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Posted: 4/14/2012 10:17:57 PM EDT

Either you or someone you know.

There's a guy at my church whose company will remain unnamed here... he's an explosives engineer... he gets paid to figure out how to blow stuff up, then he goes into the field to do it! THAT is the coolest job in the world!

Posted: 4/14/2012 10:20:52 PM EDT

[#1]

I once billed a customer for time spent fetching parts... riding my motorcycle.

Posted: 4/14/2012 10:21:10 PM EDT

[#2]

My wife's dad was an AF PJ in the 80s until his death doing what he loved (HALO mobile training team).

Posted: 4/14/2012 10:21:33 PM EDT

[#3]

Anthony Bourdain has a pretty cool job.

I would probably say a professional athlete though. Make eight figures, work four months a year... playing a game.

Posted: 4/14/2012 10:23:43 PM EDT

[#4]

Define "coolest".

Posted: 4/14/2012 10:24:33 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:

Define "coolest".

"awesomest"

Posted: 4/14/2012 10:25:41 PM EDT

[#6]

Messed up world when someone can make $25mil a year and not make this list.

Posted: 4/14/2012 10:51:23 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
Define "coolest".

The most fun, while making a great salary. The kind of stuff the rest of us would pay to do.

Testing new products from, say, Magpul, Colt, DPMS, and Tannerite would be a great example.

Posted: 4/14/2012 10:55:40 PM EDT

[#8]

Not me, but I work with Pararescuemen and airiel gunners. They actually get paid (nicely, too might I add) to sit on one of othe most badass choppers ever built and shoot shit with a full auto 50 cal, or a dillon minigun at 100 RPS. I'd kill for that chance.....

Posted: 4/14/2012 10:56:40 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Define "coolest".

The most fun, while making a great salary. The kind of stuff the rest of us would pay to do.

Testing new products from, say, Magpul, Colt, DPMS, and Tannerite would be a great example.

being an astronaut, or fighter pilot

Posted: 4/14/2012 10:56:56 PM EDT

[#10]

I'd give up damn near anything to be an astronaut.

Posted: 4/14/2012 10:59:28 PM EDT

[#11]

Id say eating and playing with food while getting paid is pretty fun. Going to work and having to taste test wagyu can be such hard work

. Now if I could only combine my love of food and guns.....gun range restaurant.......

Posted: 4/14/2012 11:00:21 PM EDT

[#12]

Tom Brady.

Starting QB, Super Bowl rings, supermodel wife.

That fucker has the life.

Posted: 4/14/2012 11:01:28 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:

I'd give up damn near anything to be an astronaut.

same here

like all folks say as they get older

"If I only knew then what I know now"

it's a shame that I will probably never go to space

Posted: 4/14/2012 11:01:49 PM EDT

[#14]

clarkson

There are jobs I would much rather want to do, since I could care less about tv or broadcasting, but they all involve a large degree of real work. I would do anything to fly f-22's for aliving like what others ahve said, but almost no one on the planet has the awesomeness : lack of 'acutal work' style of work than clarkson.

Posted: 4/14/2012 11:04:53 PM EDT

[#15]

Tom Knapp

Posted: 4/14/2012 11:08:35 PM EDT

[#16]

I've been employed in cryogenics. Including liquid helium. I would say that is about as cold as you can get here on Earth

.

No, not that silly brain/body freezing cryonics bullshit. But actual USEFUL stuff. You know all those MRIs in the medical field? Cooled by liquid helium. Surrounded by super insulation which is then surrounded by liquid nitrogen. And more super insulation. Layers of aluminized Mylar, aluminized vermiculite and existing in a deep vacuum of 10^-8Torr. All fully annealed 18-8 stainless steel.

4.2 Kelvin. -452.11 F. Ice, ice baby.

Posted: 4/14/2012 11:09:22 PM EDT

[#17]

I do!!! IT, and I support facilities in the middle of the AZ desert and mountains.. Its pretty awesome.

Posted: 4/14/2012 11:09:53 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
Anthony Bourdain has a pretty cool job.

.

I opened this thread to say just that.

Posted: 4/14/2012 11:12:04 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
clarkson

There are jobs I would much rather want to do, since I could care less about tv or broadcasting, but they all involve a large degree of real work. I would do anything to fly f-22's for aliving like what others ahve said, but almost no one on the planet has the awesomeness : lack of 'acutal work' style of work than clarkson.

Came to say all three. Between them all, they have done more of the coolist shit than I can imagine.

Posted: 4/14/2012 11:16:54 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:

Quoted:
clarkson

There are jobs I would much rather want to do, since I could care less about tv or broadcasting, but they all involve a large degree of real work. I would do anything to fly f-22's for aliving like what others ahve said, but almost no one on the planet has the awesomeness : lack of 'acutal work' style of work than clarkson.

Came to say all three. Between them all, they have done more of the coolist shit than I can imagine.

Gotta go with this. Although Hugh Heffner has had a pretty sweet gig since what the late 50's/early 60's?

Posted: 4/14/2012 11:17:17 PM EDT

[#21]

Completely subjective. For me it would be flying fighters.

But some people would hate that.

Posted: 4/14/2012 11:19:56 PM EDT

[#22]

... mine

Posted: 4/14/2012 11:22:06 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
... mine

Whatever...A close second to mine I might say!

Posted: 4/14/2012 11:24:27 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:

Quoted:

... mine

Whatever...A close second to mine I might say!

... you might

Posted: 4/14/2012 11:26:09 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:

Quoted:
... mine

Whatever...A close second to mine I might say!

... you might

I envy some of the hardware you get to touch man!!!

Posted: 4/14/2012 11:28:31 PM EDT

[#26]

Not me or anyone I know.

Is there such a thing as a "cool' job?

Yea, didn't think so.

Posted: 4/14/2012 11:32:28 PM EDT

[#27]

I put big bullets in big guns and shoot them from the side of a plane at bad guys. I thoroughly enjoy it.

Posted: 4/14/2012 11:33:49 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
I put big bullets in big guns and shoot them from the side of a plane at bad guys. I thoroughly enjoy it.

Heck yeah!!!

Posted: 4/14/2012 11:35:03 PM EDT

[#29]

"A" list actor. Get paid mega millions to play make believe. People make their living by fawning over you. No matter what you look like, hot women will sleep with you. Your words can affect political change, and you don't even have to hold office. Even though you are wealthy, you rarely have to pay for clothes, cars, meals, hotels.

Posted: 4/14/2012 11:46:17 PM EDT

[#30]

I have a friend that gets paid to do what, under any other circumstance, would be illegal.

Posted: 4/14/2012 11:49:11 PM EDT

[#31]

When I was growing up, my dad had the coolest job. He flew F-4s as a part time fighter weapons instructor for the Kansas air guard.

I would ask him about his day, he'd say, "we did some dog fighting, then dropped some bombs, and did some areobatics the way back to the base."

One day he was particularly proud, he managed to do a hammerhead stall in an F-4! He said it was tricky with a fighter because of the balance. It was hard to tell what way it would drop, sometimes over on it's back, sometimes it would nose over. He said the trick was to stomp on the rudder as the plane was loosing airspeed.

I have trouble imagining a cooler job than that.

Posted: 4/14/2012 11:49:12 PM EDT

[#32]

pron stars

Posted: 4/14/2012 11:56:51 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
Anthony Bourdain has a pretty cool job.

I would probably say a professional athlete though. Make eight figures, work four months a year... playing a game.

They practice a lot though.

Posted: 4/14/2012 11:57:57 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:
I've been employed in cryogenics. Including liquid helium. I would say that is about as cold as you can get here on Earth

.

No, not that silly brain/body freezing cryonics bullshit. But actual USEFUL stuff. You know all those MRIs in the medical field? Cooled by liquid helium. Surrounded by super insulation which is then surrounded by liquid nitrogen. And more super insulation. Layers of aluminized Mylar, aluminized vermiculite and existing in a deep vacuum of 10^-8Torr. All fully annealed 18-8 stainless steel.

4.2 Kelvin. -452.11 F. Ice, ice baby.

Thanks to my chem class I finally get to understand a bit of what you are talking about.

Posted: 4/15/2012 12:04:15 AM EDT

[#35]

Mine...I help build wings for a large aerospace company

Posted: 4/15/2012 12:07:06 AM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
Mine...I help build wings for a large aerospace company

flying is soooo underrated!

Posted: 4/15/2012 12:17:16 AM EDT

[#37]

Fighter pilot.

Posted: 4/15/2012 12:19:02 AM EDT

[#38]

Posted: 4/15/2012 12:20:03 AM EDT

[#39]

It started when My son enlisted it the Marines and it went on for the 10 years he was in the Marine Corp. I would get a call out of the blue and hear. " Hey Dad guess what I just shot ? You should have been here. It was a Blast."

Posted: 4/15/2012 12:20:48 AM EDT

[#40]

I got paid to ride around in submarines –– they even fed me!

Posted: 4/15/2012 12:23:27 AM EDT

[#41]

Bikini waxer.

Posted: 4/15/2012 12:34:28 AM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:

I have a friend that gets paid to do what, under any other circumstance, would be illegal.

Lots of people get paid to kill other people. They go to war. I hear it's not so great.

Posted: 4/15/2012 12:40:08 AM EDT

[#43]

I had a damned good job as a forest ranger supervisor in Cambodia. except for the snakes, mosquitoes, corrupt officials, and UXO, of course.
Save elephants, capture poachers and drug dealers, and see things and go places VERY few human ever have. Take a bath at the top of a 100' waterfall one minute, chase after illegal loggers and corrupt soldiers another. Good times. Pay sucked, as did the living conditions, but it was worth it. I miss my guys. The honest ones, anyway.

Posted: 4/15/2012 12:45:45 AM EDT

[#44]

Astronauts, fighter pilots and billionaires.

Posted: 4/15/2012 1:01:24 AM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I have a friend that gets paid to do what, under any other circumstance, would be illegal.

Lots of people get paid to kill other people. They go to war. I hear it's not so great.

Actually he does security pen testing for a major defense contractor.

Posted: 4/15/2012 1:18:39 AM EDT

[#46]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I have a friend that gets paid to do what, under any other circumstance, would be illegal.

Lots of people get paid to kill other people. They go to war. I hear it's not so great.

Actually he does security pen testing for a major defense contractor.

Now THAT is something I'd like to get into!

Posted: 4/15/2012 1:30:26 AM EDT

[#47]

I work with 18-21 year old half naked girls every day... I'm not complaining...

Posted: 4/15/2012 3:48:12 AM EDT

[#48]

Well I used to fly on the back of a PAVELOW and shoot at shit while taking special people to special places. That was officially the coolest job in the world.

Now I sit around all day and make machine guns of various types.