Worst? I've had two that really stick out in mind. Been working since I was 14, Im 28 now so *LOTS* of jobs doing everything
1st right outside of highschool.... I went on a lead, and these guys at this pallet building company was going on about how they were making $20-25/hr building pallets.
Okay... being young and stupid I got a job at that shit hole.
So try lifting a nail gun as heavy as a watermellon, and pounding about 2,000 nails a day with that. Building about 150-200 pallets.
Each pallet paid a whopping $0.20 each to build. I did the math, I was making $7-8/hr doing that.
The guys making decent money were given the pallets that pay the most to make. If the boss didn't like you then....
After a few weeks, I had such severe tendinitis it took me 45min just to take a piss, since I needed both hands to undo my zipper (etc). After that it was basically a mutual fuck off...
THAT was a brutal shit job... hoo-lee shit.
To this day doing repetitive tasks, (or washing my car with a pressure gun) the tendinitis flairs right up again. Its excruciating.
2nd was after being laid off from doing Wireline in the Oilpatch working up in Whitecourt.
There was NOTHING for work, so a friend got me a job doing well testing, but doing it on the nightshift.
Setting up the sites & tearing them down was hell,
15 hours of slugging 200-300 pound sections of pipe over your shoulder, trudging through 2-4 feet of snow, in the dead of winter in the middle of butt fuck no where.
The pay? $200/day....
1 week of that and I was done, I moved back to here.
Best? Limo driver/ fleet manager for Canada's biggest limo company. That was a blast, everyday was different, and sometimes the money was just frickin' ridiculous.
($1200 US a day I was tipped once by this U.S. film makers wife).
Last edited by Graham_A_M; 11-28-2010 at 04:44 PM.
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