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igor2003 -> RE: "Lesser work" (10/1/2011 8:06:57 AM)
I grew up in a rural area, so most of my early jobs revolved around farm work...bucking hay, changing sprinkler lines, drove truck in the mint harvest for two seasons, ran a hay swather one summer (For those that aren't familiar with them, those are the machines that cut the hay and leaves it in long rows to be baled after it dries.) My first full-time job was as an orderly in a nursing home. Worked in the foam room of a furniture factory for a few years cutting big blocks of foam rubber into cushion sizes. Worked in mobile home factories doing framing and electrical work, loaded raw cowhides onto railroad flatcars, loaded frozen french-fries into refrigerated boxcars, pulled parts in the parts department of a place that sold agricultural equipment, taught dance lessons once a week for a year, was an apprentice electrician, and worked for the state on a bridge repair crew. My "career" work has been framing and finish carpentry in both residential and commercial construction, and doing everything from grunt work to company foreman.

xssve -> RE: "Lesser work" (10/1/2011 8:11:03 AM)
My uncle was a rancher, he imported the first Limousines from France, so although I didn't get paid for it, I fisted and impregnated a cow one summer! My cousins thought that was really funny.

sirsholly -> RE: "Lesser work" (10/1/2011 8:14:04 AM)
quote: There is no such thing as "lesser work". There is work...and there is sloth. i worked as a sloth

sirsholly -> RE: "Lesser work" (10/1/2011 8:26:37 AM)
Hmmm,,,.recalling these is quite the challenge (because of the brain injury..NOT because of age. Bunch of smartasses, lemmetellya) since i was 12.. -washing cars -cleaning houses -phone solicitation (apologies to whomever i annoyed) -babysitter (all children/property survived) -cleaning an apt building -supermarket stock person -supermarket cashier -bank teller -photography assistant -seamstress in college theater dept until i finally graduated.

zephyroftheNorth -> RE: "Lesser work" (10/1/2011 8:37:23 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: sirsholly quote: There is no such thing as "lesser work". There is work...and there is sloth. i worked as a sloth I worked as a sloth double. No challenge at all and the pay is good. On a more serious note, I've done everything from cleaning tables in a fast food court to cashier in a music store before finding work in my field. As far as I'm concerned if it pays the rent, bills, and puts food on the table there is no shame in doing it. I remember when my (now ex) neighbor went from working as an accountant for a company that made the material for clothing sold in two retail stores to working in a pharmacy. She clearly thought her new job beneath her and her attitude shone right through. IMO she was working and there was nothing wrong with the job she had found and her attitude was annoying to me as it said that not only she but her coworkers were in a demeaning job. Zeph

Missokyst -> RE: "Lesser work" (10/1/2011 9:01:33 AM)
LOL now that has got to be the most unusual job I have heard of so far. quote: ORIGINAL: xssve I fisted and impregnated a cow one summer! My cousins thought that was really funny.

Missokyst -> RE: "Lesser work" (10/1/2011 9:21:10 AM)
That reminds me of why I brought up this thread. I used to know a former college professor that worked alongside me shoving freight at Walmart. He was raised with money and was the son of a lawyer and a professor. If you can imagine Frasier Crane (or Niles!), doing manual labor that would be the closest description to this man. During breaks he would only sit with people he could impress with his pedigree, or kiss up to management for their connections to a better job. He was fired after about 6 months or so and I didn't see him again for about a year. He was working in a Blockbuster as their new manager, but that only lasted for 2 months. I saw him again at the local movie theater working in concessions. And some months later he was the cashier at Dairy Queen. It was not until then that when we caught up I saw a humble man. He had lost his wife, house, been through so many different jobs and most recently had to buy a used van to live in while he continued his job search because that DQ was moving and downsizing for a mini mall. quote: ORIGINAL: zephyroftheNorth She clearly thought her new job beneath her and her attitude shone right through. IMO she was working and there was nothing wrong with the job she had found and her attitude was annoying to me as it said that not only she but her coworkers were in a demeaning job. Zeph

xssve -> RE: "Lesser work" (10/1/2011 10:57:54 AM)
Well, thing is, I like construction, workers have a reputation for being stupid, and I'll admit I've worked for some real numbnuts, but they don't last: margins are very tight, and you have to squeeze every bit of productivity out of every motion and stick of wood, scheduling is critical, because every phase depends on the previous phase being completed and approved. Without speed, precision and planning, you'll lose your ass in no time. So it's challenging, but the real bonus is I'm not stuck behind a desk doing the same thing over and over again, I'm outside in the fresh air (and the rain the snow, and the wind) getting plenty of exercise! I would not have traded places with a cubicle monkey in a million years, and I still crave it, now that back problems have me mostly stuck behind a desk. In fact, I've been lying about my back for years because a lot of people are nervous about hiring somebody with back problems, I just can't hide it any more, but I really love the work, it's very satisfying, I feel sorry for all the schmucks in monkey suits trying to Brown nose their way into the head office.

lizi -> RE: "Lesser work" (10/1/2011 11:40:36 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Missokyst LOL now that has got to be the most unusual job I have heard of so far. quote: ORIGINAL: xssve I fisted and impregnated a cow one summer! My cousins thought that was really funny. Heh, that reminded me of my Anatomy/Physiology teacher 2 semesters ago. I took the class out to one of our restaurants after class was done for the semester and she was the life of the party after one drink. Turns out she spent a summer while a college student ejaculating animals for a company that froze and sold the sperm. She said a pig would fill a good sized thermos and has a corkscrew shaped penis. I think that is up there in the weird job category as well. She also told us the story of her good friend who was going through a medical internship recently and was on duty when a case of severe priaprism came in. They needed someone to hold the guy's penis and put external pressure on it- not sure why exactly. The low man on the totem pole (the intern) ended up gripping this guy's penis for a good while, over an hour, while they assembled a surgical team and got everyone ready. His comment to my teacher was that it was errrr, a bit uncomfortable conversing with the gentleman and reassuring him and such while he had a death grip on his penis. Also not a job I'd necessarily want to have.

xssve -> RE: "Lesser work" (10/1/2011 11:56:28 AM)
External pressure prevents all that excess internal blood pressure from causing the penis to rupture and the patient bleeding out. Beating pigs off sounds like one of those jobs, while interesting, not really one you'd want to brag about, fer sure, lol.

LaTigresse -> RE: "Lesser work" (10/1/2011 12:51:36 PM)
Oh good grief....I seriously do not think I could list every single thing I've done. I started with a paper route with my brother when we were old enough the Des Moines Register would allow. Getting up early in the morning and trudging down to the pickup centre, filling the wagon and off we would go. Doing that paper route gave me my first 'flasher dirty old man' experience. Shriveled up old fucker. He would pretend to be sleeping on the sofa they had on their screened in porch.....which I was supposed to enter to stick the paper through the metal mail slot in the main front door. He gained a whole new respect for my dad after that. My second job was at age almost 14, as a waitress at Winga's restaurant! I still remember the little brown envelopes with the pay all figured out on the front and exact cash inside. Since then.......detassling, roguing beans, pulling chickens, just about anything I could do on a farm with cattle, hogs, crops, chickens. Powerwashing a hog confinement building in August is sooooooo not fun. Neither is doing shots teeth and tails. Orrr helping a sow have babies. Yep, I've had my arm in a sow's vagina all the way up to my shoulder and.....it hurts. Cattle and horses are much easier in that regard but you've got to watch out for the occasional nasty kick. Vet work on most animals. Have driven any vehicle required on the farm, including a semi tractor trailer a few times. My favourite is a combine......feel like you own the fucking world in one of those! I trained and showed horses for pay for a number of years also. Any work involving horses, I've done it. Most anything that needed done in a fancy supper club.....other than the actual entertainment. This chick cannot sing nor dance. I started there as a waitress and ended up manager. (before there was a mysterous fire and they closed it). Also waitressed several other times in various types of restaurants. Mailroom clerk. Landscaper. Credit card collection specialist for a fancy women's clothing store line....they had their own credit cards. Worked for an industrial tool supply company for 7 years. Started as receptionist and was a special accounts manager when I left. Several years in the health insurance business until I just couldn't stand it any longer. Specially trained for tool and die stuff. And now I work primarily in the printing industry. I started there as secretary/customer service and now am the manager. I also have my own business of photography I do in my 'spare time'. The job I hated most was probably a toss up between the tool company because of the atmosphere and the insurance biz because of the lack of integrity of the companies I had to represent. The most jobs I've held at once would be one full time and two part time. If I remember correctly. I very likely, did the occasional fourth of something if asked. In fact, now that I think about it. When I was working at the tool company I was waiting tables/whatever else they needed, for a local group of restaurants, doing a morning paper route, showing horses on weekends, AND doing construction clean up in the evenings when I wasn't working for the restaurants. So that would be 5 at once, kinda sorta.

lizi -> RE: "Lesser work" (10/1/2011 2:24:37 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: xssve External pressure prevents all that excess internal blood pressure from causing the penis to rupture and the patient bleeding out. Beating pigs off sounds like one of those jobs, while interesting, not really one you'd want to brag about, fer sure, lol. Hey thanks! I really wanted to know the why about that and well, it was going to sound weird if I asked any of my current teachers lol! When she was telling us the story I didn't want to break the momentum to interrupt and ask, but I always wondered....

littlewonder -> RE: "Lesser work" (10/1/2011 3:55:26 PM)
I just realized I forgot the one "lesser job" I held as a kid....a huckster. My family would sell fruits and veggies out of the back of our pickup truck on the side of the road. It was actually kinda fun. We made enough to get by.

Marc2b -> RE: "Lesser work" (10/1/2011 4:05:17 PM)
My first paying job was at age 12 mowing lawns. Since then I have also been: A hay bailer A wood cutter A fork lift driver A dish washer A pizza delivary man A cab driver A cab dispatcher An ass wiper (AKA a group care aid for the severely mentally retarded) A fact checker And now I am in advertising and promotions.

LillyBoPeep -> RE: "Lesser work" (10/1/2011 4:24:17 PM)
my best job was working in a hospital records department. i've worked in printing companies, a warehouse/fulfillment center for an online megastore. right now, since i can't seem to find a "regular" job, i do a lot of odd-job type stuff -- scrap metal, moving stuff for people, cleaning up gross things or heavy things or "in the way" things. i shoveled snow last winter, and hopefully i can get that job again this winter.

zephyroftheNorth -> RE: "Lesser work" (10/1/2011 4:29:08 PM)
quote: my best job was working in a hospital records department. Bet you wouldn't want to work in Medical Records at my hospital. They've just started the project to make patient records available in the hospital system. That means that the charts are being scanned...page by page.

LillyBoPeep -> RE: "Lesser work" (10/1/2011 4:31:04 PM)
that's actually the job i did; i was really good at it and got loads done super fast. i actually love that job.

zephyroftheNorth -> RE: "Lesser work" (10/1/2011 4:35:39 PM)
Yeah but I'll bet that was hospital policy. This is brand new and the hospital is a trauma centre; we see more patients than most of the other hospitals.

slvemike4u -> RE: "Lesser work" (10/1/2011 4:38:39 PM)
Let's see.....paper route first,than delivery boy for a drug store(that worked so well I wound up working for three different druggists in my neighborhood....I was the busiest 14 year old in the area...but I always had pocket money...lol).Barnes and Noble while I attended college....worked as a summer intern for Verizon,they offered me a full time job....and what the heck,I was spending too much time hanging out in the science lounge anyway...so college was done(always told myself I would go back...but never did).put in 20 some odd years in Verizon and left there when I became a single parent of a ten year old(best decision I ever made....The young man my son has become is proof enough of that). Waited tables at my friends Italian restaurant on weekends for awhile while I raised my son....he was now in was in high school and well on his way to where he is,definitely over the divorce and once again happy so I decided I wanted to get back to work ,but I didn't want to go back in an office so I decided to drive a truck( worse decision I ever made,ex- wife aside) trucks often need to be loaded and unloaded....my middle aged back was not up to it...hence my disability and the end of my working career

LillyBoPeep -> RE: "Lesser work" (10/1/2011 4:38:56 PM)
the only thing i minded were the gross pictures. but it was a fairly straightforward job and mostly late night hours so i was there by myself. it wasn't so nice being there by myself while the renovations were happening and we got moved to the basement, but it wasn't bad. we scanned documents that had been in storage, new documents on the shelves, everything. it was fun. that hospital was just starting a new database, so it wasn't an ongoing policy, we were the beginning of a new practice.

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