Back in the day when I was an Air Force medic at Wheelus Air Base , one of my jobs was to dig out the remains of Lybian pilots in-training that ejected over the Sahara while flying upside down.
Posted on 05/06/2010 12:18:50 PM PDT by JoeProBono
With summer right around the corner, now is the time to accept those job and internship offers you’ve been working on since September. For those of you slackers who enjoyed the spring but gave no thought to the summer, these are the top five jobs to avoid after arriving home.
5. Communications specialist for cutlery products (aka telemarketer)
Do you think you could deal with all the annoyed people on the other side of the phone as you try to sell a boatload of products made in a massive warehouse in China? Didn’t think so. The only upside is the fact that you can either work from home or in an air-conditioned office.
4. Zookeeper
If you want to know where all that food a hippo eats goes, you’ll find out while working at the zoo. Besides cleaning up bird poo, horse poo, giraffe poo and hippo poo, you have to deal with the fact that you’re in the hot sun with whiny kids, annoying parents and the ever-present stench of animals. But all the same — if you love dogs, what’s to say you wouldn’t feel bad after cleaning up Mr. Hippo’s big lunch?
3. Working at a T-shirt shop on the Jersey Shore
If this is your job, you might as well say “just my luck” and buy as much Ed Hardy gear as possible. Try to get a job that’s at least somewhat dignified instead of just something to pay your gym, tan and laundry bills. If not, you can at least spend it on that new 24-pack of hair gel or a tanning bed for your living room.
2. Fry cook
If you dread saying “May I take your order” this summer, avoid entering the fast-food industry. The “McJob” might start to take over your life. Whether you’re working at Burger King, Dairy Queen, McDonald’s or even Kimmel Food Court, keep in mind that the customer is always right. That hamburger did have a hair in it, no matter what you say.
1. Wal-Mart cashier
As Paris Hilton once said, “Wal-Mart … do they, like, make walls there?” But this is coming from a celebrity known for having an awesome “summer job” — doing nothing. Being a cashier for America’s largest publicly-owned corporation is rough. A full 70 percent of employees leave within their first year. This kind of work will make your think twice about starting your impressive resume late.
How about stocking sheetrock in houses. 4 ft X 12 ft lengths, two sheets at a time, unload by hand and take them into a house and set them down without breaking them. We were paid $2 a thousand square foot, which works out to every 21 sheets we made $2. Upstairs, downstairs in the snow and in the heat, I averaged 500 sheets delivered a day. Now THAT is work that only an illegal will do....except everyone working with me at the time, or in the drywall business was white. Of course that was 20 years ago, people just aren’t that motivated anymore......or is it just that they can live without working?
Back in the day when I was an Air Force medic at Wheelus Air Base , one of my jobs was to dig out the remains of Lybian pilots in-training that ejected over the Sahara while flying upside down.
Yup. Even being a hippo walker ain't so bad at $6.50 an hour..
Not bad till summer rolled along.
I wised up real fast and move to trim and cabinets.
Still too hot, I wised up even more and got a gig as a 'tape monkey', computer operator, doing backups on 3rd shift, now that was OK, quite, cool and no bosses around.
Reminds me of when I was an EMT, cleaning blood from
the back of the rig whilst eating my Big Mac.
Been there and done that and no t-shirt ! I want my son to work a crappy job in H.S. so he can appreciate his education.
> None of these can come close to the suckiness of washing dishes and busing tables. Getting soaking wet and leaving work at 3AM ain’t fun.
1. Cleaning out the main drain of a public swimming pool in preparation for summer. It is amazing what ends up in that black water during the winter.
I had that job I was young and dumb then. I was too stupid to realize I was killing myself.
I only did it for a while then moved on to other jobs in the construction industry.
Glad I got smarter as I got older.
Topic Drift, but I can't resist. Years ago Readers Digest had a story that had me in hysterics.
This guy had to deliver a hearse to another long-distance location. It was night when he picked up a soldier who was hitchhiking. After a while he asked the soldier to drive while he napped in the back. After a few hours the soldier got a little groggy and happily picked up another soldier who was hitching. Same deal, he asked the newbie to drive while he napped on the passenger side. Around three a.m. the original driver woke up and felt like a smoke. He reached through the curtain, tapped the driver on the shoulder and asked "Got a match?"
The last paragraph set me free. It said "It took the wrecking crew over an hour to get the hearse out of the ditch."
You were the guy inside the window, huh? Sheesh.
I once worked as a night janitor at an illegal bingo hall.
LOL! Guess you’ve missed all the posts when the “rolls” were reversed.
Thanks that reminds me I need to call a honey dipper, its been years.......thanks
And worth repeating:... “Never put a man down for what he does.”
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