I worked as a telecom tower climber and technician for a year before quitting because everyone at the company was kind of a douchebag and I had no reason to believe it would be different elsewhere.
Though this was partially because I also hated the work itself since its a bit stressful being dangled by (granted, very strong) strings while working on birdshit covered telecommunication equipment in bone piercing wind. This is less of an issue than my other problems with it however because I kind of expected that. I came home exhausted every day which sucked but I knew that there would probably be times where this happened. The overtime work sucked ass though, especially since I had to do it often, away from home in stanky ass hotels.
Like I said, the worst part was my coworkers. I honestly fear the idea that it may have just been me, but I swear I was stuck with some real pieces of work. I was often paired up with people that speak soley in passive aggression, or people with really outspoken and asinine beliefs and habits. One time a dude said that itd be better for me to break my hand than let a piece of equipment get scratched while trying to support it. Nearly everyone at the company was a bullheaded son of a bitch which caused real problems internally from what I could tell. I nearly threw rocks at my boss on some occasions because he pissed me off so bad. I think I came the closest to killing someone out of pure rage in that job than anywhere else in my entire life.
Now I'm living with my parents trying to go into a programing degree. Its going ok, just got through my pre requisites.
Not trying to one up retail workers btw, since I worked there as well, am well aware of how soul sucking it is, and at least my job payed pretty well. Shame it really didnt matter since I didnt have the energy to really spend it on anything. Spoiler is a picture of me on a tower
