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Most jobs dealing with the public, or people in general I would not do. I do not like listening to stupid people talk about stupid stuff, on the phone or in person. No thank you, not for any price.
If the price was right, I would do any form of physical work, even menial work. IF the price was right That's more than people are willing to offer these days though, so that's out.
If you can avoid it try not to accept jobs soliciting for the Rajah Temple Shriners where only 30% goes to the organization. I hate it, but I am stuck.
Also I am massively antisocial and awkward with people so I don't think I will even be able to keep any job that involves too much personal contact. My back hurts and I can't stand for more than a few hours. When this job runs it's course, it probably means it's time to put the lights out.
Call centers. I will never work in one, regardless. They are just above "debt collectors". I would rather operate a warez cave on the Tor network, always paranoid about an FBI raid rather than work in a slave-laboring call center. Pig farmer, chicken catcher/decapitator, alligator sexting...most of the stuff from "Dirty Jobs" tv show. Other than that, not much else is off limits.
When I was in college I worked for the water and wastewater treatment plant in my hometown. One of my daily jobs was to "rake the barflow." This was a spot right before the wastewater plant where the sanitary sewer line was exposed, and there was a metal grate in there to catch anything big enough to mess up one of the pumps if it went through. So I would have to go out every day and rake all of the turds, toilet paper, tampons, condoms, and whatever else might accumulate in there with a long-handled garden cultivator and put it in a bucket. It was a nasty-ass job BUT it was honest work and if I was hard up I'd do it again.
The only things I wouldn't do would be things that don't sit well with me from a moral standpoint, such as working for a predatory lender.
When I was in college I worked for the water and wastewater treatment plant in my hometown. One of my daily jobs was to "rake the barflow." This was a spot right before the wastewater plant where the sanitary sewer line was exposed, and there was a metal grate in there to catch anything big enough to mess up one of the pumps if it went through. So I would have to go out every day and rake all of the turds, toilet paper, tampons, condoms, and whatever else might accumulate in there with a long-handled garden cultivator and put it in a bucket. It was a nasty-ass job BUT it was honest work and if I was hard up I'd do it again.
The only things I wouldn't do would be things that don't sit well with me from a moral standpoint, such as working for a predatory lender.
Interesting job. How much was the pay, if I may ask? Sounds physically demanding. I saw one ad in the job bank the other day for a factory "dust collector", lol.
Interesting job. How much was the pay, if I may ask? Sounds physically demanding.
I think it was around $7, that was around 15 years ago. Overall the job wasn't that physically demanding; raking the barflow was probably the most physical thing I had to do over the course of the day and it only took about 10-15 minutes.
Hey, I did my time working in an office. Now I know better.
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That's more than people are willing to offer these days though, so that's out.
