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  • fronkybay
  • I couldn't sell stuff, in fact I would suck at pretty much anything business related. I posess very little attention to detail, and would feel too guilty when selling people shit I knew they didn't need.
  • Funkedub
  • Quote:

    Originally Posted by progdog

    Yeah.......but you still eat meat huh?


    i'd be interested to know how many people who'd refuse to work in an abattoir are/aren't vego
  • trippytrip
  • ^^ i'm not vego but now fucking way would i work in an abattior.

    eeeuw.

    and yes i realise how completely contradictory that is
  • Beds
  • Quote:

    Originally Posted by mungo

    anything to do with customers
    anything with repetitive actions
    anything with food

    Macca's would be perfect for you.
  • Beds
  • Cleaning drop-toilets... if the poo ever reached the top.
  • MissMuffin
  • ^ Ohhh man. I went to my first English summer festival last weekend and I've never experienced anything like the long-drops (which had become short-drops by the fourth day). I made the mistake of looking in before having a wee and booted up all over the floor (may as well add to the problem I say! ) But gawd did I feel bad for the dudes cleaning them up. 10,000+ people's pee and poo masked with that sickly sweet cleaning product. Urrrgggghhh
  • night-til-light
  • anything with children, mentally disabled people or pallative care.
  • madam meow
  • anything to do with poo. or podiatry.

    a community health centre i worked in had heaps of homeless men coming in for free podiatry etc.... i just dont know how they did it. :/
  • freedom74
  • Anything involving

    standing for long periods, especially with limited mobility;
    working with profoundly mentally disabled persons;
    working in geriatric facilities or with itinerant persons [I can't stand the smell];
    working in abattoirs, foundries, mines, factories;
    lifting heavy items regularly even if not constantly;
    repetitively lifting or handling items of a smaller size;
    any fast-paced manual occupation;
    any repetitive manual handling occupation;
    working in very small spaces without proximity to some natural light;
    working without height adjustable furniture if its in any office;
    anything thats utterly soul destroying;
    lacking in autonomy and variety;
    involves handling any human or animal wastes;
    anything with intensive supervision or monitoring;
    anything involving long periods in extreme temperatures such as coldstores, foundries etc;
    anything that requires the sustained or incidental exposure to dangerous or toxic pollutants, gases or chemicals.
    Last edited by freedom74 : 30-Jul-08 at 07:44pm.
  • mattycoss
  • so what jobs would you like to do
  • atrev2much
  • Quote:

    Originally Posted by freedom74

    Anything involving

    standing for long periods, especially with limited mobility;
    working with profoundly mentally disabled persons;
    working in geriatric facilities or with itinerant persons [I can't stand the smell];
    working in abattoirs, foundries, mines, factories;
    lifting heavy items regularly even if not constantly;
    repetitively lifting or handling items of a smaller size;
    any fast-paced manual occupation;
    any repetitive manual handling occupation;
    working in very small spaces without proximity to some natural light;
    working without height adjustable furniture if its in any office;
    anything thats utterly soul destroying;
    lacking in autonomy and variety;
    involves handling any human or animal wastes;
    anything with intensive supervision or monitoring;
    anything involving long periods in extreme temperatures such as coldstores, foundries etc;
    anything that requires the sustained or incidental exposure to dangerous or toxic pollutants, gases or chemicals.







    Fuck i was waiting for that.
  • crabman
  • Quote:

    Originally Posted by freedom74

    Anything

    Fixed.
  • big eddie
  • ^ this was a bump troll for a specific purpose wasn't it?
  • CHOPPY_INDAHOUSE
  • A dj haha jks

    if i ever have to push another trolly in my life i will shoot my self.
  • locky
  • I can't do any of them...thats why i'll never be happy...

    Sitting in an office all day would be right up there...I'd poke my eyes out from the boredom
  • mattycoss
  • crabman
  • lol
  • Impulsory
  • Quote:

    Originally Posted by freedom74

    Anything involving

    standing for long periods, especially with limited mobility;
    working with profoundly mentally disabled persons;
    working in geriatric facilities or with itinerant persons [I can't stand the smell];
    working in abattoirs, foundries, mines, factories;
    lifting heavy items regularly even if not constantly;
    repetitively lifting or handling items of a smaller size;
    any fast-paced manual occupation;
    any repetitive manual handling occupation;
    working in very small spaces without proximity to some natural light;
    working without height adjustable furniture if its in any office;
    anything thats utterly soul destroying;
    lacking in autonomy and variety;
    involves handling any human or animal wastes;
    anything with intensive supervision or monitoring;
    anything involving long periods in extreme temperatures such as coldstores, foundries etc;
    anything that requires the sustained or incidental exposure to dangerous or toxic pollutants, gases or chemicals.

    My god, go strap a crown to your head.
    And yet you still whinge that you're "unemployable". The pendulum swings both ways you know.
  • Hemerage
  • Quote:

    Originally Posted by djsimonmann

    Abattoirs, that would be disgusting, too many dead smelly things.. imagine having to gut a cow

    I went on a Yr7 excursion to one
    It was lulz.

    The guy who worked there gobbed an intestine, swallowed it, pulled some faces at the girls, then pulled it back up his throat.
    Pure fucking win.

    Some them nuke a cow and neck it etc.


  • trippytrip
  • Quote:

    Originally Posted by freedom74

    Anything involving

    standing for long periods, especially with limited mobility;
    working with profoundly mentally disabled persons;
    working in geriatric facilities or with itinerant persons [I can't stand the smell];
    working in abattoirs, foundries, mines, factories;
    lifting heavy items regularly even if not constantly;
    repetitively lifting or handling items of a smaller size;
    any fast-paced manual occupation;
    any repetitive manual handling occupation;
    working in very small spaces without proximity to some natural light;
    working without height adjustable furniture if its in any office;
    anything thats utterly soul destroying;
    lacking in autonomy and variety;
    involves handling any human or animal wastes;
    anything with intensive supervision or monitoring;
    anything involving long periods in extreme temperatures such as coldstores, foundries etc;
    anything that requires the sustained or incidental exposure to dangerous or toxic pollutants, gases or chemicals.

    ......i have no words

    what's wrong with you? are you a leper? paralysed? allergic to life?
  • YZF-R6
  • Had to drive a truck around Stradbroke island sucking shit out of hundreds of portaloos, Kenny stylez.
    Was a big fishing comp at the time! Never do that again, but fuck the money was good.
  • Gregama
  • Quote:

    Originally Posted by trippytrip

    ^^ i'm not vego but now fucking way would i work in an abattior.

    eeeuw.

    and yes i realise how completely contradictory that is

    its hardly contradictory.

    You own a car but wouldn't sell or service one.

    You buy petrol but NO FUCKING WAY would you work in a servo.


    Jobs I couldn't do? Something that had huge emotional strain on me and I wouldn't be able to let it go.

    Small Children and Pain is something that comes to mind, so probably a hospital.

    <3 kids
  • fatman1234
  • Quote:

    Originally Posted by Impulsory

    My god, go strap a crown to your head.
    And yet you still whinge that you're "unemployable". The pendulum swings both ways you know.


    But the crown would be too heavy for Freedom, all that gold/platinum/silver and jewels would hurt 'her' neck!
  • fatman1234
  • Quote:

    Originally Posted by MissMuffin

    ^ Ohhh man. I went to my first English summer festival last weekend and I've never experienced anything like the long-drops (which had become short-drops by the fourth day). I made the mistake of looking in before having a wee and booted up all over the floor (may as well add to the problem I say! ) But gawd did I feel bad for the dudes cleaning them up. 10,000+ people's pee and poo masked with that sickly sweet cleaning product. Urrrgggghhh


    Well, we can also rule out police diver for you. I spoke to a guy who was a few years ago, he had dived in an effluent tank at a sewage treatment plant and also in a river at the outlet of a abbatoir. They do their best to seal up with duct tape, but some still gets through, after those sort of jobs they have dettol baths afterwards.


    I could never be a surgeon, it'd be an awesome job, but my hand just isn't steady enough. And, I couldn't handle being a dermatologist, looking at some sort of fungal infection or rash, blood or playing with someones insides is ok, but skin infection
  • Ichiban
  • Quote:

    Originally Posted by bubblez

    Blowjobs.
    i told that to a dude on valentines day....haven't heard from him since! Haa.
    I still regularly give them..i just didn't tell him that. Oops!

    "Blowjobs I still regularly give them" Bubblez.
  • freedom74
  • Quote:

    Originally Posted by trippytrip

    ......i have no words

    what's wrong with you? are you a leper? paralysed? allergic to life?

    I'm sure there are still thousands of jobs around the country which don't include the things I said above. Just at my age, having been denied any recent experience, I'm considered a bit too old to risk it with. I'm not the usual sort of bimbo, those like me only float a few guys boats. That may be part of it too, given the correlations I've observed with physical attractiveness and income/job skill/etc.

    In the cab, years ago some bloke, very knockabout, a city solicitor, said to me you could tell up there [another lawyers office] who where the [women] lawyers and the office women, the [women] lawyers are professional and sorta plainer in their style plus of all ages, the office women are young and attractive.
  • fatman1234
  • Quote:

    Originally Posted by freedom74

    In the cab, years ago some bloke, very knockabout, a city solicitor, said to me you could tell up there [another lawyers office] who where the [women] lawyers and the office women, the [women] lawyers are professional and sorta plainer in their style plus of all ages, the office women are young and attractive.


    I can understand what you're trying to say, but fuck me that hurt to read more than your usual posts!
  • I am the best
  • I couldnt work anywhere that didnt have access to ITM

    -fin-
  • Hemerage
  • Quote:

    Originally Posted by freedom74

    ...me only float a few guys boats.

    Like, the sort of guys you'd watch on "The Deadliest Catch"
    ie, desperate and hairy.

  • twisted_elegance
  • I couldn't be an ice trucker. Those guys are nuts. Awesome show though.
  • KingWicked
  • Quote:

    Originally Posted by freedom74


    In the cab, years ago some bloke, very knockabout, a city solicitor, said to me you could tell up there [another lawyers office] who where the [women] lawyers and the office women, the [women] lawyers are professional and sorta plainer in their style plus of all ages, the office women are young and attractive.


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  • atrev2much
  • Quote:

    Originally Posted by twisted_elegance

    I couldn't be an ice trucker. Those guys are nuts. Awesome show though.

    i love ed that show
  • esoteric31
  • Quote:

    Originally Posted by trippytrip

    ......i have no words

    You are speechless. You are without speech.
  • Noticeably F A T
  • I don't think I could ever work behind the bar.
  • Whitey1981
  • Politician - no matter what you do, you're a c-nt.
  • big eddie
  • Quote:

    Originally Posted by Hemerage

    Like, the sort of guys you'd watch on "The Deadliest Catch"
    ie, desperate and hairy.

    See I don't reckon they'd be up for it either, when you're cashed up and on shore leave I reckon they'd be lining up some quality poon.
  • fatman1234
  • Quote:

    Originally Posted by Noticeably F A T

    I don't think I could ever work behind the bar.


    Working behind a bar is not that bad, depending on where you work. An RSL club would suck. Being a glassy would suck.
  • Noticeably F A T
  • ^ Yeah I s'pose working in a swish cocktail bar would be cool but not so the local in Armadale/Elizabeth/Frankston/Liverpool/etc.
  • beakers
  • I don't think I could ever kill animals for a living.. I don't do too well with blood but I don't really ever get exposed to it so I don't know If I would ever change.. TBH It's not something I really wanna test anyway.. That and telesales.. I would probably rather kill myself..

    A few years back now when I finished my apprenticeship I swore I would never get into plumbing work as I never wanted to deal with turds.. A few years later I took a job with sydney water assuming I would be dealing with just water pumps and valves and filters and water moving/seperating stuff... And I did.. But I didn't realize at the time they did all the sewerage too... 3 weeks into the job they based me at a seweage treatment plant.. I couldn't believe it... I didn't know what to do or how to stop myself gaging when I was pulling blocked pumps apart to pull out obstructions made of this kind of thing



    Basically that was the strained solids in the bin under the machine that seperates all the toilet paper, tampons, condoms and all sorts of weird shit that people flush down toilets.. Some things I don't know how the fuck they managed to fit in a toilet.. Like a mattress..

    then there were the aeration tanks which I had to go out on in a tinnie a couple of times to connect a submersible pump to an electric chain hoist so I could replace it.. The chain links at water level were pretty nasty.. Obviously they had the aerators turned off while I was out there but at the end of the day you're in a tinne up shit creek without a paddle only it's not just a saying this time..



    It seems bad... and well.. It is..

    They told me I would get used to it and I was like no way how the fuck can anyone ever be used to that but it is suprising that when you are just forced to deal with something like that how fast you just switch off to it.. It took me about 2 weeks.. I don't do it anymore though but I wouldn't say I would never do it again.. It's not as bad as it seems, though I have had accidents where I have been sprayed in the face with mankiness and I saw one guy fall in to a tank of shit but those kind of things don't happen that often and you usually do what you can to prevent things like that happening.
  • big eddie
  • Quote:

    Originally Posted by beakers

    I don't think I could ever kill animals for a living.. I don't do too well with blood but I don't really ever get exposed to it so I don't know If I would ever change.. TBH It's not something I really wanna test anyway.. That and telesales.. I would probably rather kill myself..

    A few years back now when I finished my apprenticeship I swore I would never get into plumbing work as I never wanted to deal with turds.. A few years later I took a job with sydney water assuming I would be dealing with just water pumps and valves and filters and water moving/seperating stuff... And I did.. But I didn't realize at the time they did all the sewerage too... 3 weeks into the job they based me at a seweage treatment plant.. I couldn't believe it... I didn't know what to do or how to stop myself gaging when I was pulling blocked pumps apart to pull out obstructions made of this kind of thing

    *snip*

    Basically that was the strained solids in the bin under the machine that seperates all the toilet paper, tampons, condoms and all sorts of weird shit that people flush down toilets.. Some things I don't know how the fuck they managed to fit in a toilet.. Like a mattress..

    then there were the aeration tanks which I had to go out on in a tinnie a couple of times to connect a submersible pump to an electric chain hoist so I could replace it.. The chain links at water level were pretty nasty.. Obviously they had the aerators turned off while I was out there but at the end of the day you're in a tinne up shit creek without a paddle only it's not just a saying this time..

    *snip*

    It seems bad... and well.. It is..

    They told me I would get used to it and I was like no way how the fuck can anyone ever be used to that but it is suprising that when you are just forced to deal with something like that how fast you just switch off to it.. It took me about 2 weeks.. I don't do it anymore though but I wouldn't say I would never do it again.. It's not as bad as it seems, though I have had accidents where I have been sprayed in the face with mankiness and I saw one guy fall in to a tank of shit but those kind of things don't happen that often and you usually do what you can to prevent things like that happening.

    Funny thing dealing with shit. I've replaced a few submersible pumps in my time. I'll still never forget the time me and the old man were working on the backed up septic tank. We cracked the inspection hatch and shit started erupting out, my old man was standing on top of the hatch cover with shit spraying out around him like a fountain trying to get it lodged back into place. I nearly died laughing.
  • beakers
  • haha yeah I've seen quite a few people get showered.. One guy I worked with had pulled the front casing off a pump so he could operate it and have the blockage throw itself out.. So while standing in front of it he turned it on and keeping in mind this thing pumps somewhere around 60 litres per second.. Anyways a wave of sewage comes out and pins him against a wall.. So I turned it off and he gets up off the ground and all he said was I think I need to have a shower. The funniest ones are always the ones though like you said where someone breaks or takes something off when they shouldn't have and they are fighting like it is for their own life to stop the flow while copping a shower of shit..
  • shanesmith243
  • I couldn't work retail where I'd have to tell people that there 150kg body looks "really, really awesome" squeezed into a pair of tights and a crop-top.

    In other words, I could never work in Supre.
  • Flnz
  • Apart from all the dirty and gross jobs, I couldnt be a Chef.

    Too much stress, other angry chefs, repetition, bad hours and having to work on holidays.
    The kitchen is hot and sweaty and is usually a confined space.

    Not where id like to spend my 40 hours a week.
  • fatman1234
  • Quote:

    Originally Posted by Flnz

    Apart from all the dirty and gross jobs, I couldnt be a Chef.

    Too much stress, other angry chefs, repetition, bad hours and having to work on holidays.
    The kitchen is hot and sweaty and is usually a confined space.

    Not where id like to spend my 40 hours a week.


    In top restaurants you'll find it's a lot more than 40 hrs a week. I dated a girl who was an apprentice chef in a top Sydney restaurant, who worked from around 11am-1am 5 days a week in the summer period around december-january.
  • Noticeably F A T
  • I couldn't be a bee keeper... although all the mellitin (a chemical found in bee sting venom) is known for its healing properties and as an agent that aids the prevention of inflmatory diseases as well as the common cold.
  • Ms LKT
  • I've had a crack at some of the shitty jobs that some people wouldn't consider
    -Night fill, Check out Chick, Bar Tender at a Bowling club, I often do dishes in our cafe and actually don't mind it, butcher and poultry shop

    the only jobs that I would rule out completely is nursing I take my hat off to people that look after our sick and frail and killing animals. I can handle it when they are dead but could not stand doing the actual slaughtering
  • mixxxy
  • I work with dead animals (little pharmaceutical place) and whenever we hire someone new, we make sure we have something dead for them to culture just to see if they can handle it or not. The smell usually isn't that bad if a sample is fresh, but if a farmer has sent in a sample that's a few days old and forgotten to include ice bricks.. it's pretty rank. Rabbits are probably the worst. Since I started this job, I don't eat pork anymore.

    Having said all that, I couldn't work in hospitality, ie waitstaff. I'm fairly certain I'd stab a stupid customer on the first day.
  • Impulsory
  • Quote:

    Originally Posted by fatman1234

    But the crown would be too heavy for Freedom, all that gold/platinum/silver and jewels would hurt 'her' neck!

    She'd probably pay someone to take the load off with the mountains of money she deserves to be given from her wealthy parents.

    on topic: Mcdonalds Period.
  • dance strategy
  • Quote:

    Originally Posted by freedom74

    Anything involving

    standing for long periods, especially with limited mobility;
    working with profoundly mentally disabled persons;
    working in geriatric facilities or with itinerant persons [I can't stand the smell];
    working in abattoirs, foundries, mines, factories;
    lifting heavy items regularly even if not constantly;
    repetitively lifting or handling items of a smaller size;
    any fast-paced manual occupation;
    any repetitive manual handling occupation;
    working in very small spaces without proximity to some natural light;
    working without height adjustable furniture if its in any office;
    anything thats utterly soul destroying;
    lacking in autonomy and variety;
    involves handling any human or animal wastes;
    anything with intensive supervision or monitoring;
    anything involving long periods in extreme temperatures such as coldstores, foundries etc;
    anything that requires the sustained or incidental exposure to dangerous or toxic pollutants, gases or chemicals.

    You know, thats actually a very good list Freedom of what to strive for, F74
    After my accident I had to change my physical way of living for quite a while and my goal was simple.
    I needed the right job, at the time, in the right place.
    If you seek, you will find. Literally. I did find a job that meets your list requirements but it took a while ....
  • HungryHippo
  • a gynocologist - it would be a CNuT of a job
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