What was the hardest or the coolest job u ever had or have?

[NYLIBUD]

I’ve had a lot of different jobs.But I would have to say my hardest,was when I worked as an investigator for our local CPS (Child Protective Services)office…Yup,the pay 💵and benefits were great,but after 10.+years,seeing all kinds of fu%#@ up kids everyday was more than I could handle..However the people I worked with were great.We were all only supposed to really have no more than 15,or so cases,but because of all the paperwork,crazy deadlines,we each had over like forty,or so cases..With tons of back logs,people leaving the job,cause they hated it.A 😖 revolving doorLike I said,there were some good things about the job.We all worked as a team,helping one another with whatever.It taught me a lot…And probably the coolest,& easiest job I had,was when I was 16,and a life guard at a local country club.Got paid to sit around,working on my tan.😆

[Ace-Garageguy]

Hardest is the one I'm doing now, finishing up a lower-high-end pro-touring '66 Chevelle, on my own until I hand it off for paint.

And every day as I get older and more useless, the harder it gets.  

Coolest was probably as a racing mechanic, doing the prep in the shops, test driving, and going on the road with the cars.

Edited 14 hours ago by Ace-Garageguy

[Tim W. SoCal]

3 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

And every day as I get older and more useless

Bill, do not EVER think you're (or we're, the aged) are becoming USELESS! We have experience and skills that are essential and invaluable that desperately need to be passed on to the younger generations, as well as innumerable resources and retrospections that may benefit them as they travel this journey of life.

[Dave Van]

My favorite job was during high school in the 70's. Back then in NC the high school kids drove all the school buses!! We'd drive in the morning, miss first period while driving the elementary and jr schools. Go to class, get out and drive kids home. It was a great job....nights, weekends and holidays off. You took the bus home every night. I took great pride in the job. Never had any safety issues in 2 years driving. I enjoyed driving too. I feel it taught me some life lessons too. My Sr year bus driver photo.....that's my bus #51 and me in the racing jacket at the door. Thx 

 

Edited 14 hours ago by Dave Van

[Tim W. SoCal]

  My hardest, yet most rewarding, job was owning my own automotive repair and maintenance business. Not only the responsibilities of being the bottom line in providing outstanding service to our clients, but being ultimately responsible to make sure my techs, who were all on commission, had enough work to provide the income to feed, house and clothe their kids, buy them Christmas presents, etc. and to ensure that each of them earned a decent and comfortable living, as well as making sure that  my shop operated as an asset to the community.

[Rob Hall]

My jobs have all been software engineering/computer programmer positions after college and grad school (during college worked part time at the campus bookstore for 2 years and as a junior sys admin for the Computer Science department for 2 years, taught college algebra, calculus and intro computer programming classes in grad school).  

Almost 30 years in the tech biz, many at startups and Fortune 50 companies, large and small.

I've had a few jobs that started off promising but ended up miserable and exhausting...one at a startup in Colorado where I was underpaid and had a 120 mile commute daily and the people I worked with I loathed, another at a major bank in software development in Arizona w/ a 50 mile daily commute, 65-70 hr work week, horrible people to work with dysfunctional environment (3 people out of 12 had heart attacks in 6 months), and maybe the worst was a contract at a software company in Scottsdale, AZ where I worked 80-95 hrs a week for 2 months.. at least that was an hourly gig w/ 3 meals a day served and a good rate, but it aged me.  

Best might be my current job (work from home, high salary and great benefits, great team to work with) and a job I had in Denver in the 00s where I worked with a strong team culture and was a lot of fun (the company bar was walking distance from the office, we had team golf outings and hiking). 

Edited 9 hours ago by Rob Hall

[stitchdup]

coolest would have to be the seafood factories but thats cos they are chilled. the hardest was probably nightwatch on the boat. nothing to do most of the time but when something went wrong it was always 3 in the morning and i had to wake up the bosses. a big highlight was learning by phone how to drop the anchor when she broke loose in a storm and because the ship was under refit there were no torches to be found as everything was being certified. i saved the ship but there was a lot of damage. to be fair though, when nothing was happening i built models 

[John M.]

I've been a bus driver since 1990 and the jobs that I had were headaches in their own right. My first was driving a shuttle bus for one of the rental car companies at Logan Airport and a interstate motor coach. However, the one I have now is the hardest and toughest of them which is driving a school bus. My most important piece of equipment on it is a bottle of extra strength Tylenol. At least my boss pays me enough. 🙂

[JollySipper]

As soon as I had my driver's license I had a job...... The toughest job that I had the pleasure of holding was the several pig farms that I worked at. I worked every department at one time or another, from making babies to sending them off! All the people were cool to work with, I just got burned out with it...........

So I found another trade to learn, painting houses! Got to do some traveling, work on some 100 year old houses, and met all kinds of people......... The best part was that the job site changed pretty often, so there wasn't as much getting burned out just being at one place.

[johnyrotten]

Coolest job was also the worst. Industrial maintenance/milwright work. I got to travel all over half the country and work on crazy, huge equipment while making insane money in my early/mid twenties. The 2-3 day straight through  workdays, not home for a month and corporate garbage took the enjoyment out of that work. 

[TonyK]

I guess my coolest job was back in the '70's when I was a senior in high school delivering pizza. This was before every pizza joint did such a thing. We had a bunch of pickups with an oven in the back and you'd deliver all around town. I'd meet all types of people and deliver to homes, apartments, parties, massage parlors, gas stations, etc. This was also before GPS so you'd learn all the streets and addresses from a paper map.

At the end of the night you'd fill the truck up with propane from a big tank behind the restaurant because that was what powered the engine and oven. Fun times and my first woman boss who was very efficient and fair.

[NYLIBUD]

I was thinking,the weirdest job I think I ever had,was when I was 19 years old.I was “undercover “ store detective for an out of business supermarket chain.It was my ridiculous job to walk around the store posing as a young customer,that’s why I got the job ,I guess cause I was young.No one will think I’m security.I had to get fully trained on how to “blend in.I caught a lot of shoplifters,U just took their picture,and tell them not to return to the store.Meanwhile,you saw them back the next week.Supposedly if they stole over $500,we were supposed tell the manager,who then called the cops.But I would just throw them out of the store.I got the stuff back anyway.Only one time did I call the police.This guy tried stuffing like 20 cartons of kool cigarettes,when they were sold out in the open.🙄You had to see the customer actually steal the item.. I didn’t last long.Too much walking.🥱I applied for an overnight security guard,Idk.I do know I gained like 20 lbs eating the food off the shelves while walking around.🤫

Edited 1 hour ago by NYLIBUD