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Worst - Farm labourer / Fruit picker in Queensland (insects, weather, graft)
Best - Farm labourer / Fruit picker in Queensland (carefree, lols, toad cricket)
Current - Programme Manger for bank. (Yawn)
 
Worst - a job where you try to get full time nurses to quit their job to become agency nurses on temporary contracts. I was only there for two days as they didn't tell me the whole job in the interview, or on their website

Best - Asda bakery. Loved it, 6-2 shift 4 days a week when on uni holidays. Saturdays were the best used to go out Friday night with half a gram of mdma and my uniform in my bag. used to stay out until 5ish, take my last bomb, get into Asda for a shower and get ready. Chat to all the 6-8am regulars, all over 70, and just have a great day until midday. After midday I started to come down so I just went to the freezer and ate loads of cookie dough, home and then sleep

I worked in supermarkets from 16 until after uni and I loved it, so many great characters. I'd work in one all my life if it was for the pay back then

Now - manager in a European intellectual property firm. It pays well and if I ever work later than 5, I get the time back. I've been manager there over 5 years managing 20 people and no one has left in that time, so I just be ok at it
 
Worst job:
Medical sales. Paid well, but found it absolutely soul crushing and massively stressful.

Best job:
Toss up between 6yrs as a professional poker player and 18 months straight out of uni on the QA/Testing team for Football Manager (or Championship Manager as it was then)

Current job:
Salesforce Consultant and System Architect.
 
Worst job:
Medical sales. Paid well, but found it absolutely soul crushing and massively stressful.

Best job:
Toss up between 6yrs as a professional poker player and 18 months straight out of uni on the QA/Testing team for Football Manager (or Championship Manager as it was then)

Current job:
Salesforce Consultant and Architect.

Begs the question, why pack in the poker?
 

Begs the question, why pack in the poker?
Couple of reasons really. Financial crash made the games much harder, to the point where while I was still making money, I could make more doing something else (it was this “logic” that led to me being in the medical sales field.)

The tipping point though was that I met my future wife and the lifestyle is… not terribly conducive to a successful relationship with someone outside of it.
 
Worst job:
Medical sales. Paid well, but found it absolutely soul crushing and massively stressful.

Best job:
Toss up between 6yrs as a professional poker player and 18 months straight out of uni on the QA/Testing team for Football Manager (or Championship Manager as it was then)

Current job:
Salesforce Consultant and System Architect.

I know two professional poker players, it's a weird life isn't it and a lot of hard work
 
Couple of reasons really. Financial crash made the games much harder, to the point where while I was still making money, I could make more doing something else (it was this “logic” that led to me being in the medical sales field.)

The tipping point though was that I met my future wife and the lifestyle is… not terribly conducive to a successful relationship with someone outside of it.

Makes sense. A good friend of mine was almost destroyed by medical sales. I was in sales, (financial) for 20 odd years, and enjoyed it, but jeez, the pressure my pal was under was awful to see. She packed it in soon after I mentioned it to her.
 

Makes sense. A good friend of mine was almost destroyed by medical sales. I was in sales, (financial) for 20 odd years, and enjoyed it, but jeez, the pressure my pal was under was awful to see. She packed it in soon after I mentioned it to her.
Absolutely loathed it. I wasn’t cut out for it to be honest. I was really good at the technical side (being in theatre, teaching surgeons what to do with our products, how to use them etc), but terrible at the actual sales aspect. I could do all the ground work, have them excited about the product, but HATED the part where you actually had to ask for the business. Made me want to crawl into a hole.
 
Best - Teaching a Emirates air hostesses wakeboarding around 20 years ago. Got paid next to nothing, lived 7 days a week in shorts, slept in a shipping container but my knob was worn down. Ace.

Worst - my last one. Just got ground down with the family VS non family politics.

Current - bit of everything for former clients. work when I want. Ideal.
 

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