Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Ivory Tower, USA
Posts: 1494

Your Oddest Job

Malka's convinced that our house has fleas, courtesy of our recent guest Franco-American. I still think she's nuts, but the carpet cleaners should be arriving any time now....

Meanwhile, Wonder's various nefarious jobs--Euthanasia Technician, Exotic Animal Wholesaler, etc, --make me question what some of your odd jobs have been.

I'll go first.... I've been a musician/raconteur on a tourist canal boat pulled by mules, pizza delivery guy (recounted here previously), and most famously, a maker of ice cream for an upscale parlor.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Delaware
Posts: 5714

First thing that comes to mind...I was a mushroom packer in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania (for a very short time)

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: GA
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i worked night shift in a mental hospital.


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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Essex, England
Posts: 4523

turkey dressing - thats gutting and tying up - nothing kinky

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quote:

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Originally posted by Princess_Chelle:
i worked night shift in a mental hospital.

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I once worked in a burger bar at a music festival. It put me off eating festival food for life. DON'T EAT IT PEOPLE!

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Originally posted by Spooky:
I once worked in a burger bar at a music festival. It put me off eating festival food for life. DON'T EAT IT PEOPLE!

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but I love corn-dogs

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: baton rouge, la
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i'm getting a job and a toy store in the mall today. pity me, but also envy me for getting to play with toys all day.

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Registered: Nov 2000
Location: Burleson, Texas
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quote:

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Originally posted by Joeycat:
First thing that comes to mind...I was a mushroom packer in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania (for a very short time)

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When I was 12 I had a job wrapping mints for a fancy hotel to go on rich people's pillows.

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Originally posted by HELL:
I think that’s sounds like fun.
Working there I mean. I was put in lock down when I was 16, they put me on the psycho floor.
It is interesting to listen to someone considered out of their mind discuss life.
I am under the impression that crazy people tend to be geniuses.
I wish I would have stayed there for longer than 4 days, and I wish that fat chick wouldnt have started that "riot" on the third day when they brought out snack time.
I was watching from the TV room, everyone else got strapped down. That didnt look very fun.

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: the heart of an awl
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Originally posted by IBeFree:
I don't know about packing them ... but I love Mushrooms ... and how they grow them is cool too....

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: GA
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quote:

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Originally posted by HELL:
I think that’s sounds like fun.
Working there I mean. I was put in lock down when I was 16, they put me on the psycho floor.
It is interesting to listen to someone considered out of their mind discuss life.
I am under the impression that crazy people tend to be geniuses.
I wish I would have stayed there for longer than 4 days, and I wish that fat chick wouldnt have started that "riot" on the third day when they brought out snack time.
I was watching from the TV room, everyone else got strapped down. That didnt look very fun.

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it was a very interesting place to work at.

later on i became a therapist at a residential treatment facility for people with drug and alcohol addictions. i liked the mental patients much more than the addicts.



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Registered: Jan 2001
Location: New Jersey. USA
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Working as a typist. Some people would have you type up very interesting things. I'll have to dig them out, and post them at some point.

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Registered: Sep 2000
Location: atlanta
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I get paid to undress for the japanese business men. I get paid to dance in front on the stage and then i throw off the clothing at japanese business men and they spit on me for money and i dance I LOVE to dance.
TECHNO BUMP BUMP PA TA CHA CHA BUMP BUMP CHA TA TA BUMP


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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Nanaimo BC, Canada
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Once, for a summer, I ran a small puppet show.

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Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Helsinki. Finland
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A couple of years ago a friend who was in the boy scouts recruited me to work as Santa Claus for one Christmas, because the scouts had a shortage of Santa Clauses of their own. I had a pretty tight schedule, I had something like 7 places to go to that evening. In one place my fake beard accidentally got off, which was really embarrassing. In the beginning of the evening I was really nervous, but I got rid of it eventually. In the last place I even got some extra money!

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Sydney
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Originally posted by Avondale:
I get paid to undress for the japanese business men.

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