Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire What's the "funnest" job you ever had?

Here's mine from about five to ten years back. Pay wasn't much but I sure enjoyed this job. Up and down main street in Cody plus thru all the camp grounds playing loud country music and making some of 'em plum mad.

Locals got madder yet as the right way to do the job was to drive real slow.

Building road race cars and traveling the circuit with them in the 70's Bear

Pulling Trap & Skeet at the Playboy Club in Lake Geneva when I was 17.

shooting deer at night with a game warden so they could study gestation and other things. was able to "field test" numerous bullets. shots were never more than 75-100 yards. did this for 3 years. after the biologist took the organs/parts they wanted i called friends, pastors i know, etc. for names of folks who would appreciate/need the meat. never had one go to waste. never got paid as i was a volunteer.

Teaching new Marines how to shoot crew served weapons at the range.

My fav was the MK19

set up on a tripod, I cut an old school bus in half one day with 40mm grenades fired from a fully auto machinegun that shoots.... little bombs.

I can still see it in my head like it was yesterday.

I done blowed up lotts of chit but that school bus, well that was something special for me.

Running mist nets and banding.....1st.

Working white rhinos and black bears....2nd.

Worked in a service station (remember them!) while in high school. Me and a buddy worked the afternoon shift then closed.

We didn't make much money but we sure had fun!!

Pouring concrete is fun.

Racing motocross and supercross was kinda cool...While it lasted...Too bad that youth is wasted on the young...

Standing lookout on the flying bridge of 180 foot ship going across the Bering Sea in 35 foot seas and 60knot winds.

When I was about eight years old a neighbor lady was digging in her yard. She told me that if I would help I could swim in her new swimming pool she was digging. I helped for a couple hours and to my disappointment she changed it to a flower bed. Learned two good lessons that day. Things are not always what they appear to be and never trust a woman leaning on a shovel. GW

Albeit, it looks like hard work....but there are perks to that kinda work. Ever been a Hostess for a pie house on a Sunday after church gets out? I'd rather spread that cement with my teeth...than have to meet that gig again, truly!

To save my dogs, I could NOT do that!

Bartending in Hollywood while finishing at UCLA.. Could make a movie about it, and met a wife (another bartender).

Worked a while in the film and commercial business, funnest jobs were working on City Slickers wrangling extras for the opening scene (Running of the Bulls). DP was Dean Semler.. Couldn't be more in awe, and he was just a great guy. Another was a Japanese Cigarette comercial on the Queen Mary with shameless supermodels doing wardrobe changes right there on the deck. DP was Vilmos Zsigmond. Again in awe.. And then there were the Silver Bullet commercials... And then.. Jeez, on some of them I wondered how and why I was getting paid.

Now I just build and make beautiful things, but I'm having some of the most fun ever..

I helped make an order of french flies at a McDonald's once.

It took some doin'

Once things settled and we got above the Arctic circle I saw more whales (bowhead, narwhal and beluga) and ice flow after ice flow covered with walrus.

The Navy weren't the funnest job I ever had....Seriously...

Playing cowboy back at the ranch for a week or two each Fall while hunting don't suck either. Montana rules!

"Catching" dogs in "Suspect Apprehension" training...

Ingwe

I can't recall ever having fun on the back of a horse..

I'll surf a 20 foot wave in sharky 50 degree water, but getting me on a horse scares the bejabbers out of me.