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The worst job to have.

I think I'd hate to have been a chef.

All that organisation, time management down to the second. Working while others are playing. I like to day dream a little "I wonder how Joanna Gray is looking these days", people complaining, the heat. Not always good pay, the list goes on.

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I was president of the Chamber of Commerce once. It wasn’t a job per se but a horrible experience. Like herding snakes.
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My first job: Factory hand at the local Mitsubishi factory. (assembly line worker)

At about 18 months they retrenched me. I joined the Army and never looked back.
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Murder scene cleanup crew.
This can pay VERY well. People don't shop the job and pay the quote upfront.
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Dental hygienist. I could not clean crap out of people's teeth all day, every day.
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Dental hygienist. I could not clean crap out of people's teeth all day, every day.
proctologist?
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Dental hygienist. I could not clean crap out of people's teeth all day, every day.

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proctologist?
With some people and the crap they spew these are kind of the same job!

Waste treatment plant worker wouldn't be high on my list.
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I have had some really bad jobs. The summer after my junior years in South Carolina a golf resort called Houndslake was being built.

Me and another 10 guys got paid $1.60 an hour to walk the dirt fairways with a peach basket and pick up sticks and roots that were on the surface after plowing. Walk the basket back to a truck, dump, repeat.

All day in the South Carolina heat.

Football practice was a cake-walk after a summer of that.

I did get a promotion to "green shaper"...I spend the day top dressing greens.
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Any job in a cubicle.
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Any profession that makes you wake up at 7 am Monday morning , go to a place to do something you do not want to do all day long 5 days a week , only to come home , to pay bills on Saturday, do Laundry on Sunday , to get ready for the up and coming week of doing things you do not want to do .
We really are slaves .

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