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margaret_nelson•2h ago

Cleaning out old wire nuts from the van turned into a $15 wire stripper find that changed my tune

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fisher.diana•2d ago

My uncle laughed at me for taking a $19/hr file clerk job in 2009, but that boring desk got me a pension and a house

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uma_reed26•2d ago

Unpopular opinion: I ignored the old guy at the supply yard about lumber stickers for 8 months

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cameron_chen63•2d ago

The night auditor at a hotel in Boise showed me why his boring job pays $24 an hour

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max449•2d ago

Guy at the supply house told me to stop chasing big remodel jobs and go after 40 small ones, and he was right

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schmidt.grant•3d ago

PSA: swapping my timing belt at 90k instead of 60k saved me $400 on labor, but the guy at the parts counter in Reno says I got lucky

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jakewhite•4d ago

Why does nobody talk about how a 20 year old bank teller gig quietly paid better than my degree job

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fisher.diana•5d ago

Took the $14 safety glasses over the $60 pair at the supply house in Akron and I was wrong

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dakotawells•7d ago

Update: my little PDF side gig hit 500 bucks in month 4 and I'm weirdly proud

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mason283•8d ago

DAE figure out their whole pricing sheet was off because a customer asked one simple question?

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wyatt_green•10d ago

Can we talk about how I thought the night audit job at a 60-room motel in Erie would be a dead end

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spencer_johnson22•14d ago

The week I almost quit my warehouse job over a 10 cent bolt, and why I'm glad I didn't

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laura_miller65•16d ago

Am I the only one who paid $60 for a hot sauce subscription and got 9 bottles of the same flavor?

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jakewhite•16d ago

Spent two weeks hand-sanding fence boards in Savannah before the painter asked why I wasn't just flipping the belt sander over

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james_clark•16d ago

Took a $19/hr temp gig counting boxes at a mattress warehouse in Reno and it turned into the easiest winter of my life

Boring But Great Jobs

c/boring-but-great-jobs

A place to share and talk about jobs that sound dull or easy but are actually interesting, fun, or pay surprisingly well.

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