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Your best and worst ever jobs?

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And why?

This could be funny ~πŸ˜„


Edit: I’ll leave it open before I post mine so others can set the tone.


@diver having only worked at one place and still there 28 years later i think i must of found my dream job or too lazy to leave (having said that i have left twice and they lure me back)

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Oh so easy this! - A ‘Casual Domestic’ (spits the words out!) for Social Services!!! - equivalent to one of those zero hours contracts these days. They’d employ me for 3 weeks then I had to sign on at the Dole Office for benefit for a week, then they had me back for 3 weeks, then back in the dole etc etc. Such a con! As it meant that I could never accumulate a single annual leave day! It seemed a good option after leaving art college but I couldn’t even afford to buy any art materials ☹️ BUT …I have never yet failed to remember my National Insurance after having to ‘sign on’ so oftenπŸ˜–

My best job? The one I did for public services which gave me job security for the last 33 years.


@diver said
This could be funny ~πŸ˜„
worst -
dishwasher, pizza cook, table buss at kraphandles restaurant
mark krumhansel, proprietor
even tho once i was drafted to wash an xke jaguar for a bar patron
i've never heard a more satisfying motor than that V12

best -
gigolo in new orleans, house of the rising sun

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@Wycombe-Al said
@diver having only worked at one place and still there 28 years later i think i must of found my dream job or too lazy to leave (having said that i have left twice and they lure me back)
Without giving too much away, what is it you do?

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32 years in the same job, that’s some commitment.

Pleased it paid off though in terms of pension.

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Sorry to everyone for that tangent. Please follow on from diver's OP.


As usual, I should have remembered:

These people are not my friends.


@diver said
And why?

This could be funny ~πŸ˜„


Edit: I’ll leave it open before I post mine so others can set the tone.
Worst job, celery packer. (Summer holiday job as a teenager). Tedious and repetitive, only made bearable by the radio. (For 20 years after was unable to eat celery).

Best job, Ice cream seller (another summer holiday job). Pushed a barrow along the promenade in Clacton, eating free ice lollies when out of sight of the café owner. (He never counted his stock). Very popular that summer with friends.


worst job ever -
food taster for the king

not the worst job ever -
wench tester for the king


@diver said
And why?

This could be funny ~πŸ˜„


Edit: I’ll leave it open before I post mine so others can set the tone.
all my jobs have been a pain in the ass, hard work ,long hours,even tried working for myself,just as bad.


Worst: Delivering thread in the Montreal garment district. (Summer job late 50s…not my age)
Best: Self employment Sales.