Finding a job you like can make such a difference to how happy you are but it’s not always as easy as it might be, particularly when there a children to consider too. Even if you’re not happy in your job it can seem like a huge step to change directions or even take some time to retrain.
Last year I took the plunge and gave up my job as a Project Manager to write and blog full time. It was pretty scary at the time but I’m so glad I did it now that I have much more flexibility and can spend more time with the boys. Of course blogging isn’t for everyone and another great option particularly for mums is a job in childcare, perhaps childminding in your own home or being a teaching assistant in a classroom.
Childcare College are sponsoring today’s giveaway. If you think a career in childcare might be for you then check out their website where you can find out all about the different type of courses and qualifications you can take to help you make that change. They are NCFE accredited and you can study at home. They will even help arrange placements for you where needed.
So to get us all motivated to think about what we really want to be doing with our lives Childcare College are asking you to share with us the worst job you’ve ever had and one lucky reader will be selected at random to win a great Acer Iconica 7″ tablet. I’ve had a few dodgy ones over the years but the worst had to be being a Chambermaid in a small hotel when I was a teenager. You would not believe the state some people would leave their rooms in. It makes me shudder just thinking about it!
To enter leave me a comment sharing your worst job and then record your entry in the Rafflecopter widget. You can get extra entries for tweeting etc and record them too. The giveaway will run until Monday 18th November 2013.
You’ll find lots more competitions on my comp page, the November Competition Time Linky and on our collaborative Competitions and Giveaways Pinterest Board.
The giveaway is only open to UK residents over the age of 18. the winner will be contacted within 5 days of the closing date either by email or twitter depending on the details they have left. If they do not respond within a week a new winner will be drawn.
I worked in a printers and the noise was horrendous!
I’m lucky I’ve not had too many bad jobs! so waitressing i guess cos i had to do a lot of the washing up in the kitchen
The Worst Job I Have Ever Had was being a moderator on a forum, you just would not believe what people get up to!
working in a salad packing factory…freezing cold, no one spoke to me and I ended up taking up smoking just to give me something to do at break times
I stacked the shelves in a supermarket and without doubt one of the hardest jobs I ever had, I hated it.
I worked on the reduced counter in M&S one Summer as a student – so much pushing and shoving and I was left to tidy up all the mess afterwards
As cold caller for a photography company – not fun. I walked out after a week…
Door to door selling for one of those companies where you leave a catalogue and go back for orders – I worked about 40 hourrs for £11 and got shouted at and threatened.
Cleaning loos. Bleurgh.
I used to clean airplanes for Danair.
Completing Capital Assets register in a hospital – counting everything from beds to operating tables to wall lamps
I worked in a miserable shop selling televisions for a horrible boss who bullied me.
A waitress in a cafe – hated the mess!
The worst job I had was as a hairdressing junior. Some people do not keep themselves clean is all I am going to say. Plus, the staff used to wind me (and my innocence) up all the time by sending me to the shop for “elbow grease” or “tartan paint”
I look back now and cringe at me going to the hardware shop and asking!
McDonalds, I only lasted 2 days and couldn’t stand it any longer! Washing up the huge grill pans wrecked my hands! Respect to all those who manage the job!
ride operator on a roller-coaster which I had to manually bend over and test the safety bars before each ride.
I ended up with a bad back 🙁
I had a job at a sandwich-making factory: I stood at a conveyor belt in the freezing cold refridgerated room watching from dusk until dawn watching eggs pass along the conveyor. My job was to shell the ones that had been missed by the machine. It was numbing: mentally and literally.
Cleaning caravans… you would not believe the state people would leave them in. What ive had to clean up… Yuck. Only lasted about a month!
Working in a gotty café for a prevy boss I lasted 3 hours before I left, ( he pinched my bum and said me us a cuppa cutie I was 16) I said do it your self and left.
i worked as i petrol pump attendant for 2 years the smell was horrid i was 15 and had to put the petrol into peoples cars and make up cans of two stroke messy i really made my money through tips and one day gregor fisher (rab c nesbbit ) can in for me to fill up his jag he never even gave me a tip the rotten pig lol
Has to be picking lettuces, some of the insects had me running screaming!
I worked two full time jobs – I was a wreck. I was full time temping during the day, inspecting dirty grotty houses and then worked in an equally grotty nighclub on a night where the highlight of the night was cleaning vomit up.
Filling a local newspaper, hot off the press, with leaflets. A whole day of this left me numb.
Putting flyers n endless envelopes.
I had a job packing razor blades in a factory when i was much younger .. needless to say i had no finger ends left!
Cleaning the pigs out on the farm
I had a Saturday job on a market stall seling pet food. It was freezing!
telephone surveys on behalf of GE
Biscuit factory one summer – started off great because you could eat what you wanted. Didn’t want to look at biscuits by the end of the six weeks.
My worst job ever was NOT having a job
On a gift wrapping stand in Boots at Christmas when i was a Saturday girl…I was rubbish at it! It was so stressful!!
Debt Collector
While I was a college I got a part time job on a supermarket food counter, it was awful
A factory office.The room had no windows only skylite’s, felt like I was in a prison cell.
Selling double glazing when I was a student! everyone shouted at me and I sold nothing and was paid nothing – it was commission only!
Making roof trusts
Volunteering in a charity shop.
I had to sort through the stuff people had donated, which would often include unwashed underwear!
I think it was working as the washing up person in a factory canteen. Not much fun at all
A data inputter, I lasted 2 days before walking out. Luckily I ended up with a really good job after that 🙂
working in a shop – the boss was really grumpy
Do not know but best job is being retired.
Making donuts at an amusement park
Working in a shoe shop!
Oooh which one to choose? I have had some dreadful jobs in my time including some in nurseries and retail but my all time worse job ever was as a child when I used to pick up the rubbish at the local car boot and get paid in coppers. £10 a day for picking up rubbish paid to me in the lowest denomination coins they could find, arse wipes
a day in the mould room of a cheese factory, was the most disgusting day of my life 🙁
Potato picking when I was younger it was back breaking and it pulled most of my nails off lol
I was once a very poorly skilled waitress, the tips were good, but I couldn’t keep it up for long.
Working on the Fish Market
i worked in a battery factory making batteries…i came home everyday black with black all up my nostrils…. and i’m sure that’s why i’m now asthmatic 🙁
My worst job has to have been working on the fishmonger counter in a popular supermarket. I didn’t realise how demanding the role would be physically (it also didn’t help that I had initially applied to be a cashier!)
making sausages!
I’ve been quite lucky , have had boring jobs but not too horrible. I think my worst must have been working in an office with a terrible boss who loved himself , and a lady that just used to sit and eat popcorn all day so everything she touched got sticky, that was pretty dire!!
I once sold double glazing – I lasted about 2 days. I hate cold calling.
My worst job was as a teenager working as a packer through the summer in a fruit juice factory. It was very tiring and cold work, my wrists and back ached but it paid the bills at the time.
i worked in a chicken factory, it was awful, cold and smelled 🙁
Counting diesel engines!
I’ve never had a job I hated, worked 28 years for same company & part time jobs too
Not really had a worst job i liked them all
I loved all my Jobs 🙂
hmm I’ve enjoyed all my jobs, but the least enjoyable of them is probably the part time work in a shop when dealing with grumpy customers – which wasn’t often as most customers were friendly 🙂
Working in an Opticians as an advisor, too little pay and not enough staff!x
I worked at an ice skating ring and had to give out the skates and take them back when they were very smelly not a nice job at all
working in a shoe store – the shoes were kept up two flights of stairs so whenever anyone asked for a certain size shoe muggins here had to do some step aerobics!
Telesales,hated it so much only lasted a day
Having been self employed most of my career, I haven’t had that many jobs but I did hate the telesales aspect of my banking career many decades ago
I was a Saturday girl at Woolworths in the 1970s, it was grimmer than grim
Working in a card shop. Christmas was horrendous!
Bar work as a summer job – terrible hours!
I worked in Poll Tax, not that I told people that!
Mine was working at a supermarket dressing shelves
An Elf in Santas Grotto – screaming children, grumbling parents, the queue never ending and a really itchy costume!!
Waitressing
I had a part time job in a night club collecting glasses and washing them in a machine – grim watching everyone else having fun
I hated the first job I had in an insurance office – I had to do the post and the staff never brought the items to me until it was almost time to go home. I never got leaving the office on time.
Cleaner in a fast food take away
i loved my job as a barmaid but hated the end of the night and cleaning up the empties and washing the glasses. They really smelt!
Cleaning up in a cinema in between shows – the debris was horrific!
For me it was being a saturday girl at Greggs. All that pastry just wanted me to eat it
Worked in a fudge shop and constantly smelt of cooked fudge.
The worst job I ever had was working for Staybright Windows. We were paid on commission and had to pay out money in advance during training for a folder containing photos of PVC windows and storm porches.
I was never very good and didn’t last long, and the only time I ever got a lead – I almost choked when the chap on the phone said he would like someone to visit him and give him a quote!!
They also failed to pay me on time, so I quit. I never got a penny in the end for 100+ hours of work I did there over the space of a month.
A cleaner in an old folks home….
Worst job I ever had was selling ice creams at a funfair! Crying kids on too much sugar!!
Mine was my first job when i turned 16. I cut cabbage in burger king for 16 hours a week lol I used to come home STINKING of cabbage!
I worked in a fish restaurant where I had to dress crabs and lobsters. I used to absolutely stink when I got home!
Worst job I ever had was as a student when I used to pluck turkeys at a local farm in the run up to Christmas. Don’t think I could ever do it again.
Working in a Tea Rooms for £1 an hour when I was 13!
I have never had a job I didn’t like.
helper in a canteen, i’m a crap cook so was no help lol
pulling the fluff out of my dads belly button after his day at a wool mill
Testing Condoms – I had to work a week in hand!
Office junior at a horrible place in Leicester
At a packing place – I was filling little bottles with Baby Bio plant food and it really stung my hands. I also had to put lids on jars of petroleum jelly – the floor was so slippery that it was hard to stand up.
My worst job was working in a chemist shop, they had me cleaning dog poo outside the shop. Every now and again i was allowed to dress the window, at christmas they got me sorting out all the decorations for the christmas window. Yes at last i got to use a bit of artistic flare, but no the pharmacists wife came in and did it!! I had a few friends working near me but they were not allowed to come in and see me unless they bought something!! I didnt stick around long 🙂
Boiling down urine for drug tests
Mc Donald’s… Being rushed off my feet all day with too many rude customers, I hated it!
An office job where they had a tea rota. Tea would get sent back if it was the wrong shade, and you would get told off if you were 30 seconds late. Worst bit was, I didn’t even drink tea or coffee!
Double glazing pre-sales.
Worked in a shop and had to clean up after a babys nappy had leaked on a ride. Not amused!
Working for an evil bullying boss, the job itself was interesting with great pay but my manager was unbearable.
working on the fish counter in wait rose, yuck the smell!!
Packing chicken meals in a meat factory… but it paid better than a summer job so needs must
Counting free car parking spaces at various times of the day on county council car parks ….
assembling light bulbs, the most fiddliest and boring job I have done.
I once worked as a temp for a payday loan company, was awful!
Social media assistant – boring as heck.
My worst job was as a theatre cleaner in a hospital. We used to find bone, skin and lots of mystery fluids on the floors.
Christmas pudding packer
I needed some work for 6 weeks in the summer and ended up in a hospital laundry. Not only did I lose my fingerprints because the pressed items were scalding hot but occasionally came across small body parts in the surgical wash 🙁
Washer Upper when I was younger put in a very small cubed room with no windows just stacks of crockery and pans to wash!
When I first moved to Norfolk (many years ago now) I applied for a job in a food factory. Got there and found the job was peeling onions (for a well known burger chain) and filling a 4ft high white bucket full of them to earn… 20p per bucket. No hourly rate! I lasted a morning, before walking out. Everyone had swollen eyes and tears streaming down their face and I earned the princely sum of 40p for a mornings work!
Cleaning the mens toilets in a pub 🙁
Working in a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Edinburgh
i tried chambermaiding part-time when i was younger, but obviously it didnt suit me to be so physical, i passed out on one of the beds
work experience at school I spent a day with the traffic wardens, I wouldn’t wish that job on anybody
Working at a laundry during the school holidays
Cutting grass with a private contractor.. strimming around trees and finding hidden dog poo.
Stewardess on a fancy motor yacht – just another kind of slavery. Yuk.
A hotel cleaner, saw some gross things!
A cleaner
My present job working in a bank
egg collecting and sorting. The hens pecked you and the cockerals attacked you. At least they weren’t in cages!
Working night shift in a bread factory (couldn’t handle the hours)
toilet cleaner
Tax collector 🙁
delivering catalogues door to door.
Photoediting for an awful company – working 60 hours a week in a freezing cold factory with hardly any breaks…and when we were allowed to go on lunch our manager would stand behind our table to make sure we went back to work on time…meant we had to sit there in silence unable to moan about how much we hated it!
used to work as a fruit and veg wholesaler which we did prepared veg and having to peel onions which i had to peel about 50 kilos
Working in a fast food restaurant
Washing dishes in a greasy restaurant
Handing out leaflets on a high street.
No one wanted one .. and, those who took one, just threw it away .. right in front of me!
Have some manners, and at least, wait until you are out of sight, before slinging it … that’s what I do!
Taking the shells off eggs at the pickle factory, not just hens eggs we did really small quails eggs too, to this day I can still take the shells off eggs two at a time with one swift wrist action.
When I was about 15 I worked as a “hair washer” for a hair salon. Long hours and pay was poor (£1 per hr)…and the worst thing was sometimes catching nits from some of the clients!
fish fryer
Washing dogs at dog groomers.
In a factory putting zipz on cushions i lasted 3 hours and gave up
I once worked in a crisp factory – It was boiling hot to a point where I almost passed out, we had to wash our hands 100s of times & my skin was so sore, we wore ridiculous hats, & there was no joy or conversation going whatsoever. I went home covered in grease & smelling like a cheesy wotsit (I know they smell nice if you’re eating them but not as a natural body odour, one day working at that place was one day too much!
Call centre!
cleaning toilets…honking
Cold-calling for advertising sales.
cleaning a kitchen in a cafe
When i left school my first job was …. cleaning cookers, worst job in the world but i was actually good at it, glad i’m not doing that now xx
Waitress in a tea room on a Sunday when I was 15. I was the only waitress so it was blooming hard work.
Saturday girl in The Wimpy Bar
On the front desk at the DSS. I left after a month. I dont know how the peoople who work there sleep at night.
cold calling selling double glazing and conservatories, horrible!
standing up Coke cans on the conveyor belt in Coco Cola
I worked in a small family run jewellers as a teen, I had to make the families lunches, basically tidy up after everyone and maybe, just maybe they would then let me stock take. I hoped to learn about jewellery and instead learnt about kosher food!
I worked in a mobile phone factory cutting bits of plastic was the most boring work I have ever endured
waitress in pizzaland that made staff clean the toilets at midnight after shift – lucky I was just a uni student and was able to leave for better job
barmaid in a local pub where the management barely graced us with their presence and the clientele liked a good fight. Grim.
Delivering double glazing leaflets on the same round every week when i was 15
putting the cherries in the middle of bakewell tarts in my uni holidays, mind numbing
Encyclopaedia selling.
When I first left school I was sanding and degreasing trailers, it was filthy and smelly and really boring work.
Selling security systems. We were selling them to senior citizens who could not afford them.
Working in a cosmetic packing factory in the talcum powder room.
i got a job in an old peoples home as a care but the boss put me in the kitchen filling salt and pepper pots and peeling potatoes.
The worst job I ever had was making Christmas Crackers at home. The house was full of boxes, with jokes in, novelty things in, tinsel, cardboard. Was a nightmare. And the pay was terrible. But looking back now I guess it was quite funny to think I did that.
I worked in a service station – and hated it!
having to lick endless envelopes in an office
double glazing cold caller
handing out flyers everyday in the same road to the the same people who all hated me after about a week!!
working as a waitress
I worked in a facory that packed tablets into blister packs. Bad enough you might think, but my job was to pop all the pills out of incorrectly packaged packs so that they could be re-processed. Lots of dust, blistered thumbs and nasty hours!
aww ive never had a bad job
cleanng student accomadation
On a farm in a dessert in Israel and working in a greenhouse.
I only had one job from leaving school to having Ella, I worked for a greyhound trainer and loved every minute.
The one I am in now….but I had an interview today so hopefully the NHS are going to rescue me from the dreaded night shift.
In a private run Nursing Home, where the elderly residents were treated with contempt, I lasted 5 days!
cleaning a house where the family were complete slobs, they had good jobs and so could afford cleaners but were so disgusting and lazy with hygene it was disgusting.
Temping in a photocopier company, given a yellow pages and a phone… to make sales appointments. They offered me a job I said NO !!
Cleaning loos.
I used to work in a burger restaurant as a teenager, i hated it, i came home full of greese, i still smelt of burgers even after having a shower!
Worst job ever – overnight call centre, I can still remember the script we had to use cold calling *shudder*
Working in the uniform department of a theme park. Was busy morning and evening but in between you were alone and bored!
I had a job once (as a student) where I had to pick off the solidified and still soggy chewing gum off the bottom of school dining room tables. UGH.
a really dull office job where i was always alone
I use to snap the lids of salt shakers together for a living
selling advertising space for a local newspaper, I hated it..
cleaning loos when i was 16
Cleaning the disabled bathrooms! was not pretty.
Collecting eggs on a farm
My first job was delivering the local free paper. I only got paid a penny a paper so came out with the princely sum of £2.38 per week. Unless there were leaflets – got 5p a leaflet!!
Filling the industrial dishwasher at a restaurant on 8 hour shifts when I was 18
Cleaning the staff toilets & kitchen in the Supermarket! Was always a right mess
I worked at Mcdonalds
I used to knit for designers and there was a deadline so sometimes I had to take it on holiday with me too much pressure!
packing cutlery/napkins/wipes for aircraft meals
In a supermarket!
Bunching seaweed to be used for ornaments, it was vile x
I went to work in an Elderly Persons Hospice when I was a teenager. It wasn’t a bad job really but the very first day I was asked to go and wake up a particular lady and get her out of bed. No-one had realised that she had been quite ill with a dodgy tummy all night and I went in a cleaned it all up thinking it was some kind ‘initiation’
Cold-calling…I only lasted a week
had to be my newspaper delivery job when i was younger especially in our great british winter weather
My worst job was working shifts packing frozen meals, during the summer break from University. It was cold, the hours were unsociable and the pay was awful.
Telephone sales
A call centre which shall remain nameless-the managers often followed you to the loo and checked how long you took, amongst other horrors…
Call Center
Working in a small office where they left the doors open all the time and they never paid you on time.
During the college holiday’s i was paid 10p a bundle (on piece rate before minimum wage) for putting together card bundles. I came out with less than £1 after an 8 hour shift! I didn’t go back there again…
A paper round.
When I was a teen I had a job on a fruit picking farm, I went as a boy I fancied told me he was going to work there. A few days of sunshine and me smiling inanely at him and then the rain started.. after crawling about in the mud and straw trying to find strawberries to pick the fun of the job ceased! I collected my pay and didn’t return! It was the worst and best job, I look back on it and chuckle, but have never been able to look at strawberries in the same way since.. which is sad!
I have usually liked the jobs I have had, I worked in a pub for a while, I didn’t really enjoy that very much.
ironing in a sewing factory x
I’ve been working at the same place since I left school which isn’t great but it pays the bills. I did do work experience in a preschool though which was great until we got a very naughty child start who would throw poo around and bite us and the other children apart from that I loved working with the other kids. It did certainly put me of a career with children though!
Mine has to be my first which was working in a factory. So repetitive!
Working in a bank – boring
Working for a big city Accountancy firm and no longer being a person but being a number.
Cold calling abroad from a broom cupboard where they stuck me with a Polish girl. Best thing to come out of it was our friendship
I was made redundant last year and all I could get at the jobcentre was a job at a call centre. I hated it. It wasn’t cold calling but we had to answer the phone for bank queries. I got a lot of abuse. Luckily I’ve got a better job now. But you never know what’s coming in the future.
Chambermaid – cleaning other peoples toilets!
I use to collect eggs at a chicken farm…it was stinking!!
I was also a housekeeper in a hotel after leaving school. I am now a nursery nurse and i love it!
A Saturday sales assistant in the ‘bras and girdles’ department at Marks and Spencers.
I’ve always worked outside, so when I had to take a job indoors at a desk I hated every minute of it.
kids parties at a soft play area constant headache
Turkey plucking. That job really sucked!
ops manager at a travel company telling people there holiday had changed due to over booking
I used to be a receptionist at a vets and sometimes had to clean up some of the mess left in the waiting area.
Security Guard, 12 Hour Shifts!!!
receptionist at small factory boss was total sleazy.
Working night shifts putting caps on bottles, soul destroying
drawing train lines on a computer
Washing dishes for a top restaurant 8am til 10pm non-stop.
Night time shelf stacking, hated it… thank goodness was only a temporary fill in for money!
I worked in a butchers, was always freezing cold, I was forever stumbling over carcases and my boss was a lech.
I WAS WORKING, IN THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS, IN A SEWAGE FARM – SAY NO MORE
labouring outdoors – digging, shovelling and wheelbarrowing in all sorts of weather 🙁
I used to work for Access. We sat in a huge call centre like an aircraft hanger. The job consisted of asking 4 questions then reading out the authorisation number. Mind-numbing!
chipping paint of a factory floor
Worked on the fish bar at a supermarket and I had to scrape all the fish guts out of the sink at the end of the day to put them in the bin!
Paper round in horrible weather
Digging holes and cutting grass
in the freezers in Tesco (always cold )
Putting photos into envelopes 10 hours a day in a -3degree factory over Christmas!!
as a ships engineer its unblocking and cleaning out the sewage treatment plant
matalan, awful job
Cleaning toilets at a Scout campsite
Working in greengrocers – really early start and lot of heavy liftng
paper round- hated the early and cold mornings ;(
Working in the shoe shop was pretty grim!
McDonalds 🙁
Checking in for repair and checking out of railway ticket machines. Yawn! 🙂
selling double glazing in stores
Working in a huge industrial laundry…it was pretty awful.
working as a waitress
Working in a betting shop.
The manager never turned up and staff would quit after 1 day, I was often there on my own for 12hour days.
And my average working week was 80 hours, it was hell.
i was a receptionist for a slaughter house in Carlisle as a Saturday job, the smell was horrendous at times!
This is actually really useful for me and I will look into it. Thank you.
My worst job was being a holiday cleaner. Tourists don’t half leave some rank things behind!
Delivering the weekly free newspaper, down country roads. It took me hours for just a few quid.
working in a wetherspoons kitchen. 1 month was enough
Working in Tesco Café!
I had to clean up baby sick on several occasions when I worked in Adam’s Childrenswear as a student.
Working in a warehouse for a large courier firm. I slipped 2 disks and was in pain for about a year after. What did I get out of it? Minimum wage and paaaiinnn…The worst job
Wow I have had a few awful jobs but the worst one has to be making the cheesecake base in a factory on a line for 8 hours, although the money I earned went towards some amazing travels it was the most mind-numbing job ever
Great giveaway, fingers and toes crossed
Laura x
I worked in a factory putting tape cassettes into little cardboard slip cases, I only stayed for a day!!
Hot chicken counter in Sainsburys
sitting in an empty office and warehouse building with nothing there. I had to let in contractors for work for two weeks after my company moved area. Grim!
Door to door sales for a burglar alarm company, a lot of doors being shut in my face and sore feet.
Erm I was the person that tidied christmas cards in a shop when I was 16
My first job was during Christmas at a toy shop and it was always busy and never empty.
Paper round…not an early bird at all 🙁
paperboy on winter sunday mornings
as a chambermaid. people are filthy
McDonalds when I was a student
Salesman
Working in a burger bar!
Data entry, it was mind numbing
postie – up at 3.30am – out in shocking weather and dodging dogs to deliver mail
Sitting in a warehouse in HMV peeling all the sale stickers off of over 300 LPs!!
I’ve been really lucky and as a Nanny I’ve loved all my jobs.
Maybe my paper round when I was 16/17 but it did buy me my 1st car with my Christmas tips alone one year so shouldn’t complain
Working for a fat removal firm. Grease & fat including hospitals human stuff Urrrrrrrrrrrl. Makes me ill just thinking back about it
Delivering leaflets door to door.. I did get very fit though 🙂
The worst job I ever did was to pluck turkeys – Trust me its the worst job ever!!!
I had a saturday job working on a burger van at car boots. I used to stink when I got home! X
tills at ASDA although my current job in a fast food restaurant comes close.
Not sure where to start with my answer….from litter picking at Wimbledon Tennis, to serving doughnuts at a local bakery, to chamber-maiding at a conference centre (I’m with you on the changing sheets!). I’ve had a LOT of jobs!
when i was 15 and working in a shop after school. had the joys of pricing every single packet of crisps or sweets with a pricing gun to go on the racks
Delivering free newspapers and leaflets, winter was the worst & those finger snapping letterboxes
Postwoman @anna8301
washing up in a hotel
Chip shop
I spent 6 months working for the most ignorant solicitor
my worst job was also part of my best job! I loved working at our local water park as a student as you had such a laugh, but I truly detested emptying the bins that were full of pool water mixed with slimy salted chips, burger buns, fizzy drinks and coffee.. the smell would make me gag:(
in a pharmacy, where i had to dust shelves
Working shifts in a noisy, dirty factory painting car parts.
Strawberry picking in kent.
It was ok at first but near the end a lot of it switched from picking strawberries to ripping out old plants, the smell of rotten strawberries put me off them for life. 🙂
I worked at a chicken factory where I cleaned up what can only be described as chicken sludge.
I hated being a papergirl – I stupidly did it in the winter and I don’t like mornings at the best of times!
The worst job I have had was with Birdseye I had to stock all their products into the supermarkets shelfs, having to go in and out of large freezers and then stock them into the shop ones my hands got wreckrd and I was so cold even in summer
It wasn’t quite a job, but i decided to do a PGCE to teach science at secondary school level. The first week was university-based, and sort of ok. The second week began school-based placements and i had to deal with children. I knew within ten minutes that i hated everything about it, especially the children!, but i lasted the day out. The next morning i went straight to uni and quit!!!
I used to be a dental nurse it was horrible!
I cleared tables at a motorway services, people in general where quite nasty!
was a waitress after leaving school, vowed never to work in the catering industry again
Trolley person in a supermarket
In a chippy, I hated the mess!!
chambermaid back breaking making beds with sheets and blankets before duvets sweeping under beds up at the crack of dawn never again!
Working as a chambermaid, the owner was very fussy and particular and everything had to be absolutely spotless, she even insisted we clean the inside edges of windows with a toothbrush, which I thought ridiculous at the time, but actually it turned out to be a greap tip at getting rid of mould etc.
cleaning caravan windows
Working at jumpin jaks nightclub and having to dance to agadoo on stage!
working as a Saturday girl in a well known high street store. 9 hours on my feet, not allowed to sit or rest, selling woolly jumpers in the middle of summer. (and an awful never-satisfied boss too)
I’ve been lucky in my jobs but worst was a leaflet distributer when I was a kid. A thankless task!
has to be when I was a teenager delivering papaper in snow for p a paper lol
the one i’m in now when it’s cold or wet, but there are better good parts than bad
Telesales
my previous jobs havent been too bad but my hubsnad did have a job cleaning out peoples refuse bins after they had been stood in the council yard for 6 months plus. That was a truly disgusting job 🙁
A waitress
Sewage worker – it stunk||
Packing newspapers.
Cleaning out the big chill cabinet at the butchers shop where i had a Saturday job when i was at school
Newspaper girl, hated cold wet winters
cleaning up someones sick had to be my worst job ever yuk
Bank cashier with loads of targets trying to sell customers products they didn’t want
Cleaning toilets was my worst job
Working as a dental nurse!
Waitress in a well known Hut that sells Pizzas
its a cliche but it would have to be when i worked at McDonalds
telesales
cleaning offices when i was in college
being a dinner lady at a secondary school was pretty bad. Lots of arrogant teenagers who thought they were incredibly funny to insult the staff and the food
I don’t think I have ever had an awful job. They have all had good days and bad days, but on the whole, my jobs have been alright.
Serving ice cream for a bunch of horrible chavs
1 day spent working in an amusement arcade
Working in a call center
My worst job was my first job after leaving school.. canvassing for a well known double glazing company.. we walked miles every day come rain hail or shine. Loved it in the summer.. but it was brutal any other time… Must say though it was a not bad paying job as i was top sales person a few times.. couldnt go back and do it again though
cant think of any lucky enough to enjoy all my jobs before i gave up to be a mother then carer
summer job in the sewing shop all day selling buttons and treads soooo boring ;-(
My worst job was a temp job I had just after leaving school before I went on to college. I was working in a factory .Aerosol cans of shaving foam would pass me on a conveyor belt and I had to place the lids on every fourth one . I only worked there for a month but in that time I nearly lost the will to live 🙁
Worst job was my first job, fixing irons, toasters and dirty vacuum cleaners in a very small room!
a supermarket cleaner… I was a ssigned to the 3B’s team – Butcher, Baker and Bogs!! Not the nicest of places to clean!!
Washer upper in a restaurant before dishwashers….never got to the bottom of the pile!
Working in a raddish factory
My worst job was as a bingo runner. When someone called “house” I had to run to them to check their card. I lasted a week but I have to admit that my best jobs have been in childminding and fostering.
I worked in a fish and chip shop during my school holidays as a child……..talk about slave labour although the up side was……..I went right off chips and fried food and my maths improved, the tills didn’t add up for you and a tray of chips were 18p back then. I ended up top of my year for GCSE maths lol
My worst job was in a local cafe when I was 16, I was constantly run off my feet, underpaid and hardly got any breaks!
Drilling a hole into a break part ‘car assembly’ ‘engineering’ mind numbing!!!
Having to get a bus to visit people to tell them about free insulation
Prescription Pricing. So boring pricing up the drugs that are dispensed and giving the pharmacist a fee for dispensing them. Half the time they are written in scrawling latin.
I guess I have been very lucky that I haven’t had any terrible jobs but guess the hardest was delivering newspapers at 6 am in the morning whatever the weather, I was living in Wales at the time and hated walking up and down the hills when it snowed !
Clearing up pools of vomit at Headingley cricket ground during an ashes test match
I cleaned the floor and tables in Burger King for two weeks. Then they tried to underpay me and I left!
KITCHEN ASSISTANT IN AN OLD PEOPLES HOME – I ENJOYED IT AT THE TIME BUT WAS HARD WORK
washing up by hand in a pub kitchen
cant decide between cold calling to sell contract mobiles or at a parcel company – up at 4am to start at 6, worst was when it snowed – complete nightmare
Working in a dog kennel lol x
Working in a Bakers because after a while the smell really gets to you.
Working my ass off for one company for 19 years, then getting my hours cut so had to find another job, when I put my notice in, never even got a sorry or thank you. Still gutted.
Cleaning the toiles at work
working in a hairdressers making tea and washing hair
Office intern – sitting at a desk for 8 hours trying to look busy!
My paper round as a kid, I hated getting up at the crack of dawn! Although I have to admit my lovely Dad would step in on occasion, bless him!
When I was younger I worked on a Campsite – some of the jobs were nasty…such as rodding the blocked drains! I’ll never forget the blockage moving so quick we all got showered in sh!t 🙁
In a burger van when i was 14/15. I hated every minute of it and always stunk of chips and fat
My worst job was working in a bar in Tenerife, the pay was pants, the people were constantly a disgrace, and getting vomited on was definitely a low point! I lasted about three nights lol!
Working as a kitchen porter – hard work and very messy
Traffic warden! Haha!
In a fish and chip shop – always smelled of grease and had burned hands!!
Vote counting! The candidates would stand over you and constantly try and distract you so you would have to start again!
Working on the checkouts at Safeway when I was 16
I’ve never had an awful job, although most of them have had some bad parts. Working as a holiday rep could be awesome but jeez, some of the situations people would get themselves into!
cleaning toilets. Yuk!
cleaning
I did all sorts temping when I was 16 in the school holidays. The worst job I did was working in a pizza factory as we had to stand there all day on a production line sprinkling the topping vegetables on the pizzas as they went by – it was totally mind numbing but at least it gave me some Summer cash!
i hated working in a fish factory. it was smelly and gross
Cleaning chalets in pontins, corrr the shame in some people! I’d hate to see their houses 😀
Whist temping I had to make sandwhichs all night, i was on the buttering, omg how many slices of bread can I do in one night, it was horrible.
Working in Mcdonald’s when I was 16 – absolute nightmare job!!
WORKING IN A CHICKEN FACTORY
My worst job was working in a vegetable packing factory! I stank of onions! Haha! 🙂
delivering catalogues to peoples homes so cold walking around everywhere in winter
toilet cleaner or hygiene assistant as I liked to call it lol
working in a newsagents,starting work at 5.15am.I used to hate walking to walk in the dark on my own,I was only 16.
pot washer in a busy restaurant in the height of summer. it was horrendous.
cleaning my vicars house!!
painting car lights 🙂
Working in McDonalds when I was 16, I’m 37 now and still have nightmares about it.
A sales assistant
Pea pulling in the 60s. 5 mile cycle ride to get to the farm, 2s.6d a net (12 1/2p) Took all day to fill the huge net then 5 miles back home again.
Working in a cold call centre selling double glazing!
Working in a shoe shop….hated it.
working in the chippy – took a couple of washes every night to get the smell from it!
My worst job was at a Supermarket at winter when I was the nominated person to offload Turkeys before Christmas by spending all day in a frozen lorry.
Avon! It’s not so bad in the summer. When it’s Autumn though, and it’s all cold and rainy, it’s horrendous trudging around in the bad weather.
Picking potatoes – backbreaking work! 🙁
stable girl ,,hated it, still hate horses.
Dressing up as a bear and doing party dances… the bear smelt all sweaty as other people used the costume.
A telesales job when I was only about 17 where I had to cold call people and try to get them to donate to charity.
Working long, unsociable hours in a supermarket
Working in a call centre. I hated every minute of it.
when i was a student i was a cleaner for a night club it was the worse job ever so discusting and dirty the toilets well i would rather not say
The one i do now – a million miles away from what i wanted to be doing at this point in my life.
Babysitting my brothers – they would get away with everything and I wasn’t paid for it!
Was an after school and Saturday job in Sainsburys, this was in the days when you stamped the price on the cans with an ink stamp, so boring and heavy work too.
For 6 years I was a Housing Officer. I had to go into properties that were in such a state you would not believe. Animal faeces, human faeces, condition of property, gardens, anti-social behaviour. The whole range of human behaviour at its worst presented itself over the years. My role was more the enforcement, so you can only imagine, although I am sure you would probably rather not, the issues I encountered.
Definitely babysitting, I always missed out on nights out and seeing people come back all merry and happy made it even worse, especially if I did new years babysits 🙁
A paper round because the bag was so heavy and the customers so grumpy if their paper was late!
My first ever job! I was a Christmas Temp in BHS, working for £2.60 an hour, and it was horrible! No one spoke to me, and no one showed me what to do. So glad it was just temporary!
Telesales worked on commission so some weeks i only earned £7 was terrible those kind of jobs should be banned
Working in a fish and chip shop!
I worked as a cleaner in a city centre budget hotel while at uni, the things I saw!!
Working in a nightclub!
My first job was in a butchers shop – I thought tripe was disgusting!
I worked at a valet at a very posh gentleman’s club in Edinburgh. I’m not a morning person and getting out of bed at 5am to serve the guests breakfast in bed was awful. On a Sunday I had to cook the eggs/toast/croissants too and the worst was when they requested soft boiled eggs! Do you know how difficult it is to cook eggs and deliver them to the fourth floor without the yolk setting.
I worked at McDonalds and I was so rubbish at it
Working at Dorset Blueberry farm..
Picking blueberries from 9am – 5pm and being paid by the kg weight.. Bending down all day every day is absolute madness .. My back killed on day two and I couldn’t eat any more blueberries if my life depended on it.
On day one we went for a meal at lunch at the half way inn pub – Which was nice haha 🙂
working in a bingo hall before the smoking ban!
Checking the sizing of fred flintstone boxer shorts in a factory
cleaning a bakery
in a factory making loo rolls
Delivering newspapers!
Sandwich artist lol..
cleaning
Washing up /cleaning /clearing tables in a coffee shop
when working with / for unprofessional people
working at Primani. It was so depressing.
Holding the bottom of a jack hammer(pneumatic drill)to ensure precise cutting
Working in a shoe shop, ewwww hate feet 🙁
laundry person in an old peoples home
Working in a crab factory
When I was young worked in a newsagents and was expected to sort the rubbish! that had been thrown down to cellar all week
Working in catering and cleaning out the greasy fryers. Yuck!
working in a factory i hated that job and it was so boring i was glad when i got another job x
WORKING IN A SHOE SHOP
Working in a bank – boring!
Collecting glassed in a bar… horrid job.
I loved working at a dog kennel, apart from when we had young nervous pups who during the night would have the runs and jump it all up the walls!
my worst job has been working on my parents farm at lambing time, its lovely seeing the lambs being born but yuck cleaning out their bedding when theyve been in there a few days is so not nice!
My 1st job I ever had was a paper girl… I hated it, carrying a heavy bag on my shoulder, in all winds and weather.
The worse part was when people wouldn’t answer their door to pay
barman in a east London working mans club, people were great lace was a dump
Cleaning in a well known shop first thing in the morning. People are disgusting!! And the management were really rude to staff 🙁
washing DISHING IN A KITCHEN IN A CAFE
I worked in a shop selling candy rock, candy floss and ice-cream. Making candy floss is not fun, gets everywhere and not fun in the summer with wasps loving it
Saturday girl in a clothes shop. I wasn’t allowed to do anything apart from stand at the changing rooms ALL DAY. So boring!
I worked ina soap factory. Mind numbingly boring!
I haven’t had many jobs as I developed various health problems makng it impossible to work in my late teens, but Kennels were the worst, though I loved spending time with dogs, I am a huge dog person, had them my whole life, cleaning up after dogs that get stressed in kennels away from their home, or worse, poorly dogs, was awful, they’d have the runs and walk it over the whole kennel, and clearing that sort of mess up was horrible. I had clothes that were strictly for that job as I didn’t want the smell to get into anything else.
Worst job I ever had was cleaning toilets at the Care home near me! Oh good lord! I don’t think I will divulge too much, unlike them, but man did I feel I earned my money!!! Those bowls would be shining so much you could have eaten your dinner off them…….ok maybe not! 🙂 lol
My worst job was working behind the bar in a busy sports bar where the uniform was a swimsuit and sailor hat humping barrels from the cellar was pretty unflattering!. 🙁
The worst job i have had was when i was 16 and worked for Wimpy, had to dress up as Mr wimpy in a hot sweaty suit for childrens partys, and the children were horrible treading on my feet and pulling me about on purpose x
working in the supermarket on the fruit and veg the bananas smelt so bad in the plastic wrapper they would be all wet.
The worst job I ever had was working on a building site a newbie. The work was fine and I didn’t mind getting my hands dirty, the problem was being the new kid and young, the guys constantly played practical jokes on me, this got tired very very quickly.
The worse job I ever had was working in a shed fronting a vehicle body shop. Not only was it freezing in winter, but I also worked with several mice and rats…….still makes me shudder now!
The worst job I ever had was recycling 250 grades of paper, especially enjoyable (not) was climbing into huge cages to reach it all at the bottom, I grew the strongest muscles I had ever had then, but the upside was the boss was the kindest I had ever met, he even saved my life by noticing I was suffering from a rare thryroid problem, he had had it himself in the past, so I was meant to work there despite the heat the noise and rat droppings!
I lasted about a month in a chippy, before getting sacked for throwing the curry sauce away!
I worked in an office folding letters and putting them in envelopes! Great fun……zzzzzzzzzzzzz!! 🙂
My worst ever job was when I was doing maternity cover in the Marketing Dept. I was to deliver a tender to a company in Edinburgh. I left in plenty of time but I got really lost (before satnav)I drove around for almost 2hrs before I got near the street I needed to be (I couldn’t drive down the street, closed by road works) so I parked up and had 5min to get to the building. It was up a hill so I ran as fast as possible, I made it it to the lobby totally out of breath with 1 min to spare, spoke to the receptionist as best I could (tender….from COMPANY….please….)got the special receipt and sat down on the couch in tears. I made it in time but it was soooo stressful. Never delivered a tender again.
The worst job I have ever done has to be going down a bin in Burger King where I used to work to help find a young girl’s braces. It was rather gross!
It has to be going down a bin in Burger King where I used to work to help find a young girl’s braces. It was rather gross!
Office Junior…..except the only thing i ever did was get Lunch and Make teas and coffees 🙁
I’ve been lucky, but it’s not been the job but the management. A bank, no less!
Worked in a warehouse with my arrogant ex as my boss!
a job in a local tourist site where no-one ever visited. I had eight hours a day to read, sew, knit in fact do pretty much what I wanted to but I was so bored once the novelty wore off.
worst job was at one of the very popular fast food chains while studying at uni- never again!
Waiting tables. Some people can be so rude!
Cleaning a pub including th mens toilets yuk!!
an office junior when I left school in a busy accountants in oxford street. The worse bit was Christmas when I had to travel all over London and try to whistle for a cab (not so easy when you are a timid 17 year old) to deliver christmas presents to our clients. At least I was getting paid for doing it though.
Worked in a restaurant with a very unpleasant man
Worst job ever was probably my week in a microwave factory, spending an 8 hour shift sticking the display sticker on the front :-S Zzzzzzzz.
A machine minder in a firm where I was the only employee so was alone all day.
Washing dirty dishes in a really greasy take-away. *shudder* Glad I’m outta there!
My worst job was the one where I had to work a 90 hour week
Filling meat pies in a factory, really smelly
Worked in a country hotel/restaurant. worked as a waitress but when the house keeper left I helped out by cleaning the rooms in between dishing out the meals. It was only supposed to be temporary whilst they found somebody else. Ended up doing it permanently (until I got fed up and left) to add insult to injury they gave me a pay rise of £5 a week even though I was doing 2 jobs!
I had a summer job working in a factory canteen kitchen, which was fine…but – and this shows how long ago it was! – in the afternoons I had to take the tea and cake trolley around the factory floor…which was solely made up of men, and as a shy 15 yr old, I was mortified at the things they used to say to me!
being a sales assistant
paper round for £3.12 a week in 1993!!!
working for bupa, looking at slides under a microscope – doing sperm counts!
A cleaning job where they expected me to scrub the carpets and rugs by hand 🙁
gutting Salmon in a Salmon factory
Working in a dodgy greasy spoon cafe as a waitress when I was a teenager – disgusting place. If someone didn’t eat something on their plate I.e. say, a sausage, it would find itself on another customers plate……
Calling truck drivers on their radio to ask when they made their delivery or even worse, check when they were going to make it. They didn’t appreciate it!
Cleaning nightclubs , the ladys loos where the worse way over mens, they whould be covered in loo paper most of the toilets where blocked, tehre whould be ripped off knickers, used condoms and all most every cubicle whould be entirely covered in waist high vomit, excrement and pee…lets just say the money was very very good and at least having no sense of smell helped..i just boiler suited my self up hairnetted and plug in my ear phones..i refused to shower at home so i used the bosses office shower (with his consent)
being a sales manager!!
worked in hotel in my youth as dogs body really hard job
I once cleaned in bingo hall, could not believe how much mess little old ladies could make, it was when people where allowed to smoke and it was smelly and they didn’t use the the ashtrays. Needless to say I didn’t last there very long!
i have nt had a job that i’ve not enjoyed
I had a job once for an industrial drainage company – it started off as answering phone calls, then progressed to making cold calls to different companies to ask them about their drainage systems! I was only 17 and knew nothing about what I was selling! Horrible job!
Cleaning cinema screens, I came across a nice pair of pee soaked y-fronts someone left behind and a puddle! Not the most fun I have had!
working on a sewing machine making mens shirts. my job was to stitch the collar on. repetitive and boring.
I wokred for a family run business where the director was not a very nice man and would pick on my. I didnt have anywhere to complain to as my boss was his fiance and the boss was his dad. in the end i had to walk out
working at a cafe
I’ve only had two but this one, doing data entry, is booooring. It’s not all bad though as I have the radio and as many cups of tea as I fancy
Selling carpets on a market stall….. Aged 16!
Working as an unpaid intern at a solicitors office.
4am job cleaning offices the size of a football pitch!
Lots of people love it, but mine was working in a care home, just didn’t like it at all 🙁
A shoe shop, did not like peoples smelly feet!
Sales…yuck
M&s cafe the smell of coffee on my hands waste sickening
Working in a call centre for a large telecoms company
My first job was at McDonalds, need i say more? x
Nursery Nurse.
putting lines on tennis courts
cleaning the ladies toilets
I was once a face-to-face fundraiser..by the time I left the job I’d left the job I’d never felt less charitable!!!
working for the local authority putting notices on dangerous gravestones
ear piecing
my first job was delivering magazine , free samples for ten hours a day 365 days a year al weathers for £10 a day at 11 I thought I was rich how innocent I was
Working in the office of a pie factory where they sold cooked pig heads & other nasties with a 102 year old bad-breathed chain smoker & water running down the inside windows.
Working in a bonus system in the Water Board
I worked in a Supermarket years ago, was asked to do turn of working in staff canteen. So hot, and busy. By the end of the day my feet were agony. I think by being on my feet all day working in the heat of the kitchen etc.
Washer up in a fish and chips shop, I stank of grease and fat.
delivering the local free paper
worse job working in a famous high street shop in early hours of boxing day sales