What was your crappiest job? | Mmmm, bad memories...

On my way home from work today I ended up behind a truck owned by JMaines Electric, Co. I remember working 3 days for them when I was an apprentice to become an electrician. They needed an apprentice at the shop so away I went. There was only me and another apprentice who had been there for over a year. We were suppossed to help out in the shop and deliver supplies to the guys out in the field.

On my first day they wanted me to deliver some stuff to a site in a town 30 miles away. The truck was an old Ford with manual transmission, which I didn't know how to operate very well. So, I got in and stalled and proceeded to stall the piece of crap in rush hour traffic all the way down to Galt and back. It sucked and that was it for me driving the truck.

The next day I had to clean the shop, which also sucked, and then strip wire, which sucked even worse.

This was thick construction wire. It has rubber insulation that is 1/4" to 3/4" inches thick (approximately 1 to 2 cm for you metric guys ) and has a solid or stranded copper or aluminum core. They wanted me to strip all the rubber off several box fulls of scrap wire with a utility knife. Stripping wire like that is hard. Try to imagine cutting away and peeling off the surface layer of rubber from a car tire. It's kind of like that. And it can be very hard on your hands.

I was there for the next couple of days, striping wire in a dusty garage for 8 hours each day.

I stripped it all and left, and never came back. Mmmm, bad memories...