All these years I thought that guy who hosted the Lonely Planet series on the Discovery Channel had the coolest job in the world. Imagine a job that lets you travel to exotic places, swim in the world’s best beaches and experience different cultures – and getting paid in the process too! Sure he had to eat some of the world’s ugliest food (I remember he once had to eat a sheep’s eye and rotten shark meat) but it wasn’t like a regular thing or something.
Well, I was wrong.
The guy with the best job in the world is Don LaFontaine the voice-over actor, nicknamed “the King of the Movie Trailers”. I’m sure you’ll recognize his voice. According to wiki, he’s done more than 4,000 movie trailers. He works at home via an ISDN line (he used to be driven in his own stretch limousine between studios) and is now a multi-millionaire. Doing what? Doing voice-overs! Imagine: no stress, no deadlines, no dress codes, no snooty clients, no paperwork, no quotas… All he has to do is talk into a microphone and - voila! - instant money!
Some guys have all the luck.
I always thought it was the guy from The Thirsty Traveler. Like Lonely Planet, only centered around booze.
Why do these things never happen to me?
The one I’ve always liked was one I read about in a National Geographic ages ago, an article on glass. He’s the quality control inspector for Waterford Crystal. When a piece is flawed, it must be culled and recycled.
The upshot? He spends his day smashing fine crystal.
I always thought the best job in the world was “Supermodel Body Painter” for Sports Illustrated.
[Jay Leno]
I don’t recall my high school guidance counselor ever telling about that job!
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When i was a teenager, i thought the best job in the world would be a test driver for Ferrari or one of the other exotic sportscar manufacturers. I still think it would be pretty cool.
No, no, no. The guy with the best job in the world isn’t even a guy - it’s Shana Hyatt. She gets to travel to exotic tropical locations, and she has to do precisely zip except look good.
I’ve longed to be the next movie voice over guy. I’ve almost got it, I just need to smoke a pack a day for the next 10 years to give it that edge ya know?
Aside from him, I think the best job in the world definitely has to be game designer. I’d love to work for Wizards of the Coast and help design their CCGs or something.
My buddy says I have it pretty good as a Corporate Travel Guru.
He says my job involves telling people where to go
and
telling people where to get off.
I like that analogy.
I drink beer for a living, but I must admit that having The Thirsty Traveler’s job would be better.
Ah, young grasshopper,
When you come to see,
That each of us has,
The Best Job in the World,
Only then,
Will you find true happiness.
You know, if Waterford wanted to have the best Plant Tour in the world, they’d save that flawed crystal in a special room and allow the tourists to smash it as part of the tour.
The taste testers have all the luck. The big food companies-Ben & Jerry’s, Frito-Lay, Cambell’s-all have taste testers to try the new products.
If no job is indeed the best job in the world, then I have the best job in the world!
Woohoo… er, maybe?
I figure Bill Gates has probably got it pretty good.
He gets to have all of the newest computer equipment and software before anyone else, and if he wants, he writes a memo and they will design whatever he asks.
Plus, he earns a decent wage.
I think Anthony Bourdain has a pretty killer job, at least his TV gig. On his Travel Channel show No Reservations, he also gets to travel around the world to exotic locales, has wild adventures, and focuses particularly on local cuisine. He is a super-cool guy: a professional chef at Les Halles restaurant in NYC, a writer of both fiction and nonfiction, a world-class raconteur, and the short-lived Fox sitcom Kitchen Confidential was loosely based on his life and his autobiography of the same name, a fascinating read.
Ron Jeremy also has a pretty damn good job. He’s overweight, hairy, and not what most women would consider attractive, but he’s a pretty well-known porn star, and has spent the last several decades having wild, kinky sex with thousands of gorgeous, glamorous (and a few not-so-much) women. And after all that, he seems like a pretty nice, cool, funny guy, too.
I was always partial to Derek Jeter’s job.
He even got Mariah when she was still great looking.
Just saying.
Jim
Certainly a contender for, “THE BEST GUY JOB,” are those guys that go around and do the, “Girls Gone Wild,” shots.
Alan Whicker had the best job in the world. Not only a renowned globe-trotting television presenter, he was also a skilled soscialite who would hob nob with royalty and super stars.
I hope this is a whoosh. I cannot imagine a worse job.
I knew a guy once whose job it was to invent new types of explosives and test them out. He reckoned the hardest part of the job was hiding his glee as he pressed the detonate button.