What Is The Oddest Job You've Had?

@gtargirl (5376)
United States
November 16, 2007 2:28pm CST
I think that all my jobs have been pretty much standard, except maybe the one I had as a teenager in Australia. My mom worked as a seamstress for a very small clothing factory. They made those tight rugby shorts (can't remember what they were called). Teens were hired to cut the thread off the shorts that the seamstress left on. We pretty much sat on the ground with a pair of scissors and a bunch of shorts around, and on us. That's my odd job story, what's yours?
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@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
17 Nov 07
WEll I'm a Beekeeper or Apiarist. I have 400 colonies of Honeybees. In a good honey season I collect upwards of 40,000 lbs of Honey.I work with the bees from spring to fall. I have to open the colonies to check them. This can upset the bees and they get angry. There can be 75000 bees in a colony. I wear a coverall, with veiled hat and gloves.And tie my pantlegs to keep them from crawling up my legs. Sometimes they do get inside my clothes. They usually sting me on the stomach when they get in. If you would like to help me next spring please let me know!
@carolbee (16230)
• United States
17 Nov 07
Can I stand back and observe?
@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
18 Nov 07
I once got paid a couple hundred dollars to try to find a ghost for someone. An old lady I knew who was pretty sure her house was haunted, and her grandson had told her I was the person to ask. It was a very odd job indeed. :P
@carolbee (16230)
• United States
17 Nov 07
Thinking back it was working at a dry cleaners. I was the counter girl and tagged the clothing as it was brought into the store. I didn't actually do any of the dry cleaning as the machines were located at another store. Had a woman come in one day and explained that her husband had an issue and didn't quite make it to the bathroom. Use your imagination. I carefully tagged the slacks, put them in a separate bag and went directly to the bathroom to wash/scrub my hands. I worked there a little over 3 years and only had one bad experience. We did get our clothes cleaned free each week as long as we stayed within the alloted amount.
@mamasan34 (6518)
• United States
18 Nov 07
I don't know. I have had many jobs in my life. I think the oddest job I had was directing traffic at the Florida Aquarium. I would stand with these things in my hands and point traffic in certain directions. Most often people wouldn't understand what was going on, since it was very new and the parking lot wasn't completely set up. It was quite confusing and I was hot and miserable throughout the time I was there. I think that is the oddest job I have ever had.
@wanxuer (20)
• China
17 Nov 07
My oddest job is to be sales for a mall in weekend!it is interesting.I make a lot of friends during this job,and i earn money in my spare time . what a good job!
@dianne17k (587)
• Philippines
17 Nov 07
when I was about 7 years old, I used to remove my aunt's and uncle's gray hair for 25 centavos a piece. lol. i was really desperate to earn money so i could buy loads of junk food.
• United States
16 Nov 07
I popped bristles into brush handles. Had to stack them in boxes of six rows and 9 levels. That was how I could remember that 6x9 is 54.
@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
17 Nov 07
my oddest job might have been my first job when I was about 5 and they dont do it any more. But used to in the potatoe feilds in Idaho poeple were hired to pick up the spuds by hand into a gunny sack and when ful these sacks weighed close to 100 pound that was my moms job mine was to what they called clumb the vines . which was taking the vines off the rows ahead of mom she she didnt get stcu with anything and all she grabed were spuds. I was the one that got stuck lol ] for some times there were thistles growing in the feilds.
• United States
16 Nov 07
I think my oddest is being a SAHM. Sometimes these kids can really make ya wonder what ya got yourself into!
@Raymo23 (463)
• Uganda
16 Nov 07
I have never held any job, though I want one now that am at University and money could never be more precious. Irrelevant response?
@palonghorn (5479)
• United States
16 Nov 07
I suppose the oddest would be cultivating mistletoe. We picked mistletoe which by the way grows in oak trees, well in Texas. And for the most part it was shipped up to the Northeast for holiday decorations, and some went to some type of cancer research. But you could make a couple of hundred dollars in a day.
@Sheribabe (445)
• United States
16 Nov 07
I worked at a place called "Bill Lewis Lures". They are fishing bates. We did it all from painting them to putting the hooks on them. Actually it was kinda fun... I suppose it's odd... You think? LOL
• Australia
16 Nov 07
I think my oddest job is the one I have at the moment - working in China as an English teacher. And it's not so much the job that's strange as the China experience. It's definitely odd not being able to do most of the things I was able to do back home (pay bills, go shopping, order food) without help most of the time. It's challenging and rewarding all at once.
@Monkeyrose (2840)
• Canada
17 Nov 07
I just got a job to go to business's and ask them to put some flyers for a charity out. It sounds okay. Although its piece work so we'll see how it'll work out.