The best job that somebody you know has...

[wonderwes]

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The best job possible is one where a person who is in serious need of help will come up to you and say "help me, please." Then you help them. Then they say "thank you."

You see, with this type of job (and there are many like that) you are really accomplishing quite a bit.

You are helpiing somebody.

You are being appreciated.

A small nugget of the universe is improved at each interaction by your existence.



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I did this once. Its called phone Internet Tech Support. And this was back in the day when there was only windows 98, no fancy XP. No one had DSL or cable. It was all dialup or ISDN. Quotes I had on the job

"Where is the address bar?"
"I have no idea where my win98 cd is"
"Well our IT guy set all this up." "Where is he now?" "No idea, we contracted him a year ago."
<talking to a company's IT guy> "Sir I am an IT consultant with many companies, that use different internet providers, and your solutions is wrong, and no other ISP's I know do this." <my response> "First sir, the solution I gave you will work, secondly, I worked at a different ISP before joining here, and we did the exact same thing." "Well, uh, I still think you are wrong." "Sir, you called me."

[ftball0000]

ebay, my dad is sold his business and is now retired (age 53), so now he does this, he makes over 6 figures.

[Villainaire]

My buddy's grandma started a business where she's contracted to businesses like K-Mart and hardware stores to literally try to steal stuff. When I was 12 I got to help.

Basically we'd just fill up a shopping cart with stuff and see if we could just leave with it without being stopped. If we did get stopped we had a cell phone with us and this certificate signed by the owner explaining what was going on.

Legally steal stuff for a living?

Oh yea.

[astroglide]

i used to do dialup support before broadband existed. one funny thing is that you'd ask for their username/password, and their password was something like '69hotboyz' like 60% of the time.

i used to [censored] with the people who called about newsgroups BIG TIME though. back then that was the spot you went to for porn, the binaries newsgroups. our news server was underpowered and got slammed a lot. when people would call about newsgroups, it was basically always about porn. very few of them would own up to it though. i would ask where they were having a specific problem and they would never answer straight, so i'd do [censored] like put them on speakerphone or tell them that i'd be happy to print out some conversations and that we could read them together.

the worst thing i've did there was intentionally and unnecessarily cutting the power to our entire modem poll when about 3000 people were connected. that was really evil.

[johnnycakes]

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ebay, my dad is sold his business and is now retired (age 53), so now he does this, he makes over 6 figures.

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More details please. Selling what?