Name It. The Most Fun, Weird Job You Have Held?

[Gulfecho]

Working at a Clay Bird Target facility at 18 years old where shooters where competing for a $500 purse. My buddy and I were working the "pit", loading the clay birds. We popped the centers out of the clays and placed them on extreme edges of the thrower arm. They flew at extreme angles. We were just kids not understanding the implications mind you, just having fun.

Working as a Television Director at CBS in Phoenix, I told the anchor lady twice that the upcoming Newsbreak was live not taped. She got half way through it and said, FUDGE!! lets do it again in front of 1.5 million people!

Funny and good memories. Please share yours!

 

[Marshwheeling]

Driving a fork lift at a potato chip factory outside of Amsterdam.

 

[muddocktor]

One year I worked the beer truck at a fishing rodeo, selling beer. That was fun!!!!!!

 

[Truckin]

A KY bourbon distillery where taste testing was encouraged.

 

[MajorDude]

I worked one summer at a factory that made paint-by-number sets. My job was a "filler". We had to mix 5 gallon buckets with oil paint and hoist them on top of a 6 foot rack on wheels. They had hoses that were loose and would fling oil paint all over you. Had to wear white coveralls and worked under a steel roof outside. It was hard work and you were technicolor by the end of the day, but I remember it fondly! Also worked briefly as a porter in a Holiday Inn. Had to wear a bright red tuxedo and schlep luggage and room services all night for $2 an hour plus tips. Every young man should have that job!

 

[Bakebfr480]

Working in a gun shop/custom rifle shop!

 

[TTSH]

No truly fun jobs, but plenty of weird...

My first real job, more than half a century ago at age 15, was at an A&W Root Beer in Springfield, MA where... as the newest/youngest/novice employee... was assigned two main tasks that nobody else wanted: 1) Making fried clams and, 2) Making root beer by the vat down in the basement.

The latter wasn't so bad because the manager hardly ever came down to scream & yell at you... ... but the upstairs job (making those messy fried clams by hand) was pretty crazy. I got yelled at constantly by the manager for one reason or another. I didn't last very long in that first job, but it did teach me a good life lesson that making a buck wasn't necessarily going to be fun or easy... and a nasty boss was only going to make it much, much worse.

 

[steelslaver]

Bouncer at a Disco when the drinking age was 18 and I was 30. Not much money but lots of fringe benefits. Had a room down stairs right under the lights that lit up the dance floor.

 

[BigBoy99]

Spent a career with CIA being "Q". My job was to supply the field agents with the tools, gadgets, widgets they would need for their missions. See my avatar.

 

[ExRanger714]

Driving a Pepsi truck on my own route when I was 16

or

teaching law enforcement was almost as much fun as doing.

 

[two-bit cowboy]

During my second Air Force tour in Vegas I replied to a "job" ad in the Las Vegas Review Journal for a part-time clothing salesman. I had more than six years experience as a haberdasher, was single and needed some extra cash to fund my gun habit.

Turned out to be a shop called "Black and White." We sold only b&w pants and shirts to casino employees: dealers, pit bosses and waitresses. It was just the owner, his wife and me.

Sounds boring, but we must have had more than 100 different white-on-white shirts and blouses and scores of different black slacks, shorts and skirts. The gals -- especially the waitresses -- always wanted to know "how do I look?" Always fabulous!

 

[Protocall_Design]

My current job. Forty + years as a Tool & Die Maker. Making prototypes of new inventions, custom machining, building my own custom S&W revos. I have a complete machine shop at home with 2 CNC mills, lathe, surface grinder, torch, stick and tig welding, heat treat furnace, much more. I like old things, but coming up with something that's never been before is even better!

 

[joeintexas]

I always thought playing piano in a house of ill repute in Vegas would be a cool job! Spent 25 years in the broadcasting business and another 15 in retail management. Did get to Vegas twice though.

 

[wingriderz]

Working at motorcycle shop in highschool ( 70's) I got to rent the jet skis and wetbikes out in intercostal all sumer

 

[italiansport]

Doing the firearms and militaria appraisals on the now-defunct TV Program Arizona Collectibles. The program aired for 3 years in Phoenix, AZ and ran on the PB channel but was killed off by political correctness when ASU got involved. I was 'released' after the 2nd year because ASU couldn't abide with having those nasty Arizona related guns on the program. Even today I'm still hearing about this from viewers of the program.
Jim

 

[Robspeire]

Driving a 773B Cat off road dump truck .
&
Mating on a 42 foot Bertram which ran out of Montauk Long Island
the " Nora John"

 

[rbmac52]

I spent three and a half of my 27 years in law enforcement assigned as the resident deputy sheriff in the Lake Pillsbury region of the Mendocino National Forest in Lake County, California. Best time of my career!

 

[oneounceload]

Teaching first graders for a few years as a new career
Building the Atlanta subway while still in college (and have yet to ever go back and ride it)
Slinging drinks while in college; met a lot of nice girls that way......

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Way back, did some pipelining.
Worked for Houston Contracting up in Ohio.
Worked with a bunch of LA guys.
They seemed to be not taking their meds.
They don't have any meds?
That would explain that.
When you have Pipelined, you are entitltled to sing the song!

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDcHJmLIpFk&feature=share[/ame]

 

[pawngal]

Selling Black Diamond Watermelons out of the back of a semi at the county fair when I was 15. Lots of fun and hard work. Those 25-40 lb melons got to be heavy! Made $200 in 6 long days but that was a lot of $$$ for a teenager in the early 60s.