Foo - The Best Job You Ever Had?

Door to door sales?
Telemarketer?
Doctor?
Lawyer?
Gardner?
My dad says his favorite job was when he was a bell hop on a train back in Minnesota. He's a retired college professor.

Being in a country/rock band playing little ***** tonks in NM, Colorado, Texas and Oklahoma. :)

From my limited experience, I must say getting paid to check e-mail is pretty cool. 6.5 years later, it still doesn't get old. :)


Gardner?
You mean our forum janitor? Or a gardener? :p

Interning for the Technology Department of my school.

I get a ID Card like the teachers, a NYS teachers pension plan, and an "advanced" minumum wage of $7.15/hour!

Pwnage!

Blow

Blow

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I managed a boat rental company. Was heading out of town to work at the lake when everyone else was heading into town to work. Wore shorts, tank top and sandals to work. Jet skied in my free time. Learned to sail. Made tons of friends, many of whom where bartenders, so I never paid for drinks during that time. Maintained the boats in the winter, so it was year round employment. Just did not pay quite enough or I would still be there.

Lifeguard back in college.

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I come here all the time. ;)

Land Surveyor

Produce warehouse. :)

Trainer for a large trucking company. Paid $95K a year and all I had to do was climb in a truck with a totally inexperienced driver and keep him from killing us!:eek:

Working on F-15 weapons systems was cool, and I got to see some fairly ****ty places. Oddly enough perhaps the most fun job I ever had was working at a gas station in high school. Was a regular old station with both self and full service, with older pumps that had to be reset by key after each transaction. Got to meet a lot of very different people every day, and got to flirt, a lot.

My job. Out of an average 20 day work day month, I work 15, and even then, not full days. Still manage to support my family, and my kids expensive MTB habits (or, maybe addictions), but, that said, I did do the 9-5 corporate thing until they drove me nuts!

When I was 16, I made $20/hr working the 9-5 + $6/hr to play with the equipment at home teaching teachers from small towns in texas to use laptops and palm pilots. Oh yeah, and the teachers brought me cookies.

Being the 2nd shift manager of a big retail hobby chain store. I was good at it, I got everything at cost plus 10% and it was a super fun job. The owner treated me great...too bad there wasn't enough money in it to make a living. Working in a bike shop would be the same way I think.

My best job ever, huh? I guess it was when I . . . no, that job kind of sucked. Then I guess it must have been when I worked as a . . . no, that job sucked, too.

Can I get back to you on that one?

I think mine would have to have been as a substitute computer teacher for 6-8 year-old kids at the summer program of an international school in Hong Kong. It was fun, the kids were great, and I was getting paid US$60 an hour! It was even better for me because the Canadian dollar was doing particularly badly at the time. Unfortunately, I only worked half-days, and only for three weeks...

Interesting how the best jobs so far are the ones paid the most at.

I loved teaching college classes - got paid next to nothing but I absolutely LOVE teaching. I'll teach again after this stupid paper is done...

Being a father. Long hours, great job satisfaction.

I worked full time at a horse farm. It was pretty low paying, but I loved being around the horses. I also felt that I got paid to exercise. I was in pretty good shape: lifting hay bales, lugging water buckets, leading horses all over the place, mucking out stalls. This farm had a few baby horses every year and I enjoyed working with them. I got to train some of them too.

Interesting how the best jobs so far are the ones paid the most at.

I loved teaching college classes - got paid next to nothing but I absolutely LOVE teaching. I'll teach again after this stupid paper is done...

My teaching job was fun -- the money was icing on the cake. Lots and lots of icing...

Doing it now.
I teach 7th through 12th grade at a little private school.
I have taught in the Navy, been a firefighter (second best job) EMT, Vallet, ride operator at a N.J. resort. on and on.........................
One more. I was a rescue swimmer in Guam, got to swim every day as part of my job..
Steven

Fork lift operator and car loader at Lowe's in the Garden center during the summer in Florida...you wouldn't think it is such a great job...but despite the heat, heavy lifting, and low pay...there are benefits galore...women love the garden center...and all day long i got to look at beautiful women...also it was a mental break from my normal college routine of Biomedical Engineering (read...lots of math and hard stuff)...i got to turn my brain completely off as long as i didn't run over anyone with a forklift

I was a TA for a summer program--day camp sort of thing-- for kids with autism. It was the most fun ever, as all we did was take them on field trips, interact with them, and make sure they were safe. The amazing thing was seeing all the different disorders that got lumped into the category "autism". The only kids that were anything alike were siblings... and even then not so much. I found that I was especially drawn to the nonverbal kids. A lot of the time it seemed like they were completely disconnected from everything, but now and then there'd be something huge to let you know that they might be experiencing life in their own way, but they had a lot going on inside.
I miss those kids.

My best job ever, huh? I guess it was when I . . . no, that job kind of sucked. Then I guess it must have been when I worked as a . . . no, that job sucked, too.

Can I get back to you on that one?
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It depends. Most of the jobs I've had have been great in one form or another, and all of them have sucked in one form or another.

Driving delivery for an industrial laundry while in HS was fun, because I went in at noon, worked until 7 or 8 or 9, then was able to go out drinking with friends afterwards. But the pay was crap (barely over minimum) and the delivery van only had an AM radio and didn't have A/C.

Working for a music retailer was cool because I got free CDs & cheap DVDs, free concert tickets, I got to meet bands/singers (Tweet, Bowling For Soup, Jamie Richards, Don Henley), and I got to listen to music all day. The pay and hours sucked.

My current job pays OK, and the hours are good. My duties are easy and I can walk to work. When it's slow I can surf the 'net. I can also use the printers for personal stuff, so long as it's not a huge amount. What sucks is the fact that the shop is in the basement of the building in downtown Dallas, so we get no radio reception, and they keep the room temperature around 55°, so my hands are constantly cold.

Pharmacy delivery...did it by bike. Spent an entire summer riding around town and got paid for it, plus tips on top of that. Learned every shortcut, how to time all the lights, made friends with tons of locals and knew by the hour where all the best chicas liked to catch their rays.

It used to be when I was a night janitor with a friend. Completely stress-free and very easy to do a great job if you're not functionally brain dead (our floors were ****ing immaculate, I tells ya!). Now it's the job I'm currently doing. Very little tedium, the people I work with are great, never the same project twice, decent pay - at least compared to what I was making before.

Underwater archaeologist...mostly in the Hudson river and New York Harbor, but hey! Dead mafia bodies and ninja crabs!

Underwater archaeologist...mostly in the Hudson river and New York Harbor, but hey! Dead mafia bodies and ninja crabs!
What about when you were the hostess at "Bigfeet Eboo's House of Exlpody Crabs"?

Best job ever was as a favour to a friend I was a male escort for they day..

Actually, I change my answer to when I was whipping boy/Explody Crap Exploding Tank Cleaner at "Bigfeet Eboo's House of Explody Crabs".

And the gender of your "friend", not that it matters? ;)

What about when you were the hostess at "Bigfeet Eboo's House of Exlpody Crabs"?

Dammit...yeah, I think I have to change my answer too. I'll never forget that early morning with the bucket of breading and a couple of fry baskets...

Dammit...yeah, I think I have to change my answer too. I'll never forget that early morning with the bucket of breading and a couple of fry baskets...
Ya'll should reopen and start serving breakfast. I am hungry. I promise to stay off the dancer pole this time if you will just reopen and fry me up a tall stack of crab pancakes.

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Easiest? Ice cream truck driver. *ding ding!*

Funnest? A hacker for a network security company. I'd spend all day getting paid by companies to break in to their networks. Then, I'd show them how I did it and how to keep someone else from doing it. Of course there was also a ton of paperwork, writing legalese computer use policies, and typing up massive reports for upper management. That part was a drag.

The one I miss the most? Working as a UNIX system administrator at the local community college. I worked my way up to that position in five years (I was there almost nine years total). I got to play with new things in my downtime, and I was a god among men there. I was always looked up to, always asked for advice, and my input rarely fell on deaf ears. I was making good money for being a part-timer, but I needed full time work.

Adrenaline rush? Working for a start-up .com company called Kozoru (which is no longer around). Long hours, tough deadlines, but my co-workers were all geniuses and we really meshed. It was amazing to see what happens when a dozen guys put forth 100% effort, not leaving the office at all basically for a week straight. It is possible to put in 100 hours in a week.

And the gender of your "friend", not that it matters? ;)

HAHA, no my worked for a high class escort agency, and this wealthy lady needed a scottish escort for the evening, the agency had no one to fit the description, my friend Angie phoned me and asked if I would do it.

I had a blast!!

I spent two summers selling beer at a single-A minor league baseball stadium in northern NJ. I didn't even have to go into the stands, we had kegs in garbage cans, filled with ice and connected to CO2 cannisters. If I closed down shop quick enough after the 7th inning, I could beat all the traffic and the tips were nice because everyone was happy not paying double than they would have at Shea or Yankee Stadiums.

Asbestos removal. That job was the best. Great people and great pay.

Great splinter lungs.

Great splinter lungs.

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yeah whatever. Not that I care.

I would say my current job. I am the president of a company who's primary mission is reforestation. Because of this I get to acquire land - lots of it, ride around it on horse, meet very interesting people.

Very satisfying because I feel we are actually doing something good for the planet instead of just raping it for a change.

Drop in the fact that I get to live in a tropical paradise and ride year round without snow - well, there ain't much not to like.

Okay - I hate ants - but that is about it.

I got to assist/backup on a Playboy shoot once, that was fun. Another time, I got a free tux for escorting some barbies down the runway at a friend's fashion-show in L.A. If these jobs would actually pay the bills, I'd be doing it all the time.

artist. it's a real kick when you do something you are proud of, and somebody else likes it enough to buy it.

I also kinda liked the job I had taking stream samples (basically panning for gold) for a geologist in the carolinas.

other than that, my current job is pretty great. I'm a lucky dude.

I can't think of a job I've ever had that I didn't like.

Even the crappiest job can be fun if you have the right attitude.

Musician (High on cool factor and crazy hours)
Artist (make your own hours)
Service station attendant (learned a lot about auto mechanics)
Bus Boy (free meals)
Security Guard (got to carry weapons)

A job I turned down?
$1000 to drive a truck from San Ysidro to Los Angeles.
2 hours work per job.
Average of three "jobs" a week.
No questions. Show up, drive, leave truck where you're told.

Worked on the safety\fire crew at a couple of local oval dirt tracks many years ago. It was a blast being so close to the races and then sitting around having a few cold ones with everyone afterward.

Jsharr's Merkin wrangler