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Post by bob on Jun 18, 2009 14:35:33 GMT -5
you know....looking back I've had a lot of cool jobs
I had my own talk show on college radio, I had a number of positions at my college newspaper, and right nowI'm writing the yearbook for a semi-pro football team
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Post by Mr. Emoticon Man on Jun 18, 2009 19:11:36 GMT -5
One of the coolest jobs I ever had was one I had in elementary school; I was paid a dollar a day to walk a younger girl home, and I got to leave school early because her grade got out before mine did. And as she lived right along the path I took to walk home anyways, I was effectively being paid to walk home early.
Another cool job I've had (if the first one doesn't count) is my current one... but I believe I've already expressed enough love for that one! ;D
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Post by Psy on Jun 18, 2009 23:43:31 GMT -5
Pro wrestler.
"Gopher" at a beach club. I have some horror stories from that place, but overall it was pretty cool.
Some people might think it's 'cool', I wrote three pornos.
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Post by Spyke on Jun 19, 2009 15:31:35 GMT -5
I worked at a local Saturday night racetrack on one of those party decks that host corporate parties. We had the best view of the entire track, and all we had to do was cook on a grill and serve food. This took about one hour of time. The rest of the time we were basically paid to watch the races and drink pop (we ate the leftover food too, although technically we weren't allowed to do that).
Best part was is that we got paid above minimum wage, and we got tipped very well (usually a $75-150 tip was split between 3 of us).
Other than that, my current job at Gamestop is pretty cool. I get to work with what I love, and our store is usually dead half the time, which means I can pretty much take it easy on any given day.
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Post by bob on Jun 19, 2009 15:50:48 GMT -5
I forgot....I'm also a game recap writer for a semi-pro football team
if I got paid my gig would be epic, but I'm happy with what I'm doing for them
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Post by khali on Jun 19, 2009 16:02:29 GMT -5
I've held one job, and that's at a warehouse. But since I'm friends with the manager and I've been there for a while (the latter meaning that I've got a comparitively pretty solid pay), it's a far better job than it otherwise would be.
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Post by Mr. Emoticon Man on Jun 19, 2009 16:20:11 GMT -5
Working in a warehouse can actually be quite fun, in my experience, as long as you don't mind hard work.
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Post by khali on Jun 19, 2009 22:06:52 GMT -5
Well, the environment's pretty casual. Long as you're cool with the other people there, they're cool with you. Works out nicely.
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Post by Mr. Emoticon Man on Jun 19, 2009 22:15:06 GMT -5
That's how the warehouse I worked at was like. Everyone more or less got along with each other, and when left to our own devices we had a good time. Corporate office sucked, though; they had a habit of switching things up just to make things miserable for us, and tried their best to leach all of the fun out of the work-place.
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Post by khali on Jun 19, 2009 22:18:00 GMT -5
That's fortunately been a rare occurance where I am. I mean yeah, it happens sometimes, and there's not a whole lot that you can do about that. But a few of the guys have run the gauntlet, so to speak, and are still around. So we've either got some really merciful guys running the show or there's more connections than a bad soap opera.
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Post by Mr. Emoticon Man on Jun 19, 2009 22:26:11 GMT -5
I wish it had been rare at my old workplace, but Goodwill treats its stores like prostitutes. Some get treated nicely, with gifts and love. Others (such as the one I worked at) get smacked around all of the time. They were always trying to tell us that we didn't know how to do our jobs, and were forever finding less efficient ways for us to do them.
Still... I'll always get a kick out of the fact that I was fired for correcting the District Manager's spelling.
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Post by bob on Jun 23, 2009 22:41:51 GMT -5
Pro wrestler. "Gopher" at a beach club. I have some horror stories from that place, but overall it was pretty cool. Some people might think it's 'cool', I wrote three pornos. wait wait wait Psy was a prowrestler |
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Post by Wolfpack Bitch on Jun 27, 2009 0:16:26 GMT -5
Spent 5 years working in a video store in the mid 90's. Days were easy, few customers. I'd spend the day watching movies. I got the new releases and dibs on the promotional cardboard displays and the posters. Worked for over minimum wage to do little to no work.
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Post by Mr. Emoticon Man on Jul 28, 2009 10:47:17 GMT -5
My little brother just got a pretty cool job: chauffeur/bodyguard. Lucky little rat-fink...
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Post by mehe on Sept 8, 2009 13:23:42 GMT -5
I used to to work at the local Toys R Us. It was geek heaven.
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Post by Deadpool is Insane on Sept 8, 2009 14:44:03 GMT -5
The 11 years I spent with my grandfather running our video store.
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Post by Mr. Emoticon Man on Sept 8, 2009 16:38:21 GMT -5
I used to to work at the local Toys R Us. It was geek heaven. I've always wanted to work there, but I just never get past the application part of the process. |
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Post by themaskedavenger on Sept 8, 2009 16:51:17 GMT -5
I had a job at Kbee toys one season.
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