OT- Best Job You've Ever Had

[Frozen]

Best internship: Howard Stern Show.

Best paid job: Writer/producer at the Fox News Channel.

 

[cliftonparksufan]

I never actually wrote any storylines. Those are all scripted by the creative writing team. I mainly submitted suggestions to add elements to existing storylines. I don't know how "famous" it is, but I can take full credit for this:
A WWE.com colleague of mine (an SU grad) and I were sitting around with Kurt Angle just chatting and killing time in an empty arena hours before a PPV once. At the time, Kurt was involved in a storyline that depicted him as the anti-Stone Cold Steve Austin. I told Kurt he should drive a milk truck to the ring the same way Austin did with a beer truck several years prior. He loved the idea immediately and took it back to Vince and Stephanie. I was pretty stunned when I found out that what I blurted out in a casual conversation was going to be used on TV.

That happened in Albany at the Pepsi Arena. My buddy was the local Coors rep. I believe he was the one who had to get Coors to sign off using the Coors truck. This was at the height of WWE's popularity. Both he and the local distributor got lots of heaping praise for all of that "free" publicity.

 

[Tobias Funke]

Best internship: Howard Stern Show.

Best paid job: Writer/producer at the Fox News Channel.

Did you make Howard's potato everyday.

 

[Frozen]

Did you make Howard's potato everyday.

Nope. Answered phones, mostly.

 

[NineOneSeven]

Batman.

BANE

 

[NineOneSeven]

As for the actual work itself, I loved my time as an editor and producer at WWE.com. I wrote website content that was viewed by millions of unique visitors every month and produced an online talk show that allowed fans to interact with the wrestlers. I was able to submit storyline ideas freely and quite a few of them made it to TV, which was an incredible high. The highlight of the job was traveling once a month to PPVs, Raw and SmackDown! to do interviews and whatnot backstage. I was once an uncredited extra in a scene with Dawn Marie and Torrie Wilson on SmackDown! Also served as a talent escort for autograph signings, which led to having dinner with Stacey Keibler in Rochester. My boss, Shane McMahon, introduced me to Brazilian jiu-jitsu and MMA by basically taking me into the gym inside Titan Tower and kicking the living out of me 3-4 times a week. Still, I enjoyed it and loved my time in the rasslin' business.

Although I didn't enjoy the actual work, I enjoyed that my teaching job allowed me to live in Yemen for a year. That was an unforgettable experience that far surpassed my expectations.

GREAT thread, CuseTroop!

That's awesome. Stacy is an absolute smokeshow.

You're welcome.

 

[rrlbees]

Working summers as a doorman/bouncer at Uncle Sams on Erie Blvd in the mid-70's and deciding which under age girls got in.

Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk 2

 

[djcon57]

My work study job at syracuse. My job was to watch the pool table and make sure that if someone played, they paid .50 an hour to play. I was paid $2.30 to make sure of it.

I did that at Schein, too!

Allen Griffin was addicted to Pac Man. Dude was in there every day.

 

[Fireball Jr.]

Worked as a masseuse at a private health club in an upscale apartment complex, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
It was right after SU and I spent days "servicing" willing MILFS and their daughters...and getting paid for it!
Was invited to ALOT of parties and "private" massage sessions by groups of these women- and though my friends got alot more action than I did, I usually stuck to girls my own age.
Good times.

I've been on these boards for a good 10 years, this is the first time I ever got a li'l aroused by a post. Live long enough, you may see it all!

 

[Fireball Jr.]

I've had some good gigs, including my current main gig as a bartender, and my first job outta college in 1970 covering the Cleveland Cavs and Indians and Browns and boxing and Firestone CC golf tournaments and on and on.

But best job, hands-down, was as a "national correspondent" -- that's was the part of the tagline they put at the end of my articles, for online crime news site APBnews.com from Dec. 1998-Jan. 2001. Had just quit the newspaper biz after 30 years as a 50th birthday present to myself, and wanted to see if I could at least make it for one year on my own. Had enough money, some great contacts, figured, what the hey, worst that could happen would be I'd get another newspaper gig in a year.

But right when I was takin' a shot at tryin' to make it on my own with no nice weekly salary or health care or 401k contributions, blah blah blah, the dot.com boom was startin' to go down, and I got down with it. Saw an ad online for a crime news site starting up in Manhattan, I'd spent some time as a cop reporter for Gannett here in Rochester, so I got in touch with the editor.

Starting doin' some stories here and there for them, then the site started taking off, our main office moved from a small cramped space on Maiden Lane in lower Manhattan to a former Amex hq'ers at 65 Broadway. We were livin' large, and the chedda was flowin'.

I had a chance to move to the main office, but, for the same money, could stay here in my sweet crib in a sweet 1920s art deco apt house in a great neighborhood in Rochester and telecommute. Every morning 'round 10 a.m., I'd get two assignments from the assistant managing editor at 65 Broadway and work the phones, sitting here, even in winter, in my shorts, t-shirt, tracking down stories in Chicago or Orlando or Toronto or small-town-usa or, one time, London for a foiled jewel heist. Hell, I could work with no pants on, if I wanted, and one memorable morning I ran outta my bedroom, bare naked, to grab phone, and it was a female FBI agent returning my call from the day before.

No pants, talking on the phone to a female FBI agent, working around the world from my great apartment in a great 'hood in a great part of the world, damn, that was the best.

 

[Toga]

Sorry ... I misread the original question.

 

[jekelish]

Sorry ... I misread the original question.

So you answered "CuseTroop's mom" too?

 

[CuseTroop]

So you answered "CuseTroop's mom" too?

Awww snap.

I was wondering what his original answer was tho lol

 

[CuseFaninVT]

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.

I grew up in Troy and spent many, many nights down in Albany drinking until 4 as well. Just curious which bars you worked at and the relative timeframe. My younger brother used to bartend at Bogie's. Early to mid 2000's maybe? I used to work for the guy (Michael) who opened Michael's on Madison. Always nice to be able to sneak in the back door when there was a line on the cheap beer nights.

 

[FireballPhil]

Mine was when I was in the Marine Corps. Sure we worked our tails off at times, but we had a great time together and even got to party in different countries.

 

[jmr4616]

For a few summers I worked at Oak Hill CC in Rochester at the snack bars. Oak Hill is hosting the PGA this year so it is a real nice club but it was so easy. I would sit there reading a book for hours until a customer came. When World Cup 2010 was going on I brought my laptop up and watched while working. Little more than minimum wage and some tips so not terrible money. Sat up on a hill overlooking course and a nice breeze. It was great.

Other than the easiness of the job it had a few perks. Sometimes I would have to go help down at the pool, and I would take in all of the scenery as I liked to call it. Wow was that scenery amazing at times. The best part was that I got to play a world class course every Monday for free. I would make sure that it was my only day off and usually play twice, once on west and once on east. What a great deal.

I also met some cool people, JB, Aaron Schoebel, and a bunch of others I can't remember off the top of my head. It was a great gig though and I was lucky to have it.

 

[Shenexon]

I was a building contractor for many years and loved the creative aspects of the business. I got to build a lot of very cool things using other peoples' money. My favorite thing to this day was a 30' x 125' 'deck' on a cliff with 3 levels, 7 staircases, a telescopic "Japanese tea house" on the top level of one section, built around the trees on the cliff with several incorporated into the design, a large fountain by one entrance, his & hers deluxe outhouses, and in a place ideally suited for the project with a noisy Cedar Creek at the bottom of the 300' cliff. I got to build that beautiful thing and it didn't cost me a cent.

 

[IthacaMatt]

Best jobs - I worked in the music business for 7 or 8 years back in the early to mid 1980s, when I was still in my 20s. Met a bunch of rock musicians and singers. Was in a recording studio with a few musicians. Great Christmas parties where Madonna, the guys from Chic, Michael Bolton, Lita Ford (from the Runaways) and a bunch of other celebs partied 80s style. Only job where my boss gave me hash brownies. Had a booming stereo in my office, got lots of free music. CDs were a new format back then, and I was the guy who used to research whether we could reissue old recordings in the new format and how much to pay the artists' estate (e.g. Benny Goodman, old dead Jazz dudes, etc.) for the new format.

I worked with the people representing Jefferson Airplane/Hot Tuna when they did the 2400 Fulton St. Boxed set. Got 5th row seats for the reunion show at Radio City, and almost hooked up with a 40-ish Grace Slick at the party afterwards back when she was still pretty hot, but was too wasted to close the deal.

Met Bruce Hornsby, the chick from Cowboy Junkies, knew a lot of jazz guys because I managed product delivery and contract fufilllment for the RCA Novus Jazz label. Got a 'thank you' on one guy's album liner notes because I was the guy who cut him his advance checks. Got great seats comp'ed for lots of shows, including Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan down in Washington DC in the summer of 1987, Dave Matthews 6th row at the Garden, club shows in NYC - Tracy Chapman from about 5 feet away at the Bitter End in the Village, seated right next to Rick Ocasik and his beautiful wife Paulina Porizkova, saw Joe Jackson from about 5 feet away at the Bottom Line in the Village - saw lots of free shows there; it was THE industry place back in the day.

Worst job - pit cleaner at Crucible Steel two summers while I was in college (back in the late 70s), although I made buckets of money; more than my father was making as a foreman at G.E., for the very worst job at Crucible, but the Steel Workers Union was the bomb back then. Our COLA raises were crazy, back at the height of inflation under Jimmy Carter.

 

[Timonen]

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?

I'm late to this one. Best "real" job was a few years at a baseball card store in a mall during high school. Was great to be in the mix with something I liked anyway and definitely offered the opportunity to meet people. Mostly nerdy guys, but still...

Best "not real" job was teaching drums (at SU, a bunch of high schools, indoor lines, etc). I was paid and I put an absurd number of hours into it, but it's the only thing that I could do all day and all night without running out of energy.

 

[maxxyz]

I have worked in the entertainment business for thirty years, and when I was younger work on sizable tours (Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Stevie Ray Vaughn, queensryche, 38 Special). Went to over twenty different countries and enjoyed a very exciting fast paced life. Most of these jobs were a TON of work.

But the best one was working as the bass tech for the opening act (Suicidal Tendancies) on a summer Ozzy Osbourne tour. Picked the gig up just to fill space until Floyd started. As the opening act, we were the last to load in and the first to load out, with lots of time to enjoy the crazy Ozzy atmosphere. Never a dull moment!

 

[Eric15]

Best internship: Howard Stern Show.

Best paid job: Writer/producer at the Fox News Channel.

Holy cow - talk about opposite ends of the spectrum...

Problem at the Howard Stern Show: "these midget lesbians won't make out with each other!"

Problem at Fox News: "someone used the term holiday tree!"

 

[LAOrange]

Worked summers/vacations as a bartender at a topless bar in Sylvan Beach in the 70s.
As for a non-lewd and more adult vocation, my job now is terrific. I work from home as an Executive Recruiter, make a ton of money and do nothing but help people all day long.

 

[Col. Bleep]

I've had some good gigs, including my current main gig as a bartender, and my first job outta college in 1970 covering the Cleveland Cavs and Indians and Browns and boxing and Firestone CC golf tournaments and on and on.

But best job, hands-down, was as a "national correspondent" -- that's was the part of the tagline they put at the end of my articles, for online crime news site APBnews.com from Dec. 1998-Jan. 2001. Had just quit the newspaper biz after 30 years as a 50th birthday present to myself, and wanted to see if I could at least make it for one year on my own. Had enough money, some great contacts, figured, what the hey, worst that could happen would be I'd get another newspaper gig in a year.

But right when I was takin' a shot at tryin' to make it on my own with no nice weekly salary or health care or 401k contributions, blah blah blah, the dot.com boom was startin' to go down, and I got down with it. Saw an ad online for a crime news site starting up in Manhattan, I'd spent some time as a cop reporter for Gannett here in Rochester, so I got in touch with the editor.

Starting doin' some stories here and there for them, then the site started taking off, our main office moved from a small cramped space on Maiden Lane in lower Manhattan to a former Amex hq'ers at 65 Broadway. We were livin' large, and the chedda was flowin'.

I had a chance to move to the main office, but, for the same money, could stay here in my sweet crib in a sweet 1920s art deco apt house in a great neighborhood in Rochester and telecommute. Every morning 'round 10 a.m., I'd get two assignments from the assistant managing editor at 65 Broadway and work the phones, sitting here, even in winter, in my shorts, t-shirt, tracking down stories in Chicago or Orlando or Toronto or small-town-usa or, one time, London for a foiled jewel heist. Hell, I could work with no pants on, if I wanted, and one memorable morning I ran outta my bedroom, bare naked, to grab phone, and it was a female FBI agent returning my call from the day before.

No pants, talking on the phone to a female FBI agent, working around the world from my great apartment in a great 'hood in a great part of the world, damn, that was the best.

You do realize this is WAY too much information.
And you left out the part about the APBnews bankruptcy.
But fun while it lasted.

 

[cto]

My best job was as a kid reporter for the Gannett Newspapers in Westchester County. I was barely paid the minimum wage, and I worked horrendously long hours with no OT pay, but I loved every minute of it. I was just out of school... and adults trusted me to report on major stories. And I covered all kinds of famous (or sort of famous) people and became friends with them. Each succeeding job paid me a lot more money, but they were not half the fun.

 

[cto]

Best job, in my late teens I was as a sweeper/janitor at the GE TV production factory in Liverpool.

Did practically nothing for 8 hours.

The perk was I was free to go anywhere in the factory production area. Lots of college girls worked there the summer that I was there. Most of the workers were tied to a production line. My ability to roam allowed me to meet many interesting females. Partied a lot with co-workers after work. Money isn't everything.

Edit- How could I forget this? Many Union walk outs while I was there. Basically John Stanley the head of the local union would have the first shift walk off the job after a half shift (4 hours). The incentive was free beer at the union hall on Old Liverpool Rd. Spent many afternoons at the union hall, drank a lot of free beer.

Wow..John Stanley. Now that is a name from my past (GE days). Needless to say, he was not a favorite of management!