What was the worst job you ever had as a teenager?

[Wozza]

As a teenager - no boring adult jobs please.

I delivered Thompson local directories once - and I mean once.

Nothing amusing to add - just the worst work/pay ratio I've ever had.

 

[Dave the OAP]

worked for Fortes cafe in Churchill Square. washer Upper and table clearer

 

[Uncle Buck]

Testing lightbulbs for outside lights. H&S was the rubber mat a had to stand on.

Oh and putting stickets on toys.

Oh and putting mustard in jars.

 

[Commander]

Packed incontinence pads into boxes.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Working at Sunblest in Woodingdean - taking the loaves from the baking tins. On your feet, continually hot, long hours, always getting burnt - fortunately I was only there for a few weeks. Some looked like they were there for life. Nightmare.

 

[Moshe Gariani]

picking mushrooms one summer at Chesswoods (?) farm...

worked 8 hours on each of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to be rewarded with the princely sum of £24 on Friday afternoon...!

this was in 1986 not 1966...! (needless to say me and my mate didn't turn up on Monday morning - funny thing was that we genuinely never even found how much we were going to get paid before we started - naive or what?...)

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

I worked as a kitchen porter in a pub when I was doing my A levels.

The people who ran it were ****s, the chef was a **** and I've never been so delighted to leave paid employment

 

[Uncle Buck]

I worked as a kitchen porter in a pub when I was doing my A levels.

The people who ran it were ****s, the chef was a **** and I've never been so delighted to leave paid employment

Just you have never had worthwhile employment since.

11 years and counting....

 

[Icy Gull]

Christmas postman in Tunbridge Wells, bastards gave me what turned out to be two normal rounds for full time posties, shit money, moaning bastards who didn't like getting their mail at midday Cold and wet, and chased down the garden path by viscous alsations on a regular basis. What a fantastic Christmas job that was

 

[Meade's Ball]

I delivered Argi on a Saturday evening. Only unfortunate thing was that i was afraid of the dark, of housing estates, lifts and greetings. When my gran came to visit, she'd have to walk with me. She's dead now. But not from strolls with me.

 

[REDLAND]

Turkey plucking in Ditchling, I did two and turned vegatarian, no word of a lie

 

[Man of Harveys]

Stacking shelves overnight, Safeway, St James Street, in about 1989. The other people were a good laugh to work with but starting at 8pm and working until 5am is no place to be - if you went out at the weekend, you could stay awake for 2-3 days at a time. Plus sleeping at the aquarium bus stop until the first 27 bus turned was a drag. Good money but no way of spending it.

 

[Scoffers]

Cleaning out the bread machines in the Sunblest Bakery in Woodingdean - an awful job looking back on it, but at the time, crawling around on my hands and knees scraping off the stale bread from the inside of the machines seemed like fun!

The Bakery is now "Woodingdean Business Park" - what a joke that is !!!!!

 

[Race]

Worked in sweet factory, emptying untold boxes of liquorice all sorts and jelly beans and the like into machines ALL DAY! It was soooooooooooo boring.

Also worked for a Greyhound trainer, and I can tell you that scooping up piles of Greyhound turd at 7.00 am in the morning is the WORST job ever

 

[tinx]

Tire Warehouse on the corner of Coombe Road. Now a storage place. Worked there for a month did 40 hour week and got paid 90 quid a week for the privilege. Nice.

 

[Rusco]

Wost job I ever had was filling mushroom beds with pig compost and straw. It involved being down on hands and knees dragging this matted stuff through to the end of the bed.

I used to get paid £1 and hour, howere if I did an hours overtime I would then qualify for NI contributions, so would lose all of the overtime and some of my normal earnings in deductions.

I also used to work for a firm in Worthing called Studio Ceramics in Worthing, my role there was packing boxes with ceramic shoes which had a message on from the kids to their mum. Nice

 

[Easy 10]

I worked in the Comets warehouse down George Street one summer. It was above the store, so we had to use an (unreliable) conveyor belt to hump washing machines, TV's, fridges etc up and down the stairs and stack them in the warehouse. Excruciatingly hot, dusty, dim and unpleasant. I hated it so much, I hid amongst the Zanussi's one afternoon and had a little cry.

 

[Monkster]

Mushroom Picking for 50hrs a week - 1997

Not had one mushroom since

Whilst at UNI - delivering Yellow Pages Bear road to Coomb road area....THAT was fun

 

[Rusco]

Mushroom Picking for 50hrs a week - 1997

Not had one mushroom since

I grew it, you picked it !

 

[Pevenseagull]

bumping out concrete blocks on a poorly constructed scaffold


A VERY brief stint as 'Froggy' at 'Froggy's Fun World' at the Crumbles retail park in Eastbourne in my early 20s was far worse however. Standing in for a mate who'd had the shit kicked out of him by a plague of toddlers - bad days