Best Jobs

It would be an honor to be that stylist.

 

Best Job but not the most lucrative …..For 2 years I was head of security at a psychiatric hospital. I participated in at least 2000 restraints of patients. I loved that job but it wasn't all fun & games like
strip-searching new patients or searching their cars for drugs or drug paraphernalia.

There was always the possibly of getting punctured by an AIDS or hepatitis B infected hypodermic needle.



Hotwater

 

I'm in my best job ever. I'm a self employed programmer, remote system administrator, consultant, et cetera, and have been for 17 years now, full time, 19 years counting the startup period when I sometimes had to work for others during lean times. I get to do things my own way, and laugh at well meaning others who would stridently counsel me that this is no way to run a business. They might be right, but 19 years seems a long time to get away with charging my relatively high hourly rate for continually screwing up so I might be on to something.

Imagine going two decades steadfastly refusing to do business with jerks (or governments) no matter how deep their bank accounts and never sacrificing your principles for money. It sounds somehow vaguely un-American and all kinds of ass-backward. I've never sacrificed my principles for money, but I did spend the first almost ten years in this business being willing to work for jerks, against my better judgment but in accord with that of my well meaning advisors. It's amazing how much more money I make now that I refuse to work for jerks. It's like I'm being rewarded for dealing only with nice people. I'm not complaining!

I also get to work with rather than against my screwy circadian rhythm, which forces me to be a night owl whether I like it or not. Fortunately, I like it just fine and none of my clients have any beef with it. I guess it's part of the programmer stereotype.

My commute takes me each day from my bedroom, down the hall to the living room, down the stairs, across the family room, and into my office. It's a long way to go to move only eight feet -- my bed is directly over my desk. Some mornings the traffic is a real problem, when the cat stops on the stairs in front of me.

The boss doesn't mind if I smoke some fine legal Colorado pot right at my desk, not that I often do while I'm working. Speaking of which, I'm not working right now...

... too bad it's not a tax deductible entertainment expense. I can deduct poisoning clients with ethanol, but that doesn't mean much because I never meet my clients. Bonus! No direct dealings with "the public". I did meet one, once, but outside of that I've had to do zero face time -- so no one cares that I've got hair down to my waist and a much longer than business length beard, or swore long ago that I would never wear another damned tie and have kept that oath ever since.

I guess a guy would have to be stoned to make that segue from pot's not deductible to avoiding social business encounters. Good thing I don't get drug tested!

 

^ sounds like a dream to me

 

Best job for me is pulling rabbits out of thin air and making money out of nothing.......

I have worked at many different jobs for other, people, though,too...but I like working for myself the best. I make the best boss.....

 

Best job is a part time job. I work to live, not the other way around. Of course you have to be lucky or keep your fixed costs low (seems a good idea anyway) in order to pull it off financially. I feel lucky to be able to comfortably (on my own terms, I kinda enjoy living within a budget) live while only work 2 or 3 days a week. But my current job is not the best job ever. It stays mainly fun because I don't do it 5 or 6 days every week. I'm a cheese courier btw, deliving cheese to markets and supermarkets and all kinds of stores (cheese stores obviously, but also greengroceries, some butchers etc.). I really like the (short) contact with all the regular customers (mainly store employees). But the driving around the province is not too shabby either Except the morning traffic jams, which are nothing in comparison with those around Amsterdam, which are nothing compared to those in bigger european and american cities, so not much to complain!

 

My best job ever was working as an English teacher in China. It was such fun,creative work, the students were awesome, the hours were easy, but the best thing was, I had so much fun doing it!

 

Sometimes the best jobs are the ones which blow.

 

not if you're the old lady at my local place. every time i get her, she gives me an awful haircut while whining constantly about her horrible job. unfortunately, i currently live in a terrible town with only one hair place, so it's hard to avoid her, although i would probably request someone else at this point if i walked in and saw her there.

prostitution?




to answer the actual question, i guess i would probably say my current job. it can be stressful, and it's a lot of hours, but it's pretty rewarding work and there's constant variety so it never gets boring.

right behind my current job would be park labor and pizza delivery. i've outgrown both jobs at this point, but when i was doing them in my late teens/early 20s, it was hard to beat hanging out in parks and smoking weed or driving around the city and smoking weed.

 

Who can say what is the best job? Any job is ok if the person doing it enjoys it.

My job can be stressful and busy but it's satisfying and I learn things about people from all walks of life everytime I'm there.