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How to Use Working a Dead End Job to Your Advantage
There’s an Upside to Having a Job You Don’t Care About
Some of my best memories are from the absolute worst jobs I ever worked. I spent six months installing solar panels on a roof that was somehow always soaked for at least the first half of the day, with two of my closest cousins and a ragtag group of mutual friends of ours.
The job itself was terrible, if it wasn’t too hot that day it was usually because it was too cold. We were underpaid with no health benefits and we were all pretty certain our foreman had a meth problem.
He spent the majority of the day staring up at the sky, going off on rambling tangents about how the Government used airplanes to spray chemicals into the atmosphere, to anyone who would listen. He could often be found pointing out what he called chem trails and claiming it was a “heavy spray day” to anyone near him.
And it made for one of the funniest running jokes in any company I’ve ever worked at. We had so much fun at his expense, it made the job worth showing up to. If you ever wanted a twenty-minute break, all you had to do was ask him who he thought killed President Kennedy or whether aliens existed.
One of my cousins made an art out of finding places to nap during work. Right there on the…
