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Who has the best job here?

Ok, I'm being a bit provocative by saying 'best', but often I can't imagine anyone here having a position of authority 😅

Is anyone an expert in something? A doctor? An engineer? Throw your hat in the ring!

And I suppose by best I do mean most 'impressive'. Did anyone work towards a specific career for a long time?

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kimmy159 · F

😅 Depends on how you view it, I have quite a high paying job with lots of responsibilities. I make almost as much as my husband who is a helicopter pilot and does rescue missions above sea.

However, I'm not specialized in anything particular. I just know something about a lot of things to run a company (finance, office, HR, labour laws in several countries, operations, sales & margin calculations, contracts & privacy, security, fleet and TCO), and know where to gain the correct info when I don't know enough about it, which makes me the ideal manager.

helsbels · 26-30, F

@kimmy159 oh yeah that definitely counts for what I'm after! And rescue pilot is incredible too

kimmy159 · F

@helsbels my son on the family day at my husband’s company ^^ [image deleted]

Punxi · 26-30, F

Pish posh! " Positions of authority"...haha! As if such denotes what?... Social standards far surpassing SW? Bartender/student. Post grad Developmental psychology. Wouldn't trade my nightly tips for all the authority on earth.

helsbels · 26-30, F

@Punxi No, wasn't trying to judge or anything, or say that what you do defines or improves you as a person.

But most of the posts on here I wouldn't associate with 'professional people', but clearly that's not correct 🤣

It's interesting to view it another way now. Rather than 'oh, you weirdoes all have interesting jobs'! It's now 'hmmm, maybe that straightlaced professional person I know is actually very silly or strange' 🙃

Punxi · 26-30, F

@helsbels If it's takes me a thousand years to get a PHd...it still won't change "who" I am. I...you...he...she...is not what they/we do for a living. Just how we earn a buck.

No harm, no foul.

🙂

Fullmetal · 46-50, M

@Punxi see my comment above!!
Best job I had was when I was a kid, worked in the bush running a chainsaw!! I loved it!
Your job doesn't define you, it's just something you trade your time for, for money!

Pfuzylogic · M

Taught electronics from 88-99 to some of the wildest ADHD High School students ever.

LunarOrbit · 56-60, M

Powerplant operator for 35 years

Retired now

🎉

helsbels · 26-30, F

@LunarOrbit Sector 7G?

LunarOrbit · 56-60, M

@helsbels Doh!

JimboSaturn · 51-55, M

I am a financial analyst for a large Canadian grocery store chain. I make the sales and margin budget for a whole banner, forecast and project year end EBIT , do ad hoc analysis, and create and distribute reports. I get paid fairly well and have pretty good benefits. I've been at this company for 18 years.

kimmy159 · F

@JimboSaturn 😍 I admire financial professionals so much! I've been thrown into finance management without having a degree for it, it's been a struggle trying to figure everything out, so I know how difficult it is even if it might just seem like "numbers and figures"

JimboSaturn · 51-55, M

@kimmy159 Lots of deadlines, stress and figuring things out.

Thanks :)

dsrice · 56-60, M

I am a Lead System Engineer, I like it a lot, but it is still a job. Has it good times and bad times. I have been in support and engineering now for 37 years.

helsbels · 26-30, F

@dsrice I know 'engineering' is a technically difficult and important job but no idea what it entails day to day. Is it always about planning and building things? Houses, bridges, etc?

dsrice · 56-60, M

@helsbels Yes, for me, it is keeping the site up and doing releases and updates and making sure we are not being attacked by hackers, I am in the security side of engineering.

calicuz · 51-55, M

Well, let's just say in some circles, I'm known as "Mr. Fun" and that's good enough for me.

MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M

@calicuz birthday clown! 😍

calicuz · 51-55, M

@MartinTheFirst

🤣🤣🤣

scorpiolovedeep · 46-50, M

I must say that everyone contributes to the society , every job is important.

Been building bridges / airports / highways for close to 29 years and I have worked with lot of other trades in my career.

This is not a bragging comment but more an acknowledgment for other people and their teamwork.

🙏

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scorpiolovedeep · 46-50, M

Hope not 🙏@JimboSaturn

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scorpiolovedeep · 46-50, M

That’s ok @orioninthenight

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

I'm an actuarist. I have developed software to model financial risk and I advise pension funds and individuals. I like to think of myself as the Delphic oracle, but mostly I think people regard me as an irritating necessity 😩

The only people who see me as an authority figure are my nieces, and I think they only pretend in order to be nice to me 🤣

BloviatingBuffoon · F

I’m a Mommy!

SlightlyBelowAverageJoe · 36-40, M

I'm actually fortunate enough that I don't have to work! When I was younger my parents took me to some kind of special intelligence test, and apparently I aced it. I basically get free money! It pays to be a genius!

JimboSaturn · 51-55, M

Where are all the trolls? The conspiracy theorists? Funny they don't seem to have jobs and never show their face. Oops I forgot I blocked them all lol

Coralmist · 41-45, F

That may be me...Im a renowned singer, an A list celebrity. I gotta toot my horn in some way in life right? I make a dang pretty penny entertaining thousands!

(In my dreams lol😭🤪)

DrWatson · 70-79, M

I am certainly not trying to "impress" anybody. But I did have to work towards a specific career for a long time. I have a PhD in Mathematics, and I am a professor.

Dshhh · M

I operate two houses of hospitality,
one is a college bar, so loud and boozy. on must keep firm control in such a place and have the very most trustworthy worker
the other is a Jazz club, less business but way more taste and to me fun. again the work force is key
SO I am an [i]Engineer [/i]of good times and a [i]Doctor[/i] of Delights

JamieDeer ·

Phytopathologist sounds special but its just looking at dirt and leaves real close and writing a lot of instructions on how to be less shitty at farming. I havent been one in 2 years though. Switched to national facilities management because it payed more and requierd less travel.

AlchemyFox · 36-40, F

Starving artist

Spumoni · 46-50, M

Locomotive Engineer 🚂 🚂

Jimmy2016 · 61-69, M

🤔..............When I had my best job, I worked as a IT Telecommunications Analyst for the 3rd largest bank in the world...............Now I'm just a company gofer..........Oh well..........retiring soon...............

Fullmetal · 46-50, M

Anyone who loves their job, regardless of what it is, has the best job! "Find a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life"!

Eternity · 26-30, M

Im a residential, commercial, and industrial electrician.

Also a residential and commercial electrical contractor.

thepreposterouspanda · 36-40, M

I haven't had a job in forever and desperately need one.

Really need my mental (and physical) health to stop crumbling first though. 😂

OldBrit · 61-69, M

Retired. Best job I've ever had 😂😂

Before retirement I was in IT most of my career, breif period in management consulting which I hated.

V00doo

Teacher.

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WildBill25 · 26-30, M

I'm a abrasive technologist

SW-User

I’m a student 😁

jeancolby · 31-35, F

Patientlywaiting · 46-50, FVIP

I'm a mum. That's the best job in the world. I get paid in kisses, daisies and half eaten boiled sweets. ❤️❤️❤️

Max41 · 26-30, M

If the job was to hug you , it may have been best it .

Harriet03 · 41-45, F

You've obviously not seen me in a wine bar!

KyleRenn · 31-35, M

I'm a rocket surgeon.

MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M

I've met a few engineers. I think this place is filled with intellectuals and it does not surprise me.

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Fullmetal · 46-50, M

@calicuz and they have no clue what your job entails...

calicuz · 51-55, M

@Fullmetal

Exactly!!!

MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M

@calicuz yeah but im sure there are good ones as well that take their work seriously. I see way too many construction workers and repair men not wearing the necessary equipment.

One day when I was going home from school a bus which i was waiting for had a tire that needed to be swapped out. Some repairmen did it quickly but when they started to screw the tires on with a insanely loud machine the person doing it looked like he was on pain and the person next to him just stood there looking to go deaf. When he stopped screwing I asked him why he didn't wear ear protection, and he chuckled and said "it would take too long..." I like to think that he started wearing protection after that day.

caccoon · 36-40

Oh yeah I am a doctor and a dentist and brain surgeon

empanadas · 31-35, M

Me, I don't have to work. I get paid 50k a year in gold and silver off of investments i did in my early 20s. Also, I got a media business

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