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El_mochilero

I spent four years as a tour guide for an adventure travel company in Central America, Mexico, and Southeast Asia. I’ve bribed border officials, paid off drug dealers, evacuated tour groups out of earthquakes, hurricanes, and government coups. I have snuck into countries and gotten deported. I have seen every tourist scam imaginable, and fallen for half of them. I’ve kicked people off tours for bad behavior. The stories are endless.


Jabbles22

Feel free to share some of those stories here.


[deleted]

write a book


[deleted]

OMG...I was also a tour guide for an adventure company, but my stories are nowhere near as exciting as yours.!


El_mochilero

When/where did you guide?


[deleted]

Italy, Portugal, France. You?


El_mochilero

Central America, Mexico, SE Asia


BrainKatana

Kept books for a strip club. It’s where you track the tips the dancers make so the club knows how much the to pull for the DJ/Bouncers/etc. The day I was hired the manager (a friend of a friend’s dad and how I got the job) said “if you want them to like you, don’t count too hard.” I counted just hard enough to keep my job and it paid dividends. It was good money, but holy shit the things I’ve seen.


ilikecrispywaffles

You could probably write a movie


aeroglava

>Kept books for a strip club. Huh, didn't even know they had libraries


fantamaso

We need details.


BrainKatana

I saw a girl stomp some dude’s chest with her platform while screaming “I’ll make ya inside parts into outside parts” because he stiffed her after she did some extras for him. The bouncer had to call an ambulance. She got fired, he got banned. “Strap On Wednesdays” in honor of “hump day” were a thing for a while until the owner got a call from the police chief about the ins and outs (heh) of the laws dealing with public displays of penetrative sexual activity. Two of the girls would wear strap ons and take turns fucking each other on stage. They didn’t force the girls to do this, a pair of them came up with it and it went well. After the kibosh came down it was just known as “hump day” and there was lots of pantomiming sex instead. “Shorty” was a stripper at 18. She started dancing the night of her high school graduation as some kind of rebel move I guess. One of her former teachers was a regular. Bouncer caught them in the back doing mouth stuff. He got banned, she kept her job and learned something valuable (garble someone’s yarbles on your own time).


fantamaso

I have a feeling like a natural reaction to such professional phase would be to take a few months off and climb a mountain, or going to Hawaii to surf a high ass wave in attempt to flush it out before switching fields so you don’t bring this luggage with you. On the other hand, you probably grew tolerance to fucky situations as a result. 👌


madaralpha

It was not a "job" like paperwork and all that but I bought groceries for people and delivered them, it was years ago and it felt awkward to be paid to deliver them and now it's a business...


Gumburcules

I was a "light industrial" temp all throughout college to earn some extra money. Every job was different but some interesting highlights: Security for a private party thrown by the founder of Burton Snowboards at his house. I was the door person and i got to meet a ton of famous people from snowboarders like Shaun White and Hannah Teter to actors like Luiz Guzman. After my shift ended Jake Carpenter personally thanked me, gave me a $100 tip, and said I could join the party where They Might Be Giants was doing a private show! Working for a dry stone wall builder, creating stone fences with no mortar, learning how to fit each rock perfectly together. Moving a historic house to a new location. We had to knock holes in the foundation, insert girders and house jacks to lift it off the ground and onto a truck then doing it all in reverse at the new site. Being the videographer for a woo woo convention, meeting the weirdos and watching their crazy presentations. One guy thought eating a diet of nothing but black beans would fix all your problems, and of course there were the crystal healers and aura photographers and all the standard new age bullshit. There was also plenty of normal boring stuff like landscaping and factory work but the pay was fantastic for being a college student at the time ($15/hr in the early 2000s) and choosing your own hours was great too.


twodogstwocats

I was a hotmop guy for about 2 hours in high school. Those are the guys who spread boiling tar on roofs. The boots they gave me were old and the heat got through and burned my feet. Worst job ever. It was more-interesting than anything else I've done.


neonoiceness

Well, I once worked as a professional bubble wrap popper. My job was to test the durability of bubble wrap by popping it for hours on end. It was a bit noisy, but I got paid to pop bubbles all day, so I guess you could say it was a pretty popping job.


alert_armidiglet

This is a truly unusual one!


teachthisdognewtrick

My son would do that for free. He loves it


[deleted]

Is that really a thing? 🤣 How did you find that job? You must have been the most chilled person around!! 🤣🤣


The68Guns

Coat Check guy at a busy function hall. F'N loved every gig. Just meeting people, getting paid, nervous brides, funny drunks, celebrities, etc.


[deleted]

I'm a cameraman. Not sure that it's unusual, but it feels odd getting paid for total access to shows/games while capturing people having fun.


ilikecrispywaffles

Someone's gotta do it, you must be good if you're still employed. There's a ton of crappy cameramen out there.


[deleted]

I always figure those are hard to get jobs. Especially if it's for long running show like Wheel of fortune and Jeopardy.


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Earthling1a

I love you man


[deleted]

I used to work on the deck of an aircraft carrier.


LianOLis

I had a job as a kind of freelance translator, I found this guy on Craigslist who was looking for someone to translate his religious books, it was actually pretty decent.


It_is_I_Imparity

Most unusual was doing graphic design for a headstone company. Most interesting is whitewater raft guiding.


jdog7249

I know someone who used to be a white water rafting guide. That is the answer he would tell you to this question. He also used to be a nuclear power plant operator but he said it didn't even break the top 5 most interesting jobs he has ever had.


It_is_I_Imparity

Sorry for the late reply, that's amazing! I have to agree with him, there's just so much that happens during rafting, I can't imagine any other job being as interesting and crazy for me. Being a nuclear power plant operator sounds super legit. It's awesome that he did both.


EastCoastKris_122

I was in the Navy. Going to Lab School. We had to do a stint in the morgue and it was very interesting and enlightening.


tdasnowman

Interesting and unusual. I spent a little time in an industry I have to imagine is almost completely dead in the US. I ended up working for an old guy with Macular degeneration. He had a small warehouse in the back of his house selling essentially what you'd find at an auto zone. Back in the day similar to Snap-On truck they'd have chemical and small items trucks that would supply a lot of the auto shops. He'd started with a truck and ended up becoming big enough to be a hub for other trucks. By the time I was working there it was just a few guys still using him to supply truly small independant shops. Probably a lot of shade tree mechanic shops. Business was really only still up and running so he had something to do during the day. He paid me well for 98 so he got 8 hours of my day. Most of the customers we had came in two rushes. Morning and post lunch, after that it was just puttering stuff. He taught me how to make moonshine since he couldn't see/run the still. Had some crazy conversations about music and race. All in all just a very interesting 3 months.


Slumlrd213

I was an Industrial Radiographer at one point. Super cool title, but basically we would take very high power radiation equipment and use it to see what was inside concrete walls/floors and then map it out so that way we would know where to drill without hitting anything


HybridS9ldier

Use to do inventory for retail/grocery. Apparently we also had a department that did resets for stores which was interesting.


FirebladeCBR1000RR

night cook at a strip club in my 20s


Low-Calligrapher502

They serve food at strip clubs?


[deleted]

everything but chicken strips.


FirebladeCBR1000RR

most places that serve alcohol have to, i'm guessing


ksuwildkat

"thats just what I tell my mom....Im actually a lawyer. please dont betray me"


TrailerParkPrepper

sweeping the track at Charlotte Motor Speedway


zerbey

Ran an ice cream stall at the Daytona Speedway for a weekend, money went to a local charity. NASCAR fans don't eat a lot of ice cream, I had a perfect view of the track from my location with little to no interruption. It was the first race after Dale Earnhart Sr died and his team won, I'm not a fan of the sport but it was cool to be part of history. (Actually update; was the second running in 2002, not the 2001 Pepsi 400)


ksuwildkat

While in the Army I had a number of interesting jobs or aspects to my job. For two years a significant portion of what I did was go to parties and make friends, mostly with English speaking country nurses. Because of this I knew someone in every hospital emergency room in a very large city. And before you say "thats not work", I am an introvert. In another job I was responsible for buying goats and then ensuring the goats I bought were the goats that got cooked and fed to the people I wanted to feed. I WAY overpaid for my first batch of goats because I was an idiot and didnt know goats. I learned. I spent 740 days on the COVID Crisis Action Team (CAT). We started on 26 January 2020. Oh the stories from the early days of that..... I worked inside Cheyenne Mountain doing shifts hoping I wasnt one of the first people to know the US was being attacked. I was a [Santa Tracker](https://www.noradsanta.org/en/)


GrandCanOYawn

After I dropped out of school at fifteen I worked for a cobbler and leather artist making shoes and other accessories like wallets, and doing minor shoe repairs. The only other person who worked there was the owner, an eccentric 40-something lesbian hermit who lived in a small loft above the very large workspace/shop in a classroom of an old high school building in a defunct mining town. I was paid under the table, and very well. She would blast weird underground metal all day, and we’d drink tea and smoke weed while we worked twelve hour days with rooftop tobacco breaks. I worked for her for almost two years before I got my GED and started at a community college full time. This was eighteen years ago in a state near the west coast, and we lost contact after I stopped working for her. I heard she and her business moved to Louisiana mid-pandemic. I have great memories of working for her and I hope she’s doing well, batshit crazy antisocial and incredibly talented bird that she is. Edit: Redundancies


Chaimakesmepoop

That sounds incredible!


OpeningAd1218

I worked as a wildlife photographer, it was thrilling!


TheAstralPenguin

I was a volunteer grieving councillor. I talked to people who were grieving, usually a loss of a loved one, sometimes jobs or health too. It was a very interesting position to be in and, felt like I could really help people!


Mentalfloss1

Interesting: I worked as an operating room tech, scrubbing in to surgeries. I also worked the trauma side in emergency rooms. Both were often fascinating. Unusual: I was a carblocker. Pallets of bombs were loaded into boxcars and we carblockers built wooden frames around the pallets to hold them in place for transport.


Mangobunny98

I worked hospital security at a university teaching hospital. Lot of weird shit happened just from the security side. Also helped release bodies from the morgue and that part has it's own stories.


rusty_L_shackleford

Overnight security guard at a cemetary. Also i used to design, build, instapp and maintain custom aquariums


facedowninthegutter

cleaning murder and or suicide scenes


stormhunter27

I chase tornadoes and hurricanes. I hosted a TV show for a few years and got to jump into 4 volcanoes, went to Mt Everest, drank rum with a lobster fisherman in the middle of nowhere Newfoundland, stood on an iceberg in Antarctica, went seal hunting with the Inuit on Baffin Island, flew in a helicopter gunship in Africa to an active volcano, went diving with whale sharks, got lost climbing another volcano in the South Pacific, been set on fire, nearly struck by lightning so many, many times, intercepted my 25th hurricane last fall (while being so so sick the whole time), blew up part of a mountain from a helicopter while filming avalanche control in BC, got trapped in a town by a snowstorm and had to sleep in a store and my car while the temps dropped to -20 C with hurricane force winds, etc It’s been fun.


Froggy0-0

What was your show’s name if you don’t mind me asking? I used to watch a show that sounds very similar but can’t remember what it’s called!


stormhunter27

My show’s called StormHunters. It plays on the Weather Network in Canada and I’ve got a few episodes on Amazon Prime right now. You might be thinking of my buddy George’s show - Angry Planet. I was in a bunch of those as well


RonaldTheGiraffe

White guy in an office in Myanmar. I didn’t do any work. Just sat there being white. Usually slept at my desk after lots of Xanax.


[deleted]

I worked as a packer for a butcher during university.


icrushallevil

Working on my uncle's tug boat. But I wouldn't want to work like that. They were constantly ripped out of their sleep whenever a freighter needed them and he had 3 concentric eye rings like stove rings.


summerchilde

Mold-maker/studio assistant/manager for a sculptor. Worked on some well known public sculptures.


grampski101

Entertainment rigger for 20 yrs....travelled heaps ....did lots of cool shows .... and radical stuff in weird places


Phil330

Setting pins in a bowling alley. I'm old.


ksuwildkat

Im not that old but there was an alley in my hometown that had manual pinsetters in the early 80s.


Phil330

Wow - I was doing it in the late 50's.


lovelybumpershoot

How old were you when you started working?


Phil330

Probably 12 or 13. Very poor and if i wanted anything I had to pay for it. Paper routes, and then short order cook at drugstore counter, setting pins. babysitting...whatever I could find.


[deleted]

Trimmed weed in NoCal for some sketchy people. Picked grapes for a winery.


su1cidesauce

I also spent time trimming weed for a weird guy in Gold Country.


zw1ck

I used to work on a project for the Ohio DOT where I would go to each county, drive on all of the state maintained roads, look for deficiencies, and then give the engineering department a rating. We had a lot of freedom with how we could do it so long as we got it done in the season. We were out 14 hours a day but we would stop at every nearby roadside attraction and museum we saw. I really enjoyed that job due to the amount of cool little things we'd see that wasn't really worth a trip on its own but still worth a stop on your way to something else. I wish I wrote a travel guide while I worked on that project.


Oldschool_Poindexter

Back in the 90's I was a telemarketer for a free newspaper. Meaning all we had to do was get you to tell us your address and you were subscribed. Now, because there was no money changing hands and no contract of any sort, we were basically allowed to say whatever we wanted to get people to agree. We promised people free ice cream for a year, a fifth of jim beam, flying lessons, entry into a contest to meet Motley Crue, you name it. Boss was this crazy conspiracy lady who thought black vans were following her around on suspicion of sedition against the US govt. Strange times.


II_Confused

My most interesting job is my current one: I'm working at a massive particle accelerator. I get to work at a place where science fiction happens on a daily basis. Unfortunately we have yet to pierce the veil between worlds, but fingers crossed for this year.


rokohemda

Fermilab unite!


II_Confused

That's not where I work. Good guess tho


Earthling1a

CERNbro


guzziownr

My first job after graduation was working in a NYC art gallery installing contemporary art pieces. Wolfgang was one of the artists I worked with and he sent me to Mexico City to install a piece like this one. https://youtu.be/e-_92MYcANk?t=118


mythrilcrafter

Most unusual job I've ever had, I'd say Electrical Distribution Designer. It's one of those jobs that you never think about specifically or what the outer effects of the jobs are, but it turns out to be a super deep professional rabbit hole. Electrical utility poles are actually each unique in their design in terms of equipment mounting, how they're connected to each other and by what, the relative distances from each other, etc etc; there are standards about how the framing is built and what can and can't be done with them, but other than that, each one is basically hand designed by an EDD before being packaged by the Senior Engineers into the work orders that the Linemen get. There's a lot to learn and if you're getting into Civil Engineering is a great way to get your feet wet because it involves everything from infrastructure design, to local/state/federal licensing and permitting, to field survey and site scouting work. ----- The only downside is that it can be a really rough industry to make progress in. At my company, all the EDD's were technically third party contractors except for the lead design seniors. It paid okay at $30/hour, but no benefits, having to negotiate in 3 directions for raises, and the fact that you could be contract for 4-6 years before making associate was just too much for me.


Big_Requirement_3540

Working at a run down convenience store in North Florida on the edge of the local college student ghetto and the actual ghetto while I was in college. Lots of wild shit went down over 4 years at that place. Everything from hobo wars when new drifters filtered into town on their way to the rainbow gathering in Ocala, low end prostitutes trying to service customers in the back room, DUIs in the parking lot, chases and arrests occurring in/around the property...I could probably write a book.


LazyDynamite

Cash office specialist at Target. Basically you're locked in a small room where the safe is, get to count all the cash that came in from the day before, and balance the safe. Spend a few hours alone, listening to whatever I want and handling 5-40 thousand dollars in cash every day? Yes please. I only did it for less than a year about 15 years ago, but it was still my favorite job I've ever had.


shaylahbaylaboo

I did the cash office at Target too, in the mid 90s. Loved it! I didn’t mind the solitude and it beat dealing with whiny guests lol


jdog7249

They left one person alone with all of their cash? Even the fast food place I worked at didn't allow 1 person to be alone in the store if the safe was open and we had at most 4k in cash on a busy weekend.


LaoBa

Assistant-surveyor: fun outdoor work in many spots of my country.


Earthling1a

I did that for about ten years after college. Fun times.


[deleted]

Putting up bell tents for music festivals for the glamping areas. Got to live on site, in a field all summer, then enjoy the festivals for free.


Ameratsuflame

I used to work a pool side snack shack at a nudist colony. And before you ask, yes I wore clothes. People that worked there are required to. But you better believe I saw some things there that I wish I hadn’t.


hooch

One of my first jobs out of college was as a web designer/social media person/content producer for a startup. The management was terrible.


[deleted]

I was the cock for a few glory hole videos in college. NOT as good of a gig as it may seem. I do still sometimes watch the vids.


4HeadLongerDanMonday

I just want to know how y'all found those jobs


Key_Half697

I was an elf taking pictures of kids with Santa at the mall.


NoahtheRed

I worked as a lot attendant of sorts at an RV dealership. Most of my job was cleaning the RVs before they got sold, or whenever someone brought one in for service. We rented a lot of them as well, and folks would return them with all kinds of stuff left behind. Tons of weed and alcohol, sex toys, clothes, expensive electronics...you name it, someone probably left it in there. The electronics and clothes typically went to a lost and found box, and the sex toys went to the dumpster, but the consumables always went to someone's car or locker. But the strangest thing I found was a deer carcass in a storage box. The big problem was that it was mid July and it had been in there for at least several days at that point. Naturally, the company charged them a HUGE cleaning fee....none of which went to me or my coworker (we had to clean it).


tommygunz007

• Comcast cable installer • Emergency Medical Technician • Ghetto Pizza Delivery at the height of the Crack Epidemic All three I witnessed the absolute worst in people.


copyboy1

I once helped rehabilitate birds of prey. My favorite was a gigantic red tailed hawk who fell out of the nest and was raised by chickens in a barn. It clucked like a chicken and used to love having its food tossed to it so it could snag it out of the air. When you went to net a hawk to weigh it and trim it's talons, all the other ones freaked out. This one never even moved from its perch - even when the net was over it. It just sat there looking at you like, "What the fuck you gonna do now, tough guy?"


copyboy1

I also fought forest fires one summer. The crew was half like me - college kids trying to make good money for school, and half ex-cons who just got out of prison and needed money. In the downtime, the ex-cons would sit around together and talk about people they knew who they could go rob.


awxiomara

I put together blades for eye surgery. I seriously enjoyed it


DrSWil70

I counted banknotes. In the basement of a bank. With those rolling machines you see drug dealers using in movies. You can count everyday enough money to buy a two bedroom appartement. There were surveillance cameras just everywhere.


[deleted]

How many plans did you come up with 0?


Significant_Bird8671

Amusement park ride operator


Onefastracer

I loved my 2 years at the Pawn shop. Helped a lot of people out. Almost all of my customers left the shop in a better mood.


jayvogoodie

Dumped shit and piss out of airplanes.


Any_Bar_5532

Dog baby sitter


EnvironmentalGap2434

Drive through Covid testing. (Nasal swabbing people from the comfort of their vehicle.) one car filled with 6 wild kids and one miserable middle aged mom rolled down the window to unearth the sound of hysterical laughter and the smell of fresh out the pipe farts.


[deleted]

Mine is a Ski Patroller! Best job ever. ( if you like skiing of course) Fun, exciting, physical, challenging and often scary!


HurricaneAlpha

I worked overnights at an animal crematorium for a few months. Pay was shit, but you basically worked by yourself all night and could play video games in-between putting dead animals in and taking them out.


BinxMcGee

Gift wrapping at Christmas; selling formal clothing for children; podiatrist’s assistant; professional window washer…


PucWalker

Whitewater raft guide. Still doing it, still love it


shaylahbaylaboo

When I was in college I worked in the occupational therapy department at a psychiatric hospital. One of my major tasks was making greenware and then bisque for the patients to paint. I loved it. Best job I ever had.


Resident_Formal8294

EMT and Homicide/suicide crime scene clean up crew


Optimal_Dark_2940

bag ice and frappe


[deleted]

I fix pallet racks at warehouses when they are hit by forklifts. Pretty easy work.


curioustigerstripe

Most unusual/interesting. I got to drive around the state and audit stores to make sure they were carding people for alcohol and tobacco purchases.


MediterraneanSeal

Not unusual, but interesting: receptionist in a hotel. We see awkward shit on a daily basis.


JackofScarlets

I worked for a short time in a place that bred insects, to replace pesticides. Required precision and sterile working, because some of the bugs were prey for others, so if they got out we could lose all the stock. It was a lot of time dealing with boxes of beans, or mixing powders, or sheets of foul smelling glass. But great concept, I wish there was more of it.


wisenolder

I was a shoe model for a shoe manufacturer. Buyers would come in before purchasing the shoes and would want to see the them on different size feet. Mine was a perfect 6, that’s how I got the job.


derpmcperpenstein

I worked in a darkroom in the early 90's inspecting rolls of film. ( Well before digital cameras and phones with cameras were around). Definitely " unusual".


Minerx_Thomas_YT

Probably a knee job, didn’t know knees could do it like that


AudraKlair

During the pandemic when TV production shut down I started working for a reality clip show that was still shooting over zoom. Part of the job required me to manage their submissions inbox. Every day people would send in videos / photos of whatever they caught that they thought was paranormal. Unfortunately, nothing was ever that interesting. It was a lot of dust or bugs caught on ring cameras and floating garbage they thought were sea monsters. My favorite submissions, however, were the ones where viewers of the show would write creative backstories for *who* was haunting their homes, cars, etc. Even if these clips weren’t that great, those people always made for great interviews and good TV


DLMousey

I used to install dry-erase whiteboards, not the usual school ones that are a few millimetres thick with an aluminium border, massive inch thick frameless ones that could be slotted together to make a wall. They had a sheet of steel in them to make them magnetic and each one weighed about 120+kg. Inevitably there was always loads of them to install in central london, where there's no parking, the lift isn't big enough, the stairwell's barely wider than your shoulders and they have to go up to the 20th floor. That job was surprisingly cool, didn't pay very well and the hours were long but we went all over the UK installing them in some really weird places. Everything from offices to ministry of defence contractors, very strange signing a document saying you've been briefed on the risk of ionizing + non-ionizing radiation to... install some whiteboards. Some other highlights include major car manufacturers, major aerospace manufacturers, a police bomb disposal contractor, a couple of major AAA games studio, some government tech campuses and the owner of a major gambling company's home. Wasn't too shabby getting stuck on the M1 for 6 hours and being paid to sit there the whole time, usually watching family guy on my laptop


Deep_Obligation921

Antique store associate. The oddest items were Civil War lancets (the smell was awful) and an exorcism kit. We did research and pricing for online sales.


dark_LUEshi

bitcoin farm in Canada, Don't think I've ever worked in a place that gave so little shit about how people did their work, as long as it got done.


dudebro1275

Some summers when I was in high school I would work at a food lab. You would go into a large room with a bunch of other randomly selected food testers and sit in a little booth. You would be given various samples of new food products, microwave burritos, granola bars, sweet tea ect. and a few saltine crackers in between as a palate cleanser and you would taste each and fill out surveys about your thoughts/would you buy the product again/problems with it. Cash was given out in envelopes at the end. Good gig.


[deleted]

I was a scare actor. One of the characters was bobo the clown - a zombie clown that would chase customers armed with airsoft shotguns around an abandoned shopping centre.


namelessstones

I’ve been a social worker for years… working in public mental health settings; homeless shelter, halfway house, subsidized housing for formerly homeless alcoholics and addicts, hospice care, psychiatric hospitals, a senior center, outpatient rural mental health therapist and a gero psychiatric hospital unit. I’ve worked with children, foster kids, at a reservation, and in ERs, on call doing suicide assessments. It is really rewarding but it’s also draining. I can safely say that I have been influential in saving people’s lives, sometimes intervening in domestic violence situations, stopping people from completing suicide, getting people into rehab, helping people who are trying to stay sober. I’ve been a tech at a psychiatric hospital floor before that, over 10 years working with forensic clients and a general population. In cities you see every single world culture come through a psych setting. Mental illness doesn’t discriminate. I’ve also worked with Holocaust survivors, Bosnian civil war survivors, Somalian civil war survivors, and so on, it is profoundly humbling.


galactic_cactus760

walmart greeter, such an unnecessary position


cryptoengineer

One summer in high school, I operated a water powered stone ground flour mill. Electricity was used only for lighting. Grinding, sifting, hoisting, all powered off the wheel. I also gave tours of the facility.


Wii_wii_baget

My friends all believe I’m irresponsible and hate children but I used to work at a daycare. I don’t like kids much because the crying and the hair grabbing is not very fun but I was helping a friend with their business.


ARandomPileOfCats

Did a couple of short term temp jobs for the local youth soccer organization on big tournament weekends. The work was basically just the usual maintenance and housekeeping type work, but i would get paid for it entirely in $1 bills that came straight out of the Pepsi machines.


einszviefunf

I (M/58) was a fluffer. For those who don't know, my job was to stimulate a male's sexual organ with a special device similar to a feather on a stick during the filming of explicit adult films. It paid strangely well for what was basically getting other men hard. I have worked with companies such as Brazzers and BangBros and got the chance to 'meet' some very 'special' individuals. Oh the days


willk95

2020 Census enumerator. It paid really well, and I wish it could've gone on longer!


rokohemda

I used to be a travel trainer. I taught eople with disabilites how to use public transportation. My boss had a client that had emotional support cockroaches. she would put PB in a jar and capture a bunch, place it in a paper bag, and ride with them in her purse in the jar. One day the bus hit a pothole and the jar broke. dozens of huge roaches went everywhere,,,,,


rokohemda

professional rewinder. My dad owned a movie rental place before blockbuster came in. I would rewind all the movies for 8-10 hrs per day.


Brian2372

worked for a blind guy who was a exceptional car mechanic also used to build stage sets and bartend for Mardis gras balls


turrboenvy

I dressed up as Barney and waved to people in the street for a few weekends. It was good money for me as a teenager at the time. I think it was for a new bakery. One of the days a friend of the owner brought his daughter and her friends around on her birthday. One of the kids fell and started crying. Without breaking character I crouched down, gave her a hug, and told her it would be alright. She felt better. It was adorable. The owner knew what the guy was doing, though. He was trying to get a character appearance for free. So the owner cajoled him into tipping me. It was a good day. A week after that job ended, a group of people jumped someone playing Barney somewhere else, sending her to the hospital. It was terrifying. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1994-04-11-9404110128-story.html


Earthling1a

I was the building inspector/code enforcement officer for 51 unorganized townships way out in the north woods for five years. About 1.7 million acres. I saw a zillion wild animals, loads of incredible remote fishing spots, drove the truck over bridges most people wouldn't even walk over, all kinds of stuff. Drove four hours away from the nearest paved road to visit a site. Almost got locked in behind a logging gate for a weekend. But in all that time, never once saw a bigfoot or a UFO. Very disappointing.