Jobs - The Good, Bad and The Ugly

Motley Crue

So I taught I'd start a thread where people talk about their job's (not only current one's but also past one's - no one has to say anything about their past they don't want and no names are needed). I'll start....

I've worked in a variety of places from cinema's to market research companies, I worked as an assistant to a tree doctor once, as well as a producer at a top Scottish radio station. The best job I ever had was prob when I worked as a radio presenter, which I still continue to do, and also when I got paid to be a producer. I've done Journalism work, paid and unpaid, and I also worked with a concert security group for about 2 days.

I worked in a bookshop for a day, an off licence for three weekends, several newsagents and on three occasions I held down 2 jobs at the same time - I've also worked for Virgin Megastores before they changed to Zavvi and another top music store chain. The worst job I ever had was perhaps a job in which I had to put a Kit Kat into an envelope attached to a piece of paper as a promotion for a Dublin car rental agency (who have now gone bust)

The best jobs were a local video store and a cinema I worked in when I was 17. The ugly jobs come and go, and I have taken jobs when I don't want to (as I am sure everyone has) and I've had the rug pulled under my feet many times - but looking back its been one hell of an experience!

jkmanc1974

Worst job that I have ever had HAS to be working in outbound telesales for Eircom.....soul destroying!!!!

Brgds
Johnny

doledude86

Yea I worked in a UPS call centre..it was tough going to keep your sanity...i met my current girlfriend there though... Every cloud has a silver lining and all that :cool:

CatFromHue

my weirdest job was working in heinz in the dehydration department. The veg came out of a huge dryer on to a conveyor belt were i had to pick out the bad veg.
my first day it was petit peas, so not only were the peas tiny from being dehydrated, they were petit too. I spent most of the day running up and down the belt trying to grab what i thought was a bad pea, but cos they were so small i couldnt grab it.
after awhile though, i realised they were all good peas really!

Sometimes the best jobs you had though you dont always realise til you left em. not the pea one though

BroomBurner

Oh my God, I've had so many jobs, not sure if I can remember them!

Thanks, OP for posting yours anyway, good no know I'm not the only one with a short attention span to jobs in the past.

Anyway, delievered leaflets as my first job (age 12-15)
Worked in a large supermarket for three months packing bags (15)
Had three jobs at once - veternary surgery, internet cafe and shoeshop. The first one was brilliant fun. Got paid a twenty quid for 2 hours work, had to clean out the animals cages, feed them and take the dogs for walks. Loved it.
Other jobs included experience in a Special Needs school (also really liked it there too), small shops, large chainstore shops, job centre, insurance company, short spate of picking fruit down under, drew maps... after that, it all went very professional.

SInce I was 12, I've always had a job of some sort, luckily enough. Except actually for my Leaving Cert year and my college finals year.

LadyMayBelle

Hmmm lets see..

Started out in good old Supermacs part time aged 16..I swear everyone should work somewhere like that to know what hard smelly work it is!!

Then onto a department store part time for a year: Toy dept, ladies shoes, men shoes, sports, lingerie etc etc!

During uni I worked in a service station selling papers and breakfast rolls..

First proper job was with a disability service provider and that went well for a few years till the sunshine of Oz called me...

There I worked in Katmandu, an outdoors equipment store (Perth) , in NT General in Darwin (best place ever, so random!), selling trainsets at the Brisbane Expo Show, and then two weeks as a PA to an Exhibitions and Promotions company in Sydney..

Back in cold wet Ireland I worked for another disability service provider, then took on a very temporary part time job in HMV, money was pittance and I found it incredibly boring so went back to college..

Currently on placement which isn't work in a way but in another way it is...

Omnipresence

I have a good one...

When in secondary school I did a summer job.... Worked a night shift in an injection molding factory... Officially my worst job ever... nothing made be study more for the leaving than that life lesson

Job description:
- Keep machine filled with plastic pellets
- Two massive parts of the moulds slam together
- Pellets are melted and injected
- Two parts of moulds separate
- Take resulting plastic 'object' inspect, remove mould artfacts
- Killer was when objects stuck on one of moulds so had to put hand into machine to prise off...
- Repeat

x in the city

Motley Crue wrote: »

So I taught I'd start a thread where people talk about their job's (not only current one's but also past one's - no one has to say anything about their past they don't want and no names are needed). I'll start....

I've worked in a variety of places from cinema's to market research companies, I worked as an assistant to a tree doctor once, as well as a producer at a top Scottish radio station. The best job I ever had was prob when I worked as a radio presenter, which I still continue to do, and also when I got paid to be a producer. I've done Journalism work, paid and unpaid, and I also worked with a concert security group for about 2 days.

I worked in a bookshop for a day, an off licence for three weekends, several newsagents and on three occasions I held down 2 jobs at the same time - I've also worked for Virgin Megastores before they changed to Zavvi and another top music store chain. The worst job I ever had was perhaps a job in which I had to put a Kit Kat into an envelope attached to a piece of paper as a promotion for a Dublin car rental agency (who have now gone bust)

The best jobs were a local video store and a cinema I worked in when I was 17. The ugly jobs come and go, and I have taken jobs when I don't want to (as I am sure everyone has) and I've had the rug pulled under my feet many times - but looking back its been one hell of an experience!

how the fook do you put all that onto a cv...:D

Tom Dunne

My best job ever had to have been the Summer I worked in Mosney as a barman.

Picture 15-20 other students in their late teens/early 20's, serving up the crappiest of pints to what can only be described as the roughest clientèle North Dublin could muster. The whole Summer was pretty much spent on alternating sides of the various bars in the place.

Ah, fond memories.

krust

Eircom tech support!

*Edit*

Forgot to say... it´s a really bad job