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There are worse jobs than marketing...
Posted by Paul Vincent on 27 February 2011 - 12:07pm.
"I am a drystone waller,
all day I drystone wall;
of all appalling callings
drystone walling's worst of all".
Thank you Pam Ayres.
Now I'll get me coat.
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"What's The Worst Job You've Ever Had?"
I was going to write, "In Marketing", but thought better of it, for obvious reasons.
My dad's mate
was a drystone waller. Made a decent living--there aren't many people doing it.
Being a drystone wallers mate must be awful
I once had a job...
... which involved pulling polythene wrapping off of clothes in a warehouse 8 hours a day. I once took an E before going in, in the hope it would make it more fun. It didn't.
ha ha!
Oh Jesus, that would have been hell!
I think I posted this before
Temp in a sandwich factory after being made redundant. The whole building was 2 degrees C as there was so much food around, basically a big fridge. Standing at a conveyor belt all day as sliced bread goes past, putting one ingredient on it. Worst day was spent next to the guy with a bucket of egg mayonnaise. As the bread went past he splatted a dollop on, I spread it out with a knife and the next bloke put a handful of cress on. Thatchers Britain, how I laughed as I counted my £1.75 an hour.
You know those little globules of glue
that are used to stick free sachets of shampoo or coffee etc to junk mailouts? I did a week of 12 hour nightshifts as an impoverished student in a factory that produced mountains of these free samples.
I was, for a brief and unhappy time, a globule squirter.
I believe
very short stints as a globule squirter can be immensely satisfying.
True but
when you have to clean up afterwards you do tend to feel a bit foolish and ridiculous.
Assembly line...
...is the worst work I've ever done. So deathly boring that Simon Bates' Our Tune and his 'Golden Hour' were the highlights of the day. I had to put a bit (the same bit) of an electric plug together.
I once had a week's job cleaning a mortuary at night. It was much better than assembly line work, and the conversation was less stultifying.
Me 'nall.
I once worked on an assembly line putting together jewel cases and box sleeves for the Ministry of Sound's Annual for that year. I was one of the lucky ones: it was a two-day sickness cover thing I got through an agency, so after 18 hours of it, I got to jack it in. I don't know how people do it day in day out and not run amok with the nearest makeshift weapon.
Proctologist, can't be much fun surely?
- "So what do you do for a living?"
- "I look in and fix people's anusses"
- "......"
The worst job I ever had was with Jayne Mansfield...
/lobster