I don't think I've ever had a "bad" job, just incredibly boring ones. My husband once scooped doggy doo for other people just to get enough money to put food on the table. He too, is willing to do anything - well, was - getting older has slowed him way down.

It all balances, if we didn't have the "bottom" - we couldn't have the "top".

I watched a program on the History Channel the other night about worst jobs back in the "olde days". One of the jobs was the royal bum wiper, or the Groomsman of the Stool. His job, which was considered a "top" (go figure, wiping bottoms a top job) position and attracted aristocrats. Not just anyone could wipe the king's arse! Some of the other jobs were just horrifying...glad I'm a "modern" girl...

I was a bartender in a club called Talk Of The Town in Lawton OK, while living in a dry town (Vernon Texas) when I was only 17 years old. I also got married in Vernon, anyway.... people brought in a bottle of booze with their name on it  and I would mix it with non-alcoholic beverages. 

"Give me a Sparks on the rocks with a Dr. Pepper back please. lol

I actually haven't had any real bad jobs. Some I might not have enjoyed a whole lot, but I've been fairly lucky. I used to work out at the Pegasus Foundation. For those of you who don't know it's a save heaven for rescued race horses and thoroughbreds. I think they take in horses regardless of breed now, but I'm not sure. Anyway, I bucked hay, cleaned stalls, cleaned wounds, helped give meds, etc. It was a pretty dirty job, but I love horses so I really didn't mind it.

I also used to work at a call center for Budget Car Rentals. Let me tell ya there are some freaks out there who will use any ol' 800 number to fulfill their 900 number fix! Blahhhhhhhh!

Hey B'Dog--what are you going to school for?  What do you want to be when you grow up?

I think my worst jobe was detasseling corn and field work, and shoveling snow!

My best job was being the Barn Manager for the largest horse hospital in Suthern California!

My worst ever job was working at Mervyns in Monterey.  For me, nothing is worse than a customer service job.  And they assigned me to work as a "credit rover" once, where I had to walk around trying to get people to sign up for their credit cards.  Sorry, I think it's immoral to try to sap people into acquiring debt.  So I just went around asking people if they needed help with anything, helped a lot of people find clothes or services they were looking for, and was never assigned that job again.

Other bad job- I was a picker at a warehouse.  That job was fine (boring, but ok), but there was one kind of picking they half-trained me on that was terrible.  It was where you had these little boxes and you picked tiny items like thread or individual jars of paint.  I don't know why I hated it so much, but it was horrible.  I much preferred "slapping" or picking bulk items.  Yeah, I had some muscles back then :)

Countygirl- I saw an ad today in the AV Press for a "telephone actress"!  Is has to be some kind of 900 number thing, lol!!

I worked one summer at a slaughter house when I was 16. I grew up hunting and fishing and thought it would be no big deal. I was very wrong. The smell of death was on me so bad that our family dog did not come near me for over 2 months. After college, I worked in Hazmat for years. I traveled the world and in doing so, I fell in love with food from around the world (I also met my wife while in China). When I got married I promised my wife I would stop doing Haz work and I did. But, the very last job that I did was not only super close to home but was also grim to say the least. Our neighbor (a 30 something male) at our apartment complex in Long Beach died in his apartment.  About 3 days later, I could smell him rotting. I called the police as I knew that smell oh too well and I saw that his mail was backed up in the box. The police broke the door down and he was on the sofa. I won't get into details. I identified the body and as fate would have it, my company had the contract to clean up the apartment of all biohaz. The next day, I suited up with one other coworker and went in and cleaned up the body fluids that had released from his corpse. Had to cut the sofa up with a chain saw to be incinerated and the same goes for the carpet under the sofa. He was a nice young man. We lived next to him for 4 years. I never found out how he died. I have many haz stories that are pretty bad.

ohohohoh!!! Nasty!!!  That is pretty bad matokanji!!

Wow, Mato...I'm surprised you didn't become a vegetarian after that! 

Joty, that's FUNNY!  Working on an assembly line, inside, no end in sight. When your done, well do 500,000 more. I would mentally go to my 'HAPPY PLACE', truly was the worst back pain ever!

Whatever the title ot the task, the worst job has to be when you're really good at something and you really care about doing it well, but your bosses don't care about anything but making More Money! More Money! with absolutely no regard for providing customers with a professional, quality product. When an employer doesn't give you the tools and resources to do the best possible job, or a reasonable amount of compensation or even strokes for managing to pull it all off, no matter how hard you work, you'll always have nothing but too much stress and a mediocre product (at best) to show for your exhaustive efforts. When the honchos finally manage to suck the life from every last worker who hung in there anyway, the doors will finally close leaving a hole in the community they're supposed to be dedicated to serving.      

My list of jobs:

Apple packer (Nunes Ranch)

Baby Sitter

Sides and Fries (Carl's Jr in Mojave)

Waitress

Insulation installer

Painter

Loan Processor

Pizza Place, loan processor and admin assist (3 jobs at once)

Telemarketer

Admin Assistant

Mom

Bartender

Drug Addict (believe me!! that was a job, this was my worst one)

Customer Service

Pole Dancer-just twice but i got paid for it

and lets just say "Salesman"...i wont elaborate

OH AND BIGDOG...CAN YOU ACTUALLY SAY SH$T ON THIS BLOG?