I don’t know exactly what Hugh Hefner’s job title is, but I want to apprentice it.
My husband worked for a local consumer magazine testing computers, software and peripherals a few years ago.
He was testing various “net nanny” type software, on five or six computers. Porn of different flavors, some of them pretty shocking, on every screen in his lab…
…when a delegation from China’s new consumer magazine headed towards the lab on a visit to see how the magazine in Australia worked. He could hear the company president and marketing rep talking as they came down the hall.
He swears he must have turned into a ninja in order to move fast enough to get all monitors shut off in time for them to come in the door! :eek:
He reports this is not, in fact, the best job in the world. He further reports the first year wasn’t bad (new toys! mine to play with! mine to break!) but that they repeated the same tests over and over every year. So the third year in a row you’ve tested new virus checkers, for example, is the year you begin to drink heavily.
He has a much better job now.
I had the best job in the world, perhaps. I was a paid moderator, chat host, and chat transcriptionist. I chatted with celebs and experts. I worked from home before it was really a viable option for a lot of people. I moderated message boards and picture posts (no real video, just before that technology was really any good for the everyday user.) I had personalized jackboots, even! (Not really, but I wish!)
It was heaps of fun and I’d do it again, except for the whole dot.com business model being pretty hopeless. Best three years of my life, jobwise.
I remember hearing about that a couple of years ago when the Army requisitioned the park service howitzers for duty in Iraq. And I agree firing a big gun at a mountain all day long (just to see how many big frigging rocks you can dislodge) sounds like immense fun. However, I’m sure they have other duties that aren’t as fun, like running off drunken louts or trying to find mountain lions, etc.
My best friend was a park ranger on the BC-Alberta border and he said it was the best job he ever had. He got paid to run a boat around all day and stare at beautiful European women.