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You picture the scenario that put you there, but if you were forced to work at something really distasteful to you, what would it be?

When I was 19 I got a job with a maintenance company and had to pick up trash outside a nice restaurant once a month. Hated the way I felt when the pretty people walked by on their way to a nice sit down meal. Too proud I guess. Anymore, who cares, we're all just people.

What's yours?

An addition to a sewer treatment plant. Jobs were hard to find and this was Bacon-Davis wages. I found out my pride did have a price.

my senior year in high school i worked at a pants factory after school on the evening shift to help pay bills. i pressed pants on a steam press after they were sewed and before shipping.

i hated it. but it did pay some for some bills that were outstanding. hot, hot, production line, and the material before being washed had a chemical odor that filled the air.

it was a learning experience. and of course it was minimum wage. nailing tin on commercial poultry houses in july & august was far more manly work, for the same pay of course.

I have done it. I worked for Walmart for 2 1/2 years. I worked in Sporting Goods and I was making them a pile of money. But everyday I would have to go to the grocery section and straiten up shelves because the company claimed they had too many employees and they cut back everywhere in the store with grocery and produce taking a big hit. (company wide not just my store)

I was costing them money because I was not in my department taking care of it and selling more products. If they would have asked me to clean a bathroom I would have walked out that very minute.

I paid my dues working for Walmart and it won't happen again. The company as a whole worships the stock holders and almost considers the customers and employees a liability. I'll sleep under a bridge first before I ever go back to them.

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I'd be too embarrassed to stand in a welfare line if there were any alternatives.

Anything else is negotiable.

Just a one time thing, but a plant maqnager who actually came out to the plant maybe once a month somehow got his coveralls dirty.
Somehow I managed to draw the job of taking them to a laundrymat to wash them.
I damn near quit, but I had a family to feed.
Just writing this I get pissed about it, but I stayed with that company for another 38 years, made a good living at it.

Really, just the memory of that is going to ruin my whole day.

This!

No shame in honest work, I started at the bottom and worked my way up. Night janitor, farm hand, fruit picker. About the only low I wouldn't sink to is democratic campaign manager. I'm a pretty senior tech guy, but I'll grab a broom and sweep the floor if needs it and not think anything of it. Anyone not working and refuses to take a job because it's below them, is a turd.

Government.

Never had one that I was too embarrassed to do.

However, every time that I pass the person dressed up in the chicken outfit dancing outside the Chicken Express, I know there is no way I would ever do that job. There's a lot of things I'll do for work, but a dancing chicken ain't one of them. Ha.

Practice Law.

Amazon is like that, only less charming than WalMart.

I have umpired and cleaned grease traps and managed restaurants and retail stores and mowed lawns and sold hats and wrote for a newspaper and stocked shelves third shift and loaded trucks and took the very long road to being an insurance agent. Been doing this ten years. But the path to getting here was very long and dirty and frustrating. Would I do it all again? I dunno if I have the patience or energy anymore but I damn sure am not going to be collecting a check and sitting on the porch

When young, my father worked in the coal mines in SW PA.To say we were poor was an understatement.

When the mines laid off,we all chipped into dig ditches for sewer lines, pits for septic tanks,dug out old basements. We tore down old houses to get lumber and us kids sat there with a piece of old railroad iron and a hammer to straighten out used nails. Anything that brought in a few dollars.

We stood in line to get USDA surplus food and wasn't embarrassed to do it.

Anyone that is embarrassed to do honest work no matter what it is has too much pride and has never been poor.

Polietician.

Not sure if embarrassed is the right word to describe the way I felt.

Many years ago as a young man I worked for a short while at finance company writing up personal loans and knocking on doors doing passed due collections. Was right through the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons too.

Back in those days many finance/loan companies were barely a notch above mafia loan sharks in both interest rates charged and underhanded collection methods.

At the end of the work day I went home as clean as I was when I went in that morning on the outside but felt awfully rotten on the inside.

I told myself that I would take whatever job I could get regardless how bad it was before I'd ever do that kind of work again.

I've worked a few pretty bad jobs over the years since too but never even once given the slightest thought of doing that kind of work again.

I have performed some fairly menial jobs but have never felt ashamed or embarrassed about any. I have always been able to feel pride in the fact that I earned my pay and then some. Anyone looking down their nose at me would have been at risk of having said nose severely bent. GD

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I worked my way thru college doing various jobs sometimes 2-3 at a time. 3 summers worked for the forest service maintaining campgrounds which included pumping porta johns and outhouses and garbage pickup. Not a pleasant job but never really was embarrassed by it. I did a short stint in sales andfrankly if a job bothered me that was probably it. I don't really like the idea of intruding on someone's time so it bothered me to make cold sales calls. For the folks that mentioned collection calls that would get to me too. But generally honest work isn't anything to be embarrassed by

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