What was/is your favorite job

[mtmiller]

Top of the morning folks. Just curious what your favorite job has been during your career? It doesn't have to be the highest paying, but could be.

I remember when I was working on the "Chicken Ranch" in NV...wait a minute, I guess I had better post that in the adult section.

Let's hear about some interesting jobs out there.

 

[Elkhunter]

I guess I would have to say the job I have now. I do something different almost on a daily basis. My job one day was to help one of the owners pack out his moose. It just didn't seem like work, more like a great day. Got paid for it, he bought me breakfst before we went, while being on the clock, got overtime and a nice tip on top of it all. I think I like the flexablity of this job also. I set my own hours and have a variety. One day may be plowing and shoveling, the next might be paiting or caulking, the next might be riding around checking on houses, the next day might be doing inspections. After being in the supermarket business for 28 years, this has been a pretty nice change. Not that the supermarkets, the retail or the wholesale end of it, was bad, by no means was it bad. In fact it was downright exciting at times and challenging, but after 28 years, the change has been nice.

 

[1_pointer]

So, far I'm liking what I'm doing now, even more so if they can change the title from Technician to Specialist!

I get to get out and about, have a flexible schedule, make a bit of money, and am trying to make the land better for future generations.

My worst has to be roofing!! That is now fun in 95º and 100% humidity weather.

 

[Ridge Runner]

I would have to say being a charter boat captain. I have got to run some great sportfishing charters in the Hawaiian islands chasing big blue marlin in reverse on a 42ft sportfisher is a kick in the ass

With that came fishing in some of the best big game tournaments then getting to fish with the owner all expenses paid after the tournaments! Also have run sailing charters all up and down the Eastern shore of Australia and throughout the Great Berrier Reef and get paid to do it.Also spent many years building custom homes in Hawaii and California. I enjoy my work and if I didn't it isn't worth doing. I figure as you spend most your life at work so may as well enjoy it. Life is to short to be miserable

Now I'm selling yachts in the Middle East and get to travel back and forth to the factories and boat shows in Europe so that isn't to bad either. Although I would have to say I am a wishin I was still fishin!

Happy trails

 

[2fastnaz]

I'm a network administrator now and it's OK. I have lots of time on my hands and not alot to do.

I think my favorite job was when I drove a street sweeper. 3 nights a week (16 hours a night). The pay was great and so was the time off.

 

[pawclaws]

Fry cook, dishwasher, and waiter at Trace's Drive Inn; Glouster, Ohio. A ten or 12 hour day lasted about 15 minutes!!

Walked from school to work, 1 mile. Then walked from work to home, 3 miles every day except week ends when I got to walk from home twice extra. My boss Ruth gave me my first "Life's lesson"; "If there isn't anything to do, wipe something off!"

1965

 

[Hunterman]

My best job that I had was an E.M.T. in Wrangell, Alaska...We only had 15 square miles of road on the island..Got to see some funny stuff...We got this call one day were a child had a match box car stuck up his nose(he was about 6 years old

)When we got him to the hospital and the doctors got it out,,I asked the father how he got it up there?? Well dad said" he was driving it along his face, like this and his brother hit him in the arm, like this"

BAM Dad hits his own arm and up his nose went the car

The intire E.R. started busting a gut..A self inflicked match box car to the nose

The next best is the job I have now, with the state as a H.V.A.C. Tech. I work at a mental hospital, and like Elkhunter said,,"it something different everyday.."

Hunterman(Tony)

<FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE="1">[ 02-03-2004 08:26: Message edited by: Hunterman ]</font>

 

[wilecoyote76]

I don't know if it was the worst job I ever had but was definitely the most physically demanding job. Right out of high school, I worked at a pumice plant...yep that's right, pumice. Bagging 100 lb. bags of pumice, non-stop, for 8 hours a day, seven days a week. We were fortunate on the days we had 50 pounders but they just came twice as fast as the 100 lb bags. I told myself that I needed to go get an education because that hard labor is for the birds. Now I have a desk job working 12 hour shifts from noon to midnight. It is way better than the days of bagging pumice but cube life with no windows takes a toll after a while.

Wilecoyote76

 

[smalls]

I am now an office rat, but my heart is and always will be on the farm. I grew up in production agriculture and with any luck I will return someday.

 

[Nemont]

Favorite job was working on a custom combining crew in High School. Started cutting wheat in Kansas in June and kept up until we got back to Montana. In 1982 we cut nearly every day for two and half months. Worked all day, partied all night. Did that for a couple of summers.
I do love my job now. Work for myself and love it.
Nemont

 

[Calif. Hunter]

Worst job (if I don't count military service in this) was in the pit in an aluminum foundry, pouring the molten metal into the molds. It was often 150 degrees there, and having to wear all the protective gear made it worse. We'd work straight through the morning, take lunch and then take breaks throughout the afternoon as you could only spend so much time in there. I did sweat off any excess weight, though.

Working in the Dennison's Chili/Chef Boyardee cannery was fun, too. I learned how to make meatballs - in 250 pound batches.

I've had fun, though, at just about every job. Life is what you make it.

 

[Whiskers]

I spent 27 years as a contract lineman. It was a great paying job, and I was all over the country. Either doing upgrades, rebuilds or storm damage. Most jobs lasted 3-5 months. Then on to another. Big drawbacks,no benefits. Never home. I was lucky to get 3-4 hunting days a year in. Starting in 94 the money started to diminish, they were hiring foreigners that would work for a lot less. In 97 I retired from it. I was driving 80 miles round trip to the job site, and was averaging about $60 a day, and things weren't looking anybetter. I updated my CDL and went into transportation. Took me a couple of years to find a good job. But finally got one. This one has its drawbacks too, but it has great bennies.

 

[Gunner46]

Best time I ever had 'working' was when I was one of three USMC Liason Officers, trying to get all the crap back from Saudi, after Desert Storm. Congress pulled the troops back so fast, they never gave any consideration the the logistics of the junk those guys took with them! .

We spent monthes, in mountains of paperwork, but NOBODY had a clue as to what we were doing, and most really want to ask. "Just get it done"!!

If they ever found out the chit we pulled!

Won't mention anything about 12 Whitetails, we took that season, on base. Nor the 'Canadian/ US Bosses Night' at the E-Club.

When it was all said and done, we even got a feakin' medal out of it! "Exceptional professional contribution toward the re-establishment of the Marine Corps Pre-Position Readiness position, throughout the world, under never before encountered circumstances" .

Hey George, Hey Scott, Cpl. Jethro!!! Grab a six-pack, and your shotguns.............

<FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE="1">[ 02-03-2004 16:33: Message edited by: Gunner46 ]</font>

 

[Nemont]

Gunner,
I was a supply Sergeant with B Co. 16th Engineer Bn attached to the the 1st Armored Division (Army). I know what you are talking about. We "misplaced" a Milvans full of equipment and had to figure out how to account for and recover this stuff or our CO was up the big river. Fun time and creative book work made up the entire difference.
Nemont

<FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE="1">[ 02-03-2004 16:46: Message edited by: Nemont ]</font>

 

[Mntman]

best was working for the flagstaff hotshots fighting forest fires for one year.
I was too stupid to resign up and now too old for them to take me.
Worst: working for world resources company as multiple things from equipment operator, sale, lab tech, fire assater, etc...
I learned a lot about different things and how to do different jobs and about the backstabbing of office politics while working under an ex-military person.
Unemployed now and waiting until we sell the house and move before looking for another job.

 

[chas031]

MTM,
Well, there was skindiver for Roto-rooter!! NAH!!
Got to be the one I have now and forever. I work seven months out of the year, my lay-off comes 15 days after the bow season starts and lasts through the thaw. So, I get to hunt all seasons full-time, I make enough to afford to hunt two states with a special hunt every two or three years and when I work I work with two of the easiest going guys around who understand it's ALL about hunting!! Oh and BTW I work outside al day landscaping and don't work in the rain.

Chas

 

[scottymack]

Worst job would have to be a tanker washer. We washed fuel tankers 10 hours a day during the summer. Well it gets to about 108 here sometimes and standing on top of those shiny rigs is no fun.

Best job has to be a Bill Collector, I hear all sorts of stories about why someone can't pay and I have to admit that some are very creative

 

[JLG]

I guess my worst job was a sales tax auditor for the city of Phx. I wasn't D--- enough to take pleasure in busting the B---- of hard working people that gave little thought to how fast City sales tax could add up if not dealt with properly.
My best job is the one I have now. I work for my best friend. We work for a large company, but he is a superstar in our organization. I do the best job I can for him and he watches out for me. At the City of Phx. I was on the way wrongside of the political fence, so I really appreciate being on the other side.
I get to travel, in my job. I spent 2001 in Oregon. I mostly travel in Az. but I love getting out of Phx. and the rest of the state is nice. Usually, find a way to turn an out of town trip into a hunting, fishing or golf adventure for me and the guys that are working for me. We did a 6 week job in Colorado City Az. in Dec. & Jan. We hunted every free day we had. That makes work fun, when your company picks up lodging, food and fuel. It's fun to take my younger guys on these trips, cause usually they're straped for cash and it's something they wouldn't get to do otherwise. Makes for some pretty good team building.
I install voice and data wiring for LAN's. It's been good to me. Good Luck, JLG.

 

[cjcj]

My Favorite job was working for Sperry Flight Systems as a Manufacturing Eng. I worked in the machine shop, processing jobs,tool design,etc. I met some of my hunting partners there, to bad the aerospace industry took dive, the job only lasted 6 months,I also sold cars for 6 months and it was fun, but i did not like the way they deceived people, worse job i had was as a welder.

 

[jimmyd223]

I spent 28 of my working years owning dump trucks with the last several hauling Haz Mat into Mountain home, Id, didn't want that damn stuff in Washington

I sold the business and semi-retired, bought a home in Yuma,Az spent two weeks there and came out of retirement and have been chasin the natural gas pipeline around the country for the last 4 years.

<FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE="1">[ 02-03-2004 20:29: Message edited by: jimmyd223 ]</font>