What was the EASIEST job you've ever had?

[Zeze]

For me:

Summer job during college at a small education firm covering someone's maternity leave for 3 months. She was a secretary I guess. I'm supposed to answer phones, but literally got 2-3 phone calls WHOLE DAY. I literally surfed the net for 8 hours a day until my eyes were bleeding. I was BORED out of my mind. At $10/hr 7 years ago, it was decent money.

They knew and didn't care I was doing nothing. I think everyone had nothing to do in the 'off-season' of beautiful July summer.

I wonder why they even bothered to hire me at all?

 

[PricklyPete]

Raking and picking up garbage/geese poop at our community lake beach when I was 11-13 in CT. 2 hours every morning during the summer. Loved that job. Made $5.50 an hour which was great 20 years ago.

 

[rasczak]

Bussing. Easy as pie and made decent cash. I hated serving. The funnest was food expediter.

 

[El Guaraguao]

Loss Prevention.

 

[lxskllr]

Never had an easy job. Sometimes mindless, but still difficult in its own way. I've had easy tasks at my otherwise difficult job, but those were always short lived.

 

[Gibson486]

Asst. Manager of a supermarket.

I was so good at that job. It was so easy. The secret was having people enjoy working with you to the point where they would run over customers for you. It was awesome. I was not a push over and I certainly had high expectations of everyone. However, when they did something wrong, they knew about it. In all honestly, I miss that job.

 

[Born2bwire]

Bussing. Easy as pie and made decent cash. I hated serving. The funnest was food expediter.

The hell is a food expediter? Is that just a title inflation for runner?

 

[Riverhound777]

I was a security guard/head-counter for a small art gallery on campus in college. Got $9/hour to sit and do homework and put a check on paper for each person who came in.

 

[96Firebird]

Retail, mostly Abercrombie and Fitch because Circuit City was a pain sometimes. Just stand there and talk with friends, doesn't get much easier...

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

I tend to work well in high stress, high responsibility jobs so all my jobs have been hard. I havn't had much work experience as you could imagine.

 

[JS80]

Tutoring rich Korean kids for $30/hour.

Real life easiest job was public accounting. Monkey work with long hours and low pay. But as easy as it gets.

 

[lokiju]

Probably my last job. Was only there for 4 months before taking another job that fell on my lap.

Which is some of the reason I decided to leave a cushy high paying job for a little less pay, no more office (back in a cube) but the last job wasn't very fulfilling.

 

[AstroManLuca]

College library. Spent about half my time waiting at the desk for someone to check out a book. During that time I could study or surf the internet, they didn't care as long as it was work-safe. The other half of the time I was putting books back on the shelf, sorting the mail, or shelf-reading (checking to make sure everything is in order). The shelf reading was the worst part because it was just boring, but everything was super easy.

 

[IronWing]

Changing backup tapes on university servers. These were the old style reel tapes.
Push botton to unmount tape.
Push button to eject.
Place tape on rack.
Pull next tape off rack.
Push button to load. <drive would spin until it found the end of the tape and autoload>
Push button to mount.

I worked directly for the system admin, not the university. He figured out that he could make more money by paying me to do the backups which freed him up to moonlight at much higher pay.

Running the university map library was the next easiest job. Organize, catalog, and reshelf the map collection. The collection was a mess when I got the job but after the first few weeks everything was organized and cataloged so reshelving returns and pulling maps for profs was the whole job from then on.

 

[Gibson486]

Tutoring rich Korean kids for $30/hour.

Real life easiest job was public accounting. Monkey work with long hours and low pay. But as easy as it gets.

yeah, that is what my fiancee says. If you are organized, the job is merely moving numbers around. Once in a while, you need to do some math that requires number crunching, but the finance people always do the harder stuff and simply feed the numbers to the accountant.

 

[gorcorps]

Office work in my department at school. Had to copy papers every now and then and answer the phone that rarely rang. Gave me good chunks of time to focus on homework.

 

[edro]

Wal-Mart electronics department in high school.

Damn, I wish I still had that amount of responsibility.

 

[Exterous]

I literally surfed the net for 8 hours a day until my eyes were bleeding. I was BORED out of my mind.

It's amazing how painful an easy, boring job can be. I worked at an in house architecture firm for just over a year. They didn't have a ton of work but due to the staff sizing rules (salary budget decrease based on 1 year trend, salary budget increase based on 3 year trend. So if you let someone go your budget was immediately decreased but you had to show 3 years worth of data before you could get a salary budget increase) they kept everyone on. I honestly had about 2 hours of work to do per day but had to sit there for 8 hours. And most of that work was copying and pasting drawings from one file into another with slight modifications

I made 35k but it was too damn boring and easy so I left for another job

 

[BabaBooey]

Escort.....no not that kind....

I escorted all work and utility vehicles from front gate to their work area and and back out,so basically sat in a jeep and drove around MSP international airport...:thumbsup:

 

[Harrod]

Datacenter job, literally 15 minutes of work a day, pay was about 16 an hour, I miss it sometimes, and I really wish I had knocked out more Cisco certs while I had it instead of playing on the internet. They had about 2 racks worth of routers that were decommissioned.

 

[Sixguns]

Stocking bread at a Walmart when I was 15 and in later years while going to school. I was a security guard. 12 hours shifts of driving around in a dodge neon. That job was sweet and it payed good.

 

[JTsyo]

In a machine shop. Since I was unskilled, my job was to load the piece into an automated machine (not CNC) and then take it out when it was finished. Each piece took about 2 min. Pretty boring work for a 10 hr shift. Got $10/hr plus they gave out bonuses the 2nd week I was there.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Data entry work for at&t handling the orders thei automated system spit out/couldn't handle. Just ent.ering order info into forms

 

[her209]

Web programmer in school. Was making 3X minimum wage coding templates used to generate static HTML files.

 

[ussfletcher]

C#.NET development for web applications. If I didn't hate web programming so much, I'd probably keep doing it.