What were your weirdest jobs ever?

[IronEagle]

I got two:

One was tying fishing lures in the basement for a guy in Claymont, DE.

The other was dusting plants in the corporate offices of DuPont in Wilmington.

Trying to think of others.

[Loki]

DQ had a pretty interesting one.

Fluffer for Dirk Diggler.

[Pete]

Part of my job working at my uncle's bar on weekend mornings

was adding vegetable scraps to his "honeypot" (septic system) and stirring it with a hoe once a week.

[Regal]

Not so weird, but I drove one of those roach coaches for a summer. The people I delivered lunch to were straight from the Creature Cantina.

[Corkey_for_President]

Worked in a saw mill...(CAUTION GUN NUTS!)

I got two:

One was tying fishing lures in the basement for a guy in Claymont, DE.

The other was dusting plants in the corporate offices of DuPont in Wilmington.

Trying to think of others.

...that made mostly "blanks" for (OH, NO!) gun stocks or nearly finished pistol grips (for muzzle load kits) from "raw" timber!! So, I got to "roll" logs with a cant hook, shovel out saw dust from the pit of a 4' carriage saw, dip gun stock "blanks" into hot wax to seal the ends, load and unload a drying kiln, operate all kinds of nasty machinery / saws, etc. Probably still the best job I ever had since we started with trees and often ended with a nearly finished product. Very fulfilling to see the transition. EXCEPT the pay and sawust itch BOTH sucked!

[Riccardo]

nothing weird but had two "boy" jobs

paperboy and stockboy. Though the stockboy job was in a shoe store and the owner also had an office building with storage units down the street that I had to work in. Used to smoke joints in the basement

[JuTMSY4]

stockboy was a great job

paperboy and stockboy. Though the stockboy job was in a shoe store and the owner also had an office building with storage units down the street that I had to work in. Used to smoke joints in the basement

basically you dicked around for minimum wage...I think the kids nowadays even get to put in some headphones.

I had 2 flyering gigs during college. One was for a real estate agent...easy. The other was for some old professor who would have me paper the neighborhood (harvard square) with whatever the local social issue dejour was. I remember one included allowing dogs at a local park, which resulted in having several other locals yell at me because their kids stepped always stepped in dog shit at that park...

[Irish George]

feelance carpet cleaning

I got two:

One was tying fishing lures in the basement for a guy in Claymont, DE.

The other was dusting plants in the corporate offices of DuPont in Wilmington.

Trying to think of others.

fill in your own joke.

[BigSlizz]

I was a stock boy, too. Also washed trucks at a landscaping company.

[slag]

Swing man at an industrial sized bakery (long)

Did whatever job was open when one of the regulars went on vacation.

Good fucking pay though ... union wages at about 3.5 times minimum wage.

One job I had to do for two weeks was the job that was, I swear, the regular job of a slightly retarded guy.

Sat in a chair and watched grapefruit-sized balls of dough roll down a chute.

If one missed the "knife" that was supposed to cut it in half, I grabbed it and twisted it in two and dropped each half into an empty cup in trays moving by on a conveyor belt.

Did that shit for 8 hours a day with a half hour break for lunch.

Place was too loud to listen to a radio and this was before headphones an' shit.

I swear ... I used to see ghostly images of that conveyor belt before my eyes sometimes when I stopped at a light on the way home from the midnight to 8 shift.

[AthensEagle]

Loaded customers trucks with their orders at a lumber yard. Slung a lot of wood.

Worked at end of the dishwashing line at college dining hall. Put trays on the conveyor belt after my comrades had already removed all other items. Could do it with my eyes closed after a few weeks.

[slag]

I was also a Good Humor Man.

Didn't think I could get sick of ice cream ... turns out I could.

[art vandelay]

screen runnner ie delivery expo at an italian/pizza place. 12-14 delivery guys on a friday night. tickets pop up for deliveries, i organize them. grab their pizzas or bag up their dinners and show the delivery guy where he's going on a big-ass map with a 10-12 mile delivery radius. ask him if he knows where he's going. tell him to make sure the right shit goes to the right place if he's taking multiple orders.

[JuTMSY4]

you haven't worked a shit job

I was a stock boy, too. Also washed trucks at a landscaping company.

until you've worked in landscaping. The worst...

[BigSlizz]

Stock boy was worse. I literally had to clean up another person's shit one day, when a fat lady did her best impression of the credits scene in the original Jackass movie all over the ladies room. My dad wanted me to see the value of education, and that day it sprayed itself all over the floors and walls of the store I worked at.