Easiest Job Ever
Dazbrilliantwhites says he spent five years working at an airport where he spent his days "racing down multi-storey car parks in wheelchairs and then using the lift to go back to the top". Tell us about your best and easiest jobs. Students: Make something up.
( , Thu 9 Sep 2010, 12:14)
Dazbrilliantwhites says he spent five years working at an airport where he spent his days "racing down multi-storey car parks in wheelchairs and then using the lift to go back to the top". Tell us about your best and easiest jobs. Students: Make something up.
( , Thu 9 Sep 2010, 12:14)
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Anything in the private sector where you control a budget
If you have a brass neck, and control the flow of a significant amount of money, the freebies on offer would make a politician blush.
I am in advertising and have worked with clients who would breezily pick up the phone to the agency to tell us their daughter would really like to go and see a concert in Paris, thanks very much. Most of the time, we could arrange this. Champions League tickets, Rugby internationals, trips to the World Cup...
Agencies can be just as bad. I once worked with a boss who would refuse to talk to any magazine, on principle, unless they took her for lunch at a restaurant of her choice. Getting to the middle of the week and realising that there wasn't a free lunch on the horizon for Friday resulted in outrage and a slew of phonecalls. In any social situation involving a media owner, it was a given that the agency would not be paying for a single thing. Trips to Vegas, with pocket money. World Cup jaunts including a safari and a bit of fishing. Weekend Benders in Ibiza, complete with your choice of narcotics arranged by your friendly sales representative.
And after all, it's not as if advertising is REAL work, anyway.
Problem is, all this does mean that, in accordance with stereotypes, there are rather too many obnoxious, undeserving, self-regarding, coked up twunts. It's a great industry if you can successfully ignore them...
Other jobs with similar perks if you're willing to sell your soul for freebies? I suggest being a buyer for a supermarket. You get sent off to negotiate with someone, they put you up in a 5 star hotel, treat you like a king, bend to your every whim, and then you screw them over by making them swallow the cost of a price reduction, and fly back home in triumph...
( , Thu 9 Sep 2010, 13:54, Reply)
If you have a brass neck, and control the flow of a significant amount of money, the freebies on offer would make a politician blush.
I am in advertising and have worked with clients who would breezily pick up the phone to the agency to tell us their daughter would really like to go and see a concert in Paris, thanks very much. Most of the time, we could arrange this. Champions League tickets, Rugby internationals, trips to the World Cup...
Agencies can be just as bad. I once worked with a boss who would refuse to talk to any magazine, on principle, unless they took her for lunch at a restaurant of her choice. Getting to the middle of the week and realising that there wasn't a free lunch on the horizon for Friday resulted in outrage and a slew of phonecalls. In any social situation involving a media owner, it was a given that the agency would not be paying for a single thing. Trips to Vegas, with pocket money. World Cup jaunts including a safari and a bit of fishing. Weekend Benders in Ibiza, complete with your choice of narcotics arranged by your friendly sales representative.
And after all, it's not as if advertising is REAL work, anyway.
Problem is, all this does mean that, in accordance with stereotypes, there are rather too many obnoxious, undeserving, self-regarding, coked up twunts. It's a great industry if you can successfully ignore them...
Other jobs with similar perks if you're willing to sell your soul for freebies? I suggest being a buyer for a supermarket. You get sent off to negotiate with someone, they put you up in a 5 star hotel, treat you like a king, bend to your every whim, and then you screw them over by making them swallow the cost of a price reduction, and fly back home in triumph...
( , Thu 9 Sep 2010, 13:54, Reply)
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