You have a job that sucks. Yeah, I've been there. I've done that It's happened kind of happens to all of us Let's talk about that today and why gratitude can help because I'm lazy I Was asked to do this topic today and because I'm lazy and because I'm exhausted because I had this very stressful drive to downtown Tampa today Jeez, you know, I used to go to Tampa when I was a teenager All the time to a place called Curtis Hickson Hall used to ride my motorcycle there when I was 15 and 16 my yamah It's when jet one hundred parked it downtown and walked over to Curtis Hickson Hall And I would go to concerts. I saw the Dave Clark five there.
Remember the Dave Clark five I bet you don't but I saw them there. I saw the Beach Boys there I saw Frank Zapp in the mother's of invention there. Damn. That was a good show.
I saw all kinds of people there I saw the monkeys there. Oh my god So I met my first wife kind of you know, I got her backstage To meet the monkeys we actually went to their hotel and I was gonna trash them and she was stars struck I was working for an underground newspaper she was working for the daily newspaper in Clearwater as the youth editor and I went immediately after Mickey Dolan's and I said what do you think about, you know running a fake band here and he looked at me I just want to see my bank account, dude, you know, yeah, it's a fake ban, but we're having fun. Did we play music tonight? Yeah, you played music tonight.
Well, kind of yeah, you know Anyway Talking points about working for a job that you ate. Well, one of the things that you can do according to Claude Dot AI is you can be thankful for the skills experience and connections you gain from that role That can open doors to better opportunities down the line. Now. What is the worst job?
I ever had I had a couple of really worst jobs and did either of those worst jobs lead to something better and yes I have to say both of them did and they connected me with people that stayed with me for years stayed within my ecosystem for years I want to know my first worst job. I got this after school I was going to Dunedin high school and they had this thing there was it's called the hood plant and they squeezed citrus and Turned it into frozen orange juice for concentrate But then they took the peels off of the citrus and they ran it up this conveyor belt into this warehouse where it was bagged into 100 pound bags and later used for cattle feed and I got a job after school getting on a pile and catching these 100 pound bags as They came off the conveyor belt and stacking them and you would work your way all the way up to the top of the warehouse Doing that and you take a break. Oh my god That was mind-bogglingly terrible work and they said you can work as many hours after school as you want We're not gonna follow the rules if you want it You know if you want to work from three until we're supposed to work three until ten That was the rules three till ten had to be done by ten is if you want to work for three on midnight feel free You can stay if you want to work three and till seven o'clock in the morning We don't care. I never did that but many nights I worked until eleven o'clock and I was paid what was I paid there a dollar fifteen hour?
Yeah, that was pretty good But I met some people along the way there that stuck with me and I learned from years and years By the way, it was a temporary job just until the citrus was done and then we were all canned We were in until next year. We could come back if we wanted to I didn't want to but from there I met a guy who owned a record shop or he was starting a record job who was working there And he was working there to make money to open his record job and from there We just made a connection that lasted for years and years so that's one thing What else does Claude have to say they got a bunch of stuff Bring it be that be grateful that you have a chance to learn what you want in a career by experiencing this Dissatisfying job. I don't get it. I want to say what I want to do I wanted to be the rhythm guitar player of the Beach Boys and if I didn't do that I wanted to work with plants and I guess working at the citrus factory was kind of connected to plants, but not much Goodbye Claude.
We're done with you now. Let's go to meta AI and pick one out of there if we can Expressing gratitude for your colleagues and supervisors can improve your working relationships and create a more positive work environment Gotta say gotta say that's true. Even at that job. That was true That was a terrible job, but you know We I made friends with the supervisor and we'd work our butts off for a couple of hours And he'd come out with all this orange juice freezing cold orange juice and we'd sit there and drink orange juice Gosh It was so nice and he'd talk to us and give us a life advice which I thought was interesting Gratitude can help you find meaning and purpose in your work Even if it's not your dream job I found no purpose and I found well the meaning in the work is we're going to make sure that a bunch of cows got fed and And I was staying in pretty good shape because you catch a hundred pound bag By the way, there's four of you on the pile and you're just constantly You know you catch one and then three more people ahead of you Then you're right back there to catch the next one until you get all the pile gross about 30 feet tall And then you stop and you rest and the other crew does the next one while you're resting and you ride the conveyor belt down and You start a new pile.
Yeah, it was kind of kind of fun. That was meta. Let's go to chat GPT Recognizing that the efforts of the colleagues and finding common ground they can foster a supportive work environment Easing the burden of your dissatisfaction. That kind of worked embracing gratitude for the skills you've honed even in a job That you hate can empower you to leverage those skills for a more fulfilling career path and yes I will go along with that.
They did that. I check EPT. Let's go to Gemini We're gonna do one from Gemini and there's ten of them to choose from you know I'm gonna go with number seven I even read it express gratitude for the time a bad job gives you to plan to pursue your dream career and I did that you know I want to work in radio to man I was and as I was catching those things and working through the pile I was thinking how cool it be to be sitting in front of a microphone and having gads of people listening to me So I kind of dreamed about it was fun So you got a crap job know that it's not forever know that you're gonna get done with it You're gonna move on you're gonna take your experiences that you learn from the crap job And you're going to grow from it I swear I swear to the gods man stuff I learned at that crap job Catching hundred pound bags of orange peels Have helped me along the way It told me to work your ass off until you get the job done and get the job done efficiently and I still have that That's still with me. How about that?
I'm a little fart. All right, we'll see you tomorrow