Hail Of A Day

Have you ever had a job you just hate?  Haven’t we all?  Most of the jobs in the first part of my career made me feel like a rat in a cage.  I remember the feeling of looking into my future and feeling that I would never get to where I wanted to go.  Didn’t matter that I didn’t know what I wanted at the time, just the nagging feeling that I wasn’t on the right track.  Everyone pays their dues if they’re going to go on to something successful.

The worst job I ever had (besides Red Lobster) was when I was in college and I worked in a golf merchandise kiosk in the middle of the Lubbock mall.  The problem was that my boss was an alcoholic, ex-pro golfer who was living off a dwindling trust fund.  So he was a strange cocktail of a man: part laid-back, part desperate, and definitely on the rocks.  As far as I know, I was his only employee and I don’t remember making one sale in the first week I was there.  Nobody wanted to buy golf ball corkscrews at 1p in the middle of the mall on a Thursday.  During the 3 weeks I worked there, I watched him deteriorate, quite like Nicholas Cage in the movie, “Leaving Las Vegas”.  I got paid minimum wage and just barely that.  The worst part of the job besides the sheer boredom was that he would lurk around the corners to see if I was jumping on potential customers that walked by.  He scared the bejeebers out of me and seemed to get a lot of joy out of sneaking up on me.

What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?  I love the ad below, been there…

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