The best job I have is right now. Facilitating a couple of groups, and having the chance to just be who I am. Not even sure it could be called a job, just fun. But since I get compensated for it, through donations it might be. But having the time of my life, uncloaked. Linda www.myspiritualwindows.info

I LOVE all the jobs I have right now! I write blog copy for several online businesses - I know how to make a website or blog make it to the top three of the first page of a Google search. I’m also a ghostwriter for… . well, someone famous. Add to that the fact that I’m a professor of writing in a large community college, and that’s me in a nutshell. I’m not sure which job I love more; I am so much happier (and poorer) than I ever was in the public schools. I LOVE my jobs now!!!

My most enjoyable job was as a floral designer. I spent all my time pushin’ posies, specializing in rosies. I didn’t make much money, but I didn’t need much back then. My best job was the one I never got to do. I recareered, got an advanced degree, passed National Boards to practice, and I was going to work at the hospital where I did my Residency. Then the cancer gods came to visit again and it all became history. I’ve been a cancer patient 19 yrs, and that’s much longer than any job I ever worked at. So, I have to say that my BEST job has been ‘Survivor.’

Thanks Maureen & Frank. This is such a fun place to post and read. I stay up half the night gettin’ to know everyone and learning so much from you all.

There is almost a three-way tie: Mom to seven, Funeral Director & Embalmer, And now, Town & County Clerk.

Retrospectively, the best job was my four years in the U.S. Army where I served as a medic, battalion clerk and eventually a respiratory therapy technician. I didn’t see it as a great place to be at the time, but when I look back on the experiences, enlisting was one of the best decisions I ever made in my life. But the job I loved while I was there… the one I have now. I am a technology assistant in a local elementary school where I spend my days teaching teachers and students how to integrate technology into their daily lives while making sure everything is always up and running in my building.

My current job, Head of English Faculty at school. I love the staff and the students. My boss is a wise woman. I love the fact that each day is different and I am forever grateful for the privilege to be able to teach generations of young women. Equipping young women with the skills to articulate their ideas with clarity and confidence, as well as inspiring young women to want to learn is indeed a privilege that I don’t for one day take for granted.

I hadn’t realized how many teachers are in this community of friends. Teaching was more than the way I earned my living—it was who and what I was. Now that cardiac problems have forced me to retire, I don’t know who to be now that I’m no longer Miss Shepherd. I taught English and reading to urban middle school kids and literature to suburban kids and their individual light bulb moments gleam in my memory. Many of them became friends after they were students. I did other work over the course of my life, including a stint in a hard hat and steel-toed boots on a nuclear power plant construction site, but nothing ever brought the joy that teaching did.

Being me, being a wife, being a mum and being a teacher of English as a Foreign language. They are all equally important and all brought me great joy and satisfaction. I feel privileged to have been able to do them and I do them to the best of my ability.

First, raising my oldest son, who is now 34 - his childhood was the most fun I’ve ever had. He cracked me up on a daily basis, amazing me with his observations etc. Seeing the world through your child’s eyes is such a blessing. Second fave…being a Pre-School Teacher, a career I took on at the age of forty. I LOVED every minute of every day…couldn’t wait to get to work! Best memory from those days? At the grocery store one evening after work, kept getting funny looks as I passed people…didn’t know why until I got home…on my rear? A perfect little handprint in glitter glue! Those were the days!

I’ve had an odd combination of jobs so far. I started my adult career as a staff in a juvenile detention facility, then a juvenile probation officer, a stint as a parole officer then jumped totally off a diving board and went to work in advertising sales for a television station. left that and took a handful of clients with me to buy media for. Had to kill my little business when our real bread and butter company had a crisis which I managed for about 9 months. Then went back to work a year ago with kids. Currently working as a child protective services investigator. Sooo… which one was the best? I don’t know! They all had moments of brilliance. When I was a probation officer I was a baby. It was the job i’d aspired to for four years. I went to work every day for about five years thinking “I can’t believe they pay me to this”. five years later I could hardly stomach getting up in the morning to do the job. Ad sales… never touched my heart. But taught me a huge amount. I was succesful at it. Just never loved it. CPS. I love it and I hate it. It’s the hardest job i’ve ever done. it’s an incredible amount of work and responsibility with almost no pay. But I can honestly say there are kids lives I’ve saved. literally. However… i’m quitting this job this week! So ask me this question again in a year. I’ve got plans :)