What's the easiest job you've ever had?

bulletproofbarb · Oct 3, 2011

doing a 3 hour clinic bleeding patients who donated their own blood for surgery. Most days I would have one patient booked in so would turn up, bleed patient and be back home all within an hour and get paid for 3 hours..alas, we went broke and had to close.

bulletproofbarb · Oct 3, 2011

Easiest nursing job: I used to have a part time job in a very small (12 bed), very rural hospital ER. Whole night shifts would go by without a single patient coming in. Usually there were only two of us, an RN and a doc/PA/NP and the provider was always asleep in their call room. Every once in a while the manure would hit the fan, like when a man walked in holding his 12 year old daughter and his wife walked in behind him carrying the girl's arm that had been chopped off in a boating accident. Or the time when a local farmer was crushed by the head of a combine (large farming equipment) and his neighbors just threw him in the back of a truck and showed up at the ER. Those were the exceptions. About half of the shifts I never saw a patient. the other half we would have a couple easy cases in the evening and then nothing the rest of the night.

i did a rural ed job as well. one night a guy came in by ambulance with a broken leg....the broken leg was a prosthesis :lol2:

That Guy, BSN, RN, EMT-B · Oct 3, 2011

Easiest: Manager of a water park. Freaking loved that job. Tons of sun, tons of fun, tons of scenery.

Easiest nursing.....nothing yet.

enchantmentdis, BSN, RN · Oct 3, 2011

My second nursing job after completing school was the easiest: Outpatient surgery in a hospital. I parked right outside the front door-cool, huh. It was on the first floor in the back of the hospital, opened the door and there you were, no lobby or long hallway, elevator to walk to. In all the time i was there i NEVER entered the main hospital, knowing instinctively that i did not want to go there. Outpatient had the best hours in the world--6am-2:30pm. Anyway, my job was to line up all the iv bags and tubing, make sure the six gurneys were attired with sheets and pillows, and locked in place. Once the patients started coming in, take a written history and verify their meds and that they were npo since midnight--on paper--a two page form. I'd get the pt changed in a gown, get them on the gurney, and chat with them, insert their iv, give a few pre-op meds. The job was fantastic, though sometimes it got really busy. There was a recovery nurse just outside the OR, so i didn't have to do that; but when pt was wheeled back to me, i'd help them get dressed, and send them on their way. Every now and then a patient would emit a technicolor yawn:uhoh3: after surgery, but honestly, what a great job that was. No weekends, no call, no holidays, and some days we were done by noon.

MomRN0913 · Oct 3, 2011

Not in nursing??? Fitness instructor at the YMCA. I didn't teach classes, I just monitored the gym, showed people how to use the machines and gave a spot to someone lifting every now and then.

In nursing. I used to float and when I found out my assignment was post partum I would cheer! Loved it! I just started and they told me not to do mother/baby until I was ready for retirement. I worked 7a-11:30p one day and I wasn't tired at all.

MomRN0913 · Oct 3, 2011

My second nursing job after completing school was the easiest: Outpatient surgery in a hospital. I parked right outside the front door-cool, huh. It was on the first floor in the back of the hospital, opened the door and there you were, no lobby or long hallway, elevator to walk to. In all the time i was there i NEVER entered the main hospital, knowing instinctively that i did not want to go there. Outpatient had the best hours in the world--6am-2:30pm. Anyway, my job was to line up all the iv bags and tubing, make sure the six gurneys were attired with sheets and pillows, and locked in place. Once the patients started coming in, take a written history and verify their meds and that they were npo since midnight--on paper--a two page form. I'd get the pt changed in a gown, get them on the gurney, and chat with them, insert their iv, give a few pre-op meds. The job was fantastic, though sometimes it got really busy. There was a recovery nurse just outside the OR, so i didn't have to do that; but when pt was wheeled back to me, i'd help them get dressed, and send them on their way. Every now and then a patient would emit a technicolor yawn:uhoh3: after surgery, but honestly, what a great job that was. No weekends, no call, no holidays, and some days we were done by noon.

I want this job.

Roy Fokker, BSN, RN · Oct 3, 2011

Easy nursing job: haven't found any.

Easy non-nursing job: haven't worked any that I know off. I held three 'part time' jobs simultaneously while in school:

1. Washing dishes 12 hours/shift. Also did garbage duty. And clean toilets.

2. Assit. chef/prep chef for one of the campus cafeterias. Doubled as server/bagman if the need arose.

3. Worked at campus IT: fix and solve campus computer problems - both on-site and off-site.

cheers,

ETA: Honestly though I must say - other than the hours, the lousy pay, the inedible food, the deplorable conditions I often found myself in and other special "situations" - Army life was cake :)

imintrouble, BSN, RN · Oct 3, 2011

I made pizzas at Arni's Pizza King. Easiest. Most fun. Just thinking about it now makes me smile. Thirty five years later.

tokmom, BSN, RN · Oct 3, 2011

im pretty sure she is talking about NURSING, not delivering pizzas while smoking weed:smokin:. mine is my weekend Tx / wound care nurse , prob because im on my own , i come in when i want more or less work 8 house and go home , dont have to deal with a ton of paper work or any other drama

Yep, I know. :cool:

noahsmama · Oct 3, 2011

Easiest non-nursing job: cashier in a local grocery store. I worked at the neighborhood store when I was in high school, so I knew probably half the people who came into the store. Worked evenings after school, sometimes on weekends, but generally not more than 4 hours at a time. Was paid $2/hr, which seemed like good money to me back then.

Easiest nursing job? I've only had 2 nursing jobs so far. My current job is probably easier than my last job (now a PHN working with foster kids, vs. pediatric bedside nursing in a hospital for last job), but neither could be described as "easy". I have about 100 kids on my caseload, and my job is making sure their health care needs are being met, which includes reviewing their medical records, educating social workers and foster parents about their medical issues, dealing with health insurance glitches, etc. Definitely keeps me busy!

deann52 · Oct 3, 2011

Postpartum night shift :) For an L&D nurse this was cake!

ashleyisawesome, BSN, RN · Oct 3, 2011

only a pca, but assisted living noc shift is cake. i usually do homework/read 80% the time. the other 20% is setting up the dining room, cleaning, toileting the 4 residents that need to be toileted at 1200 and 0300, and the occasional entertaining of a resident that cant sleep.