greatest job ever? the last night for me at Pizza Hut

1. My current job because I still have it after all the layoffs
2. Driving the grain truck for my grandpa at age 13. Met my first girlfriend in the truck line at the elevator. She was 16 and built. Best summer I ever had.

My job now is a neverending procession of projects, some more interesting than others. Some of my more interesting projects include testing romance novel cover designs, driving around interviewing people in their homes on Long Island about how they plan vacations, and driving around doing interviews in rural West Virginia.

Intellectually, I had an interesting project once where I had to develop profiles of the African American population in every county of the United States - over 3,000 counties - and then develop a mathematical optimization model to identify the six counties that in combination best represent the diversity of America's African American population.

Back when I was in the defense industry, I was on a project once where we had the big life-size simulators where real F-15 cockpits were inside 30-foot domes, and the scenes were projected onto the inner surface of the dome. They'd have dogfights against people nearby who were playing Soviet pilots, and I got to watch. Then my job was to take the big computer tapes (tapes back then) to a mainframe computer for processing overnight. Since it took all night, I would work some odd schedule like 4 to midnight, and my only job was to switch out tapes from time to time. I hung out and did crossword puzzles and stuff, and then got paid extra because it was a second-shift job.

Teacher.

I shied away from calling it a job in the other thread, but I'm gonna go with "pyrotechnician" on this one.

Was an anti terrorism analyst

Adam Teacher?? Did he enjoy it? Did he write a story about it?

College professor. I love going to work every day.

I'll never forget the adventure I had in the early to mid 80s as a helicopter mechanic on Tuna seiners.


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Tractor driver for a detasseling crew. It was fun (course, driving was an exception to the rule of walking). I had a good job at UNI in the tutoring program. Just got to study history with grateful students for 10 hrs/wk.

I found an old Video of a tuna boat we were always in competition with. I remember the name of the boat, the Skipper and the First mate. If my memory serves me right, after they cleared the helicopter from the net after it crashed, they cut the floats and let it sink for the insurance. The fishing industry was a small world and you hear all the stories. Most of these fishermen knew each other. alot of them from the old country. Portugal, Italy .

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Prolly my volunteer job now, Where I write scouting reports for ku bball & get to intend any practice I want too

I got a pretty damn cool job. I get to do some pretty cool things. I can go fishing, play video games, watch TV, watch Chiefs football. There setting up a trip for us to go to Nascar in KC in october (pits). Hopefully we can go to a Chiefs game but I would may have to beg for that too happen.

Get to sit around at the office drink coffee, play bingo on fridays. Bowling on wendays. I think it's a pretty cool gig I got.

Tattooing... It's more of a hobby and where else can you make $300+ for 3 hours of work and people actually pay you to hurt them?

I love doing it. The only downside is it hurts my back if I go too long at one time.

Without a doubt, the one I have now...Explosive Detection Dog Handler....looking for things that go BOOM! gives me wood...My girl & I at a checkpoint in Baghdad last Thanksgiving day