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I was thinking about this while waiting in line at a coffee shop today. My current role is very professionally satisfying, I talk to very interesting people and get to travel occasionally, and with commissions can make pretty good money. But it's all phone/email with very little excitement.

I actually enjoyed working as a barista in a coffee shop more. Pay sucked and no career in it, but making drinks, talking to hundreds of people a day, and I love coffee. If the pay was the same I'd rather run a coffee shop.

Regardless of pay/benefits/career advancement, what's your favorite job you've ever had?

 
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Camp counselor, specifically when I spent a couple years working on the sports staff where all the kids would come through during the day, so no dealing with arts and crafts and crap. Overall though, I was outside all day during the summer, working with a lot of friends, all of us nursing hangovers and occasionally (ie frequently) sneaking some booze in snapple bottles, plenty of girls on the staff, and made decent money for a 17 year old kid.

 
Similar to you, I liked being a waiter at a Mexican restaurant.

 
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Pizza Delivery was a lot of fun back in my youth. Driving around town, not sitting in an office, boss not watching you every minute....

 
I don't mind what I do now, but given the chance, I would be a fireman.

To go back, I didn't mind being a vendor at shea stadium. inside for the jets and mets, could make ok money.

 
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Camp counselor, specifically when I spent a couple years working on the sports staff where all the kids would come through during the day, so no dealing with arts and crafts and crap. Overall though, I was outside all day during the summer, working with a lot of friends, all of us nursing hangovers and occasionally (ie frequently) sneaking some booze in snapple bottles, plenty of girls on the staff, and made decent money for a 17 year old kid.
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I did this one summer. Hell of a lot of fun.

 
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Camp counselor, specifically when I spent a couple years working on the sports staff where all the kids would come through during the day, so no dealing with arts and crafts and crap. Overall though, I was outside all day during the summer, working with a lot of friends, all of us nursing hangovers and occasionally (ie frequently) sneaking some booze in snapple bottles, plenty of girls on the staff, and made decent money for a 17 year old kid.
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this or lifeguarding. Getting paid decent money to watch women in bikinis was a good time. Of course, there was the occasional 400 lb whale we had to save, but overall it was worth it.

 
My first job...cleaning at a bakery. As much as the process sucked, I enjoyed seeing the end result and worked with some cool people.

In IT, there is never an end result. The work flows into the next day and is going to be there again tomorrow.

 
I worked at a full service car wash for about a year. I didn't like my boss but he was rarely there and my coworkers were great. We had a lot of downtime where we would sit outside waiting for cars to come while listening to the radio. On warm summer days it was fantastic.

 
I forgot to add that being a camp counselor allowed me to have a real life association with EG72, which obviously trumps anything else you guys have on here.

 
I worked as a dock attendant at a marina at a beach resort in Florida after college. My job involved sitting around on the end of the dock with one of my best friends waiting for yachts to come in and then cruising around on a golf cart or bike to tie up the yachts and refuel them. The millionaire yacht owners always gave me great tips, which sometimes included freshly caught fish. It was a pretty sweet gig.

 
1. Lifeguard at the local water park (early 90s). was doing slides -n-rides only, not deep water, so not much stress on that end. didn't make much money, but there was a party every night. oh, and chicks in bikinis all day long.

1a. Harvest internship (i.e. Cellar Rat) in 2008. great learning experience with a small crew, and opened the door to my current career. plus i got to drink great wine every day at lunch for three months.

 
Either bartender in college or working on the greens crew at a municipal golf course.

I would lean towards the golf course because it was 6-3 weekdays with free golf and being outside every day all day.

But I would give almost anything for one more week back in college bartending.

 
Not sure if it was the job or just that period in my life but movie theater usher. Easy work, we could order pizza for after hour employee only screenings and then pay with movie passes. Frequently ended with pool parties and skinny dipping.

 
Grounds crew for a professional baseball team. Sit in the dugouts watch the games. Work in the dirt hang with some cool guys.

 
I enjoyed working on boats. I was installing radios, nav equipment, electrical systems, etc. Got to work on some very cool boats and then you have to take them out to make sure everything works right. Did a couple of shakedowns to the Bahamas that were a lot of fun.

 
Teacher's assistant for the dental hygiene class in dental school.

Gave me first shot at the hottest single girls in the class.. and made me the liaison to hooking up my buddies with available chicks as well.

Good times.

 
Was pizza delivery guy during college. Tons of loose cash, driving around listening to WNBC and Howard Stern and getting paid for it. Life was good.

 
I had a job years ago working at an airport loading and unloading luggage. A simple carefree job, the money wasn't great but it was a pretty good workout.

 
TV sports anchor for a year but I've had a lot of really good jobs. Can't say I've had a bad one when I was 22 and an MP in the military, but I enjoyed parts of that too since I lived in Spain, Italy, and Germany.

 
Bar Manager at a private club in the 90s.

Bang the weekend piano player on a local golf course after hours. Took her to a local bar (Fabulous Ferns for any Twin Cities folk) then went to drop her off at her dorm. She wanted to go for a walk, told me to drive to a local golf course where we could walk the cart path, and then the secks happened on one of the greens.

Dated one of the 18-year-old servers when I was 6 years her senior. She lived with her best friend and I slept over many nights with these two in the same bed.

God, I want to be in my 20s again

 
Delivery driver for an ice cream place in college. Delivered to starved sorority girls and stoned coeds happy to tip.

Also worked in a movie theater in high school / college. Great job for a student.

 
Lifeguard at country club when I was 17, me and my best friend were the only 2 guys working with 6 chicks....great parties and random sex all summer.

TV cameraman broadcasting the local high school & college sports. Paid $15 an hour cash back in the mid seventies, no perks but loved the cash.

Manager of a stereo store also in the seventies/early eighties in a college town. Hooking up the students with their gear and getting invited to all the parties...

I'd go back to any of these

 
Soon after high school I worked in an arcade in the late 80's/early 90's for several months. Easily my favorite job. After the mall closed, I opened the machines up to free play mode and my friends and I would play until 2 or 3 in the morning.

 
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