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I worked at a drive in theater one summer. The pay sucked but it was such an awesome job. We got free movies, free popcorn as much as I could stomach, free pop and I hung out with a group of guys that I became really good friends with. So basically every night I goofed off with friends outside watching movies.

For being 29, I've worked a fair few different numbers at this stage. I'd say being a teacher is the best, and suits me best, though it has it's crappy parts too.

Getting to impact kids lives is great- as long as you feel your impact is positive. Getting to talk and work in a field I'm passionate about (biology) is awesome. The holidays are great, and my wages are good. In my current school I am lucky enough to work with excellent colleagues and really nice kids.

The main bummer in the current place is the "for profit" nature of the school, which gets my goat when I'm arguing for something for the kids. In my previous school it was lunatic kids with no boundaries that the system just let run riot.
It's also pretty tough if you have a class get poor results. I have been okay on that front up to this year, where my students got pretty disappointing results. I am pretty down about it, but you gotta keep on plugging away.

I actually look back most fondly on the school I worked in in Ireland. The kids were rough, but we had control over them where it counted, and once they accepted you, it was really like being taken into the community. Sounds trite, but it was true. I still sometimes see them around when I go back to Dublin, and they will recognise me and talk to me in the street. That's pretty special.

So I figure I'm a pretty lucky guy.

Best moment so far. Taking 30+ files (after I skimmed through them) dropping them off on the lawyer who assigns files to other lawyers and saying "Let me know which one's need transportation for deportation later on"

Best job is my current one, geologist at a gold mine! I love rocks and minerals, and get some really good ones doing this. It's an exciting occupation and there's no end to the learning.

Before that I was a janitor, which I also really liked. It was super-easy and I could listen to audio books all day and no one bothered you. I had to clean up some disgusting messes from time to time, but it was a good job.

 Cave_Dweller wrote:
Best job is my current one, geologist at a gold mine! I love rocks and minerals, and get some really good ones doing this. It's an exciting occupation and there's no end to the learning.

Before that I was a janitor, which I also really liked. It was super-easy and I could listen to audio books all day and no one bothered you. I had to clean up some disgusting messes from time to time, but it was a good job.

School Janitor?..thinking the Maintenance/Janitor guy fixing the water fountain for the B-Ball players

 Jihadin wrote:

 Cave_Dweller wrote:
Best job is my current one, geologist at a gold mine! I love rocks and minerals, and get some really good ones doing this. It's an exciting occupation and there's no end to the learning.

Before that I was a janitor, which I also really liked. It was super-easy and I could listen to audio books all day and no one bothered you. I had to clean up some disgusting messes from time to time, but it was a good job.

School Janitor?..thinking the Maintenance/Janitor guy fixing the water fountain for the B-Ball players

Hah no it was at a hospital, so some really nasty messes.

 Cave_Dweller wrote:

 Jihadin wrote:

 Cave_Dweller wrote:
Best job is my current one, geologist at a gold mine! I love rocks and minerals, and get some really good ones doing this. It's an exciting occupation and there's no end to the learning.

Before that I was a janitor, which I also really liked. It was super-easy and I could listen to audio books all day and no one bothered you. I had to clean up some disgusting messes from time to time, but it was a good job.

School Janitor?..thinking the Maintenance/Janitor guy fixing the water fountain for the B-Ball players

Hah no it was at a hospital, so some really nasty messes.

LOL my brief time that I left the US Army (11 years done but was burned out from being in the 82nd most the time) I became a Certified SurgTech for the OR in the civilian world. Did the eight month crash course instead of two years. During those two years (was oit for a little over two years) I manage to land a job in the same hospital I scrubbed at in Central Processing so basically knew all the surgical instruments. Two years working there I saw some serious advancement in procedures to go non invasive compare to opening someone up. I pretty much specialized in Ortho, Neuro, Vascular and Heart. Four of the doctors I worked with were prior military(1 was current active reserve; Navy) the other two was Air Force and the last was Army on the National Guard side of the house.
Lot's of branch bashing and professional opinion giving over some individual concerning the military world. Three days after I completed my OR intern to earn my certification I was on my way to Fort Eutis VA for reclassification to Movement Coordinator and then straight to Fort Benning GA deployment to Afghanistan. US Army paid for it all (the school cost and they wrote of what I owed from the GI Bill and converted it to the 9/11 GI Bill) when four field grade officers raised Hell 10 ways to Sunday to their Chain of Command.

One of the greatest feeling and privilege is leading troops. I've mentor and lead troops for a good eight years in peace time before I left. Yet leading troops into/during combat and bringing them all home alive is a testament of sheer will power.Staying on top of everything and on everyone and making the right calls and decision and being in the Sierra Hotel India Tango (just for you Red but remember some situations that one word can best describe it ) with these young individuals creates a bond that any God can envy. Injuries though while some were severe and some were minor we were THERE FOR EACH OTHER. I wrote up one Purple Heart that lessen the fact one individual was shot in both butt cheek (round furrow aka grazed), wrote another up for taking a ricochet to the groin protector and kept in the fight by not laying down fire with the SAW (extreme pain made him clenched his fists. Fun times and I am digressing though I to was injured when a rocket came flying in and hit the building I was in as I was stapling a CONOP report together and manage to completely staple my finger. I threaten bodily harm to my "El Tee" if he wrote that up.....he did....so I super glued his Alumni Coffee Mug to the front of his MATV....

I seem to have gotten carried away but actually that one thread that was locked mentioning those of us joining the military have a mental illness irked me.

Best time I have had in life was in the military. The camaraderie that is found there

cabinetmaker Work was great. People trying to screw me, not so much.

No, I cannot make you a grandfather clock for 500 dollars.

 Jihadin wrote:

 Cave_Dweller wrote:

 Jihadin wrote:

 Cave_Dweller wrote:
Best job is my current one, geologist at a gold mine! I love rocks and minerals, and get some really good ones doing this. It's an exciting occupation and there's no end to the learning.

Before that I was a janitor, which I also really liked. It was super-easy and I could listen to audio books all day and no one bothered you. I had to clean up some disgusting messes from time to time, but it was a good job.

School Janitor?..thinking the Maintenance/Janitor guy fixing the water fountain for the B-Ball players

Hah no it was at a hospital, so some really nasty messes.

LOL my brief time that I left the US Army (11 years done but was burned out from being in the 82nd most the time) I became a Certified SurgTech for the OR in the civilian world. Did the eight month crash course instead of two years. During those two years (was oit for a little over two years) I manage to land a job in the same hospital I scrubbed at in Central Processing so basically knew all the surgical instruments. Two years working there I saw some serious advancement in procedures to go non invasive compare to opening someone up. I pretty much specialized in Ortho, Neuro, Vascular and Heart. Four of the doctors I worked with were prior military(1 was current active reserve; Navy) the other two was Air Force and the last was Army on the National Guard side of the house.
Lot's of branch bashing and professional opinion giving over some individual concerning the military world. Three days after I completed my OR intern to earn my certification I was on my way to Fort Eutis VA for reclassification to Movement Coordinator and then straight to Fort Benning GA deployment to Afghanistan. US Army paid for it all (the school cost and they wrote of what I owed from the GI Bill and converted it to the 9/11 GI Bill) when four field grade officers raised Hell 10 ways to Sunday to their Chain of Command.

One of the greatest feeling and privilege is leading troops. I've mentor and lead troops for a good eight years in peace time before I left. Yet leading troops into/during combat and bringing them all home alive is a testament of sheer will power.Staying on top of everything and on everyone and making the right calls and decision and being in the Sierra Hotel India Tango (just for you Red but remember some situations that one word can best describe it ) with these young individuals creates a bond that any God can envy. Injuries though while some were severe and some were minor we were THERE FOR EACH OTHER. I wrote up one Purple Heart that lessen the fact one individual was shot in both butt cheek (round furrow aka grazed), wrote another up for taking a ricochet to the groin protector and kept in the fight by not laying down fire with the SAW (extreme pain made him clenched his fists. Fun times and I am digressing though I to was injured when a rocket came flying in and hit the building I was in as I was stapling a CONOP report together and manage to completely staple my finger. I threaten bodily harm to my "El Tee" if he wrote that up.....he did....so I super glued his Alumni Coffee Mug to the front of his MATV....

I seem to have gotten carried away but actually that one thread that was locked mentioning those of us joining the military have a mental illness irked me.

Best time I have had in life was in the military. The camaraderie that is found there

I too did some military service, coast guard for 6 years. It was a good time and lots of unique experiences, but nothing like what you did. Unfortunately, my experience didn't really translate to civvie life.

I'm glad I found geology.

Military Funeral Honors NCOIC. I only left it because it was not a permanent position. I needed long term job security. Miss it though. Will probably never have such a fulfilling job again.

Mine have all been fun, then turned into horribleness as time went on. The best was for a skateboard/ snow/ clothing/ equipment/ etc company. A friend calls me, "want job? start monday". That was it.

My first day: My mouth dropped as he showed me how he got stock down from 12' up. He climbed up, pushed the box of shoes off.

The first year involved skating about on trolleys, ladders, pushing each other around in whatever had wheels into stock. Climbing over stock and making dens. Making smoking rooms out of empty boxes next to a wall vent, which looked like stock boxes. Playing jenga with 10' high stock cause nobody could be bothered to put it away and we needed to pick from wherever it may be. Having stupid jumping competitions, again high up, across wonky storage frames/ cases/ whatever you call them. We spent half a day collecting them silicon air drying bags from inside shoes and emptied them into cups. We then got to the highest point whilst hiding and chucked them over two of the other warehouse guys, the sound and mess, it was like rain. The last game we invented was the magnet game, that was a good one we spent weeks on. You'd get these magnets which were for labelling stock, and see what the highest support beam on the roof you could get them to stick to. Eventually running out of magents as they were all stuck to the beams. As you can imagen, endless amounts of sillyness and next to no work was ever done.

However it came to an end when i discovered the truth behind my friend. He basically stabbed me in the back, i spoke to him about it but nothing changed. My mind was also in a strange place at the time and i really needed to get something more in my life. So i ended up leaving.

I thoroughly enjoy being a helicopter pilot now.

That said, its tempting to go back to being a snowboard instructor. Getting paid to ride all day and help other people enjoy their riding is satisfying, fun, healthy, and always different.

I may just combine the two and either teach flying, or fly for a heli skiing company.

I have enjoyed all my jobs.

Probably favorite was working at Party City over Halloween. I ran the back room. Part of that was pulling costumes when there wasn't enough help.

Part of pulling costumes was waiting for the people to try them on, then either get a new size for them or a different one for them to try.

Costumes are rather, revealing, and quiet a few women would ask if they looked too slutty, so you had to look. A nice perk.

Best job is a relative term. Currently I am a critical care nurse practitioner and make great money and get to take care of people. It makes me feel like I am doing some good in this crazy world we live in. As for best job prior to this, I was a bouncer at a strip club while going to haring school.

 Cave_Dweller wrote:

 Jihadin wrote:

 Cave_Dweller wrote:
Best job is my current one, geologist at a gold mine! I love rocks and minerals, and get some really good ones doing this. It's an exciting occupation and there's no end to the learning.

Before that I was a janitor, which I also really liked. It was super-easy and I could listen to audio books all day and no one bothered you. I had to clean up some disgusting messes from time to time, but it was a good job.

School Janitor?..thinking the Maintenance/Janitor guy fixing the water fountain for the B-Ball players

Hah no it was at a hospital, so some really nasty messes.

Any pennies stuck in automatic doors?