What was your favorite job?

Dallas_Cowboys50 said:
I hated it at the time, but looking back the only job I truly miss was being a security guard at a brand new hospital (back in 2005). Got access to just about anywhere I wanted to go while "patrolling"...spent alot of time on the roof and on a few of the levels that hadnt been completed yet, the old hospital connected to the new with a "sky bridge"...and riding around in our lil golf cart everywhere lol, ah what a moron I was for thinking that was too boring of a job lol.....My first job was a Taco bell, dont miss the work part, but literally all of us who worked there hung out outside of work, even our shift managers...after midnight when the store was closed (back in 2002 when they didnt all stay open 24/7 lol) alot of times we'd all go down there to get drinks and food when we had the munchies, I used to make Grilled stuft burritos with double everything and theyd be 3x fatter than chipotle burritos lmao, good times....
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It sounds to me like we would get along just fine :) I was a shift lead at Taco Bell, unfortunately we were open 24 hours, just glad I missed most of the breakfast stuff(I once mistook a bag of nacho cheese for eggs), and that New fried chicken taco shell looks like a nightmare.
 
DFWJC said:
When I'm on the right project, I actually really like my career job as a geoscientist.

But while I was in college, my summer job for 3 years was as an ocean lifeguard on an island off the coast of North Carolina.
Those were some pretty amazing summers!
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I can imagine! I have to admit along with my umm male birth control, I'd be fishing or crabbing, I just would not be able to help myself, I can see myself right now yelling at these poor people, "hey! watch that line kiddo!" I wouldn't have lasted long...
 
Programmer at a startup. Work any hours I want. Work from home whenever I want. Unlimited paid vacation. Everyone at my office has a similar personality (only 6 of us) and goes out drinking together. Only problem is none of us root for the same team. We have a Cowboys fan (me), Steelers fan, Bears fan, Commanders fan, Texans fan and Seahawks fan.
 
In the 80s, while I was still in high school, I was a sheet metal helper in my grandfather's shop. Being able to work beside my dad, uncle, and grandfather in the summer and on Saturdays was probably the best time of my life.

I got to know my family better than I would have any other way. It also taught me how to be humble and work hard. I also learned that taking more time to do something right is better than rushing and doing something half baked.
 
negativecreep said:
What was your favorite job? Mine was without a doubt being a prep cook/ line cook at an assisted living facility. Met some really wise people and it made me happy to do whatever I could to make them happy. I just recently had a commercial fishing job opportunity open up, I want it, but that leaves my mom alone in this house with limphoma, I'm just trying to decide. Anyway, yeah I'd be interested in what you all like to do.
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Building high availability Internet Infrastructure.
 
negativecreep said:
I can imagine! I have to admit along with my umm male birth control, I'd be fishing or crabbing, I just would not be able to help myself, I can see myself right now yelling at these poor people, "hey! watch that line kiddo!" I wouldn't have lasted long...
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:laugh:

Lots of eye candy at times.

It was a hard job to get, for sure. Hundreds of applicants from all over North America for just a few slots. National Park Service ocean lifeguards in a part of the Atlantic where the surf can get pretty huge. Besides the normal certifications, they required a timed 3 mile beach run followed by a mile long ocean swim. Pretty hard core.

Mostly, because the ocean is much calmer in summer, it was pretty sweet.

The barrier island is over 70 miles long with just a few protected swim areas....so there were drownings when it got big.
An NC State football player drowned a few miles down the beach....sad stuff. Nobody drowned intne protected areas though.

Now...back to the girls before we get depressed.
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DFWJC said:
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Lots of eye candy at times.

It was a hard job to get, for sure. Hundreds of applicants from all over North America for just a few slots. National Park Service ocean lifeguards in a part of the Atlantic where the surf can get pretty huge. Besides the normal certifications, they required a timed 3 mile beach run followed by a mile long ocean swim. Pretty hard core.

Mostly, because the ocean is much calmer in summer, it was pretty sweet.

The barrier island is over 70 miles long with just a few protected swim areas....so there were drownings when it got big.
An NC State football player drowned a few miles down the beach....sad stuff. Nobody drowned intne protected areas though.

Now...back to the girls before we get depressed.
:dance:
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Love to talk about the ladies, i used to be 264 lbs. incredibly depressed after my high school sweetheart broke up with me over the phone after 3 years for a **** wannabe with a nasty heroin habit(he actually tried to smother her with a pillow while she was pregnant with twins, hit her a lot), I saw him at a pool hall not a week ago, and my best friend had to calm me down, sucks but I still love her. I have since lost 80 lbs and she's on her third husband, guess who's getting the attention now. It's nice to be back in the swing of things and have my confidence back:) dating a really sweet Russian girl now. She's my world.
 
I never had a favorite job...but l did apply once for the Whisky Taster for Quality Control at the Bushmills distillery. Never heard back !!:).
 
DallasEast said:
Oddly enough, my favorite job was one I worked back when I was 20, stupid, and financially and economically naive. I was a Domino's pizza delivery guy. Yep. I was that nut driving like a bat outta Hades in that small Chevrolet T-1000 (do they even make that car anymore?) with the huge freaking ugly not-very-aerodynamic sign strapped on top. It's nothing like driving all over town without a care in the world, delivering cardboard food that customers actually wanted and TIPPED for, kicking back between deliveries and stuffing myself with that same cardboard BUT free food. It was only a couple of months but I loved the heck out of that job. Good times...
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You know, when I was in the Air Force I did pizza delivery for 5 years and I LOVED doing it. I did 20,000 deliveries during that time. When I retired from the Air Force I "retired" from the pizza delivery biz. People asked me how as a Senior NCO why I was doing a job like that. I told them the extra money was good, but it was fun. I even had a couple of guys in my shop join with me and worked Air Force during the day, and pizza delivery at night.

Good times, but toward the end I was starting to get burned out on it. I started working with too many snakes. Took some of the fun out of it.
 
negativecreep said:
Love to talk about the ladies, i used to be 264 lbs. incredibly depressed after my high school sweetheart broke up with me over the phone after 3 years for a **** wannabe with a nasty heroin habit(he actually tried to smother her with a pillow while she was pregnant with twins, hit her a lot), I saw him at a pool hall not a week ago, and my best friend had to calm me down, sucks but I still love her. I have since lost 80 lbs and she's on her third husband, guess who's getting the attention now. It's nice to be back in the swing of things and have my confidence back:) dating a really sweet Russian girl now. She's my world.
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:omg:
 
negativecreep said:
Love to talk about the ladies, i used to be 264 lbs. incredibly depressed after my high school sweetheart broke up with me over the phone after 3 years for a **** wannabe with a nasty heroin habit(he actually tried to smother her with a pillow while she was pregnant with twins, hit her a lot), I saw him at a pool hall not a week ago, and my best friend had to calm me down, sucks but I still love her. I have since lost 80 lbs and she's on her third husband, guess who's getting the attention now. It's nice to be back in the swing of things and have my confidence back:) dating a really sweet Russian girl now. She's my world.
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You really know how to liven up the mood.
 
JoeyBoy718 said:
You really know how to liven up the mood.
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I thought losing 80lbs and being happy was a cool end to my story, leave it to me to screw it up. Sorry if I brought you guys down. Just told the truth and started rambling. I'm being sincere when I say that I apologize.
 
negativecreep said:
I thought losing 80lbs and being happy was a cool end to my story, leave it to me to screw it up. Sorry if I brought you guys down. Just told the truth and started rambling. I'm being sincere when I say that I apologize.
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I'm teasing you.
 
negativecreep said:
I thought losing 80lbs and being happy was a cool end to my story, leave it to me to screw it up. Sorry if I brought you guys down. Just told the truth and started rambling. I'm being sincere when I say that I apologize.
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It was a cool ending. The best is ahead of you.
 
My current which is a QA Auditor at Coopervision. Probably one of the reasons I like it the most is that financially I dont need it. That takes alot of the stress away from a job that I have really come to enjoy. Lots of issues big and small pop up, and no day is like another
 
In college I worked special events for the basketball arena. We did the sound for basketball games and worked with the roadies to set up and take down stage/lighting/sound/set for the bands that played there. Saw some good concerts and got paid to do it. Metallica, Steve Miller Band, Prince and RHCP were some of the better ones I worked. The best part was after we'd load out the band it was usually 2-3 am and we'd party in the bowels of the arena until 5-6. We'd have drunken golf cart races in the concourse and play big games of home run derby with balls made of used gaff tape from the arena floor. We just had to be gone before the morning custodial crew showed up at 630. That was a blast.
 
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