What is the hardest job you have ever done

Since we have been talking about my experience as a buss boy for a summer while I was in college, I thought it would be a good idea for us to share our "hard-working" experience. Don't be afraid of making a fool of yourselves. If you have worked some silly/dirty jobs, share with us!

I will start. I guess I was pretty boring and spoiled growing up. So the hardest thing I've done was the buss boy job in the summer after my freshman year in college. It was not the actual job that gave me the "good" memory, but the crazy summer I spent while "looking for a job" in Houston (at least that was what I told my parents about what I was doing in Houston...). I was partying a lot and I wrecked my car twice in the process. The first time, my dad paid for the repair, but he refused to pay anything when he found out that I almost totaled my car for the second time. So I was driving the most recognizable car on campus for almost a year. How recognizable you ask? Well, the grill in front of the radiator was completely gone, two headlights with one pointing to the ground and the other one pointing to the sky. So if you were in my car, you can see the trees lining the streets and bird nests on them just fine at night...

hard labor does not discourage me, the worst you can get is probably sore body and a good night sleep, though you won't have motivation to do anything the next morning
staying up for consecutive nights is pretty hard for me, as i'm a heavy sleeper

i worry more about the mental side of things
messing up an interview so bad that i didn't last 5 minutes, and i felt like shit the rest of the day and the day after
i still remember how the interviewer said that's all and shifted my files over to the next table

There's this one job I worked for only one day. It was at a small plastic recycling plant. At first the guy told me that the job mostly involved standing there and making sure the assembly line was moving along. I had worked a summer time job at an assembly line before, so I thought I knew what to expect. However, when I showed up that day, they told me that it was cleaning day, and put me to work cleaning the machines. When I got home, I was reeking of chemicals. Learning about hard work is all well and good, but I'd rather not risk getting cancer while at it. So I never went back.

paintgun said:

messing up an interview so bad that i didn't last 5 minutes, and i felt like shit the rest of the day and the day after
i still remember how the interviewer said that's all and shifted my files over to the next table

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Oh yeah, been there done that! It didn't really mess up my day, but it stuck with me for years. The position was really elementary, but it was my very first interview and I had no idea what kind of technical questions to expect.

All I had prepared were a bunch of HR questions and a lot of general concepts I had learned in my computer science classes. Then in the interview, they asked me to actually write HTML and Javascript, and I could not recall the syntax and keywords.

That was the beginning of my 2-year journey to find a full-time programming job after graduation. The worst part of it was, it was by far the easiest interview I would ever get. If only I had an idea of what to expect, I would've been able to answer those questions easily.

Yeah the interviews. I still remember one interview I had. I got an interview in a genetics lab at A&M after college. It turned out that this lab was in the Entomology Dept and they use mosquito as their model system. So everything went smoothly at the beginning. Then the professor decided to show me the lab. We went to the climate control room where they kept all the mosquitoes. The professor took a look at the mosquito cages and said "hmmm, they look famished". Then he stuck his arm into the cage and started feeding the mosquitoes with his own blood!!! I still have nightmares to this day just thinking back at the scene of thousands of mosquitoes covering his entire fore arm... He turned around and found me staring at him and said "well, I should use mice to feed these babies and I got lazy..." then he said "don't worry, you don't have to do this". I ended up taking the job and, lucky for me, never had to feed myself to the mosquitoes.

vesicles said:

Yeah the interviews. I still remember one interview I had. I got an interview in a genetics lab at A&M after college. It turned out that this lab was in the Entomology Dept and they use mosquito as their model system. So everything went smoothly at the beginning. Then the professor decided to show me the lab. We went to the climate control room where they kept all the mosquitoes. The professor took a look at the mosquito cages and said "hmmm, they look famished". Then he stuck his arm into the cage and started feeding the mosquitoes with his own blood!!! I still have nightmares to this day just thinking back at the scene of thousands of mosquitoes covering his entire fore arm... He turned around and found me staring at him and said "well, I should use mice to feed these babies and I got lazy..." then he said "don't worry, you don't have to do this". I ended up taking the job and, lucky for me, never had to feed myself to the mosquitoes.

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