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I searched for a Favorite job thread and the only thing that came up was Worst Job so here it goes. I've worked many jobs in my life I'm 31 years old and have worked as a cook in many restaurants, a gas station cashier, telemarketer, a carpenter (ICF concrete/framing), and commercial/residential painter. I am currently going to school for a bachelors in Radiography, although I'm in the process of changing it to Nursing. I currently work as an MRI Assistant in a Hospital. But my favorite job was a pizza delivery driver. I got this job because my cousin owed a pizza shop and was in between job and needed some cash. It was the best and easiest job ever. All I did was drive around and listen to music, the people were nice and it took almost no effort. The tips ranged from $5 to $10. I usually walked away from a 5 hr shift with $70 in my pocket, plus my regular pay check. So...what was or is your favorite job?
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When I was younger (early 20s), I worked for Scholastic books in one of their insanely huge warehouses. The department that I worked in was responsible for printing out and preparing invoices to be mailed out to customers. Easy stuff. Machines basically did all the work for us. I worked third shift, and third shift consisted entirely of me and two other guys who were somehow even lazier, bigger gently caress ups than I was. No supervision or anything. I spent most nights dicking around on the internet, wandering around the giant deserted building, napping in offices, riding around the little golf cars that were reserved exclusively for management, etc. It was a lot of fun, but I still managed to get all of my work done by the end of the night. Another neat thing about working there was that Scholastic would always give us lots of free stuff (like the Harry Potter books before they went on sale), which would always make for good gifts for people with kids. The only downside is that they didn't pay very well, so I ended up leaving. About a year later, they shut the place down.
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Dec 6, 2014 04:17
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My current summer part-time job is working at a community pool concessions/admissions stand. Earn only a little above minimum wage, but I still made ~$2,000 over last summer working a 7 to 8 hour day (money isn't quite a necessity when you're 17 and frugal.  ). All of my co-workers are around my age and are incredibly relaxed and cheerful. The poolgoers are friendly (most of the time) and understanding. Our boss also is hardly ever down there, so most of the quiet time is spent listening to music, playing cards, or bantering.The best part is that we can eat pretty much all the food there if we so please. 
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Dec 6, 2014 07:18
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Vastarien posted:I spent most nights dicking around on the internet, wandering around the giant deserted building, napping in offices, riding around the little golf cars that were reserved exclusively for management, etc. ha ha sounds like fun.
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Dec 6, 2014 15:51
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I was an RA in college, and it was a job I really enjoyed. For 1-2 weeks before classes began and after they ended for the semester, we pretty much had the campus and surrounding bars/student hang- outs to ourselves. I developed a good relationship with a lot of campus support staff, be they cops, maintenance, admin staff etc.. and they would look out for me in various small ways. For instance, if I was running late for class I could usually get a ride in a golf cart from some facilities folks. I was exposed to a lot of different personalities who I wouldn't have necessarily sought out on my own. The housing staff was heavily greek, heavily gay, and composed of people of various ethnicities, socio-economic backgrounds, and geographical locations. College in general provides this exposure, but as the job placed a huge emphasis on diversity, it was more exposure than the average student would get. Several of my longest friendships are former coworkers, and people who due to different majors and different extracurricular interests, I probably would not have met otherwise. I was on call every 10 days or so. My regular duty nights were Sundays, which were always quiet. These nights were largely spent sharpening my skills at the pool table. Generally, there was only an issue of any note every month or so. Though there were obvious exceptions, I also enjoyed my residents. Finally, I got a single room to myself, as well as a stipend, and a partial food plan. It made college affordable for me.
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Dec 6, 2014 16:42
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I am in a 'career' job now and I kind of hate it. Money is good though. Favorite job was serving at a mom-and-pop restaurant. Live music 4 nights a week, regulars were great, money was decent, and free shift beers after work. Everyone was treated like family. Miss that place.
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Dec 6, 2014 16:46
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When I was in college, I spent a summer as a groundskeeper for the University. They provided free housing for the summer and free tuition for my summer classes on top of my paycheck. I got into the best shape of my life and got to drive around in a golfcart all day. That job was awesome.
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Dec 6, 2014 17:33
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Mine is my volunteer job: I work as a curator of a Canadian Infantry regimental museum's weapons collection. The previous curators were very bad at their job which was shocking considering the many machine guns we have in our collection, some of them very rare. I had to get all the paperwork in order so that the government couldn't seize them from us. I also did a photo catalogue of our collection. Sounds kind of boring but it never stops being exciting handling machine guns from the first and second world wars.
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Dec 6, 2014 20:11
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I worked a temp job at a food processing plant. My job was to pick up bags of food off the line, pack them in a box, and stack the boxes on a skid. It was simple and non-stressful. The people I worked with were really cool, and we spent the whole day joking around and sharing stories. The old guys would sing while they worked, which is something I've never encountered elsewhere. Unfortunately, I was not very good at the job, and was not hired after my placement ended. I hope to have another job that good someday.
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Dec 6, 2014 20:59
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Substitute teacher at a school 10 minutes walk from home. Oh, you need someone to talk about the norman conquest to highschoolers for three hours? I'll just put on some pants and see you in a bit. The tutorial mission in Medieval 2: total war will do nicely. Best part was, I got paid 40 bucks an hour doing something I love.
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Dec 6, 2014 21:20
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I'm currently an Aquarist for a public aquarium. Mostly quarantine and medical. Kinda silly how much I enjoy making sure fish get and stay healthy...
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Dec 6, 2014 21:53
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JWFIV posted:I'm currently an Aquarist for a public aquarium. Mostly quarantine and medical. Kinda silly how much I enjoy making sure fish get and stay healthy... That sounds amazing actually. In 1999, I worked at a failing video game buy/sell type of place. Because it was failing, we bought a lot more than we were selling, and we had a lot of free time. So most of my shifts were sitting in back, playing games with co-workers or friends that would come in. There was free Mountain Dew and pizza, which was pretty sweet. I made a few lifelong friends there. It only paid $5.50/hr, but I almost think I'd go back to minimum wage to have a job that carefree again. The songs that piped in there that year have come to make me really nostalgic, it's funny. So I get a little wistful anytime Ray of Light or Fly or Torn come on the radio.
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Dec 6, 2014 22:03
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The summer between my sophomore and junior years of college, I got asked to be a "volunteer" counselor for my old high school's band camp. Basically I got $150 to spend a week of August in beautiful Interlochen, MI with a bunch of my high school friends (the counselor staff is always band alums, with the only rule being that you have to be a year removed from HS) being cool big siblings and sometimes giving music advice. Nerdy as it sounds, some of my best memories growing up were in the four summers I went there as a student, so getting paid to go back and basically hang out with old friends while helping kids make their own memories was far and away the most rewarding thing I've done, at least in any sort of job. Plus getting to play drill seargent during marching drills was super-cathartic after being on the receiving end of it. I got to do it again the following summer but that first stint was definitely the better of the two.
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Dec 8, 2014 06:05
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Another one for pizza driver. Everyone who worked at the pizza place was super cool, there was no typical "restaurant employee" drama. I listened to music and audiobooks for 3 or 4 hour shifts after university classes 4 times a week, driving in a wealthy, safe delivery area. It was the best  I have a really nice career job now, but I still miss pizza driving I worked a summer as a climbing/canyoneering/shooting/ATV guide at a resort near a big western US national park. I made $250 per week for 40-60 hour workweeks and it was awesome. I think I left that job with less money than I came in with, because I spent it all on climbing gear, bullets, and gasoline. 
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Dec 8, 2014 06:44
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Probably my job now. I install alarm systems and I really do enjoy it. I get to tinker around with electronics and go to a different house (or houses) every day and pretty much am let out on my own to just do work. Pay is really good too.
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Dec 8, 2014 06:53
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I spent a summer working as an intern assisting with cataloging and storing historic clothing. On the three days of the week when I worked at a historic house, I'd pick up a fresh bagel from the bagel shop near my house, arrive early at the house where I had orange juice and cream cheese in the break room fridge, and sit on the back step looking over the morning fields. That place was great, the work was great, and the people were pretty cool- I'm still friends with some of them.
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Dec 8, 2014 07:40
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Working as a dishwasher and later on as a cook for a small but busy restaurant. Mostly working with cool and chill folks, we all came from diffrent backgrounds but shared the same working philosophy of work hard to be lazy. When we had nothing better to do we would just talk about videogames, wrestling, music or draw stupid poo poo. I miss all the free tea and coffee.
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Dec 9, 2014 17:11
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The best job I ever had was working at a video rental store in my late teens. I had the place to myself 90% of the time and just played videogames and watched movies when there was no cleaning/managerial poo poo to do. Had plenty of weird customers to keep me entertained. There was also a guy who spent all day processing fish and then came to the store to hang out playing N64 games. He literally smelled like a barrel of fish all the time. We also had a room of porn for a while. I can think of maybe one time in several years that I had to be at work or even think about work outside of my usual hours. The hardest part was figuring out "that movie with that one guy" or "the one with the dinosaur" or whatever the gently caress people were asking for. Also the DVD switchover, when I had to explain why they cut off the top and bottom of the movie and stretched it out all weird to people every 5 minutes.
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Dec 9, 2014 17:17
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receptionist, hands down. You just get to hang out answer phones and be friendly and flirty professionally. I was at the main office for a child welfare agency so it wasn't glamorous at all and I had a consistent stream of irate people to deal with but I really really loved it. It was amazing for getting a great view of the workplace and I got to glean all kinds of insights also known as gossip from my coworkers. I'm an engineer now but I still think my ideal job would be reception at something like 30 rock. Also being a dude people would frequently do a double take on the phone and in person.
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Dec 9, 2014 17:20
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I was an event moderator on Ultima Online for a few months. We had to write up outlines for player events, set up the oracles (responsive NPCs), create reward items and monsters, and carry out the event while roleplaying as a character. It wasn't a real job obviously, but it paid $200/month plus free UO subscription so that was a nice bit of pocket money on top of my soul-crushing waitress position. And it was funny as hell. Like, theoretically you think you'd eventually get sick of spawning super-powerful candy-pink dragons and releasing them on people, but in fact it never gets old. Ever. The best things that happened during my position were a player trying to get me fired for being racist against elves - my character made a comment about an elf in the global storyline, this guy somehow took it personally, and apparently he was really into his elvish identity or something because he made a huge fuss and lodged official complaints and I had to make a big public apology - and one of the other moderators actually getting fired for creating a super-pig, just a normal pig but with millions of HP, which one of the players tamed. That was a huge thing because the pig was basically invincible, the player in question immediately tucked it away into their stables where not even the moderators could see it, and the GMs had to do this full-on manhunt to figure out who it was, retrieve the pig and delete it. Even though I'd just left high school so it was my only work experience besides my hospitality job, I quickly learnt to leave that position off my resume because job interviewers just didn't understand.
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Dec 10, 2014 02:19
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I worked for a summer as the receptionist for a pretty seedy 24 hour "massage parlor". Normally I'd say that pseudo sex work is pretty un-cool, but my job was basically to sit behind a counter browsing the web while college dudes, middle aged guys and (a really large amount of) lesbians came in, didn't make eye contact with you, slid money across the desk and then ignored you. So basically a customer service job where you never had to ever speak or interact with customers for more than five words. I got most of an associates degree while working there because I had so much free time. The best was that we had this Asian vase thing on the counter that used to have a beta fish but after he died people mistook it as a tip jar so the following exchange happened to me multiple times: Sweaty looking middle aged middle management type: "So uh, um, uh, would you like to watch me get a, uhm, uh "massage"? I'll pay you." Me: "No thanks bud." Him: "Uh, cool, dontmentionthistoanyoneplease." *stuffs $20 in former aquarium and sulks off* Eventually the place shut down because the owner was part of some weird buddhist cult and he decided to go live in a monastery in the jungle or something and his daughter turned the place into a laundromat slash bubble tea cafe (because stereotypes). I also had a part time job in highschool where I delivered tortillas for a tortilla factory. It took up like four hours a day in the morning before school and they used to pay me in cash daily so I just went to school every day with like forty dollars to spend on weed and snack food.
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Dec 10, 2014 03:44
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I worked at a zoo for a while. I got to keep baby clouded leopards who were in quarantine at my place 
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Dec 10, 2014 03:52
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In second place was the cemetery I worked at. My job was to walk around with a weed whacker and trim around the headstones so they looked neat. Instead I just smoked joints all day long and got paid for it. My favorite job was for a bio-hazard clean up company. We just cleaned out hoarder houses and crime scenes. Every job was a story to share and it paid drat good too.
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Dec 10, 2014 04:47
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I love my current job (oilfield) but the best one was working at a public golf course. It got pretty slow mid October and I'd run the proshop or take care of the one golf cart we sold for the day. Since it got dark pretty early we started closing the shop around 4:30-5:00 and if there were people still on the course, I'd play a few holes till they came in. It was just so casual and my boss was great. If it paid a living wage I'd go back there in a heartbeat.
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Dec 10, 2014 04:58
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My current job. Archeological Field Technician/Associate Consultant. Dig holes with cool people, in cool places, then drink cool beer. Then write reports and monitor construction, which is okay.
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Dec 10, 2014 06:14
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El Estrago Bonito posted:I worked for a summer as the receptionist for a pretty seedy 24 hour "massage parlor".
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Dec 10, 2014 07:42
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My favorite and most hated job are the same. I was a corrections officer. There is something about being in an incredibly stressful environment that forges incredible friendships. I met people that I would trust with my life because I knew they would trust me with theirs and if you think that there aren't times when you have to trust other people to save your rear end as an officer, you're so loving wrong. I've known people for years out in the real world that I trust less to save my skin or help me out in a bad spot than the people that I worked with at the prison. Despite all the awful I saw I miss that camaraderie.
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Dec 10, 2014 09:50
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Avshalom posted:Okay I know this isn't "ASK me about tangentially working in the sex industry!", but - does this mean that the receptionists for those parlours do actually just do reception work and it's not a euphemism for a sex worker who ducks out the front to answer the phone between appointments for some extra cash? I'm asking because I live in a brothel hotspot and they advertise for receptionists all the time, and the hourly rate is usually great compared to retail or hospitality. The only reason I hadn't applied is because I thought anyone who took the position would end up getting coerced to take clients. If that's not true, I might go hand out some CVs. I'm pretty sure I got hired because the guy who owned the place thought people would think he was more legit if a white person was working up front and because I knew how to use the computer. I live in distinctly not a brothel hotspot so I don't think my experience would really apply to, like, Amsterdam.
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Dec 10, 2014 10:05
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I managed the warehouse for a Pre-Owned Bang & Olufsen reseller for a few years it was pretty rad as I got to work on my own a lot, and would rock out to my music on audio systems I'll never be able to afford, I could also drink on the job in fact the owner encouraged this by bringing in beers, sometimes we'd go out on deliveries across the country and on the way back he'd be swigging a G&T whilst driving a full 7.5tonne van. Dude gave no fucks! Second place would go to the job I got in Brisbane as nightshift front desk for a hostel. I got paid decently, a free room and discounts on food/booze in the bar plus I got to meet all the cool as hell travellers it was fun times.
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