Worst Job EVER

[JustAGuy1]

Oil field, I worked there for 3 days. Worst year of my life.

 

[airplanemechanic]

Makes you appreciate sticking that nozzle in your tank and squeezing it and getting gas, don't it?

Oil workers are the unthanked backbone of this nation. One of the most dangerous, thankless jobs in America is the offshore oil worker.

 

[JGalt]

Oil field, I worked there for 3 days. Worst year of my life.

Thanks for your hard work. We consumers of petroleum products appreciates you.

 

[BULLDOG]

Oil field, I worked there for 3 days. Worst year of my life.

I worked in the oilfield for years and loved it. I only made a day and a half stocking shingles on a roof, and I had had enough. My back was sore for weeks.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

Cleaning out the basement of an abandoned bakery that suffered a fire and explosion with the local fire dept putting out...and......six months later in the three feet of water they left behind....after dozens of rats had drowned in sludge in the basement and been decomposing.....

I'll take the oil fields...thanks!

 

[JustAGuy1]

I kept finding in places on my body I didn't know I had. The 48" pipe wrench and the nipple killed me.

 

[Concerned American]

Oil field, I worked there for 3 days. Worst year of my life.

I think the worst job I ever had was busting big rig split rims in a recap shop. LOL, I worked hot steel a few summers when the temp reached 104+ and that job was even better than busting truck tires.

 

[Maxdeath]

Worked 26 1/2 years in the oil and gas industry.
Worked on oil wells, high pressure gas wells. Spent the last five years sitting in a pickup truck telling everyone how to do the job. Often found myself at odds with engineers when they were trying to tell me how they hoped the job should go.

 

[para bellum]

Dragging Christmas trees. 2 in each hand, wading through 2+ feet of unbroken snow in rough terrain. Back and forth to the truck all day long, beats the hell out of you, lol.

Second was probably longlining for black cod. That was some hard work.

 

[80zephyr]

At 15 years old, loading 450 hundred pound bags of potatoes on a semi. Did 7 semis per day.

 

[Missourian]

Climbing, trimming trees along the power line right-of-way, then chipping or wind rowing the branches that trimmed.

Working for a rural co-op, you could use gaffs (aka spurs) for climbing, but on Union urban contracts, it was all upper body, setting your rope, literally pulling yourself up, hooking your safety, reset your rope and pull yourself up another 10 feet.

Kinda like this, but the carbineer was attached to the climbing rope by a figure eight knot and had a tail that took the place of the green rope WS is using. Instead of that double birdshead he is using, a clove hitch with an extra half hitch was used.



Some of the most dangerous and strenuous work I've ever done.

Saw more than one person get electrocuted.

 

[lg325]

At 15 years old, loading 450 hundred pound bags of potatoes on a semi. Did 7 semis per day.

Citrus fruit and watermelons here. So I know what you mean. But I liked the people I worked with. As I did picking in the fields and groves I miss it somewhat.

One of the worst was the worm farm but I liked the people I worked with .. 4AM shoveling cow manure in a hot closed in steel building and feeding it to thousands of African night crawlers and other type of worms 14 straight days two days off. 12 hour days. No A. C.

 

[martybegan]

Oil field, I worked there for 3 days. Worst year of my life.

Vendor at a baseball stadium.

I got stuck with souvenir sodas.

1 day, then done.

 

[lg325]

Citrus fruit and watermelons here. So I know what you mean. But I liked the people I worked with. As I did picking in the fields and groves I miss it somewhat.

One of the worst was the worm farm but I liked the people I worked with .. 4AM shoveling cow manure in a hot closed in steel building and feeding it to thousands of African night crawlers and other type of worms 14 straight days two days off. 12 hour days. No A. C.

What I miss about those tough jobs was the Camaraderie. I did not see it in my other jobs that paid more and was easier to do.

 

[Concerned American]

Citrus fruit and watermelons here. So I know what you mean. But I liked the people I worked with. As I did picking in the fields and groves I miss it somewhat.

One of the worst was the worm farm but I liked the people I worked with .. 4AM shoveling cow manure in a hot closed in steel building and feeding it to thousands of African night crawlers and other type of worms 14 straight days two days off. 12 hour days. No A. C.

Cannery work is like that. Tomato season usually starts the beginning of July in CA's central valley. It extends until about Oct. 1. During that time, it is 12 hours a day, seven days a week. But the money is great for those three months. I only did it one season, but I have good memories for the most part.

 

[hondo 50]

I drove a taxi. Went out a handful of times. You were lucky to break even after paying for your car rental, gas, and mileage.

 

[American Eagle]

I had this job in high school at a restaurant. It was bussing tables. It was 10 hours per week. Great for a high school student, right? Nopes. It was two hours a day, five days a week.

One time I came in and it was about half busy, so the boss asks me to clock in 15 minutes past my regular time. They did that routinely with everyone. There were many times when my shift would not even last the entire two hours. On top of that, it was a good 20 minute drive to work. The managers would also round down your time when they should have rounded up. Constantly.

It wasn't hard work, but I was wasting my time. Didn't take me long to quit and start learning about the world of work.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

Roofing. In August. In Phoenix.

 

[Dr.Destructo]

Cleaning up a debris field from the construction of a new butter/cheese production manufacturers building.
And 20 yards away was the runoff pool where the excess water they drained from the milks and creams were pumped into after separating them from the main part of the dairy milks.

LITERALLY SMELLED LIKE DEATH. And if you've ever REALLY smelled death, which I have, you know it's not something you can or should be breathing for 8 hours a day.

Luckily, the wind blew in the opposite direction from the area I was cleaning up from construction debris, so I rarely smelled it. But when I did...........OMFG!!!!!

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

Cleaning up a debris field from the construction of a new butter/cheese production manufacturers building.
And 20 yards away was the runoff pool where the excess water they drained from the milks and creams were pumped into after separating them from the main part of the dairy milks.

LITERALLY SMELLED LIKE DEATH. And if you've ever REALLY smelled death, which I have, you know it's not something you can or should be breathing for 8 hours a day.

Luckily, the wind blew in the opposite direction from the area I was cleaning up from construction debris, so I rarely smelled it. But when I did...........OMFG!!!!!

I think we have a winner.