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

[annedonnelly]

Teaching older people living in sheltered housing how to use computers that had been donated to them. In the days before smartphones/tablets but when it was becoming important to be online to communicate with friends/family and benefit from cheaper products. Including helping a 99 year-old watch a video of her two grandsons running about in their garden in France.

 

[geocycle]

I really enjoyed working as a chef in a college at York Uni for a holiday job. I learned a lot of skills that I still use. I also learned a lot from the 6 months in a Parisian Grande Ecole, basically an Oxbridge college, which was 90% young women… mainly life skills like how to toss salt, eat artichokes and pour wine.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Retirement 😏

Watch you do not get sacked

 

[HLaB]

If my current boss is reading this, Ive got to say the current one ;-)

 

[fritz katzenjammer]

I spent 16 years working for a small injection molding company which specialized in high precision, high performance products. It was really interesting leading edge stuff that I really enjoyed, but as the company grew the owners became too stressed out and took it out on their senior management. Drove me out in the end.

I spent the last three years building bikes for Trek, a great retirement gig I just recently left as new bikes are getting dropping in quality and are a right pig to build because of it.

now l’m a fully retired house husband… cleaning house beat the hell out of automotive bearings, aircraft bits and LED lighting systems.

 

[Donger]

Once spent a day smashing rocks with a sledgehammer at my brother's house, where he was doing some landscaping and laying hardcore. At the end of the day I realised I'd much rather do the same again the next day than go back to my civil service job. Loved working outdoors.

 

[Electric_Andy]

Once spent a day smashing rocks with a sledgehammer at my brother's house, where he was doing some landscaping and laying hardcore. At the end of the day I realised I'd much rather do the same again the next day than go back to my civil service job. Loved working outdoors.

yeah I feel the same when labouring/landscaping. unfortunately I have to accept that I'd not get half the pay I do in my boring office job, nor the perks