The Weirdest/Craziest Job You Have Ever Done
I hope there are a few spies who come forward. Anyway, Aj's post on robots is the muse for this post. This is going to be a wild ride. ok I'll start with a sad job-but I will save my most controversial job for later-I want to see what you all can bring to the table.
to pay for college tuition, I sat in a back room at the bookstore and tore off book covers. Yes-from most beloved novels to Aristotle. We sent the covers back to the publisher's and we torched the books. Yes! Torched them! If you were caught "stealing" the body of a book to be torched (!) you were fired.
to pay for college tuition, I sat in a back room at the bookstore and tore off book covers. Yes-from most beloved novels to Aristotle. We sent the covers back to the publisher's and we torched the books. Yes! Torched them! If you were caught "stealing" the body of a book to be torched (!) you were fired.
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Son to mother: Mama, when I grow up I wanna be a submarine sailor!
Mother to son: You're going to have to choose one dear. You can't do both.
Ok, I worked as a limousine driver in Richmond, VA to pay college tuition. Because I was extremely familiar with the Washington, D.C. Metro area, including BWI airport, I got some pretty good runs. The most.... energetic.... client, was a woman I picked up in Richmond, drove up to BWI to collect her boyfriend, and drive them back to her house in Richmond. Sitting at red lights was providing the surrounding commuters with some entertainment, and the limo was bouncing and jerking, all while sitting at a light.... She gave me a HUGE tip, which included a bottle of Crystal Champagne and a bag of weed with two rolled joints in it...
Then there was apprenticing on a 100' schooner, the Mystic Clipper. That's where I developed my enduring love for not only the open water, but coffee.
The job consisted of riding around in a cart in the "impact area" and poke a hollow tube with spring clips on the end over the balls as you drove past. You then dumped them out the other end into a basket on the floor beside you.
What made the job interesting was the fact that since it was a standard golf cart, no protective gear of any kind. You were automatically the target of everyone on the line.
You quickly learn the skill set of driving erratically while picking up golf balls with an aluminum tube at full speed. It was both fun and a bit of an adrenaline rush when someone got close. You wind up dodging without even seeing what is coming.
The only carry over I ever found from that was dodging suicide squirrels that change their mind part way across the road.
Nowadays they pull a pickup machine behind the cart, and the cart is enclosed in plexiglass like the popemobile to protect you.
I have to think it is not anywhere near the fun it was when I used to do it.
Back in College I was a variety of things ( as long as they paid money ) so I ended up being a janitor for a while... That taught me an interesting and useful lesson on how to interact with facility staff. I treat them well and like they are there. As it turns out most folks treat them like furniture. So, they are full of amazingly useful information.
After that I was a late shift data tape librarian at Ameritech. Most of the folks I worked with were ex-MaBell employees and it was interesting to hear about how things used to be run well..
Eventually I applied to Midway Games ( they made MortalKombat ) . I was pretty sure that there was no way in hell they would be interested in talking to me so I wrote the cover letter like it didn't matter. I wrote a paragraph going over the job requirements and how I already have done that. Then ended by essentially double dog daring them to call me. ( I actually used those words. ) A week later, I got home from a very good day where I set up the initial phone scree with a job that would have required me to move to Luxembourg. I was pretty excited, I knew what to expect from Luxembourg and I was fine with it. But, I got home and there was a message on the Machine from HR at Midway. They liked my cover letter and wanted to talk. Two weeks later I was driving to my first day there.
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