Damn, got me again!
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.
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Damn, got me again!
Strange mind there to come up with that...
I’ve cleaned out 7 and 8,000 sg.ft. houses after sheet-rock had been installed. In 85-90 deg. heat, humidity about the same.
It was dirty exhausting work. I had a blast doing it and a great summer.
One day at lunch one of the "old timers (30?)" said to me: "you go right ahead and get that college degree of yours. Mark my words - one day you will be sitting in your office with your secretary on your lap. You will look out of your high rise and see a roofing crew mop slopping around the tar on the top of another building. You will look down at them and lament, "that could have been me... that could have been me""
Listening to him now...It takes a Long Tall Brown-skin gal up next..glad you found a plug for that hole in your photobucket...
NEVER drink and derive!
Call someone else. Those days are done for me.
In Alaska there was a company that drove a truck called the Turdinator. Got to have a sense of humor if that is your life long work.
Pay = $1.25/hr. Well, it was 1962.
That's when I decided to go to college and become an engineer.
I did this for 11 years, made 16K a year back in the middle 70’s. Only reason I did so, wife had a baby, then another and another. I paint houses now, much easier work if you can get it in this economy.
NO, we hand delivered it. No machine for us, occassionaly a forklift on apt complexes, but window deliveries happened maybe 3 times over 11 years.
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