Whats the best job youve ever had?

Lets be positive now

[Essex_boy]

I worked for a large firm of Antique dealers for a number of years, while the owner was tight and the money awful I met some really nice and famous people.

Some made a big impression on me and changed my life as a result, others when I saw them forever after on TV made me sick.

The years spent there gave me an interest in subjects id never come across before and life long skills in identifying items, mainly precious stones and metals, that keeps on paying off.

[4css]

I would have to say being a mom.

Children can teach you so much, even though we are supposed to be the teachers.

Being blessed with 5 children and being able to raise them, best job I could have ever been given.

Granted the pay wasn't too good, but, nothing could beat those hands reaching out with a fist full of flowers, and that little one saying "I love you mommie" ;)

[grandpa]

The best jobs would be any that gave me room for expression. The top on that list is drumming. OK, it's not a paying job, but its a heck of a lot of work and brings me more gratification than anything I've ever done before. And it has been a catalyst for new adventures and experience. I think if I was to turn that into a paying gig then I wouldn't enjoy it nearly as much as I do now.

So, in case there's a rule that this has to be a paying job then I'd say computer programming has opened more doors than anything else. I can be a bit anal-retentive and somewhat of a perfectionist, and programming lets me be me.

[laertes]

nothing could beat those hands reaching out with a fist full of flowers, and that little one saying "I love you mommie" ;)

something which no computer will ever be able to replicate...

[4css]

something which no computer will ever be able to replicate...

so right you are! ;)

I actually should have typed it as

I wuv you mommie

:)

[DamonHD]

Hi,

Good jobs?

1) Selling small electricals (eg toasters, vacuum cleaners, etc) in a middle-brow department store in a biggish English town many years ago. Meeting lots of people, and really able to help them!

2) Playing with the technology for my current main Web site: it allows me to test things that I would not DARE test on any *real* production systems that I manage, but tests them in a production environment. Keeps me fresh and l334, maybe!

3) Consulting to a biggish, well-run, meritocratic and broad-minded financial firm, with a great deal of technical leeway. Tools that I created 10 years ago are still in widespread use, for example, which gives me a warm feeling inside, even if to get it I do a lot of somewhat tiresome debugging and version control, etc, etc! Again: nice people, intellectually stimulating, rewarding, a feeling of helping make the world a slightly better place.

Somewhere in this list there is the fun of being a new first-time dad of a smart daughter with a goofy smile. But that's not a job: it's a pleasure!

Rgds

Damon

[2oddSox]

Front stage security for a three-day rock concert. Three days of pure adrenalin and the closest I'll ever get to being a rock star. Sigh.

[Iguana]

Strangely enough my favourite job was one that involved writing software 12 hour days/7 day weeks for 18 months - it was only when the IRA bombed Manchester that I couldn't get into the office and took some time off.

Not that I would want to do it now, though.

[4css]

DamonHD

Somewhere in this list there is the fun of being a new first-time dad of a smart daughter with a goofy smile. But that's not a job: it's a pleasure!

LOL, that is the Dad's job, to be amazed at the children when they are so small ;)

Mom gets diapers, feedings, long nights, fevers,but they are all worth it in the end :)

Just remember one thing, the time goes by sooo fast. Two married out of the 5. <cry> And I hate it when one of them leaves the nest. I cry for days. :(

btw, congrats on the little girl. Mine was my princess, and still is. She was always my best friend.

[JudgeJeffries]

I worked as a lawyer for a circus for a year, sometimes travelling with them to try to iron out animal rights issues. Horses and dogs only. Man, was that wierd.

[graeme_p]

Working for a .com (writing content) for an year. I got extremely good training from a superb team.

I also worked for a software company that sells financial trading systems. The job was good: my colleagues were talented, I had a lot of real responsibility, and the management largely told us what they wanted done and left us alone to get on with it, but it was somewhat spoilt by travel requirements and a bad client: catching a flight home just as my six month old daughter went into hospital was the worst time.

The best so far is running my websites - if can I increase the revenue enough to make a real living that is!

[ska_demon]

I did a 2 week stint as a rodeo rider here in England when I was about 16. I actually did the barrel racing rather than the bronc busting. It was the most bizarre and enjoyable job I have had even if it was for such a short time. I had the use of the most beautiful looking and mannered Palomino Quarter Horse.

Now I sit in a poxy office making electrical stuff do other stuff when something does or doesn't happen.

YAAAAWWWWWWN!

Give me back the quarter horse and minimum wage any day.

Ska

[limbo]

Summer job - van driver when i was 18 (living at home)

Hours 10am - 4pm, Monday - Thursday

Role - deliver champange beers and wines to swanky parties around the weald, in Kent...

..the rest was, well, let's just say the van didn't always end up back the store that day...

[andye]

quarter horse

I guess it has to hop. Sound hard to ride. Doesn't it keep falling over?

(so - what's a 'quarter horse'?)

best, a.

[Matt Probert]

Strangely enough my favourite job was one that involved writing software 12 hour days/7 day weeks for 18 months

Ditto.

It was a small bespoke software house, with such a great team spirit that voluntary over time was a pleasure. Then the boss went on a "management course", changed his attitude, and I left to seek my fortune elsewhere. Silly fool, he didn't see who his friends were.

Matt

[Lilliabeth]

Quarter horse - bred to race the quarter mile

The most popular breed in the United States

[en.wikipedia.org...]

[Sarah Atkinson]

Working as a theater tech in an auditorium when I was in highschool. the work was hard, hours long but I got to watch a lot of concerts and stuff for free. And it was fun. And the smell of a theater is intoxicating.

[dmorison]

Used to work in Tandy (Radio Shack) whilst at University. Great fun when customers assume that you know nothing about electronics (I was an Elec. Eng. undergrad at the time!) Spent more time fixing the till than ringing sales through it mind you, although Tandy had a large number of really loyal customers who would buy all their home electronics from their local Tandy shop rather than a cheaper alternative from Dixons or somewhere like that.

Working face to face with consumers is something i'd love to do again. I sit here watching visitors to my sites on the logs but it's not quite the same...

[rocknbil]

#1: Driving Jaguars, MG's, and the "new" Volkswagen Golf's off a ship, down a dock, and into a parking lot, where I got on a little golf-cart train that took me back to the ship to do it all over again.

It was the 70's, the job was an "on call" from the employment office, it lasted one day.

#2: Living with a touring tree-planting company, we lived in army tents and rose at 4 AM, drove high into the Oregon mountains, and replanted trees in harvested areas.

[BillyS]

I'm surprised at the response so far.

The best job? It's the one I have right now. ;)

[Moosetick]

FBI (female body inspector)

Didn't pay much but had its perks

[MamaDawg]

The best was the job where I was part of a small info-tech R&D team... Each person brought a different background and set of skills to the table, and I've never before or since worked in a group where the personalities meshed SO well. Professionalism, mutual respect, lots of creativity ... and humor! Going to work was a joy - we were very productive and loved every minute of it :).

(And there was the added perk of being able to learn by breaking things and fixing them again ... )

Best (nearly)un-paid job? Teaching puppy classes :)!

[giggle]

Worked for a year in the Planetarium in Armagh, N. Ireland in the early 80's writing "educational" space-related games (in QBasic I think) on the Apple IIe for visitors to the Planetarium to use. Great environment, great people, good fun.

[markbaa]

Managed the re-launch of a very high profile web site (you've seen it) at the height of the dotcom boom, while everyone was saying we'd fail. We didn't :) Getting home at 2am some nights, but man, the buzz was worth it.

[Crush]

Definately the business we have now. I fly all over europe and can do what I want for our WH side. I particularly enjoy the spam side of the business when you land a biggie keyword that you know will make 1000's.

[lawman]

Hello Crush. Have you tried using the word you misspelled as a keyword. Bet you could make millions off of it since it is commonly misspelled. And you don't have to fly anywhere to find it. I give it to you for free. :)

[ann]

Federal Income Tax Consultant and Instuctor...

I had the worlds greatest boss and long after we all retired he and his wife remained my best friends until they died.

Those were the days!

Ann

[Crush]

Isn't pointing out spelling mistakes in forums the equivalent of schoolyard name calling?

[clayscottbrown]

none.

[weeks]

Yea, the dot-com boom was a rush. The down was so awful that I think only recently are we beginning to remember how exciting it was. The biz brought in some very interesting, smart people together for a while. Alas, it didn't last but it was fun for a while. I was working on a knowledge management system which had the flaw of depending on people openly sharing their email address. This was right before the term spam was coined. 1999. Probably would work now, but it wouldn't make the millions the investors wanted to see.