Looking back on your previous jobs

I will never shake the horror of my first job from my mind I got a part time job at the local kfc it was horrible they were like slave drivers it was so bad.. Now i feel im doing ok im assistant manager in the biggest retail store in our area a few more years who knows what will happen theres always light at the end of the tunnel..

I remember my first jobs. Both were at fast food chains. I hated those jobs, and after that never worked in a fast food joint again. As I grew up I started to actually look for a specific job instead of just going to everyone that hiring and sort it out later. I am more picky as my skills increase.

i owned a redi mix trucking company outside n.y.c. in jersey worked 6 days a week 14-16 hours a day made my millions retired at 43, at 50 i went back to work driving for a cement company, i hated that behind the desk job, owner or not i was much happier after i sold the company and let someone else run the show/

I don't make millions like you all, but from the time I was a little girl, all I wanted was to be a nurse, to take care of and help people. I started out as a nursing assistant working with the elderly at a nursing home. I loved it. The patients were great, it was wonderful knowing that I was making a positive difference in there lives and they were in mine also. The elderly in america are sometimes the "lost age" . I've seen men and women spend their time alone, usually in there room, depressed because they have no one or they do have someone but that someone ditched them in a nursing home and disappeared, no family or friendly visits, it's sad. That's one area where I came in at. Besides being their nurse, I was their friend. If someone was going to be alone on a holiday, they came to my house. I would go in on my days off once or twice a week and get them "real" food, all ten of my group. How they loved that! That stuff they serve in a nursing home sometimes isn't fit to feed my dog!arrgghh. Anyways...After a few years, aabout 10, I went to nursing school, I couldn't afford it before that, I graduated with honors and got a job the day after I graduated. In fact I actually got THE job I wanted. Working with catholic nuns in a hospital. It was great. I worked there for 5 years and then we had to move due to this economy. My husband is a nurse also and money problems and job problems forced us out of Michigan and we ended up in florida because that's my mom and dads favorite state and they travel there for the winter so now they travel and stay at our house for the winter. It's very hard not being around the corner from my mom and dad but it's a move that has literally solved our job and financial problems. We both started work down here in a doctors office that did every procedure (small of course) but all kinds off tests and minor surgerys,very interesting and omportant stuff that I learned and did.I loved the change!. It was like someone dropped us in heaven. We both loved it. I dearly missed all my friends and patients and family but there are new friends here and my kids are here and my mom and dad in the winter. Anyway, we made a lot more money here and loved the job. We learned really fast and my husband became first head nurse and I second. Then I started having sever pain in my back, neck, hips knees ect. It was severe and just came on one day. I woke up and couldn't get out of bed without help and the pain was a tear jerker type of pain. I was taken to the hospital where they did every test imaginable. They did find three hurniated disks in my spine, and bursitis in both my hips, also my sciatic nerve was pinched on the right side, but that would,nt explained the suddenedd and severeness. No one could even touch me because my skin hurt when touched and ached underneath it. Underneath this achy skin was a pain so severe it put me in bed. The dr's just kept doing test after test and gave several more diagnosis', but none could explain what was causing these symptoms that I have. After 5 years of feeling this pain, losing my memory, losing my eyesite, losing my hearing and having panic attacks and I also was taken off work and told by the doctor I worked with, who, god bless her, helped me through the whole disability process,that she had to take me off work because of my physical proplems (I understood because by then, I was struggling to do the most easiest job in the place with breaks as often as I needed them.) I was devastated, I had lost my horse , was losing all my physical abilities, walking with a cane , disabled. Disabled? Why was this horrible thing bringing me down? I'm a good person. I haven't done anything wrong. I'm a good mother, wife, sister, daughter ect. Why would god do this to me. Luckuly I had a seperate insurance policy that covered me well if I became disabled.And, I recieve SSD. But my heart is crushed. I'm still a good person, mother, wife, friend ect. The doctors finally figured out what I had, I have fibromyalgia with chronic fatique disease. And there is no cure. I'm happy that ou guys are doing well though. I dont resent anyone who makes it this life that is so hard to make it in. It shouldn't be so hard to earn that good cash. Americans work hard and are underpaid and it sucks. I'm always surprised when I find out what jobs pay nowdays. The are making us slaves and there is nothing we can do about it because we need money for lives essencials. We are trapped. I think they need to start paying americans whet they are worth , give us the breathing room and luxury we all deserve and quit paying us slave pay!!!!You all have a good day!!