For those of you that are old enough to work, what is the best job you've ever worked?

For me, the answer is easy, for two reasons. The first reason is that I absolutely love my job. The second reason is that I've only ever had one job lol. For the past 3 summers I've worked as a counselor at a summer camp. I could easily write an entire novel about camp and why I love it so much, but I'll keep it simple for the sake of this thread. The number one reason it will likely be my favorite job I'll ever have is because I love working with kids, and building relationships with my campers.

How about you? What is your favorite job you've ever worked, and why?

The best job I've ever had is actually the one I work at right now, Panda Express. It actually pays well, and we get free meals while on break. Cool coworkers too, even though I am still not 100% comfortable around them.

I've yet to find it, as I've only ever worked the one retail job I currently have and I hate it. Hoping the next job I get when I transfer colleges is much better.

I'm gonna go with my time in the Army. GameStop is the only real job I've had since then (a few jobs that lasted a few weeks, so those don't count), and it just doesn't stack up.

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I made five dollars a couple times for changing bike tires for friends. That was cool.

So far I have now been working as an application developer for 2 years, my first one as a Junior Java web developer in a small company (more like a startup) for 1 year, then I resigned for an Intermediate Java dev position offer from a different company (a big one). So far it's a tie between the two if you'll factor in all the positives and negatives when comparing a small to a big company.

My first job was more flexible, I can suddenly decide to work from home for the day without saying anything beforehand and nobody would bat an eye, or if I arrive after lunch then it's no big deal as long as I complete the 8 working hours and I'm present during scheduled meetings, so basically a full flexible schedule. The problem is that I didn't see any possible career progression in there, I was just about to hit the 1 year mark and I already felt stagnant. We're using the same technology, we rarely do something different (I was assigned with creating and maintaining the small ecommerce apps, which means I usually create the same features again and again, sometimes I just copy paste a part of my old codes and just modify it a bit), and there's not much coding rules nor strict architecture to follow since delivering fast is TOP priority for a small company and it's hard to find time for refactoring existing modules when you still have tons of features to create. I'm not a fan of letting a messy codebase be but I really didn't have a choice.

So yeah, not liking the process + feeling stagnant = open for new opportunity. One of the biggest companies in Asia started building an office here and they're searching for pioneer developers, so I took the offer up for a change. What I like about it is that there is a clear career progression, there's a budget for training or education if ever I decided to get a masteral, and there are rules to follow when it comes to codes. I can also change teams if I'm starting to feel stagnant again or if it's just not a good fit personality-wise. What I dislike... well, this time there are lots of processes (which I think is normal considering their size), but it also makes it slower to get something done if you'd need to do stuff or ask for formal approval from bosses or different teams (Infrastructure team for example when it comes to server configs) to do something to the application. I was used to having access to pretty much everything so it took some time for me to get used to. Second, it's just 1 hour flexi, I can't easily work from home either, but I guess it's fine as long as I'm learning new things.

Lastly, I'm not sure if it's counted, but I also have a part time freelance job as a nodejs developer right now, basically a serverless API (using amazon web service) to be integrated to some mobile apps to be created using reactjs. I'm still learning it though since I'm a java dev in my day job. I joined a hackathon last year, made some new friends, and 1 of them have kept in touch with me and offered this freelance job. He said if I'm willing to learn nodejs then it's fine even if I don't have any background. So I thought "why not?" Then I joined in.

The best job I've ever had was being a kid lol food was provided , shelter was provided entertainment was provided nah but seriously being a adult sucks so much responsibility but the best job to me was honestly being a manager at mcdonalds only because I made the schedule so I could schedule myself overtime if I wanted to, I could show up late and not much would be said because my boss wasn't the greatest example of a good boss or a "boss" I did his work half the time counting inventory and balancing labor but the best part of the job was the ridiculous amount of free food I took home every night but sadly this job just wasn't paying enough anymore and I had already wasted my time away in school and had a pharmacy degree that I didn't use because the pay was subpar but it all worked out because I got a job at the post office  

The best job I've ever had is being Admin of vizzed.

I used to deal Blackjack. It was only a one time gig in reality, but there were more events scheduled. $120 for two hours isn't something I'd pass up though.