The best job I ever had was skippering a 50-meter triple expansion converted traweler around the Med from Kerkyra through the Peloopenessian Canal, down to Rhodes, back to Malta, etc. Great crew, stout ship, easy budget, no worries.

The hardest job I ever had was hard-rock mining by hand in deep quartz veins up on Mosquito Ridge outside of Placerville.

But the worst job I've ever had is systems engineering on a complex project that depends for its success on cooperation between different branches of the DoD. Talk about a rock and a hard place!

The funnest was getting paid to do wide-pattern search diving off the coast of California.

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