What's the best/worst job you've ever had?

[x Hello Kitty x]

Hi, I'm new here. /phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif I need some advice...
Over the past few months, I've been getting really fed up with my job and I've been considering quitting my old job and getting a new one. I'm a student right now and so basically, I'm limited to crappy low-level jobs until I get my degree. Most of the jobs that I've done in the past have been in an office setting or data-entry stuff. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions about good places to work or jobs to have. What is the best job that you've ever had and why or what is the worst job that you've ever had and why?

[x Hello Kitty x]

Oops! I probably should have posted this under the "work" area instead of the "life" area...

[crazy-girl]

I worked in a restaurant in college and enjoyed that. I got tip outs and had a lot of fun with the people I worked with.

The other cool job I had was at my college's student union. I could work a few hours in between classes. I am still friends with some of those people and I've been out of school for years. It was low key and you saw friends all day long.

I made more money at the restaurant.

[beaker]

My best job was also in my student union. Working as a desk receptionist, I'd see lots of people just pass on by and sometimes my friends would stop to talk. Sometimes it felt like those movies where a person sits outside the coffee shop watching the world pass on by, kinda sentimental. The other place was in the newspaper office where I was a photographer, and I'd be able to just pop in between classes and check up on the gang.
The worst I've is right now in the Army. I'm not a combatant, I'm a clerk, but I feel aweful cause I don't really put in much effort in my work, and the job's not that difficult either. I just feel like a fraud all day and hope that i can get motivated to do something with more passion.

[Unregistered]

My best job was working as a freelance writer. It took a lot of effort to get the ball rolling, but after the calls started coming in, they rarely stopped. I could travel anytime I wanted (and make it sound official to my clients by telling them that I would be on a "business trip" during that time), and I met some fantastic people. It all started with a bunch of $19 business cards and a portfolio of about three published travel articles and some pieces I wrote for some local newsletters. After four years of doing freelance advertising writing for them, one client asked to become a full-time employee. It was one of the best work environments I'd ever seen and the pay was great. Freelancing is the BEST way to check out a company before deciding if you want to work there!

The worst job I ever had was in high school. Every summer I cleaned rental properties for six hours a day. When the renters left they had to shut off the air conditioning, so I would often be cleaning smelly bathrooms in 104 degree heat. The worst was post-"senior week." I've never seen such destruction/filth in my life.

[wordsmith]

The best job I had was also the hardest. It was working with "at risk" kids in a low-income, high crime rate inner city neighborhood, organizing constructive activities and after-school and summer programming. It was extremely rewarding, and lots of fun (got to go to work and play every day), but also very physically and emotionally draining.

The worst was one summer in college, when my usual factory gig didn't need me right away, and I had to go to work in a vegetable cannery. I walked back and forth on a catwalk through a clouds of steam above huge, vats of veggies for 12-14 hours a day, monitoring to make sure the hoppers they were emptying into didn't overflow. I still can't eat peas & carrots, but I had really great skin from all the steam.

[socalgrl]

The worst job I ever had--*giggle* I still complain about this job all the time...even though it only lasted 3 months and it was like 3 years ago! I was a call center rep. for a 3rd party company that worked for AT&T...I had to take like 700 calls a day just asking people if they *really* wanted to use AT&T for their LD carrier...*ugh* it sucked so bad.

My BEST job though was for a cruise company in Seattle. They do little public sightseeing tours around the lakes and the bay up there...I loved it there. Mets lots of interesting people, made friends, and loved the job description and the experience it gave me to help me later with new jobs!!! I'd still be there if I hadn't moved back to LA!

[TranquilSkye]

my worst job was as a sales associate at jc penny. the store was poorly ventilated so all the dust wreaked havoc on my allergies. the management was horrible so my floor was always understaffed. customers yelled at me all day long because i couldn't help 8 people at once, we ran out of things, or the store was messy (i told them to tell the other customers to quit throwing shit on the floor!). and the pay sucked. minimum wage for all that crap? i think not. so i was only there for 3.5 months before i got a state job. my state job isn't much better, but at least the pay is better.

[CAT11]

The best job I have ever had it working for myself...although the money is a little slow.
The worst job as far as smelliest was in high school. I worked at KFC. Gross...
Other bad jobs was Bank of America. Guess what? They care about money. It was a lot of stress. I worked in the branch by the jail...things ogt owly sometimes. But if you can hnadle the stress, the hours are pretty flexible, and the pay isn't bad for no skill. I started $3 above minimum wage.

[TosaGirl]

Best Job= well the job I have now as much as I whine about it its a great job because its a great experience.

worst job = i worked for like 2 weeks, I worked 3rd shift making jalapeno pepper poppers....very gross and smelly....and cant even THINK of eating them now!!

[Psychic Cats]

Worst Job - working at AT&T Wireless in a Call Center as a Collections Represenative.

That's right folks, collecting money from people that could not pay their wireless phone bills. Anyone agree that a cellphone is a luxury and if you can't afford it, don't have it! I have never in my life been treated so poory (and by people that I didn't know and would never want to meet). I was called some of the nastiest names and heard some real interesting insults. It was a nightmere, going to work every day and talking to some of the most arrogant, stupid, raging, uneducated and retarded human beings that walk the earth. I guess that is what happens when you deal w/ the general public for a living.

Just a word of advice to anyone and everyone - when you call a Call Center, treat your represenative like a human being. That could be someone's Grandmother, Grandfather, Mother or Father you are talking to on the other end of the line. No matter how angry you are, just remember they are a person too and have been in your situation. Would you want to deal w/ you if you are raging idiot that is thinking irrationally over a cell phone? It's not life of death here folks . . .