OT- Best Job You've Ever Had

[cusetown1]

Home of grassroots eh? lol.

Yup been once in 20 yrs.

 

[CuseTroop]

Yup been once in 20 yrs.

I made it once in highschool. Tried a few things for the first time, never made it out of the parking lot.

 

[Tobias Funke]

Worked at the old foxborugh stadium then Gillette stadium in high school and college. The job was brutal, but some of the people I met between Patriots players, coaches, and musicians was worth the trouble.

 

[CuseFaninVT]

Worked at the old foxborugh stadium then Gillette stadium in high school and college. The job was brutal, but some of the people I met between Patriots players, coaches, and musicians was worth the trouble.

I used to work with a woman who worked there as well. She went by the initials AT.

 

[ForeverOrange]

Worked at EA sports, started as an Intern, outside of the politics, it was heaven. Always got to meet celebrities, go to events, dressed how you want, and the quarterly meetings were crazy. We'd gather in the gym where local people in the company who had bands would play and people would go up to the stage to play video games against each other. The gym was right next to the cafeteria where they had chefs come in on site to cook, always switching up. Campus environment. Video games for new releases were only $25 for us. Best. Job...Ever

 

[Tobias Funke]

I was a high school/college kid lugging kegs, I probably wouldn't know many of the people who worked in the offices. Being that we had our warehouse down not to far from locker rooms and the pathway to the field we often would see players, and celebrities. Of all of the poeple I met in my time there the 2 nicest were Pete Carroll, and Tom Brady during his rookie season.

Edit: in response to CuseFanVT post

 

[CuseFaninVT]

I was a high school/college kid lugging kegs, I probably wouldn't know many of the people who worked in the offices. Being that we had our warehouse down not to far from locker rooms and the pathway to the field we often would see players, and celebrities. Of all of the poeple I met in my time there the 2 nicest were Pete Carroll, and Tom Brady during his rookie season.

Edit: in response to CuseFanVT post

I think she worked in one of the (can't think of the right word) gift shops. But I bet they have a ton of people working there either way.

Anyway, very cool about Pete Carroll. I think he could have done great things there but the timing wasn't right.

 

[Rocco]

Bartending for 3 years in college. Shitshow. Bars in Albany open til 4 too, which meant we drank til 7.

Besides the females, best part was being incredibly liquid and blowing all of it on Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday nights. Didn't have a care in the world.

 

[OrangeTown]

I do a lot of business in the Penn Yan, Hammondsport and Bath area and have hit up some of the places along the way. I like Penn Yan a lot. Neat little town. I have like 5 clients right on he main street in town that I see a couple of times a year.

Okay everybody, pay up! I told you he was a hooker!

 

[edowd26]

Hahaha- Man, I wish!
It was late 80's- early 90's and the number one rule was- "Don't "fraternize" with the club members".
I had no prior massage experience, pretty much "trained" for a couple of days and they threw me into my (ahem) work.
The clients were mostly bored females who were VERY rich, and VERY spoiled. No one followed the rules and there was plenty of action to be had. Also, those were the days of plentiful drugs, Reagan Era money, you name it.
Looking back, I obviously wished I'd done more but the older women didn't turn me on at all...I know, what a jackass.
So, I stuck to their daughters and/or the yuppie female professionals from Wall Street who all lived in the complex.
Best. Job. Ever.

your life sounds better than mind... yea i'm bitter.

 

[jekelish]

I worked as a Federal Breast Inspector. It was pretty good work for an 11 year old.

 

[jekelish]

Hoyts Cinemas 19 at Carousel in highschool. Just a perfect time of life for that kind of work. Free movies. Got nearly all of my good friends jobs there. For some reason working at the theater provided a higher social status than other jobs kids my age had so that was cool.

I've always wondered if there are any other members of the Red Vest Mafia on the board.

Just curious, how old are you? I skipped class to go see movies at Carousel all the freaking time (shame on me). You very well could have sold me a ticket, popcorn, whatever.

 

[newmexicuse]

Coolest job I ever had was a summer job (while I was going to the Cuse) at a perfume factory on LI. My job was to stock the lines. On the lines there were about 100 girls doing the production. There were 4 line stockers & I was the only one who spoke English (important way back then). I am basically just an average looking Joe - no special ladies man here. Anyways, there was a girl named Ginny who I thought was gorgeous and who I had a crush on. Miracle of miracle (only time this ever happened in my whole life) - one day at lunch one of her friends comes up to me and said that she liked me & would like to meet !!

So anyways, we ended up writing letters & dating as she also went to a school in upstate NY. Relationship lasted a year or so & we had some weekends at each other's school. Regretfully, I ended up liking her more than she liked me, but it was fun while it was mutual.

Subsequently, I have had jobs selling computers, owning my own small computer company, and presently I am a Financial Advisor. I pretty much liked them all.

 

[suhoops4life]

Another boring work day in Alaska.

So whats the best job you guys have ever had? Not the job where you made the most money, but the coolest job you ever had. You catching what I'm throwing?

Mine was Seneca Harbor Station in Watkins Glen, NY, bartending on the Columbia. They did dinner cruises, and party cruises up and down Seneca Lake. It was a blast, make frozen drinks, and flirt with the waitresses. My best memory: 100 hasidic jews rented the boat for a party or something. They werent allowed to have anything but water, so for the 3 bartenders it was looking to be a pretty boring day. So we started pounding jack and cokes. Kinda got a little drunk. The party was on the 2nd floor of the boat, and all the dancing was making our manager worry about the floor crashing down. His idea? Send drunk Adam up to make them stop. Needless to say, my manager came upstairs about 20 minutes later to find out why I havent made them stop dancing, only to find me in the middle of some kind of dance circle doing some sort of dance they taught me. Almost lost my job lol.

Anyone else?

I'm a vanishing breed of worker. Eventually, people like me will only be remembered in history books & at the Smithsonian: For over 30 years, I've been employed by 3 companies that manufacture durable goods for profit in America using American workers. They've all been great jobs!

 

[Upstate]

Interned at ESPN 1050 in Manhattan (back when it was 1050). I once had to go get Michael Irvin some ribs.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Just curious, how old are you? I skipped class to go see movies at Carousel all the freaking time (shame on me). You very well could have sold me a ticket, popcorn, whatever.

31 in a few weeks. I worked at Carousel between 98 and 2001, since they took me back short term around college breaks. I also did stints at Camillus and the one out in Cicero. In any event, I worked there a lot - if you remember a guy wheeling a cart of popcorn and soda into your theater to sell just before your movie started, that was probably me. Great gig because I also made a little commission doing that, which supplemented the near minimum wage pretty significantly.

My friends and I used to have what we called "Senior field trips." We'd do a half day at school, get lunch at Hooters (because that made sense at 18), then watch whatever movie came out that day before our shifts started.

One of the other cool things about working at that theater is that kids came to work there from all kinds of schools. There was my group from West Genny, but I also had friends there from Corcoran, Henninger, Liverpool, Solvay, CNS, etc. Really expanded the social circle. A lot of us would go to a dance club on Erie after our shifts (Country Club? I can't remember) and we were so well connected with everyone else's friends we could always run into other people to hang out with.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

I once had to go get Michael Irvin some ribs blow.

fixed

 

[SouthCampusHero]

I was a caddy during summers in high school.

Loved it. Walked around a gorgeous private course a few times a week when the weather was nice. On Mondays, I was allowed to golf it.

I also learned a few things:

1) A country club membership shouldnt entitle anyone to be an obnoxious, arrogant ...especially when the company you work for pays your dues and you couldnt afford it otherwise.

2) When you slice/hook the hell out of your drive such that you can hear the ball hit 4 trees, dont turn to your caddy and ask, "Did you see where it landed" and then hold the caddy accountable for losing the ball and shafting him on a tip as a result.

3) The "coolest" guys at the club are the ones with "FU" money. Those are the guys you want to be friends with.

4) Entrepreneurs typically arent as smart as successful corporate guys but they have much bigger balls and are way more cool. They are the guys that will buy you a beer despite the fact that youre only 17.They tip better, too.

5) Dont ever caddy for a woman. Generally bad tippers. Bad golfers. "Hey lady. How bout some advice? The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I'd like to get home before dark."

And that's a great learning experience for a high schooler. Best job.

 

[jekelish]

Really, I've never had any "cool" jobs. I worked as a stock boy in a grocery store in high school, and then worked at Finish Line during the summers when I was in college. Those are really the only two jobs I ever had before I got out of college and went into sports information, which I'm still in today.

I guess my coolest "job" would be freelance comedy writing, which I got into back in about 2008 when I was first published by Cracked, an opportunity that eventually landed me several other freelance gigs and also got two of my articles for Cracked (condensed into one) published in their book You Might be a Zombie and Other Bad News, which made the NYT bestseller list, which means I can actually refer to myself as a NYT bestselling author and I'm not totally making it up.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

I guess my coolest "job" would be freelance comedy writing, which I got into back in about 2008 when I was first published by Cracked, an opportunity that eventually landed me several other freelance gigs and also got two of my articles for Cracked (condensed into one) published in their book You Might be a Zombie and Other Bad News, which made the NYT bestseller list, which means I can actually refer to myself as a NYT bestselling author and I'm not totally making it up.

I really wish I had some time on the side to take a shot at getting some stuff on Cracked.

My wife would go ballistic though if she knew that time I could be spending on my master's thesis was devoted to trying to write comedy articles for a website.

 

[jekelish]

I really wish I had some time on the side to take a shot at getting some stuff on Cracked.

My wife would go ballistic though if she knew that time I could be spending on my master's thesis was devoted to trying to write comedy articles for a website.

Well, if you ever want to try it's easy enough to get in the door, but extremely hard to actually get an article published. All you have to do to get in the door is literally ask to have access to the writer's workshop and you can start pitching immediately. However, standards have gotten insanely high for what they'll accept.

Of course, the very first article idea I pitched was the one that found its way into the book, so I had nowhere to go but down from there. Still, it's pretty cool that I can point to multiple articles that have been viewed well over a million times, and in one or two cases several million times.

Sidenote: that first article somehow randomly led to me being interviewed on the radio station KMOX in St. Louis, which was an odd experience beginning with the fact that the person who vetted the station to make sure it was legit was Carson Daly's sister.

 

[rhcuse]

Summer RA (resident advisor) after my sophomore year at RIT. About a dozen of us each had an entire dorm floor to ourselves and hosted youth events that would stay overnight 1 or 2 nights. Events (engineering camp, career exploration for girls, etc.) would bring in their own counselors to really do the chaperoning so we just had to escort them to the dining hall and enforce curfew.

Basically got paid to sunbath, play summer intramural softball, party with the other counselors constantly and the few Greeks on campus in the summer, and all bone each other for 3 months while we waited for our friends to come back for the fall quarter. Lets just say 3 or 4 of the girls made their way around the group in the heat of the long summer nights.

 

[Orangezoo]

Definitely working the deli at Schine as work study. Its amazing how many (working) numbers you can get throwing some extra cheese or meat on there for a happy co-ed.

 

[jekelish]

Definitely working the deli at Schine as work study. Its amazing how many (working) numbers you can get throwing some extra cheese or meat on there for a happy co-ed.

I forgot about SU jobs. I worked in the Sadler dining hall as a freshman, and that sucked. But I also worked in the weight room at Archbold as a junior, and that wasn't too bad. Especially since the girl I worked with most days was super hot and also really cool.

Of course my favorite memory of working at Archbold was one day when I decided to skip work, only to see my "boss" (a fellow student who was my superior) walk by my apartment on Euclid, so I sprinted out the backdoor and raced past him in my car, pulled into the parking lot and got situated behind the desk a couple minutes before he strolled into the gym.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Definitely working the deli at Schine as work study. Its amazing how many (working) numbers you can get throwing some extra cheese or meat on there for a happy co-ed.

I'm just curious how the exchange went.

Orangezoo leers seductively at next co-ed in line

Co-ed: "Ok, uhm, what..."

Orangezoo smiles cheekily and gently lays an additional slice of Provolone on the sandwich

Co-ed: "Thank you, that's very kind, but why..."

Orangezoo slowly nods head and places an extra slice of turkey on the sandwich

Co-ed: "315..."