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Max E. Pad
Registered: May 2011
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05-31-12 01:15 AM
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I don't necessarily think a low paying labor type job is a worst job, especially if you're young. I remember working at McD's when I was 16. We'd be shooting mustard and catchup at each other all day and eating junk food till we puked. All for .90 an hour. It was great!
Yeah, truth be told, my time as a McMonkey was probably the funnest job I ever had, Our Hockey coaches brother owned the joint so half our team worked their, and when it wasnt busy, all we would do is eat chicken mcnuggets and think of pranks to play on each other..... If I still worked there today I would probably weight 400 pounds, cause i used to put back like 30 mcnuggets a shift.....
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Mav88
Registered: Aug 2008
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05-31-12 02:33 PM
I haven't had too many 'shitty' jobs but the worst had to be 1 week as a camp cabin counselor for 8 retarded guys (no, real retards). One kid could barely walk, barely talk, and would shit in his bed now and then. Fortunately there were 2 smokers and I controlled their cigarettes, I made them clean up the shit before they got their smokes. The ~40 year old guy would stare at me like a 3 year old on christmas morning until I woke up, then start with his 'hey buddy, it's smoke time'. I called him Rev. Jim and also made him play pranks on other counselors before he got his smokes, my favorite being a cheek-to-cheek whisker rub. One guy really went off on me for that one, guess he had issues.
Other than that, pretty smooth sailing other than my work has been damned stressful and difficult at times. I watch "Dirty Jobs" to see how others work. Waiting for janitor at a porn theatre episode.
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Tsing Tao
Registered: Mar 2009
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05-31-12 02:52 PM
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These days a plumber can make a very good living. It can be some dirty work but its certainly an honorable trade.
And it's recession proof. You can try to save money on other things but when the toilet backs up, or the sink won't work...you call the plumber.
I remember stepping out of our office every morning. There was a construction site two buildings down and the smell of the sewer work there would always waft over to us. My boss would take a deep breath and go "Aahhh....the smell of money."
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377OHMS
Registered: Feb 2005
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05-31-12 02:56 PM
Quote from Tsing Tao:
And it's recession proof. You can try to save money on other things but when the toilet backs up, or the sink won't work...you call the plumber.
I remember stepping out of our office every morning. There was a construction site two buildings down and the smell of the sewer work there would always waft over to us. My boss would take a deep breath and go "Aahhh....the smell of money."
LOL! 
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CaptainObvious
Registered: Jun 2006
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05-31-12 03:27 PM
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Yeah, truth be told, my time as a McMonkey was probably the funnest job I ever had, Our Hockey coaches brother owned the joint so half our team worked their, and when it wasnt busy, all we would do is eat chicken mcnuggets and think of pranks to play on each other..... If I still worked there today I would probably weight 400 pounds, cause i used to put back like 30 mcnuggets a shift.....
Got me to thinking about my McD days. Back in the mid 60's there were no adults working at Mcd's. No women either, least not in the one I worked at. The manager was in his early 20's so it was pretty much a free for all.
Our manager Charlie, a American Indian guy, had a good part of his right jaw missing. Never knew how that happened. Anyway, me and a friend were screwing around in a field by the house one day, came across some kind of dead rodent skeleton. Cruel bastards that we were, we figured Charlie could use the jaw bone, so we took it in to work and left it on his desk. Charlie blew his stack for awhile, but we all ended up laughing our asses off. Got drunk and high while eating those Hot Apple Pie things they had. Burned the shit out of my tongue I was so friggin loaded.
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Yannis
Registered: Jan 2002
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05-31-12 03:38 PM
Yes, this is an excellent article.
I spent most vacations working at my uncle's great big store, at first just helping out and eventually selling shoes, shirts and various accessories, from the age of 12 until my sophomore year of college. Then I started spending my summers as an intern, working for my professors, finally doing "meaningful work" as the article says. My parents were happy, my uncle not so much.
Later, after getting my MBA, I interviewed with IBM. Both interviewers, a man and a woman, seemed kind of bored looking at my resume. The man asked me if that was all, had I listed all of my "meaningful" experience on that well crafted sheet of paper?
I said that I had also sold shoes and shirts etc when I was younger... They perked up. Where? For whom? Was I on commission? Did I like it? What did my bosses say about my work?
I was flabbergasted... answered all of their questions and waited for a break in their questioning to point out the papers I had authored in Physics and in Finance. That's nice, they agreed, and then asked me for names and phone numbers of my superiors from my earlier days.
They called them, and then the IBM lady called me and offered me a job in NYC, excellent salary and benefits.
Didn't take it... went to AT&T Bell Labs in NJ instead. That was not bad, but I underestand what Sowell means.
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