Best/Worst Jobs Before Nursing? - page 4

1. 
   May 23, '03

   best job: Wendy's (ate all the time....still a problem:roll )
   worst job: magazine sales...I am sooooo not a sales person. Unless it's cookware or candles or fun stuff but not for income just for fun ( I like all the freebies!)
2. 
   May 23, '03

   Worst job: Baker's Shoes, Target, Pick N Save, insurance intemediary
   Best Job: MA, hotel restaurant hostess, student tutor, wife/mother
3. 
   May 23, '03

   Best Job: As a teenager my best friend and I worked at a local drive in movie theater as "ushers". All we had to do was: collect money from drive-ups when the cashier closed, walk around with flashlights and catch kids trying to sneak in through the woods, and provide battery jumps after the movie. Free popcorn and soda, and most of the time was spent watching movies.
   
   Worst Job: Counter attendant at a Target snack bar while in high-school. Quit after a couple of weeks.
4. 
   May 23, '03

   worst job - fried french fries at burger King for 8 hours in a very short uniform, then was told "the new kids clean the bathrooms".Returned the uniform and didn't go back.
   best job - my present one on a trauma unit.
5. 
   May 23, '03

   Originally posted by jadednurse
   
   
   Worst job was my first job ever, working at Dunkin' Donuts. I still have trouble eating those!

   When I lived in Chicago, I LIVED at the DD on Halstead!
6. 
   May 23, '03

   Worst job ever- selling Kirby vacuum cleaners door-to-door for comission. Quit after 2 days.
   Best job- managed a record store. Free backstage passes and music all the time.
7. 
   May 23, '03

   My last job before i started studying was in an abbatoir, intesting section, no kidding.
   I was in charge of turning the cows intestines in side out so that they could be cleaned, i havnt eaten a sausage since
   :imbar
   Never had a ood job before the nursing took over.
8. 
   May 23, '03

   Best: Working in Yellowstone National Park taking reservation calls (from all over the world) for park lodging. I had 3 days off a week and I was never in my room! I would still be working there if they didn't pay minimum wage.
   
   I also had a summer job (when I was in college) as a 5th & 6th grade girls' counselor at a parks and wildlife camp. All I had to do was watch them at night and make sure they got to their classes during the day. After I got them to their classes, I was free to go hang out at the boat dock or the swim float and work on my tan (this was over 20 years ago before we knew what damage we were doing to our skin).
   
   Worst: answered customer service calls for a large HMO that notoriously took 8 or 9 months to process or adjust a claim. It wasn't pretty.
9. 
   May 23, '03

   Originally posted by lgflamini
   Worst job ever- selling Kirby vacuum cleaners door-to-door for comission. Quit after 2 days.

   Hee hee! Did you have to throw dirt on the housewife's floor when she answered the door so you could demonstrate how good the vacuum was?
10. 
    May 23, '03

    Best - Working in a trauma unit - we had the best time. Stressful, but great fun working with great people!
    
    Worst - The summer I detassled corn! I despised that job, but got paid well for a 13-year-old kid!
11. 
    May 23, '03

    Great topic!!
    
    
    Best job before nursing: Managed a movie theater/drive-in
    
    Worst job: Had a summer job feeding and sexing exotic African dung beetles
12. 
    May 24, '03

    Originally posted by dachweiler
    Great topic!!
    
    Worst job: Had a summer job feeding and sexing exotic African dung beetles

    OK, you most definitely win the prize so far!!!
    
    
13. 
    May 24, '03

    Best Job: I worked as a bar cashier on the General Jackson showboat at Opryland in Nashville.
    Worst Job: Nursing home tech in the summer between jr and sr year of nursing school. It was pitiful, 20 or more patients on the hall and only one tech to feed them and get them up, clean them etc. I lasted 2 days and went home crying the second day.

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