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Just hit the twenty year mark as a road patrol deputy with a large sheriff department.

Still look forward to lacing my boots prior to my shift.

Best job I ever had was working for Modern Eng. designing and building automated robotic production lines for the car companies! What a hoot everyday! 3 months of doing circuit, hydraulic and pneumatic prints, a couple months writing software, then 6 months (average) debugging and making changes the car companies wanted! Then we'd tear it all apart and ship it somewhere in the US! Another 6 months of putting it all back together again! When the tooling was being debugged or in a car company plant we were required to work at least 84 hours a week, my record for a week was 115 hours! Boy the overtime piled up! AND what a treat watching all the robots and tooling do exactly what it was supposed to!

Then it's off to another project!

I've had a number of good jobs in R&D, Program Management and International Marketing Management.

But, the best jobs I've ever had were in the summers of 1960-64 when I worked in the West in National Parks and Forests on trailcrews. Two of these summers, I was a Smokejumper and (without a doubt) this was the best job I've ever had (generally agreed by all other jumpers).

give me an excavator I am happy and challanged ,satisfied with the results.

norm

Being a Dad.

2nd best job, owning my own business.

Not really the job title but one acutal job I got while working once. I do structural steel drafting work (produce shop drawings) and I used to get $100 for a ladder. It only takes about 10 minutes to do an industrial type caged ladder. But they usually go with platforms, stairs, and all the stuff that go really slow so they even out with the stuff you get $50 for and it takes 4 hours to draw.

Once a plant redid all their ladders and I did nothing but hundreds and hundreds of them at 5-10 minutes each.

Best year I ever had.

The one I have now.. Self-employed, with time to take care of the house, home all the time w/o travel expense, was home when my son came home from school since about grade 2, do the jobs I want to do and pawn off the others to someone else.

Only job better will be when I fully retire..


Ahhhhhhh!

Another vote.

Best job I ever had came in two parts. First part was a stint in the US Army as a company clerk in a HHQ Co. while in Europe, 1963-1965. All I had to do was keep things running smooth and no more than two strike overs on the morning reports plus a host of duties keeping the company officers in tobacco and booze. Mustered out an E-5 in the process. Second part was to retire from another good job; if one can call managing ME's, EE's Safety E's, etc., a good job.

Now in between all that were a host of jobs that always kept the wolf off my door.

In retirement, I'm challenged daily to stay out of trouble. Probably the toughest job I ever had.

Digging ginseng on govt property.