[Adam Y.]

You guys think is bad. I found someone who had it much worst. He was homeless but ended up getting hired as an engineer because of an idea he had while he was homeless. http://www.history channel.com/invent/?page=semifinalists_westcott

Everyone needs to start with a scut job that they take seriously. I had to do a really large number of disgusting things as a box boy at Albertson's back at the dawn of time, but one of the ones that really stands out in my mind is the time a clerk knocked over a stack of 1-quart jars of kosher dill pickles. You haven't lived until you've cleaned up 28 quarts of pickles mixed with broken glass. (Of course, broken mustard and mayonnaise jars are harder to clean up, but I never had to deal with 28 quarts of mayonnaise.)

I've actually done worst at Target but I won't go into the disgusting details. Also, no amount of cleaning can compare to the realization that everything you did last week at work needs to be done again. I was so happy that the data I processed for this experiment was almost done until I realized the data was bad. Then me and my boss proceeded to introduce a ground loop after trying to figure out what happened which also affected the measurments until he fixed that three hours later. A mad dash resulted in me and someone else doing about 60 hrs worth of measurements in six days (Wow that is really quite cool). As I'm typing samples are being measured on this lovely Sunday afternoon.