Color me envious. I always wanted to do that.
Name It. The Most Fun, Weird Job You Have Held?
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Color me envious. I always wanted to do that.
Targets Guy
US Veteran
De-tasseling corn, baling hay. Best jobs ever. Especially with a co-ed crew.
As an Exec Chef with going on 30 years of kitchen time, I could tell you weird and fun kitchen stories that would make you laugh, cry, puke, or strike you clean speechless. I could also get myself tossed off of here in very short order. Unfortunately only half the experience is "fun and weird", the other half is horrific and nightmarish. Oh well.
While working in law enforcement I worked an off duty extra job in plain clothes as a pall bearer. The family was feuding about the will and those in power hired 6 LEOs in case of a problem.
Very uneventful day.
Very uneventful day.
I once worked at the Trex composite decking factory and I ran the machine that put fake wood grain on the boards.
There's farms out where we live and occasionally we'd get plastic agricultural bags and they'd need to be cut down into pieces that'd feed through the machines better. Usually they'd be moist and covered with filth and by the time they were cut up, we were all covered with filth too.
One time we were cutting bags up until quitting time. I knocked the big chunks of filth off and headed to the parking lot.
"Hey Wayne, you're filthy," the guys said. "It's okay, I drove my wife's car," I replied.
There's farms out where we live and occasionally we'd get plastic agricultural bags and they'd need to be cut down into pieces that'd feed through the machines better. Usually they'd be moist and covered with filth and by the time they were cut up, we were all covered with filth too.
One time we were cutting bags up until quitting time. I knocked the big chunks of filth off and headed to the parking lot.
"Hey Wayne, you're filthy," the guys said. "It's okay, I drove my wife's car," I replied.
Amp
Member
Life Guard
or
Bakery cleaner
both were fun...
or
Bakery cleaner
both were fun...
Private Investigator ---- The cases of the "preacher's wife"...the "topless bar owner" .... and the power company "copper theft ring" .
Pet shop clerk ---- Accidentally sold a kid a DEAD turtle.
Water meter reader --- Summer job with a pith helmet --!$!&%!$ DOGS!!
Ambulance service --- Just ..... YIKES !!
Armored truck driver/courier --- Carrying $400,000 in cash in a big bag with one hand and my other hand on my S&W M67 ... wishing it was a M66 !!
Photo lab manager....Lots of VERY interesting pictures !!
Managing Roadway Express city P&D Teamster drivers in Baltimore when I was only 25 (early 1970's)
Crafting elk stag grips at home ----- What a RELIEF !!!
Pet shop clerk ---- Accidentally sold a kid a DEAD turtle.
Water meter reader --- Summer job with a pith helmet --!$!&%!$ DOGS!!
Ambulance service --- Just ..... YIKES !!
Armored truck driver/courier --- Carrying $400,000 in cash in a big bag with one hand and my other hand on my S&W M67 ... wishing it was a M66 !!
Photo lab manager....Lots of VERY interesting pictures !!
Managing Roadway Express city P&D Teamster drivers in Baltimore when I was only 25 (early 1970's)
Crafting elk stag grips at home ----- What a RELIEF !!!
nachogrande
Member
A 1 TIME GIG
NOT in it for the money, I "worked" as a waterboy at a wet T-shirt contest for tips.
NOT in it for the money, I "worked" as a waterboy at a wet T-shirt contest for tips.
I did that too!
BearBio
Member
Did that for 25 years before I went back to college. Can't say it was fun but it had its moments. I collected death certificates (weird ones=lots of those in L.A.!), rose up to Title Operations Manager and Chief Title Officer for Orange and Los Angeles Counties==better life as a biologist in the PNW. Don't regret changing!
Huskerguy
Member
stacked hay through high school - $1.00 and hour and got a raise to $1.50 and we thought we were rich.
Later worked on construction where we worked up the ground around new highways and then planted them with native grasses. Drove Ford 4000 tractors on some very steep slopes, never rolled one but it was scary work.
One winter when the construction was closed down I worked for Jostens American Yearbook and it is very likely if you were in school in 1973 I saw your yearbook.
Later worked on construction where we worked up the ground around new highways and then planted them with native grasses. Drove Ford 4000 tractors on some very steep slopes, never rolled one but it was scary work.
One winter when the construction was closed down I worked for Jostens American Yearbook and it is very likely if you were in school in 1973 I saw your yearbook.
Protocall_Design
Vendor
I graduated Rose Hill High in Kansas in 1973. Remember me?
Driving a Pepsi delivery truck in downtown Denver was my one my worst jobs........turned into one of my favorite jobs when I got a transfer to a route in the mountains. Beautiful scenery and all for the outdoors you could ask for. And a lot of beautiful women at the ski areas I delivered to. 
When I was 15 I worked for a farmer.....$3.00 a day and dinner(lunch to you city guys). He picked me up at sunrise and brought me home at sundown. Drove a tractor. Painted his house. Stacked hay among other chores.
Mitch_D
Member
I drove a cab at 19, from 11pm to 7am. It was a real education in humanity - both the good, and the bad.
My current job:
"Please don't tell my mother that I'm a gun dealer. She thinks I play piano in a w**** house."
My current job:
"Please don't tell my mother that I'm a gun dealer. She thinks I play piano in a w**** house."
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That second one is good work if you can get it. You got paid for that? Heck, I'd do it without the boat. It could be a fleabag motel or the back seat of a Chevy.
beaverislander
US Veteran
16 y/o lifeguard... lot's of perks.
DWalt
Member
Closing failed banks and S&Ls throughout much of the 1980s. I was a closing manager with FDIC's Liquidation Division, and I closed many of them, in addition to performing other property management duties such as selling off repossessed personal property collateral at auction. You name it, I sold it, and millions of dollars worth. Being a petroleum engineer, I also handled FDIC's interests in many collateralized oil and gas producing properties, and I supervised a staff that evaluated and sold those off also.
One of my most interesting jobs was back in my high school days. I worked in a commercial photo-processing lab and did all of the chemical mixing and equipment maintenance and cleaning. I doubt that many, if any, such facilities like that still exist.
One of my most interesting jobs was back in my high school days. I worked in a commercial photo-processing lab and did all of the chemical mixing and equipment maintenance and cleaning. I doubt that many, if any, such facilities like that still exist.
