Best jobs in the world?

moneybagsuk

So what are the best jobs in the world in your opinion?

A few I have heard mentioned / read in a few articles:

-Island caretaker (that english bloke who went out to queensland)
-Computer game tester

A few more on this jobs blog

Or, come to think of it, what are the worst?

bluenoseam

i'd disagree on the game tester, having done more than my fair share of betas the stuff you're expected to do makes it less rewarding than you'd imagine! (besides, you rarely "play" it as you would normally play, you play to break it)

Personally i'd suggest radio presenter/dj or whoever gets to shoot The Saturdays calendars, that would be my ideal work to be fair!

biggaz26

I think a !!!!!! film camera man could end up on both best and worse lists.

Just think of where they have to put tha camera sometimes..

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DKLS

Foe me it would be a job that is well paid, interests and challenges me.

My worst job was accountant, by 5mins past 9am I would be praying for death to relieve the sheer boredom.

baby_fuzz

I'd agree. Games testing probably involves just running at virtual walls all day...

travelodger

I HAD the best job ever!

I was a guard on the trains 30 years ago. We just sat in the train reading newspapers and magazines (that were left by passengers), then at each stop just got up, rang the bell once all the doors were shut, and went back to reading. We were fully trained to do stuff in emergencies but of course these very rarely happen.

Some days we could come in "on standby" and literally do nothing at all, just snooze or play cards in the messroom. If no job had come in after 4 hours we were sent home and got paid for 8.

Typical shift was to sign in at say 5am, be on a train only from, say 6am till 10am (take the commuters to work in London then come back to depot) and there was nothing more on that roster, we'd go home but were paid until 1pm.

On nights we'd either sleep all night if there was no job to do, at the very worst we'd have to take an empty train somewhere then come back again, that would take about 3 or 4 hours then they'd send us home.

The job was so easy that we'd work on our days off and on Sundays, it was easy to work 7 days when all you did was sit on your !!!! for 3 or 4 hours each day. I took home TWICE what my mates of the same age as me earned. On top of that we got free travel all across the world, free uniforms, even our shoes and socks! It was great. Automatic pay rise every year courtesy of the unions. Cheap food in the subsidised canteen and cheap booze in the BRSA club. The management even provided a dart board, pool table, satellite TV, VCR etc in our messroom.

I sometimes used to have my mates travel about with me (without tickets of course). If we found wallets etc we'd nick any money before handing them in. If we turned up late our mates would cover for us. We did so many naughty things, we were terrible!

We used to mess about, have a right laugh with our mates, play practical jokes on each other, be as rude as we liked to passengers, give management the right old runaround, and get away with it all because they never sacked anyone, well hardly ever. Even a driver who was blind drunk only got demoted. Militant union reps meant we could get out of anything.

When I studied for my degree, did all the reading while on my trains. Best part, owing to union agreements, BR had to pay all my (OU) university fees AND give me a week off to go to summer school.

I hasten to add, it's nothing like this anymore. It's really strict, guards have to walk up and down checking tickets all the time and have to work a full day. Once it started to get strict I had to leave <sigh> cos I was too used to being a lazy sod.

Ahhh... but I have such happy memories!

bristol_pilot

I once saw a job as a beer taster advertised! Well paid, too.

But I bet I would soon come to hate the stuff, which would then make it the worst job.

albacookie

Green and Blacks are looking for a chocolate taster - http://www.pieceofgreenandblacks.co.uk/apply/job

cindy101

Gosh that Train job would av bored me to tears,, loool,

iv always liked jobs where your BUSY BUSY BUSY!!! no time to think just Go Go Go all day or night long,,,

my best job would have been 15 years ago when i took a second job in a working mans club at night as barmaid,,, opps person, lool,,
we where very short staffed and i was on alone covering an 18th bithday party on the Friday, and a 21st on the Saturday,,, I Loved it was none stop all night very fast moving and i took £600,00 in the till the friday and over £1000.00 in the till on saturday , with only a £1.45 over ring all night i think i done great , and it was brill to see the punters having such a great time i was happy to look after them all,,,,
ahhh good times!

Raksha

I think I have a dream job (when my boss isn't making silly decisions). I am his PA/admin/bookeeper for a promotions company and my job is so varied, I can be doing the banking one moment, and removing dead mice from traps the next, or listening to a conversation that goes 'well, we can do it with G strings, or lycra leaopard print.....' I also take enquiries from a variety of youth organisations for creative workshops - we work with Young people in Young offenders intitutes, youngsters in exclusion units as well as young carers.

I literally never know what's going to happen next, my boss is also a party DJ and has DJ'd at the Maclaren F1 celebration when Lewis Hamilton won his championship, and Red Bull last year when they won the constructors championship. We also supplied the majority of the 'walk around' entertainment for the final GP of the season at Abu Dhabi, including a Football Freestyler who is always asked for by name by Bernie Ecclestone.

hartcjhart

Croupier, mentally challenging and very social