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There are jobs we love, jobs we hate, and honestly, money only has a little bit to do with what separates one from the other.
If you’re looking for an amazing job, income be darned, you might want to give these 16 a closer look.
16. Well I love all of this.
Shift Manager at Hollywood video, making $7.25/hr. For some reason, we were the only store in the area where corporate allowed us to order whatever movies we wanted for the store.
A lot of the employees were film students at the local university so we ordered a lot of crazy sh%t. We had a great indie, foreign, anime collection. We had the entire Twin Peaks series on VHS.
Because Hollywood Video didn’t make you pay your late fees to rent new movies, our clientele were mostly customers who couldn’t rent from blockbuster b/c of high late fees. We hated the Blockbuster people and would crank call them all the time.
We’d dial them up and ask sh%t like, “Do you have Private Parts…? Can I touch them?” or “Do you have Lorenzo’s Oil?… Can I rub it all over my body?”
Our store manager was the coolest guy who would let us play whatever movies we wanted (as long as they weren’t rated R) in the store. We were such a motley-crew, it felt like working at Empire Records. I miss that job and those people so much.
15. Are easy and good the same thing?
Security at FedEx
I got in at 6 am and off at 2pm
Monday through Friday
Pay sucked
But it was a sub facility so all I did was drink coffee, chat with people and wand a few people as they left
14. Always work local.
Landscaping for a small local business. It was my first job after walking out of Toys R Us in the middle of a shift 2 weeks before Christmas because of how wretched it was.
Boss was just a regular guy, all he cared about was that you worked hard. It was hard work, but felt good being outside and active. And very rewarding working your ass off for 10 hours and then being able to step back and admire what you created, be it a fish pond, stone patio, a nice shrub garden, ect, as opposed to unending lines of pissed off customers and cleaning up toy shelves that would be wrecked again in 15 minutes anyway.
And pay was actually pretty great, $10 an hour for 50 hours a week. At 17 when your boss hands you $500 cash every Friday afternoon you’re basically rich. All in all the job was no bullshit. Boss gives you instruction and you do it. No dumb shit about tricking old people into buying insurance they don’t need, no guilt trips if you request a day off, no 19 year old middle management cunts with bad skin on a power trip, and if someone came in with an attitude demanding stuff, the boss would tell them to fuck off, simple as that.
13. Waiting tables is a great gig.
Cook at a breakfast restaurant. No double shifts. The owner was really nice and would bus dishes when we were super busy. Most of the cooks and some servers were friends so we regularly hung out. To top it off we had windows/a lot of natural light.
The atmosphere really made all the difference.
Then the owner sold the place and the new owner was fully incompetent and we all left.
12. When you don’t need responsibilities.
Probably working for the city. I mowed all the baseball fields and city owned lots. It was pretty nice, just working alone and listening to music. I also got to drive around in a loader when I needed to clean up the dump spots.
It wasn’t glorious work, but it was almost zen like and I got to drive some seriously heavy machinery
11. Damn the man.
I worked in a record store off and on again for nearly eight years when I was young. Met the woman that became my Wife, and two of my longest/closest friends while there.
The store is closed, and it was torn down to build a Chick Fil A a few years ago. I’ll always cherish the years I spent there.
10. This made me lol.
Pumping gas. It was fun, the people were nice, the smell of gas was intoxicating…
9. How charming.
Capturing live bees in little plastic bottles, gently chilling them until they were docile, and gluing colored plastic tags with numbers onto their backs.
Then sitting outside in a flowerbed with a notepad and trying to spot any of the tagged bees that returned to that site.
Other highlights of that job were: Sheltering in a grad student’s car during a sudden intense thunderstorm and having the tree we were parked under get literally exploded by a lightning strike.
Police arresting a student worker for sitting in the bushes next to a public pool full of kids with a big camera and macro lens (he was photographing insects). Getting shot at in the woods by people playing paintball. Almost falling out of a tree while trying to get a wide overhead shot of a survey site.
8. That first one sounds so fun.
Haunted house actor and ride operator in an amusement park.
7. It’s all about the perks.
Up until the pandemic, I had been working as a cameraman. Loved it despite the pay. I was onstage with great bands, behind the net in the AHL, in the pits at Motocross, and so much more.
I’ve used this time to earn IT certs but I may try and keep my side gig if I land a “real” job.
6. Sounds like a double bonus.
I worked as a moped delivery driver when i was 16/17 years old. At the time i had a lot of friends that spent a small fortune to be able to buy, maintain, and drive their mopeds.
Despite never owning one, i could drive a moped AND i got paid to do so.
5. Everyone likes to light things on fire.
Worked for a firework stand one summer. Pretty much explains itself.
Oh and at the beginning of the season they had an orientation, which was just them naming and showing each firework and then lighting it off.
4. And getting a killer tan.
Dockhand.
Spent most of my shift fishing.
3. The warm fuzzies.
Selling comfort shoes.
Nothing like seeing a customer walk in practically in tears because their feet hurt so much and leave with a huge smile on their face because their feet have stopped hurting.
2. Not having to see people is nice.
Working in a closed-door pharmacy.
It was the craziest place ever. There weren’t many rules except correctly filling prescriptions and showing up on time.
1. The people make the place.
Dishwasher at a seafood place.
The cooks made sure I was well fed. It’s possible to get tired of steak and lobster. I was 17 and barely paying the rent on my motel room, but it was my motel room.
Oh to be young again, when any money seemed like a lot of money.
Did you ever have a low income job that you loved?
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