I've been driving truck for the last few years. I'm getting sick of sitting and delivering product. I'm looking for a job that doesn't require a ton of sitting, lifting, or require extra long hours....HAHA anyone have any recommendations for me? I'm not opposed to going to school for a few years to get where I need to be.

Brain surgeon comes to mind, pays well I assume. From the brains I'm around daily out in the world, heavy lifting wouldn't be required.

Machinist
RN

Weatherman, lie and get paid for it.

Hooters Server

I kinda like my job most days - yesterday I did 4 surgeries in front of a 9th grade biology class on a field trip to the clinic, including one on a prairie falcon

hmm - I'm on the other end of your job. I find carriers to haul freight for my client.

My client makes condoms (amongst other things) but being able to say "I shipped 40,000 lbs worth of rubbers today" is kinda cool.

I guess you could say I cover loads - twice.

You ship loads and catch loads?

Information Technology "Help Desk".

Not much sitting and plenty of interesting folks to meet.... over and over and OVER.

AND.... there isn't any real expectation of a fix for the difficult things, just take the computer and replace it with a look-alike.

P. S. Free food too... if you don't mind shaking it out from the inside of a keyboard first.

There was a time I told people that I worked in the AIDS lab and I'd keep an eye out for their name on a specimen.

We also did rabies evaluations which entailed necropsies on critter heads - everything from mice to cats and dogs, wolves, coyotes, and all three flavors of bears.

I thought "Turn it off and back on" was the only way to do that job?

If I had to do it again, based on my interests more so than economics, I'd look hard at machinist. I guess in certain areas of the country you can make a decent living at it. But having access to a lathe and being able to create items for your own hobbies would be fun.

I can also say I've shipped truck loads of KY Jelly and KY brand materials.

Trying to get them to send me some samples of the beads and a sling shot to get in trouble with around the office.

Same qualifications for politician.

Work in prudhoe bay, some pretty cool jobs in the winter.

Piano player in a whorehouse, girls downstairs, pot grow upstairs?

Ed

Fishing charter captain

I just left a job I hated for a job I love. I was a electrician for a company that did mainly commercial wireing. I am now in maintenance. The only time I get pissed during the day is when I'm doing something electrical. I have done plumbing, electrical, flooring, hung drywall you name it but I was in the electrical trade for 20 years and it's by far the most aggravating. I do a lot of fabrication now and really like it. I even get the chance to weld on occasion now. I don't,do a lot of lifting but a little.

Hope you find something you will enjoy, your quality of life increases 100 fold when you don't wake up every morning wishing someone would shoot you. It was like f'n groundhog day!

You, sir, are a very blessed man...

Ed

I have finally landed the best job I have had in 40 years. Today I handloaded for a 44 Mag sixgun, a 375 H&H and an 8x57. Then I hung a cabinet in the garage to get my powder storage out of the house. I just sat down with a drink after canning a couple of jars of garlic/habanero pickles.

When we were in Florida last year we went for an airboat ride in the headwaters of the Everglades. Our airboat Captain was a young man who was a retired rodeo bull fighter. Now he takes people for boat rides and fishes on the BASS tour. That kid will never work a day in his life at this rate!

Pretty wife!

Isn't that the boat logo you were tossing around here awhile back?

Looks great!

And hunting guides

I wish I were an airplane mechanic. I did helicopter crew chief/mechanic stuff for 20 years in the National Guard/Army. I loved it.

I make really good money at my current job but I wish I were 20 years younger and back in the Guard.

kwg

Best job of all time was David Hasselhoffs Baywatch. I don't think it gets any better no way no how.

MOGULIZER

My Title.

I can tell you that being a rocket scientist is over rated, and lathes can only make metal, wood or plastic, smaller and round, with round holes in it, they're fun but boring after short periods of time.

A mixologist at a tropical beach bar sounds like something I would take into consideration.

Land Surveyor.

Work outside, use your head some, your body some, no constant human contact.

Usually decent pay, chance for self employment if so desired...

Worked for me.

Fix up old cars and trucks.

It's super easy.

I operate one of these 12 hours a day. Unloading log trucks and loading pulpwood into an OSB mill. M. Stevenson use to work with me and repair it when I broke it.

Yes sir that's it

Northern Dave, LOVE the old Ford pickup

What I see out of my office window year round...

Dave, I would bet the farm you now work harder than you EVER did working for wages!!!!!

This old thing?



Super easy, just pull em out of the weeds, a little as seen on tv color wax... air up the tires... Presto!

lol

T, I ache. Lol!

I may have worked as hard in some jobs when I was younger.

But the ratio of physical exertion to physical condition is definitely not working in my favor these days.

Lol!

I was wondering why you weren't as grumpy lately.

At one time I loaded frozen product into trucks at a packing plant.

I work in maintenance, the job is different everyday. I love it most days.

Paramedic would be a fulfilling job.

Right now I have three pensions coming in every month, and they pay the bills quite well. I worked in law enforcement and prosecutions for 44 years.

I think about this as my semi-retirement position. There's a local college and I figure there could be some opportunity with that.

Home health nurse. But it's not that cool.

Dont know how old you are but I just retired a year ago last October after 25 years as a professional Firefighter. I was an engineer which most all firefighters will tell you is the best job in the department and it really probably is. I mean where else can you drive a 200k piece of equipment at a somewhat high rate of speed, disobey traffic signs if needed, and run into burning buildings!! I mean, what the hell is better then that! But on a more serious note, if your still in your 20's or early 30's, this might be an option. It can be a VERY fulfilling job but it can also be the most disheartening and disappointing job as well. And you can experience all of those emotions in the span of minutes.

Lawn maintenance is a lot of fun.

My job is cool in the winter and hot n the summer. How old/fit are you?

I have been a dispensing optician in one capacity or another for over 30 years now. I really enjoy my job. Retirement is closer than it is further away now. When it's time to gear down, I won't be able to just quit working. I hope to land a position in a gun shop or a bait and tackle shop, just to keep my self active. Life's been very good to me, I can't complain. I all most feel guilty "planning" what I'd like to do, but if I'm gonna work, I'm going to do something I enjoy.

house husband here...

It's the truth! I had to make a conscious decision be kind to people unless they were a holes in that case I would unleash the inner sonofabitch on them. Now it's easy to be a pussy cats and have to make a conscious decision to unleash the inner sonofabitch, easy decision though.

Your right, I do something different almost every day. Beats the hell out of arguing with a job superintendent that doesn't has the common sense that the average hillbilly has in the head of his dik. That wasn't a insult to hillbillies, hillbillies are known for good common sense, they always vote Republican.

Always kind of thought that yacht broker or boat salesman would be neat. Something in the marine industry anyway.

Also said more than once that my dream job would be to teach Great Lakes Maritime History in college but don't think that really exists...

I got to fly Navy fighters off of carriers for almost 21 years. Retired from the Nav in '93 and now I get to teach youngsters about it.

Welder on an offshore drilling rig.



Couple days ago, replacing hull plate for ABS.

I like to build, so job fits.

I have done so many things in my life it is almost embarrassing but my current job it the best so far. Today I had coffee in bed while I read the news, then went to the Sportsman's Show in Portland. Tomorrow I may cast some bullets and clean up a bunch of brass to get ready to reload.

Today I was a ditch digger...

I've never had a job in my life. Grew up on a dairy until about fifteen years ago and then got into the dog business. Been running after them ever since. And still love my "job".

The piles of poop are a whole lot smaller.

love what I do but it ain't for everybody


has its downsides though, being surrounded by hot 20 something chicks is no place for the faint of heart.

Not me.

Own a hair salon?

Ski Patroller / avalanche forecast and mitigation / EMT

I remember you were looking and I'm glad you found something enjoyable. I've been where you were and it's no fun.

My former (read: younger) self says this or, even better yet, a Hooters Recruiter Specialist.

In reality, I prefer my retired life, with no shortage of projects and grandkids to keep me busy.

donsm70

My main duties consist of tasting beer, talking about beer, and drinking beer with people.

There are some minor administrative and managerial tasks associated.

For 3 summers my weekend job was Bat Tour guide.
I led tour groups from the clothing optional hot springs up the mountain each evening to watch about 250,000 bats emerge from an old mine.

I had the days free to scout elk in the mountains or lay around the hot springs.

I couldn't believe I was actually getting paid for it.

First career was tool and die maker....loved it.

Second career in education, retired as an administrator...it had it's moments....lots of frustration if you give a schit about things.

Looking to get back to work in some capacity now, had it with retirement....looking at tool and die work, problem is, they don't pay any more than I was making when I left the trade in the '80's...a lot less, adjusted for inflation.

Several people are asking how old and in shape I am. I'm 30 and i was in decent shape up until about a year ago. I seem to have tweaked my back somehow. I'm not really sure how bad it is so I want to try something else for a bit. They say that truck drivers sometimes have back pain. I'm just trying to find out if the problem is my back or the job that I have.

I'm sure this has down days but - probably not too bad.

As someone who's gone through 2 basic certification courses and one advanced - the material isn't brutal hard and I think teaching it is probably easier than teaching at say Caltech or something.

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Find something you like and you are good at, no matter that it is. You will like it because you're good at it and will be good at it because you like it. Doesn't matter how prestigious or cool the job is or if it pays 10 million a year, if you dread going to work each day life will suck.

At 30 you still have your whole life ahead of you. I didn't find my niche until I was 29.

Maybe get online and take some of those "what do you want to be when you grow up" and "what are you good at" tests. Pay for some decent ones, maybe, instead of taking the pop ones on fluff sites. Some people know what they want to do all their lives when they're ten years old and some don't, no shame in being part of the latter.

It might surprise you to see what might interest you, or to look at your real skills without thinking of any particular job. Like, do you love talking to people or can't stand them, like working with your hands, artistic right brain work or rational thought left brain work, those kinds of things. I sure never pictured myself doing what I do, in fact 5 years before I would have sworn it was the last thing I'd ever think about doing, now I love doing it.

Good luck, though. As the saying goes, if you do what you really like you'll never "work" a day in your life.

Have you thought about checking with the Hillary Clinton Campaign for a position as the Office Gigolo?


Guarantee you the job is open.

I always thought being a bra fitter at Victoria's Secrets might be a pretty fun job.

I read machinist....

I'm a 30 year Injection Mold Maker.....the machining trade is currently in Asia or in a port city for an Asian toolshop

Yes there is tooling jobs inside the lower 48 but far fewer than 20 years ago

The medical industry is the most recession resistant industry

Those of us that started our careers this way find pretty much anything else underwhelming. I did this for 10 years active duty then went reserve and did the same thing that last 10 while also being an engineer working on significantly hard electrical engineering problems for the country. That would bore a lot of people but I enjoy it.

Well, today they crammed 15 minutes of content into 2 hours of meeting but other than that.

This, of course, brings up the case of the "diesel fitter".

I monitor air pollution. Cool job, but it took a hard science degree and the amount I can make depends on government regulations. So, four year degree and significant loans for a poor white boy like me.

My wife got her LPN license in half the time, it was almost free, and she makes almost what I do. If she were male, she'd make more. If she took a week long certificate course for a specialty or two, she'd make a lot more. I think travel nurses do alright, too.

Today I rebuilt a pump, changed out and rebuilt the drive wheels of a DoAll saw, and fabbed up brackets to hang an area heater.

Yesterday I welded out eight 4" pipe joints, and fabbed up several hanger brackets for same. More pipe on order to finish job.

Tomorrow is anybody's guess, but one of the mills is having an outage and was already trolling for extra help today. They'll be flying work rolls out of and back into the mill progression.

Machine shop always ends up with guys
building guns or gun parts in their spare time.

heard about a guy named Jake that had an odd job on Saturday nights. He was a horse holder at Madame Orr's House.

You can have my job. This week I hung drywall and started taping today. Should be done my Wednesday and then, prime , do some sort of texture on the walls and maybe even paint. Then I trim and finish the recroom. It is nice to have work in January and February, especially inside. After this job , , I might do a bathroom.

Been a self employed boat builder for most of my 72 years. Before that a career in design engineering. Ran a Northwest diesel shovel in my teens.

I changed my mind. I want to do this.

kwg

Oil and Gas. I deploy an electromagnetic cable into oil and gas wells. Some days I run instruments that take readings of the quality of a cement job, while simultaneously taking readings of the geology and radiological resistivity of different formations in the ground. Other days I deploy multiple shots of high explosives into the wellbore and set them off at pre determined depths to allow the flow of hydrocarbons to the surface. Some might consider that a cool job.

Switched from Forestry to IT in college because it paid better, after 40 years in IT I wish I had stayed in Forestry school.

In flight missile maintenance!

used to, now a school for such


my wife runs the salon part, she just got back from New Orleans to receive her award from our main trade rag. They got selected as one of the top 200 salons in the nation.


pretty good going considering our lil burgh is at the end of the road

k--thanks.

I have associated with cows and horses for all my 70 years, except for 3 years in the army and 10 months driving a damn dump truck. Raised on a cow ranch in northern Cal, went a cowboy college( Cal Poly) graduated from the U S Army. Got drunk, got married, shod horses to pay the bills. The bank and I owned a couple hundred cows. Shod horses to support wife, kids and cows. Got divorced and had to sell cows lol. Learned to build custom saddles and ran cows for other folks. It has been a great life. Ed

Space shuttle door gunner... Job is long gone no more space shuttles😭

Professional fish squeezer. In the field 15-20 days a month at times. Hike and camp a lot. The fresh air and scenery get old at times

I don't have a job. I have a business. When my mother asks me what I do I tell her I run around waving my arms in the air.......

Let's see, today I reconciled accounts, harassed a customer for money, drove truck, made three sales calls, fed the fish, arranged for a drug test for the new driver, unloaded the feed from the trailer, designed the plumbing on our new tank, negotiated a sale with one customer, discussed holding facilities requirements with another, reviewed scientific papers for our breeding program with our operations manager, then drove the semi and trailer to the shop for a new ECM and come minor repairs. And made dinner.

I'll bet tomorrow's going to be just as boring.

And suffer no penalty ..................

You watching too much breaking bad???

But damn necessary and damn tough. A high school bud has had a very satisfying career doing the same.

A friend of mine that passed away a few years ago had a pretty good gig. For about 20 years, from about 1965 until 1985 he owned a successful strip club in San Francisco.

Besides making a pretty decent living, money-wise, he said that hardly a single day went by that he didn't have some pretty young thing knocking on his office door, begging to take off her clothes and apply for a job by demonstrating her dancing talents and showing off her assets right there in his private office. I suspect that some of the interviews got rather in-depth.

Surprisingly, some of these girls were accompanied by boyfriends or husbands, urging them on. Apparently the guys couldn't wait to brag to the world that their girl was hot enough to be a paid stripper.

He laughed when he told me that the guys that most wanted their girl to get the job brought in the least attractive or overweight girls and he could tell that it was almost all the guys idea. I guess they thought that it would validate their taste in feminine beauty and stroke their egos if other guys would drool over their girl and stuff dollar bills into her g-string.

He said he would politely tell the plain and ugly ones that he didn't have any openings so as not to hurt their feelings. He said he had no trouble being very picky and hiring only very hot girls because he had a continuous flow of well qualified applicants. That helped make his club quite successful.

He eventually sold the club and retired and moved to the Lake Shasta area where he spent most of the summers on his big houseboat, and competing as a senior water-skier.

He said that he enjoyed his business career and never got tired of the view, or of being around beautiful girls that appreciated their job and the relatively clean and safe environment he took pride in providing. As he said, with a smile, "It was a tough job, but somebody was going to do it, so it might as well be me."

I find and kill king salmon for a living. Both commercial and guiding. It's all I do to pay the bills anymore.. Substitute teach a lot at the elementary/middle school in the winter to keep from driving my wife insane. I worked my way up to being one of the most sought after subs. The $85 a day they pay is kinda embarrassing considering fishing money, but it's more to get out of the house than anything else.

Cal,

Have you thought of guiding and outfitting Brown Bear hunts there?

Total ripoff business with HUGE dividends and NO liabilities or responsibilities. The State requires your services as a BB guide for non-residents. Why not join the rest of America's business model?

Another thought..........open a sobriety clinic in Tenakee Springs and/or Hoonah. Rich-a-mundo.

That's not true. That road runs clear up to Fox!

This cool enough?

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I've been doing fire protection engineering for over 18 years now. Has been a good gig, got to do some travel and have learned a lot.

Through a combination of events in the past couple months that's turned into starting my own consulting firm, becoming a adjunct professor and working part time for a friends engineering firm.

Having a strictly desk job drives me nuts and I wasn't getting enough field time to stay sane. The new gigs seem to have enough balls in the air to keep me engaged.

There are a lot of things I've done as hobbies I'd hate as a profession.

Damn!

Because of the time difference over the Atlantic, 5sdad beats me to it this time!

Great minds think alike...

John

gynecologist to the stars

Hank

You have to love it Chartering is hard work

Hank

Ice manufacturer would be cool.

Sounds political

Zero interesting in guiding hunters. Just not my cup o tea. I do around 75 days guiding fisherman on the ocean a year, and that's enough for me..(grin)

Heading out to go trolling today. We'll see if a king salmon is home. If not, I'll be home by noon and grind on the other boat for awhile.

That's sounding very familiar. Maybe not quite as extreme as praying for an errant bullet, but I completely understand where you were.

Electronic Tech during the week and chemist on most weekends - I turn beer into urine.

Fly Fishing Guide for Atlantic Salmon in Norway. I make a little side money in the winter tying specific patterns. I guess its not a bad life. I used to guide a lot more days in the US. But its a nice change here.

that looks beautiful. I'd love to visit Norway,sweden, and finland someday.

Penis Butler. google it

Damn, some of you guys have cool jobs, can't say I'm not a bit jealous. I certainly don't. I get to do the work on peoples vehicles that they don't want to or can't do themselves. I've never minded mechanical work, but am not by nature the most patient person, and that comes back to bite your azz with regularity when wrenching on vehicles. I've got a bit better over the last few years, but my hands tell the story of all the times I get a bit too rammy and decide something is going to move right phuggin now...I need to find a cool job!

I have a great job and and y'all Web surfers should appreciate it. I keep the Internet safe for ya!!

Although, what you elect to do with you laptop is entirely up to you!!

Stagehand theater tech San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Ballet. Very cool but lots of work and to damn many hrs.

Threads like these are always interesting to me. It's humbling to see the collective talent and expertise in the folks that hang out here.

I did 26 years in the Air Force doing a variety of jobs and then 10 years doing DoD, Homeland Security, and Emergency Management consulting and project work.

I fell into my current job of managing the installation of radiation treatment machines (linear accelerators) into hospitals and clinics. It's a good mix of office and field time and I get to meet some very interesting folks. The downside is the business end where mgmt always want more/faster..... But there's BS everywhere. I felt quite blessed to find a good job at 55.

Brewing beer for a friend's restaurant. Quality control work is fun.
Mechanic restoring old British motorcycles for a friend's shop and carpentry fill out the rest of my time.

I build pistols {1911's} for a living. It ain't bad but I wouldn't say it's fun either.

If I'm doing my job right, I piss off liberals for a living. I'm a lawyer with a pro bono conservative legal advocacy practice (the paying work is corporate law). I focus on First and Second Amendment matters and do quite a bit of scholarly writing and publishing to counter the left's attacks on individual rights. If you know Mark Levin's legal work (not his radio work), that's the general theme of what I do. I probably make more enemies than friends from my work (especially since I'm in the San Francisco area), but when you do what you think is right for a living it's all you need.

If that post is truthful

You have my gratitude. Thank you

+1, and friends here.

Sounds very familiar. It got to the point with me when I was fixing something some other idiot messed up, [bleep] rigged or half a$$ed like the one that ticked me off often, a junction box with wire too short to work on I would almost stroke out. I mean I could pickup a grown man and beat another grown man to death with him. When your patience is that thin your burned out... Time to find a new job...

Thanks, it's the truth. I spent a good number of years as a lawyer at large firms getting pissed off at what was happening. I worked at a firm that was supporting one of the anti-gun legal groups (Legal Community against Violence) and was turned down when I said I wanted to do pro-2A legal advocacy. I decided that it was time to do something about it, even if it meant a lower income, so I left big firm life and started my own practice. I set aside about half of my working hours and used them to develop a body of scholarly work to support pro-liberty issues, found a few former law partners who were admitted to practice before the Supreme Court and had them sponsor me for admission and I've been writing law review articles and filing Supreme Court briefs since.

What I've learned is that the anti-gun groups rely on horribly flawed (if not outright fraudulent) legal arguments that gain acceptance, in part, because they are repeated so frequently in legal scholarship. I'm working to reverse that. I know my limitations, as a one person shop, but there's this theory about Army of Davids that I think rings true.

If anyone is interested, my papers are on the Social Science Research Network site for free download: http://hq.ssrn.com/submissions/MyPapers.cfm?partid=2133013

That takes one to a login page. Must be registered to read?

I have a handful of degrees in teaching and history but I couldn't stand the public school system. Spent a decade as a martial arts instructor, fantastic job, kept me very fit and like the Boy Scouts I felt it made a positive impression on the students. All that ended when I got injured pretty severely in my late 20's, then again two years later. I've been working an office job I hate since 2008. Tossing around the idea of opening up a gym one of these days.

I have two cool jobs.....

The #1 cool job is being Grandpa.

The #2 cool job is retirement.

My final job just before retirement was "cool" I suppose. Perhaps a challenge would be a better descriptor. I managed the construction of 12 modules that went anywhere from 1,500 to 6,000 tonnes to be lifted onto a "ship" and, once connected, to become the first floating LNG plant. This in Samsung's shipyard in Korea. Once complete it will be located well offshore western Australia. A great end to a great career.

Here's 5,500 tonnes on the hook with yours truly in the middle.

I've had a great run, but the best job required me to go to school to the 25th grade. Were I looking for a career today I know I would be fired up about being a micro distiller, a timber framer or a heater mason.

Look deep inside yourself and don't blink. Remember folks get paid well to do the things others can't and/or won't.