Proper way to have an endless worker thread?

Question

I have an object that requires a lot of initialization (1-2 seconds on a beefy machine). Though once it is initialized it only takes about 20 miliseconds to do a typical \"job\"

Answer 1

If you don't really need to have the thread exit (and just want it to keep from keeping your application running) you can set Thread.IsBackground to true and it will end when all non background threads end. Will and Marc both have good solutions for handling the queue.