Dear Jack:

my best job was in a hotel in Tel Aviv, Israel during a hot, humid summer. It was air conditioned inside and you could see the Mediterranean from the chilled air and elegance of the hotel inside, a five star hotel. I was a waitress but easy, serving coffee or tea and cake and having some myself, all so easy and low stress. Key for me was low stress and AC-ed.

anita

These days i’m wondering about that often.
Since i don’t have a degree in anything, i’m quite likeable to have low-schooled jobs.
In my own country i worked in a library for 2 years, that was probably the nicest work, interation with people, working with books, a bit of variation in physical and more mental work. But we had difficulties with the boss, quite negative, if we made a tiny mistake, she often managed to see it and to come and give out to us about it – never mentioning all the good work we did, and often barely spoke to us. I’ve seen quite a few people leaving and being unhappy because of her.

But i think that my nicest job is my current one. Now i’m living abroad and i’m working in a 2 star hotel. Funny place, many things not organised and it is still often a mystery to me, which person i should go to, to have the best chance to get anything ordered if i need new work material. I work as a cleaner, so not the most stimulating work.
But i’ve never encountered so much kindness and helpfulness in a job, from everybody there, the owners and the colleagues. The chefs always ask if i want to eat, if they have time to cook, the bosses arrange for somebody to help me if they see that i’m not too fast, instead of giving out. They have let me do new tasks that i didn’t do before and that i was always told from home that i wouldn’t be able to (waitressing), and which they are letting me know that i’m doing it good. Really amazing for me to be in that place. I feel this place is helping me to grow and to be a bit more relaxed and confident at work, to see myself as a normal person next to colleagues and superiors. I sometimes wish i was brave enough to tell them how happy i am to work there.

Oh libraries. I love them.

Israel huh? How did you end or start up there? It’s far from Romania and Morocco.

Best job…. probably the one I’m in just for the people.

Otherwise we started work at 8 years old as berry, daffodil and potato pickers for the local farm. Don’t come home til you’ve earned your age in money

Wow. What a history to be borne from.

My best job I’ve ever had was my student job in college. It was working at the college in one of the offices for one of the faculty departments. I loved it because the professors and other admin staff were all nice and helpful and really cared about students. I loved working there not because the pay was great, it was minimum wage, but it was the people I remember. Just a great bunch of people to work with and if you had any issues with anything they encouraged you to bring it up and then they tried to help. I worked at that job for about 2 years then I graduated and had to give it up. I do miss it and the people even though it was years and years ago. It started me on my path to what I loved doing at the time, working as an admin assistant. Though now I loath working where to do now, I still am glad for the experience of the past even though it’s time to move onto a different field now.