Yet another work topic

[WF7I]

What was your favorite job of all time, and how long did it last? (no, retirement doesn't count!)

My current job is my favorite, and I hope it lasts a long time.

[k6pme]

The same occupation I have had since I was 18 and I'm 44 now.

Firefighter. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[KF0RT]

I told my boss today that my idea of a perfect job was where my employer writes me checks and I cash them.

It's good we can joke like that. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

I don't guess I've ever had a bad job. They've all paid pretty well, and I generally don't have to put in extra hours.

73, Rob (KFØRT)

[N7CPC]

I really liked being piano player at a local whore house. Didn't last long though, I don't play the piano! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[K8YS]

every job I've had, I've liked, some more than others.

My first job out of school, worked for peanuts, but I was in electronics, repairing audio - consumer and pro audio gear. Then got into 2way radio repair, this somehow lead to working in telecom.
Telecom is great! I never want to go back to a bench or a 9 - 5, punch a clock job ever again. My last "job" was field service, going from town to town, working on hotel/motel PBX, payphones, call accounting computers, T1 channel banks, VoIP, VPN systems, and my all time, REALLY! favorite, coinless payphones in jails and other high security institutions.
Now, a T1 is rather narrow band, but in 1990, a T1 was the ultimate.
Covering 34 states and part of Canada, I got to see a lot of the USA up close, and I never was able to pass a big brown sign on the interstate if it included the word "battlefield".
Oh yea, also spent a couple years as an electronics instructor, I guess that was not a good job, it was a punch the clock job, and it was between contact jobs, so field service was already in my blood.

[w2wtf]

Still at it!!

[ai4ep]

Sunday morning announcer/ dj am local AM radio station...I liked that job...all the folks would flitter in through the morning for their HALF HOUR to talk to their radio audience...we had baptist / primitive baptist / church of christ / and a gathering of other smaller religions thrown in for good balance...plus when no one had a half hour program...I got to play some of that " old " gospel songs ---AMAZING GRACE...HOW GREAT THOU ART.. the story songs, and a few comemercials thrown in to pay the bills...I loved to try to liven up the weather forecast *** SUNNY skies on a SUNday afternoon coming up, get out and see your neighborhood ( of course gas was a max at $1.10 a gallon back then ) ***...once I mentioned for folks to " call some one you aint spoken to in years ..and MY phone at home had 4 messages on it from former girlfriends who I did not even know even LISTENED to me (big ego boost ) on the AM broadcast radio...amazing how folks can keep up with folks they hate so well !! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif { yep, they hate my guts but listen to me on the AM broadcast radio back then }....I might like to have it back ( old job at the station ), then I might not be as great as I was ( after all...X # of years OLDER ).....sooooo I might ought to leave well enuf alone http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif ... but you can always dream and remember the great times I had there.

[KC0KBH]

I have only had one job, was hard work, but pays good. I hate it when I have to dig in a yard full of rocks. Then when you hit one with the pick, especially one that I can't lift, your hands hurt from the pick suddenly stopping. Or when the yard is clay.

[KC9ECI]

I could so tell you the best 'job' I ever got, but it would get me banned for sure.

[KA9VQF]

My all time favorite job was in a machine shop. I really liked going in at night. Yes, it was third shift. I had two supervisors, Lenny and Bruce, real names. There wasn’t a machine I couldn’t run at rate or better and always made good parts.

I rarely got the same machine two nights in a row unless they had some really hot part that they needed lots of by morning.

One night I over slept by a half hour. When I called Lenny said he was just about to call me but couldn’t find my number. If the neighbors hadn’t decided to have wild screaming bedroom fun I might have slept through till morning. We lived in a duplex at the time. When I got to work and told them how I had managed to wake up they chuckled all night every time they looked at me.

[w4rot]

Methinks this one.
The checks don't bounce and the toys are cool.
w4rot

[WF7I]

I've been in my "career" work field for about the last 6 years. I've bounced around before that trying to find my way.

My current job is by far the best I've ever had. I've worked for them as a contractor and now fulltime, for a grand total of 5 months. I cross my fingers that this position lasts a long time! I too love the toys but more importantly (to me) the folks I work with are fantastic people. Family-orientated, friendly and honest/hard-working.

And, the checks don't bounce! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[kb2vxa]

Hi guys,

I had two favorite jobs, first and last. The first was back when gasoline was 39 cents and the place was a sand box. We made fire extinguishers and had fun blasting each other with them but my favorite was one filled with ice water in the summer heat. Lots more fun and games too, most of the workers were renegade bikers. When the owner walked in we would play like nothing happened but he knew better. He'd just walk around smoking his pipe and shaking his head.

The last job in a series in the electronics industry was in process and final QC testing of magnetic components. It was very laid back and because I knew my stuff and learned quickly I was soon given more responsibiliy and privelege. Often I would set up a test for the less knowledgable ones or work with engineering on prototype R&D. Best of all I basically had the run of the place and could work on my own projects during lunch time and on Saturday if someone was there. It's nice to work with thousands of dollars worth of extremely accurate, calibrated digital test equipment when the old scope and VTVM at home just won't do.

73 de Warren KB2VXA