How easy is your job?

[SniperX13]

I am a 9 year veteran in the field of Corrections. My Job may sound easy, but walking a secure housing unit with 48 adults that hate you... and all you have is a radio...

On edge all the time... it's a way of life.

[J-Ri]

I'm an automotive technician. It can be very easy... or every once in a while make me want to smash my head against the wall . Most of the time I love it, after all, that's why I picked it. I'm in my garage on the weekends and in the shop during the week, it's great. There's nothing I haven't been able to figure out, but getting under the dashboard on some cars to find the damn wire makes me want to tell the service writer I don't know what's wrong and to pass it on to the 30-some year Master Tech sometimes

I play with cars and computers all day and can pick-and-choose (to an extent) what I want to work on. When I'm not working on a car I'm talking to my friend in the next bay. If I could drink and smoke in the shop, my life would be like one long weekend. Starting out as the lube/tire guy (A.K.A "the shop bitch") sucks, but after a couple years I started getting real diagnostic work (not just "the horn doesn't work" and such), and after about 6 years I get mostly gravy work... brakes, flushes, intake gaskets on GM 60 degree V6s, etc. I can do every job I've encountered faster than the flat rate time, and as a result I get paid for the whole time I'm in the building but I work about half the time I'm there. I once worked a "15 hour day" without staying late... back when there were enough cars to actually work all day . And I get all the benefits that the true 40-hour-a-week full time guys on second shift get, but I only work 7am-2pm, and almost always get a paid lunch break (some days are too busy at mid-day to stop), and every now and then the owner buys lunch to say thanks for the hard work .

The only down side is one guy I work with... I swear he's dumber than a box of rocks and he's constantly saying or doing something more stupid than the day before. Working with him is kinda like driving a car without a muffler cross-country... just have to tune out the droning noise and turn up the radio