Love Your Job? Tell Me About It!

[Quarrior]

"Find a job you love and you'll never work another day" .... a saying from a fortune cookie that was so on target that I posted it on my office door.

That's exactly what I'm up to. My situation is that I have a very large background when it comes to experience. I also have a lot of talents when it comes to techinical/mechanical stuff.

Problem is, I'm 47 and don't know what of all the things there are out there to do, I want to do. I figure it'll hit me when I see it, thus this thread. I'm looking for ideas to research.

The VA put me through one of those VOCREHAB tests in 94. Results came back definitive, "go out and do whatever you want, you have no specific area you are stronger in than any other". That was a big help. So, I ended up back in the same old job. Good pay, but treated like crap and abused regularly. I don't want to do that anymore.

 

[FinaddictFred]

I just started my dream job two days ago. I work for a company that builds and supports aquatic habitats for research facilities such as Johns Hopkins and Yale and so forth. I am a production specialist, which is a builder and fabricator of anything related to the system such as the stainless steel racks, the filtration system, any photo-period atatchments and a plethora of other duties. After we build the system it gets bundled up and shipped to whatever facility ordered it. And a team goes and installs it. I will be traveling all over the world to places such as China, Italy, Israel, Austailia, and all over the US as well. I sat down with the human resources lady today to talk over a few things I was unsure of and she assured me that "yes we do get 3 weeks vacation after 1 year" and she informs me that we have a quarterly company breakfast that each dept. has to host and on Jan 6th the division I work for will be getting an all expense paid fishing trip off the Fla Atlantic coast for the day. Theres much more but I'm grinnin so hard that I can barely type. I've been keeping and breeding tropical fish for over 30 years and have always wanted to work in the aquarium industry but not in fish keeping as a day to day job so that I can enjoy my hobby at home. Well this is my perfect job and I can't believe my good fortune..its been a long time coming. I told my girlfriend that all the crap jobs and back breaking jobs I've had over the past 27 years was training for this job. Keep pluggin and I hope y'all find what I found, for yourselves.

 

[theskull]

What not to do . . . and how lucky we all really are:

"Anal-wart researcher" (visual inspection being the only way to detect anal cancer from the human papillomavirus) heads Popular Science magazine's second annual November list of the worst jobs in science. However, "worm parasitologist" can be just as challenging, especially for anyone studying the Dracunculus medinensis (which can settle in humans to a length of 3 feet and then must be removed carefully after its thousands of offspring burst through the skin). Other contenders: "tampon squeezer" for the study of vaginal infections; a Lyme-disease "tick attractor" (who must sing, to keep bears away, while trolling in the woods); and "monitors" at warm-climate landfills (where garbage has been reduced to steamy, liquid condensates). [Popular Science, November 2004]

Good luck in your search, Q,
theskull

 

[Quarrior]

What not to do . . . and how lucky we all really are:

"Anal-wart researcher" (visual inspection being the only way to detect anal cancer from the human papillomavirus) heads Popular Science magazine's second annual November list of the worst jobs in science. However, "worm parasitologist" can be just as challenging, especially for anyone studying the Dracunculus medinensis (which can settle in humans to a length of 3 feet and then must be removed carefully after its thousands of offspring burst through the skin). Other contenders: "tampon squeezer" for the study of vaginal infections; a Lyme-disease "tick attractor" (who must sing, to keep bears away, while trolling in the woods); and "monitors" at warm-climate landfills (where garbage has been reduced to steamy, liquid condensates). [Popular Science, November 2004]

Good luck in your search, Q,
theskull

Sometimes the things you know just scare me. :rofl:

 

[freediver]

I am a mild mannered elementary PE teacher by day, BUT BY NIGHT.........well just a mild mannered father of two. I often remind myself that they pay me to play dodgeball with a bunch of kids! Are you kidding, what's not to love?