re: Worst job you ever had

Albertsons on Old Hammond for two years when I was in high school. Managers were dicks. Oh happy day when I walked of that place for the last time.

In retrospect, though, it did teach me a lot about dealing with all kinds of people. Valuable education but hated every minute of it.

worked at a Rice Dryer, 80-100 hours a week but if you put up with it for a month, could make 3500 cash so while in college, i did it every summer, it was nice after it was over.

I was a dish washer at a Ryans steakhouse in Georgia for a couple of weeks. Couple hundred people on a Sunday after church. I did my best to keep up, hard arse work..

Supervisor at Dick's Sporting Goods.

Talk about a place where absolutely everyone had no clue what they were doing while being all about themselves. Management absolutely feared the people above them and the people at the top had absolutely no clue how to run a business. I saw full grown men have panic attacks over visits and what not. I once got into an argument with my manager over a back to school display he wanted set up and when I explained to him that it was a waste of time, I got sent home. We set the display up and absolutely no one touched it, we put out over a hundred pair of shoes into this one display which took hours to do and I think we sold 7 pairs off of it. Not only that, but any idea you had that was a good one was dismissed only to be stolen later and not an ounce of credit was given. Complete morons and imbeciles run the place and I'll never go back.

In terms of manual labor, I spent the summer before college topdressing. Decent money, but damn hard work. Typical day saw me shoveling 8 to 10 tons of river sand into the spreader. And that was between aerating and actually spreading the sand.

Biggest job that summer was a huge residential property which needed 40 tons (2 full dump trucks). The foreman laughed at the look of utter defeat on my face when the second dump truck pulled around the corner to unload.

Most annoying job was lifeguarding at a fairly upscale country club. Annual fees just to be a member were something like $15,000, so you can imagine the type of people I had to put up with. I'll never forget one guy asking me to literally hose down a path from the kiddie pool to the concession stand because he thought the concrete was too hot. I laughed out loud before realizing he was being serious. I don't think he liked that.

They also did a kid's golf camp all summer long. Ages 5 to 12. And guess where the instructors sent all the kids after they were done golfing for the day. Yep, the pool. Probably 100 of them raising hell from 3pm-5pm every weekday. Like playing whack-a-mole.

Worked as a Plumber's helper in Baton Rouge area the summer out of high school. All we did was rough-in's for sewer pipe for houses. No shade and working a shovel all day long digging trenches made me go to college.

Unloading train boxcars by hand.

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Colonial Country Club before my senior year at TCU for the PGA tournament there

The HR director tricked me and some of my football teammates into being kitchen stewards for the entire week. 9 straight days of washing dishes, taking out the trash and cleaning up the entire kitchen every night from 6am to 2am. It was brutal and the HR director tricked us into it.

The 3 years before that I did purchasing and all I did was drive a golf cart around the course delivering things and it was awesome. But that year the HR director got me and my football teammates who were going to work there that year and said she is creating this awesome secret new team for the tournament this year and picked us out of all the applicants to be a part of this special team. We had no idea what we would be doing until day 1 when they threw us in the dishwasher and told us to start washing dishes.

9 straight days.

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College football players are not allowed to have jobs. How did this work?

Not a one. I love work.