And to think I could have become a Mech. Engineering intern. So well.

I've had a bullsh*t job like those before: Senior Clerk/Typist for a police department. I was only hired because the Lt. didn't know how to use a PC well. So he did all of the police work and would occasionally type up a document, print out more business cards or resize a photograph with Photoshop. Once in a while I had to enter police reports into the system. Other than that, I did absolutely nothing for 8 hours a day / 5 days a week.

Other employees eventually complained because by the end of my first year there, I started getting their work. And you know what it was? A template with "fill in the blanks" information. Took me an hour to finish the piles of folders they would hand me.

As easy as the job was, I despised it. I would loathe going to that office and sit there staring at the walls. I wasn't allowed to use the internet unless it was job-related (trust me I tried and a complaint was sent to my boss... ). I couldn't use my GBSP or draw in my sketchbook because I had no privacy. No, I was expected to sit there and act like I was doing something.

It wasn't my old boss' fault though. He was a great guy and worked hard to keep the dogs off my back. But in the end, I had to keep my sanity and quit after a year. Luckily, I was getting married at the time I left so it all worked out.

We have a winner on these:

Technical analyst for state government - don't get me started, it would reach the point where you would all die from the self-inflicted gun shot wounds to make it stop.
System engineer - see above as it's the same thing!

Computer Operator for a company that's contracted by the state to monitor/run their lottery system. Sit in a room 12 hours a day watching to make sure the system doesn't crash and checking one system's reports against another. In the unlikely event that there is a problem, don't try to figure it out, contact the managers and do what they tell you. 4 hours worth of work in a 12 hour shift, 7 days in a row (followed by 7 days off), and you're not allowed to buy lottery tickets.

Weird. A job where you're not allowed to waste your own money?

I don't work for the state department running the lottery. I work for a company the state outsourced most of the jobs that would be needed to run a lottery so they don't have to give more people those great state benefits.

That's what they're looking to avoid. To be fair, I could play the lottery if I were so inclined, I just can't claim any money I win (all prizes $600 and over must be claimed through the lottery office). If I got caught playing it, that's when I'd get in lots of trouble.

Night watchman.

Best do-nothing job I ever had. Not for the faint of heart. Nothing ever happened, and there was no real danger, but it's easy to let your imagination run wild when you're walking around in the pitch dark, hearing real or imagined noises. Lots of people left because they thought the place was haunted, or that they were sure they were being watched.

If you could keep it together, all you have to do is walk around once an hour and do your homework / read a book the rest of the time. Most places also have a tv you can watch.

If i wasn't required to do some serious work when stuff broke i'd almost say mine is. I look at it that i'm getting paid for what i know rather than what i do Luckily they've never fussed about my GWJ usage, but i dont branch out from here.

That's because it was exactly what they did.

Computer lab monitor is the best college job ever. I usually worked about 5 minutes out of every hour usually spent loading paper into a printer. I went to a Big Ten school so football was a big deal, but I'm not sports fan so I'd work during game time on the weekends. I worked 0 minutes per hour those days. If I didn't have a ton of homework I'd burn a few episodes of South Park or Simpsons to a CD and watch them in the lab.

It also was a great place to meet women (not where I met my wife, but where we ran into each other later). Attractiveness of the co-ed was directly proportional to my knowledge of their problem (as in, my willingness to help).There was really no technology requirement to work in the computer lab, but I am big computer nerd. I could usually astound my fellow students with my knowledge of basic HTML tags or a SUM formula in Excel.

Since I've gone totally off subject here, I will tell one funny story. One morning around 8AM I opened up the lab and started booting up the computers. A student wearing a suit came in and was sweating like crazy and intently asked me which computer was the fastest. All the PCs had similar hardware so I just pointed out the one I turned of first, but it was still only on the Windows98 splash screen. The guy nervously shoved a disk into the drive and starting clicking before the desktop had even loaded so I asked him what the problem was. Apparently he had an on campus interview at 8AM and when they asked him for his resume (they apparently didn't have a copy) and he instead responded "excuse me, I need to use the restroom", then booked down 2 flights of stairs into the computer lab to print out some copies. So he was just going to magically come back into the interview with a bunch of resumes in his hands. Even better, the printer jammed, so after fixing that he was probably in the lab for almost 10 minutes. The interview probably did not go well.