What is the worst job that you were really grateful to get?

When I was like 12 I spent a month of weekends bagging bras. Seriously.

It was dull and repetitive and extremely extremely boring, especially when you're that age and your attention span is like 10 seconds.

The lady that gave me the job was a friend of my mum's. And she paid me $5 an hour. What a bloody rip. Here in Australia the minimum wage is heaps higher than it is in America. Like $9/hour is minimum wage. This lady was ripping me off hard, and now looking back I don't understand why I put up with it. But i was so grateful for that $50 a week. $50 was like a million back then. Got to spend it on whatever I wanted to. I was so stoked.

My job at the moment is pretty crappy actually. I mean it's good. But it's not. It's a very 'stab in the back' cliquey type of workplace. And we have ridiculously ugly uniforms and have to work ridiculously weird hours. Work till 4.30am one day, start work at 7am the next so I've got extremely weird sleeping patterns. But the pays amazing so I'm not complaining

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omg I just found out billet deleted me from her contacts.

I hate her.

what a slut.

i hate her.

Ok just needed to rant somewhere and here was it.

I got a job in a place that made soup and salads for restaurants and airplanes . I peeled many onions - even got to be the fastest at it - cooked a lot of bacon , and stirred a lot of hot potatoes into mush . I started at minimum wage , but because I put some good effort into it (and showed up for work everyday , sober ) I soon got a raise.

It turns out that that was about the best , funnest job I ever had , and I've had a few high paying , "prestigious" jobs since then . The people I worked with were my age or younger, they all had great senses of humor, and everyone had his own radio that they played loud rock and roll on .Sometimes the owner would come through and smash all the radios , but then he would feel guilty and buy everyone a new radio the next day . There was something almost zen like in doing repetitive manual labor to music.

Reader , try not to think about the pay too much, just relish the gratification that comes with your job . And who knows , if you truly put yourself into it, and may become more than temporary - it really does happen.

My best wishes for it to you .

I can't rival some of these anecdotes, but your question is interesting. The worst job, at least as far as pay went, was the very first (other than baby sitting jobs). I worked as a counter girl in a family-owned restaurant and was paid far below minimum wage. How could they get away with that, you ask. They put me down as a waitress and, thus, I supposedly received tips. I didn't. The thing about it: I absolutely loved that job. It was fun to get to meet a bunch of different people and great to prepare food for them. The food was really good, too, though I didn't have very much of it unless I went in while not working and bought some. So, yea, the pay was truly appalling, but the work was fun. I even got to meet a famous basketball player, who was so tall I couldn't see his head when he walked up to the counter to place an order!

Congrats, reader! It's a great thing in this economy to have a job and one in which you get to work with nice people in an industry you like.

I once took a job trying to sell Kirby Vacuum cleaners door to door. It was six days a week, 12 hours a day riding around trying to find suckers you could con into letting you into their home. Then you sat on the floor assembling and demonstrating the various aspects of this "superior" device that they just "couldn't do without" ! In the mornings, before going out in teams, there was hand clapping, chanting, stomping of feet, and cult like stories of (Positive, Positive, Positive) successes.

I found myself in a woman's home one day, and she started crying, because she had her own problems, and definitely couldn't afford a $1900.00 Kirby vacuum cleaner ! I was so ashamed. I never went back, and had invested a week of my life in this CULT ! Worst thing about it? Those stupid machines actually only cost a couple of hundred bucks, but everyone there before you got a cut of yours. It's like a pyramid scheme to the nth power. How anyone can live with themselves doing crap like this ? I have a conscience.

I then became a cold call telemarketer. I "sold" concert tickets for a fireman's union. Another major disappointment in my life. I felt like I had no soul.

Macy's was the worst job I ever had! I was a teenager when I got my first job at Carl's Jr, and I thought that was the worst job ever until I got my job at Macy's. A good majority of the customers that shop at Macy's act very rude! They think they are so great because they shop at Macy's . .please!! LOL First I would like to say. . the very people that would act rude and snooty were shopping on the clearance racks. So don't act all uppity when you can afford what I can afford! LOL

Reeeeader!

To those who know me well, you will know how "great" I am at maths. Right. When I was 15, I got my first job maths tutoring and marking homework.

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I quit like 6 months after I started hahaha. But still, a job's a job!

United States Navy

...discipline

...work ethic

...teamwork

...pride

...education and practical experience which led to a highly lucrative career when I got out.

well, my current job is boring but i want to stay there becaue i`m learning so much about laws andthata is what i am studying, but i`m very grateful to God for my job