40 People Reveal The Thing They Did For Money That They're Most Ashamed Of

Am a nurse so I’ve cleaned up s**t, p**s, vomit, other bodily fluids. Gotten punched in the face, kicked, verbally assaulted… Also have provided post mortem care and medical treatment to genuinely bad people because it’s part of my job (as in sex offenders, violent people, etc). Gotten spit at, pooped and peed on, coughed on intentionally. Wouldn’t recommend it lol.

I once drunkenly reached into a p**s trough at a music festival when some rich sob threw two seperate 100$ bills in there to see who’d grab it.

Little did he know I would have probably done it if it was 20s too lol.

I worked at a call center. It was the most degrading work I’ve ever done.

Let medical students practice genital and rectal exams on me. In fact I’m literally sitting here in my medical gown and waiting for the next student to come. 

I worked for a kitty litter company, a name you've heard of. My job was to help test surfactants on the clay.

It was honestly a fascinating job -- I mean, you have to accommodate not one, but two different species, right? But the gross part of the job was that we had liters of cat pee (under a hood) with stir bars in them constantly stirring. We also had buckets of cat poop.

Why? Because we had to dose the litter and then lean in and smell it, recording our observations like a sommelier. Yes. But I was paid extremely well (like 3X minimum wage, during high school) and we got cookies.

The really interesting job, though, was held by the professional nose. Her opinions were the ones that mattered, and she would sniff cat byproducts day in and day out.

My bosses were two ladies with degrees in physical chemistry and a very down-to-earth perspective on life.

Janitor at a 24 hour truck stop. NEVER AGAIN!

It was 2020 right before the pandemic. I went to an older man’s house who I responded to on craigslist for a cleaning service. I didn’t know it was like a secret kink post tho. I get over there and he made me lick all the handles in his home. Made $3000 though ! Helped a lot.

When I was working at a grocery store, we used our basement for storage, fridges, freezers, etc. and brought everything up on conveyors. S**t would fall off the side of the conveyors all the time into a little locked room that needed to be cleaned out every few months. I'm talking ice cream containers that fell out of the box and would explode spores into your face if you poked them, bags of frozen vegetables that blew up like balloons and were full of liquid. You'd just shovel all this rotted waste into bags while trying not to breathe. There were rats. There were cockroaches. There were flies. I nearly quit.

At least, thanks to me, they started cleaning that area once a week before I left. That was after the manager came down with me all angry and telling me that it's not that bad, and then seeing and smelling the mess for himself. He stuck his face in his shirt and ran out of there.

Participated in a study for lotion you rub on your boobs to make them bigger. Not even joking.
For two months I had to rub this lotion twice a day and then once a week go to the clinic so someone could measure every aspect of my boobs. Not just size…. Distance between nipples, distance from
Chin to nipple, circumference of them. It was so embarrassing and in the end I had the placebo! but I made $500 to pay my rent back in 2002!!!

During a dark time in my life I used to sell Norton Internet Security.

Telemarketing. I know. I should be ashamed.

I worked in a kangaroo skin tannery, grading kangaroo balls by size, for sorting into either pet food or for coin purses for tourists.... Roo ball bags stink and the ticks are massive.

Nurse here, my time to shine! Just a few examples of the joys I've experienced on the job:

Cleaning up diarrhea when my glove broke.

Amniotic fluid on my shoes.

Emptied a bile drain and proceeded to spill the contents all over my scrubs.

Got projectile vomited on by a guy with a bowel obstruction (the vomit was practically fecal matter at this point). It splashed EVERYWHERE and somehow even got on the door on the other side of the room.

Cleaned up scrotal peelings from the patient who kept peeling the dead skin off his nutsack and placing it on the bedside table.

Worked at a choice hotel. The owner was a rich Indian that owned tons of hotels. He used pirated software and operating systems, he only employed desperate migrants from his own country to houseclean for cents on the dollar. He would double charge people then ignore them. Every single day I was there I had at least one person call frantic and desperate to get their money back. We had to tell the the manager isn't here and tell them to call back. He was NEVER there so we just had to string these poor people along till they gave up. Eats away at my soul like 10 years later still.

I’m a teacher so probably being extremely disrespected by teenagers 5 days a week.

In highschool, ate a piece of gum stuck under a bus seat for 2$. And I was proud of myself

Working on the active face of a landfill. To get to the work sites, you often times would have to navigate on foot through the "active face" aka where the trash is dumped. You can't comprehend all the sights and smells at once - too many shapes, colors, and stinking wet slop. So you look down at your feet. You plod carefully around hoping you don't slip and fall onto the garbage, which may stick you broken glass, needles, or rusty rebar if you were to be so careless. The municipal garbage is smelly but tolerable. Its really the construction debris that's noxious. The construction debris trucks come and loudly dump a lot of somethings and the thick white dust that comes off it leaves you gasping. You lose a little bit of your hearing every day, and you get more used to the bad air. And you pray to God that you get out of the dumps for good.

Cleaned up the poop that had been smeared all over the men's restroom at the grocery store where I worked when I was 16. Zero PPE provided by the manger who told me "Your the only other male working today and I'm not cleaning that up." Knowning what I know now, they should have brought in a hazardous waste crew to deal with it.

I tested medications because I was in need. I will never do it again.

Worked on a pig farm…where my duties included euthanizing sick pigs. I assumed he would give me a pistol or something. He handed me a hammer.