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Worst job: Paralegal in a large law firm. At the age of 22 while I was making about 2.5 times more than my friends, I was also working 80 hours a week and I burned the candle at both ends and hit burn out very quick. After that I realized that I did like my career path, just not that job.

Best job: The one I'm in right now. Small firm by the beach (my boss hits the surf most days and I can sometimes sit out on the sand during the day and soak up the sun). Admittedly, I'm making less money than I would be in a larger firm or in a different field of law, but quality of life is great.

Best Job: The one I have now, I love my career. I get to help people and business with IT solutions and it's amazing. Nothing is more satisfying to hear a customer tell me that I've helped them out more than I could ever know.

Worst Job: The month I spent working as a stock boy for K-Mart in high school. I enjoyed the old ladies I worked with because I was the strong virile kid who could lift the christmas trees. But fml, stocking shelves gets really old, REALLY fast.

Worst would be working for my godfather's construction company. Yeah, Italian? In New York? Working construction? Who'da thunk it. Anyway, it was excruciatingly backbreaking, hot, and long hours. The pay was good, though. Best job would be garrison military police desk sergeant. I had to been in by 6am, I had to write up a report every morning, review other reports and make sure they were done correctly, and had to go to meetings three times a week. All of which I was finished with by 8am which left me another ten hours to trouble shoot occasional problems, but overall I just watched tv and played PSP.

Not sure if you can put the best and worst jobs being the same one. I'll say that my best job money wise was
at Dell as the Senior QA tech. I made 50k+ a year and tested and played with computers all day. That included testing Gaming computers. My best job was running a bicycle shop in California. I loved the job and did really good. However, the owner was one sick person and his antics finally got to me and I left and moved to Texas.
My worst job is my present one. I'm a Juvenile Corrections Officer and I literally babysit juvenile felons. They are the nastiest group of social rejects and its dangerous and highly stressful. But I have to pay the bills.

My stock answer for worst job (it's come up before):


My best job is probably the one I'm in now. It's the same work as I was doing for the past 13 years but with a substantial increase in pay and in a much less stressful environment. Smaller office, nice people and pretty relaxed all around. I have a longer commute, but even that's not so bad as it's through some pleasant farmland out into the sticks. I even eat better since most of my lunches these days are from some little country store or a sandwich from the local butcher ship rather than fast food joints.

My worst job was definitely working on a kebab van outside an RAF base. I worked there between the ages of 16-18, it was definitely not hard work. However, my job was assisting on thursday, friday and saturday nights from 10pm to 3am. Getting up for school was crappy on friday morning, but, without a doubt, dealing with the drunken new RAF recruits was what made the job terrible. They had a serious sense of entitlement and the occasional racism towards my boss (a Turkish immigrant) infuriated me. He was great for many things, even little things like as a muslim and me not even christian I would still get a christmas bonus. He also taught me the valuable lesson of picking up chicks a year or two younger than yourself when in school. That one will always stick with me, it worked!

My favourite was again only a semi-job. I was unemployed for a few months and done some volunteering at a cat shelter. These were all feral or abandoned cats and some of them had great personalities. I was lucky enough to work with the older male cats (meaning not as much liquid **** to clean). Just cleaning out there cages and feeding them. They were great fun, they had a shed that they would sleep in and when I came to clean it I would have to literally shove them out of the small hatch cut into the side of the shed that led to their outdoor caged area. This hatch had a door with a hooked lever and hoop type latch. The most cunning (and frankly the best) cat had long ago worked this out. Everyday I would see a little cat paw reaching in between the small crack the hatch lock system allowed. He would search for the lever and push it open then saunter in and look at me like I was the one doing something wrong. Needless to say, I always allowed him to open it, it always amused me greatly.

Nothing else I have done really stands out like these two. Sorry for the essay :P

I'm not sure I've had a job I'd describe as bad. Menial, yes. Poorly paid, sure. But they always had their up sides as well.

I guess for "bad" I'd have to say an office manager job where I wasn't a good fit. It wasn't what I wanted to do, at all. I found something else ASAP. /shrug

I've had a metric fuCkton of good jobs, depending on the definition. Interesting or well paid or with co-workers I enjoyed being around or in gorgeous areas, etc. My current job is a mix of all of the above, in varying degrees depending on the project I'm on.

Worst job was when I was a the graphic person for a small mid-TN newspaper. The owner was an obese tyrant that sat in his office all day (because he was so fat he could barely walk) and barked orders to all of us. He was one of those bosses you think you'd only see in movies. He belittled everyone, looked like a greasy used-car salesman and had a hot trophy wife. That job lasted less than a year.

Best was my last job, working at the country club. There was downtime so you didn't get too tired or burned out, but not so much downtime that you were bored to tears. The club was full of members that were just a hoot. Rednecks with money can sometimes be amusing. And it wasn't always the same job, lots of things going on it seemed. I'd probably go back to work there.

Worst Job:

Technician, Contact Center Support Company.

I was hired on by a contact center support company back in '08 to work as a tech for their annual conference in Vegas. The boss was kind of an idiot(knew nothing about the job we were hired to do but wouldn't take our advice, despite experience.), and everything that could go wrong, went wrong. I almost got sued, but a crisis was averted after I kind of screwed my partner out of part of his payment(and mine too), so that I could at least pay my rent and not live on the streets. Last I heard, that company has gone way down hill since then, and every conference thy have is fraught with misfortune.

Best Job:

Line Cook at a Bar & Grill.

I was hired on as a dishwasher, but when they hired a new cook, the guy was afraid of everything, even the toaster, so they switched us, and I ended up cooking. Was a fun job, I got to do something I loved, and get paid for it. It was a shame that it closed(I saw it coming and left a month before it did) because of the owner's coke addiction.

Was it PBR? You'd smell like a hipster!

Worst job was probably working for Pretzel Time in the mall back when they still existed. The worst part was the neon pink shirt. Though I got to be reallly good at makeing pretzels! Hate those things soo much now though. This job can occasionally tie on bad days for worst though.

Best job would be my current job and a little bit this job. Working with computers, getting to play with hardware I wouldn't ordinarily be able to afford on my own budget, etc. its good. Also banning things is fun.

I did almost this exact same job right out of college - extracting fuels from soil and water samples in a cheaply run lab. then i worked at land o lakes foods analytics lab for a bit. what a difference. <--- not the worst though. When I was 14 I lied about my age (we all did) and worked after school every night on an assembly line putting together circuit boards for remote control cars for Shaper-Cootie toy company. I didnt even last 3 months.

Maybe not my best job but i had a lot of fun waitressing at a sports bar for about 6 years. Made good money too.



Edited, Dec 9th 2011 6:10am by Elinda

I don't have a best or worst.

I've worked for Dollar General a few times to set up stores/remodel stores. Was not a hard job for me, but it was at the same time (you went home tired and sore). These jobs only lasted about 2 weeks.

For the last year and a few months I have been working for a company that is known for it's Diesel "solutions". They can help you squeeze a few more miles to the gallon, clean and repair your pumps and turbos. I work on the Turbo side of the company. I get large orders or dirty and rusty turbos that I take apart, decide what is ok/good or not to keep, and then sand blast most of the parts clean so they can be used in re-manufacturing another turbo that the public can buy and save money.
It is boring job. The only plus to it is I am allowed to listen to my headphones so my days are usually filler with me doing the same task over and over while listening to an Audio book.