Which UM member has the worst job...?

[Commander CMG]

I get to work and spend my days with dogs and I am thankful and look forward to everyday.

However some people are not has lucky as me, most complain about their job from time to time but, spare a thought for the sewer swimmers and portal pumpers of this world. Your day might not seem that bad!

So who of us here have to clean diseased feet or give an elephant an anal probe.... who officially has the worst job?

Edited July 29, 2019 by Iilaa'mpuul'xem

[XenoFish]

I'm a self employed machinist. The only bad part are idiot customers and rush time (spring and fall). Stress would be the worst part, but meh otherwise. 

[tcgram]

I teach basic nutrition to the general public through a government funded program through the local health dept.  We also give free nutritious supplemental foods and formula.  I love seeing the progression from unhealthy habits to healthy ones.   Of course, we have quite a few that just want their free stuff, give attitude for everything from the paperwork to any time they have to wait, although they say they have no job and need the help. 

[Taun]

I'm retired... i don't do a thing! And I'm very good at it!

 

In fact, I do less by 7 AM than most people don't do all day....

Edited July 30, 2019 by Taun

[+and-then]

I'm a semi-retired residential and commercial painter.  My career was in medical imaging until the two cervical fusions and the two lumbar laminectomies  I LOVED MRI...  Painting is less stressful though.  I miss the stories the Vets at the VA used to share, though.  

[Minimalists]

53 minutes ago, Taun said:

I'm retired... i don't do a thing! And I'm very good at it!

 

In fact, I do less by 7 AM than most people don't do all day....

I second this one...I am retired to...Doing what the hell I want to when I want to.

[SecretSanta]

I  make and decorate ice cream cakes. It’s fun.

 

Edited July 30, 2019 by SecretSanta

[quiXilver]

I'm an artist and poet now semi-retired, it's blissful.  I worked as a stage actor for about 15 years in a former life.

I still occasionally build scenery and props with IATSE for television and film here in Hollyweird.

 

At one point in the early 90's though, I briefly had a doozy of a job, I sold toilets door to door in Brooklyn. 

Well, not sold, offered...

NYC had a massive program at the time to improve and reduce water use in the city, so they had a brief program, where homeowner's/apt owners could get old toilets replaced with new less wasteful units paid for by the city.  The city paid me $10 per unit changed out.  It was a great idea, good cause, and my plan was to target the major apt building units and commercial offices first.  Figured, a couple conversations could result in thousands of units moved and really make coin, while helping the city and the owners.

The reality was, each individual unit needed to be measured to ensure a proper replacement.  Suddenly faced with the prospect to go reach behind and measure bolts on toilets in the bathrooms of Random Brooklyn Residents, resulted in my sudden unavailability for the position.

[SecretSanta]

5 minutes ago, quiXilver said:

I'm an artist and poet now semi-retired, it's blissful.  I worked as a stage actor for about 15 years in a former life.

I still occasionally build scenery and props with IATSE for television and film here in Hollyweird.

 

At one point in the early 90's though, I briefly had a doozy of a job, I sold toilets door to door in Brooklyn. 

Well, not sold, offered...

NYC had a massive program at the time to improve and reduce water use in the city, so they had a brief program, where homeowner's/apt owners could get old toilets replaced with new less wasteful units paid for by the city.  The city paid me $10 per unit changed out.  It was a great idea, good cause, and my plan was to target the major apt building units and commercial offices first.  Figured, a couple conversations could result in thousands of units moved and really make coin, while helping the city and the owners.

The reality was, each individual unit needed to be measured to ensure a proper replacement.  Suddenly faced with the prospect to go reach behind and measure bolts on toilets in the bathrooms of Random Brooklyn Residents, resulted in my sudden unavailability for the position.

We’re you a stage actor in NYC? My dad and uncle made wigs for Broadway. 

[Taun]

Though I'm retired now, when I did work (well, show up at least) I was an Electronic Technician, performing many varied job specialty's such as circuit testing, failure analysis (decapping an IC and using an electron microscope to figure out why it failed), environmental testing of product (computer hard drives) and assembly line robotic programming/debugging.... Also worked on Air Traffic Control systems and simulators for the FAA at the academy here in OKC...

On the military side while on active duty (10 years of my misspent youth) I worked several different job fields (I bore easily), including electronic maintenance on nuclear missiles (Pershing), data communications (from back in the day when a computer filled an entire room), tactical radio communications (satellite, AM/FM and Morse code) and Order of Battle Specialist (study potential enemy organizations, equipment and tactics and serve as enemy force commander during simulations - lots of fun to beat up on Colonels and Generals as a lowly SGT)... Later in the Reserves I was Infantry (and a Drill Sgt if you can believe that) and Communications Chief/Spectrum analyst for a Brigade...

Worst job I ever had?... Working the night shift (alone) at a Seven Eleven convenience store in a very rough part of town for extra cash... They don't pay people enough to do that job!

Edited July 30, 2019 by Taun

[CrimsonKing]

Former Boxer-MMA fighter (retired/neck issues),current head trainer MMA/Boxing,part gym owner...but also enjoying part time work for a friends construction company...

Been working with my hands,since my hands started working lol

[Imaginarynumber1]

Until last Feb, I spent 4 years working for my county coroner (I live in one of the 15 largest cities in the US) and multiple funeral homes picking up bodies every night. I've seen some  amazingly gory ****.

[CrimsonKing]

15 minutes ago, Imaginarynumber1 said:

Until last Feb, I spent 4 years working for my county coroner (I live in one of the 15 largest cities in the US) and multiple funeral homes picking up bodies every night. I've seen some  amazingly gory ****.

Never envied your job bud,but somebody had to do it 

What ya got next in line?

[Imaginarynumber1]

1 minute ago, CrimsonKing said:

Never envied your job bud,but somebody had to do it 

What ya got next in line?

I actually loved the job. Didn't mess with me at all. The gore fascinates me

I did move to a much better paying and much better hour IT job. Getting a 4 dollar raise next week. Rolling in dough!

[CrimsonKing]

1 minute ago, Imaginarynumber1 said:

I actually loved the job. Didn't mess with me at all. The gore fascinates me

I did move to a much better paying and much better hour IT job. Getting a 4 dollar raise next week. Rolling in dough!

I hear ya man,i had a friend years back when i lived in Panama City Fl who was in that line of work and him and his wife made their own company outta that s***...as i said,someones gotta do it!...death doesn't clean up behind itself...

Good to hear man 

 

[Imaginarynumber1]

18 minutes ago, CrimsonKing said:

I hear ya man,i had a friend years back when i lived in Panama City Fl who was in that line of work and him and his wife made their own company outta that s***...as i said,someones gotta do it!...death doesn't clean up behind itself...

Good to hear man 

 

Death business is fascinating. I never recommend anything, but the podcast episode( probably also on YouTube) of Adam Ruins Eveything on the death industry is amazing and spot on. The funeral industry only exists to fleece the living of cashm

[+susieice]

7 hours ago, Taun said:

I'm retired... i don't do a thing! And I'm very good at it!

 

In fact, I do less by 7 AM than most people don't do all day....

I'm retired now too. Ran a restorative department and worked as a med tech for decades. Sometimes I get bored but then I get over it.

[Essan]

I have to deal with the general public every day.   They frequently interrupt my important internet arguments on places like UM, just because they want to do something trivial like buy something from me    And  since "hell is other people" that makes my job absolutely hellish ........

(oh, and by the way, the customer is almost always wrong )

Edited July 30, 2019 by Essan

[Sir Smoke aLot]

13 hours ago, Taun said:

decapping an IC and using an electron microscope to figure out why it failed

Man that was demanding i mean it's sometimes hard to diagnose problems on larger boards like when you get broken or shorted line in 2nd or third layer of the board and similar crazy stuff which do happen.

To test IC well that is just wow from my current perspective (and i am well experienced in Electronics). Would love to look at it through electron microscope.

[JVG]

I share the same role as Taun, Minimalists and susieice. I am constantly busy these days doing absolutely nothing and wonder how I ever found the time to work??? I remember now I like to eat...

[Robotic Jew]

I sell garbage.

[quiXilver]

14 hours ago, SecretSanta said:

We’re you a stage actor in NYC? My dad and uncle made wigs for Broadway. 

A buddy of mine is married to a wig maker and costumer out here in Cali.  Impressive craft!

By the time we moved to NYC, I was weening myself off of producing and performing.  My last on stage performance was Off-Broadway at LaMama in the mid 90's, and I only consented to that performance because of the subject matter and venue (LaMama being founded by one of my theater heroes Grotowsky) and the play was an adaptation of the poetry of Rumi, one of my great inspirations.  The majority of my time on stage was performing classics on the Regional Circuit as well as some stand up comedy and producing a sketch comedy troupe for a time.

[MainerMikeBrown]

I used to be a janitor for a hotel.  So if someone threw up on the floor, I would have to go clean it up.

[Taun]

9 hours ago, Sir Smoke aLot said:

Man that was demanding i mean it's sometimes hard to diagnose problems on larger boards like when you get broken or shorted line in 2nd or third layer of the board and similar crazy stuff which do happen.

To test IC well that is just wow from my current perspective (and i am well experienced in Electronics). Would love to look at it through electron microscope.

I've done the PCB (printed circuit board) troubleshooting as well - not alot of fun sometimes...  And if you think tracing circuitry through a microscope is interesting, you should try soldering through one!

[Sir Smoke aLot]

7 hours ago, Taun said:

And if you think tracing circuitry through a microscope is interesting, you should try soldering through one!

On 4x to 8x magnification i have no problems (those combo IC's CPU+Flash was intense as it tends to short easily lol) but did you mean to solder within IC to fix it through electron microscope? 

With what did you do that, some sort of nano soldering station? :)))