[rudasn]

I've done 2 factory jobs in my teens. One I was making pillows and the other books, magazines, papers etc (this was late 90s, early 00s).

I also did retail (at a department store) and door to door sales (children's books).

By far, the most soul crushing and difficult were the factory ones. 7.30am-3pm, Mon-Fri. If I wasn't at work I was either too tired to do anything, or sleeping having nightmares about the job.

However, the nicest, friendliest, and most helpful people I had ever worked with (incl. later in life as a software engineer), were the ones working at those factories. They had a unique mentality that really helped me see things differently.