What are the best and worst jobs you've ever done?

My worst ever job was when I was temping back in 2000, I think. I got placed at a tatty old desk in the corner of a factory, no windows. I was given a big bag of about 400 rubber washers, and was told to take one washer, put it in a small bag, then seal it with a heat sealing thingy. I did this kind of thing ALL DAY LONG!

I stuck it for two weeks, and I still don't know how I managed to stick it for that long. By the end of those two weeks I was genuinely losing the will to live.

There was one thing there that made me laugh, though. There was an old man who had been doing that job for 35 years. He had received a gold watch as a thank you. He had really bad hearing and eyesight. He was friends with a woman called Geraldine who worked there. Whenever he wanted her help with something, he wouldn't know whether she was nearby or not and would just suddenly shout "GERALDINE!!!!" really loudly from out of nowhere!

One of my favourite jobs was when I delivered charity clothes bags. We would head out in a minibus to a different town or village every day, load up our rucksacks with them, and spend about 5 or 6 hours walking round putting one in each letterbox. But we had to go FAST! I got so fit doing that job, like you wouldn't believe! I've never been quite that fit ever again since, even though I've sometimes tried hard.

I was out in a lot of different weather, too. Cold, wet, and also very hot and sunny.

About once a week a big lorry would come to the depot and we would spend the afternoon loading the full bags onto the lorry. Some of us had to go in the lorry to squash the bags down to fit them in. it coudl get really hot in there.

But there's something great about doing a really physically exhausting job like that, especialy if you're in a different place every day. Even when I was soaked to the skin in torrential rain, it felt better than being stuck in an office...