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Worst job out there ??

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    #152
    skooterblue2
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    LuasSimon wrote: »
    Working on minimum wage in a nursing home With a serious threat of getting covid must be up there with the worst .
    Working for minimum wage in one of Larry Goodmans AIBP meat factories be another horrible place to work .

    Want to hear about Comis chef? Not even minimum wage, plenty of abuse, no perks and not earning enough to keep yourself alive. Sharp knives, hot oil, boiling sugar and heaps of addicts to work with. Most Chefs are gone in 5 years (I was smart I left after 2 years).


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    #153
    skooterblue2
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    TheDavester wrote: »
    The cleaner in a porno cinema/booth

    Calling TheDavester to Booth 3 spillage in Booth 3.


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    #154
    PhilOssophy
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    mariaalice wrote: »
    I had to go to a public office of a state service, not social welfare it was in a mankey grubby office in a shopping center, the pubic office had no windows, no natural light, the workers were behind individual windows there the only view was of the wall or the security guard the work consisted of putting the same bits of information from a form the public bring in into a computer over and again.

    I know it is a public service job and people go mental for a public service jobs, however, I would be insane after a week of doing that.

    Are you sure it was a pubic office? Maybe that was the problem...I wouldn't fancy looking at that all day either


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    #155
    ChikiChiki
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    Lockheed wrote: »
    Minimum wage, no english, washing dishes or making beds in a big hotel. Very common in hotels and especially where I work. Hard tedious work, long hours, and not being able to ask people for a cold drink or lunch must be so hard.

    Yeah maids in hotels is a tough one. Think they have 7 minutes per room in some places.

    Back breaking work.


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    #156
    skooterblue2
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    TheDavester wrote: »
    The cleaner in a porno cinema/booth

    Imagine the mess after R Kelly was in it......


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    #157
    Strumms
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    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    Yeah maids in hotels is a tough one. Think they have 7 minutes per room in some places.

    Back breaking work.

    It might be doable, just about with two people, cat in hells chance you could do that solo.


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    #158
    arctictree
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    thomasdylan wrote: »
    HSE were meant to have brought it in 2003.

    They only moved from scheduling people for 48 and 36 hour shifts to a supposed maximum of 24 hours after a one day strike in 2013.

    Pretty much every hospital in the country will have people doing 24 hour + shifts.

    What is with this country never training enough doctors?


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    #159
    skooterblue2
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    arctictree wrote: »
    What is with this country never training enough doctors?

    Oh they do..... we train enough doctors for us and everyone else but the working environment is so crap they go anywhere else afterwards. I had 6 cousins doctors. One killed himself, three burned out, three are in australia and one is still in Dublin and another is in Liverpool. All living miserable lives. (yes it doesnt add but they overlap)


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    #160
    99nsr125
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    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    Working on an oil rig in the North Sea (in all weathers), has to be the worst job 'out there'.

    Oh man, working on a rig is awesome


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    #161
    JimToken
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    skooterblue2 wrote: »
    Oh they do..... we train enough doctors for us and everyone else but the working environment is so crap they go anywhere else afterwards. I had 6 cousins doctors. One killed himself, three burned out, three are in australia and one is still in Dublin and another is in Liverpool. All living miserable lives. (yes it doesnt add but they overlap)

    You've got the NHS for extended family


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    #162
    suicide_circus
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    partyguinness wrote: »
    I would say a cleaner at a sex/adult cinema.

    Ah yes, the lowly spunk monkey


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    #163
    skooterblue2
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    JimToken wrote: »
    You've got the NHS for extended family

    That is only the Doctors, I never mentioned the nurses or the specialists. And they are about as useful as tits on a boar when I asked for help.


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    #164
    corner of hells
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    suicide_circus wrote: »
    Ah yes, the lowly spunk monkey

    Jizz mopper.


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    #165
    humberklog
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    Pharmacist working in a pharmacy (as opposed to scientific r+d).

    You've over achieved in school to get the points to do years of serious studying at 3rd level. All for a job measuring out prescribed amounts of small things into small tubs in a small shop where there's zero messing allowed and all under the harshest of lighting and very often your clients are bit smelly.

    Just seems like the job with least amount of payback for all that diligence.


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    #166
    paleoperson
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    humberklog wrote: »
    Pharmacist working in a pharmacy (as opposed to scientific r+d).

    You've over achieved in school to get the points to do years of serious studying at 3rd level. All for a job measuring out prescribed amounts of small things into small tubs in a small shop where there's zero messing allowed and all under the harshest of lighting and very often your clients are bit smelly.

    Just seems like the job with least amount of payback for all that diligence.

    hahahahaha!!...

    Pharmacists have the easiest job in the world! They get paid megabucks for running a glorified shop. They are what I always think of when I think easiest jobs for best pay ever. What is the toughest challenge you have to face when you're a pharmacist? I mentioned GP earlier but at least you have to do the 9 grueling years or whatever it is for that. Your biggest problem with being a pharmacist is getting bored.

    The only other problem with pharmacy these days is I take it that the job market is saturated, otherwise I'd have half a mind to quit everything and do it myself.


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    #167
    skooterblue2
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    paleoperson wrote: »
    hahahahaha!!...

    Pharmacists have the easiest job in the world! They get paid megabucks for running a glorified shop. They are what I always think of when I think easiest jobs for best pay ever. What is the toughest challenge you have to face when you're a pharmacist? I mentioned GP earlier but at least you have to do the 9 grueling years or whatever it is for that. Your biggest problem with being a pharmacist is getting bored.

    That is exactly what I thought until I looked into it. It is NOT the job it used to be. Any screw up by you or staff under you its all on you. Any discrepancy and its all on you. The pay is far from what it used to be in relation to effort and study. There are loads of easier jobs in R&D and manufacturing for pharmacists than working in the shop and they pay much better with less responsibility.


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    #168
    humberklog
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    paleoperson wrote: »
    hahahahaha!!...

    Pharmacists have the easiest job in the world! They get paid megabucks for running a glorified shop. They are what I always think of when I think easiest jobs for best pay ever. What is the toughest challenge you have to face when you're a pharmacist? I mentioned GP earlier but at least you have to do the 9 grueling years or whatever it is for that. Your biggest problem with being a pharmacist is getting bored.

    The only other problem with pharmacy these days is I take it that the job market is saturated, otherwise I'd have half a mind to quit everything and do it myself.


    God no. It's gotta be stultifyingly boring.
    The easiest jobs aren't the best though. I used to be an engineer on building sites specialising in curved concrete walls, it's one of the hardest jobs out there especially in harsh European winters but it was fun.

    A friend of mine studied Pharmacy, did it part time and as an adult. 1st job she got when newly qualified (after years of studying) was in a small independent chemist and reckoned she was making more money in the pub she worked in to get through college. Now I'm only going by what she said. She eventually got the job she wanted as a lab technician.


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    #169
    PhilOssophy
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    I wouldn't say pharmacist is the worst job in the world (although I am not one), relative to the effort required in both school and college I would have thought there is better roles which pay better money.
    And depending on where you work, you are spending your life listening to every cohort of society from lovely people to utter scum.


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    #170
    humberklog
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    Pharmacies are zero crack all day though, buzzing bogies in and out the door and that lighting! No, no, no.


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    #171
    mrskinner
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    Dentist. Awful job. Working in small spaces. Covid must be a major worry. No conversations. Same old same old. Huge rate of depression.


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    #172
    Yyhhuuu
    Registered Users Posts: 798 ✭✭✭Yyhhuuu


    Would anybody consider a Radiographer ( person who takes an x-Ray) a bad job. Taking x-rays all day long, day in day out?


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    #173
    Greyfox
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    mrskinner wrote: »
    Dentist. Awful job. Working in small spaces. Covid must be a major worry. No conversations.

    Very well paid though


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    #174
    paleoperson
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    humberklog wrote: »
    Pharmacies are zero crack all day though, buzzing bogies in and out the door and that lighting! No, no, no.

    I don't get this "zero crack" thing either, I often see them chatting with each other.


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    #175
    JimToken
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    Greyfox wrote: »
    Very well paid though

    Not really though in general dentistry when you add it up

    They've got the assistant and the secretary to be paid out of the fee

    The specialists can make good money


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    #176
    JimToken
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    Pharmacy is a strange one

    They have a lot of responsibility but I I wonder what they do all day in a pharmacy


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    #177
    JustAThought
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    JimToken wrote: »
    Pharmacy is a strange one

    They have a lot of responsibility but I I wonder what they do all day in a pharmacy

    weight little tablets and price up novelty shampoos & decorations. Can you imagine working in a relatively important but non powerful public facing office office in a country where people argue and scream in family groups in china or south america - headwreck. Emergency passport office Italy, or bus permit office China, melt your head right out through your eyeballs job.

    Or working with bad tempered itinerants? All free legal aid and entitlement and slashhooks. Jesus wept.


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    #178
    JustAThought
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    Also - toe & foot cleaner in old folks home.


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    #179
    the purple tin
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    Yyhhuuu wrote: »
    Would anybody consider a Radiographer ( person who takes an x-Ray) a bad job. Taking x-rays all day long, day in day out?
    Decent money and always sought after, you can move pretty much anywhere in the world and you will find work.


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    #180
    mariaalice
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    PhilOssophy wrote: »
    Are you sure it was a pubic office? Maybe that was the problem...I wouldn't fancy looking at that all day either

    That is the thing though if you are in the public services you could end up doing driving licenses, public services cards, or passports all day and dealing with the public now maybe that would be compensated for by having a nice office or being somewhere with a bit of a buzz, but they could also end in somewhere dreary with nothing around.

    In the Public service working with old deeds and documents would be class and also not having to deal with the public every day.


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    #181
    iamwhoiam
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    JimToken wrote: »
    Pharmacy is a strange one

    They have a lot of responsibility but I I wonder what they do all day in a pharmacy

    Order in , source , answer phone requests and queries , answer GP queries and GPs get a lot of advice from pharmacists . Research online when a GP has a question about a drug . Ensure no adverse drug interaction when filling a prescription . Careful filling and paperwork for all prescriptions . And a lot of queries in general from the public who pop in for a chat . Give vaccines , and get prescriptions ready for palliative care . The list goes on , a pharmacist is a very busy job


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