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buffettbride wrote:

Wino you know wrote:

flyboy55 wrote:Flying a water bomber fighting fires. I felt appreciated.

Better than this airline gig (everybody hates airlines ).

I don't hate the airlines, I just hate what flying has become these days.
(Unless it's on a foreign carrier, where people are still treated like royalty).
But I STILL make sure I thank the pilots & STEWARDESSES every time as I'm getting off the plane.

Flight attendants, Garry. They are called flight attendants now.

not on singapore airlines they're not....

I'm pretty happy doing what I do now.

Can you say June, July, and August?

j/k...that's not entirely why I do it.

SMLCHNG wrote:1976, at the age of 16, I worked behind the snack counter of a brand new roller skating rink. Got to see my friends. Learned how to make change without a computer Got all the food/drink I wanted. And could skate anytime we were slow, or there was an 'all skate'.

How cool! In 1976, I was 9....I would've thought that you were 'all that' working behind the counter!

I'd like to think I haven't found my favorite job yet.....
(other than Mom, of course!)
I really have only had 2 'jobs' in my life.....at 16 I worked in the toy dept. of a department store- during the Cabbage Patch doll craze! Now that was scary....
From 17 on I've been in real estate.... which now is almost utterly useless...

Wow....gonna burn up some brain cells thinkin' about this......

- First job was lawn work for my folks......
- In High school 16 through 26 during the summer professional whitewater rafting guide.....
- Paid assistant for the athletics department at the academy.....basically got paid for passing out balls and cleaning up the gym while I studied....
- First "real Job" Field Engineer for General Electric, working on Navy and Merchant Marine projects....this job was fun and creative and exposed me to some of the most brillant people I have ever met....I enjoyed it immensely but it just didn't pay......
- Chief Engineer onboard Bering Sea crab fishing boat.....this is the job that started me on the path to where I am today......started out by buying the boat then designed the conversion to crab fishing vessel....sailed out of Houma,LA bound for the panama canal and Alaska.....
- Port Engineer for Bering Sea fishing company fleet.....managed the maintenance for the companies 5 vessels.....
- Marine engineer/Naval Architect....this was another fun creative job.....but another that didn't pay squat.....
- Chief Engineer for large Alaskan seafood processing plant.....this was a fun job!!!! Design, oversee the construction and operation of one of the largest seafood plants in the world.....lived in Dutch Harbor and had all my 'keets there.....
- CEO for the same large Alaskan Seaffod processing plant..... cool job BUT not how I got there......had to put my friend and boss in long term re-hab......
- President of Fishing Company.....Sounds alot better than it is....basically chief cook, bottle washer and the guy that gets to unclog the toilet.....I look after the 5 boats and crews that the company ownes....

So what was the best....Hands Down it was Rafting guide.....
Real Job???? Tie between Field ENgineer for GE and CHief Engineer for the processing plant in ALaska....

Phavorite job that I didn't make enough money to live on: phirst phull time job out of college. I was a cashier/front end asst. manager at Harris Teeter in Charlotte, NC . I liked seeing a lot of the same customers on a regular basis, and I learned how to ten-key. I think we were the last grocery store on Earth to still have the cash registers that you actually had to punch in the price and department.

Phavorite career job: the one I have now: working as a Human Resources Customer Service Rep for LandAmerica. Our group has a great reputation in the company b/c we have to know a lot about a lot of different things, so it really challenges me. Plus, I hate people so it's a perfect fit. My three coworkers and I have the best dynamic of ANY group I've ever worked with.

unemployment worked really well for me until I ran out of money

flyboy55 wrote:Flying a water bomber fighting fires. I felt appreciated.

Better than this airline gig (everybody hates airlines ).

only ultra liberal ones

Here's my list:

Waiter
Busboy
McDonald's Crew-Worked my way up to swing manager. Opened on weekends in High School
Army National Guardsman
Security Guard
Heavy Equipment Mechanic
Auto Mechanic
Fleet Boat Deckhand
Trip Boat Deckhand
Lot Porter at Pontiac Dealer
Trip Boat Deckhand (sensing a pattern! )
Back to McDonalds
Temporary Active Duty as an AV Guy-got to shoot and edit video, learned how to do 3D animation
Railroad Switchman-Got to train as an Engineer/Track and freight car repairman too. It was a small private company
Temporary Active duty fixing computers
Fleet Boat Deckhand
Ambulance Dispatcher
EMT
Pizza Delivery Guy
Paramedic
Part time Fleet Boat deckhand/Trainer
Paramedic Supervisor
Now back to Paramedic.

Volunteer Firefighter through all of this

Favorite? Being a Paramedic....2nd would still be Deckhand.