Thread: Dead-End *Shit* Jobs ... Yours? (Rated-R)

Originally Posted by SuccessInMind

I think about 70% of the people that have posted on this thread don't understand what a shit job is. If it involves an office => NOT A SHIT JOB!

I gotta agree. I fully understand the hours and the stress might suck. But if you're sitting in an air-conditioned office doing whatever, that's a pretty cushy setup by many people's standard.

Try chipping frozen pig sh*t when it's -20F (or even better, shoveling it when it's not frozen and you get the full aromatic benefits), or stacking 100 lb haybales all day in 100F and 95% humidity, or getting your teeth rattled loose driving a tractor over rough terrain all day in the broiling sun, or (sorry, but this IS marked R-rated) castrating a hundred 100-120 lb pigs. (Who, understandably, are not thrilled about the idea, and you have to catch them and wrestle them into submission so the man with the knife can do the dirty deed.)

Do that for a while and you'll long for the days of your stressful IT job.

Originally Posted by garyfritz

I gotta agree. I fully understand the hours and the stress might suck. But if you're sitting in an air-conditioned office doing whatever, that's a pretty cushy setup by many people's standard.

Try chipping frozen pig sh*t when it's -20F (or even better, shoveling it when it's not frozen and you get the full aromatic benefits), or stacking 100 lb haybales all day in 100F and 95% humidity, or getting your teeth rattled loose driving a tractor over rough terrain all day in the broiling sun, or (sorry, but this IS marked R-rated) castrating a hundred 100-120 lb pigs. (Who, understandably, are not thrilled about the idea, and you have to catch them and wrestle them into submission so the man with the knife can do the dirty deed.)

Do that for a while and you'll long for the days of your stressful IT job.

IT job is actually stresful and frustrating, and I will not convince you why because I could wrote the book on this subject but its not productive. [its not just air condition and doing whatever]

If i had to go to shared hosting company again i rather try your options

My opinion is different than yours bcos:
In my experience hard work was on construction site but after shower and dinner i felt good, but while working every day on the phone and pc as IT like u said, after work my brain was like mixed in blender and couldnt do anything.

Its just my opinion about the subject.

Everyone's version of shit job differs. No need to have a hissyfit just because your job felt worse than someone else's job sounds. For me, most of my jobs were shitty. I cleaned up Stampede grounds during the busiest season of the year and people would wear cowboy hats and be drunk, gambling and what not while I cleaned the grounds in any manner wearing a yellow shirt and hat even when it rained. One young punk came up to me once and asked me how I could do this and he told me that he would never be able to do it and left. So yeah, it was emotionally shitty too when people come up to you and say that in your face instead of saying "thank you".

Still, take some people who have worked under communist regimes and I bet most of our jobs would be so much better. The moral is not to be happy with what you have but rather appreciate that every experience is there to motivate us and makes up for good stories to tell our grandchildren when technology comes and makes their life even more convenient.

Originally Posted by TheAstonMartian

Everyone's version of shit job differs. No need to have a hissyfit just because your job felt worse than someone else's job sounds. For me, most of my jobs were shitty. I cleaned up Stampede grounds during the busiest season of the year and people would wear cowboy hats and be drunk, gambling and what not while I cleaned the grounds in any manner wearing a yellow shirt and hat even when it rained. One young punk came up to me once and asked me how I could do this and he told me that he would never be able to do it and left. So yeah, it was emotionally shitty too when people come up to you and say that in your face instead of saying "thank you".

Still, take some people who have worked under communist regimes and I bet most of our jobs would be so much better. The moral is not to be happy with what you have but rather appreciate that every experience is there to motivate us and makes up for good stories to tell our grandchildren when technology comes and makes their life even more convenient.

Well said.

I agree. I'm honestly not trying to get into a pissing contest saying "mine was worse than yours," but just trying to give people some perspective. The job they thought was so terrible might not seem so bad compared to some other options...

Now THIS is a shit job:

Before started college:

Trainee Accountant (two weeks) - I was just sitting around and listening to grown women gossip all day. It was pure torture as they wanted me to participate as I was the only man there. I left screaming out the door almost.

Computer assembler (2 months) - It was fun at the start, but became too repetitive and quantity was the name of the game, not quality. No wonder so many people brought the computers back during warranty

Computer import van driver (2 months) - Same company, but this was actually fun, we were the fastest moving vehicles on the free-ways - fully loaded vans with computer equipment racing in the middle of the night from Austria and lying to the customs of what we really had in the back (it was company policy)

Butcher helper (3 weeks) - was unloading cow parts and pig halves to get processed, was making sausages, etc and selling pig halves to people who wanted to freeze them for winter. The environment was so full of meat residue and so cold that I broke out with massive acne all over my face during it, so I stopped and the pay was shit. I still have a picture of my face in that time somewhere.

Mars bar, Pedigree pet food salesman (3 months) - This was probably the most soul crushing job I ever had in terms of lowering my confidence in my sales ability. After posting a record first month, the boss negated my achievements (he was afraid of me upstaging him I guess) and re-assigned me to the worst shit area that you could ever imagine. After trying to improve the sales there I succeeded, but the office politics and horrible predatory attitudes drove me away. I was the first to leave from my crop of salesman, then I met many on the streets afterwards and they all quit as well 6 months down the road. What took them so long to see what I saw on week 1?

Tile and bathroom retail salesman (7 months) - This was one of the easiest jobs ever, until I had to lift packets of tiles when someone bought, or when the shipments came in. Having scoliosis meant that I left after they fired the warehouse guy and expected me to lift heavy tile packets and do it for no extra pay on top of it.

Warehouse employee and salesman of FAKE flowers (5 days) - worst job ever, the bastard never paid me either, even though he knew my father. A total scammer.

During college:
Subway manager (1 month or so) - Took the job because I was offered one, didn't really need it, but the early AND late food prep hours were killing my energy (and looks ), as I am not a morning person at all, so I quit.

Website designer (2 years)- not a shit job really, but slow-lane as you can get

Pizza delivery at Domino's (a week or so) - wasn't bad once I was on the road. A lot of people want to scam you once you get there "This is all I have." They could always find another 50c after I started to walk away It was then that I learned how small-minded people can be. It's not even worth my time opening my mouth to "save" 50c, much less face humiliation. Geez.

After college:
College computer help desk at the same university I graduated (1 year) - Loved the technical side, learned a whole lot, but hated the people, who thought we should be treated like butlers not co-workers. Thankfully I got a promotion.

Computer networks engineer at the same university I graduated (1 year) - enjoyed that job very much, but office politics drove me nuts and away eventually. The same guy who gave me the jobs, turned out to be a nice guy overall, but completely incapable of taming down the office politics - in fact he liked a good ass kissing. Nice guys don't make good managers.

Computer network engineer (1 month) - another company. Took the job just to be able to get a loan for a house, but then I changed my mind about buying the house on credit and basically coasted through the end of the month and got fired, just to get unemployment benefits up till the time I started my own business. Come to think of it, this was the only time in my life I ever got fired.

After that went on my own and stopped with the shit jobs...

When my wife was pregnant with our first child, we delivered newspapers together to make ends meet...

always felt myself *lucky* to have worked after school in my free time to learn game design, hands on exp with editors, 3d modeling and 2d art programs. landed a job @ 17 doing what I've always wanted to to since as long as i can remember, make computer games.

Fast forward 8 years later as a "Senior" and having a few "niceish" cars (my other passion), looking at my empty bank account from my room in my parents house, barely able to afford the parts i want and to run/insure a fast car and that's without a mortgage / food / bills etc.

figured enough was enough, long hours, no overtime pay and making what friends say is a "good wage", Still I needed more money, faster, quit, sold my cars and here i am, making my own thing, hoping that in a few years, this will all pay off and I'l be making money while i sleep.

Originally Posted by MJDeMarco

Cmon guys ... DEAD END SHIT JOBS!

Property Manager, Realtor, Bartender ... these are respectable jobs! Mopping floors and scooping up turds in backed-up toilets aren't!

Cleaning dust off a factory that hasn't been cleaned for 9 months. I was so bored with it that sometimes, i pretended that i was a ninja. Basically i used the broom stick as a bamboo stick that samurai's use and do random moves.

Other times i threw the shovel and broom stick (and the portable dust bin) in a corner, get out of the factory and burned in the 38 degrees Celsius sunlight to clean outside using other tools.

1) currently sears roebock (merchandising, cashier)
2) warehouse packaging and processing
3) maintenance (including mopping floors and stocking shelves) at gas station
4) inventory auditor (RGIS) - lasted one month

I'm currently working a "shit" job and it is only providing all the more fire to get me moving in starting my business. Every time I step foot in my job, I feel the motivation increasing even more due to my extreme discontent with my current situation. From where I stand right now, the light at the end of the tunnel is a tiny dot but visible nonetheless.

1) Fast food. Most of the major chains.
2) Slow food. Washing dishes, and cleaning counters.
3) Factory Work. Ive upholstered, and wired mobile homes. Ultimately, they are all the same.
4) Construction. Tieing rebar, and hanging iron.
5) Airframe Mechanic. This is the one I thought was different. I started out with no experience, just a little electrical background from the Army. Moved up to lead, then trainer, then supervisor. And somewhere along the line it hit me: they are all the same. As long as you work for someone else, eventually you will either hate it, or you have to become complacent.

All of these experiences have helped me in some way. Either they contributed to my knowledge base, or they showed me why I wanted something better. I think everyone should have a shit job, at least once. I dont agree with guys who allow their kids to take a high position in a company they own, without any real world experience in that position or field. I think that was the final straw for me. Seeing people move up a ladder with only one rung, while the people busting their ass got knocked off the ladder to nowhere. Its time to switch ladders.

1. Construction-Carpenter- Pretty much a gopher for my pops. Started in 6th grade ended when I was 18 or so.
2. Lumber salesmen at Lowe's- Nothing like moving 80 lb bags of concreate for some asshole, and sucking up concrete dust in 90 degree weather. THe manager of the store was so anal we had to vaccuum the concrete bags at night to get all the dust off so it was clean. I shit you not.
2.1 Paint department at Lowers- Everyday telling the difference people between eggshell finish and satin. Then have them argue with me about it. Luggin 5 gallon buckets all day gets old.
3. Loss prevention at Boscov's. Kickin ass was fun, taking names wasn't all that great. It was a cool job till some kid punched me in the face and I opened up a can of whoop ass on him only to find out he was 3 months away from being 18. Had his mom literally black mail me until the case was dropped. I also got bit one time.

Ha! was working at a lawn service company about 2 years ago.........we had the highway/interstate cutting and cleanup contracts. When I first started I had to walk all day along the side of the highway with a trash bag in one hand and a yellow trash picker in the other all while wearing a reflective vest. Cleaned a good 6 miles a day by myself. Man I used to get so pissed......Ever wonder where all those truckers go to the bathroom? How people urinate in bottles while driving??

So picture this ...its November about 45 outside ....You just got done walking a mile dragging a full bag of trash, its misting rain,you have piss on your leg because the Pepsi can you thought was empty was not.....You walk up to your bosses truck...hes 1 year younger then you.....hes reading a book about to fall asleep....He looks you in the eye and says...the company is loosing money your going to slow we need to get more done. fuck that that place!






#1 Eletrical helper 1 yr- Liked this job was fun made good money being under 18 but sadly no new
construction in NC

#2 Hot tar roofer 1week- Yea fuck that

#3 Cotten Mil 1week- Was in yarn service...up and down the same rows removing bobbins all day staring at the clock

#4 Kirby Vacuum sales 3days- Um $1800 dollars for a vacuum the thing was like 75lbs and was trying to sell it to a lady in her 90s ....quit that day

#5 Valet parking 2.5 yrs- Kinda liked it was outside all day in the shade had all the smoothies i wanted was at a hospital so lots of nurses around just stood around and talked most the time.

#6 Crab fisherman NC Coast 1year- Well started out me moving to the beach to crab fish as a partner....... turned out being slave labor by the hour really sucked to leave really liked being out on the water

#7 Auto Technician Sears 7mos- Well have really done this all my life, have fixed peoples cars on the side for extra cash on and off, really easy. Just people are fucking pissy when it comes to there cars and your always going to be that grease monkey that knows nothing in there eyes.

#8 That Lawn Service 1.5yrs- funny thing was the owners son is a congressman for NC but his college was payed for by Illegal immigrants his father employs.....

#9 CNC Laser 1yr- Where I'm at now not the worst place to work its just the people there have got to be some of the most ignorant people I have ever met......Seriously they think the water vapor trails
left behind a jet is poison the government is using in part of there whole ONE WORLD ORDER scheme

i have the shitiest job

i have to stack boxes full of lettuce bags and stack them on a pallet a certain way and they come out really fast and i sweat like crazy.

the saddest part: 9.50/hr $14,000 year

thats why im desperately trying to find another way to earn income

If your not growing as an individual, using your talents and skills. The job will be dead end and rubbish, whether you work as a cleaner or as a office worker.

Currently I am doing housekeeping in a tourist hot spot hotel.

Man, someone already said it but **** me, I would KILL to be back in the "shitty" office jobs I've had before. Before this I thought my time in telemarketing was the modern day equivalent of being hung-drawn-and-quartered, thought selling mortgages in an air-conditioned room was akin to being burned for witchcraft!

I was wrong.

Cleaning a hotel room that's just played host to 8 slack-jawed, pizza eating, beer-swilling, rambunctious snowboarders for a week has to be one of the most degrading forms of work in the western world, I don't mind cleaning up my own shit but anonymous, foreign turds? - come on!

To add icing to this nasty cake of mine, I'm doing this alone in a country 4600 miles away from anyone I know and my co-workers don't speak much English.

My thoughts oscillate wildly during the day between those of "yea this is the grimy, back-breaking work on the path to success!" to "holy shit I have ****ed up here....fml."

The only plus is that I can wear headphones so I spend most of the day trying to assuage my pain with positive audiobooks from the likes of Earl Nightingale and Dale Carnegie etc...

No cushy jobs on my resume.

1.Brickwork laborer(possibly one of the most physically intense jobs out there, at least for the crew I worked for)
2.Brick mason
3.Waterproofing foundations and sealed crawlspace installation

Current job: Cleaning gutters. It sounds the shittiest, but in all honesty, it is the easiest job I've had. I've rapidly moved my way up through the company, now I drive around from job to job, climb rooftops, and tell my helper what needs to be done. With my base pay + commission, it will pay the bills until my business takes off. I don't mind that it's a "dirty job", so long as I can continue to progress in what is important to me.