What was your favorite job & why?

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efeezy

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Ok, aside from all you who do IM related stuff full time, because we all know there's no better job than that, what was the best job you've ever had and why was it so damn great?

For me, it was probably my first job, which was at a start up wholesale grocery store here in town (like Smart & Final). I was about 16 when I started there. The company was brand new and everyone who worked there was cool as hell. My managers were young and they hired hot chicks as checkers/baggers.

I was making something like $8.00 and hour, which was huge for back then. All my other friends in HS who worked made min. wage, so with the hours I worked I killed it.

Even with all the money I made in the car business over the years, I still can say that job was my favorite. It was a lot of hard work actually, but fun as hell.
 


Disneyland. Worked a few rides (yes, I was a Jungle Cruise skipper, no autographs, please), met a ton of people, never dreaded going to work. I was actually thinking of maybe returning to work there once or twice a week just for the hell of it. I'll probably never do it....but it's fun to think about.

Come to think of it, I remember a couple people that worked there just for the fun/social/awesome aspects. I even remember hearing about a woman that worked in one of the shops on Main St who was some sort of loaded widow who had her driver drop her off at work every day. Haha.
 
Never had a job, true story. Started IM at 16 and have been doing it ever since.
 
Also worked at a theme park. What a great summer. Girls, girls, girls. All the jobs for rides were taken so had to work in food and beverage. Totally disgusting what goes on behind the counter in one of those places. Couldn't eat out for almost a year. But it was all worth it because there was always girls, girls, girls. You might say I got to work in "rides" anyway.
 
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Also worked at a theme park. What a great summer. Girls, girls, girls. All the jobs for rides were taken so had to work in food and beverage. Totally disgusting what goes on behind the counter in one of those places. Couldn't eat out for almost a year. But it was all worth it because there was always girls, girls, girls. You might say I got to work in "rides" anyway.
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Haha yeah I originally applied when I was only 16 and they told me since I wasn't 18 I wouldn't be able to work in attractions so they'd have to put me in foods...so I just waited a few more years!
 
USAF. I thought it sucked at the time, but it was the easiest job I ever had hands down. Made a lot of great friends, had no real responsibility outside of not being a fuck up and showing up for work in uniform. My AFSC was pretty technical so it kept things interesting. I also think it had a decent sized part of shaping me into the person I am today. I served during peace time though, it might totally suck now.
 
I used to operate one of these:

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Shit was pretty fun. We had a lot of down time because of blastings and such, so we would drag race them, or just find a long stretch of road and see how fast we could get them up to. OSHA would have shit a brick.
 
Teaching in France. The gov't paid half my rent, doctor's visit +meds cost 1€, great food/drink, banged french girls, worked 12hours/week, 2 weeks vacation every 6 weeks. I did it for two years and it was perfect! Pay was shit, but I did some SE3 stuff on the side
 
Tech Support and then SysAdmin at a local ISP in Cleveland, OH. Sat on 6 different backbones (T1s and T3s), and everyone was super cool. Had free colocation.

Why I waited until 10 years later to start an Internet Business, I'll NEVER know. I could have absolutely killed it back then.
 
I still work on\off for a mates dad who is an IT contractor, primarily with banks. He basically calls me up or sends me a text saying need you to go to a bank branch at <insert suburb> to replace a monitor cable or patch a new data port etc.. simple stuff. I get paid for time I spend driving on top of the actual work. At one job a major retail company was doing a rollout of new PC's and I scored 5 decent laptops that were just going to be scrapped.

My mates dad the contractor makes a fortune, he does most of the work himself, works about 120 hours a week, and gets $80 an hour. He's an extremely nice guy too. I do wonder though.. he works so much, all day 7 days a week.. when is he going to enjoy the money he has made.
 
Worked as a mod for a chat room for some large telco's for a while, in terms of money and how relaxed it was it was pretty damn good then we all got outsourced ha ha
 
lifetime interviews: 7

job offers: 6

jobs accepted: 6

jobs i worked longer than 3 days: 1

which was being a lifeguard at the ymca...
 
I was a lowly dishwasher at a hotel/banquet center when I was about 19. However, almost every one of my friends worked there in some form or fashion. My whole crew ran the place - cooks, busboys, maintenance, bartender, front desk - we all ran together from high school so it was like getting paid to bullshit with your friends all day. The best part was, we would do banquets almost every day for the auto industry, insurance companies, universities etc, and they would always order like 80 prime rib dinners, lobster tails, filets, etc - but only 50 people would show up so we would end up feasting on that shit all day long. The icing on the cake - my best friend was a maintenance guy in there so he had access to all the rooms. We would just call bitches up to the hotel all day every day and get pussy in the penthouse. Ate like a king, fucked like a king - I don't even remember what they paid me because I probably would have worked there for free.
 
working at abercrombie as a model, greeting people.

pros - lots of hot girls working there, everybody's cool.

cons - listen to loud ass music all fucking day long, fold clothes.
 
Working at the family business.

couldnt get fired! lulz

got to drive a forklift and arc weld and destroy stuff all day long. was fun learning skills like that but nothing beats inet jobs.
 
Truck driver. 18 wheels across the country. Drove tanker, reefers and flatbed. It was a lot of fun waking up in different places all the time. Been to 48 states (drove truck in 47 of them) 2 Canadian provinces, and almost 1,000,000 miles driven.

It's been 6 years since I've driven a big truck, but I still think about it / talk about it all the time. Stories, omg, I have stories from trucking.
 
Hated all of them.

Was dishwasher, janitor, room cleaning service lol, and some odd tough physical jobs.

To think of it, the army was most interesting but I went there purely out of curiosity as my internet marketing stuff was already taking off and I didn't need the money.
 
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