I worked at a store selling aquarium fish for $6/hr. It was a bad job because I am not an expert on aquarium fish and we'd get a lot of middle aged white guys who would come in and be very sarcastic about any question that you didn't know the answer to. Add in the difficulty in catching these fish, cleaning the tanks, and monitoring phones and customers and it ended up not being much fun.
Plenty of good things though. Had one assistant manager that I worked with that was a cool guy, plus a couple of co-workers that were nice. I enjoyed the moms who sneaked in mid-day to get a new goldfish that looked like the kid's fish that died earlier. I liked the feel of the day's work too - felt good at the end of the day, even though it was hard work (I think the less pay and lower on the job hierarchy you go, the harder the work).
Gross fact: my clothes smelled so bad from the fish store that I thought they were what was stinking up my room at home. Turned out I had a dead mouse in there for weeks - nasty.
Your job doesn't sound too bad. The worst the job I ever had involved calling random strangers living in small towns to recruit them for a study on cancer. That was the first and last job I ever had with the university. It paid really well, but it was a god awful job. You read from a script (which you can memorize 10 callers-in), you deal with old women/men who wanted to chat about their lives, you had to deal with people who lied to you. Etc. Best job was my stint at Starbucks! - 2 months ago
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It's true - you got me. The job wasn't that bad and Mike Rowe isn't interested in hearing about it. I didn't even mention that we had multiple doors leading to the tubs that fed the tanks and that I'd duck into one door when I saw an obnoxious looking customer, walk to the other end of the building, and pop out to help the nicer (or better looking) other customers. It's true. One day I spent 45 minutes walking around w/ my college RA who had wandered in. What can I say? I'm picky and lucky. - 2 months ago
Working in car dealership as a used care salesman, long hours high stress from managers also working in car dealership. Simple task, sale a car and high $$$.
The people you work with are the most important factor in my opinion. I could work with my best friends in a crappy job forever, but I couldn't work with a bunch of jerks at the best of jobs.
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