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[DisneyIsNotJustALuxury]

I do realize that no matter what you do making an honest living just sucks. However, we all have jobs which we found easier to take than others. Which of yours did you like best?

I liked working as a photographer at the San Francisco Giants games. I am not a baseball fan and never talked to the players other than to conduct business, which was to sell pictures to the fans of themselves with the players and each other. It was a job that I just could not afford to keep. I did well enough at it that the boss was mad at me when I quit. Yet it was seasonal work, and we got laid off every time the team hit the road so that meant getting laid off a lot for the duration of baseball season and then having the job end. I worked two seasons in 2007 and 2008 and then gave up.

I just liked getting those Norman Rockwell moments on the record, at least until volume was all they cared about. That frustrated me because I knew that taking pictures and selling pictures were two different things. The manager who wanted me to stay must have known that too because he said that I sold more pictures than my co-workers, even when I took fewer. I went for the pictures that pulled at the heartstrings.

Which of your jobs did you like best?

[omd]

I worked for 12 years as an ophthalmic assistant with a pediatric ophthalmologist who was the best boss anyone could ever ask for. I loved working with the kids and with him. It was so hard for me when he retired, but he has remained a very good friend.

[Connieq288]

When I was 16 I worked at a vets office. I loved working with the animals except for when we had to put them to sleep.

[RoonieRooToo]

One of the "college jobs" was as a Relay agent. If someone is hearing impaired, they must place their calls to a hearing person using a TDD through a Relay agent. You are their voice and their ears for the call. I did that for 2 1/2 years and was the perfect college job. It was one of the few jobs that I felt like I was truly contributing to the greater good.

[Teresa]

I had a job when I was about 17 as a "soda jerk". I worked for Lindner's Ice Cream Parlor in Indianapolis. It was a small convenience store and ice cream shop. I loved the variety of public interaction that I had there.

[Minnie Lor]

My first job was as a waitress in a family Italian restaurant. Loved waiting on customers but hated that we had to bus tables, make the garlic bread, and pitch in with washing dishes.

Another job that I held was an assistant manager of a craft store. They sold crafts that were already made. None of it was cheap looking. They had to pass the test before their stuff was sold at our store. I love all of that stuff and it was hard not spend all of my paycheck there.

[roaminggnome]

I worked for several years at a local resort. It was a blast. You had new people in and out everyday and you NEVER knew what was going to happen. I would still be there but the owner was a real B!

[Joanne929]

In HS I worked at McD's for two years, and one of my jobs was a "Party Hostess" - it was so fun! We had an indoor play area and party rooms.

As an adult, my favorite job was working at USTrust (5 years).

Of course, I love my job now, but I was thinking of past jobs.

[wvugrrrl]

When I was a junior and senior in high school, I worked weekends as a DJ at our local radio station. My shift was midnight to 8 am, and it was the greatest job I've ever had. I could do whatever I wanted (as long as I played the songs at the right time), and being a teenager, what's cooler than getting to stay up all night without your parent's supervision?

[Kynna]

I ran an art program for at risk teens in the winter and ages 6-11 in the summer. Best job EVER. I miss those kids both the ones we taught and the ones who worked for me, and I learned more about Art that I ever did in College.

[minemoz1]

My first job at 16 I worked for Fannie May Candies. I WAS the kid in the candy store. You could eat as much as you want (and boy did I) and I worked with all my friends with no adult supervision in the evenings. Holidays were crazy, especially Valentines Day where we'd have people lined up out the door because there was nowhere to stand inside. Though summers were SOOO boring. I don't think they took in enough money to cover our salaries half the time. Could be why they went under and were bought by another company.

[home4us123]

When I was in high school I worked at a local video store. I still see some of the people today. I loved that job

[Luvsun]

I don't know if you can classify being "Mom" as a job......but that has been and continues to be the best thing I have ever done or been!!

[Chrissi]

I love being a mom best, but if we're talking about traditional jobs . . . I loved being a chocolatier at Callie's Candy Kitchen. It was also the hardest and most demanding job (physically) I've ever had. (I blew out my knee doing it.) A lot of lifting, bending, standing - 8 - 10 hour days on your feet with a half hour break for lunch after you've been hauling copper kettles full of candy and fudge, trays weighed down with 50 pounds or more of truffles and truffle bark, and everything else all day. Then there's the spring and fall cleaning of both the candy store and their pretzel factory. Basically a week straight of scrubbing on your hands and knees at each location. NOT an easy job! BUT - the people I worked for and with were and still are amazing peple and friends and the boss encouraged every employee to eat as much as they wanted! I gained at least 20 lbs. in the year I worked there.

[chezp]

Tough call - I loved my last job as a radio journalist, in fact I loved that and my first job doing the same thing (in between I freelanced and worked in PR) and my current job is wonderful. I love the variety and never know what will hit from one day to the next - you can never be bored. :