Worst Job

Jobs

1.       Amusement Park Food Service Employee – Kings Island

a.       Cincinnati, Oh: My first job. I worked here for three years summers. This was my first job and I would have to say it wasn’t “bad.” I don’t have  much to complain … or at least I don’t remember what made it bad. I got a free summer pass, I rode rides and as a young teenager I was making pretty good money. I believe I was making ten or elven dollars and hour.

2.       Pizza Deliver – Snappy Tomato

a.       Mason, Oh: This by far has been my best job. The managers/owner only hired my friends to work there. So for some 2 or 3 years you can expect to see familiar faces cooking, delivering pizza and playing hacky-sac. No complaints here; unless you consider this time in my life ending a bad job experience.

3.       Video Store Clerk – Hollywood Video

a.       Mason, Oh: I picked this job up because I wanted to rent free movies, make a little extra money, and talk to guests about movies. It turned out to be one of the worst jobs. Ever. I discovered a few things about myself. One: Performing a job that is mindless and repetitive is boring and makes me unhappy. I spent most of my time scanning movies back into the store, stocking shelves and renting bullshit flicks like Freddy Got Fingered to Neanderthals who want to know why we’re all out of “full frame dvds” because they hate the “black bars.” Two: Sexual harassment goes both ways. The manager playfully flirted with my during the interview, I wasn’t expecting the vulgarity to continue. I also dreeded every shift, because it was usually just her and I in the store. Maybe I was just too awkward a teenager to properly return common flirtatious social cues, but too me, at that time, I hated seeing that disgusting women. I quit after only 2 weeks.

4.       Grocery Store Stocking – Kroger

a.       Mason, Oh: Another mindless job. This maybe lasted 3 weeks. I was only to get a few extra dollars for the holiday season, but it wasn’t worth my time. The other thing about stocking shelves, besides being void of any intellectual challenges, was the employees. Jobs need to provide some basic elements for me to stick around. One: I need to be challenged and pushed and be able to offer my input on some matters. I stood on a stool and made sure there was enough soup for the good people of Mason Ohio. I spent a lot of time thinking of better ways to spend my time. Like chopping of my limbs or jumping infront of on-coming traffic. Two: The other employees need to be decent people. I’m not asking for much here, I just want to talk politics, religion and sports with some people with interesting ideas and commentary. I cannot say that these folks were dull, but they depressed me. When I surround myself with people are unhappy with their jobs and want to better themselves … and no one is changing a god damn thing about their habits or situation. I get depressed. Not the depressed feeling like, ‘I need to end my life.’ It’s the dread that I may be like you if I don’t leave, “RIGHT NOW.” I just don’t want to spend most of my waking hours hearing about how someone wants to go back to college and they are making no effort what-so-ever to make that dream happen or anything else for that matter.  

5.       Computer Salesmen – Circuit City

a.       Cincinnati Oh: I was hear maybe a year. 1.5 years… I don’t remember. It wasn’t bad though. It was my first retail job. I made $12 an hour, which paid my bills and I could play with new digital cameras and computers all day. I don’t even remember quit this place… or why I quit. This was not my dream job, however, it was far from being a bad place to work at this time in my life. I made a few friends and even lived with a guy from here. I didn’t like him, but I had fun with him. When he first moved in he was sleeping on an extra bed I owned because he was too lazy to move his own into our place. He called me one evening to ask me to find a new place to hang out for a few hours because he was bringing a girl over. So my friends and I took all the furniture out of the apartment and left him lonely for the night.

6.       Military Photographer – US Navy *******

a.       All over: Do. Not. Join. The. Military. People in the military are assholes. They are some of the worst people I’ve ever met. People stole from me all the time. I lost an iPod, a $600 bike, and XBOX. These are the people you thank for your service, too. I also got in lots of fist fights, suffered from anxiety, and was a punching bad for people to dump their frustrations out on. This was my worst job. Yes, I got to travel and yes I was paid well to be a photographer, however, it’s not worth the mental stress of working for a high school dropout who needs you to tell him the number associated with the month of September so he could fill out paper work for you properly. “9. September is the 9^th month. That’s the number with a long vertical stem with the sphere at the top.”

7.       IT/Graphic Designer/Social Media Manager – Sherpa Coaching

a.       Cincinnati, Oh: I was taken care of. Made some lifelong friends. It was pretty good … for what it was.

8.       Barback – Ada Street

a.      Chicago, Il: I work here now, I’m ready to quit. I just am not cut out for the restaurant industry. For many of the reasons listed above.

9.       Student – DePaul University

Military Photographer – Worst job

1.       Anxiety

2.       Stress

3.       Fear

4.       Solitude

5.       Isolation

6.       Restrained