[ POLL ] Do You Work at a BS Job?

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My job is def. Not BS in terms of the field i work in.

But the conditions, work hours and the salary? BS also the lack of supervision

I don't work anymore. I'm on ssdi now.

Most of my jobs have been low skill type jobs... bar tender, retail, things like that. The only job I ever had that was actually challenging and interesting to me was when I was a hazmat janitor or sorts at a plant. I cleaned a lot of asbestos out of walls and ceilings for a while there. It was very much necessary. I'd argue though that even the service industry type jobs I had did have point to them, purpose in their own ways. I was needed as an employee to do a job that made money and gave people a thing they wanted or needed. Corporate was often incompetent and seemed to seek to undo the progress we were trying to make in house, or maybe there was a boss or coworkers who were the problems, but the actual jobs themselves? Nah, none of mine were complete bs.

If you separate the work from the workplace? No BS at all. The workplace? Total BS (meetings that could have been an e-mail, Team-working that just slows the process down, commuting, etc.)

i work remotely collecting data at supermarkets making sure certain brands are present and where they paid to be put and no matter how egregiously wrong i do my job (either by accident or on purpose) i have never been corrected, so definite BS.

Remote Data Aggregation?  At least you are getting paid for it (I hope).

Most of my jobs were in retail; books, stationery, pets, toys, hobbies.
Worked one year as a substitute teacher.
Had an overnight security guard job for several years at an auto auction. It was as much shipping and receiving as anything else since the auto transporters got there whenever they arrived from wherever they left from.
The auction had stopped shipping by rail a couple years before I worked there. Bummer. But, hey, the railroad still ran right outside the fence.
Worked for AT&T for 3 years.
Worked housekeeping for a waterfront hotel summers in high school and college.
Drove an auto parts delivery route for a large car dealer one summer. Went to 4 different states on that one.

I'm someone who works "all around".

It is half BS half serious in my case.

So yes -- I'm a cleaner and a maintainer, I'm sometimes an accountant/secretary/manager (yes, this means talking someone, talking for someone, etc.), I managed clients spatially and socially (whether managing waiting areas or making them feel welcome), I did substitutions for other employees (this includes managing in my boss' absence), I've been a stand in for my boss, I've been a goon/flunky for my boss (and did explicitly explained this), I've been someone who became an in-between, I've been that one typist the building needs if they want to meet the deadline by the last minute, I've been an adviser of varying topics, I made plenty of digital stuff including not limited to arts and crafts and power point slideshows, I've been that errands person, etc. Heck, even literal baby sitting, modeling (literally and not-so-literally).

That's not all of it.
It's a small workplace.

Safety net or not -- it's confusing, it's stressful.
I haven't able to try other jobs simpler or more specialized than that.

So if I leave... I don't know how to make of it.

Maybe when I turn 30.
I don't care which job -- maybe I'd go back to college if I have to.

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sheep dung
cleaning out the stables is strangely relaxing, after a while,
and you get something done, one pitch a time, one wheelbarrow a time, one skip a time

hahaha science fantasy again (just trying to translate)
The deep litter method was first used in 1946
The deep litter cultivation is a modern ecological breeding technique based on decomposing feces by microbiological methods
we're almost back at re-inventing the wheel any day now

I had a position in a law firm's accounting dept. that def. creeped into BS job territory much the time.