I've done something similar; it's like promo work. You just have to have the right pro-people type mentality, and it is an easy way to make a few bucks.

Yeah but considering all they do is stand there it really requires no interaction, just the endurance of standing all day.

1 Guy at the MiniMart
2 Garbage Man
3 Secretary for an Actor ("NO! I wanted a mocha!!
4 Fashion Stylist for an actor ("I told u I dont wear orange!)
5 A cashier

1. Packing out groceries on overnight (10PM-6AM) shift.
2. Artists' model at Stony Brook University. (Being a naked civil servant sounds great until you have to hold the same pose for nearly 2 hours. Arts students -- and professors -- can get really pissy about this.)
3. Proofreader for overnight shift in independent type shop that set type for "Book of the Month Club."
4. Janitor. (Feces on the wall, anyone?)
5. Temp worker in a "Top Six" accounting firm. (Boy, can accountants get pissy about arcane procedures. Maybe if I spoke the language?)

1. building stonewalls (hard to do and not get cuts and scrapes. It was also back breaking)
2. Mucking out stalls (need I say more)
3. Modeling when you can't move (the muscles ache)
4. babysitting the kid from....
5. proofreading (had to read the books backwards. All those hours for no information or entertainment.)

Shitty Job #1:Working as a Beverage Maintainer at Madison Square Garden. Having to lift/roll 150lb beer kegs and soda barrels to thousands of Madison Square Garden folks in attendance for whatever event what going on. The Good Part: Seeing Free Events and discounts on all MSG events and Gerry Cosby Sporting Goods: The Bad Part: Working for horrible managers and supervisors; And . . . (1) Watching Eric Clapton live trying to play the blues (Good God Almighty -- does that man suck! The most overrated guitarist in the history of Rock & Roll). Not only did I quit after four weeks, but I got on the walkie-talkie and told all the managers and supervisors to "suck my dick and kiss my ass when you're finish." Man, did I make a big mistake taking that gig.

Shitty Job #2: Working as a Folder at Abercrombie & Fitch. Let start by dispelling a well-known myth: Abercrombie -- or as I like to call them: Abercrummie & Fitch does have lots of Darkies working in their stores!! They all work in the Storage where no one can see them and the malnurished . . . I mean waif-ish and the fat-bottom tourist from the mid-west can shop with the upmost confidence that the only darkies around are those who look like they could pass as someone white with a really good tan. So no: You don't have to buy a an Abercrummie & Fitch Where's Waldo picture book to find Waldo and the token black employee in the store: We're there: We just come out at night to clean up and fold and re-fold the $89 shredded jeans that you lazy folks left a mess for us to pick up and fold all over again. The Good Part: A & F pay higher than most retail stores (about $11 per hour for part-time; $13 for full time): Also they have have flexible work schedules and everyone who works there not only get a decent employee discount, but you get free A & F clothes. The Bad Part: Standing up all day for javascript:void(0)about five to six hours; You really can't leave until all the work is done for that night (but the day shift comes in after you're done so there wasn't much of that going on); They don't like anyone wearing any other clothes label other than Abercrummie & Fitch; And finally . . . You couldn't pay me any amount of money to be caught dead wearing their crappy clothes!!

I have a few others but those two are on the top of my list.

Let's see now-----

- Selling shoes at Dillard's- they SUCK!!

- Card dealer in Vegas was awesome money but people SUCK and blame you when they are STUPID enough to sit their ass down and gamble away their cash- DUH!!!

- Brookstone- We had to clutch these sweaty pillows to "demo" them to customers- GROSS!!

- Cocktail waitressing when I was 19 years old in a crowded techno club full of dancing maniacs knocking your tray down whilst you balance it precariously above your head- it SUCKED til I did what everyone else was doing. Ya DIG?

- Salad bar attendant at Sizzler- NEVER eat the salad bar!! NASTY!!

- exotic dancer- need I say more?

- Ice cream scooper at Swensen's when I was 15. Not too bad, actually. Free ice cream for you and your pals. Occasional theft. I was 15- gimme a break, already?

- Promoting nightclubs- drunks, drunks and more drunks

- street performer on Hollywood Boulevard- ain't no security out there- you are on your OWN- with ex-con's and ALL

- Inviting people to FREE TV show screenings. Problem is, in Vegas they think you are just another shifty time-share salesperson and they RUN like the wind.

- Telemarketing- YUCK.

- receptionist in dad's real estate office at 15. Imagine having your dad's fat 50 year old visiting associates flirting with you- EWWWWW!

- handing out samples in grocery stores

- current plan- actress. Current success there? Pretty good so far.

Okay, so granted they are not all the worst day jobs. I just wanted to share my varied and colorful work history with you. I hope it was as entertaining as I hoped it would be. It was a hell of a ride, let me tell you.

1.Production line or assembly line worker.

2.Nurse's aide.

3.Retail

4.Certain jobs that has multiple black people.
(I'm black and I hate the ghetto,bad or stuck
up attitudes). I know all blacks aren't like
that but those that are I have no time for
you!

5. Door to door salesperson.

6. Restaurant jobs.

The steward job that I had at this casual sit down restraunt. They kept hiring new people(when they didn't need to) and see your hours dwindle really low like 4-6 hours a week and they didn't like you to have a 2nd job because it would interfere w/their scheduling. And I had to lie through my teeth to see this one agent.

My present job in a toy store. They keep asking me to tell the film company to change their scheduling or stop postponing their scheduling for a later date. They didn't like me when I got the last minute job on Dizzle, because they changed their shooting to later that night because some of the crew are union members.

I wished I was at my old day job at a game store because they were pretty flexible and that the manager was an actor fro NY.

Waiting tables!

1. WALDENBOOKS where standing all day hurt my feet and I worked with this sick pervert (I was in high school) who was at least 10-15 years older than me and would always read passages to me from those books with sexually explicit stuff.

2.WAITING TABLES AT DARRYL'S, a herd'em in herd'out style restaurant where I carried heavy trays, had to scrub all kinds of nastiness in the kitchen as waiters all have a "station" to clean, rolled silverwear and never got tipped the standard 15% because all the people who ate there were tacky and low-class - ALL THAT TO EARN $4500 TO COME TO LA TO PURSUE MY DREAM

3. EXPRESS - the reason why I never leave clothes thrown about in the dressing room - because I folded a million sweaters for $8.00 and God my feet hurt.


4. PITNEY BOWES SALES REP LEASING POSTAGE METERS FOR BUSINESSES Yeah, I know I shouldn't even have to explain why this job sucks. They send you to Georgia for a week for training - I'm convinced it's how the US government terrorizes war criminals. You sit in a conference room listening to every postage law ever enacted and every postage meter ever made for 10 hours a day. You have to be up at 6:15 am. Then you come back to LA and get a territory in some place like Montebello where you have to drive around to small businesses and sell them more postage meters in addition to those they already have. KILL ME NOW!

5. RECORDING STUDIO RECEPTIONIST - should've been the coolest gig ever right? Except I worked for Jeff Greenberg AKA Satan of the The Village Recording studio in Los Angeles making $10.00 an hour while he screamed, threatened, insulted and psychologically tortured me everyday that I worked there. He is truly the SCUM OF THE EARTH.

6. REAL ESTATE ASSISTANT, working for Elyse Arbour in Brentwood - truly the most selfish, self-centered, loudest (she's so loud I'd wear ear plugs in the office I had to share with her but then I couldn't hear the clients on the phone - I finally learned to just get up and walk out whenever she was on the phone) annoying human being on the planet. This I would call emotional torture because she tried to use me as her best friend, therapist and assistant yet is so phony that she'd ask you how you were and then cut you off as soon as you started to answer because she was dialing the phone to talk to someone else. CLASSY! All of her assistants hated. Since I have a propenisty for punishment, I stayed for almost a year and a half. It's been six months since that job, and I still hate her guts. God, what an EMOTIONAL TERRORIST!

Oh My God - TO THE UPS GUYS - I NEARLY DIED LAUGHING!

LaDolceVita: ha, ha! You listed some great ones.

I'm surprised! A lot of the survival jobs listed on some of you guys's WORST LISTS are actually on my BEST LIST.

MY WORST SURVIVAL-JOB LIST:

1) ANY RESTAURANT JOB -- Ugh! I always ended up exhausted and depressed after any shift at a restaurant. Plus, the smell of grease and general staff misery made me never want to be a restaurant customer again.

2) RETAIL -- Not as hard as a restaurant, but the pay always sucks.

3) TELEMARKETER FOR ONE OF THOSE SHADY "PRINT TONER" COMPANIES -- Basically told to LIE to get information. We had to create phony names and identities. Everyone we called really hated us!!

4) BABYSITTING FOR SPOILED BRATS: Ugh! How do kids like this exist?? "Nanny Diaries" was NOT exaggerating.

5) Any OFFICE-DRONE JOB: Enough said.

6) HOTEL FRONT DESK: Yuck! I just happened to work for a hotel with retarded management. I'm sure SOME HOTELS are okay. Everyone comes to the desk to scream at you. You get pounded from all sides. Oh, and the pay is lame too.

7) ANYONE'S ASSISTANT: No way! My life is hard enough. I'm not going to inherit someone else's neuroses and problems at $12-15/hour.

BEST SURVIVAL-JOB LIST:

1) PROOFREADING: I always got GREAT PAY for an easy job. Also people leave you alone to do your work. Good job if you do it only 2-3 days a week. 40 hours is way too tiring.

2) PROMO MODEL: Easy, sometimes fun work.

3) TELEMARKETER for a GOOD COMPANY: Total job flexibility. Easy. Helps if you actually believe in the company you're working for (in this case, it was an arts organization). Since I love music/dance/theater, I'm able to sell it quite well! Salary + commission.

4) TEMP: Usually by the time the company realizes you've goofed up something, you're long gone. They know you're a temp, and usually cut you some slack. Once you go PERM, though,they think they OWN YOU! Sometimes assignments are fun because you're working with a roomful of other musicians and actors.

5) BACKGROUND WORK with a GOOD PRODUCTION COMPANY: Usually THE SUCK, but I just did a background job where all of the other actors were cool and the PAs would come around serving us mochas and fresh lemonade on a tray!! I know... I hit a lot of luck on this particular gig!! Nice people. Good catering. Nice director. Organized. On the soaps, background jobs also usually ROCK!

6) STAND-IN: I would love to do more of this work. I just happened to get this one AFTRA stand-in gig by accident. You get to interact more with cast and crew, get a bump up in pay, and you don't have to do all that much except stand or sit in a certain space while they adjust lights on you. Coolness.

7) VOICEOVERS: Sooooooooo competitive. But a fun, creative, well-paid job once you get in.

**SURVIVAL-JOB SKILLS I'D LOVE TO HAVE:

1) DJ-ing: Looks like a lot of fun! Everyone needs a good DJ. Great pay and creative.

2) Radio announcer: Again, lots of fun. You get to use your voice in a creative manner. Delivering news or announcing bands.

JOBS I WOULD HATE THE MOST:

1) Security Guard: Hours of doing absolutely nothing... PURE TORTURE!

2) Bouncer (at a club): Some scary club-goers out there who do not take rejection well!!

3) Hospitals: I worked as a volunteer nurse's helper when I was in high school. The smell of hospitals always got to me.

4) Bartender: Can pay great, but NO WAY I'd sling drinks without wanting to murder most of my customers.

4) Substitute Teacher: I know some actors do this job, but when I remember how my classmates used to treat the subs... I'll PASS, no thanks! Don't like any jobs involving looking after little kids, tweens or teens.

I'm young, haven't had that many "real jobs" but the worst one was:

1. camp counselor.

O MY GOD!!! I wanted to die! Pay was $6.15 an hour(before taxes), had to deal with 20 screaming, crying, some not potty trained 3 and 4 year olds for 7 hours straight---no break!It was summer, there were bugs, (not to mention bees!), I was sweating profusly and it was usually around 90 degrees!!!! I wanted to quit after the first month, but it was a friend of the family who ran the camp, so I couldn't. O my god!! It was bad! So bad! And I had to wear a uniform!!! Aaagghhhh!!!!!!!!!

OMG, had to piggyback on the day camp counselor tangent. YMCA in New Orleans. 1997. Kids from 4 to 12 years old, many (if not most) of whose tuition was subsidized, constantly asking me, "Can I have some money?" (ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?) for the vending machines.

There was the girl, who was 14 at the time, and something wasn't right. Didn't get a medical explanation, but there was definitely some sort of mental challenge there, which was probably why she was allowed despite the 12 year age limit. The girl ran like a track star. She was like a reincarnation of Forrest Gump. She was remarkably athletic and strong. She danced around like a gangsta rap video ho shouting, "RAISE THE ROOF!!" Eh, I think that's what she was saying, but I'm not familiar with whatever music she was listening/dancing to in her head and she had a speech impediment. And ah, the day when she ran around chasing and humping the other kids...