Unusual Jobs...
 

What are some of the most unusual jobs you've ever had?

Mine has to be the tour guide at Natural Bridge Caverns. I can still remember the spiel, "I'll be your guide for the next hour to an hour and fifteen minutes." What we'll do for the dollars in college. I also did pharmaceutical research. Only did it once, but got paid 500 smacks to let them pump me full of a narcotic pain killer for two days. I kind of enjoied it. Had the munchies something terreble after, and it was like being in rehab (all sealed up, not a thing to do but play pool and read, and you coulkdn't leave and had to let someone watch you pee) Oh and I Lost my sense of smell for a few days, but hey, it came back. I never did it again, it was way too Steven King's "Firestarter" for me.

I was once a mascot for "giant tiger" at an exhibition. I was in this big inflatable tiger suit for two weeks in the summer...it was so hot in there, but a great way to pick up chicks.
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Through my work-study job, i ended up working the scoreboard and doing announcing for the women's hockey team out here - which is a club team. not only was the hockey not necessarily top-tier on either side, it was almost impossible to keep up w/ announcing and working the board - so basically i was making $17 an hour to get bitched out for not being able to keep up. only took about 4 games before i couldn't take it any more!

Not sure if this unusual or not but one time I was given this receptionist job at a temp agency in the D.C. Metro Area. Well, it was at a high level property management firm if I remember correctly. Anyways they had me man this phone that had 16 different lines plus doing all this "multi-tasking" stuff. I was new to temping and they just threw me into the fire. They gave me a book basically to show me the ropes and they said there was no lunch break. That lasted 4 hours after I was blue in the face.

I'm probably the king of unusual jobs but I cant top that tiger mascot though *LOL*. I worked at a maximum security juvenile prison in Virginia. Definitely saw a different side to Virginia that I had never seen before. Plus I worked at a group home for a long time in California with troubled kids with all kinds of mental disorders.

Kevin.

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I washed out semi trucks for about 3 weeks for extra cash for spring break (it was gross). I got fired for driving the back wheel of one of the semi's over my bosses little pickup truck CRUNCH! I guess I should've told him that I didn't know how to 1. drive a manual
2. drive anything larger than a nissan


I used to work for a prescription company... they had me chasing down these colored bins (blue, red, yellow, black) with numbers... they were people'e missing narcotics! I hated that job... spending 8 hours working on a list walking through this huge warehouse.. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/frown.gif

Interesting thread. I guess my most unusual jobs are a tossup between being a Santa's Elf at a department store and being a Hootergirl. For sure, both involved wearing an odd uniform and being nice to demanding "kids"!


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I never had this job, but I interviewed for a warehouse/marketing job. Turns out, it was a job where you went from buisiness to buisiness, store to store soliciting goods. Needless to say I did not go back for a second interview. The wierdest job I have had is working in the camus mailroom. It is easy work and the people are nice, but it is a very unusual job.

It's not unusual, but it suck - I was the fries and burger guy in McDonald.

Good topic so I thought that I would bump it up to get some other peoples answers.

Hmm. I worked for a toy store that specialized in high-end and educational type toys. We had a big anniversary sale/party and I had to trot outside to the parking lot in the middle of July wearing a full Madeleine costume. That sh*t was unbearably hot. When I wasn't Madeleine I was on top of the giant inflatable slide making sure no one broke his neck. Every half hour I'd have to pause the slide traffic to hop down the slide w/ baby powder to keep things moving. I came home hot, sweaty, sunburned and covered in baby powder.

Haha wow you guys have had some crazy jobs, lol. I guess the wierdest thing I ever did was get paid to sit and smoke for like some many hours a day for a couple of weeks. It was some study on smokers habits, and it was pretty pointless. However I did get paid and I got free packs of any kind of cigarettes that I wanted....sooo, when I was a freshman and I smoked, this was a good deal. I don't smoke anymore and I'm not that desperate for money anymore so that'd probably never happen anymore. :)

One thing that it seems like all the guys around here do is join these weird experiments where they get paid a couple hundred bucks to have drugs tested out on them or something. I know a bunch of LXA's who did it this summer and they were cool with the money but pissed b/c they couldn't drink any alcohol. Hah. :)

Disc Jockey at the college town's only commercial radio station. 1967 "Summer of Love" rock and roll.

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i knew a guy who was paid to dress up as a vulcan (of start trek spock fame) at Paramounts Kings Island...he got beat up a couple times while working that summer

Day-camp counselor for a Southern Baptist Church. Yes, I--the race-mixing, fornicating heathen--was an employee of my city's largest Baptist church. After summers and holidays working retail, it was a nice break. I had to lead prayers, direct arts and crafts activities, and deal with overly prepubescent Christian girls.

I did phone surveys. I called people in Louisiana about consumer confidence. I called people in Arkansas about how they felt about increasing water flows over a certain dam.

Most people didn't give a damn.

Sorry for the pun.

It wasn't fun but it was $7/hr for sitting around. :D