Best/Worst Jobs Before Nursing?

Randall · Jun 17, 2003

Best job: Flight Attendant

Worst job: Office Manager for major restaurant chain.

mattsmom81 · Jun 18, 2003

Very Interesting thread! :)

Best job before nursing: working summers at my Aunt's resort.

Worst job: retail at a drugstore type establishment...yucchh.

Since becoming a nurse my two very favorite gigs have been home private duty (I got very attached to a few clients) and when I did outpatient cardiac rehab. :)

'Course I luv my critical /acute care too, but I really enjoyed those other 2...probably due to the nice people there. :)

Scruffy · Jun 18, 2003

Worst Job: It's a toss up between being a combat engineer for the U.S. Army for two years or being on the clean up crew in a processing plant. We had to wear full uniforms, including overalls, googles, hard hats and we took blowers and blew off all of the processing from the machines. It was so dirty you could not see past six feet in front of you. Did it for no benefits and mediocre pay-- not a good time in my life.

Best Job: For the past two and a half years i have been providing direct care to clients with mental illness and developmental disabilities. The pay isn't great and either are the benefits, but i love feeling like i am actually helping and serving people.

joe_public · Jun 18, 2003

Best Job : 9-1-1 Dispatcher

Worst job: Mcdonalds cook!

~ sorry not a nurse, still kicking butt in 9-1-1 Dispatch~

Teshiee · Jun 18, 2003

Worst job working as a unit secretary on a L&D floor. The nurses treated you like you didn't have a brain. And now that I am a RN it boggled their mind that I was going to nursing school and shuffling charts for them in too. `I learned that L&D is not my forte!

Gampopa · Jun 18, 2003

Best job was junior and senior year in HS at a nursery/greenhouse on Long Island's north shore. It was like a family to me and I really got to know the people there. We'd have parties in the back fields and selling Christmas trees when you're half drunk was a kick Sold a tree to Billy Joel and Christie Brinkly when they were still married. Yoko Ono shopped there with Sean.

Worst: Fast food. Awful. grease everywhere, crappy food. Crappy salary. Crappy, crappy, crappy.

sanakruz, ADN · Jun 18, 2003

Originally posted by dachweiler

Worst job: Had a summer job feeding and sexing exotic African dung beetles [/b]

:eek: :kiss YOU WIN dachweiler

All I want to know is ... WHY???

SICU Queen · Jun 18, 2003

Best Job: Working with my first husband at the pizza store he managed. I was pregnant with our second daughter and ate jalapeno deep dish pizzas (yes, plural) everyday... Unfortunately I still carry them with me... on my BUTT...

Worst Job: Well, I have two that compete. The first was selling magazine subscriptions over the phone in a room full of weird people who were doing the same. We had to ring a bell when we sold one. I never rang my bell. Not once. The second was working retail in a fine women's clothing department. One day this lady came in and tried a ton of clothes with NO underwear on. That wouldn't have been quite so terrible had she not had a horrific hygiene problem. Let's just say the clothes reeked of, umm, seafood maybe? after she was done with them. I got in trouble because I threw them all in the trash... Oh well...

jadednurse · Jun 18, 2003

Originally posted by SICU Queen
The first was selling magazine subscriptions over the phone in a room full of weird people who were doing the same. We had to ring a bell when we sold one.

Oh my gosh! I worked at a place like that in high school...for 2 whole days! :eek:

KeniRN · Jun 18, 2003

BEST JOB: Before nursing school, worked at the home office for a jewelry store chain filling inventory orders for the stores. I drove 40 miles each way every day and paid $2 each way in bridge tolls. All for $5.25 an hr. I was 20 yrs old. I loved my coworkers and got to see all the new jewelry (silver and gold) and got great discounts. It all came down to the wonderful people I worked with. I was actually HAPPY and WANTED to go to work every day.

BEST JOB: While IN nursing school (which was a 10 year journey): registration at our city's children's hospital. Started in Admissions dept making $10/hr. From $5 to $10 AND medical benefits, I was rich! Worked in a primary care clinic in the hospital, then worked on the cardiac step down unit as a CNA p/t nights, then finally f/t in the ER working the central desk and registrations until I finally graduated.

WORST JOB: telemarketing. Quit after the 4 hour orientation.

KaroSnowQueen, RN · Jun 19, 2003

Worst job = carhop at A&W when I was 16, worked one night and quit. Although I did get a ten dollar tip from a guy that I brought a cup of water for his dog.

Best job = secretary to training sargeant in the National Guard. I wasn't in the guard, but got the job and it was great. I was pregnant the last summer there before I went to nursing school and he'd say go to the library and look up some books to read. Or go on home and rest the baby. And he'd clock me out at 4 pm and I'd get paid for the whole day!!!!!!!!!!

CNA1991, CNA · Feb 8, 2012

Worst:McDonald's

Best:CNA job I have now!