What's the worst job you've had? (5 Viewers)

Siamak

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Aug 13, 2013
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#82
I worked as secretary in an ophthalmology office 13 years ago as part time job, what a boring and crappy.

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Also for a period of time I was a worker in construction work mostly installing and decorating ceiling with Knauf. A hard work in an environment lacking hygiene and basic health necessities.
 
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AFL_ITALIA

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Jun 17, 2011
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#88
The last full time role I had before my current one, we'll call it a back-office finance role for one of the "big three" credit rating agencies.

- Low pay
- long hours, regularly would do 12-13 hour days for a week or two straight during month/quarter end periods
- not much room to move up, pretty sure by design by my department head as all the associates were men and the managers women
- largely incompetent managers
- not valued at all by other departments
- stressful for no reason
- restrictions on taking time off

It was clear to me from the outset that they were aiming to outsource the entire department to a cheaper country (story of my whole career), so I worked a little over 3 years and ended up quitting to push for a career change. They tried to convince me to stay by telling me they were planning on making me a manager eventually, fuck that. A year later they laid everyone off to move the department to Costa Rica.
 
Aug 29, 2022
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#90
I worked as a tutor during my uni days.

Overall I enjoyed the experience, but assignment marking is hell. I've always joked to other tutors...If Dante (the poet) had been familiar with the life of a tutor, he probably would have added another level of Hell to his Inferno. The condemned would sit for all eternity and read one mediocre assignment after another, meticulously correct every mistake, agonize over every mark, and then throw each graded paper into a fire.

There are few things more discouraging than finding yourself at 2am reading the 20th assignment in a row on the same subject when you know that there are 50 more to grade. To mark conscientiously requires a draining degree of sustained focus, and after all of your effort, you know that only a few of the students will give more than a minute’s attention to the comments that you have painstakingly written with your aching hand.
 

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