That sounds GREAT. I’d love to do stuff like that.
The job itself is way cool, but highly classified, so that’s all I can say about that. As far as perks, I love the flexibility - as long as we’re present during core hours (9-2) we can get our 8 hours any way we want. And we can accumulate up to 24 credit hours (kinda like unofficial comp time) without approval, and pretty much use them whenever we want to - as long as we meet our job objectives.
I love being able to leave at 2 - I still have plenty of day to do stuff that needs to be done in my non-work life.
Same as FairyChatMom. I can’t say much about it but, the job is cool, neat toys, high pay, paid OT, flextime, and I have to pass some well-armed grim looking folks just to get in the parking lot.
Trust me, our cars NEVER get broken into 
I like seeing someone get a job for the first time, or move into their own place for the first time, watching someone discover he or she can do something besides sit home and collect a SSI check. Plus I get to do a fair amount of travel around the country, enough to keep it interesting, but no so much I’m gone from home too many days out of the year. Also, like a couple of others have said, as long as I get stuff done, the hours can be pretty flexible.
I think the best thing about my job is the travel. I just went to England on business, and spent a long weekend sightseeing in London. I’m going back in a couple months, I’ll spend a few days in Paris on that trip, and I’ll be able to bring my family.
I’ve also got trips to Tokyo and Sydney queued up, so I’ll have gone from “no passport” to “international man of mystery” in less than a year. 
I’m in IT second tier support. I’d rather be in development, but being in support does have its rewards. It’s good to get positive appreciative feedback from people whose problems you’ve solved. I’m eligible for overtime, and my boss doesn’t micromanage us too much.
I also like that I share an office with one other person, who works about three hours earlier than I do, so it’s as if we each have our own office for a good portion of the day. And today he’s not coming in, so I’ll be on my own all day.
I get to learn like crazy, and FIND THINGS! (I love finding things!)
Part of my job is to get medical journal articles for doctors who need to brush up on new techniques or information. After finding, I go to photocopy or fax them. I think I read about half of them, and most of those are pretty darn interresting.
There’s really a lot to love.
Most recently it’s been location. We’re really sort of in the center of everything here in our little city and there was a very high profile court case next door so that was really exciting. Most nights on the news I see our building or the courthouse on the news because of the central-ness aspect.
I used not not, but I like my boss alot and she likes me. We’re a good team. Her life has been fascinating so it’s interesting to be around her too. The other professional staff member is cool too.
I know I’m among the future-famous when it comes to our students too so that’s very exciting too! We’re often among the now-famous, too, but I don’t take advantage the way I should. I read my alma-mater’s website regularly and one time they were having some “Asian musician” (they’re description) visit campus - nobody you’d ever heard of, I’m sure. But, hey, coincidence, we were too! It was YoYo Ma! I didn’t even go see him, I’m so jaded.
Life is so much more exciting than when I was in NYC and all due to my job.
I own my own business. Maybe once every year or three I’ll meet a client who is a total asshole, who I never wanna see again. I get to tell them that. 
Occasionally, I get to talk someone through delivering a baby. That is the best. Knowing that my voice is the first one someone in crisis hears, and being able to calm them down and send them the help they need, being able to take control of a situation I’m miles away from using only my voice; it’s a pretty cool job. Using my mad computer skillz to find information that cops didn’t even know we had access to, information that might help them solve a case, is always a blast. Plus I get to tell cops where to go all night long :D. And every night is different; you just never know what’s going to be happening on the other end of that phone.
It’s been getting even more interesting over the last month; we’ve got a new boss who’s making Huge Changes, most of them, AFAIC, for the better. If he keeps on some of us may even be able to get off the antidepressants. I’ve always been proud of the work I do, but the workplace environment and lack of general morale has driven most of us close to despair. He’s changing that. It’s like waking up. I’m excited.
Free DVD allowance, 2 DVDs worth up to £30 every month. Unfortunately only from one (very big) studio, but still. Built up a nice collection so far.
The flexilbility - my hours suit me and my family - as long as I get the work done and put in 40, it’s ok if I do some of that 40 on the weekend, or in the evening, or whenever.
The benefits - they are putting me through college - the medical insurance is out of this world.
The people - I work with some really, really nice people.
You mean he wasn’t there already?
About consulting jobs in general:
- I get to learn things about all different kinds of industries without necessarily changing employers. Lots of people in Spain still think of “changing jobs” as some sort of “treason” and of being fired as “you must’a done something bad!”
- When I do change employers, it doesn’t look bad.
- I get to reuse in customer B what I learned before in customer A… or in completely-different-job Y
- The specific problems I have to solve vary constantly. Hey, I get bored easily, ok?
- When I have a customer that insists on bringing the ceiling down upon himself, I will do my best to convince him that putting up some kind of support beams is a Good Idea. But if he absolutely refuses to, having all these “for the project” contracts means I won’t be under the ceiling by the time it comes down!
About the current one:
- 2 hours away from the family.
- I’ve got some money into a “Home Buyer’s Account” (saves tax) that I started before I got into consulting and must spend this year or the next. The current project will end just in time for the best home-shopping period in the part of the country where I’ve decided I want to buy. (I intend to get an apartment around 600sqft on the coast village where my maternal aunt lives, close enough to both Barcelona and Tarragona to live there if I ever get a project in that heavily-industrialized area. Anyway my projects always mean going where the client is, which can be anywhere in the world)
I can pretty much ditto this, plus I have my own office, get to listen to my choice of music, get decent pay and benefits, and get a free transit pass.
A friend of mine who owns his own business agrees that this is one of the nicest perks of the job. I know what he means.
I work with some very smart people, and have a good balance of control over my work without so much responsibility that it becomes overbearing.
I meet a lot of really interesting people and I get paid a lot for doing a small amount of work at times. I get paid ~20/hour, my schedule is fairly flexible, and my coworkers are all a ton of fun.
One thing I like about my job? Well, my job is the result of me falling in love with some wonderful seacreatures and I get to study them where they live. Nothing beats the feeling of weightlessness and tranquility when floating in the bossom of the kelp forrest watching seaslugs play in the brilliant rays of the sun flickering in the waves. Mmmh.
Well, there’s the fact that I have a well-paid, full-time (non-governmental) position in a field where there aren’t that many.
I get to travel a lot.
The job takes me well off the beaten path into some really cool remote areas that one cannot ordinairily get into.
I get to uncover things that, in many cases, haven’t been seen for thousands of years.
I have enough seniority and experience that I can run my own jobs with my own crews, but not senior enough to where I spend all day in the office on the phone.
But, if I had to pick ONE thing that I really like it would be the people with whom I work. No one “falls” into this business (well, almost no one). Everyone who does this had to work and train for it and, as a result, most people (who are still in the business) wouldn’t do anything else.
The flexible hours.
And the view out my window (rolling grassy hills, and trees.)