For me... Best job - Mortuary Porter. This may sound like I am making it up but it really was a great job. Folk who work in hospitals tend to be good hearted and smart while the work itself barely existed. The main (and almost only) job was collecting the bodies from the hospital wards and there were rarely more than two deaths a day. And as the mortuary was maned 24 hours a day with three shifts and with two porters a shift, I sometimes went weeks without performing a single removal. Worst job - Teaching maths in South London. The school was on special measures and facing closure. The teachers had given up and spent most of their time applying for other jobs or making official complaints about each other. And the kids were only there because they could not get into any other school. They weren't bad kids as such but I was dealing with 16 year olds who could not solve problems not so much because they lacked maths skills, but because their reading level was that of 10 year olds and as often as not could not read the questions. How about you guys?
Hauled garbage for the city for a few months.. loved "junkin" got some great stuff..some of which I still have some 40 years later. worse job? I don't remember.. memory is like that some time.. perhaps "hauling hay", dirty sweaty work throwing 50 LB haybails up onto a 5 ton truck bed, do remember it made me pretty tough.. made my uncle proud by outperforming.. by 100's of bails.. his boss's son and son's buddy.. they wimped out after the first row. Now I'm licensed in insurance and real estate.. it keeps me fed while I dream of getting outdoors again and running either my motorcycle down the river road or little tractor around the ranchito.
Worst job. Blood pit at a beef packing plant. Best job. Loved being in the Army had alot of good times. And love working for myself farming.
best job: venture capitalist, during the dot com bubble i sold many internet based companies that are now on the fortune 500. i also dabbled in energy and film making. worst jobs: hedge fund manager and real estate investor
Never had a job I didn't like. If I had to pick my least favorite it would probably be when I cleaned office buildings in the middle of the night while in HS. Didn't get lots of sleep cleaning offices all night and going to school all day but the work itself was not that bad vacuuming emptying ash trays etc. Pretty mellow really. I'd put a radio on the PA system and listen to music while I worked and had the whole building to myself. The one thing I guess I didn't like much was cleaning the restrooms but you get used to it. By the way, women are pigs in public restrooms. LOL Best job I ever had was what I did most of my life which was working in the woods. "Great life till you weaken".
Best job was taxi driving. Not a huge money maker but met many people. People are entertaining. Worst job was nurse in a nursing home where the owners were as mean as cats meat and begrudged spending money on the residents and paying award wages.
Worst job was being a cop in the suburbs of Detroit. Best was being a seasonal National Park Ranger at Curecanti National Recreation area. Spent the summer 'Ranger Yachting' on the Gunnison river in a 21' Boston Whaler with twin Johnsons on the transom.
Having spent all summer of my 16th year on earth working at a Marina. Most all jobs there were somewhat hazardous.Like mowing the Marina lawn with a little push mower on a steep hill. Or going around once a week and emptying the huge steel Garbage Cans in front of each dock.The problem being the actual Garbage Cans were Garbage Barrels.Very heavy and bulky. So as not to be stolen.It took 2 people to lug a Garbage barrel onto the back of the *dumpster the Marina used as Garbage truck. But that wasn't the worst job there at the Marina.It was just the most dangerous.One could easily hurt their back lugging hoisting garbage barrels.The worst was having to sand or scrap old paint and barnacles off the hull of Wooden Boats.It was time consuming and a royal paint.Sometimes scraping alone wasn't enough.You had to go back and rescrape.Or fine sand. The good part of working at that Marina was they had Slim Jim's. And they only cost like a dime for us employees.I think they may have been 25 cents for anyone else.I Tried a Slim Jim from Wal*Mart a few years ago. They still good but they now gots like all kinds of expensive Beef Jerky. I mean,like Way too pricey.Must have near a couple dozen brands to chose from.I mean,get ripped off over. * a heavy duty flatbed truck which could store like maybe 10 barrels.Those barrels would be emptied at the Marina dump site by hand and then placed right back where they came from.The Barrels were Numbered according to the Number of the dock.
Best: Current job: Clinical Engineer, which is a fancy way to say 'medical equipment fixer guy'. I work in a nice air-conditioned hospital and I work with equipment so I don't have to deal with gross sick people. Thanks to the MAGA economy, there's lots of job opportunities, and a lack of experienced techs, and so I'm making really good money, better than I ever thought I would. Worst: My first job out of the military was as a field service tech repairing scales and weighing systems. Cement plants, town dumps, feed mills, chemical plants, etc... Lugging 50lb test weight blocks around in the freezing cold or burning heat. Crawling down into the pits under truck scales that stunk like ammonia from all the mouse and rat piss. It was miserable, and for that backbreaking labor I was paid the princely sum of $8.50/hour. 10 years after I left the horrible scale job and landed an engineering job in a hospital, I ran into a guy who I had worked with at the scale repair company, and he was still working there. Still doing that horrible donkey work for crap money 10 years later. I told him to give me a call, and send me his resume, and I'd see about getting him a tech job in the hospital where I worked. He never did call. His facebook confirmed that he just kept plodding along and humping the 50lb blocks. I guess some people are just happy being pack mules.
I have my death spot all picked out if I get to that point. It's a beautiful and remote sandy spot overlooking a lake sheltered from wind by boulders on either side. I've laid there many times for many hours enjoying the sun and solitude listening to the waves lapping on the rocky shoreline. Should I become terminal Ill get the end of life doc assisted suicide pills you can obtain in WA state and die right there.
Boston Whalers are pretty good overall boats.Johnson outboard motors been around forever but no longer made. What size Johnson outboards { H.p. ? }. I am quite familiar with Mercury Outboards. At one time it was believed that Boston Whalers were unsinkable.They seem to handle wave action { chop } about as good as any small boat.
This thing was a hoot. It had twin 150's on the back. Yeah the Boston Whaler was one h3ll of a boat. Back in those days they used to advertise them by cutting them in half (athwart ship) and both halves would still float. I've handled smaller Whalers in the pacific (The Isthmus at Catalina Island) and there's probably nothing finer.
Worst - "Line Worker" at a grain mill. That means stacking 50lb bags on pallets all day. Best - My current gig, structural steel fab/machine operation. Super cool management, great coworkers, monthly bonuses, great benefits... can't complain. I intend to start working on a degree though, getting to the age where being a desk jockey sounds pretty good.
Worst job commercial carpet layer. Best business i worked for was a cabinet shop. Best job i had was as an internet order packer and fly fishing expert. Coolest job was manufacturing fishing rods.
worst job: factory making cabinets. All day just sorting sticks of milled lumber. Bored out of my mind. Best job civilian: editing utility maps, aka geographical information systems (GIS)
Best was my Mobil DJ gig. JBL Cabarets, Mackie CR-1604, Carver PM-1200 and 800 CDs in two phat cases. Worst was washing dishes at Chi-Chi’s and then Sizzler.
Best: Flying Worst: snaking lines. (Part time summer job snaking lines in commercial buildings.... "**** tubes"...)
I taught at some pretty decent schools and liked them. For a while I worked with the really high-end kids who were taking advanced and IB classes. It was a great job, but the drive was killing me. Then took a position in a school for all the kids that couldn't fit in into the regular environment. They lacked not only the math and reading skills, but social skills as well. I've actually gone to the local jail to give some students final exams. At times it was depressing, demoralizing, and felt like a waste of time. But overall it was the most challenging and the best time of my career. The worst job I had was in a steel mill. I started right out of high school. Extreme heat in some areas, extreme cold in others. The work was mindless and monotonous. Some jobs were seriously dangerous. We had lots of broken bones, burns, and cuts. Three deaths while I was there. Other jobs required moving a piece of steel from point A to point B over and over and over--thousands of times a day. The pay was good, but I couldn't take the repetitiveness.
