hardest jobs...

[John R]

hardest job

Learning Purchasing in the corporate office for Doral. One wasn't taught, one was beaten. A test of moxie. If you didn't break down and quit, you could stay. Stayed with them for 15 years. one of my best jobs ever.

 

[Parrothead74]

im pretty sure i have all of you beat.. the hardest job ever.. by far.. is working in Alabama's largest florist on Valentine's Day and Mother's Day.. so many flowers everywhere.. terrible hours.. you work like 3 17 hour days back to back to back.. pure heck...and i have to partake in it in a couple of days

 

[Cork On the Ocean]

My hardest was being a pharmacist. You are considered a professional like a doctor or dentist so the labor laws are not applicable to you therefore they didn't give you lunch breaks or overtime (which you always had) You get a headache from no food. They short staffed you and the liability was tremendous. I understand that it's gotten better but due to a lot of lobbying and education by the American Pharmacy Assoc. but 4 years ago i did a midnight shift in a hospital and it was so bad i had to quit before the end of my contract. I was ALONE all night long supplying the entire hospital and ER, making IV's and solutions that stopped people's hearts (on purpose) and I was going so fast it was like being a one armed paper hanger. Too dangerous for my tastes. The stress was terrible but there is NO WAY that I could ever work in an animal processing plant. THAT is the worst!

 

[beachmouse]

Nothing too horrible here. The worst was probably working for the census. My first day in the field, I got bit by a dog. When I turned in my paperwork for the day, I got to talking with other peope on the team, and it seemed like half the people there had also had dog bite incidents. So I decided that the money wasn't worth the animal attacks and quit on the spot.

 

[Matt J]

im pretty sure i have all of you beat.. the hardest job ever.. by far.. is working in Alabama's largest florist on Valentine's Day and Mother's Day.. so many flowers everywhere.. terrible hours.. you work like 3 17 hour days back to back to back.. pure heck...and i have to partake in it in a couple of days

I used to work in a florist shop and Mother's Day is by far hell day. Christmas is more drawn out and if it doesn't look right you can always spray it with more glitter. Mother's Day on the other hand is insane. The amazing part is the number of people who wait until the last possible second.

Then to follow it up you can't rest cause wedding season is right around the corner. Don't miss that one bit.

As for my all time worst job, that would be working at the PC News Herald in the basement as a reel room operator. Basically we had to load the paper for the printer and it seemed like every other roll would misfeed and we would have to start from scratch. It wouldn't have been bad if we just had the PC News Herald to print, but we also had every little newspaper from St. Joe to Navarre to print as well.

 

[Mango]

Worked at a fried chicken place when I was 16. They plucked their own chickens. I didn't know this. They showed me how to do it. Walked out after an hour. :shock: It was feather hell.

 

[30A Skunkape]

My hardest was being a pharmacist. You are considered a professional like a doctor or dentist so the labor laws are not applicable to you therefore they didn't give you lunch breaks or overtime (which you always had) You get a headache from no food. They short staffed you and the liability was tremendous. I understand that it's gotten better but due to a lot of lobbying and education by the American Pharmacy Assoc. but 4 years ago i did a midnight shift in a hospital and it was so bad i had to quit before the end of my contract. I was ALONE all night long supplying the entire hospital and ER, making IV's and solutions that stopped people's hearts (on purpose) and I was going so fast it was like being a one armed paper hanger. Too dangerous for my tastes. The stress was terrible but there is NO WAY that I could ever work in an animal processing plant. THAT is the worst!

Hey, how about a little sympathy for the guy pushing the adenosine at 3AM, watching the patient with one eye while keeping the other on the tele monitor hoping (praying) that asystole is temporary. A hospital at night is an alternate reality, isn't it?

 

[Rudyjohn]

My hardest was being a pharmacist. You are considered a professional like a doctor or dentist so the labor laws are not applicable to you therefore they didn't give you lunch breaks or overtime (which you always had) You get a headache from no food. They short staffed you and the liability was tremendous. I understand that it's gotten better but due to a lot of lobbying and education by the American Pharmacy Assoc. but 4 years ago i did a midnight shift in a hospital and it was so bad i had to quit before the end of my contract. I was ALONE all night long supplying the entire hospital and ER, making IV's and solutions that stopped people's hearts (on purpose) and I was going so fast it was like being a one armed paper hanger. Too dangerous for my tastes. The stress was terrible but there is NO WAY that I could ever work in an animal processing plant. THAT is the worst!

I hear ya. I have a good friend who is a pharmacist and works swing shifts at a hospital (so does Audie). My friend is usually pretty miserable and unhappy. Now she suffers from depression.
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[DD]

Worked at a fried chicken place when I was 16. They plucked their own chickens. I didn't know this. They showed me how to do it. Walked out after an hour. :shock: It was feather hell.

 

[DuneLaker]

Being a substitute teacher in a room with 30 16-year-old kids for an hour and a half. Rewarding and not so easy at the same time.