The job I had before my current job was so incredibly painful, I truly loathed going into work each and every day!

It wasn’t as much the work as it was my employer… he was bi-polar and his behavior created the most uncomfortable work environment I have ever been in. I happily resigned after being there for about a year & a half. My current jub is MUCH better.

As far as bad short-term jobs… I worked at Wendy’s as the “salad bar clean up guy” back when Wendy’s still had salad bars. I lasted 2 1/2 days then walked out half way through my shift. It felt incredibly good to walk out too – you don’t even know!

The second was excruciating. I spent the summer coding soil survey maps by counting the dots in different regions and writing them down on a large piece of paper. I thought I would lose my mind!!!

meat packager
grocery sacker
hamburger flipper
frozen yogurt seller
bank teller
waiter
ditch digger
construction worker
roofer
life insurance salesman
business owner (shaved ice place)
retail store manager
district manager
business owner again (lumberyard)
district manager again (diff company)
vice president

All of them sucked except owning the lumberyard. I’d still be doing that if I was the majority owner. If you’re not the lead dog, the view never changes.

I was a merry maid & while most of the customers were fine there was that 5-10% that never cleaned any part of their home (like wiping off the kit counters) because they figured that’s what they paid us for. I remember walking into an apt & the stench was such that Olga (my team mate & friend) grabbed me by the arm as I stood there with my jaw dropped, dragged me out and drove us to the dollar store to get rubber gloves & many gallons of bleach (both were no-no’s according to our boss).

The absolute worst for me was when I worked the front desk at the child support office… I felt so bad for those kiddos whose mothers weren’t very “moral”. I’d go home & cry for those kids and what their parents put them through sometimes – I was only 19 at the time but the experience will probably stick with me for life.

I’ve worked a lot of restaurants and telemarketing too… either as seasonal or to d something until I got a real job… I hated them all but it brought in money. I always feel sorry for the people who do those as their primary job & income – those places lay people off, cut hours, etc at the drop of a hat.

Hated it!

Operating a tow-truck had to be the worst job I ever had. I was still in college and had to work nights. And the easiest days for me to work were Thursday-Sunday. So I had the weekend nights.

That job was horrible for so many reasons that getting robbed at the gas-station (a job I had after leaving the tow company) seemed tame. I was half convinced that I would be found dead by the side of the road while working there. Or that I would wreck the truck and die that way. I was working 40-60 hours weeks on top of my 18 credit hours in college so I was surviving on coffee and fear instead of sleep.

One night I accidentally put my hand into the gore that had been the top of a drunk driver’s head (and was now covering her dash)… and all I could think was, “I hope I remember to wash my hands before I get something to eat.” I was cold and jaded to everything around me.

And, since I was constantly exposed to blood and was also experiencing tons of small cuts and slices (from exposed metal and wires)… I also had a deep fear that I had contracted AIDS or Hep. while one the job.

And let’s not even talk about the people I worked with — or the people I ended up towing. I will never do that job again.

I quit when I started hallucinating from lack of sleep and the boss refused to cut my hours down to 30. So I gave my two weeks notice and cut my hours down to zero.