What's the best job you ever had?

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Not enjoying my job at the moment so looking for inspiration for a possible change.

What is the best job you ever had (or have been told about)?

I worked in a chip shop when I was 17, I enjoyed that.

I've had many jobs but my favourite is now - my own childminding business. Mind you the government is ruining that at the moment too.

I'm a primary teacher.

When it's tough, it's really tough but I bloody love it most of the time.

Every day, I'm hugged and given little messages telling me how I'm loved I am.

It's a genuine privilege to spend my day with other people's inquisitive, hilarious, if sometimes infuriating little people.

I always look forward to returning in September and rarely have Monday morning blues. But I am in a brilliant and supportive school, which helps.

I too love my job in a primary school @OldChinaJug Best job in the world. I've skipped in most days for the past 20 years.

I loved working in an aquarium one summer. I also loved working as an usher in a theatre during uni.

The job I have now. Museum assistant in case you didn't spot my nickname 😁

I get to look after an ancient manor house, organise family/community events and generally spend all day chatting to visitors about my passion, which is local history!

daffodilandtulip I misread yours as 'minding my own business' 😂😆
I worked in Bay Trading in the 90s, loved that. Good discounts, great staff.
I was a PA to an architect, that was interesting.
I taught English to an Italian on his boat on Lake Como - lush!
I've written puff pieces for a Spanish magazine.

I've had a fun time of life!

During the pandemic I took on a full time job cleaning door handles. That's all I did, just walked slowly around a mostly empty building cleaning door handles for £18 per hour. It was great.

I adore my job. I work in sales; amazing team, interesting products, lovely customers (most of the time) and great money.

I look forward to going to work every day

Worked on the confectionary stand of a cinema as a student one summer. Free tickets to the cinema and loads of free sweeties too, I mean it was the dream looking back.

Waitrose. On the till, in the days when you had to type in the prices.
Loved it.

I worked in a bookies in the early 00’s. lol over the job and my regulars. Terrible pay but I was happy!

The one I have now
Relocation Consultant

Manager of a Covid site.

My public sector admin job right now is great.

But my favourite job was working reception in the evenings at my student accomm… just had to sit at the desk doing my uni work and get paid. Only ‘tasks’ were to buzz people in and out if they forgot keys, give people their post, and log any maintenance requests.

I'm long haul cabin crew. It's all I ever wanted to do from being aged 7. Like any job it has its negatives, however I still get a wow feeling everytime I step onboard an aircraft/take off on one, 25 years later I still feel incredibly lucky to enjoy what I do.

I'm a nurse in a dementia unit and I absolutely love what I do. The money isn't brilliant but the fulfilment and job satisfaction is unparalleled. I work with a great bunch of dedicated people and I look forward to going to work. It was tough during the pandemic but we really did become like a big family during that time.

My cousin and i got jobs in the cloakroom of michael john. The wages were poor but we got amazing tips when we gave customers their coats and handbags in one piece.

During Covid, i was a Covid Test Collector. I would be given around 8 to 10 addresses per day and i would go to them, conduct a short survey and get them to take a covid test. The great thing was once you had visited all the addresses you were free to go home.

I used to finish all my jobs by 12 noon and be home by 12:15 ... perfect and got paid 35k per year.

Think i was the only person sad when Covid ended

I retrained as an electrician 5 years ago when my youngest went to school. There were really good grants available for women in trades. I mostly do commercial work on building sites. It's fun, fast-paced, and the money is good. I work with a great crew.

My first retail job when I was 16. Started part time and stayed for 4 years, ended up FT and as a department manager. It was mainly my workmates that made it tho, and it was a lot less stressful than I imagine it would be now.

Best job overall was a 999 call handler for the ambulance. Stressful, shift work/anti social hours but when it went well it was amazing!

Working the stage door of a London theatre. It was mostly just sitting around chatting to the duty firemen and adding names to a log of attendance.

It was particularly good when I accidentally pushed the button on the switchboard phone and all calls went to random staff numbers and not to me. More time for chat that night!

Ssdly only did it now and then to fill in rota gaps.

Special school teacher for twenty years. Loved it, children were amazing. Then got a bit burnt out and exhausted so not doing that now.

Working in a pet shop as a teenager.

My best job ever was teaching English to older immigrants in a local community scheme. They were such lovely people, and all had interesting stories. I was an ESOL teacher for many years and always preferred teaching adults; any adult who walks back into a classroom is someone with a plan and someone who I want to teach.

I lost that job due to Covid, and I'm doing something different now, but I remember it fondly.

A not-for-profit. No deadlines. Too much money. Too many staff, very little work with generous leave, as in, it’s a bank holiday on Monday so free to stop at lunch time on the Friday to make it a long weekend. All had every last Friday of the month off as … dunno why… but no complaints. informally, some of us called it ‘Fuck all Friday’ anyway cos nobody seemed to do anything.

every month, attended a whole staff meeting where every manager gave an update on progress. On long-term projects, month-to-month projects didn’t progress significantly. A few of us were on WA groups and would msg each other about droning voices, speakers that ummm’ed, ahh’ed, stuttered… and how mind-numbing it was.

since lock down, all were allowed to continue WFH but they tried to attract people back in on meeting days with lovely pizzas and other goodies… really nice stuff. I rarely went in as it was a 1 hr train / Luas journey each way.

all of us highly qualified and skilled in our particular areas but rarely used to capacity. My director once told me that nobody should ever feel stressed working there.

in office, before lock down, I was a contractor and oh so ready to move on, then lock down and WFH made life bearable and contracted for 4.5 years.

Loads of cushy extras like a big Christmas bonus that everybody got, all the same amount… big

but… sadly, contract finally ended but I’ve never had it so cushy in my life before.

oh, most people there were lovely, as well