eagerbeaver:
Making aeroplane components?Thought the time would fly by…
ShropsBri:
mick.mh2racing:
Had a warehouse job I did for more years than I’d admit because the money was cracking. Like 35k for 37 hours.Just shy of a grand an hour…did you have to do the 37 hours all at once or could you stretch it out over the year?
It was a ■■■■■■ really, had to do 37 hours EVERY week!!! 
Average contents checker in a match factory.
Actually, the worst job ever was in a bottle top making factory. The machine would spit the tops out into cardboard boxes and fill one up every minute or so. I then had to move the box out the way and fill another up. I spent 8 hours (felt like 8 years) doing it for one shift and never went back. I think I’d rather hang myself than do that for a living.
raymundo:
My present job is the most boring I have ever had and I have had a few, I sit on board this boat for a month at a time and maybe actually do something for about 2 days a week on average but the money can’t be bettered. I would rather be on the go all the time for less I’m beginning to think. perhaps I should get a hobby
What are you on at the moment Ray? I have to say that some of the most boring work I’ve ever done was at sea, doing general day work, endless chipping and painting or hold cleaning when your only company are a couple of Filipino’s who are as engaging in conversation as an average house brick, God how the time dragged.
I worked at a place in some when I was about 18. Cleaning asda’s vegetable containers. Or standing next to a compactor throwing cardboard in for 8 hours.
Did a month. I’d say as well there was 3 of us max who where british
robinhood_1984:
raymundo:
My present job is the most boring I have ever had and I have had a few, I sit on board this boat for a month at a time and maybe actually do something for about 2 days a week on average but the money can’t be bettered. I would rather be on the go all the time for less I’m beginning to think. perhaps I should get a hobbyWhat are you on at the moment Ray? I have to say that some of the most boring work I’ve ever done was at sea, doing general day work, endless chipping and painting or hold cleaning when your only company are a couple of Filipino’s who are as engaging in conversation as an average house brick, God how the time dragged.
Not the guy your asking the question to but …I did 3 months at sea with Maersk. Training to be on the bridge but did a lot of day work. Preferred it to the bridge. Unfortunately I wasn’t smart enough to pass the tests and stuff so dropped out.
sinclair89:
Not the guy your asking the question to but …I did 3 months at sea with Maersk. Training to be on the bridge but did a lot of day work. Preferred it to the bridge. Unfortunately I wasn’t smart enough to pass the tests and stuff so dropped out.
It all depends on who you’re working with like most things. I sailed on one coaster on deck with a Cape Verde islander and he was a great laugh and I leaned a lot from him about the job. I found most of the Filipinos to be quite friendly but they might as well have being men from the moon when it came to socialising and just talking to in general. All my ships were only coasters though, probably not much bigger than a life boat on most things Maersk owns! 5 or 6 man crew, thats all. On one of the German coasters I was on the Filipino’s were horrible and vindictive and did all they could to get me in trouble as they saw me as a threat to “their jobs” even though I’m half German so it was more my ship than theirs. The company had a small Hamburg based Filipino crewing agent who supplied the vast majority of the deckhands to the company apart from me and one or two German AB’s who were still present in the early 2000s. On that ship the mate, an Iraqi who’d lived in Germany since he was 14 saw through their tricks and in the reverse of your experience I ended up spending 85% of my time on the bridge while the captain or mate slept on the couch and being called “Second mate” which really really annoyed the Filipinos in question.
BUS DRIVING did it for 9 years got stuck in a rut and hated it
robinhood_1984:
raymundo:
My present job is the most boring I have ever had and I have had a few, I sit on board this boat for a month at a time and maybe actually do something for about 2 days a week on average but the money can’t be bettered. I would rather be on the go all the time for less I’m beginning to think. perhaps I should get a hobbyWhat are you on at the moment Ray? I have to say that some of the most boring work I’ve ever done was at sea, doing general day work, endless chipping and painting or hold cleaning when your only company are a couple of Filipino’s who are as engaging in conversation as an average house brick, God how the time dragged.
I haver the rather dubious honour of being skipper of the biggest privately owned cargo landing craft operating in UK waters, she was a passenger ferry down in Greece before being brought to Scotland for the round timber trade so is hardly the ideal vessel for working these waters. Very weather dependant and as the ramp facilities are still being built at various places we have only two that we can use. Sannox on the Isle of Arran and the worst place imaginable to get in and out off Ardoran on Loch Feochan near Oban. This is my ninth day this stint and we have sailed just the once and the whole effort took just 16 hours, the rest of the time I just sit on me arse bored to tears. Cook to do the cooking, engineer to play with the engines and the chief mate to do the paperwork. As an aside years ago I had a Cap Verde deckie who was an Angolan mercenary, obviously his name was Big Santos, real nice fella but not to be trifled with. He was with me on a Dutch owned ship and for 15 months I never had a mate (but I got the wages for him) and he used to do a watch while I grabbed forty winks in the radio room but that sometimes created some hairy moments like one dark and filthy night running up the Eurogall Channel towards the HvH he called me and shouted ‘big ship, big ship’ I run through to the wheelhouse but I couldn’t see any ship near us, until his accommodation lights came abreast of us about 50/60 feet up in the air! It was a huge ■■■■ off tanker in ballast bound for Europoort and we were slightly a bit too close to the deep water route. One arse clenching moment among others !! 
we used to supply lg in Washington and one day I ‘tried’ one of the worst jobs in my life it was basically shuffling the plastic that surrounds the microwave for 8 bloody hours.
I could have cried at the end I honestly don’t know how mind numbing it must be another one was 3 screws into the door for 8 hours.
Mate on a semi sub oilrig anchored in Falmouth. Just care & maintenance
Norwegian Skipper & Chief engineer, 2nd engineer & myself from Penzance, plus a cook. The Norwegians did month on month off, we did week on week off.
The other 4 did days, I did 8 till 8 overnight, so when I was off, they were working.
Little to do except an hourly manual check on anchor cable tensions and a visit to the engine room, boring as hell but the money made it just about worthwhile. On the plus side 4 walk in fridges/ freezers (seperate ones for meat & fish) stacked with almost anything you could want and a dry store as big as a house.
I’m partial to Primula cheese on Ryvita and being Norwegian owned there were boxes of every imaginable flavour.
Put on two stone before the novelty wore off.
You not got AIS on that thing ?
Gosh, some right boring jobs mentioned here 
Especially if you had to do them full time
Did about four days watching a Capstan Lathe that made the little bezels that go round a camera lens. Feet killing me, back aching. It was automatic and if one of the little red or yellow markers on the wheels didn’t line up, I had to call a setter… what a bloody drag.
I take tap water temperatures for a living and have done for 6 years, the moneys good but eventually even that no longer becomes a priority so I’ve deciced to get my class 1 and hit the road in a few months
So you’ll be ‘testing the water’ to see if you like it ?
I would agree but I’ve had quite enough if ‘testing the water’ and will be more than happy to leave that all behind me
0830-1730 M-F I make pointless spreadsheets, presentations and reports, half of which nobody ever uses. If I’m lucky, I have to edit someone else’s pointless spreadsheet/presentation/report. If I’m really lucky, I have some filing to do. Yes, that’s right, filing paperwork is a highlight. Another highlight is sorting out the stationary order, and the best one of all is taking the box of confidential waste down to the shredder. I make sure I put envelopes and random non-confidential stuff in the box too - just so that it fills up quicker and I can head downstairs and fanny around shredding it. £40k a year + £3-5k bonus.
I never wanted to work in an office and I don’t really know how I ended up here. Getting out over the next few months I hope.
> raymundo:
> You not got AIS on that thing ?
Was before AIS - Scrapped now - was the sister to the Alexandra Keeland that sunk killing about 200 men