Worst job: Pest control technician. I'm from Florida, so working outside during the summer time for sometimes up to 10 hours a day, 5 days a week, is excruciatingly difficult. By the time you get to Thursday and Friday, you're just completely spent. The work wasn't even really the worst part and I had good relationships with my customers. It was the management that made the job more miserable than anything else. Treated us like absolute garbage on a consistent basis. It was a mom-and-pop's pest control company, so it wasn't run very efficiently at times and there was also zero accountability held towards the office people. If they messed up, you would still get blamed and you wouldn't get an opportunity to respond or you'd get reprimanded even further. It got to the point where I essentially just went rogue and would show up, complete my assigned route for the day, and completely ignore the office for the entire day haha. It was not a good relationship. I felt like I had to be a gigantic asshole back towards them to keep myself from getting screwed over and that's so contradictory to how I am as a person, so I'd feel miserable and sullen all of the time. I lasted in that job about 1 calendar year and was mercifully fired in April 2020 when COVID was first starting to affect everywhere. Best thing that ever happened to me.
Best job: My current job. EMT working ambulance transport for Cleveland Clinic. Most rewarding job I've had to this point in my life. A good friend of mine that I met while working together for the aforementioned miserable pest control company was in EMT school at the time with the eventual goal of becoming a fire-fighter. He kept trying to recruit me the entire time we were working together and was telling me "dude, if you get into school and graduate the program, we can quit this job at the same time." I kept telling him I'd think about it and put it off because being a responder or working in the medical industry wasn't something I'd even remotely considered interesting growing up. Well, when I got fired, I was at a crossroads in my life and had to make a decision, so I decided to take a leap into this avenue to see if it was something that'd be for me and I completely fell in love with it, to the point where I wondered why I never pursued it sooner. I get to see a lot of wild stuff on a daily basis. I've been able to be right in the middle of the action when it's come to COVID calls and whatever else. I spend all of my time in hospital ER's, so I get to see all types of crazy stuff from assault victims to car accident victims to COVID patients to patients having heart attacks, strokes, etc. I plan on taking this thing the whole way and eventually ending up as a paramedic at a fire station so I can run emergency response calls. Best decision I've ever made. It's not for everybody. I work really weird hours. I work from 7pm-7am most nights, so I have to be awake at strange hours and that wears you out over time, but the job itself is awesome.