What has been your favorite job?

It was one where I got paid to illustrate and animate.

I loved being a personal property appraiser because the clients were dead, the lawyers would give me a key, and I would snoop through all their junk and underwear drawers and shit, take my notes, go back to my home office to write my report and then submit a bill for $175 an hour. Improve on that.

I worked in a call center taking orders from a western wear catalog. It was kind of like telemarketing, I guess, but the people that called wanted to be talking to me, so it was good. When there were no phone calls we typed in names and addresses for mailing lists. I loved that job. We were living in a different town and moved back to our home town, so I had to quit.

I haven’t liked any of my jobs.

Teaching.

Right now I get paid to translate love poems. I can’t think of anything I’ve enjoyed more in a long time.

@La_chica_gomela Now that is truly cool beans. GA.

@pdworkin: Thanks! I don’t get paid $175/hour though.Those beans would be pretty sweet.

I don’t either any more. The job is obsolete because the tax laws changed. That’s why I’m in school, spending my life savings, praying that I get my degree before the money runs out.

I actually love what I do now too. I am a supervisor at a retail store. I enjoy all the people that I work with, I’ve made some great friends and enjoy all the people that work under me. They are fun. I make really decent money too and I have great insurance. Plus I get to stare at the people that come in the store and I always have a good story about something that happens almost everyday.

@knitfroggy – that is kick ass!

@Bri_L It sure makes going to work easier everyday if you enjoy it, that’s for sure. I worked for a time in the District Attorney’s office and I would nearly start crying on the way to work everyday because I hated it so much! Working retail is not glamorous or anything, but I love it!

I loved the years I worked at the apple orchard. Being outside, working among the 1500 trees and knowing that at the end of each day, all the sweat, bug bites, scratches and sunburn was worth it. The level of pay sucked, but being alone in the orchard in the fall harvesting apples or in the dead of winter pruning trees under a clear blue sky and crunchy snow underfoot, it don’t get no better than that. I still miss that job, it was wonderful.

@knitfroggy – You have to love your job that is for sure. You spend way to much time doing it.

My favorite job of all time was right out of high school, before I “matured” and enrolled in college. I worked at a big hotel in downtown DC. I was a little hick kid from a small country town, plopped down in the middle of wildness! First day on the job a guy jumped off the rood and landed outside my window. 13 story height limit but he was still a mess. I
learned about hashish, guys who dress as beautiful women and in one case had the surgery, movie stars, politicians, bellhops with PhD who didn’t want to pay allimony, crazy chefs. It was a dream. I roamed the bowels of the place, I played craps and cards with the car jockeys in the garage, checked out rooms with the house dicks, snooped in rubbish with the maids. I absolutely LOVED it. I seriously considered going into hotel management and sometimes wish I had. How different my life would have been. #2 favorite was working for a french wine importer in NYC, that had some great moments too. I have led a varied and pretty amazing life when I think back on it.

@rooeytoo – that sounds very cool. Like a tv show!

@rooeytoo we have to get together and party some day, I bet you have some great stories to tell.

Father.

@Bri_L – Arthur Hailey wrote a book called Hotel years ago and shortly thereafter there was a tv show by the same name that was quite accurate.

@evelyns_pet_zebra – I have done some wild and crazy things! Moving to Oz could be considered one of them, but nothing ventured, nothing gained.

@AstroChuck – GOOD CALL! It is a blast and a ton of work.

I tore tickets at Red Rocks for a summer. I got to see all kinda of concerts and everybody was always excited to be there.

Teaching

If I did not have to eat, I would teach for free.

A volunteer gig adapting the Nativity gospels and directing a series of Advent masses for the Catholic church I was a parishioner of at the time. In one of them, I was up in the choir loft with a mike as “Voice of God.” This is my Son…”

After that, I’d say it was all the acting gigs in videos I’ve done for friends / writing sketches in a sketch writing group and in sketch writing classes.

I’ll have to go with two – Stage Magician’s Assistant, with my Dad, and Tour escort/planner.

My favorite job has been the same one I’ve had for the last 21+ years – Military Policeman.

I drove a truck in Florida. Drooping off simple and light displays to just about every corner of the state.
Where ever the was a Target, Walmart and Kmart.
It was like getting a paid vacation. Was no rush, as much OT as I wanted. And, all expense were paid for.
I could also bring my significant other with me if I wanted to.

I used to be a bounce house operative and a clown… employed by my girlfreind at the time, payed in cash, and 15 bucks an hour…

to this day I have absolutely no idea why on earth I broke up with her…. so she was a total bitch, looking back the 15 an hour and virtually no work aside from playing in a bounce house, she could have kicked me in the jumblies daily and it would have still been worth it. lol Highschool-me was an idiot.

I worked for three years as a housepainter.
I liked it because you see a result pretty fast, it’s hand-work, (most) people are happy that their doors/windows/etc. are being re-done (thus asking you in for coffee or soda), and i like the smell of the paint and the burned (old) paint.

“Favorite job?” Is this not an oxymoron?

Playing in a band. Jamming for people who want to pay to hear it.