most fun thing you ever got to do on a job?

[shugah]

hula-hooping!

i did have a job that, when things were slow, we'd break out the hula-hoops and hula away! :-) it was fun!

you?

[MrSlayer]

1. Destroy things with fire and blunt force.

Demolition jobs are great. Dropping ton heavy pipe racks with an acetylene torch and removing fixtures with a sledgehammer is quite enjoyable.

[shugah]

35. that actually sounds like

an awesome job!

[MrSlayer]

41. Destroying things is a lot more fun than building them.

Unfortunately I don't get to do it very often.

[Nicole Lambeth]

2. I got to watch all the movies I wanted

when I was a shift manager at a Hollywood Video. Sad to say, it was mostly Fraggle Rock reruns, and some of the cooler Disney movies like Lilo and Stitch.

[Silver Swan]

3. Singing

I worked for a large Federal agency, and we had an employee chorus of which I was a member.

We not only sang for events within our own office, but we also got to sing for events in other agencies in the Chicago area.

And we got to rehearse on company time.

(Closest I ever came to being a professional singer.)

[Strong Atheist]

4. Go to the Baltimore Science museum,

or maybe the natural history museum,

or...

....


.....

in a previous jod download, well...

pictures...

from the internet...

:blush:

[Inchworm]

5. "launch" airplanes

Well, pass 'em to a pro. :)

:hi:

[sakabatou]

6. Ipponsiangi (sp?) on 12 year-olds

I was a martial arts instructor.

[Kali]

7. ride horseback

drink
take naps

[Flaxbee]

8. I worked at the Guggenheim for a few months, filling in for someone

on maternity leave.

Was fun to go to work every day. :)

[Aristus]

9. Crewing a tank; nothing else even comes close...

[shugah]

38. !

:thumbsup:

[Chan790]

10. I got to smash a server with a baseball bat...

When I was working at the computer lab in college we had a server which went completely dead during the week before finals. Not kind of dead, the motherboard caught fire. Everybody's term papers, theses, dissertations, etc. were backed up to this main data storage unit (this server) so we needed to get the hard drives out. We're talking one of those really old units, probably 20-30 years old. Made of steel and designed to survive Reaganism and nuclear obliteration. The case wouldn't open, the heat had warped it and we broke the aviation snips trying to cut the door panel off. So we figured out where inside the hard drives were, they were the only things we were even trying to salvage, found the point farthest from them and went to it with crowbars and an aluminum bat until we bent the case to the point that we could get inside to get the drives out to try them in another server in case there was anything salvagable.

Who says technology always prevails over primativity?

(Somewhere, systems hardware engineers are crying or laughing at this story.)

[csziggy]

11. Deliver foals

It is an absolute joy.

[shugah]

40. :-)

that seems like it would be a rewarding endeavor

[hobbit709]

12. Shoot the shit backstage with Count Basie at the'Dillo.

[XemaSab]

13. Read Harry Potter book 5

My boss dropped me off to do a bird survey, and I had about 6 hours after the survey was over, so I read the (then) new book sitting under a MONSTER tree in Oregon.

The wierdest thing happened that day: I was sitting under this GIANT tree (we're talking 10 foot DBH) and I got to the part where Harry dreams he's the snake. I put the book down for a sec to absorb the scene, and something prompted me to look over my shoulder. There was a TINY little snake right over my shoulder, hanging off the bark of the tree. :o

Driving a tractor for a different project was pretty fun too. :D

[TheKentuckian]

14. I once had a sales job that if you wanted leads you had to get fucked up with the boss

double digit joint lunches were the grooviest.

[NNadir]

15. Play with phosgene.

[Initech]

16. I once got paid to fly to Sacramento and back.

[old mark]

17. Driving a truck. I really enjoyed driving a large straight truck on

occason, especially when traffic was OK. Got to look at the countryside, get away from the bosses.


mark

[semillama]

18. Drive a front-end loader and move piles of dirt.

It was like being a kid with a Tonka truck!

[arbusto_baboso]

19. Fire every small arm in the NATO and Warsaw Pacts arsenals.

I was SF; we had to be knowledgeable about all that shit.

[LynneSin]

20. Either White Water Rafting down the Colorado or Herding Cow on Horseback

And you wonder why your pharmaceuticals costs so much! But they did have the most fun on their teambuilding events!

[CrownPrinceBandar]

21. Dig up half-million year old horse bones......

here: http://matt.pope.users.btopenworld.com/boxgrove/boxhome.htm

- This is a rhino bone found a few seasons after I was there.

[oedura]

22. Go home at the end of the day. (nt)

...

[qnr]

23. Fly to the South Pole n/t

[eyepaddle]

25. Mine would probably be fly between two icebergs in a Coast Guard Helicopter

It was in the still frozen part of McMurdo Sound on the way to Marble Point. I spent a lot of time fueling the Coasties, so we got along great, they gave me a a totally over the top bonus on the flight to Marble Point.

Or maybe it was one of the times when I was driving cab in college and a female passenger thought I was too awesome to pass up and gave me a (sex thread deleted). :blush:

[qnr]

26. Nice :) I've sailed between my share of them, but never flown - heheh your second

one reminds me of certain experiences when I used to work security at a casino and drove the shuttle. For the most part I turned them down politely. All those comp'ed drinks tended to lower inhibitions.

[eyepaddle]

28. For the most part!

'nuff said! :evilgrin:

[Z_I_Peevey]

24. Force the resignation of a crooked DA

What a kick that was.

[Jokerman]

27. I got to dance on one of those giant keyboards.

Just like in the movie "Big". In fact, it was a promotion for the video release of "Big".

I spent the night before practicing "Heart & Soul" and "Chopsticks" and, if I may say so myself, put on a hell of a performance.

[Steely_Dan]

29. Shooting Down...

RC airplanes with a 50 cal. Vulcan anti-aircraft weapon. (And I don't even like guns).

-P

[Roon]

30. I'm with old mark..driving a straight truck

and delivering countertops. Good work out and no bosses or fellow employees to hassle you.

[MineralMan]

31. Sit on a platform over a bit vat of water, while people threw

baseballs at a target. It was a hot day, and I got to make faces and insult the throwing abilities of all comers. Every once in a while, I got to cool off suddenly. Good times.

[PVnRT]

32. Swimming on a hot afternoon

I was helping spray for insects, and you can't really do that from about 2-4 pm, so we basically goofed off during that time.

[abq e streeter]

33. Thought working a jackhammer would be fun , but it was exhausting, so...

I gotta say having strange ( and I DO mean strange) women run up on stage and kiss me ( and one stuffed money and a phone number down my pants in the middle of a sax solo). Sadly, now that I'm well into my 50's its been years since anything like that has happened. I don't get it. Does this mean I'm not young and cute anymore?

[Orrex]

39. Maybe you're suffering from saxual dysfunction?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

34. Escorting groups of students to Japan

I did it twice. Not only did I get to travel to Japan, but the students were a lot of fun, too.

[Jetboy]

36. Drink!

I worked at a liquor store and sampling the products was actually encouraged.

[fizzgig]

37. either play firefighter for a day or going shooting with a city council member

those things were the fun part of being a cops reporter :)