Posted on 10/15/2011 7:31:06 AM PDT by JNRoberts
Watching these narcissists on Wall St. who think I should pay for their college loans, etc. I got to thinking, how come I never occupied or blamed anyone else for my lot in life even when I had the worse most humiliating job known to mankind. A door to door salesman for Trane Air Conditioning.
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Baling hay at 13 and 14 for $30 a week, it was hard work and we thought we were getting paid well (’74 - ‘75), one summer during college I worked as a conservation assistant (commonly known as a ‘con ass’) at a MD state park, $3.05/hour picking up trash, cleaning campground bathrooms and showers, cleaning up mounds of two-day old crab feasts, people would treat that park like crap, and we were just glorified janitors...
Best job ever: Tutoring chemistry as a junior and senior in undergrad for freshman women nursing and physical therapy students...$40/week and the opportunity to meet lotsa freshman women...sigh...I miss those days...
21 years old, fresh to the urban jungle of NYC, working as a receptionist for a sex-crazed lawyer who spent his entire day placing ads in Hustler. He had a female enforcer of a bookkeeper who helped lure young girls into the office. If I google his name, his court records come up when he was convicted of tax fraud and served time in Sing Sing for other crimes.
Never blamed the government or bankers for this missed hit.
Sorry to hear you got sick, Truthie. You’re too nice for that to happen. But you’ve got to sue God for that one!
Wash rack at a chicken feed factory at age 14.
I’ve had terrible jobs, but I have occupied lavatories on airplanes. Does that count?
I sold the New York Times over the phone as a kid. I was fired for not selling ONE. But then every person I talked to would scream: “I’m not buying that commie rag!” and would slam the phone in my ear. I didn’t think I deserved to be fired.
Absolutely!
Dang...I think we may have worked at the Same BurgerKing for the same Boss! LOL (Seriously did have a huge female boss that yelled at the employees and then went back to her office to smoke Menthols!) I also worked for as a Custodian for a Middle School....YUCK! Nastiest bathrooms I have ever encountered(one time a kid used the sink to take a number 2!) I bypassed that one and gave it to the new guy..LOL
That's funny. My worst job was also at Burger King back in 1988. Right off the beach. Got all the drunks. My maroon corduroys were two sizes too small and looked like track tights. $3.35 an hour.
How about standing in a concrete pit full of old car batteries and smashing them with a sledge hammer to recover the lead - while wearing a full set of rain gear and face shield. The pay? $1.60 per hour.
Bucking hay for $2 an hour lured me away since the farmer had a great swimming pond and fed us well.
It’s a wonderful thing to do what you love from Day 1. I so envy people who have had that experience. My brother (a top flight comedy writer) went to work at 19 for some of the greatest stars of the industry circa 1972. And he’s never looked back. Of course, it’s not easy writing 40 jokes a day (believe me!) for crazed tv superstars. He’d probably say the worst job he ever had was working for Sonny and Cher. And...ahem...Sonny was NOT the problem.
My BF worked on the CBS studio's air conditioning system back in the heydey of the Sonny and Cher tv show.
Please...if you value your hearing, do NOT get him started on "her." (However, he will say Sonny was "a great guy.")
Tossup. Hand loading trucks with cucumber baskets and corn crates at the King Farms packing house in Bucks county PA for a $1.00 an hour in 1963. Worked 12 hour days. Jack hammering slag out of soaking pits at the US Steel Fairless Works. Half hour in, half hour out because of the temperature. The other labor gang jobs were usually pretty bad also. Paid way better than the farm. Those were the most physically difficult. The worst job was every office job I ever had. After women got out of the typing pool in the 70s, office work became especially nightmarish.
Interesting! Everyone who I’ve ever met loved Sonny. Cher has done her best to sully his reputation over the years. He wrote her best songs, made her a star by sheer force of his personality, and she’s done nothing but denigrate his memory.
Jack in the Box grave yard shift weekends after HS football games in the late 70s
Nursing home food dept - includes washing dried pea and beets puree off all the plates and silverware
newspaper deliver 3am 365 then off to a 10 hour job as a dad with two kids and going to college MULITPLE times throughout my ADULT life.
Mess crank for 5 months onboard a Fast Attack submarine - slept on a 4x8 sheet of plywood on top of Mk48 torpedos.
Now Sr. Program Manage for Fortune 500 company making 6 figures and finishing up a dual grad degree and grad certificat in IT Program Management.
so FU OWS!
For three years in the early eighties, I was a night guard at the state mental hospital which also included the prison for the criminally insane. Minimum wag, but state benefits. Broke up a lot of fights, got my head busted a few times.
Good on you!
>>>Jack in the Box grave yard shift weekends after HS football games in the late 70s
Nursing home food dept - includes washing dried pea and beets puree off all the plates and silverware
newspaper deliver 3am 365 then off to a 10 hour job as a dad with two kids and going to college MULITPLE times throughout my ADULT life.
Mess crank for 5 months onboard a Fast Attack submarine - slept on a 4x8 sheet of plywood on top of Mk48 torpedos.
Now Sr. Program Manage for Fortune 500 company making 6 figures and finishing up a dual grad degree and grad certificat in IT Program Management.
so FU OWS!>>>>
I was going to say, dang , youve had some crappy jobs then got to the end. You represent what these fools in the park will never understand, narcissists that they are. And I agree about your message to those fools.
A job is a job! If you want one bad enough you will do just about anything. In my early years I did many jobs that people today abhor. I frequently was working more than one job at a time.
At the age of 13 I worked for a family friend doing his office mailing for him each month. I got paid 1 cent per envelope ( about $50 per month). I had to address the envelopes (no computers back then, just a silk screen address printer to run each envelope through, and I had to type up the screen for each new person added to the mailing list or when a screen wore out), fold the newsletters, stuff and seal the envelopes, sort them for mailing by zipcode, fill out the paperwork for the post office and transport them to the post office.
I also did babysitting, taught Sunday school to 3,4, and 5 year olds, yard work, picked fruit and vegetables, house cleaning, worked as a motel maid, and at Taco Bell, and other restaurants, and as the office flunkie who had to do everything from making the coffee and taking things to the drycleaner to typing and filing. I also worked several door to door sales jobs getting paid on a 100% comission basis.
Those jobs got me through college, paid for two trips to the Carribbean and a trip to Europe, and helped me save up the downpayment on a condominium I bought at the age of 22 without any help from anyone.
I started a fulltime entry level job at a local bank at age 20 and worked my way up through the ranks to an AVP level department manager by the age of 35 while finishing up my college education part time at night. I became a full time housewife and stay at home mom at that stage of my life.
I did not take out any loans to pay for my college classes and did not get any financial support from anyone to achieve my goals. I went to a community college for my first two years of college and completed my associate degree, because it was cheaper and then transferred to a local university to complete my Bachelor’s degree.
Many college kids today, just aren’t willing to work several mimimum wage jobs to put themselves through school today like many of us did in our youth. They also want to have a large salary immediately after finishing college, when they have little or no work experience. Many are unwilling to start in an entry level job after finishing college, even though this is still quite commonplace even today. They don’t realize that employers want to check out their work ethic before they give them opportunities for advancement within their company.
Laundry room in a large nursing home in Niagara Falls NY 1981.Paid fairly well for the time $5.00 an hour but the job was horrible.
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