about checking every single one and putting them in their right place. Best: The shittiest, mostly because I was with 2 friends so there were plenty of fun moments (like when one accidentally tipped over something or such).

[QUOTE=MalwareOhMy!;37935716]was the knife salesman that bullshit VECTOR company that I got letters in the mail about[/QUOTE] the very same

[QUOTE=inebriaticxp;37936848]the very same[/QUOTE] I hear its just a big scam unless you are the Billy Mays of selling knives