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Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 6:57 pm Post subject: - - - Your oddest job? - - -

Question time...

What was your oddest job you ever had?
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Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 9:46 pm Post subject:

Really never had an odd job.

Tell you what, when in college we did an engineering project at a carbon black (Carbon dust) plant for 3 months.

Every day I had to shower and wash my eyeballs to get the whites white again. Funny thing to see all the grown men come to work with Johnson's Baby Shampoo - Only thing that didn't burn your eyes.

Also, the company had free lunches and everybody was encouraged to drink as much milk as possible to flush down the black residue you would see against your throat when you opened your mouth and looked in the mirror. And that while wearing a mask all day.
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 1:14 am Post subject:

I have 2, although the first one wasn't really odd, just the circumstances in getting it...

1 - I walked out of a $18 an hour factory maintenance job to go to work at a gas station for $5 an hour... A good friend of mine was the station manager, and she begged me to help her out, so I did... (Not that way you perverts, her husband was also a good friend of mine)

2 - Stll not really an "odd" job, but the one that I miss the most... I got a gig as an Industrial Automation Engineer/Fabricator in a small plastics plant in Indy... The fancy title meant that my job was to watch someone else do their job, then design and build a machine to replace them... For obvious reasons, I was NOT a very popular person...
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 5:35 am Post subject:

The oddest job, although it was an honest one, was when I worked three months in a slaughterhouse back in 1982, slaughtering pigs all day Twisted Evil

. I just got back from Lebanon then, and left the army. I was on a cross road in my life and did not know what to do next. So, in order to be able to pay the bills, I started in that job. It paid very well, I can tell you! Cool

Today, if you bring me a pig, I'd still be able serve you the best porc chops! Very Happy

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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 6:11 am Post subject:

Making cold calls out of the phone book for the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #401, right out of high School. I still remember giving my speal to this African American lady and without delay she yells to her husband, "Henry, its the POLICE!", to which I hear these frantic steps coming down the stairs, and Henry answering in a panic. He was so relieved that he wasnt being arrested after he got on the phone, that he bought everything I was selling. Cool

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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 8:11 am Post subject:

Life........

This has to be one of the oddest jobs I ever had. Ever changing. Highs and lows. Good times and Bad. Sometimes really dirty and others complacent. Never knowing what the next task will be. Trying to recall past mistakes in the hopes that I don't repeat them. Yes, I'll have to say LIFE has been the oddest job I've ever had. I don't want to get fired from it and hope I go out on my own terms.
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 8:43 am Post subject:

During college, I worked in a cold storage plant that was a giant freezer the size of a football field. My job was to unload boxcars filled with cartons [75lbs. each] of frozen vegetables for H.J. Heinz Company. They make baby food out of them here in Pittsburgh. It wasn't a bad job and paid pretty well - about $14 per hour back in 1980.

When there was no boxcars to unload, we'd sweep the freezer floor with wide brooms. It was 10 degrees in there, and after spending 8 hours in a freezer it was rough driving home with no a/c. Sitting in summer traffic with the temperature in the 90's had me passing out at the wheel. Laughing

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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 2:32 pm Post subject:

I was always one to have worked at a rather young age... especially compared to todays youth,... all my jobs have been rather simple and normal.. when I turned 15 I got my first job at a Winchells donuts. I started at 5:00AM to 2:00PM on Saturdays and Sundays on the weekends while going to high school. There I learned what it was like to get robbed at gun point, work across the street from a motel that half their patrons were hookers. Drug addicts would come in all the time wanting to sweep the parking lot for coffee etc. I also forgot to mention i walked 1 mile that early in the morning through that type of neighborhood at that age.

I grew up rather fast and learned a lot. I am greatful for that. That job helped me get my first electric guitar and amp. I wish more kids that age would get off their ass and work like I did... lazy bastages..
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{uZa}Canadian Girl · Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 6:17 pm Post subject:

My oddest job would be in High School I would work during the summer at a Pulp Mill on the Safety Crew. I would end up in strange places, in tanks, crawling around on pipes. I had to boss around the crew I was with and some guys hated it. It payed well.

I also worked at a art school, posed for classes, which payed very well. Wink

Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 6:44 pm Post subject:

i made wires for bombs for the military, lol, all the workers were from like the Philippines.
i was 14, that would have been my oddest job
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 9:11 pm Post subject:

The strangest was taking care of the man across the streets plants. HE was the Dean of music at Brown University in RI. My parents lived across the street and he would go away every summer to Colorado to a music festival. WAtering the plants wasnt the strange part......he insisted I talk to them . Also there was a ficus tree which he said hated me because it dropped leaves whenever he went away.

The good part was he had a music room all sound proofed with a grand piano and guitars and a violin. I used to practice the piano there and the flute.

He paid outrageously too . Cool

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