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what jobs have you had that made you think - am i really getting paid for this ?
a good friend in the cival engineering department at uni spent one summer driving round fife paid per mile to check road signs are where they say they are and report damage or missing signs
he had a motor bike ....
will off of here while at aberdeen uni was a mystery shopper and used to ride around aberdeenshire trying to buy age restricted products to see if he got id`d or not !
Great counter-thread!
Spent a summer working in brewery. Really hard work, but oh so satisfying! Oh, and under "Organisation Skills" on my CV, I can and have!
Sailing instructor. I got to work outdoors doing something I love, I got the chance to teach, and some of the female sailing instructors were most cute.
What else?
Looking after a racing yacht. Hard work (lots of time fairing and wet and drying the antifoul, for starters) but again, working outside, running on my own schedule for most of it, and doing practical stuff.
News reporting for a daily paper. Features editor on a weekly. Looking back at it, I've been dead lucky to have had some excellent jobs.
Speed boat mechanic for a summer. Only in Newhaven mind but even so..."Excuse me my man, there seems to be something wrong with my boat, do take it out for a spin and let me know what you think", " Erm, its the torque from the 5 litre V8 making it lean over a bit when you crank it wide open", Ah, happy days.
ooops double post
- jobs so good, i did them twice
motorbike courier in london - crap place but brilliant job
(assistant) cinema projectionist. bad part was that job involved rewinding reels so missed about 5 minutes of every 20.
bouncer in a hairdresser's. seriously. it was a rough sheme and some of the local neds tried to run a protection racket. partner worked in the shop and owner asked me and a couple of mates with ..um.. "reputations" if we would help out.
lifeguard. on a lifeboat. sounds great and over summer it was. a metal framed bridge which gets painted all the time (rust treatment) and where there are people working over water there has to be a boat ready to save them if they fall in (or pull the body out given the height involved). occaisional trips round the river invesigating dangers to shipping that no-one else spotted. pretty crap in winter though
antique dealer - well, maybe not. stalls in a market, more accurately described as "junk" but great laugh anyway.
Working for Morrison's the supermarket folk as a stock controller in one of their warehouses. Talk about money for nothing. Turn up, drink coffee then grab some paper and a clip board and walk around all day looking half busy.
Easy life.
Err....
Current one's not bad 🙂
A favourite was driving the corn cart (tractor and big trailer) during the harvest, especially at night.
10pm, tractor lit up like a christmas tree with work lights, Pete Tong's essential selection on the radio and me throwing shapes in the cab. And getting time and a half for it. Happy days.
Valuation measurements of forestry was nice too. Paid to walk through the woods all day measuring the odd tree.
Pyrotechnician - The best job I've ever had, the hours can be long the work physically demanding, out in all weathers, but I wouldn't change it for the world.
One day I'd love to do it full time, but that means putting in some serious amounts of time and travelling which with a young family I don't want at the moment.
The money varies from not very good to not bad, it changes from show to show.
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Best job ever: Motorbike courier in the summer
Worst job ever: Motorbike courier in the winter
oh aye - same lad that i mentioned in the other thread as my "worst job" digging holes paid me to drive in his 1977 ex MOD sII through his private woodland thinning out the pine and cherry trees to allow his oak and other hardwoods grow - if only i had access to that now - i could use the firewood 😀
Mine.
[i]I was a tour guide/host at a whisky distillery. Often taking tutored tastings in malt whisky.
Mmmmmmmmmm
Worked on an ostrich farm in Israel.
Sunrise every morning on the banks of the Sea of Galilee with a strong coffee and free use of V8 Jeep to blat around in.
Huge omlettes too.
Pushbike courier in London, on it's day, unbeatable.
Nothing will trump mine - 3 weeks in Ninewells Hospital doing a trauma medicine course in '95; the level of fun only becomes apparent when you know that I (and my four colleagues) were fit young Royal Marine Commandos, in uniform, in a nurses' training college!
What the Dr's didn't teach me about biology the nurses absolutely did! 😯
Running a bar on one of the more quiet greek islands, open at 4pm close around 11 not too frantic and 20 meters from the beach. Good work at 21.
Wrenching in an LBS in San Francisco.
It were der shizzle.
I quite enjoyed lifeguarding whilst at uni, majority of time it was a bit boring but still quite good fun. I even got to feel like a hero and fish the odd kid out of the pool.
However on a couple of occassions I also had to fish out human shit too....
I got paid to travel round the world for a month (accommodation and expenses paid in addition), taking money out of cash machines - Toronto->New York->Tokyo->Bangkok->Singapore->Jakarta->Manilla->Moscow
Cycle courier one summer though that was genuinely hard work for not a lot of pay but at least I rode my bike a lot 🙂
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