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re: What are some cool jobs no one knows about
Posted on 5/14/23 at 7:07 pm to athenslife101
Posted on 5/14/23 at 7:07 pm to athenslife101
Tight rope walker
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Posted on 5/14/23 at 7:13 pm to athenslife101
Every job listed sounds better than the fricking shite I do every day
I’d like to just be a UPS or any delivery driver. Just drive around all day delivering things. Seems super easy.
I’d like to just be a UPS or any delivery driver. Just drive around all day delivering things. Seems super easy.
Posted on 5/14/23 at 7:18 pm to biglego
I was a Catholic friar in a little monastery in Mexico for a while. It was fantastic. I woke up every morning at 5:00 am and made soup.
Posted on 5/14/23 at 7:23 pm to athenslife101
Uxo tech. However need to be former EOD or go to one of 2 school for 7 weeks, start bout 125k. But its hard to get your foot in door, 100% travel, you could be turned into a pink mist every day and you would have to work with some of the dumbest fricks on earth. But it pays great.
Posted on 5/14/23 at 7:24 pm to white perch
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Whoever mans that drawbridge in Madisonville has a pretty sweet gig.
My great grandfather was a bridge tender at a bridge over Bayou Teche in Patterson. He lived in a house next to the bridge so he could hear the boat horns to open the bridge. The story goes that one night a boat horn sounded and he went to the bridge and opened it. A few hours later another boat started blowing its horn and kept blowing the horn because the bridge didn't open. My great grandmother went to the bridge to check and he was laying there dead. He had a heart attack after he had closed the bridge after the first boat. This was back in the early '30s.
Posted on 5/14/23 at 7:25 pm to AUstar
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Cleaning gutters. No, it's not glamorous, but people can make a couple hundred bucks per job and do 4-5 jobs a day. Bring in $1k per day is doable. A great little gig for young dudes
Simple neighborhood manual labor is out of control. I had about 50' of wood fence fall down and the quotes I got were $2.5k. I spent like $600 in lumber and had it fixed in 8 hours (plus concrete curing time). Probably could have done it in 4 if I was experienced. That would have been like $250 / hr for 2 people.
Posted on 5/14/23 at 8:09 pm to hubreb
Eh, I talked with some very high level bond brokers in 2017 and they pretty much said they’re waiting till they get fired because they said even then their job was useless. They said they were employed solely out of the generosity of the firm for having made them $$$$$$ in the past.
Posted on 5/14/23 at 8:17 pm to athenslife101
One of my relatives just retired from the Arkansas park services. His job was to cut in new hiking trails for businesses and cities. So he'd load his truck up with food, tent, chainsaws, shovel etc and basically go camp for a week and fell trees. I always thought that was a pretty peaceful badass job.
Posted on 5/14/23 at 8:23 pm to Keltic Tiger
I'm a builder. The outside salesman for my lumber company has a badass job. Basically I give him orders and he calls his inside salesman.
Inside sales coordinates with the warehouse manager.
He buys me lunch and beers once a week and every year he'll take me fishing or to play golf every now and then.
Dude invites clients to his tailgates so he writes them off.
He let it slip that he's making 6 figures. That's a pretty cool job with no hard labor and basically bullshitting about sports with baws all day
ETA: Honestly the more I think about it the more jealous I am. I have to deal with arse hole clients that are impossible to please with ridiculous lead times and always want to nickel and dime me to death over chance orders they suggest and am held responsible for coked up contractors that are as reliable as a screen door on a submarine.
I know a couple of the guys he has to deal with can be dicks but it's not like there's lumber order emergencies at night or anything and in the gulf south he gets paiddd after every big storm. I think I'd take a pay cut to go into building supply sales.
Inside sales coordinates with the warehouse manager.
He buys me lunch and beers once a week and every year he'll take me fishing or to play golf every now and then.
Dude invites clients to his tailgates so he writes them off.
He let it slip that he's making 6 figures. That's a pretty cool job with no hard labor and basically bullshitting about sports with baws all day
ETA: Honestly the more I think about it the more jealous I am. I have to deal with arse hole clients that are impossible to please with ridiculous lead times and always want to nickel and dime me to death over chance orders they suggest and am held responsible for coked up contractors that are as reliable as a screen door on a submarine.
I know a couple of the guys he has to deal with can be dicks but it's not like there's lumber order emergencies at night or anything and in the gulf south he gets paiddd after every big storm. I think I'd take a pay cut to go into building supply sales.
This post was edited on 5/14/23 at 8:32 pm
Posted on 5/14/23 at 8:26 pm to HubbaBubba
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My job is global in scope and I get to work in really interesting aerospace, defense, biomedical, and space exploration projects. I have access to physicists, generals, military and rocket test ranges, night vision labs, all of NASA, drone technologies, robotics for undersea exploration, agriculture and AI applications. There's no "job description" this fits into and I sort of carved out a niche for myself where only a handful of people, even within my own organization, know what I do. Now that I'm retirement age, they are begging me not to fully retire and to stay on and guide training of someone and make the passing of the torch, so to speak, when I'm ready.
Why are you giving this guy so much trouble? Pretty obvious with his name(HubbaBubba) he makes bubble gum by hand for NASA. They asked him to stay on to train someone because lets be honest these days who knows how to make gum by hand?
This post was edited on 5/14/23 at 8:30 pm
Posted on 5/14/23 at 8:31 pm to FLObserver
I remember the bridge tender at L&N / seabrook. He would hold the bridge down to give the shrimpers time to pick up their nets, so wildlife couldn’t catch them. Probably got lots of shrimp. Until the strike force sent wacko up there to open bridge now no warning no vhf radio.
Posted on 5/14/23 at 8:39 pm to EF Hutton
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Pay is only $350/day but you get to work in your underwear and review all NSFW posts for accuracy. Drinking on the job is encouraged by your clients
Pay is only $350/day but you get to work in your underwear and review all NSFW posts for accuracy. Drinking on the job is encouraged by your clients
Posted on 5/14/23 at 8:52 pm to HubbaBubba
This sounds like dream job for most. What is your background in, engineering if I was going to guess.
Posted on 5/14/23 at 8:58 pm to biglego
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I’d like to just be a UPS or any delivery driver. Just drive around all day delivering things. Seems super easy.
My best friend is a ups driver. Good pay but they all hate the company and definitely don’t have fun around Christmas
Posted on 5/14/23 at 9:15 pm to athenslife101
You talked to some useless guys
Posted on 5/14/23 at 9:33 pm to athenslife101
It's important to have a job that makes a difference, boys. That's why I manually masturbate caged animals for artificial insemination.
Posted on 5/14/23 at 9:59 pm to Solo Cam
This is my brother in law's exact circumstance. He owns a very good sized regional home construction business.
His lumber company offered him a big job and he seriously considered taking it. Great money and far less stress, but he couldn't walk away from what he has built.
He has said the same thing though, why deal with all the BS, when you can just sell to the guy who is doing that.
His lumber company offered him a big job and he seriously considered taking it. Great money and far less stress, but he couldn't walk away from what he has built.
He has said the same thing though, why deal with all the BS, when you can just sell to the guy who is doing that.
Posted on 5/14/23 at 10:19 pm to hubreb
They said their job was all automated now. Who needs people when you can build a client service platform that can deliver client needs without needing broker dealer personnel slowing trading down
Posted on 5/14/23 at 10:52 pm to athenslife101
Port Ops for the Navy. Most squids I knew working for Port Ops used to take their tug boats out and fish all day.
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