The only "fun" job I've had is mowing with a ride mower, which I really do enjoy. But that probably doesn't count.

 

You can come on over and cut the field with my Cub Cadet 2150.

 

Will take about an hour.

 

It is a lo of fun but I will let you complete the job as I sit and watch.

 

Well worth the trip to Richmond.

I guess I'm a Professional Fisherman. I fish as many days as I can and my Wife gives me money, so I would assume I get paid to fish. Whatever you would call it, IT'S AWESOME!!!!!! Brian.

Retirement.

Retirement.

 

 

That's a position that has great hours & sweet benefits !

 

A-Jay

It's going to be really difficult to retire.  I enjoy being busy. 

House/pet sitting for wealthy relatives. Giant house and all the food to myself for a week wasn't bad.

It's going to be really difficult to retire.  I enjoy being busy.

I'm retiring the end of this semester, about mid-May. I'm starting to get a little spooked about the whole thing. Been working two jobs for more than 25 years. It's gonna be a difficult transition.

I worked in a grocery store while I was in college. The pay wasn't that great, but I worked with some good people and we had some good times.

I lived in Ark for a yr.i worked on a ranch and also caught chickens for a few months in bee branch arkansas 5 tractor trailers a night .the fun part was just goin in chicken coops and grabbing chickens legs and slamming them into the conatainers 5 at a time.Ooo and getting to work was also fun riding with them boys on the back roads 80 mph having no clue where the hell i was or how long a.ride it was gonna be

Ghoti, go for it. My wife and I debated for a year about it. We did it at 62. She had 40 years as an RN and I had 40 as a salesman. Granted, we both have a modest retirement income from our employers and SS  and a 401k that is available if we needed it. However, it allowed us to do all the things we wanted to do like watching our 7 grandkids (scattered around the state) do their thing in sports, scouts, dancing, and scholarship.  I woke up the Monday after I retired and my wife asked me to change a light bulb.  I told her, tomorrow . I'm not working today. It took me a couple of years to accept the fact that I could sleep until 9:00 am and still afford to pay my bills. It's a really difficult time for people like us that have worked our whole lives and then on that special Monday, we have no place to go. I had customers calling me at home for 6 months after I retired, begging me to come back and  take care of them. It's really hard to tell the folks that paid your house payment, car payment, and your kids education that I can't do that anymore. Good Luck. You do know that you can now go fishing any time you want to

Iron working. Hanging steel is fun as hell. Get a nice view and I really enjoy the work. Yet I decided to be an electrician for a little while longer. It's fun just not an adrenaline rush like iron working.

Thanks plumworm. I'm keeping my part-time consulting job for a while. That should help ease me into this thing.

 

By the way, my most fun job was as a musician. From the early 70's until the mid 80's, I was on the road. When they said "hex, bugs, and rock-n-roll" they weren't kidding. Some of it I don't recall all that clearly, and some does not bear remembering, but most of it was a real hoot.

 

I've been quite a bit more civilized the last thirty years.

Iron working. Hanging steel is fun as hell. Get a nice view and I really enjoy the work. Yet I decided to be an electrician for a little while longer. It's fun just not an adrenaline rush like iron working.

 

you really are crazy!!!!

i admire yet abhor you height/adrenaline junkies!!

 

here, saved you a step with looking that word up....

 

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It's going to be really difficult to retire. I enjoy being busy.

Not to worry Robert. I was never as busy as I have been since I retired. You would be amazed at the things you will find to do.

Hootie

I'd say my most fun job, not career, was working as a golf course clubhouse manager.  Free golf whenever I wanted (I love golf), heavily discounted/custom items, and a golf pro that would give me lessons whenever I wanted.  

Not to worry Robert. I was never as busy as I have been since I retired. You would be amazed at the things you will find to do.

Hootie

 

Exactly.

If you're not more busy in retirement, you're doing it all wrong.

We only retire from our job, not from our life.

 

Roger

From the early 70's until the mid 80's, I was on the road. When they said "hex, bugs, and rock-n-roll" they weren't kidding. Some of it I don't recall all that clearly, and some does not bear remembering, but most of it was a real hoot.

 

Fifteen years on the road sounds like a "second lifetime".

Baling hay for farmers was hot, heavy, and very itchy but it had its own rewards.

 

In graduate school I worked as the overnight staff at a facility for teaching young adults with developmental disabilities independent living skills.  Anyhow, most of the residents were a real hoot and sometimes we (staff) would take them bowling, to the movies, etc.  I would sometimes ask myself, "Am I really getting paid for this?"

 

My current job?  You can have it.

When I was a kid my neighbor owned his own bait company and me and my twin brother would get paid to pack night crawlers. When we would go fishing dad stopped by his house for free worms!

worked in retail grocery for 17 years. Worked with some really great people, and while it was not all fun, I look back on these times fondly. 

IMO, every job becomes fun once I start getting paid for what I know and not what I do. I heard that saying for the first time from my first journeyman when I was a 1st year apprentice. Took me a few years to reach that point and its been fun ever since. 

I've always had good jobs, but these three are/were the most fun:

• Working for a mid-high end audio company (Tweeter Etc.) as a car audio installer in the late '80s & early '90s - got to build some nice systems for the likes of Joey Kramer, Jim Longborg, and Jim Wiemer.
• Working for Alpine Electronics of America in marketing, tech support, and sales.  Also helped build some of their demo vehicles (have you ever cut the floor out of a perfectly good Ford Explorer to flush all the amplifiers at floor level in a motorized display rack or flush 2 12" subwoofers in the side panels of a Nissan Sentra SE-R? AND GET PAID FOR IT!).
• Firefighter in the city I was born & raised in.....  pretty self explanatory....

I'm retiring the end of this semester, about mid-May. I'm starting to get a little spooked about the whole thing. Been working two jobs for more than 25 years. It's gonna be a difficult transition.

Congratulations on your retirement...  I can understand your feelings.  I've got 16+ left on the FD and also worked two jobs most of my life.  It'll be tough transition I'm sure, but you'll have more freedom to decide how to spend your time, whether you fish, travel, work part time, or help raise Grandchildren....  the options are nearly limitless!

For me it has been being a H.S. Asst Coach for 3 seasons. Being in involved in all aspects of the sport was extremely fun. Especially when the stakes were high, the game was close, and loser had to go home. A combination of emotions all at once. Awesome!! 

What are some fun jobs you have had? .

None!