The 'lowest' Job You Would Take?

ArtyM · 11-05-2011 04:25PM

I couldn't be Mary Hearney's beautician - imagine waxing that!

jimthemental · 11-05-2011 04:26PM

Dean0088 wrote: »

Had a conversation with a mate about the jobs we'd never do no matter how bad things got.

For me it's those charity street Concern guys who get to keep half the takings. Low IMO. I'm looking for work at the minute and the savings are starting to run out. I don't get the dole or JSA because I'm a student - but I still couldn't do that job. I'd flip burgers, mop up ****, but not scam people.

A few other things I wouldn't do -

Kill puppies in dog pounds!
Deliver Leaflets

So how low would you go if worst came to worst?

I'm so broke I think I could get over the moral dilemma of flipping puppy burgers at this stage.

jimthemental · 11-05-2011 04:27PM

ArtyM wrote: »

Mary Hearney's beautician - imagine waxing that!

The correct term is landscaping.

Dozen Wicked Words · 11-05-2011 04:28PM

CrackisWhack wrote: »

I wouldn't sell my ass in the phoenix park;)

It wouldn't sell there anyway, best place to sell an ass or a donkey or any miniature beast of burden is a horse fair.

Aoiferz · 11-05-2011 04:29PM

Dean0088 wrote: »

Is there not two companies doing the concern. I'm pretty sure one of them is commission + wage. same with the WWF fund-raisers and the PAWS people selling keyrings etc...

PAWS is commission only, 30% of your takings each day. I worked for them last summer for a bit. **** work, all you get is abuse in my experience

Ray Palmer · 11-05-2011 04:32PM

Kalimah wrote: »

Just to set the record straight the Concern street fundraisers are paid 13 euro an hour. No commission whatsoever.

PS And it's not a scam either. 88 per cent of everything raised goes to the developing world. I should know. I've been working for them for long enough. But hey this is AH. Let's not let ignorance get in the way of the truth!

That is a good rate they must be getting at least that per hour per person. I would be surprised that they make that much. Are you one on the bucket collectors or the monthly sign up crowd?

I really wouldn't have thought with those figure how they get 88% to the developing world paying rates like that to chuggers.

Screaminmidget · 11-05-2011 04:37PM

Dean0088 wrote: »

A few other things I wouldn't do -

Kill puppies in dog pounds!

I would.

Theres far worse things you could have to do to earn money...

paddy0090 · 11-05-2011 04:37PM

Still is kinda sick. Using charity to earn. Would it not be better to give directly to the charity? I'm pretty sure most people assume they're volunteers (maybe not people on boards because there are numerous threads but the average person).

Did something like it in Oz, wouldn't do it again unless.....
Over there you get $17.5 for every $35 you collect plus they pay a pension contribution( called super annuation) of 9%. They don't make their money off the contributions, they send out letters twice a year asking for donations and seeing as every donation up to $10,000 is tax free they do quite well. The donations they get door to door account for about 10% of their revenues.

You get treated quite badly at the door just for asking, Most people don't care if you're a volunteer or not they just abuse you. They struggle to keep collectors, so basically they have to be paid.

CrackisWhack · 11-05-2011 04:38PM

dooferoaks wrote: »

It wouldn't sell there anyway, best place to sell an ass or a donkey or any miniature beast of burden is a horse fair.

It's just an ass i have, Smithfield then?

Captain_Generic · 11-05-2011 04:39PM

I wouldn't suck dicks for cheeseburgers

stupidusername · 11-05-2011 05:09PM

Kalimah wrote: »

No no. Street and house to house fundraisers are directly employed by Concern. Deffo no commission. Just flat wage.

...of 13euro an hour...

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 11-05-2011 05:11PM

Part time limbo dancer.

stupidusername · 11-05-2011 05:15PM

I was going to say the only one i'd really not like to take is a chugger but for that wage I dunno.

Opelfruit · 11-05-2011 05:18PM

Aoiferz wrote: »

PAWS is commission only, 30% of your takings each day. I worked for them last summer for a bit. **** work, all you get is abuse in my experience

TBF people are just sick of chuggers at this stage. Walking through Dublin centre on a Saturday they are unavoidable. When some geezer in a wacky hat waves his clipboard at me and asks if I have a minute or if I'm an animal lover I just tell them "Sorry, I don't speak English"

Aoiferz · 11-05-2011 05:29PM

Opelfruit wrote: »

TBF people are just sick of chuggers at this stage. Walking through Dublin centre on a Saturday they are unavoidable. When some geezer in a wacky hat waves his clipboard at me and asks if I have a minute or if I'm an animal lover I just tell them "Sorry, I don't speak English"

And I absolutely understand that, it's part of the reason I left the job. I'm sick to death of them in town, and was even when I was one!

Fukuyama · 11-05-2011 05:32PM

stupidusername wrote: »

I was going to say the only one i'd really not like to take is a chugger but for that wage I dunno.

No wife of mine will become an annoying chugger! :eek:

Fukuyama · 11-05-2011 05:34PM

The PAWS people have a line to distract you - "Do you like puppies?"

reply with "Yeah, they're delicious!" ... their jaw just hangs in mid air for a split second whilst you make your getaway!

Gummy Panda · 11-05-2011 05:37PM

kfallon wrote: »

My name is Kfallon and I'm addiced to 'sneaky fingers' :rolleyes: :pac:

Just get a girl to lob it onto with a strap-on or buy a dildo with a suction cup that you can swivel on in the bath

Dionysus · 11-05-2011 05:59PM

Being in a job where you have to deal with people who have no hope, whose parents have no hope and who come from a section of our community which has very little hope. Trying to instil hope in such people is ineffably difficult. Without hope they can't see the purpose in improving their life. If it's your job to change that, and if you really care about helping to change lives for the better, it can be deeply dispiriting.

Social workers, teachers in deprived communities, addiction counsellors, abuse counsellors, people who work with the homeless and elderly, and voluntary and community activists generally do work that is incredibly underappreciated in western capitalist societies like our own, where mé féiner number crunchers get multiple times the financial reward and consequently respect that the unsung heroes who work on the margins receive.

HUNK · 11-05-2011 06:03PM

Captain_Generic wrote: »

I wouldn't suck dicks for cheeseburgers

I wouldn't be a menace to south central while drinking my juice in the hood.

swordofislam · 11-05-2011 07:37PM

Three years ago I took a job as a night porter that paid €9 an hour. I was pretty much the only Irish person working in the hotel and I am sure I only got it because they thought I was foreign. I had to clean the jacks and be a general dogsbody so No there's no job I wouldn't do.

CorkMan · 11-05-2011 07:54PM

Be a butler to some half-hearted "Emperor" who owns his own country off the coast of Ireland.

djPSB · 11-05-2011 08:01PM

A job is a job, cant be fussy anymore

bhur · 11-05-2011 08:46PM

Ara leave that craic to the foreigners

Eric Cartman · 11-05-2011 08:48PM

drug dealing , if it really got down to it id do that any day before

charity work
delivering leaflets
anything involving toilets
being a bouncer to some w*nker nightclub on the southside
retail
anything involving the public
dealing with kids
dealing with old people
working in brown thomas
working anywhere else snobs shop
fast food
tele-sales
anything except manager or barman in a pub

bhur · 11-05-2011 08:51PM

Eric Cartman wrote: »

drug dealing , if it really got down to it id do that any day before

charity work
delivering leaflets
anything involving toilets
being a bouncer to some w*nker nightclub on the southside
retail
anything involving the public
dealing with kids
dealing with old people
working in brown thomas
working anywhere else snobs shop
fast food
tele-sales
anything except manager or barman in a pub

Whats wrong with BT? The amount of gee in there!

Eric Cartman · 11-05-2011 08:53PM

bhur wrote: »

Whats wrong with BT? The amount of gee in there!

those women dont come cheap, youd probably get a room of porn stars cheaper than youd get a bint in that hole

Micky Dolenz · 11-05-2011 08:54PM

I would do any kind of a job,if it meant I didn't have to sit at home and do nothing. That would drive me nuts.

bhur · 11-05-2011 08:55PM

Eric Cartman wrote: »

those women dont come cheap, youd probably get a room of porn stars cheaper than youd get a bint in that hole

Dear god sir, i never suggested spending money, havent you heard of chloroform?

(Imagine dousing an expensive BT bra with chloroform, teeheehee! Fook Capitalism!)

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 11-05-2011 08:56PM

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I would do any kind of a job,if it meant I didn't have to sit at home and do nothing. That would drive me nuts.

What if you were being paid to sit at home and do nothing?

The 'lowest' Job You Would Take?

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