What was the EASIEST job you've ever had?

[KlokWyze]

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

It's the guy who tracks the food order tickets and put the plates together. He gives the food to the runners. In Hell's Kitchen, Ramsey is usually the expediter yelling @ everyone. "Where's my fucking shrimp?!?! RUBBISH. WANKER."

I've had a bunch of easy jobs. I'd say the easiest was working for NEC in a warehouse worker/semi-manager position. Basically, 90% of the time there was nothing to do. I mean some days we did shit, but I basically just did school work, played video games, produced music, slept, etc. Boring as hell, until I realized I could pretty much do whatever I wanted.

 

[zokudu]

I worked retail at Best Buy selling cameras. Outside of Christmas I just got to talk to people. Was pretty fun and it paid decently. Had to leave because my college schedule would not fit within the hours they wanted me to work.

 

[BoomerD]

I don't think I've ever had an "easy" job.

Some were less physical than others, some were downright boring as hell, but every job I've ever had required me to...you know...work.

I'm one of those people who believes that if you don't have "work" to do...find some.

Busy work makes the day go by faster, even if it's not always "your job," or even a "productive use of time."

 

[Pardus]

Was the night admin for a now defunct dial up ISP, from 12am to 8am got maybe 2 calls, slept rest of the time.

 

[Nebbers]

Pizza delivery. I love driving around listening to music, other than the gas factor, so basically someone was paying me to do something I'd probably be doing anyway.

 

[JS80]

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.

Public accounting is just making copies, confirming math that the client did already, and making tick marks. The real skill is the interpersonal skills with the client to make the audit go smoothly and quickly. Other than that, it's just brainless monkey work.

Corporate accounting can be difficult depending on the company. Accounting itself is actually a pretty difficult subject and can't just be "learned" quickly but takes many years to make it second nature.

 

[Zeze]

Few more I thought of:

1. Lab assistant: I'm that guy sitting on a desk in college PC lab that change printer paper and answer basic computer questions on a rare basis. $10/hr and pretty much surfing internet all day.

2. Tutored some Korean kid as well. He was like 9? Pretty much babysitting him and getting his homework done. I had lots of fun bonding with him. An envelop full of $250 worth of crisp cash for 8 hours~ a week.

 

[umbrella39]

Creative Director...

 

[drquest]

Wal-Mart electronics department in high school.

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

Ha... me too! Moved up to Electronics Manager too

This was back when Sam Walton was still around.....

Long time ago....

 

[Zedtom]

I was the office manager for a guy that ran a driving school. It was a summer job in high school. I only had to answer the phones and set up appointments. I got bonuses for signing up new students.

It was nice sitting in the air conditioned office and listening to the radio all day. Some rich lady in Hawaii bankrolled the whole operation and we never worked very hard.

 

[mmntech]

When I worked for my dad's business one summer, I was given the duty of monitoring concrete temperatures. If it doesn't cure/cool properly, it's no good so you have to keep an eye on how hot it is as it sets. So each hour I had to record them, for 8 hours. Sat in my car reading most of the day. Did that for a week.

 

[overst33r]

Take surveys for the govmint for 15/hr plus 50c per mile driven. Always overtime available. I usually worked 50-60hrs a week. In a good week I'd net over $1200, that includes fuel expenditures. Usually about $900 though. Some people were raking in more than that due to the region they lived in. They'd spend 4hrs working and 10 driving. EVERY day. Best part was I was working with my best friend 70% of the time. Didn't even feel like work.

What a waste of money.

 

[rasczak]

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

Yes.

 

[rasczak]

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

That must have worked out well for them.

 

[Saint Nick]

Worked in a government graphics shop/photo lab for two summers. Easily the best job I ever had. At the time ('05 and '06), I was getting paid $9.50 an hour and working full time. Actually got to do some of the fun work, too (making posters, taking photos, etc).

I miss that job a lot.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

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

Holy crap I don't know what you worked, but I hated my bussing and serving job. Coming it at 9am and leaving at 1-2am for 6 days a week was the worst 2 months I've ever had.

 

[biostud]

Office clerk at a large law company, while I took a break from studies. Good salary $22/h, for $70/month I got breakfast, lunch and dinner each day, all made by chefs. Free bar at Fridays, lots of social arrangements, and ultimately the company hired two planes and flew all the employees to a 5 star holiday resort in Croatia for a three day holiday.

All I had to do was a lot of photo copying, store files and refill storage equipment.

 

[HumblePie]

Sitting on my ass.

Literally was paid to do just that for a job. Sit on my ass and do nothing except what I wanted for 6 hours at a time.

Technically I was suppose to be watching the computer room at the college I went to as a work study. Which means I got there and made sure no one was trying to steal computers by being physically present in the room. I wasn't required to help anyone or do anything else except sit there in that room. Couldn't have ever had an easier job.

 

[her209]

Sitting on my ass.

Literally was paid to do just that for a job. Sit on my ass and do nothing except what I wanted for 6 hours at a time.

Technically I was suppose to be watching the computer room at the college I went to as a work study. Which means I got there and made sure no one was trying to steal computers by being physically present in the room. I wasn't required to help anyone or do anything else except sit there in that room. Couldn't have ever had an easier job.

I also had that job except the lab was for the liberal arts majors. Lots of hot girls constantly streaming in and out.

Nicccccce...

 

[Zeze]

Office clerk at a large law company, while I took a break from studies. Good salary $22/h, for $70/month I got breakfast, lunch and dinner each day, all made by chefs. Free bar at Fridays, lots of social arrangements, and ultimately the company hired two planes and flew all the employees to a 5 star holiday resort in Croatia for a three day holiday.

All I had to do was a lot of photo copying, store files and refill storage equipment.

WTF, that's better pay than my first job out of college.

 

[bhanson]

Loss Prevention.

At ROSS their loss prevention people wear uniforms with bold "LOSS PREVENTION" on the backs. They just stand there by the entrance looking around.

Wouldn't it make more sense to have them in normal clothes roaming the store?

 

[rudder]

first officer on a boeing 727. Especially if it was not your leg to fly. The flight engineer did all the inspections and paperwork. Basically you would lift the landing gear after takeoff and be done for the day... other than talking on the radio.

 

[rasczak]

Holy crap I don't know what you worked, but I hated my bussing and serving job. Coming it at 9am and leaving at 1-2am for 6 days a week was the worst 2 months I've ever had.

Nah man, I worked nights and made good cash. It was a place in Downtown San Diego. My days were open, so I surfed practically everyday. It was a dream job. If only it paid more.

 

[ViviTheMage]

grave digger at the cemetery for about 1.5 years

80% mowing...the rest was digging holes .

 

[bobdole369]

Summer 1993 - I was 14 and I took the bus to a shopping plaza where I worked illegally full time under the table at $5/hr as a retail store selling medical supplies. I never sold a single thing, never once did a customer come in at all. In fact I only worked there for about 2 months before the guy went completely out of business and was evicted. I literally sat there in a seat behind a desk with an empty cash register. The guy threw the place together himself so the back storeroom was full of debris and I was so bored I would just go comb through the garbage back there. Found some rubber cement and killed a couple brain cells to pass the time once. I only got paid for about a month - then he kept pushing it off for days at a time. After 3 weeks built up I just stopped going. He still owes me about $600 dollars