Wolverines

Pondering life in general and wondering.....


of all the jobs you've had, what was your favorite and why?

OPFOR Tanker in Hohenfels, Germany. CMTC I think it has a different name. But it was the only time in my military career that I got to shoot, move, and communicate everyday and was home for dinner. Plus I took great pleasure in killing BlueFor. I had 60 confirmed vehicle kills in less than three years. Simulated ofcourse. I even got a Army Achievement Medal for shooting and killing an entire mechanized company as they attempted to breach an obsticle. 3 Times I had 5 or more kills in one engagement. BTW, tankers have the same thing as fighter pilots, 5 kills is an Ace. At any rate, was pretty awesome.

I will have to come back and answer this when I finish forestry school and get into the career I've wanted to actually be in the past 10 years.

But up to this point, I think the job that has held the softest part of my career heart was actually working on my Grandparents farm. There is something about being outdoors and working with my hands that gives me a sense of real satisfaction.

I'm extremely excited about becoming a forester.

Blow. 

I guess if I had to pick a favorite, it would be what I am doing now, working as AIX and TIVOLI server support at a hospital. Its challenging and pays well. Feel like an adult for the first time in 31 years.

I'm looking forward to nursing, but right now I love Phlebotomy. I have been teaching it for the last year and it is always fun. Get to meet some cool people and see some crazy stuff.

Phlebotomy - I had to look that up you bloodsucker

15 years of Bartending for obvious reasons.  And if you don't know what those are:  Free drinks and as many tits as you can look at.

But, I'd have given it all up to do what I am doing right now.  Owning my own business is great, long hours, but I'm loving it.

varg....if you only spelled like an adult

I guess mine is my last job. We watched movies, played video games, drank at work, took 3 hour cigar lunches and I ran the third largest warez site in the US.....even after I was approached by the FBI.....for something totally unrelated.

Pizza Hut hands down.

I liked to be able to make customers smile when I delivered them pizzas.

Also I liked to race other Pizza Hut crew when we folded pizza boxes.

You mean our wonderful time at Wallyworld wasnt your favorite Night?

As much as a "hobby" it is seeming to become, setting up my tech support buisness and taking the (albiet few) customers has been super fun (and incredibly profitable).

Although, my day job makes me want to either commit suicide or multiple homicide multiple times a day (still at fucking Walmart)

College yrs, Working at the Gas station/Liquor Store, Dont remeber doing much work but, But i do remeber getting stoned in the beer cooler more frequintly then not. 

being JTs personal ball washer.

It was an honor

Nothing like having a sexy dominican scrub your beanbag all day.

speaking of jackelmaster and balls....I need to go back to NYC again....too short a visit

I've been struggling with this answer, which I guess says a lot to me about how happy I've been with employment situations I suppose.

I have a lot of fond memories working at AMC, though I hated it at the time.  The job itself wasn't great but I did like the people I worked with and enjoyed hanging out with them.

My last job had Beer-Thirty every Friday Afternoon which was awesome.  My current job is BLEH at best, but it pays the bills.

Worked at the pool snack bar for a couple years.  Free soft pretzels!

Super Subby's through high school was badass.  Free food and my friends as coworkers was awesome.  I was the night manager too, which meant we didn't have anyone to yell at us for all of the dick and fart jokes.

Hated working at Structure (now Express Men).

Loved working on the city road crew.  Worked on the long striper (yellow and white lines on the road) as well as the short striper (stop bars, turn lane arrows, crosswalks, etc.), replaced old worn out street signs.  It was a lot of hard work in the sun and heat, but felt good at the end of the day and I got to play a lot of instant lotto with the mouthbreathing full-timers.  Good gig.

Loved working as a student assistant at the desk in my dorm.  I spent a boatload of time drunk at that job.

Was a "driver" in college.  Basically drove around campus delivering tv's and projectors to classrooms.  A lot of heavy lifting and very physical job, but fun.

Worked at the Varsity Club back in the dungeon kitchen.  Made pizzas, sandwiches, salads, fried shit, bar food shit.  Decent enough job, until football season came and they wanted me to work 7am-gametime shifts on Saturdays that I had home tickets for.  Dealbreaker.  Those are get drunk hours.  I did manage to steal a ton of booze and pizza from them though. 

Level 2 student tech: meh.  Mostly replacing dead floppy drives and mundane shit like that.  Pretty boring.

Level 3 student tech: amazing.  Very loosely supervised.  Spent a lot of time drunk, in movie theaters, watching tv/having cookouts at my house, all on the clock.  Learned a shitload of tech stuff from my much more intelligent co-workers.  I'm convinced there is no better way to learn shit than to ask someone smarter than you a lot of tedious questions.  

Customer support at AVV (Brent's current job): fucking terrible.  Sorry Nick, but it's true.  I started out working the 1-10 shift.  1-5 was fucking unbearable.  6-10 was much easier cause I was the only one in the office and I could play WoW and teach myself Sketchup and Blender since nobody was calling in.  True cubicle-farm job though and I hated every minute of it.

Classroom helpline at OSU: alright, I guess.  Pretty mind-numbing.  Lots of showing professors how to plug a laptop into a projector, replacing overhead lamp bulbs, rehanging screens, etc.  It got kinda old after about 8 months.

Desktop support/student manager at OSU Libraries: A step up from Helpline.  Lots of work, lots of customers, very little assistance from the 4 full-time fuckwads I had to work with.  This job was kind of a pain in the ass, actually, but good for me to get some of my IT chops back.

IT Manager at the Glenn School (current job): Best job I've had so far.  Tons of work, tons of responsibility, and everyone expecting me to have answers and solutions.  I love that I get to call the shots and people have no choice but to listen to me.  I'm managing another full-timer and a handful of students.  It's been a lot of work to re-learn and update my knowledge on networking, servers, automated software and image deployment, and be a part of the School's administrative team simultaneously.  Every day is different and I never get bored.  It's a metric fuckton of work, but I'm a perfectionist workaholic, so I love it.  Now they just need to give me more of this money and I'll be set.

My job is the complete opposite of JT's. Barely any work. No responsibility because no one gets fired here. No one listens to my answers or solutions. I don't have anyone to help me and I really haven't learned anything. The only difference is at my job there is about 75 BONAFIDE hot chicks that I yenta it up with.

I just accepted a position as a Systems Manage for the school of architecture.... hopefully this will be my favorite job!