Who here has the COOLEST job?

[Chaotic42]

I write software that kills people.

You work for Adobe?

 

[GasX]

I take people to within inches of death and back and then get thanked by them for it. Anesthesia is a gas!

 

[Kirby]

You work for Adobe?

I said software that kills people, not "makes people kill themselves".

 

[olds]

I take people to within inches of death and back and then get thanked by them for it. Anesthesia is a gas!

I have a friend who's 35 year old brother went into a surgery center for shoulder surgery.
Something went wrong with the anesthesia and they had to call 911.
They fucked him up pretty good. He has to live in a group home and has the mind of a five year old.

 

[SooperDave]

Same job I had last time this came around. Sound and lighting technician for Spinal Tap.

 

[GasX]

I have a friend who's 35 year old brother went into a surgery center for shoulder surgery.
Something went wrong with the anesthesia and they had to call 911.
They fucked him up pretty good. He has to live in a group home and has the mind of a five year old.

That really sucks but I assure you it is an isolated case. Anesthesia is very safe these days. Any idea what happened?

 

[JEDIYoda]

He works in the man on man department.

__________________

oldsmoboat -- head man!!

 

[xanis]

I'm a web designer / programmer, and I work from home 99% of the time. The only time I have to go into the office is for a meeting once every 2, 3, or 4 weeks.

Other than that, it's pretty much just email communication, the occasional phone conference, and programming in the comfort of my own home. My hours are pretty much whatever I want them to be, within reason.

I did almost exactly this for a while. I got $30/hour to sit on my laptop in my PJs designing stuff. The only time I had to interact was an occasional phone/Skype call (one client was in Georgia, the other in Italy).

 

[Leros]

Was that the one inspired by a stripper in Atlanta named Melissa?D:

I don't get the reference.

 

[MarkXIX]

I am an information security professional for the US Army where I am responsible for operating and defending the network, radio, and voice systems for one of the most storied Army divisions.

My part-time job has me commanding 170 Soldiers and carrying an M4, M9, and being driven around in one of these:

http://jalopnik.com/#!5542789/the-m1117-guardian-when-a-hummer-makes-love-to-a-tank

 

[silverpig]

I used to do graphene research and now (well, soon anyways) I'll be a management/strategy consultant.

 

[cardiac]

Paramedic/firefighter for 29 years. I still look forward to going to work every day. You NEVER know what the hell is going to happen that day. It is really taking a toll on my body since I turned 50.... (But I can still work most 25 year-olds into the ground.....

Bob

 

[esun]

I work on satellite communications. It's cool in a very, very geeky sense (maybe anti-cool by traditional definitions of cool).

 

[HeXen]

i put in the fiber optics for companies like AT&T that you guys use for your high bandwidth torrents......thank me

 

[KK]

i put in the fiber optics for companies like AT&T that you guys use for your high bandwidth torrents......thank me

I watch those fibers.

 

[arcenite]

I'm an IT Guy for a fortune 50 company.

 

[olds]

That really sucks but I assure you it is an isolated case. Anesthesia is very safe these days. Any idea what happened?

Somehow during all the turmoil, they starved him of oxygen. They are paying for it.

 

[olds]

Paramedic/firefighter for 29 years. I still look forward to going to work every day. You NEVER know what the hell is going to happen that day. It is really taking a toll on my body since I turned 50.... (But I can still work most 25 year-olds into the ground.....

Bob

My brother is a 50 year old firefighter. He runs the kids into the ground.

 

[olds]

i put in the fiber optics for companies like AT&T that you guys use for your high bandwidth torrents......thank me

I wish. Around here, comcat is still using pigeons.

 

[KingstonU]

I'm a geotechnical engineer and I get paid really well to travel the world. I've been chased by a polar bear near the North Pole and I've trapped scorpions in Mexico. I'm currently in Alaska and have the most beautiful northern lights with bright greens, whites and reds filling the sky most nights. This summer I will be working in Chile in the driest location on the planet. In the fall I might be in Africa or Australia.

It is labor intensive though and you have to tolerate the elements and go months on end without a break. But then you get weeks off at a time between rotations. I hate "9 to 5" jobs so this is perfect for me.

 

[Mo0o]

Does "student" count as a job

 

[Bignate603]

I have a friend who's 35 year old brother went into a surgery center for shoulder surgery.
Something went wrong with the anesthesia and they had to call 911.
They fucked him up pretty good. He has to live in a group home and has the mind of a five year old.

While they've made huge advances in anesthesia it's often more dangerous than the surgery itself. For my shoulder surgery they chose to keep me awake with just local anesthetic and enough happy meds to make it so I didn't care.

 

[Mo0o]

I take people to within inches of death and back and then get thanked by them for it. Anesthesia is a gas!

Anesthesiologist or CRNA?

 

[Sluggo]

I don't have a real job title, except for second man from the top.

I do project management for a family construction business, but that's just the main stuff. We also have our grubby fingers in: remodeling, commercial/residential development and residential/commercial property management/leasing. Company wide we have about 30 residential rental properties and about 15 commercial rental properties as well as a commercial office building that we office out of as well as lease out to tenants and at any given moment about 20 spec homes under construction. .

My wife and I are just starting to build our own rental empire and have 2 rental properties and are looking to expand and take advantage of this buyers market.

Every single day is a roller coaster of emotions from complete fear to total elation...unfathomable frustration to unbelievable smugness.

Having lived this for 25 years, I can't imagine making a living any other way.

 

[Crusty]

Private consultant for a high frequency trading firm... finally putting my CS degree(almost completed) to really good use.