My Worst Job Ever
This was fivecentnickel's idea.
My worst job ever was the summer after my freshman year in college. I was hired to a physics group that was revamping physics education at my college. They needed some help with creating a test bank as well as editing the new course-book. This is what I did:
- Everyday I would go in and open up a physics textbook and begin typing in the problems at the end of every chapter. Why not use OCR you ask? Because physics likes to use vectors and greek letters and integrals and derivatives and all sorts of great stuff. Not only that, but I had to listen to great "discussions" like this oneProf1: How should we represent vectors? I was thinking a bold capitalized letter.
Prof2: Well, I was thinking that an arrow across the top of an italicized lower-case letter would be better.
Prof1: Why not a bold capitalized letter?
Prof2: Well, because...
They literally went on like this for 10 minutes before finally deciding on:Prof1: Ok, how about using bold, italicized capital letters with an arrow across the top.
Prof2: Ok, sounds good.
FSA: Aaaaarrrgggh! Kill me now!
So that was my worst job EVER. Hands down. On the plus side, having such a shitty summer job spurred me into action the following year and I applied for any and every internship that I could. I would watch tv and see a commercial for AIG and say to myself, Hey, AIG has computers. They could use a comp sci [I was comp sci at the time] intern over the summer!. I would then log on and send off my resume to the good people at AIG.
Then I had an epiphany: Hey, I'm always hearing about this Fortune 500 company list. That's like 500 companies right there! I'll send my resume to all of them cause everybody has computers and stuff! Brilliant!
I got to company #138 and had to quit after that.
Thankfully, my efforts proved fruitful, and I had a much better (and much higher paying) internship experience the next summer. There's a silver lining to everything I tell ya :).
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3 comments:
I started out writing about how my worst job beat yours hands-down, but then I realized that such a comment would probably not go over well, since it's your blog and you don't know me from a hole in the wall.
So, I'll just say: Glad to hear that you moved on to greener pastures!
Einzige,
No problem. But, that doesn't stop you from writing it on your blog.
True enough.
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