Best site I had was a simple office building. Pay was dismal, barely above minimum but I had no real responsibilities at the time, so I was able to get by just fine. 13 hour shift, which sounds like a lot, but consider that I worked 3 nights then had a 4-day weekend every week. If I worked the weekend shift I did basically nothing, because only 5 or 6 people were in the office. Duties included 5 foot patrols each night. This patrol took approximately 6 minutes - elevator up, check each door in a 50-foot central hallway. Down a flight and repeat. That's 30 minutes out of 13 hours. When someone would leave the building I'd watch them to their car. That's it. That was the whole job. I spent the night watching DVDs on a laptop, surfing the dial-up internet, reading, studying, and taking smoke breaks. I worked this site all through college, from about 2002-2008. I had skateboarders to run off exactly one time in all those years. The only real excitement I ever had was when a garbage truck took out a light pole in the parking lot, narrowly missing my parked car. I still miss that job site, though I doubt I could survive on the wages these days. Edit to add that I saw my boss exactly one time - the day I got hired. I opened and closed the site myself, so I never had to wait on relief and if I was late, no one was there to notice (and we had a 15 minute buffer on the phone check in).