What's the best job you've ever had?

[Electric_Andy]

Very busy day at the (home) office. I've been doing this for 16 years and don't really enjoy it, so it got me wondering; what's the best job I've had?

1. Office job in Auckland - low stress, coffee and biscuits on tap, basically thumbing through and sorting insurance documents all day. Beer and chips/dip on a Friday, a nice bit of banter with some nice people, and for a bit more than minimum wage.
2. Picking watermelons in Australia - a bit of hard work in the sun cutting the stalks, and then coming back to throw them at a person on a trailer to catch. Being paid to play ball all day was great; sadly it was only 3 days work.

What have your favourite jobs been?

 

[Webbo2]

Retirement 😏

 

[Electric_Andy]

Retirement 😏

I don't have a retirement

 

[markemark]

Digging large holes. Not a career I planned on, I just fell into it.

 

[ianrauk]

I'm very lucky in that I've worked in the music business most of my working life so I get to listen to music all day, go to gigs and get paid for it.

 

[Dave7]

Depends how you define best.
Back in the mid 60s I worked at Cadburys on the Wirral as a storekeeper. An excellent company, interesting job and good workmates. I got married and moved away or would have stayed there.
In my later years I worked for a company owned by Shell. I was made European manager for a division. Interesting. Lots of travel. Good money.
The company was sold to people I didnt like so left and set up a company with another guy. 10 years. Hard work but made good money so could retire a few years early.

 

[fossyant]

I'm very lucky in that I've worked in the music business most of my working life so I get to listen to music all day, go to gigs and get paid for it.

You can go off some people !

 

[fossyant]

Current job was OK until they installed a new Finance System, that is a bag off poop. Lasted 6 weeks in one job, that was 6 weeks too long.

 

[postman]

Not my story but a young lad who was in the bed opposite me when my gallbladder exploded and they took me in.Well there were four of us in this bay.Two were young and gobshites.One was the wayward son of a rich bloke,who gave him money to keep him out of trouble his sidekick just hung around him for the cash and freebies,what a couple of pricks they were,always off the ward down at the cafe and shops on the ground floor.So this kid has not got out of bed for two days,never spoke to anyone.So over i go and get him chatting.He was from Dewsbury skint and fed up,so strapped for cash his poor wife could not afford to travel each day for visiting time.But as he opened up,he had been in the Navy from school,saw the world as such,best trip West Indies,a lad from Dewsbury he said,cash in his pocket,great mates a fabulous job and seeing sights a young lad should not see,his words were lots of dark skin,and excess of bare skin.Then home on leave he met a girl.It was her or the Navy,he left and was now a fork lift truck driver in a warehouse and totally cheesed off with life.So it seems the Navy looked a great job.Me i was not at the front for brains,postman for eleven years which when single was great,then i went indoors and earned more money but it was never enough through the bad times of 86-89 inflation went mad.But i liked the job and was a good worker.And now just short of twenty years retired i still see my mates once a month.

 

[Over the Ord]

Retirement

I agree.

 

[alicat]

My best job was the job I was doing until mid-March. It was a freelance yearly contract translating an annual report from French to English. With my legal and company secretarial background and love of languages, they loved what I did and I loved the fact that what I earned kept me going for most of the rest of the year. I was very sad when I had to stop doing it because of the sudden onset of my brain tumour in March which has affected my memory so badly that I realised I could not carry on with the project.

I've taken comfort from the fact that my contacts at the company have stayed in touch to check how I am and might offer me some other projects in future years when the pesky tumour succumbs to the surgeon's scalpel.

 

[Drencrom]

Only ever had cleaning job but the last one was perfect for me.

Short walk from my house and I could choose my own hours. Start anywhere after 5:30 pm and 4am in the morning.

Also I was all alone. Only person in the building. Loved it.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

I agree.

Likewise, by a very big margin.

 

[All uphill]

Holiday job, getting the harvest in on a big arable farm. I was 19 years old, sun-tanned and very fit.

Next best was the following year's holiday job, labouring for a local builder. We did the foundations, block and brickwork for a four bed house out in the country.

The message I didn't absorb till later was that I loved practical work more than my studies. That's when I went to work in the drilling industry.

 

[Elswick Cotterpin]

Being a dad is the best job I ever had. Most of my other numerous jobs sucked for one reason or another.