Best Job You've Ever Had?

[sigma]

You've obviously never had kids or spend a lot of time at households with kids. And by kids i mean less than 3 or 4 year old where they need constant care and attention.

So who employs parents? Who pays parents? Who gives parents holidays? Who manages parents? Isn't that what a job consists of?

Parenthood not a job. Never mentioned anything about it being hard work.

 

[Third Opinion]

So who employs parents? Who pays parents? Who gives parents holidays? Who manages parents? Isn't that what a job consists of?

Parenthood not a job. Never mentioned anything about it being hard work.

So all these Doctors, surgeons and aid workers who volunteer to help third world countries are not doing a job as they dont get paid, have holidays or an employer?

 

[Azrael]

Parenthood is a job. A house husband/wife has to look after their child/children constantly at a young age, it's essentially a full time on-call job.

The pay? Unconditional love from your children and hopefully your other half.

 

[Nix]

It depends on your definition of a job. I'd say being a parent is most certainly a job, however for the scope of this thread it isn't as I'm aiming at - and I probably should've mentioned this - paid employment.

 

[Third Opinion]

It depends on your definition of a job. I'd say being a parent is most certainly a job, however for the scope of this thread it isn't as I'm aiming at - and I probably should've mentioned this - paid employment.

As mentioned before though, there are jobs that are unpaid. Thousands volunteer everyday for a variety of reasons.

 

[Captain_Slick]

So all these Doctors, surgeons and aid workers who volunteer to help third world countries are not doing a job as they dont get paid, have holidays or an employer?

No. They're volunteering. That's not a job. A job implies an employment contract or arrangement of being given something in exchange for doing something... and no, 'feel good factor' doesn't count.

 

[sigma]

So all these Doctors, surgeons and aid workers who volunteer to help third world countries are not doing a job as they dont get paid, have holidays or an employer?

You're just being awkward for the sake of it. You know very well what the OP was on about.

Parenthood is a job.

No it's not.

There are no adverts for parents in the newspaper. You cannot join a parent agency.

 

[alexakasloth]

Working in a kitchen at the moment and it's probably my best job so far, the people there are a laugh and friendly, and i'm getting trained up to chef at the moment

 

[Third Opinion]

You're just being awkward for the sake of it. You know very well what the OP was on about.

I am not, where did it say it had to be salared in the OP. Digging the garden can be hard work, is it any less hard work if you get paid for it?

 

[Smudge]

IT Tech for BBC News & Current Affairs... It was long hours & shift work, but the social element and the BBC bar made up for it

I'd love to go back to that job!

 

[Cosmic182]

Probably my current job Working in the NHS as a HCA, It can be long hours, upto 13 hours a day, and working night shifts, but helping people day to day, and those who appreciate your help, it makes you feel brilliant, makes you go home feeling youve made a difference to that persons life, great feeling and you get paid...I start my ODP (operating department practioner) studies next year tho, so I hope I can continue with my HCA job whilst studying as I love it.

 

[sigma]

Digging the garden can be hard work, is it any less hard work if you get paid for it?

What's that got to do with having a job?

Nobody mentioned anything about difficulty.

If you treat parenthood as a job then that says something about you really. It's a whole lot more than a 'job'.

 

[stiv121]

Working with my dad

Good money and work

 

[dekez]

Barman in Alpe d'Huez and Kitzbühel:
- Ski all day
- Start work at 4pm
- All my mates came in the bar I worked so never missed out on anything
- Free drinks for me
- Give mates free drinks when I was able,(obviously free drinks to hotties )
- Finish at 11pm and catch my mates up in the club
- No responsibility save not getting too ****ed on the job

Good times

 

[LiE]

My current job as an IT Consultant.

 

[DampCat]

Working at the Odeon.

i was 18, i was surrounded by people my age and slightly older, they were the first group of friends i'd made since leaving school and were a better group of friends than those i had at school. Everybody got on well. We basically owned the place and would usually be there till 2am or 3am long after doors had shut, eating pick'n'mix, watching movies before their release, riding our bikes down the stairs and around the screens etc. Colleagues who were out on the town on a friday or saturday would turn up when all the bars had shut and we'd all pile back to someones house nearby.

Great times.

 

[Skidder]

Being a father.

That tedious response was topped only by the tedious discussion of it, including this post! Being a father is challenging and rewarding to precisely the same degree that it is irrelevant to this thread - Very.

My best job is my current one. I am a very specialised economist / consultant, I work from home, travel mostly to interesting places and like running my own business life. It's my own business so the rewards are mine and my partner's (having worked in the same field for my entire career while previously other people made more from my efforts than me - a step you naturally have to go through).

 

[Tasocahtfu]

Hands down my bar job in Darwin travelling Australia last year. Only there 3 months, but my workmates (mostly other backpackers) and the general lifestyle I lived whilst working there just made it brilliant.

 

[Streeteh]

Ride Operator/Attendant at Thorpe Park.

Pay was rubbish but there was no real responsibility, the weather was wonderful (iirc it was a record breaking summer), loads of great people to work with and loads of fun to be had.

Not as good as many i'm sure, but i loved it; best summer of my life, all i did was party and get laid. Shallow i know.

 

[panthro]

Working at a gokart track. Was such easy work and we would drive the karts after work everyday. That was the most fun by a mile.
The best job is the one Ive got now. Travel the world, get 10 weeks paid vacation, all living costs paid, travel allowance and the work is really interesting.