FabSwingers.com forum: Your working life

By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

Simply which is the best and worst job you've had and why ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The one I’ve now - the best

The one before - the first 3 months , was the worst

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By *ruebameMan
over a year ago

from the womb and tryout to get back

I don't have a worst job been doing the same job all my working life and really enjoy it the views I get are unbelievable

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Best: facilities manager

Worst: teaching in thailand

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

"Best: facilities manager

Worst: teaching in thailand "

I'd have thought Thailand was good I've had great trips out there ?

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

Best: research.

Worst (and worst paid): call centre. Death threats over trivial things (we didn't deal with anything serious) for minimum wage. Hooray!

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By *VxrMan
over a year ago

Newton le Willows

Don't really have a worst. Washing pots at 15 wasn't brilliant but a great laugh. Best is a toss up between bar management or wine merchant

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ive had lots of interesting jobs but

Best Croupier

Worst putting cherries on trifles and packing brillo pads into boxes (both agency jobs)

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

In the middle

The one I have now, I have been with the company for nearly 20 years

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Best job is what I do now.... been in this profession since 2005 and still enjoy every working day (mostly)

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

"Ive had lots of interesting jobs but

Best Croupier

Worst putting cherries on trifles and packing brillo pads into boxes (both agency jobs) "

Lol re cherries is that an actual job ?!

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By *iamondCougarWoman
over a year ago

Norfuck! / Lincolnshire

Worked in the same field of work (medical) for over 30 years (different companies/different roles)

Current role is the best and sometimes the worst

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Ive had lots of interesting jobs but

Best Croupier

Worst putting cherries on trifles and packing brillo pads into boxes (both agency jobs)

Lol re cherries is that an actual job ?! "

Well it was otherwise i wouldn't have said it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Best: facilities manager

Worst: teaching in thailand

I'd have thought Thailand was good I've had great trips out there ?"

Thailand is really good..

Teaching in thailand is the WORST job. They have public holiday declorations on random days when you turn up for work. School dinners contain brains/eyeballs.

The staff room was full of global misfits. You must buy simple things like paper. The school didn't provide printer/photo copy or any materials.

The toilets are shared with the children and there is no toilet paper/locks on door/soap

It's really HOT...you must wear pants and a silly different gay looking t-shirt every day and stand for the anthem at 7am.

40,000 baht per month in pattaya is living like a mini Prince but teaching itself is a vocation for people who were born to love the job...

I hated the staff room. It was like a toxic office environment with some very bad apples.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My current job is the best. Worst was working in a butcher shop the owners had no business sense, it was cold and the pay check always bounced or was late was rubbish

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Best - military

Worst -military

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

Best - military, for the banter with the lads and getting to do a lot of things I probably wouldn't have otherwise.

Worst - it's a toss up between the summer I did in a poultry factory and the two years I did in an extremely busy call centre.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Best probably self employed industrial flooring

Very well paid travelled around a lot and variety of work

Worst probably putting lids on pots of coleslaw for 8-10 hours a day

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Worst job was a year in a factory.. Rest of my life workwise has been great.. Tree surgeon and landscape problem solver and woodsman

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Worst has to have been dipping ginger bread men in chocolate so they had little chocolate feet... Got moved on from that because mine all had chocolate body suits on....... best is either the Army (Infantry) for 9 yrs. Or maritime security on the Indian ocean to stop pirates hijacking the ship's.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Ive had lots of interesting jobs but

Best Croupier

Worst putting cherries on trifles and packing brillo pads into boxes (both agency jobs)

Lol re cherries is that an actual job ?!

Well it was otherwise i wouldn't have said it

Actually the best one might have been Magicians Assistant... but thats another story

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Best - temp job working for a plumbing company. I was responsible for updating the stock control system as orders were processed. I had my own private office, unrestricted internet access, my own printer and about 2 hours work to do per day.

Worst - working in a warehouse on the night shift. Quit after one night.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The best job I had was the one that sent me to North America, Central America, the Far East and all over Europe. The worst one I had was the one that sent me to Barrow In Furness

(No offence to BiF natives..)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Best job - merkin maker

Worst job - cleaning up after Porn shoots

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My job is my best and worst, depending on factors often hard to control.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Been in I.T. since college. My first job was the worst I was just cheap labour.

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

I did have a job whereby over the course of a year or so, I managed to delegate almost everything which was pleasant for a couple of weeks then I got bored and started bringing it all back again.

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

"Simply which is the best and worst job you've had and why ?

I work as the IT guy at a school, it's a great job. There are loads of great folk and every day is different. Obviously the lack of funding adds extra challenges to the job, but all in all its a great job.

Cal

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

I haven't really got a worst job... not having a job is infinitely worse than any job I have done.

Cal

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire

Best was working in Asia on and off for 17 years,but I felt I needed to be more at home and didn’t want to travel as much.

Worst ops manager in London, the company didn’t want to pay suppliers but were willing to pay £1000’s entertaining clients, an unworkable situation

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Community worker was by far my favourite. Gutted to be made redundant. Worst? My paper round.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Best is being self employed doing detailing and paint correction on cars part time.

Worst is the customer service job I supplement it with until the detailing takes off properly.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Worst was probably when younger and out of work on the buildings and took a job advertised as a factory labourer which was actually a cleaner, was 12 hour shifts and you could do everthing in 4 but still had to look busy or so meaning the days felt long as fuck. Think I lasted 2 days.

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By *ab_SparklesWoman
over a year ago

sparkle Surprised

Best n worse is joint campsite cleaner hardworking but when you see some of the mess you just think what is there home like in the laughing at those still half dead trying to leave

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By *unloversCouple
over a year ago

rotherham

Best one for me was a singer for 26 years

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By *allSteveMan
over a year ago

Poole

Best job = footballer

Worst job = ATM engineer

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Best the one I’ve (semi) retired from professional photographer, my own boss

Worst - When I worked permanent nights assembly line

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Toilet cleaner and teacher. You choose

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By *edangel_2013Woman
over a year ago

southend

Worse was cold selling double glazing over the phone. Hated that job. Lasted 3 days before I walked.

Best? Probably what I'm doing now. Some days any way!

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By *bonynivoryCouple
over a year ago

market harborough

Best was wound care management for the elderly. Worst was when I joined an agency and they sent me to a car part making factory. I never went back.

Mrs

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By *isaB45Woman
over a year ago

Fabville

Best..my current job.

Worst..my current job.

The highs outweigh the lows, though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Best job is my current job. Working in a busy city a & e dept.

Worst British Army. As much as I loved my 16 years being shot at makes it by default the worst

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Both are my current job.

I love the job I do, it’s hands on technical work on some advanced aviation equipment. It sometimes includes researching and testing new prototypes.

But it can be long drawn out days, away from home for a while at a time and doesn’t leave much time for a “normal” day to day life.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Toilet cleaner and teacher. You choose "

I've done both.

Teaching early years is worse and you come in contact with more germs.

Atleast cleaning toilets you wear gloves.

But 4 year olds hands are really grubby and they maul everything.

Best thing about cleaning toilets I always say:

"I would prefer to clean the shit from your arse than aknowledge the shit from your mouth"

Because as "facilities manager" no petty office politics supervisor was allowed to disturb me doing my job.

In teaching I always had to be political in the staff room.

Teaching is horrible for most people doing it as a "job". They deserve more respect. Only SOME people were born to be teachers...the rest are just stuck in a soul destroying career they regret choosing.

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