My Worst Job Ever

Posted on August 13, 2008
Filed under Personal Learning Network, blog memes and tagged blog memes, job

I’ve been tagged with this meme by Marg Murnane of technoLiteracy fame. This is the question to answer for this meme:

Looking back on your life, what was the “worst job” you ever had that ironically helped prepare you to one day become an educator?

One of my worst ever jobs was being on the ticket barrier at the Royal Melbourne Show. Not a very hard job, but I had to deal with a lot of numnuts who couldn’t get their tickets to work properly and were so impatient they just simple wouldn’t listen to instruction. I ended up being the one who would yell instructions (surprise surprise) to the hoards of eager show-goers and potential ticket numnuts.

I also one year had the pleasure of working at the Australian Open as an usher. I was responsible for keeping people quiet (tennis etiquette and all that) and managing the lines of people outside the doors.

How did these prepare me for my role as an educator? Well, come on, which teacher out there doesn’t need some level of crowd control skills?!

Who do I now tag to keep this meme alive?

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3 Responses to “My Worst Job Ever”

Dean Groom on August 19th, 2008 11:44 pm

worst job Jess? – I used to work on a production line in a pet squeeky toy factory. I put the squeeker in, then gave it a squeek and thew it in the hopper for 8 hours night shift. It wasn’t too bad until the shift manager changed and the Sony Walkman was banned, then it became a living hell for the 20 poor sods who worked on the line too.

As they say ’school prepares you for life, which can also suck’.
Marg on August 22nd, 2008 7:56 pm

Jess this made me laugh. I can just see you doing you “oh Please!” face at all those patrons, marching over and explaining in clipped tones about being quiet. Isn’t this a fabulous project – I knew you worked at David Jones (jess myer working at David Jones always makes me smile) but I didn’t know these other details about your life. Enjoy your weekend girlfriend.
Michelle on September 3rd, 2008 4:14 pm

I was always entertained by those David Jones bridezilla stories…
I was a temporary fire warden at the then-new Victoria Gardens shopping centre car park, whilst they were embroiled in a legal battle about the safety of the design and architecture of the car parks. I wandered around for eight hours per day looking around for non-existent fires to extinguish (seriously). I did chase a few petty criminals away whilst they sought to break into one of the the 10 audis, 4 saabs, 10 BMWs or 6 mercedes parked there…