Y'know, I have pretty cool jobs.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Sometimes I realize how nice it is to have jobs I like. I know so many people who hate their jobs, hate their coworkers, hate going to work every day. I don’t make all that much, but I like what I do:

Newspaper delivery: Yup, I still do it. It’s the perfect part-time job, as long as you can get up in the pre-dawn hours every single morning. The pay is okay, Christmas tips are GREAT, and I can work in my pjs if I want. And I can take the kids or the dog if I’m in the mood. Not many jobs pay you to basically drive around and listen to the radio, and most of the time, that’s what I feel like I’m doing. I also get first pick on the really good dumpster stuff, where I recently netted a fuzzy logic rice cooker!

Eldercare: This could probably be a sucky job, if I didn’t have such great clients. I work with a couple of elderly ladies who have dementia–one of them I’ve known for so long we’re like family now, and the other one I just met but she is very, very sweet. A married couple I work with are retired opera singers (he still gets fan mail! how cool!), and they are the Most Adorable Couple Ever. I love to go places with them, because I see people watch them together and just light up at how much in love they are, and how very gentle and courtly the man is with his wife. (She has Alzheimer’s and doesn’t remember much except that she loves loves LOVES this man.) It makes my day to work with them; I’m very aware of what an honor it is to witness this part of anyone’s journey.

Catering kitchen: I used to work there, quit, and now, several years on, I’m back. It’s okay: I like working with food, and I get to take home leftovers–lots of fresh vegetables, milk, bread, that sort of thing–which is undoubtedly the biggest benefit. Plus, I needed a chance to interact with adult women, and this worked nicely to fit that need.

So there it is. I make peanuts compared to many people with “real” jobs, but I enjoy it, it’s flexible, and all of my jobs fit my cardinal rule, that being: Only work where I can wear scrubs or pjs. :smiley: Can’t ask for more than that!
Any other cool Doper jobs?
Best,
karol

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My first and only job up until this point was a general whatever for a cleanroom. Right now I’m working on getting a marketing consultation gig along with the Music Director job at the local radio station.

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I love my job - at least the bulk of it. I don’t love the endless paperwork.

I’m a mechanical designer creating 3D models of subsea oil and gas production equipment. Way cool, especially since I never went to college.

I remember one job I used to have, though. I drove a delivery van all day in Central Texas. Candy, cigarettes, pickled pigs’ feet; stuff like that to little Mom & Pop convenience stores and bars. It was great! It was like I was my own boss all day, going from stop to stop. I could pull over and take a nap, laid out on top of the cases of cigarettes! :wink: Pay sucked, but what the hell.

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My son works at a limestone cutting company, and although I can’t remember the title of his newly-promoted-to position, he spends his day figuring out how to put all of the correct pallets onto each truck, configuring them so they fit correctly. In his words, “playing with really big, really heavy Legos.” It’s perfect for him, and I never even knew jobs like that existed.