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The best job in the world

Smeagol

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1. 9 figure prize lottery winner
2. Reality TV show host
3. Movie or TV sitcom actor
4. Business owner that's established enough so that most of the worker bee stuff is handled by trusted staff
5. Best selling author
6. Retired pro-athlete or coach who makes millions of dollars co-hosting a pre-game/halftime/post-game show
7. Billionaire philanthropist

...add your own.
 
Shakiras gynecologist
 
Beer tester
Bikini analyst
 
I'll go with #1 and make career decisions afterwards. The world's largest cat rescue? A cure for cancer? A Harem? So many choices, so little time.
 
Commercial airline pilot. Unfortunately, the best jobs are scarce and the profession doesn't pay very well until you've built years of tenure at a single airline.
Spouse of a millionaire. (BTW: both George Washington and John Kerry got rich by marrying widows who's late husbands left them huge fortunes).
Celebrity product endorser.
 
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Confucius.

For me that would be an inventor with almost unlimited resources.
 
Superman impersonator.

Alternatively, silver painted statue.

 
Not that great a job.

have you ever tried it? ;)

I guess I should have quantified it... LEGENDARY porn star. I'm talking Ron Jeremy famous.

I used to think that porn was kind of sleazy. But then I realized, I’m kind of sleazy!
 
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In all seriousness, being your own boss beats the daylights out being somebody else's employee. I've sort of been on both sides of this divide, again sort of. For a few years my employer allowed the management of our company to lease the business from him. It was good for him because he could count on a steady revenue stream without the ups and downs of good or bad months. No hassle whatsoever with the day to day operations. He wasn't responsible for any personnel issues from salaries to benefits to anything. Although I was only a junior partner, we were on cloud 9 because of the freedom it afforded.

One of the biggest morale killers corporate America doesn't realize it does is NOT evaluating employee job performance based not on bottom line outcomes, but on process and conforming to tradition. Not being happy with just amazing results, but thinking they're not getting their money's worth unless everyone is worn out at the end of the day and over-taxed; something that especially adversely affects vocations where creativity is a key component of the business's success. Doing an amazing job alone with amazing results isn't good enough. You have to do the job the WAY they want it done with varying levels of micromanagement. A good worker isn't just somebody who exceeds your expectations with every completed project, he has to also be dressed a certain way (typically in uncomfortable attire) even if he has little to no interaction with anybody outside of the company. He has to look busy and slightly unhappy all the time or he must not be working hard enough. Doing some work from home on occasion by taking advantage of modern communications and computer networking technology isn't really working because the corporate minders can't see you look exhausted if you're working from home part of the day, again despite the fact that the work is being done off the charts well. Coming to work sick even if you make co-workers sick is what good employees do; after all after you give it to them they should be good employees and come to work sick too so no consequence.

Another huge plus was office politics is non-existent for business owners. I'm sure most of us could write entire books on office politics so I won't go into all of its aspects except to say its an amazing work culture never having to deal with being back-stabbed because the backstabber needs to make himself look like the most valuable person in the company to the boss and the only way to do that is to make sure he is fully aware of each and every flaw you have in an exaggerated a way as possible. Its also refreshing to be in a work culture where even it tried, it doesn't work. The only political stuff I ever had to deal with one lady thought see needed to be a constant suck up and had to assure her it wasn't necessary and refereeing another situation where two ladies were jealous of and threatened by each other. Be your own boss if at all possible.
 
Everyone knows the best job in the world is to be a fire engine.
 
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