Jun 05
A job you don’t like
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.
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June 10th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Funny job! I have a whole new respect for you. My worst job was when I worked at a hospital as an Executive Secretary for four miserable days. I was told I couldn’t associate with anyone else in the hospital but those on the “Executive Floor,” couldn’t leave my desk with one scrap of paper on it even to get up and go to the bathroom, was required to buy my Christmas gifts from the hospital gift store, had my job evaluated by how many hospital-related social events I attended, blah, blah, blah. The best day of my work life was going into my boss and telling her I valued myself too much to continue to work there. Feeling good!!!
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June 11th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
One thing that I have learned is that there is a whole lot of difference between a job you hate that is not meeting your financial needs and a job you hate that is meeting your financial needs.
Worst job would be the 1/2 day I spent on the phone trying to sell Circus tickets. Went to lunch and never came back.
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