Your best job

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by peter12

Yessir. Jelly. I can pay for a man's beers!

and yet you left me a poor vet to pay for our beers.........for shame

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by nik-

Stunt ####.

NSFW!

[Weitz]

Best job is my current job. Relaxed hours. Ownership in the company. No micro management. Actually feel like I’m doing something good for this world.

[topfiverecords]

Aside from being cheap labour for my dad's company as a kid I've only had 6 jobs in 25+ years. I've been self employed for the last 12.

One I enjoyed was merchandising at a drug store from midnight to 8:30am after high school. The store was open 24 hours and next to a popular bar and after the bar crowd came through it was pretty dead from 3-6:30. There were two other guys and we each had a particular section of the store to stock, order and face. Instead of sticking to our own section all night, we'd all work together on each other's section so we could shoot the #### and gawk and comment on the women coming in loaded to buy makeup.

Every night when the deliveries would come off the truck we'd pick what we were having for a snack that night and the knife cutting the box open would slice the top bag, it would get written up and go on the stockroom shelf for us to eat. Only us and the managers knew about it and the managers didn't care, because half the time packaging was already damaged and you couldn't distinguish what was and wasn't that way off the truck. Any time magazines (the ones in the plastic) got opened by a customer they'd go on the lunch room table.

There was also a loft attic to the stockroom that had rows and rows of soap, shampoo, deodorant etc and lots of dead end areas you could just go and take a nap and no one would find you, although Jeff who was the most senior guy would just fall asleep during break in the lunchroom every night with his head on the table. We'd just leave him be until the next truck. Only did it for one year cause I had to start my secondary ed. Trying to sleep during the day, and having to leave weekend parties early to go to work was a drag though.

During school we had three co-op work terms between semesters and on my first term I got placed at a truss / joist supplier to do drafting for framing packages for single family homes. Other than it being a few minutes from my parents place, at first I was disappointed because I was hoping to get a spot in an architecture firm. Turned out to be an amazing place to work and I agreed to go back for the other two terms. My boss tasked me with designing a whole line of modern prefab cottages but there was probably 1/2 the day with nothing to do so I just designed websites, pissed around in Flash and managed hockey pools etc. The people there were the best I've ever worked with but after school I turned down going back because I got hired by the architecture firm I wanted, that I only stayed at for 2 years.

[sketchyt]

This could also go into my worst job, but I was a dishwasher at Denny's for a couple weeks before I quit. I was in my late teens and figured out pretty quick that I wasn't cut out for that sort of thing.

That job made me realize I needed to go to school and get my S together so I wouldn't have to do that for another minute.

[lansing pete mcroon]

Currently at my best job. Geologist for a gold exploration company.

Daily duties; helicopter rides, quadding on glaciers, looking at cool rocks, and figuring out one hell of an interesting deposit.

[djsFlames]

Originally Posted by Bindair Dundat

Sunshine Village; Spring of 1985. Hired as a houseman and my shift was 15:00-23:00. It was perfect. First tracks every morning and get off the hill just when it was getting packed with "gorbies". Go to work all day and cut out just when all of those hot tourists were well lubricated and wanting a little exposure to the "life" we had as residents...It can't get any better.
I can't even begin to describe how decadent this period of my life was.
You were almost like a "rock star", just by being a fixture within the Scurfield's world at the time.
I ate that up for all it was worth.
And it was epic...Chutes in TeePee town every morning with 6" of fresh.


It doesn't get any better...

Now I know what a true alpine dude bro sounds like.

Very enlightening, thank you.

[Enoch Root]

Growing up in London, Ont, had a job in Storeybook Gardens. I think it was a pumpkin, or something like that (can't remember now) - I was 15 that summer and it was me doing the cooking (frying burgers) in the back, with half a dozen girls serving up front.

I loved that pumpkin!

[djsFlames]

Originally Posted by lansing pete mcroon

Currently at my best job. Geologist for a gold exploration company.

Daily duties; helicopter rides, quadding on glaciers, looking at cool rocks, and figuring out one hell of an interesting deposit.

I think you might win this. Sounds amazing. Props to you for doing something cool that you love. I hope to get there eventually.

You should put together a video of your day to day, I'd watch that.

[Enoch Root]

loved being a currency trader - that was fun because you were always 'on'

[peter12]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

and yet you left me a poor vet to pay for our beers.........for shame

You spent the whole time bragging about your free parking!

[FireGilbert]

My best job was one of my first jobs in Australia. I was working for an engineering consultant and one of our clients had an issue: they were building a water pipeline and the idiot constructors kept running their excavators into power lines. I was tasked to manage these safety risks by increasing awareness and introducing controls, including isolations where possible.

So far this seems pretty standard, if not a bit stressful, however the best part was the location. This water pipeline was on the Sunshine Coast and I got to stay in an apartment 2 block from the beach. Also I had to be on call during construction hours from 0700 to 1700 but really only had like a half days work to do in between. My typical day started by waking up at 7 to make a phone call then I'd go back to bed for an hour. I'd then spend the day split between the site office and construction sites before ending up at the beach by 4. Sometimes I would even make my final phone calls of the day while lying on the beach!

There was some boring office spreadsheet and reporting work to do however most of the site work was great, going to a variety of locations up and down the coast. These visits mainly involved talking with the managers and walking through the gorgeous countryside taking pictures and powerline height measurements. One of the highlights was a walk through a pineapple patch. I always thought pineapples grew underground with the tops poking out so was completely blown away. I did once however take a wrong turn and end up held hostage by an angry property owner. This didn't outweigh all the awesome stuff though and at least I have a cool story to tell.

Finally, this job was only supposed to last 6 months, however in a quirk of Australian climate, the drought prevention water pipeline was severely delayed by flooding and it ended up taking 1.5 years. It was just the best job. Oh and I got a car too, a little Hyundai i30. Good times!

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by peter12

You spent the whole time bragging about your free parking!

Subtle, I like it, you should do it more often.

[malcolmk14]

Starting in Summer 2012 I worked five years straight in the pro shop at a golf course.

I played an insane amount of golf, met some really good people, decreased my handicap from 21 to 6, played almost every course in Calgary for free.

The coolest thing it led to was caddying in the 2016 CN Women's Open at Priddis for a young Thai player who was enjoying her first year on the LPGA Tour.

She had an incredible first two days, which led to us being on the leaderboard with a real crack at winning the thing, and we played with World #1 Lydia Ko on the Saturday.

I ate lunch every day with the Thai players, chatted daily on the putting green with Brooke Henderson, and learned a ton about pro golf and how incredibly good those ladies playing on the Tour are.

[Traditional_Ale]

The most fun job I ever had was working at Axe Music. The manager was an idiot blowhard who talked too much and irritated the hell out of me, which is why I would drink beers and smoke weed on shift, but the rest of the staff were so cool and fun to hang with. It was a commission based environment and I thrived in that. Sorry to be racist for a moment, but when Asian parents came looking for a piano all I had to do was dial up the right patch and rip the intro to "Jump" (RIP, Eddie) and they'd buy instantly. It kind of became a running joke.

The highlight for me was when they hired this rapper kid who didn't actually know anything about music or gear and so I mentored him. He just recently ended up finishing audio school and is now a full time recording engineer.

[Locke]

Best Job?

Being Self-Employed.

[bossy22]

Best Job when younger, Golf Course assistant superintendent at a couple of different courses around Edmonton. Golf courses are the best gigs for young people imo.

Best job in Calgary, Application support for Bell West, before Bell Canada took them over.

[Sled]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

Working at a video store. Awesome job.

We had some fun times!

[peter12]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Subtle, I like it, you should do it more often.

Sometimes I really come through. Like in my current job with all the freedom and culture.

[Codes]

You know what, I've pretty much loved all my jobs for various reasons.

My first real job was at Blockbuster Video. Even though it was a customer service job, the clientele were generally friendly, and you got to know folks. We had issues with theft, and the holidays were always crazy, but I liked it. We got to take home the new releases early, and got something like 10 free rentals a week.

For the first couple of summers during university, I came back home to Kelowna and worked at Byland's Nursery. That was some hard and physical labor. But, I loved it. I got into pretty good shape, and made some great friends. I got to play with tractors and forklifts, and worked outside.

Eventually, I stopped coming home and took a part time job working on the loading dock at Sears. Basically, just unloaded the trucks, and wheeled the merchandise out for the shelvers. We'd also deal with customer pickups. I was young, and again, worked with some cool people. I didn't need to think too hard, and just had a good time.

Had a couple of co-op positions. First one was at Maxxam Analytics in Edmonton. Spent 8 months there. Great people, lots of fun.

My second co-op job was at a Public Health Agency of Canada lab in Lethbridge. That turned into a MSc., then a job with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and 10 years later, I've come full circle, back with PHAC working at the National Micro Lab in WPG.