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What's the coolest job you've ever had?

Markleshark said:
Underwater Fireman.
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I worked in a scuba and watersports shop one summer. That was pretty cool.

The job I most enjoyed most though was cultivating plants at a garden centre. Very early starts and hard work physically, but extremely satisfying.
 
Phone sex operator. Paid for college.
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That was you? LOL

You got me through college! :p :D

How about sucky jobs in cool locations?

I managed data entry operators in the JFK Control Tower many years ago.

Got to hang with the controllers and see some pretty crazy things.
 
I don't know...most of my jobs had at least one particularly cool thing about them.

Right now, I'm developing a pair of satellites which will be launched in 2010 and I get a week off to see the next shuttle launch in August. I used to work in a nuclear facility doing research to improve the safety and efficiency of CANDU nuclear reactors.

I thoroughly enjoy both of these, but I still kind of wish I had something as hands-on and "dirty" as my old lifeguarding job, where I also did maintenence on the pool pump and filtration systems. :eek:
 
I worked in a sort-of computer lab in college. While I worked there I learned how to to do almost any kind of PC repair you can think of -- installing and replacing parts, "reviving" crashed hard disks, etc. I was still using Windows-based PCs in those days (i.e. I had not yet seen the light), and I built all of my own computers from parts. It was a really great learning experience.
 
working in a record shop
which is great for about 10 minutes
until you realise you have to deal with the general public and their terrible taste in music
"are you sure you want to buy a Vanilla Ice cassette?"
 
While at BYU I worked at our Creamery. I was officially a front-end employee, but my two best friends worked in the back so I spent a lot of time helping them out in the deep-freezer. But, I spent time for my own work in the regular freezer and the refrigerated area. Very cool indeed.

Seriously though, it was a great job. Most of my job required me to serve ice cream. I believed it important to ensure that our ice cream was fresh and delicious - so I would take repeated samples throughout the night to ensure consistent quality. The best part was that most of our customers were freshmen. No matter how old I got, those girls stayed the same age. Plus I could use them for their dining plans to buy me food.
 
nbs2 said:
While at BYU I worked at our Creamery. I was officially a front-end employee, but my two best friends worked in the back so I spent a lot of time helping them out in the deep-freezer. But, I spent time for my own work in the regular freezer and the refrigerated area. Very cool indeed.
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LOL. Like 18 below cool. Very good :D
 
My current one would fill the "coolest" position....

Watching F15Es take off with full afterburn on at night a couple hundred feet away is pretty neat the first few months. Being one of very few people allowed on the runway is nice when family comes into town.

Now I'm just bored of it. Hopefully my next job (science teacher) will be a bit more enjoyable.
 
Figure drawing model

they paid me $10 to sit around naked. Though it can actually be quite painful to sit absolutely still for 40 minutes at a time and kind of weird to sit with it all hanging out and have to listen to girls chirping away about spring break and whatnot. Then I made a girl cry because she couldn't get her drawing done in time because my head was too big.

Though remember to bring your own butt towel, I forgot mine and had to use the one the fat guy modeling before me used. I also had to watch him dress about 6 inches in front of me while telling me how the modeling wasn't sexual.....
 
My current one which I can't go into details.


But past ones:

Door guard and assistant to the girls at a strip club, customers would try to bribe me serious money to get a peek at the girls changing into costumes.
learned that stripping is a hard and painful job - not easy money at all.

Website content manager for an adult entertainment company - they fired me 4 years later when they found out I was a girl... my job was all distance/web based they had never interviewed me in person. It was interesting seeing my classmates in various states of undress and positions... great blackmail material.

Receptionist for a escort service that dealt with both men and women - gay and straight , a real challenge to keep track off 800 or so escorts and their specialties and schedules. Learned that men will pay way too much for mediocre sex.
 
this is my third summer as a camp counselor, the last two years were better but what other job can u say i went swimming, went on the trapeze and did high ropes all in the same day...i wish i was a kid again :p
 
The nicest job was being in charge of a mac lab during college because all I did was play with macs and surf the web. Occasionally I would explain to someone how to right click. Too bad I made more money working one week as an interpreter during the summer than working a whole semester at school.
 
I really haven't had any cool jobs- best buy was horrible, and other than that, all i have done is babysitting.
Ideally, at my age, i would love to have a job as an assistant in an office, or my dream, working as a mac specialist :cool:
 
SamIchi said:
How about you fill us in. I think anything form fast food is pretty much bad for you.
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Yeah everything from Sonic is unhealthly, but I was more talking about what foods are freshly made and which ones have been sitting around since lunch. I would highly recommend anything fried (with the exception of french fries during off hours.) For most of the fried foods (tater tots, chicken fingers, chicken patties, onion rings, etc) we would cook them to order so when you get them they haven't been sitting under a heat lamp for two hours. The burgers were normally pretty good to. I definitely wouldn't recommend going during off hours or right before close because you never really know what you are going to get.

If you want to know what not to eat I can tell you, but I know a lot of people get mad when someone tells them abuot how their favorite food is actually prepared.

Things might have changed over the past 10 years but the menu is pretty much the same so I imagine that the cooking procedure is similar.
 
adk said:
I used to be an aircraft pushback agent and marshaller (the orange wands). I loved it, and I could fly around the country for free (and the world for next to nothing).
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I'd love to do that

My coolest job was being a Zamboni driver
 
Has to be the local gigs I used to play as a kid (I play horn). I've played in more churches that I'd care to admit and it was always like taking candy from a baby: the music was always very easy, the rehearsals were always short and painless (if they existed at all) and the church-goers were always extremely grateful and friendly. If they only knew half the things that were going on in the pit, including finding new licks to play instead of the written music. I remember when a bass player realized that "Smoke on the Water" happened to work with the offertory music during a Midnight Mass service, something that we found hilarious at the time since no one noticed!
 
not exactly a job. but i once got paid $80 + starbucks gift cards for an one-hour interview about my sexual experiences (it was for some grad studies at UCSF you pervs :)). the easiest money i have ever earned in my life, except i had to be up at 6.
 
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