What is the best job you've had ?

[Dayvo]

Mine was, at the time, working at GMH for 11 years in the mid 1970's to mid 1980's . I started when i was nearly 18 . I learned how to MIG weld , lead wipe , File finishing and dent knocking. (That is fixing dents in panels without using bog )
But the best time was when i worked on the end of the production line driving cars over to the Dyno . It was a great feeling being the first person to fire up a brand new SLR 5000 , A9X and in the later years SS Commodores even though i only drove them about 100 metres . We also got to meet Peter Brock and other Holden race drivers when they came to watch their race cars being built.

[tonza]

Mine was as a kitchenhand at pizza hut. free food, cruisie work and i still get staff discount now after not working there for years

[Cobez]

the one im in now........i work in the veterinary industry.......i get to deal with all kinds of animals plus i get to boss the teenagers around as i am one of the supervisors and a few days a week i do hard manual labour out in our wholesale warehouse so i stay fit and keep myself bulked up plus i get paid great pay for doing what i enjoy........plus i get my own desk and computer and stereo etc...........and i do most of the forklift work and i get awesome veterinary training from the nurses and our big boss who has been a veterinarian for 47 years

[Julie]

Mine was as a kitchenhand at pizza hut. free food, cruisie work and i still get staff discount now after not working there for years

I'd have thought u'd hate pizza hut given your username lol

[Cobez]

i worked at pizza hut as junior manager for about a year when i was younger.........worst job EVER........i think i had eaten pizza hut about 4 times before i worked there and i havent touched it since........if anyone had seen the "egg" we used to put on the aussies, you wouldnt eat it ever again.........

[TheForgotten]

best job I ever had... well they all had good points, but my last job, fleet maintenance for a car rental company, was probly the best. we worked bloody hard in the hot sun, but got to break up the monotony by tearing up the city in brand new cars (mitsu 380's actually move quite well when you give them a bootful of go-hard, but XR6's are gutless boats).
plus I was working up contacts in the mining and industrial sectors for future work, but moved away 6 months ago. so all that work was for nothing really

[Grennan]

JB HI FI, As a Music Advisor. Pretty much just stacking the music section, helping with the orders for music, one of my best duties. Sitting in the back room listening to cds. We used to just sit there listening to all the new Death, Black, Thrash and all the imported Metal that came in from Europe. Plus we scored free/rockbottom cheap CDs that had damaged cases etc.

Got fired because i was in a bad mood one day, and we were really busy and we had a ton of emo kids in all day, like...more than usual for Eastland. I got approached by about 3 of them and they asked me whether or not this new cd of theirs had come in, i turned around and looked at the music manager and he just rolled his eyes and walked off, i just said "I dont know, go check the whingey bitch section, if its in, itll be there with the rest of the crap"

They went to the manager and complained, the music manager tried to save my arse but yeah rest is history. I was more angry at myself because i wanted that job for almost a year finally got it and i pissed it away cause i was in a bad mood... And I really despise emos.

[Torquative]

I have to say the job Im in now.

Holden knocked me back and thank god, i now get to sit in, start up and drive cars you cant even sit in at the Motor Show the sort of cars most of us dream to own and probably never will.

I enjoy now rocking up to the show and knowing the ins and outs of new models, getting to go to various places for training and meetins such important people.

But it has to be the people I work with that make the difference! We have fun throughout the days, have Froday Fun Ones and the like which makes all the difference when your stuck there for 8 hours a day

[drewins]

Mine was, at the time, working at GMH for 11 years in the mid 1970's to mid 1980's . I started when i was nearly 18 . I learned how to MIG weld , lead wipe , File finishing and dent knocking. (That is fixing dents in panels without using bog )
But the best time was when i worked on the end of the production line driving cars over to the Dyno . It was a great feeling being the first person to fire up a brand new SLR 5000 , A9X and in the later years SS Commodores even though i only drove them about 100 metres . We also got to meet Peter Brock and other Holden race drivers when they came to watch their race cars being built.

I'm an apprentice there now.

Beats my only other job at Woolworths.

[AttaBoy]

I'm in right now - working at home. Earning around $140 average per day selling companies products and earning big commissions!!

[Reaper]

Pretty happy running the company I have at the moment. The owner doesn't interfere and I run my own race.

Yesterday wasn't so hot though. I had an angry Samoan (now ex) employee swinging a baseball bat sized piece of timber at me and that was before I sacked him. Fortunately he has calmed down a bit and has threatened to kill me if he ever sees me alone. It's the first death threat I have had in a while - I was worried I was loosing my touch!

Reaper

[CALAIS 6]

has to be one im in just now something a bit different playground installer he he he i build playgrounds all day.It's physicaly hard but also good fun and something different

[Julie]

What I'm doing now, self employed artist. I work when I want, how much I want, work from home, have no bosses to answer to (tho some customers are a pain in the arse). I love what I do and I get paid to do it and its great to get the feedback from my very appreciative customers. Only drawback is that I have so much stock all around the house at the moment, gonna have to get a bigger house or some studio space soon.

[VZTHUNDER]

do u get to "test" the equipment :P i wont say mine... only had 1 and its ****

[minux]

Mine is where i am at now in Logistics Management and Support.
I took almost 15k in pay cuts to take it..but who wouldnt to work from home? My pay is almost back to where it was. Loving every day of it.

[DANNY8]

I'm a shiit kicker at a crash repair place....it was my first job and I'm still there now (been there bout 2 years). I just clean up the rubbish and clean the occasional car. I don't mind it coz I'm only casual and go in normally bout 1 day a week. I can't work much more then that tho coz I'm on a disability pension. I just go in and cruise around the workshop doin my thing.

[matty88]

Year 10 work experience as a mechanic's assistant... simple things like oil changes and changing plugs and just the environment of working on holdens was enough

[HoldenManDan]

I'd also have to say the one i'm in now. It could be said that the last year and a half have been working towards now.

My first job was at cartridge world where there was the customer contact etc, dusty cartridges, but my fave part of each day was getting to hoon (i use the term loosely ) around in either of the bosses 2 Hilux SR5's. Doing this for a year was enough to know that i enjoyed driving as part of my work and threw the idea around of becoming a courier, although i never seriously considered it, as i wasnt earning enough and had just got a loan for my commodore.

So, driven by the desire to earn more dosh, a mate got me to try out as an assistant manager at red rooster. While the pay was better, i really couldnt stand it, and after 9 weeks i'd had enough. I had to get out and the crazy idea came back to me: go be a courier.

So after having a look around at the right kind of vehicle to get, and my dad (also a courier, earning heaps and loving it for the last 10 years) pulling some strings, got me a job. Got the van loan approved (thanks to red rooster salary), paid off my commodore loan and got my hands on quite a bargain, practically new and cheaper than RRP by a good $8K. 8 weeks in and i'm loving it more and more every day! I'm my own boss, in my office on wheels and the stereo cranking, the scenery always changing. I'm not up too early in the morning and not home too late in the evening, its practically 9-5. No 2 days have been the same, all this and averaging $200+ a day. All in all, i'm pretty happy! lol

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[Astranomical]

Lab monitor for a uni computer lab. Basically, i got paid to supervise and maintain a uni computer lab. it was a bit of work at first, since the machines had never had any work done on them, but once i got everything running properly it was easy money...nothing much really happened, and when i wasn't doing anything, i was allowed to use the computers to do whatever i wanted, so basically, for most of the day i got paid to sit around and surf the net and chat up nice looking sheilas

[ProphetVX]

University tutor/Lab supervisor.... Got paid $30 an hour to essentially sit down for 2 hours and answer questions if someone had any problems, in my breaks between classes at uni.

Easy, good money. Paid for my weekends anyway.

[calais_cruzin]

My first job was at cartridge world where there was the customer contact etc, dusty cartridges, but my fave part of each day was getting to hoon (i use the term loosely ) around in either of the bosses 2 Hilux SR5's. Doing this for a year was enough to know that i enjoyed driving as part of my work and threw the idea around of becoming a courier, although i never seriously considered it, as i wasnt earning enough and had just got a loan for my commodore.

I manage a Cartridge world store now, been doin it for 5yrs, do buggar all, drink lots of coffee n sit on jc when shop is quiet, its good.

Been thinkin about lookin for sumfink else, but i wouldnt get teh time to sit on ere if i was anywhere else, or thats what i come to think.

Best job, Work for the Dole, got stuck on that for a month or 2 when i moved states, well i made a Bike track for a Church, was sick, 4 big 5m doubles, few nice burms, sumone donated a steel ramp, then it was all closed coz sum kid come off n skinned his leg on it, was spewin spent a fair amount of time diggin for the track n laying the clay/cracker dust base.

[sganro]

Chemical engineer at a gold/copper mine. Cruizy work, earn heaps, not stuck behind a desk all day and get 6 day weekends!!!

Also worked on a mango farm when i was younger which was fun. I got the job of riding the 4 wheeler round all day towing the bins of mangos from the paddock to the shed. Most of the time the bins took longer to fill than it took me to cruise to the shed and back so i got to go joyriding between bins.

[Jecs]

I had an angry Samoan (now ex) employee swinging a baseball bat sized piece of timber at me and that was before I sacked him. Fortunately he has calmed down a bit and has threatened to kill me if he ever sees me alone. It's the first death threat I have had in a while - I was worried I was loosing my touch!

Reaper

LMFAO



for a second there i thought you were gay. Samoan (now ex)

[hingo1983]

My job last year as a computer technician was good. Drove around most of the day fixing computers or if I was feeling lazy, I could send on of the Juniors out there instead and I would fix the PC's in the workshop. Not great money but my bosses were the greatest people I could ever work for. I could get away with murder there. I could even jokingly tell them to **** off and carry on like an idiot and they were fine with it. Then I had to move to Canberra and got a job with Unisys that was terrible. I quit after 6 months and I now work on an IT helpdesk for the ACT Government. Way more money but not nearly as challenging or fun as my job in Orange. It wasn't a stressful job, yet it was very rewarding.

[Torniquet]

man all u guys being so happy about ur jobs gets me down haha.

im a 4th year apprentice mechannic. And i already want a change..im so sick of it..words cant describe how badly i need a change haha..

i love cars. but its just so frustrating..