Education & Work What's the hardest job you've ever done?

Dont know why, but I was thinking about all the various jobs I've done over the years, and it got me wondering what awful/hard jobs the Property Chatters have done?

The hardest one for me was hay-carting as teenager; in the 40-plus degree heat of the Riverina on a dairy farm - start at dawn each day and go through until around 9.00pm or so.

 

Hardest for me was having to work in a role under a manager that I could not get on with. We just never built a good working relationship.
She was 3 days a week P/T, just had her second child which made things difficult.

If we started on the right foot it probably would have been fine, but we never got to a stage were it was a good relationship. After a number of months, I left.

Now we are 4 years on from then and I recently heard from an ex-colleague that that whole team more or less got disbanded... the whole division got put under another boss who apparently "does not believe in analytics".

Access to the data and databases was cut off... and if you are in the analytics space what are you going to do? So pretty much all my colleagues from there have since fled, and anybody who is still there is miserable.

 

Rigging in the NT and Pilbara.

Still doing it lol

 

During year 10/11 summer school holidays I went to Goondiwindi with some mates and did cotton chipping.. weed removal in the cotton fields in 40 degree heat.
That was the biggest motivation to finish off school with decent grades to get into uni and never do another labor job again..

 

I'd say the most boring job I had was filing at my aunty's company while in late high school/during uni break...

And the job I really couldn't do was customer service at KFC. I was 15 at the time. I just couldn't do it! Bad dreams...

 

Tyre Retreading factory in my teens, dirty smelly tyres, old tread buffed/grinded off, heat of the mould presses curing the new rubber on.

Best job was working the Surfers Paradise night clubs during the 80's.

 

Get paid well for it though
Could be bored ******** in a dumpy, or roller

 

Worst job
(but I did get used to it, and miss it a little)
(Learnt not to wear boots home and walk on the grass=dead)

Working in a tannery

So long as I worked 5/6 days a week
(The smell didn't get to me)

Once a week I'd have to replace a bearing(s) on "THE FLESHER"
(Where the hides would go thru to remove any fat/flesh)
(Id have maggots falling down on to me)

Apart from that one machine, I liked the job
(#SEGA world rally, driving a forklift )
(Very ordinary pay, good call out rates, boss had to be NICE as No one else would do the job, effectively got left alone )

Would I do it again, HELL NO, that was 15 years ago ..............
(Done lots, from hay carting, 70deg metal smelting to making windscreens !)
Hardest "job" ever, being a divorced/step parent !!!!!! # WORST

 

My worst job was actually a promotion,to the floor at an abattoir,i didn't take the job,in those days this was the pinnacle of employment at Jacobs, top money,unlimited overtime,if it got to 28 D on the floor you went home,just couldn't do it.The tannery was next door, awful place.

 

Raising teenagers.

 

Paper rounds early in the morning. Hated it with a passion. I still refuse to pick up a newspaper.

 

Factory labour job, and working at the butchers as a teen.
Nothing quite like dad encouraing you to take ***** jobs to demonstrate that work is hard so passive property monies is the smarter path to take in life.

Working in my dad's rubber factory as a kid as a labourer, for lack of better word. Working the furnaces and moving empty palettes/boxes around with forklifts unlicensed.
Epic pay though for an 18yo with 1.5x after 4:30pm and 2x on weekends. Remember pocketing $1000 on a particularly busy week.
Fun fact: the window linings on the old Tangara Cityrail trains were from this factory.

Also, working as a casual assist at the local butcher shop making sausages and mince.
Imagine lifting a 120kg tower of chicken breast (6 tubs, each 20kg) over a step into the freezer, and every hour or so carrying a 20kg tub out to refill the shop front. 5am starts.
Stopped being a lanky kid after I left that job and started taking gym seriously.

 

Yeh true, done those jobs in the mines... mind numbing stuff

 

Most tedious job. Counting bolts in 1990 or 1991 during a stocktake at kmart Penrith. Used to individually price them too. That was well before barcode scanners became the norm.

I had a red leather tie spattered with paint from tinting and mixing paint.

At my parents hardware store in Port Macquarie in the 80's we used to sell nails by the kilo. Those were the days.

 

Like yesterday I still remember doing my younger brothers "paper round" ( under parental duress, so he didn't lose it)
Seeing Hayley's Commet every morning for a few months didn't seem all that great back then.......
Best "NON JOB" I ever had

 

Wasn’t my gig but many years ago had a flatmate who worked at a stud piggery. It was his responsibility to “milk” the boars. Many will need to think about that terminology – it refers to the process of extracting and collecting semen. I never considered I had a bad job by comparison!
When we used to go out meeting ladies on Friday nights he simply used to say he was involved with animal husbandry, without going into the details.

 

I feel your pain. What made it worse was every Sunday morning this bloke would walk out in his undies after he obviously had a good morning. These days he would probably be in jail if he did that. It was a bit awkward.

 

Was an accountant for a confectionery company in the 1980s - had a problem with mice in the samples room.

Could not use chemicals around the stock etc so they put the sticky strips everywhere.

First task each morning was to take a full soft drink bottle in and clobber all the stuck mice - then rip them off.

The squealing use to rise as they saw me coming - use to stick with me all day.

 

< is this the puke emoticon?

 

Telemarketing...oh god it was awful. Convincing people to by things they didn't need with money they didn't have to impress people they didn't like....

It was all so wrong. I left after two shifts.