Every job I ever had.

Putting tops on aerosol cans and pippeting perfume from tubes into tiny little bottles-Moons and Stars for Helena Rubenstein. Did it one college summer. Quit after 4 weeks.

Delivering furniture, some la-z-boys and mattresses weight around 140kg and twisting those through small doorways and taking them upstairs for people was so exhausting I had no energy for a life after work. I survived a year and a half but I'm not doing that again.

suit, tie, skyscraper, soul-killer. been there, never again if i have any say about it.

A Friday WHAT? Are you serious? I need to pray for, yes I did, I slapped myself on the mouth for saying that. After reading that I guess I never had a job that drained life out of me. I did have S Corp and employees, and between the customers, taxes, and the employees, I felt pretty drained sometimes. Come to think of it my health suffered because of it. I still think you have the bigger owy

Being an elementary school teacher. The demands were too strict. Teachers that make it past the second year, are saints.

Work as Night Audit at small hotel. Job is okay, not too challenging though. Pay is shit, and the boss is the worst human I have ever had the misfortune of meeting. She is rich, entitled, and treats everyone like shit, unless she thinks she is pulling a fast one on you. Steals minutes off people's time cards, tries to get out of paying sick time mandated by law. Steals tips from wait staff. Cusses you out on the telephone. Monitors everything that goes on in the hotel, she even has a mic at the front desk so she can call and argue with you when you are talking to a guest. She has an employee handbook that has so many rules, some which make little sense, that she can fire anyone for "cause" so to avoid unemployment. Turnover rate for last year was 77 people for a place with a staff of 20.

LOL, jokes on me 'cause I have been here for 3 years.

I was vp of services (consulting, tech support, & training) for a startup in the silicon valley. The CEO was the most intense woman I've ever worked for. She had her admin pick out the jelly beans that she didn't like for the bowl outside her office. We used to go visit clients where we'd fly the red-eye somewhere goto one client, then fly to another city or two that day seeing other clients and potential clients and fly back to SFO. It was crazy. Then I found out she barefaced lied to me about what was in the budget for my position when we were doing fiscal planning. I quit, got a dog, took 6 months off, and decided to stop traveling so much.

I had a job where I enjoyed the result of what I did - environmental restoration, sadly it required teaching and supervising youth that were for the most part criminals druggies dealers, violent, in gangs and so on, the males were even worse. Some good ones I managed to set on the right path, I resented having to work with most of them.

My problem jobs were more due to really ignorant management.

Yes, total fight or flight inspiring. I kept looking at the door fighting back the urge to run as fast as I could to get out! To this day, I don't even shop there anymore.

Navy is pretty demanding at times but I was young and capable of taking it... Sucked the life out of my marriage. That much I can say. But that is a story for another time and place. But thinking about the fact that I am retired, couple years now... I survived any fucking job that could had sucked the life out of me. I Won. BUUYAH!!!

I was required to be on 4-6 flights a week. The money was great. The job came with a great deal of status. The problem was I had to word 16-20 hours a day. I literally only slept on planes. It slowly drained me to the point that I had sleep deprivation. It was hard to walk away from the money until one week I was on 13 flights in one week. That did it for me. I had to quit. My health was affected.

I'm alone with a machine for the vast majority of time. Getting chased down by a machine every 40 seconds, I need to place ~15 boards, 3 runners, fill the nail bowl, maintain a level of material to build with, quality control, machine maintenance, measurements and altering the machine for different combinations. Iv trained so many people on what has been called my machine, that have quit or been fired. When I went on vacation for 3 weeks, only 2 paid, 3 people quit because they had to cover for me, and others were starting to get frustrated. I’ve gotten used to it. It’s not like no one can do it, but I’m the longest lasting person to do strictly this machine, in over 40 years of their business. One person that worked on the machine for 3 months had painful nightmares and needed therapy for it, iv been doing it solid for ~2 years. For the longest time it was torture, but I guess somthing snapped.

Yes, nursing

I was a planner at my first plant. We did arrow diagrams with nodes. We drew out our diagrams...no computers...ugh. write small print.

Retail. UGH!

Machine operator at a box factory. The job to set the machine up was straight forward. The problem was with the employees like a room full of tattle tales and back stabbers. The pay was decent but was not worth having to explain everything you did, was like being in the witness box in a courtroom every day 6 days a week.

Yes...so much that I had an anxiety attack and almost crashed my car....

The job I have has evolved but there were times the tasks were simply brutal... I'm glad to be doing what I do now

Office and factory work both sucked the life from me

Every retail job I ever had.

Bill collector at an agency. I left over a lunch break with a note to my boss and didn't come back. I lasted a few months, but I was so happy to walk away.

This is awful topic....can we have a post about good jobs!???

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