Ever use Power Tongs?

 

yep i'm in production, though most people work on drilling platforms

 

Bartender. Good money, encouraged to drink on the job, satisfies the social needs, good "ins" all over town...

Works well since I'm 22 but certainly not a "career". Still figuring that part out.

 

I'm in sales... I setup extended vehicle service contracts. Its a mentally stressful job mainly bc so many other companies have scammed people and screwed them over on claims... So needless to say I take a lot of calls where people just cuss me out because they autimatically assume we are a scam too.. Though we are a broker for the six largest administrators of service contracts in the nation. The money is good though, its 8-5, I don't work weekends.. And since I sit at a desk all day and talk to people on the phone I can wear what I want to work and sit on my computer all day posting on here

 

Pay's decent when there's work to do. Risky job, with little overhead and a lot of "skill" involved in doing it right.

I own my own business. I "wash" cars for a living

 

Man-whoring is an easy job but I don't like the hours. The money's good though.

 

Support Engineer for a large software company people love to hate.

Job is mostly easy, hardest part is dealing with stupid people, and their screwups. Other hard part is getting the customer to buy stuff so their shit runs better and doesn't break all the time.

Sometimes it can be hard, but that is when it is the most fun. Most of the stuff is easy to fix and figure out, at least for me. I hate attending boring ass meetings where everyone just has to get their view or opinion in, and people just babble on and on and it goes nowhere.

If I could do it all over again I'd become a pilot or a doctor/surgeon. I will be getting my bachelors/masters in something completely non IT related for sure.

Worst job I had was working as a cashier for Giant Food (a grocery store). It wasn't mentally challenging at all, you ring shit up and take people's money. What was challenging was not bringing a gun to work and shooting every single stupid ass customer you would encounter. I swear to god that is the best job for an eye opener on how ****ing dumb the general population is. They whine and complain about the stupidest shit. I'd say on any given day 20% of my customers were actually cool or normal people.

Alright gonna stop that rant now, but holy crap do I not miss being a cashier.

 

Yea it's true, I work for a university and for the most part I think I browsed all of the internet the third month of working and I"m going on my third year.... the pay is good for what I do, but then again, you get bored quick. It's not challenging and I want a better paying job so I'm looking for something else.


To the OP, I used to teach for years, and that was the best. Teaching little kids was much more rewarding than adults, and I would love to do that again, but I have too much for a rich lifestyle for now to do that....

 

I'm a production Tech for BASF, and I love my job.

The plant I'm in is kind of a workhorse. We make Super Absorbant Polymers (sodium polyacrylate, the stuff in diapers).

Some days it's gravy train, and others (like this week-shutdown/turnaround) are shitty. very very hot in the building (95 degrees plus, all the time, some areas, especially around our banddryers are closer to 120). There's alot of manual labor involved. Getting pipes unplugged, isolating equipment etc.

but that's only when things break or if we have a product change/shutdown. Most of the time it's pretty nice and smooth.

Plus I work 4 days on 4 days off. You can put up with a lot of crap when you only work half the year

 

Work in IT, there is a moderate amount of stress (deadlines, more deadlines, demanding clients, bosses who like to put stress on you), pay is ok.

But with IT, you can see a lot of jobs going to India and the Phillipines in the next five years.