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200 best to worst jobs 2010

Cloudy said:
I dunno, a friend of mine's mom work for the post office and she says her job is shit. Under paid for the work they do and get easily shafted if they get off schedule (I forgot specifically the rules or reasons, but she mention that they can potentially work on their own time because they were late to picks or drop offs). In her situation I believe she would have to drive 4 hours total there (a major city in my state) and back if she ended up getting off time.

just a random anecdote. How much this carriers over to other cities, counties, and states, I dunno.
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Yea im kinda with you here cloudy. Captain heroin--I said it aint a HORRIBLE job, it aint a job that dont deserve respect--- but it sure as hell aint a HAPPY one lol. Dont get me wrong. My folks been in the usps for 30 years and both of them swore to disown me if i ever tried to work there. they really really hate it. i was more takin offense to the idea that its this lowly disrespectable awful job thats worthy of bein looked down on. I got the idea from the article that was the light they put it in.

As much as i defended it like yo, dont talk shit about the mailman its a decent hardworking respectable job, i will say that from all i ever heard the conditions of work do suck and you work HARD for that money that you get.

And yea, you do have to stay late if you dont do your shit on time. The mail gotta go out by 5 o clock. you got a route to deliver rain snow sleet hail wtfever. If you get hit with the holiday catalogs or the dreaded phone book mailout day, you gotta stop at every single house when usually you dont do the whole routee bcuz not everybody gets mail everyday.

But on a bad day, you can be out there til 7 o clock at night if you workin in bad conditions, its snowing or your mail truck breaks down or some shit.

when my mom delivered mail their trucks didnt have heat in them. she had to drive around in snow and ice storms when school and work and everything else was canceled and drive on roads totally coated with ice and snow slippin all over the place bringin everybody their mail. lots of times her truck broke down and she had to sit there and wait for someone to come bring her a new one so she could start the route again. you gotta work until its done, no matter wat, every day, no exceptions.

The shittiest part about that is you dont get paid for the hours you work. u get paid for the amount of hours that your route is assessed at.

They do it like this: They do a "mail count" once a year. during that week the post offices all over the country get audited. they count every piece of mail that comes thru, and then they time all the carriers on their route over the course of the week.

They average out the amount of mail and amount of time that it takes for each route and come up with a number. So, say that the average time for the route to get delivered and finished after all 5 days of timing it is 6.5 hours. so they assess that route as bein a 6.5 hr route and thats the pay you earn for doing it no matter how long it takes you.

Every day that you deliver that route, you get paid for 6.5 hours of work. Even if it takes you 8 hours to deliver it, you get paid 6.5 hours. The good side of that is if you a quick worker maybe you can get it done in 5.5 hours and get paid for the extra hour, but that dont happen 90% of the time.

The second bad thing is that every year they do "the count" during (iirc) febuary , usually, which is the slowest time of the year for the post office. For the past couple years my folks have came home bitchin that they did the count and averaged out the route times based on a week of delivering like half the normal amount of mail that usually goes thru those routes.

So while during the week of the count my moms route might get evaluated as bein a 6.5 hour route, the reality is that the rest of the year, its more like a 7.5 hour route. But , since they based their calculations on a week with real low mail volume, she will get paid for 6.5 hours even tho most of the year it will take her 7 or so hours to finish the route each day.

Thats just some of the shit thats crazy about it.....Not tryna get off topic, I was just confirmin that the shit that Cloudy was saying is true and there is a lot of crazy shit that goes on in the post office.

Like i said. Its a decent, hard workin job that deserves much respect. And it dont deserve to get shitted on by snooty-ass lists pulling random shit out their asses about one of the top10 jobs being a fuckin "philosopher", you feel me?

But, CH, trust me when i tell you that it definately aint the happy place you imagine from your mailmans attitude. I was just defending that it aint the type of job that deserves to get looked down on , even tho the job itself got alot of down sides.
 
http://www.careercast.com/jobs/content/ten-scary-creepy-disturbing-jobs-2010-3#slide

I make #4 of the 10 scariest. (removal of UXO and IED's is part of my duties, as is responding to CBRN incidents..actually, doing pretty much anything no one else is willing/has the nerve and guts to do is part of my job lol)

The only job on the the top 200 I could do for more then a year without killing myself is ranked 186- Emergency Medical Technician.(but only as EMT-P fuck EMT-B or EMT-I)

That list sucks....really, the best job is suited person by person. I love my job, but most people would hate it. Vice versa, I'm sure some people love being lawyers, but I'd jump out a window on my first day.
 
^^ We need people to do these types of jobs.. Good on you for having the courrage and guts to carry on with it, you obviously have very little fear of dying.. I dont give a fuck how good those suits are that you guys wear, if that bomb go's off.... well good luck to you..
I work in the Security Industry, tho i know its not the MOST dangerous job in the world, ive had my fair run in with situations where you fear for your life, sounds weird but it gives me the strength to carry on
Peace
 
'Philosopher' has a 'very high' hiring outlook?

Something here smells fisheh.



~Monk
 
NightLight* said:
^^ We need people to do these types of jobs.. Good on you for having the courrage and guts to carry on with it, you obviously have very little fear of dying.. I dont give a fuck how good those suits are that you guys wear, if that bomb go's off.... well good luck to you..
I work in the Security Industry, tho i know its not the MOST dangerous job in the world, ive had my fair run in with situations where you fear for your life, sounds weird but it gives me the strength to carry on
Peace
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We don't wear suits for UXO or IED's. They're useless and cumbersome....I prefer IED's to UXO..the IED is planned to go off but has been triggered yet, UXO however is bomb/shell/ect that failed to go off, and might just have its striker mechanism a bit stuck and when ya move it BANG!..now underwater UXO..i.e. old naval mines...thats fun!

CBRN, of course requires a suit...MOPP 4 sucks teh balls.

Security..do you have decent ballistic IIa or III and stab vest? If not, I'd really recommend one. Makes your job a lot safer.
 
rangrz said:
We don't wear suits for UXO or IED's. They're useless and cumbersome....I prefer IED's to UXO..the IED is planned to go off but has been triggered yet, UXO however is bomb/shell/ect that failed to go off, and might just have its striker mechanism a bit stuck and when ya move it BANG!..now underwater UXO..i.e. old naval mines...thats fun!

CBRN, of course requires a suit...MOPP 4 sucks teh balls.

Security..do you have decent ballistic IIa or III and stab vest? If not, I'd really recommend one. Makes your job a lot safer.
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Only 1 of the few companys ive worked for allowed us to wear stab vests, which they provided thankfully, given the fact they are quite expensive... (but its worth the persons life!, i know... At least in the eyes of that company..)

The other other few companys, not so keen on it... :\
Mate, not wearing suits for UXO or IED's is still god damm crazy, i cant believe you dont... These are bombs we are talking about here... I wish you all the best..
Sorry to ask but, how many of you guys get killed, or seriously injured on average every year?
 
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