What were your weirdest jobs ever?

[Riccardo]

We picked up papers right at the printing press

Stupidly they gave us the inserts separately and we were supposed to put them in ourselves - itself a pain in the ass.

This got me thinking, would any kid today do a paper route like we used to? On a typical school day, I had to walk a mile each way to school and back, then from home walk another mile to the paper pick up, then walk another 1.5 miles (and that's just a straight line, doesn't take into account going up to houses and into apartment buildings to deliver the fricken things) on the paper route and then back home.

[Loki]

That stuff actually torches pretty easily.

Used a bit to get it kicking, but once it got going it just raged through the field.

Islanders downwind must have thought there was a hell of a party going on SOMEwhere.

[Irish George]

I delivered "Chicken Delight" in Camden.

and lived to tell the tale.

[BirdBrawn]

Sold Kirby Vacuum cleaners for a few months in the early '80s

The Reagen recession was raging and it was the only job I could get. Believe me, it's not in my mental makeup to convince laid off people to buy a $700 vacuum cleaner (lotta money back then) because it was marginally better than an $80 Hoover.

The minute winter was over I jumped on a construction job and never looked back.