What's the 'worst' job you've had outside of technology, and did you enjoy it more or less than what you do now?
What's the worst job you've had outside technology?
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#2Scraping bird poo from the inside of large outdoor bird cages. While the birds scream and flap from above, I wear a rain jacket and scrap the cement floors with a putty knife. This was my first job and lowest paying job when I was 10. It was also only 3-4 hours a week.
Obviously, I like what I do now more than that job. But I am not currently working in tech.
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#3Being an assistant in a winter coats shop during summer holidays. I was 13 and it was my first job.
I was bored all day because we never got any customers - this was in a seaside town and you can imagine that people do not tend to go buy winter coats during summer while they are going home from the day at the beach :)
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#4Construction crew on a group building a golf course. One day my job was - literally - to walk around and pick up rocks and sticks and what-not. In the 98 degree heat and sweltering humidity of NC in the summertime... with no shade to be found. For not much more than minimum wage.
Outside of that, my dad was in the logging business when I was a kid, so I worked summers during high-school helping him cut down trees and load them onto a truck to haul to the paper mill. That was more being outside, doing hard physical labor, in NC, in the summertime. And I'm not even sure I got paid, now that I think about it... :-)
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#5Working at the Baskin Robbins in the mall that was the scene of Dawn of the Dead.
Much, much less.
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#6Stand in front of a giant injection moulding machine and wait for the clamp to open up and the finish product would drop into a box.
of course, it never did, because the air blowers were broken, so every 30sec I had to open and manually remove the product (I think it was miniature plastic tree) from the clamp and close it, otherwise it would close with the product in it. Repeat this all day. Thats when I decided I hate routines.
The boss was my grandfather, and I couldn't say no to the job.
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#8I actually worked on a garbage truck for a couple a years in my early 20s. And not in a unionized situation where the weight was regulated. Lovely weather in upstate New York with bitterly cold winter more than offset by sweltering summers.
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#9I worked in a hospital's lab one summer. The three things I remember the most are counting sperm under the microscope (which smells really really bad), helping out with Pap smear analysis (which looks really really bad), and being the pee-on intern who, yep, gets first dibs in processing the urine samples as they come in (which smell really really bad).
Worst job? Yes and no. I went on to do a PhD in bacterial genetics.
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#10I worked in a canteen kitchen at the dish-wash end. The diners would put their trays on a conveyer belt and we would scrape the leftovers into the waste disposal, sort the dishes, cutlery and glassware into their allotted crates which we then fed into the giant dishwasher. It was fast, frantic, filthy and hot work. Among the diners were bastards who made things difficult in interesting ways; I remember digging teaspoons out of elaborate mashed potato sculptures, and there was the time when some joker trapped a wasp in an upturned glass on their tray before handing it in to us.
I got on very well with my fellow workers there, though, many of whom did that for living, whereas I was just passing through, earning some cash as an undergraduate.