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Worked as a waiter at the Hilton to pay for flight school.

Worst flying job? Well, being stuck in Dakar for a week while my airline figured out how to get us out comes close. Ended up on Air Afrique first class... Shag carpeting and all.
 
One of my first jobs as an E-1 in the Navy found me on my knees cleaning $hitters with a toothbrush. It's been pretty much uphill from there. Never had a bad flying job. Some are better than others, though.
 
Dunkin & Bush

I had a job the summer before college sandblasting and painting the inside of crude oil tanks. Hot, dirty, stinky work. Running lines through dark tanks the size of two football fields. The company was a bit sketchy and the paint we used was hard core industrial paint. There was one painter that we would always catch with his respirator hanging around his neck. He also drank pretty heavily after work, so I am guessing his liver won't be available for a transplant! I had a job a couple of years later that involved me pumping porta potties and septic tanks and I much preferred that over the paint gig.

I've only had two flying jobs and they have both been pretty good to me. Could be better, could be a lot worse.
 
Working in retail.

Worst flying job was Air Wisconsin in '88. The post-merger B.S. was too much. Regardless of who I flew with, they were pi$$ed off at the other group. And, I had to spend the whole trip hearing about it! What a miserable bunch(with a couple of very notable exceptions). Oh yeah, the F-27 sucked, too!TC
 
39N Sucks and Here is Why!

Flying for Naomi Nierenberg out of Princeton Airport- 39N. She treated us CFI's like dogs. Had to even pick her car up from the gas station, drive her friends to Trenton, 1/2 hr away, watch as the 100 hour inspections were just compression checks, Be parking lot attendants for her parties. What’s even worse then that. Getting paid 200 bucks a week for working from 8am to sunset 6 days a week and could not go to lunch with other CFI's since she did not want us to socialize. No radio in our office area just books. In the back room, where we had our desks there was little heat and no AC. Additionally, they had a few cats and the little box was kept in the back next to our desks. So not only did I have the smell of cat crap near me all the time, pieces of litter where often found on our desks and one guy had urine in his flight bag. O I can't forget then when we would go upfront, she or her son would say: "go back to your room, you have no business being up front"



The worst part was how she would use us and try to turn us on each other for multitime, but it never worked. To get the whole idea of what we went through listen to this. One of our very close CFI friends that worked with us was killed in a car accident during the first few months I worked their. The morning of she called all of us and said we had to come to work and fly. Upon coming to work, distraught and all, she took us into her office and said that she never got along with the CFI that was killed and she was happy that he did not die in "one of her airplanes".



Sad way to break into the aviation world. So sad that people like her are around.



That was my worst job ever......It only gets better from here!



P.S. If you know her then you know what I mean!

 
After college I work at a Rent-to-own store while I was in flight school, talk about a crazy business to be in. It isn't easy trying to collect payment from people who don't have much. This job took me to the worst places in town and deal with the worst people in town, drug addicts, gang bangers, strippers, you name it. Chasing these folks through ghettos and trailer parks trying to get your merchandise back if they wouldn't pay was all part of the fun. Humping funiture, appliances, etc. up three flights of stairs in the heat of summer all while wearing a shirt and tie (that was the funny part, who wears a tie in the ghetto?)

It was a big cat and mouse game, most of these people could barley keep the same job more than a month so time was never on our side, we had to find these freaks otherwise they just take our **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** with them and disappear, it was quite a wild ride. But after two years it helped me do everything I needed to do, I made manager so the money was good. I got all my ratings including my CFI, I bought a new car, then a house and I furnished it all with alot of the repo'd items that came back to my store. The road to sucess has many different paths and that job was part of my road. I now chuckle to myself when I think back of that time and all the weird stories I have of those days. I tell ya, the things we go through to fly huh?
 
Worst job I ever had was preparing human stool samples for parasite search. It was interesting to search the preps for critters afterwards, with a microscope.

Worst flying job was for an unnamed major based in PHX. Spent 12 years apologizing to passengers. Company slogan "We're not happy, 'till YOU'RE not happy."

I've heard it's getting better.
 
"Flying for Naomi Nierenberg out of PrincetonAirport"


I took one look at that place, including her and ran far away very very fast. I haven't met one person associated in any way with 39N that doen't hate her.
 
I've been very blessed. I've never had a really BAD job. When I worked for MESA, I didn't make much, but the airplanes were new, the people were good and the schedules were ok.
I flew a corporate Lear for one very rich man. The airplane was fine, the pay was almost acceptable, but the schedule left just a little to be desired. Still, it was not a BAD job.

My closest brush with a truly BAD job would have to have been with Sunrise Airlines in 99 when they were a start-up. Not one person in OPS management (I kid you not) was able to gain FAA recognition for his job. The CP, DO, etc were all given tentative approval during the start-up phase of operations. The CP was a nice guy, heck he hired me, but he was unable to get the FAA to give him permanent approval. The same story goes for the DO, etc. The general manager only previous aviation experience seemed to be that he was an aviation consultant for some insurance company. etc., etc., etc. But they weren't bad people, just basically incompotent.

Now, at Spirit, I get to fly old, but well maintained, Maddogs. My co-workers are first rate, and the pay is pretty good for this ex-grease monkey.

Matter of fact, I've never had a bad job. Period.

Life is what you make of it boys. enjoy.

enigma
 
I worked as a bouncer in my college/cfi /pt135 days. Two of the bars I worked were great. College bars with lots of gals and lots of beer. However a buddy opened his own place and lured me in. This joint was supposed to be a college bar but turned out to be anything but. Just a bunch of townie scum in northwestern Rochester. I saw more fights in 1 month there than in 4 years of the other places combined. Nasty brawls where assorted weapons were not uncommon. Since the only reason I did this was for social reasons ( sure wasn't makin much money) I told my buddy I'm sorry but this ain't gonna work. He ended up getting sick of it too, and sold out a year later.
 
Never had a bad job. My first job in the Air Force had no windows and a bunch of chain smokers, but I still can't complain.
 
Ifl

After Zantop went tips up, I was hired as a Captain on the CV-580 at IFL. After ground school I was told we don't need any pilots right now, but we will pay you $250 week to ride the jump seat, fly on the 91 legs, load freight and learn the business. My whole class quit within a month. I loved flying the CV-580 and the guys I flew with were great. But it is hard to live on $250.wk

 
Justino said:
Flying for Naomi Nierenberg out of PrincetonAirport- 39N.
Is she the one in her mid 50s, dark hair, thin? The son is the one running the show and driving a Hummie?
 
Princeton airport was the worst

I too worked for that person that I wouldn't pee on if she was on fire. She treated us CFI's like garbage. She would constantly belittle us in front of customers and I personally had two engine failures during my year as a flight instructor there. If I can give any advice to anybody it is STAY AWAY FROM 39N.
 
Pretty easy. Worked for a corporate operator flying Citations over 10 years ago. They are now in TOL. 3 captains who all hated each other, and 3 of us FO's. Found out after a month there that they had gone through 27 FO's in 8 years. One captain wanted any dirt on trips flown with the other 2, the CP had altitude bust problems, etc. Gladly left there and -ran- back to my 135 job.

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I worked for a prostitute in Ny. I never really got a paycheck, and she always stole my wallet.
 
What a witch!

Justino said:
Yes She is the old one and the son now is driving the HumV into planes. Not a joke either.
That woman sounds like pure evil.... How could somebody like that live with themself?

Worst job ever? Cleaning puke and blood and dodging rats and fruit-flys at this awful honky-tonk type bar when I was 13yrs old. Quit that job by throwing a bag of garbage at the owner, yelling at him to F**K his job and walking off into the dusk evening during a gentle snow flurry. That felt GREAT!!! Never had to quit like that since. Happiest realization? Graduating college, getting my first job and realizing that nobody would expect me to clean the toilets!! That felt GREAT too!!

Only had two flying jobs, and I can't complain (ALL CFIs are exploited, so why complain?). I work at the best place at my field, and they at least care about safety and pay us better than some.
 

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