Best job and worst job?

[DOH!]

Title pretty much describes it. What has been your best job and your worst job?

Mine would be

Worst: Akins Natural Food Market

I just felt like the whole time I was there, I wasn't wanted. I had just turned 18. They ended up firing me 7 months later because I didn't work "hard enough".. Sad thing is that I was the hardest worker there, it was pretty much like I ran that store. I worked the floor with one other guy and he would always go to the back freezer to look at his phone, so I would be stuck with literally stocking every shelf in the store, all the food, the supplements, vitamins, both freezers, just every shelf, when it was supposed to be half and half. Plus when we were short cashiers, I had to run up to the front and work there and helping out every customer. It just sucked since Day 1, especially since I had to help them set the store up.


Best: Coaching Little League Wrestling and Officiating it.

This has to be my best job ever.. I absolutely love it. I wrestled for 14 years myself. Every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday I coach one of the local teams and every Saturday I ref. I get a lot out of it personally. I love coaching because I want to pass down my knowledge to the next generation. I love helping the kids out and when they place at tournaments, it makes me feel good because I know that they have been listening and all they know is mainly because of me. Also, I officiate on Saturdays. I make 20$ an hour doing that, so it is definitely worth it and I get to be around the sport I love.

["Hollywood" Cactus Matt]

Best: working in a group home for the mentally handicapped. It wasn't difficult work at all: drive the guys around, make sure they get to appointments and day programs and whatnot, cook lunch for the ones who stay home and dinner for everyone, pass meds. The rest of the time was literally spent folding laundry and hanging out with co-workers. Unfortunately, it seems as though my co-workers didn't like me, since LITERALLY what happened was, while I was in a bad mood one day I muttered something under my breath, my co-workers ran to the County Mental Health Board (they oversee all the group homes in the area) and, after two lengthy meetings with the higher-ups, I was terminated. Meanwhile, they got to keep their jobs, even though I could tell the County things that would make their toes curl - and I tried to tell them, but as soon as they told me I was fired, they deemed everything I said to be "sour grapes."

Worst job: sex store. I had to explain the merits of various vibrators and dildos, "preview" the DVD's (which wasn't so bad, except for the fact that I'm straight, and I had to preview the gay DVD's, so now I know what that looks like...LOL) and, at the end of the night, I had to clean the "private viewing booths." All of that in addition to attempting to sell handjobs "fingertip caresses" from the handjob girls "models" while also basically acting as a security guard in the handjob "touchy-feely" area made this one not last very long. I think I was there a month, tops.

Plus, the assistant manager, who actually "trained" me, banged my girlfriend at the time. So, that kinda sucked.

[Mr. Emoticon Man, TF Fan]

Worst: Goodwill warehouse worker

I liked the work itself pretty well, and most of my co-workers were great. The bosses were an assemblage of idiots and assholes, though, and the company itself was a scam. The crap it pulled during Hurricane Katrina was absolutely disgusting. Not to mention that dealing with people's trash all of the time was a less than pleasant experience.

Best: Kumon Reading Instructor

I don't make as much money with this job as I have with others... but damn if it isn't satisfying as hell. I adore many of the kids I work with, and a lot of the material used to help them is pretty interesting to me as well. Sure, some of the kids are little monsters... and a few of the parents are rude and condescending hags... but, over-all, this is the sort of job I wish I could make a living off of.

[4TheGlory]

Best: Blow

Worst: Women's shoe salesman

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Worst was a Customer Service Rep for Trugreen. Walking around in Iowa in June and July in 100 degree weather was not fun. I was burned, and dehydrated after the first day. The next week it rained all day and we walked all day. We got our lunches at noon when we started and we didn't stop until 8pm that night.

Best was Dollar Tree. I was a manager and it was retail so you had the typical retail issues. However the people I worked with were great. I had two bosses there and both were great guys. The people that worked under me were great as well. Everyone got along and no one talked bad about anyone else. We had days where it was slow and we would talk about comics, zombies, games, and everything else. We actually turned around the worst store in the area and made it one of the best in a couple of months.

[i.Sarita.com]

I've only had two jobs.

Worst: Produce Clerk. But it wasn't really that bad.

Best: U.S. Army Infantryman. Best job ever.

[Shy Guy]

best: airport worker. packing planes with boxes for two summers. lost a combined total of 30 pounds those two summers

worst: tim hortons. just...ugh.

[Ryback on a Pole!]

Worst: Erm, pick any office job. Working 9-5 stuck in a cubicle in front of a computer screen all day doing mind-numbing date input work with the occasional break to do photo-copying or scanning. Even worse, office work always seems to have it's fair share of unlikeable people.

Best: I enjoyed working at Cats Protection. Cleaning out the cages in the morning, feeding them at mid-day and then just basically "socialising" or caring for cats for the rest of the day. Socialising basically translates to sitting in with kittens and playing with them to get them used to humans. I loved it!

[Mr T L Wolf]

Worst: Gas Station Pizza Man-Cape Elizabeth: I didn't feel like I belonged, butted heads with the management, and wound up getting fired for not getting everything done on Halloween night, a night where I had to have my store manager that never works with the food help me for two hours straight. I'm sorry that I'm not Superman and I can't get all the prep work done and do everything the person before me had eight hours to do and keep the place spotless in six hours.

Best: Gas Station Pizzaman/Stockboy-Bangor (Tie): Everyone knew I was a hard worker as I was given an extra job to do for hours two days a week plus most of the time having to take apart all the equipment for weekly cleaning (which NEVER got done if I didn't do it, barring changing our fry oil once a week)

McDonalds (Tie): It's hard to pick one over the other, really, but the fact that I work with a team that mostly respects me, already promoted me to crew trainer (the last job I talked about never promoted me to anything), and damn near locked me into a schedule because one of the managers loves having me on her shift because I'm a strong worker means I'm having the best time at my job since moving away from my hometown. Plus, as I mentioned to someone else, making people smile is kind of a big deal to me. There's nothing like the laugh you get from a regular when you have their order ready for them or the beaming smile on a kid's face when you think you don't have the Happy Meal toy they really want and find it buried at the bottom of the bin.

[Facepalm]

Best job - martial arts instructor. Getting paid to work out and train people, plus free access to the dojo. The best part was seeing people build up their self-confidence while getting healthier and learning something new.

Worst job - order picking in a warehouse. Wretched, miserable job. I quit after two days! Can't think of a single positive thing to say about it, so I won't even try.

[Andrew is Good]

Worst: Picking strawberries. For little pay. It was awful.

Best: Tool Crib Attendant, which is my current job. Not that I don't enjoy scaffolding, I just a) Don't like doing it in -20 to -40, b) Doing it while in incredible pain which needs to get checked out when I'm home and c) Potentially being in the yard when all the scaffolds are down, which is sorting gear and is incredibly mind numbing. In the tool crib, I can be anal and organized, play with my iphone, post RIGHT HERE, on the crap forums and I grabbed a leather chair they were going to throw away, I just put a new wheel on it. And, I will make over $2800 this week for doing that. Probably a bit more then I deserve, but I went to school for being a journeyman, it's not my fault safety pulled me aside because I was walking with a bad limp.

[arrogantmodel]

Best: Raising money for non-profit organizations, such as Toys for Tots and Project Smile. It was commission, and I had to drive a lot, but it was very rewarding. Also, working as a prep cook, bartender, and server at an upscale banquet hall. Loved the people I worked with, and it was 10 minutes from home.

Worst: My current one as a host/cashier/server/foodrunner/busser/etc. at a casino restaurant. Nothing but drunk, cranky, and old idiots and assholes who come in and expect everything for free and blame me for them pumping their house payment/car payment/kid's tuition into a slot machine or blackjack table. Again, I love the people I work with, and it's good money and benefits, but we are severely understaffed, and one person has to do the work of five. But the customers are parasites. And management, well...I wouldn't put these morons in charge of a lemonade stand.