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Best jobs were in college, working the food concession in the student center and working in the cafeteria. Met my wife working in the caf and made life long friends. Lots of food in both places. At the student center I could at times go from work right to a pinochle game.
best job i ever had was working at a candle factory on the wickends. ha ha ha
Good one. I would have missed it if you hadn't added the "ha ha ha". You are the best comedian in the Retirement Forum. Remember in that nudist camp thread where you talked about having a picture of yourself carrying two cups of coffee and half a dozen donuts? That hilarous image has stayed with me and brings a chuckle even now.
Cherish your memories and be thankful you lived at a time when workers and community mattered. It is much different now. Not exaggerating, a huge change happened in America in the 2000's,and it's never been the same. Not terrible, not horrible, but much less friendly and the environment can be somewhat heartless. If you returned to corporate America, you might be shocked. Or maybe you would change it for the better.
I did work for a larger firm for a while but most of my work has been for small firms and sometimes, I feel like I have missed something, however, after reading the posts, I can identify with many and I truly feel sorry for the youth of today starting out where applications are on-line and the lack of a personal feel is gone.
We have lost much of the flavor of America with its small towns and regional feel. I wish we could find a way to revitalize these small towns and bring back jobs to the United States.
I may pay more but I really try to buy US made products.
The mid-to-late 1980's. I've always worked in IT and the 1980's was an exciting time. I had a small development department and then a new technology org. Lots of high energy, very dedicated, creative staff and new technology to explore and "play" with. We went "where no man has gone before." Lots of demos, guest speakers, profs discussing current research - and stress getting all those new technologies to integrate and work - but it was exhilarating. I read the Steve Jobs biography and that triggered a wonderful trip down memory lane. I felt I was a kid in a candy shop. I've been fortunate to always have good teams and always ran the dept within the corp environmnet as if it was a small business. Loved it.
I'm a total nerd, so my favorite job was the summer I spent programming the 1's and 0's into a main frame computer's firmware. It's like going to work and working logic puzzles all day!
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Best job was right after High School, moved to Southern California, and starred in Porn Movies, after I became bored with that, and found it hard to get up in the morning. I looked for something that wasn't a job but was an an adventure, So I joined the Navy and flew F-14 Tomcats off the USS Enterprise. The Captain of the Enterprise, a man name Kirk took me with him when he took over another ship. There Kirk, a weird forienner and I had many adventures.
Supervisor for a chocolate company. Surrounded by nearly 20 million pounds of chocolate every day. Every time I stopped for groceries after work, people would comment, 'You smell so good.'
Were you a fudgepacker before you were promoted to supervisor?
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Cherish your memories and be thankful you lived at a time when workers and community mattered. It is much different now. Not exaggerating, a huge change happened in America in the 2000's,and it's never been the same. Not terrible, not horrible, but much less friendly and the environment can be somewhat heartless. If you returned to corporate America, you might be shocked. Or maybe you would change it for the better.
Yeah, there are a lot of cold people who plot against each other at work nowadays. What I've also experienced personally over the past several years is a complete lack of training and no loyalty whatsoever on the part of either the employee or the employer. You are handed a laptop and told to "figure it out," and when you make a mistake you are talked down to like you are an idiot. Hardly anyone works for one employer their entire working life anymore. Employees figure they'll stay somewhere a year or two, get some experience, then move on to a different company for more money. This process repeats over and over again. On the other side, employers fire people at the drop of a hat and gloat about the fact that they don't need a real reason to get rid of people.
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