Worst Jobs-a poll

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What’s the worst/strangest/most annoying job you’ve held as an adult? (Yeah, annoying summer jobs during high school and college don’t count.)

This is research. 🙂

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  3. Wow…well, it’s a tie between working at McDonald’s and then Petsmart. But I guess McDonald’s was the worst since I only lasted 3 days on the job. I worked at Petsmart for about 4 months.

  4. let’s see. I too have played the telemarketing game, but I was just out of the Navy and was looking to suplement my income with a part time job.

    But that was not the worst. Not by a long shot. The absolute worst was Vacuum Cleaner Salesman. Since it can be difficult to convince people that an MS in physics prepares you to do engineering, and no school districts around here were hiring, I was relagated to hawking $3500.00 vacuums. And yes, that’s US dollars.

  5. Over the years, I’ve had a lot of jobs. Not as many as Homer Simpson, but a lot. In fact, the one I have now is the one I’ve had for the longest, which makes it seem like I’m not stable or something. But I didn’t leave those jobs because they were terrible jobs. I think the worst job I ever had was one I held for one week, and that was delivering a free newspaper in the town where I grew up. This was back in the day when newspaper ink came off on your hands and clothes, so as I rolled and rubber-banded each newspaper, I slowly turned black. But when I think about it, that is not such a bad job in the greater scheme of life. I’ve had jobs where I had to clean toilets, wash dishes, perform personal hygiene on handicapped adults, jobs where I had to pretend my boss was smarter than me, jobs where I had to act like consumerism is a good thing (okay, that was pretty horrific), and jobs where the owner was so paranoid about company secrets being stolen he fired people for bringing their cellular phones into the office (okay, that was a sucky job too). But there’s jobs and there’s workplaces. If you have a great job, but your boss is a beast, then your job sucks. Do the same job with a boss who actually knows how to treat human beings, and you’ve got a great job.

    Homer Simpson’s jobs: (I bolded the ones I’ve also had)
    Ambulance driver
    Activist for the legalization of medicinal
    Actor
    Astronaut
    Attack-dog trainer
    Baby Proofer
    Bartender
    Blackjack dealer
    Bowling alley employee
    Butler
    Bodyguard
    Bootlegger
    Boxer
    Candle maker
    Car designer
    Carny
    Celebrity assistant
    Chauffeur
    Springfield Chief of Police
    Clown
    Authorized Krusty impersonator
    Coach for American football
    Con artist/Grifter
    Conceptual artist
    Convenience store night-clerk
    Death (grim reaper in halloween special)
    Door-to-door knife salesman
    Door-to-door spring salesman
    Drug Spokesman
    Employee at Gulp ‘n’ Blow Drive-thru
    Executive of Globex Corp
    Executive Vice President of Power
    Farmer
    Film critic
    Film producer
    Food critic Fortune cookie writer
    Gravedigger
    Grease entrepreneur
    Guard of Springfield Juvenile Correctional Facility
    Hippie
    Horse Trainer
    Inventor
    Junior Vice-President of CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet
    Mall Santa Claus
    Mascot, known as “Dancing Homer”
    Mayor of New Springfield
    Mini-golf assistant
    Missionary
    Monorail conductor
    Mountain climber
    Muscle For Hire
    Musician
    Night school teacher
    Oil-rig worker (Half-Decent Proposal)
    OwnerZiffCorp, SpringShield, the Denver Broncos
    Ordained Minister
    Panhandler
    Performance artist
    Personal assistant
    Pie-Man
    Briefly taking Smithers’ place as Mr. Burns’ right-hand man.
    Prank monkey for Mr. Burns
    Priest
    Prison snitch
    Roadside corn salesman
    Safety protester
    Sailor in the Naval Reserve
    Sanitation Commissioner
    Security guard
    Snowplow proprietor and driver
    Sugar salesman
    Smuggler
    Superhero
    Talk Show Host
    Telemarketer
    Thief
    Town Crier
    Traveling salesman
    Trucker
    Union leader
    Used Car salesman
    Vigilante
    Voice actor
    Webmaster

  6. After I left college, I worked briefly as a waitress and as one of those annoying telemarketers. Worst jobs ever. I also did a brief stint as a cheerleading coach to 9 year olds, which was akin to setting myself on fire.

  7. I actually LIKED McDonalds. 😉

    Hmmm. Worse? Erin what was my worse job???

    I hated working at the grocery store, TOPS.

    I LOATHED AND DESPISED working at the Meadville Theater in college, that was the year of Pocohontas. I will never forget that damn *around the river bend* song 200 times a day.

    But I feel like there has to be something WORSE…

    Actually, the time I spent over tha last year or so that I had NO JOB was the worse job…

  8. I spent the first 6 months out of college as a rural newpaper delivery person with about 100 customers. The hours weren’t bad (2 hours a day 5 days a week, plus 4 hours on Mondays for the free weekly supplements), but the wear and tear on the car and the hand muscles (*you* try driving from the passenger seat with your left hand while folding 100 newpapers a day with your right) was a bit much…

    (Sometime not long before that, I also tried door-to-door sales for 2.5 days but discovered I had absolutely no tolerance for being yelled at by people angry at having their afternoon naptime interrupted…)

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