What is the best and worst employment you ever had

[Darth Wader (Wade)]

Originally Posted by astroron

Scrubbing the steps of the old bus station under the Brisbane Mall by hand on my hands and Knees and being spat on by drunks.

That's terrible!

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by astroron
Scrubbing the steps of the old bus station under the Brisbane Mall by hand on my hands and Knees and being spat on by drunks.

Originally Posted by Darth Wader

That's terrible!

Yeh, I agree. Living in Brisbane - yuk.

[Darth Wader (Wade)]

[coldspace]

Worst job = Stripping aircraft piston engines down and bead blasting them clean in a hot workshop so the aircraft engineers could rebuild them as a 17 yr old and trying impress the boss so they would give me an apprenticeship, I quit about 7 months later when I felt I was been used for slave labour and no apprenticeship offer.

Best Job is now = Owning/Running my medium sized airconditioning buisiness, it gives me alot of freedom to do most things and to fund my astro addiction as long as the work comes in and my 6 staff are happy everything runs smoothly, well most of the time.

Matt.

[styleman333]

Worst job ever was when i was 19 and had a girlfriend living in Qld and decided to go up and stay for a few weeks and i seen a advertisment in the paper wanting some ppl to do some selling and marketing all the way to Qld all expenses paid sounded good , earn a bit of cash and a free trip up .
Little did i know till the day i arrived to join another 6 ppl what we was selling ......male nude calendars . I have never ever been more embarrassed being in Taree using such jingles to the passing ppl on the street as

" wouldnt this look ridgy digh on your fridge" or
" a different hunk for every month "

And knocking on ppls door at 7.00pm and having 6'4 truck drivers answering the door and me asking for their wifes and having to explain what i was selling. Needless to say i lasted 2 days and got the hell out of their and caught a coach straight to Qld .

[ngcles]

Hi Jonathan & All,

Originally Posted by Fossil

Best job I ever had - Police Officer

Worst job I ever had - Police Officer

Your fourteen words sum it up absolutely perfectly . I had 22 years of it (you don't get that long for Murder, I know); loved it and hated it.

You'll never know until you've done it, how great and also how gut-wrenchingly awful it can be.


Best,

Les D

[snowyskiesau]

Worst job - joined the RAAF at 17 to learn electronics. The electronic side of things was great but the people in charge were not. Got fired from that gig which is not an easy thing to do.

Best job - working for an IT start-up doing anti-virus/anti-spam email filtering. Got involved at all levels of design and support.

I'm currently employed full time looking for work

[Kindred Spirit (Luise)]

Worst job-Student Nurse, under the old hospital training system. All the menial and unpleasant tasks. First paycheques were $37 p/f. Full time shift wk and had to study and produce good marks. I lived at the hospital's nurse's home from the age of 18 'till I graduated at 21. Needed Mum's permission for any outings. Yes Sister, No Sister, 3 bags full Sister! Don't get me started on Matron!

Best job- Operating Room Nurse. Almost 30 years. Still do a lot of yucky things, but I look at it differently now.

[marki]

Worst job: whilst at uni thurs evenings spent sifting through stool samples for parts unknown at a large metro hospital .

Best job: I have had a few that would fall into this catergory but my current job as a high school science teacher is the one I have stuck with longest so I must enjoy it .

Mark

[chrisp9au (Chris)]

Worst job: Purchasing and supplies in a juvenile justice center. For a simple country boy like me to come against some of those individuals was real scary. I'm told that in most cases it was their parents who should have been locked up!

Best job: Apprentice deck officer in the merchant navy back in the sixties. Hosing the flying fish off the decks in the mornings, eating top class food with the passengers, dusky skinned maidens around the Pacific, crystal clear skies at night out at sea. Why did I give it up? Women! Got tied down to just the one and that was the end of that! Ah well, at least I have the memories.

Next best job: Starts in 126 sleeps, retirement!

Cheers
Chris

[Terry B]

Worst job: I don't really have one because I always got something positive out of my work but doing 72 hour shifts in the UK in a hospital for very little money wasn't great. The hands on experience however was still OK.

Best Job: My current one as a country procedural GP. I just love the look on the new parents faces when they have just delivered their baby.

[Ric]

BEST JOB - Exploration Geologist in the Northwest of Western Australia. We used to out into the wilderness for a couple of months at a time.

WORST JOB - Motorcycle Courier in Sydney. knocked off my bike 3 times in 6 months, low wages, pollution all day. No wonder we were called suicide jockeys.

[Lumen Miner (Mitchell)]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

Worst job, Meat Packer

I'm with jjj on that one.


Worst- Working as a meat packer.

Best- Salesman, at Bunnings. (Current)

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

It's crap isn't it Mitchell. I'd have to get my hands strapped each morning. And that conveyor belt just never seems to stop. And if you get behind.
I was working with some great people though.

[BerrieK]

Worst job: I grew up on a farm...when we were kids we got paid to clean and do jobs in a piggery...dusty and oh boy thats a difficult smell to wash off. Also hated plucking chooks (we raised meat birds from day old chicks then...off with their heads), another smelly disturbing job as a kid.

Best job: I have been a radiographer for nearly 20 years and still enjoy it (we have some really cool image processing toys in CT scan where I specialise) except when I am vomited on, piddled on, sworn at or abused by drunk patients.

Actually my best job really is being a mum and just being alive!!

Kerrie

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Piggery work ewww no thanks.
Raised a few myself, can't imagine THAT multiplied by a couple of hundred.
But speaking of being piddled and pooped on, Dairy work has some very special moments too. You have to stand in an unfortunate position when you're milking from a carousel.
It's supposed to be very good for your complexion and hair.

[astroron (Ron)]

It's supposed to be very good for your complexion and hair.
Jeanette Is that why you have so few wrinkles

[DavidU (Dave)]

ladies. I'm feeling crook now

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Too much information David?
You should be thankful I was being polite by not mentioning the very worst things about dairy work. Much worse.

[DavidU (Dave)]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

Too much information David?
You should be thankful I was being polite by not mentioning the very worst things about dairy work. Much worse.

LOL yes.
I'm a mear uninformed consumer. Hats off to the folks at the coal face (or rear end in this case).
The meat packing and farm stuff sounds like major hard yards !