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Old 11 July 2017, 03:48 AM   #31
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The worst job I ever had was loading trucks for UPS during a summer break. I lasted two weeks after being told I had to load an extra truck everyday because I was fast.
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Old 11 July 2017, 04:28 AM   #32
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The worst job I ever had was loading trucks for UPS during a summer break. I lasted two weeks after being told I had to load an extra truck everyday because I was fast.
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Old 11 July 2017, 04:59 AM   #33
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I want to leave my current job in the worst way. I have two others that look like will be offered to me, and am having nervous breakdowns deciding which way to go. One is more money, more prestige, but not sure I would like it. The second is less money and honestly below my level, but I absolutely love what I would do and the company I would work for.

I guess this is a good problem to have, but it can drive you nuts.
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Old 11 July 2017, 05:04 AM   #34
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I want to leave my current job in the worst way. I have two others that look like will be offered to me, and am having nervous breakdowns deciding which way to go. One is more money, more prestige, but not sure I would like it. The second is less money and honestly below my level, but I absolutely love what I would do and the company I would work for.

I guess this is a good problem to have, but it can drive you nuts.
Go with the one that'll make you happy.
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Old 11 July 2017, 05:09 AM   #35
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I want to leave my current job in the worst way. I have two others that look like will be offered to me, and am having nervous breakdowns deciding which way to go. One is more money, more prestige, but not sure I would like it. The second is less money and honestly below my level, but I absolutely love what I would do and the company I would work for.

I guess this is a good problem to have, but it can drive you nuts.
Very rarely do people love what they do. For most, work is just a means to an end. Unless the difference in pay is enormous, I would probably go for the job you know you'll love. Even though it is below your level, as long as it doesn't impact your quality of life, I don't see an issue. I'm sure Anna would agree. Plus, there is always the opportunity to work your way up the ladder.
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Old 11 July 2017, 05:24 AM   #36
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Painting railings. Had a summer job when at school, working at a park. I painted railings,my mate creosoted fencing for 6 whole weeks. Taught me a lesson, and I worked a lot harder a school!
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Old 11 July 2017, 07:09 AM   #37
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Working retail, all the entitled and nasty customers
Working in a factor would drive me nut with repetitive actions

Top honors goes to this dude that has the job of cleaning sewers in India
Holy crap That's the ultimate dirty job.
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Old 11 July 2017, 07:16 AM   #38
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Old 11 July 2017, 07:21 AM   #39
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Reminds me a little of the colonoscopy thread - of you think having one is bad there are folk who spend all day shoving cameras up people's bottoms. Talk about same sh*t, different day...
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Old 11 July 2017, 07:28 AM   #40
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I never had a REALLY mind numbing job, but working for a guy with a room temperature IQ was rather bad. I did accounting in the early 80's before PC's and EBS systems. All was done with a pencil on greenbar paper and it stunk. We had a old-timer who wouldn't use a mechanical pencil as he saw that as a concession to automation. He DID use an electric pencil sharpener however, for which we constantly and rightly teased him.
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Most mind-numbing job I had was data entry for a leading Stockbrokers, I lasted less than a week, much preferred working in a greasy factory when I was 16.
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Old 11 July 2017, 07:30 AM   #42
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Very rarely do people love what they do. For most, work is just a means to an end. Unless the difference in pay is enormous, I would probably go for the job you know you'll love. Even though it is below your level, as long as it doesn't impact your quality of life, I don't see an issue. I'm sure Anna would agree. Plus, there is always the opportunity to work your way up the ladder.
Yup, get a job you love and you never work a day in your life.
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Old 11 July 2017, 07:56 AM   #43
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I'm a teacher. A high school teacher.
Is teaching hard?
It's impossible.
Why and how did you become a teacher?
The day I realised no one was paying attention to me every time I talk.

My favourite original and personal joke. But really it's the best job I've ever had you just find
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Old 11 July 2017, 08:31 AM   #44
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Always thought the worst job would be being a bad boxer.
Mind-numbing, to be sure, but in a different way.
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Old 11 July 2017, 08:35 AM   #45
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I want to leave my current job in the worst way. I have two others that look like will be offered to me, and am having nervous breakdowns deciding which way to go. One is more money, more prestige, but not sure I would like it. The second is less money and honestly below my level, but I absolutely love what I would do and the company I would work for.

I guess this is a good problem to have, but it can drive you nuts.
Its really hard deciding between happiness and money my generation always went for the money the new generation wants to be happy in their job if you get that very rare combo of money and happy then your a really blessed best of luck in your decision
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Old 11 July 2017, 08:47 AM   #46
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Always thought the worst job would be being a bad boxer.
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Old 11 July 2017, 08:53 AM   #47
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Always thought the worst job would be being a bad boxer.
Mind-numbing, to be sure, but in a different way.
Well I remember there was a famous $250m fight the winner got 60% of the 250 the loser got 40.. Imwould happily stand there for 3 hours getting battered by a world class boxer for 100m
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Old 11 July 2017, 09:50 AM   #48
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Very rarely do people love what they do. For most, work is just a means to an end. Unless the difference in pay is enormous, I would probably go for the job you know you'll love. Even though it is below your level, as long as it doesn't impact your quality of life, I don't see an issue. I'm sure Anna would agree. Plus, there is always the opportunity to work your way up the ladder.
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Yup, get a job you love and you never work a day in your life.
Thank you guys, and I am leaning towards that too (might be a moot point, haven't been offered EITHER job yet), but I know I got really excited when they called me and "encouraged" me to apply for this position. If I can get close to the money I am making now, at least withing 10 to 15K, I am 100% sure I will take it. My only concern is will I regret it later? Stepping down in prestige and title and responsability? That is really my only concern. I would definitely enjoy what I do and the people I work with.
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Old 11 July 2017, 10:14 AM   #49
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Old 11 July 2017, 11:30 AM   #50
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Apparently there is no one else here from the midwest.
The answer is detassling.
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Old 11 July 2017, 11:52 AM   #51
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Apparently there is no one else here from the midwest.
The answer is detassling.
If speaking from personal work experience, how many acres did you cover in a given day? Some of those cornfields go on for as far as the eye can see.
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Old 11 July 2017, 12:03 PM   #52
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If speaking from personal experience, how many acres did you cover? Some of those cornfields go on for as far as the eye can see.
It has been 33 years since I did it, do not remember, always worked in a crew anyway.

Decide to go to a couple of auctions when I was 15 and made more in 2 days than my classmates did over the entire summer, so there was no need to go back to that job.
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Old 11 July 2017, 12:05 PM   #53
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Apparently there is no one else here from the midwest.

The answer is detassling.


Lol. I did this for a few summers. As well as walk beans. It was pretty mindless work. Not bad for a kid though.


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Old 11 July 2017, 12:16 PM   #54
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Just something about row after row after row and thousands of stocks per row, doing the same thing over and over and over, swearing that it will never end. That is the definition of mindless.

I had dreams.... actually nightmares at night I couldn't even escape detassling in my sleep.
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laying carpet... i helped a mate who does it for a living a few times when his labourer called in sick................ even though i was doing it for free to help him i wouldnt do it for a living no matter how much you paid me lol!
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Apparently there is no one else here from the midwest.
The answer is detassling.
When I was 12 I did that for one day in Nebraska. Good money for a school kid, but you literally work like a slave in the hot fields, and they want you to move fast too.
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Old 12 July 2017, 11:01 PM   #57
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When I was 12 I did that for one day in Nebraska. Good money for a school kid, but you literally work like a slave in the hot fields, and they want you to move fast too.
Oh the memories. I was eager to work and earn some money at 14, so my brother and I took a detassling job. I talked my mom into driving us out to the country for the bus pickup (we were city kids). What a horrible job! The first 10 minutes an ambulance was called because another kid got hit in the eye socket with a cob and required medical attention. We were sunburn like lobsters. The guys literally treated us like slaves, and after all the hard work we got bitched out on the bus for not working hard enough. I quit immediately. I might have only been 14, but I knew disrespect and wasn't putting up with that nonsense.
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What a horrible job! The first 10 minutes an ambulance was called because another kid got hit in the eye socket with a cob and required medical attention.
Sounds like you had it easy.
One day we had 3 people go down with heat stroke. They stuck them in the bus, (no AC), and the rest of us had to do another row and back.
Ambulance calls?????? Whats that?
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Oh the memories. I was eager to work and earn some money at 14, so my brother and I took a detassling job. I talked my mom into driving us out to the country for the bus pickup (we were city kids). What a horrible job! The first 10 minutes an ambulance was called because another kid got hit in the eye socket with a cob and required medical attention. We were sunburn like lobsters. The guys literally treated us like slaves, and after all the hard work we got bitched out on the bus for not working hard enough. I quit immediately. I might have only been 14, but I knew disrespect and wasn't putting up with that nonsense.
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Sounds like you had it easy.
One day we had 3 people go down with heat stroke. They stuck them in the bus, (no AC), and the rest of us had to do another row and back.
Ambulance calls?????? Whats that?
And these days kids moan if they are asked to wash up...
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For me, personally, it was feeding/operating plastic injection moulding machines when I was a kid still at school. However, seeing people in their late teens, 20's, 30's, 40's and beyond doing the same was a very good push factor to want to attain more. A year later when I was the weekend supervisor of the factory and seeing ex school mates working on the machines full time doing overtime was even more of a factor to want more.

BUT...That floor had one of the most fun, friendly and relaxed atmosphere's to date I've ever worked in and I always remember it for that.
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