Best and worst jobs you've ever had

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The best job I've ever had was delivering and collecting Ford demonstrator cars all over Great Britain, including delivering a Cosworth police car, in full livery, to Stirling. I once also delivered a car to Chester on the day of an Everton/Spurs night game, stopping at Goodison on the way and buying two tickets - one for me and one for my 13 year old son who was, and still is, a Spurs' fan. After delivering the car to Chester, I collected another car from Blackburn and made it back to Goodison just in time to see us score the first goal (it finished 2-1)

I have had many jobs since - some good, most bad - and am currently a neighbourhood courier for Hermes in Sidcup, Kent, but, today I as pleased to see vacancies for delivery drivers on behalf of BMW and Mercedes. I rang and managed to pass the questions asked. I was then told I could go for an interview next week. Unlike before, when I either travelled to the next job, or back home, hitching a lift with the aid of trade plates (using public transport was OK but I had to pay for it myself) I can now take the train using my bus pass!

So... what good, bad or ugly jobs have you had?
 

When in the Royal Navy I was part of the maintainance team who dealt with the STP's. Sewage treatment plants.
So they are basically tanks that fill up with piss and crap, which you can't just put straight into the sea sometimes.
They rely on float switches for the pumps to kick in and process the waste.
Lads go on a night out, come back full of ale and scran.
Nip off to the bogs for one off the wrist, then the lazy gets just flush the porno mags down the bogs.
The float switches get covered in magazine.

So in the morning, I had to get into the tanks to clean them all off. After a few beers the night before yourself, this was genuinely horrific sometimes.

Hope no ones eating reading that.
 

TyphooToffee said:
am currently a neighbourhood courier for Hermes
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I do that for Yodel, after 25 odd years in a suit.

Love it, mostly. Weather can determine how much I enjoy it; any extreme of rain or heat can be a downer, but most days are ace.

Worst. Cant say I have had one really. Washing up in a coffee shop as a 16 year old was a bit meh, but then it was in the centre of Bristol, quite well paid, (in relation to pocket money anyrate), and you could choose anything off the menu for lunch.
 
roydo said:
I do that for Yodel, after 25 odd years in a suit.

Love it, mostly. Weather can determine how much I enjoy it; any extreme of rain or heat can be a downer, but most days are ace.

Worst. Cant say I have had one really. Washing up in a coffee shop as a 16 year old was a bit meh, but then it was in the centre of Bristol, quite well paid, (in relation to pocket money anyrate), and you could choose anything off the menu for lunch.
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I've been a Yodel courier too. Hermes rounds are only part of a postcode; Yodel's are the whole postcode. Didn't mind m current spell at Hermes when the Sub Controller was a senior courier but, since the 19 year old son of the owner of the unit used as the Sub took over I have had a lot of run-ins with the cocky little pikey farquahar.
 
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Without naming the worst, as far as my memory serves me, and probably not in order as more come to me, my jobs since leaving school in 1969 are:
Marine reinsurance clerk
Watch repairer
Dartboard printer
Delivery driver(Currys, when they were just high street shops) then working in the shop after losing my driving license.
Manager of a KFC
Manager of Box o' Chicken
Forklift and traverse-crane driver (STC)
Toolstores manager
Telegram typist
Telesales for three different companies
Door to door cable TV seller
Owner of a frozen food delivery franchise (before every company and his dog did it)
Snooker equipment travelling salesman
Postman (used to be 'pete the postie' on GOT)
Ford demonstrator delivery and collection
Self-employed courier
Delivery driver (electrical equipment - supplied a lot of cable for The Shard)
Rope-maker
Resident cryptic crossword compiler for a Kent newspaper group
Officer's mess cook
Hermes
Yodel
Hermes again

Probably a few more but, hey, I'm 64 and my memory sometimes plays up
 
Being sent by an agency to a secure facility for mentally unstable criminals was a laugh a minute.
 

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