Jobs Americans Won't do but you did!!!!

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[usmcobra]

Unless you are a poster child for the rich and famous, all of us have done at one time or another done a job that "most Americans won't do"

Personally The worst job I ever had to do was shovel my way through knee deep rotten chicken parts until I had gotten rid of all of them....Without hip waders.

I think the smell permanently ruined my olfactory nerves.

So what was That Job that most americans won't do, that you did.

[saganite]

Built board roads. Those are roads built into remote areas for trucks carrying oilfield drilling equipment. The real fun though was picking them up after the rig pulled out. They had been hammered into the mud by 18 wheelers loaded with drilling equipment.

[Drew68]

I was a towelboy in a girls dorm one semester.

One of my college jobs was as a janitor in a dormatory. I had five floors to take care of. Three floors were female and two were male. It was cool at first because I got to see lots of hot coeds walking to the showers in their underwear (they didn't care) but it got old real quick when I discovered that the girls were twice as messy and disgusting as the guys were (and the guys were pretty messy).

[Congressman Billybob]

My first, full-time job was working on the assembly line at the Westport Plant of the Washington Aluminum Company. They made heavy-duty, removable flooring for computers (back when computers weighed a ton and had vacuum tubes). I was paid the minimum wage, $1.25 an hour.

I learned to do every job in the plant except run the spot-welder. And I am pleased that when I was about to leave, the foreman said I would be welcome back, any time. It was not a job I wanted to return to, ever.

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[Libertina]

I've worked at a movie theatre, cleaned commercial buildings, was a waitress, a cocktail waitress, sold a product at the county fair, went overseas to work, came back and was a substitute teacher (AWFUL! LOL), until I EARNED my degrees! Yes folks, I worked my way up like every American does should. I have a great career now and if I need to work up further, I will!

[stboz]

Mayflower, Bekins, print shop, mowed yards, general labor 1966-1970....survived.

[muawiyah]

Sounds like one of those nasty jobs you beat me out for.

My best one was working in the concession stand at a drive-in movie.

We had a "specialist" whose job was to collect the propellers each morning.

[P.O.E.]

Dishwasher, busboy, waiter, bartender, cook, painter, floor waxer, store window squeegee-er, lawn cutter, bricklayer's helper, shrub-digger-outer, ditch-digger, garbageman, factory basement cleaner, furnace sweeper, floor-mopper, metal-mud shoveler, warehouse cart pusher, forklift truck operator, computer operator, computer programmer, systems analyst, financial analyst, schoolteacher.

[lowbridge]

What I'm doing right now: My official title is Maintenance worker. In plainer english: Janitor.

I DO NOT mind sweeping, mopping, vacuuming, dusting, emptying the wastebaskets and taking out the garbage. The parts I HATE about the job is doing the bathrooms. Scrubbing toilets, urinals, replacing urinal cakes, tossing out used tampons....it makes me want to retch each and every time. I have not gotten used to it.

[Redleg1963]

LOL, that was one of my favorite jobs, 25 years ago.

Of course the old geezes would always let use take a few shots or slip us a beer now and again.

Where I worked, it paid minimum wage, but you got cash same day.

[JRios1968]

While in college, for class credit only (no pay!), I worked as towel boy at the college's gym. This included sweeping the locker rooms at the end of the day. They were very nasty after a full day of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Michael Jordan wannabes were gone...and the girls' locker rooms were even worse.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Cleaned bathrooms in the White House in the late 90's...

[investigateworld]

Picked and loaded watermelon and cantaloupes in California's s Central Valley 3 summers.

[rockrr]

Sex with the (now ex-) Mrs. rockrr....


(Thank god that's over! ;'}

[bannie]

Dug ditches; lit smudge pots in the middle of many, many nights--including a number of Christmas eves AND went to school the next day; slung manure; picked and packed oranges; packed cotton; drove tractors; picked lettuce; shared in the nursing of my aged grandma--in many unpleasant tasks; was a soldierette; gave birth.

[bannie]

Oh, yea...I carried the cement for my dad when he was building a house, and I helped paint two large houses.

[Fintan]

I'll never forget the day we had to stop smoking in the office and I had to get rid of the the fifth of Jameson I had in the lower right-hand desk drawer I kept for therapeutic purposes.

I haven't been the same since.

[squarebarb]

Picked strawberries during junior high to pay for school clothes, During college did waitress work, cleaned motal rooms, sold shoes (yuk -- stinky feet) and worked in boutiques.

Best job was trail guide on a dud ranch,. however the saddles were very heavy.

[BruceysMom]

Picked strawberries for several summers, first "real" job at 15, nursing home CNA. Delivered newspapers to the carriers homes, janitor at a medical clinic. Loved the janitor job! I was Queen of the commodes! I'm 48 and back in college now, still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up.

[Fury]

Shoveled/raked snap beans off a semi-trailer (for about two weeks).

Scraped and painted propane tanks for a summer.

Pitched manure (by hand), and do (usually every couple of weeks). If I can't throw in the bed of a pickup truck, it goes into a wheelbarrow. It takes a while to do, but it gives me time to think!

[usmcobra]

Sex with the (now ex-) Mrs. rockrr....

If sex is work you aren't doing it right.

I'm amazed at every reply so far.