Dead-End Sh*t Jobs ... Yours?

[Swinny]

1. Paperboy - 6 a.m. start in Winter for $2 a week!!!
2. Navy - Cleaning slop and bilge tanks in a Submarine, scrubbing out for Captain's rounds, polishing the bronze cannons at the main gate
3. Cleaning trucks in an underground Gold mine
4. Mowing lawns in Winter
5. Delivering flyers at $2 per 1000 - I must have been mad

I am really thankful I don't have to do any of these things now and also very grateful there are other people who will!

 

[TrendSettersInc]

1. Farm Help, Baling Hay In A 100 Degree Hay Loft For 9 Hours A Day
2. Newspaper Delivery
3. Taxi Driver, Actually Learned A Lot
4. Door To Door Donation Collector For Clean Water Of The Midwest
5. Factory Work
6. Factory Work
7. Factory Slavery (Lol Felt Like It)
And About 7 Others which some were very good to learn different social skills or on the job training.

 

[CNP]

1. working on a farm
2. construction in a foreign country
3. working under grandfather with renters
4. worked in nursing home
5. odd jobs in a foreign country

 

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[Brentnal]

dishwasher

What do you earn if you do that because i finnaly found a job the are willing to hire me i am 17 now and live in the netherlands.

It is temporary of course just for money and my curriculum vitae

 

[SeanyHang]

I've been a:
-Dishwasher
-Busboy (at 21.. more embarrassing than anything.. but it lead to a serving position and much better money)
-Janitor (still do this on occasion)

All of these were miserable.. BUT ya do what you got to do to get some cash.

I've since had better jobs and at the moment I'm unemployed trying to hustle a bit.

 

[Brentnal]

Dishwasher

What did you earn while doing this per hour i am 17 how much do you think i will earn i think 7 per hour

 

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[Ravens_Shadow]

I started working when i was 15 mowing lawns for my dads company.
When i was 18 i then got a job at mcdonalds for 3 months. I quit after scrubbing the entire playground for 2 weeks straight. I also hated the managers. I then got a contract job as a VFX artist at an indie game company in 2012 which i just left due to horrible team management and my pursuit of the fast lane. My last job was working at ups during christmas season delivering packages from 11am till 11pm-1am. Way harder than i thought it would be. Now since I'm stuck trying to find my roadmap to the fast lane, I'm thinking about getting another dead end job.

 

[ricktx]

Yea II had some pretty good shit jobs in my time. Let's see..

1) Mowing lawns in the freaking Texas summer
2) Dish washer night shift (Spires iHop like restaurant) Later 1970ies
3) Cook for a restaurant (Lums like a Chili's of today) early 1980ies
4) Restaurant Manager (talk about a job that sucks) long hours, low pay, and everyone is always whining
5) Target department store (Snack Bar) really sucked
6) Target automotive area (Changing tires and batteries in the freaking 100 heat of the summer and cold Winters)
7) Stock team manager (Later shift)

That list brings back some memories. Laugh

 

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[mimarsinan31]

1. Bagger at grocery store
2. Cashier at grocery store
3. Night crew/stocker at 3 grocery stores (hours were horrid)
4. Management at grocery store
5. Meat department in grocery store
6. Telemarketer for 4 different companies (good money, easy job)
7. Installations for window covering company
8. Property manager (great job for obvious reasons, I think)
9. Assistant on a couple side businesses

Jesseo, did you guys have trash valet service in your apartment comunity?

 

[Mike Kavanagh]

First Job - Automotive: Worked for a oil change franchise. Fun little job, miniscule pay, to much drama between managers and their kids who worked with us.

Door to door sales - Probably the worst job ever. They wanted you to stick to a 15 year old script to sell to people. A kid got fire when the boss heard him not use the script. 5month

Retail - 4 years, not a bad way to learn B&M business. If you learn quick you can easily see the ridiculous mark-ups on certain items. Retail pay, what can I say.

 

[skylizard]

Retail - 4 years, not a bad way to learn B&M business. If you learn quick you can easily see the ridiculous mark-ups on certain items. Retail pay, what can I say.

Did retail too. Worked for a beachwear company that sold $7 tees for $30 and had a huge customer base. They weren't even great quality tees. But they had a unique design and were located in prime locations in beach towns.

 

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[Will B. Rich]

1. Amusement Park Games Attendant - pretty fun for being 16, made me much more outgoing, and got some good selling experience
2. Roast Beef Sandwich Clerk - baseball and hockey games
3. Amusement Park Games Stock Manager -hauled giant stuffed animals around all day, actually pretty fun lol
4. College Apartment Complex Assistant -This could have been my “limo driver” job where I could have studied anything and bettered myself while “working” but I just chatted with my friends online instead....d'oh!
5. Amusement Park Games Department Manager -I thought I was cool but no...I was not
6. Retail Management Intern - great – everyone loved me!
7. Retail Manager – good pay but my whole team hated me for being a fresh out of college manager

 

[Formless]

I remember when I was 8-9 I used to 'hustle' selling scrap metal from anywhere I could find. Cars that have been parked too long, steel supports in old buildings, old cow milking equipment that the farmers wanted to get rid of, I was like a vulture.

Bad old days in the bad old country

 

[Jimmyy]

1. Grass cutting (long hours and the risk of strimming sly cat turds hiding in the long grass, not fun)
2. Building Surveyor (Nice job but hated the office)
3. Pub crawl rep (The best job and the worst job in the world )

 

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[Gray0920]

Currently working as a telemarketer. 300 bucks a week. It's a soul destroying job.

 

[RWH3]

#1 Drywall hanger and finisher (growing up)
#2 Dishwasher for summer camp (1 month)
#3 Server in 5 star restaurant (9months)
#4 Pizza Delivery-Food Prepper-Close Cleaning for Pizza Hut (3 months)
#5 Work for my neighbor servicing the poultry industry (install and repair equipment in pig/chicken houses) 1 year current. (off/on w odd jobs between)

 

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[mosdef]

Any job is dead end.... or not. It is all in your frame of mind. Jobs are jobs. Sometimes you need them. You take your life in the direction that you want to go.

Blaming jobs or anything else for being at a dead end is the real dead end.

wow this is hard to swallow but dont make it less right

 

[mosdef]

cashier at a grocery store- 3 days

A billing company, sitting on the phone and helping people pay there bills- 1,5 years. Saved almost all the money and invested it in the middle east, now getting 350 dollar each month from it.

Samsung: mobile consultant- showing off samsung products to people and helping stores learn about samsungs products not allowed to sell anything here, only show and educate. 1 year

A gamling company and the only one in sweden- helping the companys customers(only companies) with everything.- 1.5 years and still going

 

[andviv]

And yes, I said she.

I definitely do not understand why the fact that is a woman makes any difference.

 

[Ikke]

Probably the biggest thing I've learned that I knew subconsciously all along but only now has it come to my conscious mind, a job may be a job, but you are still at the end of the day working for yourself, despite the terms of the contract. Your boss at your job is in reality your customer, and your services/skills are your product that you are trying to sell. Even a shitty job can still teach you about being an entrepreneur if you look at it with the right attitude. Basically everytime you interview, you are polishing your presentation and sales skills. From there if you get hired, you will get regular feed back about your product (you) and how it relates to your customers operations (your boss and the job you were hired for). Either you adjust to better meet your customers needs or you learn how to politely say "I'm sorry, but I don't know that my product can meet the standards of service that you require" and move on to your next big sale (job interview/opening your own business etc.)

I must agree on this. It's is one of the most valuable things I learned at my previous job.

 

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[Jamesdoesmith]

Document handler for school disrict
Rental car manager
Wedding venue Set up and tear down manager (17 being around drunk bridesmaids, you do the math) Night shift
GNC health club
Life insurance sales rep (career looking big league job, things aren't always as they seem)
Packing and shipping manager (at times annoying but a good job and a great check for someone my age. Easy and I like the place and people)



The one job that really spurred alot of my drive and piss and vinegar was the rental car job. I was 16 and I learned that the general public is really, really F*cking stupid. Just so stupid. No matter how many times a 16-17 year old kid can say they are the manager people still treat you like scum. This job made me toughen up to a degree. Learned to stick my hands up and fight back. But subtle about it. Taught me to have poise and tact and to know when to hold em. AND it taught me customer service. That grown adults are just as lost as everyone else is. That people can be wrong and no one is all that much more above the other. Taught me respect and hard work. Taught me if I go out of my way for people, they might return the favor. That things like work ethic cannot be bought or mimicked. People would ask for me and my service. My attention to detail. They would want to tip ME.

The B2B live insurance taught me that little to nothing REALLY gets done in corporate America. That if you look the part act the part and walk the part you can get the part. Baby faced me at 18 in a fortune 500 cog machine was probably pretty funny people to most there. I learned alot about acting here come to think of it. It taught me that "money" parts of Dallas and Texas are all smoke and mirrors. That doctors can be so underwater and financially backward you wonder how they sleep at night. Lawyers can be a case away from homeless. It also taught me that some companies prey on the naive. I would talk to agents who have 75k in debt to get a job I bagged straight out of High School.Really? This is what turned up out of that 75k debt? Taught me that the world is not always what it seems on the fondant frosting outside. OH it also taught me that the play now pay later mindset and the I NEED TO LOOK COOL AT ALL COST doesn't always go away as people get older. MJ has a well deserved Lambo WITH money in the bank. Some people just have the lambo!

The Gnc job taught me no one wants to work out or put in effort and just want to buy pills. I loved that job. To a point. I could make 1000k a day at that job only working 5 hours. As a young person bent on working for myself all jobs are good to a point. Jobs should be called messing up and learning on other peoples money. Thats what a job is.



All in all my jobs have taught me that people are strange.

I have been very very blessed with good jobs. not glamorous or CEO/10k a day jobs. But to only be 20 and have that experience is pretty blessed.

 

[TonyStark]

Retail

 

[TonyStark]

This is a great post @mj, I hope a lot of people find a lot of value in this thread.

 

[happybhoy]

multiple production line jobs. The worst picking out bad potatoes from a line before they went into a packing machine. an 8 hour shift felt like 16 hours and 1 hour simultaneously.

 

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[Spicymemer45]

10-15: Cutting trees for a family-friend logging company

15-17: Waiter/Cook

18 (Now): Dishwasher for the past two months

Also starting my first imports!

 

[Niptuck MD]

here it goes, (in order)


Newspaper writer (whilst in HS)
supermarket stocker (whilst in HS)

Firefighter (injured)

Home depot sales associate - what a joke

LAZ BOY truck de-stocker - lasted 1 month (walked off and never returned) (painfully laborious job) made me respect illegal aliens and immigrants that worked this job - we are talking removing futons, chairs, sofas and large furniture off of a 18 wheeler (with a broken POS dolly) in the docks with no HVAC in the summer/winter in chicago)

security guard (easy but long hours to make some decent $$$) - one of three jobs worked during the recession
Overnight security guard - one of three jobs worked during the recession

contract Bank data entry specialist- one of three jobs worked during the recession

IT Cable Cat5 Cat6 installer - (pending lawsuit employer cheated my team of wages)


USPS rural carrier driver (not bad but physically demanding job)
USPS mail sorter

machinist

manufacturing engineer (horrible BIG named organization)

machinist again

customer service rep for phone provider (not bad at home gig)

Finally, got everything together and started valuing time vs money vs priorities vs overall end result and picture;

 

[FeaRxUnLeAsHeD]

You don't take jobs anymore? How do you pay rent?

At the time I was a student. I'm working full time in sales right now, but could survive off personal training income if needed.

 

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[minivanman]

Are any of your sandwiches in any museums? You did say you were a sandwich artist... right? I know people at the best museums in the world, I might be able to pull a few strings (of cheese) and get one of your sandwiches in a well known museum

 

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[minivanman]

Is that why Sprint never hung up on me? Back about 10 years ago I had paid the bill as normal and they turned my phone off. Well, I had 2 days of traveling and my phone would only let me call 1 number.... the Sprint people. I wore their a$$ out for 2 whole days. But I was nice, I told them at the start that I know this is just their job but I was going to continue to call for my whole trip just to waste the companies time. I was talking dirty and all kinds of stuff. I wondered why they would never hang up. Yes, fun times. lol

 

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[AlexLegault]

Is that why Sprint never hung up on me? Back about 10 years ago I had paid the bill as normal and they turned my phone off. Well, I had 2 days of traveling and my phone would only let me call 1 number.... the Sprint people. I wore their a$$ out for 2 whole days. But I was nice, I told them at the start that I know this is just their job but I was going to continue to call for my whole trip just to waste the companies time. I was talking dirty and all kinds of stuff. I wondered why they would never hang up. Yes, fun times. lol

What's "Sprint"?