Last week I posted here about working in my dream job. Thanks to those who responded with their own idea of their dream job. If you didn’t put in your two cents, you might like to add to the conversation of that post.
A quick glance out the window this morning sent a shiver up my spine as I saw someone working my idea of a nightmare job.
I looked across to a very tall mobile phone tower and spotted something red right at the top. I wondered if they installed a light to warn air traffic but it was someone working on the tower in a red shirt.
I have a big problem with heights and so hanging off the side of a phone tower several stories above the ground just isn’t something I could ever do.
Do you have a nightmare job? Is there some kind of work that others thrive on but you could never do? I’d like to hear about it.
Posted by Rodney Olsen
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Ha, we are more alike than I thought. Before I even got to the part which described what your nightmare job would be, my immediate thought of what my nightmare job would be was working on the outside of very tall buildings or towers! That and tele-marketing “good evening sirmadam, would you like to buy something totally useless that you don’t really want or need?”
Yes. Anything to do with accounting, finances or handling money. I’m really really bad at maths (that’s why I’m an artist!!LOL).
Amanda, I’ve got a PhD in math and handling money is also my idea of a nightmare job. At some point it has nothing to do with math and everything to do with flawless track of byzantine accounting rules and financial transactions. I have a great fear of any activity that has little or no tolerance for error. This includes accounting-type stuff as well as things like putting up bookshelves (what if I leave gaping holes in the drywall??!) or driving in big-city rush hour traffic.
Actually, although I’m an academic, being a university president is my nightmare job. Go check out my recent blog postings on the president of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology to see why.
Hi Rodney
Dream job?nightmare job? Tough question for me when I sit and consider all that I have done to earn a few quid. Including casual and part-time and full-time work I have been:
A general hand in a wood mill
A gardener for a private residence (now they had money)
A shop assistant in a supermarket
A salesman selling menswear
A roustabout in a shearing shed
A kitchen hand in a corporate cafeteria
A car stereo installer
A jackaroo on a cattle station
A storeman in a warehouse
A trainee manager in a fruit and veg. department of a supermarket
A public servant for the federal government
A spruker for a variety store
A professional clown for children?s parties
A barman in a 1980?s Perth hotspot
A salesman selling firearms
An Occupational Therapy Assistant
A manager for a sheltered workshop
An assistant in a cash office of a department store
A salesman selling hardware
A salesman selling sporting goods
A manager of a leather goods shop
A milkman (loved that job)
A network marketer for just about everything
A dresser (think grinding machine) in a steel foundry
A solar hot water system salesman
A Dive Master on a diving charter boat
A late night cleaner
A night-filler for a supermarket
An office assistant for a charity (Rodney do you remember working at World Vision)
A general hand in a pet food factory
A process worker in a bakery
A fire extinguisher salesman
A truck driver (on a few different occasions)
A manager at a steel fabrication factory
An Executive Officer of a youth support agency
A consultant for a risk consultancy
A proprietor of a fire safety consultancy
An office assistant in a church office
A fire safety advisor for the Fire & Emergency Services Authority
A fire services manager
And you know I still haven?t found a nightmare job, but without question the time I spent working in a church office was the most rewarding and satisfying thing I have ever done.
Hello Kevin – good to hear from you. I look forward to hearing from you again soon. I must say that reading your list of jobs is exhausting. 🙂
my nightmare job would be working in a morgue, there’s just something about dead bodies that would freak me out…
The worst days work I’ve ever done was last year catching chickens. It was in a massive shed with about 10000 chickens covering the floor. I had to pick up three in each hand by their legs and stuff them in boxes. It was smelly, dirty, I got pecked and I would rather beg on the streets than do that again.
Having said that, at least I wasn’t a chicken!