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Top five: Worst summer jobs
dailyorange ^ | May 4, 2010 | Andrew Swab

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: job; jpb; summerjobs
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To: JoeProBono; Chet 99

That wasn’t the question. I asked why you are deliberately taunting Chet to the thread. It’s a simple enough question. I think it deserves a simple, public answer.

And why did you ping the others then?


41 posted on 05/06/2010 2:10:21 PM PDT by Daffynition ( Someday we'll know why love can't move a mountain.)
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To: rahbert

LOL thats on par with student nurse’s have a great lunch and having the tables near them empty out quickly of course that was NOT in the hospital cafeteria.....:O)


42 posted on 05/06/2010 2:13:36 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: Ignatz

That is a few steps up from a bordello. :O)


43 posted on 05/06/2010 2:17:03 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: goat granny

Assistant Crack Whore?


44 posted on 05/06/2010 2:19:29 PM PDT by papertyger (tyranny long endured does not equal law . . .)
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To: JoeProBono

But dozz you have a brain? :O)


45 posted on 05/06/2010 2:19:33 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: Daffynition
The seeming “attacks” keep his subject alive. Otherwise he'd become a Revski and that's the kiss of death.
46 posted on 05/06/2010 2:21:35 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

wow. Too much of a good thing!


47 posted on 05/06/2010 2:24:13 PM PDT by married21
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To: papertyger

That is a few steps down from his job..Thanks for your info. I didn’t know they had assistance’s you must have experience....LOL It should read **assistant narcotic sex worker** to be politically correct..


48 posted on 05/06/2010 2:24:34 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: goat granny

49 posted on 05/06/2010 2:24:51 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: kidd

Obviously a liberal because they have Wal-Mart as the worst job.


50 posted on 05/06/2010 2:25:42 PM PDT by BenKenobi
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To: runninglips

50 bucks a day is the same as 250 dollars a day today.

Pretty good wage, you won’t see that nowadays. Over an 8 hour day, you are making over 30 bucks an hour.


51 posted on 05/06/2010 2:30:15 PM PDT by BenKenobi
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To: Daffynition

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2496522/posts


52 posted on 05/06/2010 2:38:15 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

So now they are attacks? SOOOOOOOOOK.

Getting one’s jollies that way is a most unbecoming trait.

The ultimate justification, explanation, and defense of oneself falls flat.


53 posted on 05/06/2010 2:42:15 PM PDT by Daffynition ( Someday we'll know why love can't move a mountain.)
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To: Daffynition
Jeeze, you do have a way with words. I'm truly humbled.

Guess you missed the quotation marks.

54 posted on 05/06/2010 2:47:38 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: All

I used to repair transmissions. The worst job by far was working for BFI. A trash truck in the middle of a Texas summer will gag a maggot.


55 posted on 05/06/2010 2:50:31 PM PDT by jy8z (From the next to last exit before the end of the internet.)
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To: JoeProBono

HAHAHA! You assume too much.


56 posted on 05/06/2010 2:54:44 PM PDT by Daffynition ( Someday we'll know why love can't move a mountain.)
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To: jy8z

57 posted on 05/06/2010 2:57:23 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Daffynition
> HAHAHA! You assume too much.

Hell hath no fury like a woman who thinks she was scorned


58 posted on 05/06/2010 3:01:48 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono
Keep spinning. Keep assuming. It's fine. LOL


59 posted on 05/06/2010 3:05:13 PM PDT by Daffynition ( Someday we'll know why love can't move a mountain.)
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To: Daffynition

60 posted on 05/06/2010 3:09:40 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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