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Worst Job, Best Job, Current Job

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Worst: Worked in an electrical engine fabricating factory in the ealry 90's and just hated it. Crap pay and conditions for really hard physical work. My hands are still destroyed from it years later.

Best: I spent most of my working life as and odds compiler and trader for a large gambling and proprietary trading firm. Really interesting work. Had a great immediate superior who had a good working relationship with, which helps as I worked remotely for years.

Current: on sabbatical for a.few years until the little ones are no longer little ones. Still deciding what to go back to, if at all.
 
Best: Royal Navy submariner. 14 years I did. Visited Australia, south africa, Singapore, kings Bay USA, most of Europe/Mediterranean. Worked with amazing people and conducted some seriously interesting and important missions. Worked with special forces on operations. Completed the 18 metre descent before it was cancelled for health and safety in the submarine escape training tank. Been to some of the best strip clubs and brothels the world has to offer with some of the most mental fellas. Go to the pub at every lunch time for a few pints then back to work when alongside.

Worst. Royal Navy submariner. Spent way to much time away from home. missed multiple kids birthdays and births. Had to conduct missions which I didn’t personally agree with. Stood on the casing of a submarine armed with an SA80 rifle in the dark and cold Scottish weather for more than 20k hours over the years. Having to wear a uniform daily and salute nob heads who have been to university.

Current. IT and radio engineer in the blue light sector. Look after the current 999 command and control centres for the whole of the north of england(Tyne and wear, Northumberland, Cumbria, Cheshire, Lancashire and greater manchester), Devon and Cornwall police, Dorset police. Also investigate and diagnose problems for Sheffield supertram, national express West Midlands and Lincolnshire fire and rescue service.
 
Worst: call centre, or 'internal facing customer services help desk'. It was basically a hotline for 'colleagues' to call and shout bile down the phone at someone because their equipment had broken, a customer had bollocked them, and they wanted the magic engineering fairies to fix the fault. Soul crushing.

Best: researcher. Hands down the most interesting and autonomous job(s) I've ever had. Worked on some excellent projects that made a difference and constantly learnt something new. Sadly HE is full of short term contracts and hopping around the country from institution to institution. The stability isn't there, unless you are very lucky or very good. I'm neither 😆

Current: Research manager. Same sector, less involved and less autonomy, but much more secure, less stress and better paid - make of that what you will.
 
john jako said:
Best: Royal Navy submariner. 14 years I did. Visited Australia, south africa, Singapore, kings Bay USA, most of Europe/Mediterranean. Worked with amazing people and conducted some seriously interesting and important missions. Worked with special forces on operations. Completed the 18 metre descent before it was cancelled for health and safety in the submarine escape training tank. Been to some of the best strip clubs and brothels the world has to offer with some of the most mental fellas. Go to the pub at every lunch time for a few pints then back to work when alongside.

Worst. Royal Navy submariner. Spent way to much time away from home. missed multiple kids birthdays and births. Had to conduct missions which I didn’t personally agree with. Stood on the casing of a submarine armed with an SA80 rifle in the dark and cold Scottish weather for more than 20k hours over the years. Having to wear a uniform daily and salute nob heads who have been to university.

Current. IT and radio engineer in the blue light sector. Look after the current 999 command and control centres for the whole of the north of england(Tyne and wear, Northumberland, Cumbria, Cheshire, Lancashire and greater manchester), Devon and Cornwall police, Dorset police. Also investigate and diagnose problems for Sheffield supertram, national express West Midlands and Lincolnshire fire and rescue service.
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Fair play sounds fascinating and with it’s fair share of thrills.
Mind you, is the story about the RN Officer, the sailor and the barrel true?
 

Worst: probably a resort manager for a ski chalet company with too many staff who weren't interested in skiing or boarding or work, just getting off their tits and lying in bed all day. Swore never to work with chalet staff again.
Best: my first real job was as a journalist in the bad old good old days (NUJ strike/Thatcher/miners' strike, etc.). Loved every minute and couldn't believe I was getting paid to do it.
Current: self-employed for the last 20-odd years and also loved it all. Similar to @GrandOldTeam but work for myself and my own websites these days.
 
Worst: third party IT support. Was a decent job for a great boss but no matter how hard you worked any given day, the next day everything was broken and everyone was angry. I'm not built for that and the stress adds until you can't really cope with it. Grateful for the job and experience, but not for me.

Best: flight instructor. Crap job actually, and you either work 12 hour or 2 hour days (based on the weather), but the perks are good. Not sustainable and aviation in general has a lot of flaws as a job. (Has a lot of flaw$ as a hobby as well.)

Current: affordable housing developer. The highs are great but it's largely boring work and the industry can be harsh and I don't like some of my co-workers.
 
Worst - two spring to mind, my work experience placement in Year 11 working in the mail room at the Council building on Dale Street, spent the two weeks doing nothing but stamping and sealing letters at a desk with a manager who’s idea of training was to ask me if I knew what a computer was and if I knew how to turn it on, and that was on my final day

The other was a call centre job at one of those spammy claims companies, got a successful one put through with the last call on my first day then nothing but abuse the rest of the week so never went back

Best - working for Showcase Cinemas for 18 months, best group of workmates who looked out for each other, which yealded some of the best nights out I’ve ever had. The perks of getting to see up to 3 films a week for nothing helped as well. Only left because a change in management (due to a couple of them cooking the books and blaming staff for losses) meant contracts getting changed to zero hour ones meaning I’d sometimes go 1/2 weeks a month without a shift

Current - been at Primark for coming up to 9 years, it’s had its ups and downs, I changed shifts from initially doing weekends to doing evenings because I was becoming miserable at being left to do too much by myself on my section, then I took a chance, after an initial temp spell over Christmas, to move to doing my current afternoon shift pattern. The 3 month spell without working during the early months of the pandemic was hard as pay got slashed significantly during that time and presently the old feelings I had at weekends about being left without help have bubbled to the surface again leaving me in a rotten, stressed out mood that’s brought on panic attacks on a few occasions which frustrates me more
 

Worst Job - Weekend Laboratory Assistant. Parents owned a small time lab testing commercial water tanks and animal feed for various grim bacteria. I can still vividly recall the stenches from the salmonella sample incubators. I was still in school mind, so was quite lucky to have work from age 12. I was raking it in compared to everyone else still on pocket money.

Best Job - Calibration Pilot. After saving the best part of 70 grand and doing my commercial training, I worked for a company using aeroplanes to calibrate airport navigation systems. Absolutely thrilling flying, all stick and rudder stuff, low to the ground, licence from the regulator to break lots of rules so we get the job done. Most of the operations were overseas, so I saw the world, and made some amazing friends being away together as a crew for weeks on end. Pay was pretty good, but had no life outside of work.

Current Job - Airline Pilot. Mostly boring. Pay is great, and with plenty of time off to do fun stuff, although there are some horrible early starts and late finishes. Body clock takes a regular beating. Need to earn my retirement before age 65 which is the oldest to hold a medical. There are some great guys, but I dislike often having to work with young rich kids who think they deserve universal respect and noshes because daddy paid for them to do their training. Zero in common with most of them.
 
Worst: Was a janitor/cleaner at a hospital. Very depressing going into patient's rooms, who were usually very lonely and old and sick and desperate for conversation. I tried to make small talk but had to get onto the next room to sweep/mop the floor, empty trash, etc. I also had to carry out a larger-than-expected number of severed limbs from elderly diabetics to the incinerator. They would be in these red bags outside the operating room. The full-legs, or bags of feet were heavier than I imagined. It was all quite odd.

Best: Spent my summers working as a housekeeper (maid) in Denali Park Alaska during my collegiate years. The job wasn't very exciting, but it was all college-aged kids who liked to party (like me) in Alaska, in the summer, when the sun never set. 1am looked liked 1pm in terms of daylight. We hiked a lot, took shrooms, took shrooms while hiking, drank cheap beer, got baked, etc. etc. We also poorly cleaned the overpriced hotel rooms.

Current job: University professor, which I generally enjoy.
 
Quite a few impressive current-jobs on here :cheers:



worst: washing dishes at a uni kitchen...in Hull...talk about humbling!

best: tie between playing live electronic music in London, or wedding photographer in Berlin. Exhilarating stuff!

current: self-employed juggling different things, but mainly long night-shifts as IT Remote Admin as that brings in consistent monies (got two kids now). Uninspiring work when it comes in, but deffo content with my lot overall. It being home-office was the deal-maker.
 
Worst job: Decision maker at DWP for personal independence payments. Basicially tellibg disable people to f** off. It was horrible. Only lasted a few months.

Best job: Team manager for Capita on a Lloyds banking contract. Our team/dept we’re responsible for working out the the reimbursements and writing the cheques for PPI payments (we weren’t responsible for any cold calling 😃)

Current job: Operational data analyst for the Charity Commission. This has the potential to become my best job imho.
 

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