CONFESS!!!!!! What's the craziest job you ever had

[LynneSin]

We've all probably had a few bizarre jobs listed (or well hidden) in our resume. Jobs I have done include working for a Dating Service (I had to help match up folks who paid us fees to find them dates) and working as a weight loss counsellor.

What's the most bizarre job you've ever had?

Edit Note: For a week I helped put circulars inside of a local newspaper. That had to be the WORST job ever because you got newspaper ink all over you and I hate newspaper ink. I did it twice and never showed up again, I don't care how well they paid you!

[XNASA]

1. The craziest job I ever had was...........

Professional Musician. It got pretty kookie sometimes. Especially on tour.

The worst job was: I worked for a MIG welder manufacturerer for 3 months during the summer of '93. The Freeptard owner of the place used to call us in for meetings at 6AM and bitch and moan and complain about the Clinton's...then adjourn the meeting. He would also make salaried personel work after hours on the assembly line. Since we were salaried, he avoided paying anyone OT.

I'd like to pay that bastard a visit now.

[underpants]

2. Clean up crew after a Hampton Dead show

I was working as a manual labor temp (geez those were some bad times) and I had gone to the Saturday show. They said I could work on Sunday night starting at 2 AM. After I didn't find anything in the seats they said we should head for the bathrooms to clean up, I quit on the spot.

Joined the Army a couple of months after that.

[SaveElmer]

3. Elevator Operator in the Capitol

Boring as heck most of the time, but got to meet alot of famous people!

[sus]

4. I used to pack soft crabs and I was a deckhand on a ferryboat. oh and i

was a disc jockey.

[Champ]

5. Hopefully this one I just got scheduled for an interview for

:D

[tsakshaug]

6. Chair lift operator

During the summer.

I too was a Radio DJ

[bleedingheart]

7. Had more boring jobs than crazy...but I did once work for the IRS

which was interesting...

While working for them one summer I recall a woman who decided to erase the name of the Internal Revenue Service on a check and cash it in her own name...she was escorted out by federal officers.

I also saw the tax returns of some famous people....when you see that some people can afford to make $300,000 quarterly payments you realize that there are great gaps between us and the rich.

[cally]

8. Rat Patrol in Boston

I toured neighborhoods and outside people's homes looking for signs of rats. :eyes: This was 22 years ago. I saw my old boss on TV a few months ago discussing rats and how to get rid of them. I guess he kept the job.

[mitchum]

9. Pretending to be employed in a machine shop...

in order to impress a group of prospective buyers with all of the activity and "orders"

others:

catalog model (I specialized in youthful dads and Eurotrash. Go figure...)

playing steel guitar in a C&W band fronted by a female impersonator

careless worker in numerous industrial safety films

[sniffa]

10. shoe saLesman

you think that wouLd be my dream job, but it was miserabLe.

garbageman - fun, gross.

Lab technician - washed gLass ware, and heLped with an ongoing drinking water study.

RGIS (inventory) - middLe of the night job counting inventory for stores.

grave digger - not bad.

pLayground construction - best shape i've ever been in. worked Like 60 dogs for Low pay.

actor - 1 summer got a job to act in a pLay. possibLy the best job ever.

university security - sat at a desk signing peopLe into dorms.

worked at a corner drug store - crappy. made mucho $$ there though. aLso, it was a few bLocks from governor weLd's house, so he was a frequent customer. he aLso was deLinquent on his store credit Line.

and a bunch of shit jobs, and a few jobs pertaining to my major - civiL engineering, environmentaL engineering, and surveying.

[TheBlob]

11. Tape duplication for an Adult film company

Only worked there for a few months, but they were by FAR some of the most MISERABLE people I've ever met.

The day I quit they offered me a job as an actor in a movie - all expenses paid, for a shoot on a Caribbean island.

I turned them down flat. When they asked "why" I told them "because my girlfriend wouldn't like it."

The response was "but with all that cash you can buy her a nice ring"

!!!

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. squirrel toquer for the parks service

[Commendatori]

13. Bouncer in a gay bar (I'm straight)

It was the only job I could find on short notice.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

14. In graduate school, worked at a video arcade...

...called Spaceport, and true to the Spaceport theme, I had to wear this ridiculous blue "jumpsuit" with an American Flag patch and some other bogus insignia on it. My fellow grad students like to come by just to harrass me.

On the plus side -- free tokens!!

[Guy_Montag]

15. I spent 18 months in deepest, darkest

Antarctica. 3 months daylight, 3 months darkness & only 16 other people there for 10 months weird.

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. Lucky you!!

I've wanted to work in Antarctica since I was in high school. Would love to be down there in the cold and snow and sunless months.

Sigh.

maybe some day.

[Dogmudgeon]

30. Y'know, there's an Antarctic tourist office now

Do some Google searching, I'm sure it's only a link away!

--bkl

[XNASA]

22. Did you meet any people from NASA while you were there?

I'm assuming that you spent time at McMurdo. I have a good friend who has spent a lot of time down there in the past 10 years, looking for meteorites.

[Guy_Montag]

25. Nope

I worked at Halley Research Station, it's on the opposite side. A British base, don't you know. I would have loved to have got to the pole, but I didn't get further than 84deg south. Dammit!

[Wcross]

16. At an auto seat supplier

During a period of dismal employment (the Last Bush period) I was working for a temp agency. I needed three more weeks of "service" to get a one week vacation check. The job was sticking small metal tubes into bigger ones. Stoop over, pick up a handful of tubes- insert into bigger tubes. Repeat for 10 hours a night. Yes, it was the night shift from 5pm to 3am. Oh, it was in Tennessee in the summertime with no air conditioning. The machinery would heat up the building to 100 degrees. I did my three weeks and told them I was leaving- they were astonished- They said I could be hired full time for 7.50 an hour! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

[Samurai_Writer]

18. Wierdest job....

Professional musician. But also the most fun.

Worst job -- my first job at age 15. Worked at a nursing home, had to feed people who couldn't feed themselves, run the antiquated dish washer in the kitchen and on weekends, as a bonus, got to clean out the restrooms -- ALL the restrooms. I don't think they were cleaned more than once a week. The home was later investigated for violating child labor laws (gee, ya think?!?).

Best job -- my current job, being a BBW model. It's only part time now, but I am hoping I can go to full time within the next year or so. I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMille!

I've also had the following jobs: amusement park employee, professional chef, bartender, cocktail waitress, sound technician, computer tech support, training, technical writing, network administration, and IT manager.

[tsakshaug]

19. Nursing home smell

old people and stale urine.
Worked in one during high school as a Physical Therapy aid (bending old people)

[Beaker]

20. Marionetteer, Costume Character, Zamboni Driver, Store Detective, Repo man

are probably some of the more interesting ones-

the Costume Character(I wore a big Beaver costume) and Zamboni Driver were both part of my 3 year stint at Santa's Village in high school...
Store Detective was for several stores, of two very different chains- Zayre & Marshall Field's. During my time at a Marshall Field's at a mall in West Dundee(IL), we had a visit by on-the-run serial killer Christopher Wilder.
Marionetteer(sp?) was for the Cole Marionettes, and our two-person troupe toured schools and the like doing The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Repo Man was one of my duties as a Collector for the 1st National Bank of Elgin.

other, less interesting jobs-
McDonald's
landscaper
non-union ironworker/carpenter
union concrete labourer on high-rises in Chicago
WaitCaptain at a private country club
Travel Agent

[Padraig18]

21. Working in a funeral home in high school.

I worked there for 3 years.

[NJCher]

23. researcher to confessions writers

A male/female team and they turned out stories to pulp mags like True Confessions. They liked me to find unusual diseases with which their protagonist could be stricken.

Sometimes I would come back from coffee break or the library and find them reading their stories to each other and they would be choking back the tears.

In addition to the researcher duties, I was responsible for a system of sending out the stories to the magazine editors. This was truly a mass marketing system. Some days we would send out as many as 100 stories. The market has shrunk considerably since that time and that wouldn't be possible today.


Cher

[Beware the Beast Man]

24. I dipped wicker craft brooms in cinnamon oil

For 8 hours a day...did it for three days until my old place of employment called me back. I did thisd right after I got out of high school. I'd come home smelling like a big cinnamon stick. By the way don't get it into your eyes!

[SarahB]

26. Teaching Gymboree classes

:crazy:

[Dogmudgeon]

27. Nude model for art students

Back in the days when $6 an hour was really worth something.

They liked me because I was the only overweight model they had ever seen -- and I wasn't that overweight at that point. So the art departments kept me working 20-30 hours per week, while the Adonis and Venus models would work once or twice, maybe 6 hours, a week.

I liked the work.

After that, I went into the insurance business. Bad move.

--bkl

[Nikia]

28. Prepatent research lab assistant

I cannot tell you what I did. I signed a legally binding contract saying that I would not so telling you about it on a public message board could get me sued. It was for a consumer products company. Let's just say that they research some rather interesting things when developing new products.

[PAMod]

29. A friend of mine (not me, I swear) assembled sex toys while in college.

His (not mine, I swear) favorite was putting chin-straps on dildoes. Not something you can put on a resume.

My strangest job experience was taking employee ID photos for a chicken processing plant.

[Lou_C]

31. Richard Simmons Exercise Instructor

I also use to be a Jenny Craig Weight Loss Counselor.

[Lars39]

32. Painting curbs yellow in college.

The summer it got 105 in the shade. In TN.

[TrogL]

33. Organist in a country and western band

I don't know what I was thinking.

The only white guy in a reggae band was pretty wierd.