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what are the most enjoyable jobs you've had (if you've had any), regardless of time they required and money they provided?

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 13 February 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

Spreading joy and happiness through selling ice cream at parades. The pay was shit.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 13 February 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

i was a chandler -- fun with hot wax!

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Monday, 13 February 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

Pizza boy, if only because every night was an adventure.
Helping out in a record shop, because, well, it's a record shop!

― naus (Robert T), Monday, 13 February 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Ditchdigger, $6/hr. Regular smoke breaks and ice cold Hamm's after work. Life's been going downhill ever since.

― andy --, Monday, 13 February 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

Radio station board jockey at MLB-team flagship station = lots of free baseball games from ballpark broadcast booth. Unfortunately, it also meant minimum wage.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Monday, 13 February 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

parking cars...still do it. free exercise, cash tips, drive nice cars, plenty of time to study the logic of consumerism. no boss wagging a finger at you. the valet and the janitor are two service positions with insider info. i know where you live, what you do, what drugs you take, how many times you've had sex in your car. true power at minimum wage.

― Vacillating temp (Vacillating temp), Monday, 13 February 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

I hated parking cars. Of course, I had to do it in downtown Minneapolis in the middle of winter, but still.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 13 February 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

i worked in shipping/receiving at ucla bookstore and learned that were many other self-conscious and resentful social gimps on campus. (we didn't have the interet to find each other back then.) best job i ever had.

― dan (dan), Monday, 13 February 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

pleasant,

it would suck to do that up north. it's OK in downtown sf, there are some really smart homeless people here. I find them much more interesting to talk to than the people i serve. i toss them some $$ when I can. it's like being a conduit from the rich.

― Vacillating temp (Vacillating temp), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

the obvious: being Momus

― Vacillating temp (Vacillating temp), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

Seconding the ditch-digging. The only job I've ever had in which it was actually frowned upon to not down tools and gaze vacantly into the middle-distance for ten minutes at a time.

― Nicholas Passant (Nicholas Passant), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

Being a reporter at a community newspaper. The pay was shit, but my job largely consisted of learning stuff about how the various elements of a town operate and talking to people, and I spent as much, if not more time out of the office as in.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

During my next-to-last summer of little league, I was also the groundskeeper for the baseball park (3 fields). That was fun -- it was back when I had energy. (I wish iPods had existed then.)

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

Investigator, public defender's office. A summer of homicides, hostile witnesses, and gangs.

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Monday, 13 February 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

It's sad how many favorite jobs are concluded with "...but the the pay was shit".

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Monday, 13 February 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

Helping my sister out with her dance/cabaret group, backstage/dressing room/extra on-stage presence...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

working at the bar at glastonbury. unpaid, but free tickets and food and a nice campsite and free booze. plus i got to dj so effectively, i've dj'd in a tent at glastonbury.

proper work: maybe working in a threshers despite the shit pay. also i quite enjoy my training job at the mo.

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

i'm still waiting for that favorite job to come along, but i didn't mind working at a bookstore.

― kanye twitty (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Lumberjack (not logger). Old school style (though with chainsaw). Cut down trees at a sort of YMCA in the Woods to a) clear space and b) get lumber for a planned obstacle course, play structure.
Snowmobile half an hour to work site, half-frozen oranges in my pocket (mmm, mmm), fresh air, my own chainsaw.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

White ILX: You are getting annoying!

― Negro With No Name (Negro With No Name), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Camp Counselling by a lonely mile.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Custodian (Janitor if you want to be a dick about it) in the Student Union at my college. It was a part-time, student job, and the full-timers who were in the union wouldn't let us do any of "their" work, so it was mostly a lot of stair-sweeping and food-stealing from the various cafeterias. Also, we smoked a lot.

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

I had to revive this thread b/c I love my new job so much.

Making websites all day with every program I'd ever want and three flat screen monitors. My co-workers cool and laid-back. I'm in close proximity to my friends for lunch, etc. I get to learn PHP better. etc.

A month in and I'm still having fun and looking forward to coming in each day. Defintely the best job I've ever had.

I've spent so much time moaning about job issues on ILx I figure I need to share the positivity.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 12 May 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

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