from Tortuga
Hey, Tortuga! That’s my dad’s job, too. He’s semi-retired, and gets paid to play with dogs. Cool.
from pilot141
Me too - I teach Hang Gliding. The work can be hard sometimes and the pay isn’t great, but sharing the dream of flight is a lot of fun.
I play drums (sometimes bass) in a couple of house bands either 5 or 6 nights a week, so it’s my full time job. It’s a lot of fun, except the hours. (Although playing from 8-12pm and making about the equivalent pay as my 60 hour a week research job I had prior to it makes up for the odd hours…)
The Dark Canuck
Dude, you ever think of going to law school and doing Intellectual Property law? I’m sure it’d be more interesting that what you’re doing now, you’d undoubtedly be paid more, and chemical engineering is probably the second best major for IP work (EE being the best, from what I’ve heard (and I don’t know why)).
I do! I do! I do!
I run a bicycle and kite shop…enough technical stuff to satisfy my engineering habit, and I work in a building that is full of my toys!
I have a fabulous job! I’m the Director of Arts Programs for an innovative organization whose mission statement is to culturally enrich small communities.
I direct a youth Circus program which means I can justify practicing juggling and unicycle in the gym during the day. And I get to work with a remarkable group of vibrant, articulate and talented young people.
I co-ordinate an Integrated Arts After School program and am responsible for overseeing 35 staff. Some of who are professional artists.
I facilitate professional development training sessions for the staff of human services agencies helping them to incorporate creative practices in the work place. I use some very humorous non-conventional techniques in my workshops, which means I spend a lot of time laughing on the job!
I also run a program which helps to integrate children and adults with special needs into their communities.
My day can be made up of making 50 juggling balls out of balloons, a two hour drive to run a puppetry and mask workshop in an isolated school district, time spent networking with professional artists from around the country, a workshop helping to inspire frustrated and burnt out case managers, and a rehearsal for a circus show. Every day is different and challenging. I come home exhausted but feeling as if I have truly accomplished valuable work in the world.
I LOVE IT!!!
I own a toy store! How rough is my life? 
Among other things, I read minds and do shows and entertain people. I’ve worked all over everywhere, to all kinds of everyone, from kids to grannies (even though I’m not a ‘kids magician’). Doing the kind of shows I do is just as much fun for me as it is for the audience. I’ve met celebrities, I’ve been to some weird places, and most of the time I get paid lots of money for doing it too. Oh, and I get to share ‘work’ stuff with an amazing clump of very creative guys, all around the world, who keep inventing new sneaky ways to read minds and otherwise amaze people.
I used to work for a software firm. I prefer this.
No, no, no, no. I have the best job in the world. I get to save lives and fight heart disease.
I’m a registered nurse working in interventional cardiology. When someone is having a heart attack, I’m part of the team that rushes them to the cardiac cath lab to open up the blocked artery with angioplasty and stent. Sometimes these folks are literally dying before my eyes, but are pink, pain-free, and stable by the time we are done with the procedure.
It’s hard work, physically and emotionally exhausting, and everyday is not always exciting, but there’s something very self-affirming in knowing that what I do for a living makes a difference in the lives of others.
I do the same thing as Montana Cricket, but a few hundred miles Southwest. I’ve got an degree in environmental engineering, and I mostly design and supervise stream restoration projects
Physician to Wards of the State (convicted felons). Lotsa laffs. I give them what I think they need, not what they want. Some need quite a bit. Most don’t. They all want something they’re not supposed to have. I do like it a lot, but it takes a certain temperment. I don’t try to establish who’s top dog. I just do my job as dog trainer.
I get paid to read, in the comfort of my own home. I think that is just extremely cool.
Of course, I have to copyedit/proofread these things as I go, and some manuscripts are real snores . . . but some of it is fascinating. I’m forever running out to read this or that interesting or amusing thing to my hubby. Today’s chapter on family law, for instance, with all the wacky cases given as examples.
Most of my bread and butter comes from college textbooks. I love whipping these things into shape, catching goofs for grateful authors, smoothing out awkward writing. I am contributing to education. I help make books, nice expensive hardcover ones. I have just always loved books, and the fact that I get paid to help make them (and, as I commented to hubby the other night, can turn pencil marks on paper into house payments, and health insurance, and pizza and a movie for the two of us) is to me just mind-boggling and neato.
I also edit fiction. It pays less, but it’s a treat. The first step in editing a fiction manuscript is simply to read it, without even a pencil in hand. So every so often I get to spend an afternoon on the couch with my pillow, blankie, and bonbons and read a story – on the clock. Sometimes, when the book is a sequel, the publisher sends me the previous book to read to ensure consistency. Those I prefer to read in a nice bubble bath – also on the clock. 
And I’ve even had a few assignments to do a simple read for typos in a paperback before its rerelease in hardcover (for the movie) – which is absolute pie and easy money.
I also make jewelry and sell it at outdoor summer music festivals. Go to fun events, hear great music, have customers tell me “You do beautiful work,” meet interesting people, and go home sitting on a pile of cash? Pretty neat.
That’s exactly the kind of job I’m aiming for!
Ocasionally at my job, I get to dress up like I’m in the band DEVO.
I’m a division general manager for a large corporation. (12 Billion in sales.) I make a lot of money, but it’s the worst job in the world; brutal pressure, constant travel, countless speeches and dog and pony shows, 900 adults that think I’m their father, constant petty complaining, etc. etc. My blood pressure rises and my life expectancy falls.
I have a BSEE and I swear I’d chuck it all if there was some way I could trade my years of management experience for good engineering job.
My morning job is kinda socially unacceptable. Nope, I’m not a hooker, thief or dogcatcher - I’m a telemarketer! I work for a pretty reputable carpet cleaner though, and almost all my calls are to repeat customers. I can’t remember the last time I got sworn at. It’s usually just ‘‘yes’’, ‘‘no’’ or ‘‘Call me in a few more months.’’ My co-workers are great. it’s a pretty easy-going office and the boss is nice.
The afternoon job is the prize. I’m in charge of the Mammals, Amphibians and Arachnids at a little Zoo. I also get to give tours and I’ve helped at a few presentations at schools etc. I even got to train a rat and spend the evening watching filming on the TV show he had a “part” in.
I’m doing some special work on fancy mice, specificaly “poodle mice”, and we’ve got good sized colonies of both hairless rats and hairless mice. I also get to hang out with the bat, prairie dog, guinea pigs, African Pouch Rats, ferrets, sugar glider and chipmunks. I love my furballs!
I call my job the “Fur, Fangs and Flippers Department.” We just bred the Red Kneed Tarantulla and we’re hoping she lays eggs. Our African Baboon Tarantulla had 146 babies last year. I have one of them at home. The spiders and scorpians are a bit creepy, but the kids sure get a kick out of them.
Our Amphibians include an African Pixie Frog who has large teeth and eats whole rats.
Besides my area we also have lots of reptiles including an alligator and a couple of huge pythons. I love it there!
I have a ton of animals at home too, mostly retirees from the zoo. I guess you could say I bring my work home with me!
ROCK MUSICIAN:D
Stand-up comedian.
Seriously.
My job is cool. I am an archivist and work with Victorian correspondence.
Another archivist checking in (of the film variety). Handling movies, protecting and safeguarding them every day (not to mention your fairshare of watching them). Love, love, love it (though the endless amount of cataloguing and minutiae involved certainly isn’t for everybody).
I have a cool job!
I teach kids trampolining and gymnastics. It keeps me fit (I have to spot them all the time), it’s not stressful and kids are so funny!
There is also the satisfaction of seeing them progress and compete.
Except for one, my co-workers are all very fun to be around.
I can take holidays whenever I want to as long as I give notice.
