There’s a good chance you’re listening to this podcast at work…or on your way to or from work. If you saw any social media posts about this episode, you probably saw them during work hours, on breaks from tasks at hand. Most of us work a lot; it’s something we’ve talked about on Men in Gorilla Suits quite a bit in passing, but we’ve never dedicated an entire episode to working. That changes today…

We kick it all off by talking about the first job we ever had, and then we roll into the best job we’ve ever had. Of course, if we talk about the best job we’ve ever had, we really should talk about the worst job — and we do!

If you’ve watched the teaser for this week’s show, you know that at least Christopher has had a lot of different jobs. Shawn is no different. Neither of us are strangers to manual labor. We devote a little time to discussing what we’ve brought from construction and warehouse jobs over to our office gigs. After that, we share some good job interview stories.

A good manager or shop foreman can make even a not-so-great job better. We talk about what makes a good manager and whether or not we’ve ever worked for people fitting our descriptions of a good leader in the workplace.

Work enough, and you’re going to meet some people you’d probably never have met on your own. We spend some time talking about some of the more “interesting” people we’ve ever worked with and share some of our stranger on-the-job stories.

We spend one minute each in a lightning round, listing as many jobs as we have had in 60 seconds. (Christopher racks up over 30 in that minute. Check out this video for a sneak peek.):

Some people almost seem bred to complain about work. We devote a bit of time to why we think so many people complain about their jobs, and then we talk about our dream jobs…and why they are our dream jobs.

With many jobs being automated or shipped overseas, we discuss what we think is the future of jobs as we know them before wrapping it all up with the dreaded job interview question: “Where do you see yourself in five years?”

We’d love to know where you see yourself in five years — feel free to share your work stories in the comments.

Now…get back to work!

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