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Post by sadsaak on Feb 5, 2020 2:32:12 GMT
Best job - Mortuary Porter. It was great. The main (and almost only) job was collecting the bodies from the hospital wards and there were rarely more than two deaths a day. And the mortuary was maned 24 hours a day with three shifts and with two porters a shift. Some weeks I didn't do a single removal.
Worst job - Teaching maths in South London. The school was on special measures and facing closure. The teachers had given up and spent most of their time applying for other jobs or making official complaints about each other. And the kids were only there because they could not get into any other school. They weren't bad kids as such but I was dealing with 16 year olds who could not solve problems not so much because they lacked maths skills, but because their reading level was that of 10 year olds and they could not read the questions.
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Post by dirtypillows on Feb 5, 2020 3:11:05 GMT
Best: Video store Clerk in the late 90's-early 00's-I loved it so much I use the word clerk because it was pretty much like the movie clerks with me and my friends having fun and talking about movies (actually it was also a lot like High Fidelity but with movies instead of music) Worst: Summer Job at a Slaughter house-Now I don't mind gore but cleaning all that shit up is a whole other animal (pun intended) only lasted about a week there. I'm actually reading "High Fidelity" right now. It's pretty good. I've never seen the movie. I'm not a huge John Cusack fan. I mean, he's okay, but I like his sister better.
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Post by Xcalatë on Feb 5, 2020 10:36:23 GMT
Best: Video store Clerk in the late 90's-early 00's-I loved it so much I use the word clerk because it was pretty much like the movie clerks with me and my friends having fun and talking about movies (actually it was also a lot like High Fidelity but with movies instead of music) Worst: Summer Job at a Slaughter house-Now I don't mind gore but cleaning all that shit up is a whole other animal (pun intended) only lasted about a week there. I'm actually reading "High Fidelity" right now. It's pretty good. I've never seen the movie. I'm not a huge John Cusack fan. I mean, he's okay, but I like his sister better. It' s great but i never read the book so not sure how they compare and it's heavy on 'Cusack' so If you don't like him it will be hard to enjoy the movie.
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Post by Nora on Feb 5, 2020 11:40:36 GMT
Best = Toys R Us Worst = A treatment center. Dangerous work. Life threatening work. You literally have to take a class twice a year in self defense and how not to get killed. Did that job for a long time. Too long. what kept you doing this job?
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Post by maxwellperfect on Feb 6, 2020 4:59:34 GMT
Best: Grading standardized tests taken by grade schoolers -- endless entertainment! Worst: Attorney That sounds kinda cute. Can you give a little detail about what made the work so enjoyable? Many reasons. Sometimes just because the answers were so wrong or rife with funny spelling/grammatical errors. Some of the kids were wiseasses. But mainly it was fun in a "kids say the darndest things" sort of way; answers that were charmingly naïve or revealing odd thought processes that wouldn't occur to adults, or phrased in odd ways. For instance, one kid while explaining the importance of a good breakfast wrote a story about Michael Jordan missing breakfast and then screwing up a play and his coach exclaiming "that's not the way I drew it up!" and on like that. Silly stuff like that.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2020 7:55:51 GMT
Best: psychiatric nurse
Worst: Medication nurse in an understaffed for-profit nursing home.
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