what were your favorite and least favorite jobs

[dajoki]

my favorite by far was heavy equipment operater; worst was in high school, i worked at a factory that made plastic hangers. you sat on the floor all day and shoved the hangers into boxes.:banghead:

[liss681]

1. My favorite job

was working as a restaurant hostess. My least favorite was working in a hospital... it was very depressing, especially the children's ward.

[Wickerman]

2. I worked in a college bookstore, office supply section

I couldn't take it - so sterile, canned muzak. I've had a lot of sucky soul-stealing jobs, but that one had nothing redeemable.

My favorite was a summer job working in a scrap yard. I tore up crap with a cutting torch all day long. Everyday was different, always something new to cut into 4x4 hunks. Hot, dirty, dangerous and very hard. I loved it for about 2 months - the last three weeks I was ready to go back to school.

Just last week I read the obit for the yard manager. I learned a whole lot from that man.

Silo, here's to ya, big man!

:toast: :beer:

[punpirate]

6. There's a very funny guy...

... (for an engineer, anyway) who's a Brit and has written a couple of excellent books on materials science, who thought it might be fun to work in a shipyard for the summer as a welder while he was going to college just before WWII. Never forgotten his description of it (even though I can't remember his name): "Welding is probably a lot like hell--fun for the first hour or two." :)

I guess my absolute worst was working as a laborer in a paper mill. Terribly hot, mind-numbing, absolute exhausting physically, and time & motion people around everywhere, just waiting for one to stop to scratch one's ass so they could write one up for it.

Probably the best, as far as occupying the mind, was as a experimental machine designer/builder. Lots of room to be creative. If it weren't for the fact that the people running the company were complete assholes with egos the size of the Amazon basin, I might still be there.

[TlalocW]

3. Right now my favorite job(s) are my current ones

Web/Database programmer for a small company that's doing very well creating database-driven websites that clients can update themselves through web tools. I'm also an entertainer on the side (magic and balloon twisting). After working in big business and getting shafted and having to do bullshit team-building crap like the Fish program, I'm working for a guy who knows what employees want - respect, management that's accountable, and more money - not cheap foam toys after completing the latest fad.

Worst job was for a Sprint technical support call center after I was laid off from my big corporate gig and before I got my current position. Recycled air, company lied to me about my shift (had to work until 2:00 a.m. every day I was on), sadistic, religiously insane managers, and co-workers that I wanted to throw out of our 20th-floor cubicle farm. Oh, and the customers - If ever you wanted proof that society is becoming ruder and less able to use advancing technology, this is the job for you. I took great pleasure in resigning from that job after a nasty disagreement with my manager over the ethics of the company.

TlalocW

[pitohui]

4. best job ever

office hired us by mistake to do night work on the computers

there was no work to be done

clocked in, hung out at the mall, clocked out, our in boxes were always clear, the manager never doubted we must be doing something

glorious

[dajoki]

8. by mistake?

lucky dog.:toast:

[sendero]

5. For two years..

.... while I went to tech school I worked at a factory that made tire patches and rubber automotive products.

It was hot, filthy (with rubber smoke in the air all the time) and the place was rife with noxious chemicals. Two freaking years I did that shit. What was I thinking?

But, while I was there I did break all plant production records for tire patches made in one shift, much to the dismay of my boss who held the old record :)

[progmom]

7. my current job

for the first several years was by far my favorite.
for the last year it's been my least favorite.

[LSK]

9. they are all my worst job

Currently im in backstabbing corporate hell. I hate these morons who walk all over you just so they appear better to them morons at corporate headquarters. What a bunch of bullshit.

I would take a paycut to work somewhere smaller and/or somewhere where I can work on a cause.

[WCGreen]

10. My best job was keeping the girls excited when the

porno star had to revitalized himself, you know, keep the party going. The pay was really bad, working for tips you kow....

My worst job, cleaning out nuclear reactors when they shut down for maintenance.....

[dajoki]

16. interesting career

:eyes:

[swag]

11. My favorite job was in the dishroom at university food service.

Either swiping the plates, silver, glasses, cups, and trash off the plate, slamming the plate remainders into the running water trough, loading plates, silver, glasses, cups and trash off the trays that the students would pass in through the window, and moving onto the next tray,

or standing on the other side of the massive dish washer contraption, swiping rows of 20 plates off a rack in one swoop, and stacking that fresh hot load into a quadruple plate rack on durable industrial wheels.

Both good jobs. You'd daydream and sing on the job and dream at night, after your studies, about the job. Plates, plates, plates, plates, filthy, clean, filthy, clean.

Sometimes the students would leave messages on the plates for you. Vulgar and rarely entertaining messages written in pineapple or ketchup. All the writing would soon vanish. You didn't take it too hard.

Such is the nature of education.

Anyway, those were the best jobs.
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Worst job? Hard to tell.

[dajoki]

12. good luck in the future

:bounce:

[swag]

13. Thanks.

The future was about 10 years ago.

Good luck to you too.

[deadparrot]

14. Granted, I'm 18, so I've only had two jobs,

Worst was working at Wendy's last summer. Unbelievably bad on so many levels.

I do, however, LOVE my part-time job this year: an usher at an outdoor musical theater.

[khashka]

15. Best job worst job

Best was managing a book store - easy, fun, and strangely sexy. Worst was being a psych and doing therapy. That seriously sucked even if I was good at it.

No... writing is worse. It requires more courage than I have.


Khash.

[Catchawave]

17. No unfavorite jobs....they were all

learning experiences :)

My favorites are a tie between working on Capitol Hill (a congressman's staffer!) and a veterinarian (office manager).

[dajoki]

18. now that's a good attitude

:yourock: