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re: Coolest Job(s) You Ever Had....?
Posted on 1/30/24 at 7:43 am to Torbemsti80
Posted on 1/30/24 at 7:43 am to Torbemsti80
Worked at CompUSA in college before they shut down. Spent every day playing around with the newest electronics, and would spend our lunch breaks playing Madden on brand new 75 inch plasma TVs in the home theater department. Pay wasn’t great, but it was fun as hell for what it was.
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Posted on 1/30/24 at 7:43 am to Torbemsti80
While I was in the Air Force and stationed in Denver, I worked during a ski season at Winter Park, Colorado. It was work and fun combined into one!
Posted on 1/30/24 at 7:46 am to SouthEndzoneTiger
Born and raised in Montana. Minus living in Arizona for 3 years. I've stayed an Arizona fan because that's the team my dad and I watched growing up.
Went to LSU.
Had a BRIEF 3 year stay in Houston after college where I signed up for TD. Loved it. <3
Back to Baton Rouge.
Living in Knoxville, TN and never moving.
TL:DR Chicken won't change my name.
Went to LSU.
Had a BRIEF 3 year stay in Houston after college where I signed up for TD. Loved it. <3
Back to Baton Rouge.
Living in Knoxville, TN and never moving.
TL:DR Chicken won't change my name.
Posted on 1/30/24 at 7:50 am to Torbemsti80
Cart attendant at a new money country club. It was legit like Caddyshack. I have no idea how we were able to get away with the shite we did and still keep our jobs. That stuff would definitely not fly today.
We had one member with an nice car collection. He'd always pull up and throw one of us the keys and tell us to go park it, but he'd give us explicit directions to take it for a spin first. I remember the first time he did it to me. It was a Supra that was pushing 800 hp. It had an engine swap and twin turbo. "I better see some more miles on that when I get it back." I also drove his right-hand drive WRX STI, BMW Z8, and BMW E30 M3. That man single-handedly made me a car enthusiast for life.
We had one member with an nice car collection. He'd always pull up and throw one of us the keys and tell us to go park it, but he'd give us explicit directions to take it for a spin first. I remember the first time he did it to me. It was a Supra that was pushing 800 hp. It had an engine swap and twin turbo. "I better see some more miles on that when I get it back." I also drove his right-hand drive WRX STI, BMW Z8, and BMW E30 M3. That man single-handedly made me a car enthusiast for life.
Posted on 1/30/24 at 7:59 am to bonescanner
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but it also opened my eyes to how much of the hunting product industry is a scam.
Don’t leave us hanging like this…..?
Posted on 1/30/24 at 8:03 am to Torbemsti80
Working at the PMAC when I was at LSU - got to play basketball after hours all the time, even ended up on the roof once or twice.
Posted on 1/30/24 at 8:05 am to Torbemsti80
Nothing ever got my adrenalin higher than the first day.... until it turned to night ops. 
This post was edited on 1/30/24 at 8:38 am
Posted on 1/30/24 at 8:08 am to Torbemsti80
Disc jockey/announcer when we still played records, until I got tired of working for radio wages (which are shite). Calling football games was fun , though.
Also, on one pipeline job, I was with the crew picking up all the big styrofoam floats after they cut them off the pipe. We had to roam the marsh, load the floats on a sled, and a helicopter would hover and we'd hook the belt holding the floats together to a hook on the bottom of the helicopter. Also rode the chopper to work and back ever day. No doors, flying over the marshland was like being in a Viet Nam movie. Aside from our foreman, none of us were more than 20, and we were all crazy.
It was a blast.
Also, on one pipeline job, I was with the crew picking up all the big styrofoam floats after they cut them off the pipe. We had to roam the marsh, load the floats on a sled, and a helicopter would hover and we'd hook the belt holding the floats together to a hook on the bottom of the helicopter. Also rode the chopper to work and back ever day. No doors, flying over the marshland was like being in a Viet Nam movie. Aside from our foreman, none of us were more than 20, and we were all crazy.
It was a blast.
Posted on 1/30/24 at 8:11 am to Torbemsti80
Adjunct college professor teaching multimedia courses at HCCS in the early 1990s. Taught a class on video editing, burning CD-ROMs (it was an exotic thing at the time) 
and my absolute favorite, Macromind Director. 
The guy who hired me was a dead ringer for Mandy Patinkin in Homeland and he would tell me to come up with a class I wanted to teach and generate a syllabus and he would add it to the next semester's curriculum.
Coolest boss ever and met some of the coolest adult students ever. Most were in the aerospace industry in Houston looking to keep up with technology and UH and UHCL were still 15 years behind teaching COBOL.
..100% true story.. One semester I had a paroled murderer in my class which they disclosed to me at the beginning of the semester because there was a work release program that fed former convicts into the HCCS system.
Also 100% true story I gave him an A.
and my absolute favorite, Macromind Director. The guy who hired me was a dead ringer for Mandy Patinkin in Homeland and he would tell me to come up with a class I wanted to teach and generate a syllabus and he would add it to the next semester's curriculum.
Coolest boss ever and met some of the coolest adult students ever. Most were in the aerospace industry in Houston looking to keep up with technology and UH and UHCL were still 15 years behind teaching COBOL.
..100% true story.. One semester I had a paroled murderer in my class which they disclosed to me at the beginning of the semester because there was a work release program that fed former convicts into the HCCS system.
Also 100% true story I gave him an A.
This post was edited on 1/30/24 at 8:20 am
Posted on 1/30/24 at 8:19 am to Torbemsti80
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Coolest Job(s) You Ever Had....?
In the 80's and 90's before and during the collapse of the old Soviet Union.
Posted on 1/30/24 at 8:29 am to Snipe
Concierge/Valet at Conference resort in Tempe. Interacted with literally hundreds of celebrities (sports, entertainment, politics, etc.) It was exciting
Posted on 1/30/24 at 8:31 am to TejasHorn
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Pizza delivery in high school.
Not “cool” but driving around listening to the radio, making tips and more money than my buddies at the mall.
This is what I was going to say.
Tips paid out after every shift meant I always had cash in my pocket. Paycheck went into the bank and didn't have to be touched. Free pizza or whatever at the end of the shift.
The night that Tyson bit Holyfield's ear, I got called in because I lived close and they were slammed. They just needed me to deliver a big order. Got a $100 tip for about 20 mins of work...
Posted on 1/30/24 at 8:36 am to Snipe
In high school I worked the water slide at Gooney Golf on Florida Blvd. It wasn't as cool as South Winds Water Slide in Denham, but it was still a summer job in the sun. Super easy sending kids down the slide and flirting with the MILFs, who often flirted back. After we would close we would all go race the go-karts and the mechanic would up the governors to make the faster. Then we would slide on the slide. I got good enough to be able to run the whole thing standing up. There were some hotties that worked there, including two sister from Broadmoor that were gorgeous.
In college I was a camp counselor for BREC, running a day camp at Hooper Rd Park. I hired all my friends as counselors and we played with the kids, went skating, movies, bowling, swimming, and the zoo all summer. On summer I ended up dating one of the counselors so I got to hang out with my girlfriend all day. Good times.
In college I was a camp counselor for BREC, running a day camp at Hooper Rd Park. I hired all my friends as counselors and we played with the kids, went skating, movies, bowling, swimming, and the zoo all summer. On summer I ended up dating one of the counselors so I got to hang out with my girlfriend all day. Good times.
Posted on 1/30/24 at 8:39 am to Torbemsti80
Runner for a law firm during high school. $5.50 an hour and .25 per mile. 
Averaged $1K a month.
Averaged $1K a month.
Posted on 1/30/24 at 8:41 am to Torbemsti80
I was a waterski instructor at a girls camp that was on the same lake as our summer house. So I drove a ski boat for 8 hours and had a college girl as my spotter the whole day.
Posted on 1/30/24 at 8:47 am to Torbemsti80
Army and worked as an IT Cop for a while.
Posted on 1/30/24 at 8:59 am to Torbemsti80
I was part of the lifeguard team at Cherokee beach in Loranger. My station was an hour down river by the campground at Hidden Beach. 
Posted on 1/30/24 at 9:00 am to Torbemsti80
I had a coworker who did stats for the Baton Rouge Kingfish. She asked me to work in the penalty box. I had to open and close the doors when a player got sent there.
It was a Kingfish v. IceGators game. Good fight happens, they got 5 minutes each.
Right as the time was ending, the guy in my penalty box stands up and hollers at the other guy, "hey! Wanna go again when we get out?"
Sure enough, they got out and went at it again.
Also had to hand the ref a puck as he skated by when one went into the stands. They kept the pucks in a bucket of ice.
It was a Kingfish v. IceGators game. Good fight happens, they got 5 minutes each.
Right as the time was ending, the guy in my penalty box stands up and hollers at the other guy, "hey! Wanna go again when we get out?"
Sure enough, they got out and went at it again.
Also had to hand the ref a puck as he skated by when one went into the stands. They kept the pucks in a bucket of ice.
Posted on 1/30/24 at 9:02 am to TrimTab
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TrimTab
where would one start to get into this line of work?
Posted on 1/30/24 at 9:06 am to Torbemsti80
International construction. Designed everything I ever built. My personal favorite was a vegetable processing plant in Saudi. Everything from floor to roof including the production lines.
Real proud of how that turned out
Real proud of how that turned out
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