Dead-End Shit Jobs: How Many Have You Had?
Dead-end jobs are a necessary evil. We all have bills and obligations to pay. Sometimes dead-end *shit* jobs are just the bandaid we need to pay the bills while our greater focus is put into our efforts on business growth.
So with that said, what Dead-End *Shit* jobs have you had? Do you currently have?
I was thinking back to all the crap jobs I've had and I am amazed I had the fortitude to endure it all.
My list:
1) Pizza delivery (Had to mop floors too)
2) Subway sandwich lunch driver (Lasted 3 weeks)
3) *Student* Painter (Lasted 6 weeks)
4) Charity organization can collector
5) Bus boy, Chinese restaurant (cockroaches in back!!!)
6) Wholesale flower deliverer
7) Plumbing day laborer
8) Stock boy, Sears Roebuck
9) Newspaper delivery at 3am in the morning
10) Hospital TV system auditor (lasted 2 days)
Much of these jobs I had after college graduation.
If you find yourself in a *shit* job, take a deep breath and reassure yourself that it is only temporary. Your job is no predictor of your true potential but only a byproduct of your circumstances and your choices.
I did my best thinking while enduring these jobs -- I remember mopping floors and coming up with ideas as well as stockpiling motivation. The thoughts "I'm better than this!" builds and builds until the fire under your ass can no longer be tolerated and leaping into action is no longer an option, but a survival move.
MJ
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HA! Alright. This is one
HA! Alright. This is one that I usually win because I would take any job I could get. So I ended up with every crap job out there.
They are in no particular order but I will stop at the point where I became a "Professional". I really need to put this list down somewhere because I always forget some. I am also leaving out my "Hustles" and only putting in legitimate jobs.
I was a paper boy (back when kids could do that)
Movie Theater Concessions
Movie Theater Janitor (Yeah, I got a second job at the same place - that's a hustle)
Hot Dog Shop
Pizza Hut
I worked for an "Entertainment" company where I was the "Barney the Purple Dinosaur", The Easter Bunny, Singing telegrams, bodyguard for the female strippers and yes... I did a little bump and grind too.
I was a dog bather (expressing anal glands is not fun)
I was a dog groomer
Worked in a string cheese factory
Costco meat packing plant
Assembly lines packing little plastic cups with cans of chicken salad.
Lumping trucks (putting things on and off big rigs)
Drove a tow truck for a year
Retail (office supplies and sales)
More canteen, catering, cafeteria and restaurant jobs than I care to remember.
I took a temp job in a warehouse doing quality checks on recalled Best Foods Mayonnaise - have you ever seen mayo turn black? I have.
I laid carpet and tile for a year - backbreaking work in general. The company I worked for specialized in care homes for the mentally disabled. When you rip up old carpet that has been urinated on thousands of times, powdered urine puffs up. Tastes salty (GAG!).
I worked the graveyard shift in a gas station located in a heavily gang populated neighborhood (shootings all night - drive-bys and recreational).
Worked in another warehouse destroying spoiled dog food.
Another warehouse cataloging returned lotions and personal products I wore more used personal creams and lotions than found their way to the garbage. That job sucked so bad that I made them fire me. I was such a good worker that they didn’t want me to leave.
I worked at Jack In The Box. Not too bad, but the 3 robberies sucked.
I worked as a welder for a Toyota truck frame manufacturer. 100lb welder in 120 degree factory. I did most of my work in my underwear (literally boxer shorts and a tshirt with flip-flops - sparks be damned).
Pizza delivery was horrible (crackheads and meth-heads like to answer the door naked.)
I have had plenty of cool jobs - lifeguarding comes to mind.
I have always had 2 or 3 jobs at a time while going to school or running my own businesses. Each of those jobs taught me invaluable information and I am glad I had each one
I had only two, actually,
I had only two, actually, and that was for short periods of time. First one was a job with my father in the stone processing firm. It's quite rough and I hated it, especially because we basically had to "live at work", sleeping over in the workers flat for the week days. I can't say I got much from it and I endured only few weeks. At least I got the first decent mobile phone from that. :P
Second was a goods packaging job, putting stuff into boxes, stamping them with stickers etc. Too routine and boring, yet working long hours.
If I benefited anyhow from these it was in terms of further strenghtening my determination to rise above that crap and do what I really want to do. Thanks in part to the support from my parents, albeit sometimes grudginly, I eventually managed to turn my web sites into a business I can live off, still pretty slim, but it provided me with the experience and time to learn and get to where I am today; preparing for my next big break, one I'll produce myself of course. :)
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