The Best Jobs You've Had?

[Padawanbater2]

Got a thread about the jobs you'd never do, so howbout the ones you've done and loved?

I've never had a job that didn't feel like a job, all the jobs I've had I've only stayed for the paycheck and in some cases the people. Never had a job I actually liked going to... Maybe this thread will help..

Also interested in hearing about the reason you left the wonderful job you loved?

 

[elenor.rigby]

I LOVED THIS JOB...i was sub contracting for the british army, as a civilian chef. i have made several trips to germany from the uk, contracts ranging from 2 weeks to 5 months. the work was non existant most of the time, maybe opening 3 tins of beans or steaming 3 trays of veg, all day to earn my £120 per day. (taxpayer funded of course).we were there to fill a gap in the system, when clearly we never needed to be there. needlesS to say i stuck it out. germany is beautiful in winter, very cold and snowy, and hot and sunny in the summer. happy days, only about 50p/$1 for a beer... pished........great job, but a little guilty for being part of the great 21st century taxpayer scam....

 

[Carne Seca]

I worked for a newspaper in the advertising department. Because of the vast area involved we had to go on road trips to sell ads. My boss (bless her little pea pickin' heart) would come out of her office and yell, "ROAD TRIP" and pack us into her car. We ended up in the damndest places. She was funny as hell and loved spending time with us. Best boss I've ever had. She had the highest sustained increase in revenue in that company's history. Brilliant woman. Anyway, excellent job until it was bought out and we were laid off.

 

[canuckgrow]

Judging the Misss Nude Canada Contest back in about '89.....Got Paid in beer.

 

[cannabisguru]

Best job I ever had in my life.. was actually a very hard job. But the pay was incredible.. especially for me because I was only 20 years old at the time I got the job.

The oil field. Yep! I worked for an oil field company for 3 years. I was 20 years old when I started and I was 23 almost 24 when I got laid-off from the job. I had everything any 20 year old could dream of having man. I was making right under 65k/year man.. that may not sound like much to some of you people around here.. but let me tell you, when your 20 years old.. and bringing in a little over $5,000.00 per month.. yeah, that's a lot of money! I had more money than I knew what to do with to be honest.

So, after about 9 months of work on the job.. and saving.. I started to splurge and buy myself a couple of toys that I've always wanted but could never afford. I bought myself a 1999 BMW M3 (E36). That car was a fucking BEAST! It had never been wrecked.. had the factory 'Techno Purple' paint; Inline 3.2Litre V6 with a stage 2 aftermarket turbo kit with custom intercooler; Blacked out windows all the way around; Custom fabricated 'TUBI' exhaust off a 599 GTB Ferrari; Drivers Information Center; 5-speed factory transmission with an aftermarket 'Stage #2' clutch; Factory white/cream leather seating both front & rear with M3 stitching/piping; Factory M3 leather steering wheel that also had the M3 stitching/piping; Factory moon-roof (not a sunroof.. but a moonroof); aftermarket H.I.D. kit for both driving lights and fog-lights; 19x10 custom BMW racing wheels setup in the rear and 18x9 in the front.

I miss that car like you wouldn't believe. Was a fucking blast to take out on my days off and just hit the highway and leave all my worries behind.. man oh man that car was a blast.

My second toy.. was a 4-wheeler. I had always wanted one but could never afford one.. not even a good slightly used one. At the time though, I had enough money to walk into any ATV dealership in the city.. and buy whatever 4wheeler I wanted.. and that's exactly what I did. Went into the Suzuki dealership here in town.. and within 30 minutes I was walking out of the showroom with my brand new 4-wheeler. I was so proud of myself and excited.. I thought I had finally found what I was going to do for the rest of my life.. I "thought" it was what I was going to do for the rest of my life.. little did I know I would be laid-off 2 years later.

I had a credit score that was up in the mid 700's... which went to shit after I got laid off because I could no longer afford the payment on the BMW. Which completely broke my heart. The car had become like a family member to me.. you know? I absolutely loved that car.. and I treated it like it was a human-being. Well, unfortunately I got laid-off and my car got repossessed by the bank that loaned me the 14k for the car. I was actually in tears when the repo man showed up the morning it got repossessed. I just hope it ended up with a loving and caring owner like myself.. and wound up in a good home.. that's all I can hope for.

As for my 4wheeler.. I still got her. Only reason I still have her is because I paid it off the day I bought it at the dealership. It was $5700.00 plus tax which brought the final price just over $6,000.00 so I just paid for it in cash the morning I bought it.. that way I didn't have to worry about the monthly payments.

But I'd give up the 4wheeler any day of the week at any given time.. just to have my M3 back. UUUgggghhhh.

But what can ya do eh? I was young at the time and making more money than most people's parents do.. and I had no concept of how to save money at the time.. but believe me, I do now. It was a hard lesson to learn.. and an expensive one, but I learned from it. It is what it is you know? Nothing I can do about it now.

Anyhow, if any of you younger kids around here are looking for a job that pays really good and has excellent insurance/benefits/retirement plans?? I'd look into the oil-fields. There are quite a few oil companies you can work for: Schlumberger; Haliburton; Superior Wells (the one I worked for).. and many others.

The work is fairly tough and the hours are extremely long.. but the pay is just incredible and def. worth the hard work and long hours. Whenever I say long hours.. I mean just that my friend. I remember times when I would work 90 to 110 hours per week (7 day work week). That's the other thing you'll have to get use to.. the 7 day work week. Also, for me.. even on my days/nights off, I was still 'On Call' - meaning that I could still get called in even on my days or nights off.. and I got called in quite often.. but its more money in the pocket ya know?

So yeah, I'd say that was the best job I've ever had.

peace.

 

[puffenuff]

I did some contracts over at Google a couple years back. I never wanted to leave...free cafeteria buffets each with different menus...breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Onsite gyms and laundry service. Bikes to ride from building to building. Nerf wars would break out randomly throughout the day. Classic video games like centipede and joust in the lobbies, and the toilet seats were heated with built in bodets. I miss that place, but where I am now kicks ass too so I can't complain.

 

[mcpurple]

i just got a new job on a farm
i love this job, it is what i have aways wanted to do and plan on doing for a very long time. i get paid to do what i love, witch is landscaping/and farming, i get to plant,harvest, and fertilize all the plants on the farm. i love it. its the best job in the world for me, and is really gonna help out with future career plans.

oh ya i forgot to add my boss brings me beer while im working and also no UA

 

[jonblaze420]

Working at a movie theatre as an usher is my fondest memory of my long line of jobs, second comes in as landscaping I guess. Pretty bad when the second fondest memory of a job you have was busting your ass digging for 10 hours a day in the hot sun. Guess the people you work with are as important as the job itself sometimes.

 

[obijohn]

Working on-air in radio. Fun as hell, and for part of my career I worked overnights, so I had the whole building to myself

 

[Winter Woman]

I cleaned the love shack for the CEO of a global conglomerate, believe me, you would know his name. Loved the place, looked like heaven on earth. Lost the job when he divorced his wife and married this one.

 

[wiseguy316]

best job i ever has was a blow job , and this job is pretty nice too. make my own hours, light schedule is a bitch though...lol

 

[obijohn]

best job i ever has was a blow job , and this job is pretty nice too. make my own hours, light schedule is a bitch though...lol

best answer ever!

 

[Big P]

i never had a job i liked either


but i once worked at a place testing curciut boards. pay was shitty and the bosses were assholes dumber than rocks mostly and a mostly urban / ethnic workforce which they always rushed around and talked down too



I came in like 5 min late once and the boss was like "WTF!!!! YOUR LATE!!"


i was like ....aaaaaaaaaaa?


I thought he was kidding at first for real lol but this little fuck was dead serious lol, what an asshole


anyway all day you would test a curcuit boards and put it in the bin if it passed. the testing process would take about 25 min per board or somthing I cant remember anymore


so I would churn out boards ASAP you know the work was great for me, just pop out like 14 boards and you done for the day,

4 days a week 3 days off per week


man if could get weekends off and wednesdays off life would be grand lol


ill work 10 hours on the 4 days per week to put in my 40 for the week ofcoarse

 

[Big P]

but ya the best job is growin weed lets be honest

but ima try my hand at legit shit first if I can swing it

 

[dannyboy602]

I was estate gardener for five years. took care of tropicals and orchids and fourteen acres in million dollar zip code. didnt do any lawn work. had a huge veg garden with asparagus and rasberries and tomatoes. when they were away which was most of the time, i brought friends and fam and partied and swam in the pool with a floating cooler of beer. even my golden was there. he liked jumping off the diving board.

 

[Spoc]

I used to work for a company specializing in set construction. We built sets for the movie Amastad and podiums for NCAA Basketball all the way down to elaborate product launches. All expenses paid including herb and Alcohol. Got to see alot of cool things behind the scenes and it really didn't feel like work at all. Was making a good living and pay was under the table. It finally came to an end when the company relocated to Texas.

 

[stephaniesloan]

when i was in school in the late 70s i used to work in a 9 pin bowling alley.
it was not mechanised, so we had to sit in the skittle area and when the skittles got knocked down we had to pick them up, we pressed a pedal that pushed up nine pins from under the floor and the skitttles had holes underneath and you picked them up then held them from the top and slid them forward and sat them on the pins, there was a ball return system at the side that you put the ball on and it ran back to the bowlers with a little shove, we also had to write the scores on a blackboard with chalk, we got paid £5 a night which is about $8.14 but things were cheaper then, a packet of 20 cigarettes was about £1 and now they are £7 so the equivalent would be £35 about $57 a night now, considering kids got about £4 for delivering newspapers all week, we used to work 7pm till 10pm so a small fortune was made considering i was only fourteen, but we had to work fast as the bowlers went a lot quicker at taking their shot, now they have to wait on the slow mechanised machine picking them up on the 10 pin alley.
what i remember most about this place was that everything was made of natural timber and looked beautiful even the skittles, and there was carpet bowls too, today, its all about plastics and computers.
and the bowling place is still there to this day and used daily, although, i am presuming it has been modernised, i have passed it thousands of times but i have not been in there for 31 years.

 

[rowlman]

about 10 years ago when bussiness was booming,a few buddys and I ( all Bricklayers ) started our own company and were bricking 1 house after another...all the work we wanted, and the money was great. We worked long hours, but we laughed all day, drank at night, had no 'real' boss to answer to...we kicked ass, had fun, and made a shit load of cash for a few years...then the economy went to shit and we all joined the Union ...the money was good, but the fun was over

 

[dirtsurfr]

when i was in school in the late 70s i used to work in a 9 pin bowling alley.
it was not mechanised, so we had to sit in the skittle area and when the skittles got knocked down we had to pick them up, we pressed a pedal that pushed up nine pins from under the floor and the skitttles had holes underneath and you picked them up then held them from the top and slid them forward and sat them on the pins, there was a ball return system at the side that you put the ball on and it ran back to the bowlers with a little shove, we also had to write the scores on a blackboard with chalk, we got paid £5 a night which is about $8.14 but things were cheaper then, a packet of 20 cigarettes was about £1 and now they are £7 so the equivalent would be £35 about $57 a night now, considering kids got about £4 for delivering newspapers all week, we used to work 7pm till 10pm so a small fortune was made considering i was only fourteen, but we had to work fast as the bowlers went a lot quicker at taking their shot, now they have to wait on the slow mechanised machine picking them up on the 10 pin alley.
what i remember most about this place was that everything was made of natural timber and looked beautiful even the skittles, and there was carpet bowls too, today, its all about plastics and computers.
and the bowling place is still there to this day and used daily, although, i am presuming it has been modernised, i have passed it thousands of times but i have not been in there for 31 years.

Old fart alert LOL or you just lived in a backwoods kinda place maybe??

My favorite job was renting boats out at the lake.

 

[wayno30]

work is for people aint got no hustle