Winner of Worst Summer Job Contest!

Congrats to Dana, she has won a $100 American Express Gift Card from our "Worst Summer Job" contest and frankly I think she deserves it after the summer job she had. I could not help but feel pity on her. Here is what she wrote:

"Y'all need to quit whining, I had the worst summer job! In college I changed my major to from engineering to biology, and that summer I got a job working in a small research lab. I should have been a little more clear regarding the kind of research that they were doing before I started. Their research grants were all based on diagnosing different diseases using fecal smears! YES, I spend the summer using popsicle sticks to smear various kinds of poop (dog, cat, human...) onto different culture slides...not to mention poop assays...and the worst was the dog poop that came from the pound...gross, full of plastic baggies and all sorts of weird things that stray dogs eat. Now we did all of this in a hood...but it still smelled to high heaven. The only good thing that came out of that summer, is that when the time came to have kids, nothing that they could do to me would be any worse than what I had already been through."

When I babysat I felt sick cleaning the cute little baby's bottom full of poop, but that was like what maybe twice in 5 hours, where this poor girl was doing it for what I presume was an 8huor work day. I don't think anyone could pay me enough to sit there that long and do that kind of work. ICK.

In all sincerity hats off to you Dana, now whenever I make the drive up to Palo Alto and pass all the farms and cringe my nose, I shall think of how you dealt with that smell the whole summer. Way to leave a mark on me. :)

For all the rest of you, thank you for entering and look out for more contests in the near future!