What's the strangest job you've ever had???????

[JesusReignsForever]

oooh I hope someone hasnt already said this...The strangest Job I have ever had was and is being a Christian. I am suppose to love people who hate me! I am suppose to trust a God I can see! but I am not complaining it pays well in the end!

[Richard H]

I am not complaining it pays well in the end!

]______________Yup!

[Bethany67]

it pays well in the end!

Yep, the retirement plan is second to none

[Kuukuu]

I worked for a dental supply place in the section that sold the prosthetic teeth that go into dentures. Do you know how many types, shades and molds there are for denture teeth? It was a lot of memorization and having dentists come in with molds to pick out the teeth that go into them sometimes.

I agree! The retirement plan for Christianity is out of this world!

[Elouise]

Weekend shifts in social and welfare.....some of the people were urm..strange...some of the situations they had got into were almost unbelievable and would have made the tabloids and they all expected me to wave a magic wand and make it all better for them now.

[James of Sunshine]

I was a hole watcher once.. Yes, that's right. I was paid to watch holes.
Manholes even.

You see the deal was the phone company had cables to splice down in these manholes in the middle of the road and according to OSHA, the safety outfit, there had to be one person topside at all times for safety purposes. The phone company didn't want to employ one of their own in this capacity so they contracted with a staffing agency to provide bodies to serve the function and that's all you did. Set up a chair and read or whatever and fill the position of being the person outside the hole. It was usually night work and I actually took a television a couple of times, plugged it into the generator, and watched ballgames. Nobody cared. My duties involved watching the hole and possibly tossing something down to the workers to keep them from having to climb out although that was not in my job description and I didn't answer to their authority. Weird, huh?

[CoffeeCat]

My weirdest job was sadly fairly normal... I was a billing rep for a cable company. When people called because their service was shut off due to non-payment, I was instructed to try to convince them to pay off the bill, turn their service BACK on, and then sell them MORE junk they didn't need just to up their next bill.

(beware of this, folks -- any cable, internet or phone company that wants to "upgrade you" to a bigger package for a cheaper price will be calling NOW, this time of year is wildly popular... and often it's only a 3-month promo that will SKYROCKET your bill without warning when it expires.)

[chivalrous]

What do you call it when you pray for those who are the most lost ?
For them to change, and find their way back to God.

That would include praying for satan.

The term "devil's advocate" sounds right, but is incorrect.

Maybe "devil's patron of conversion"

patron of correction ?
patron of reconstruction ?
patron of metamorphosis ?

[HisLeast]

My very first paid job was for my father's army buddy who had a carpet cleaning business on the side. I'd "shampoo" the carpets with a chemical spray before he came around with the big steam cleaner.

My second job was peddling Dickie Dee Ice Cream. Lot of important lessons learned with that job. (1) The "nice" neighbourhoods are mortgaged to the hilt and will rarely buy ice cream. (2) Poorer neighbourhood families take turns buying ice cream for the whole neighbourhood. (3) Never EVER trust a construction worker. Don't go near construction sites... and generally speaking, don't try to sell ice cream with anyone who works with tools. (4) Never trust construction workers. (5) Never trust construction workers. (6) Never trust construction workers (7) Never trust construction workers, (8) Never trust construction workers.

My third job was in a grocerty store as a courtesy clerk. Union rules meant that on threat of execution I could never stock shelves, so I spent my time hauling in carts, cleaning floors, bagging groceries, filling people's cars for them, running price checks, and refilling the complimentary coffee. It was probably the most satisfying job I've ever had.

My fourth job was in a window and door factory. Learned that vinyl nad glass can hold edges exceptionally well, and it pays to wear denim. Still have some scars. I could work all the overtime I wanted, but my job was literally pressing a button and waiting for two minutes, then pressing the button again.

My fifth job was working for the most selfish, self centered, inconsiderate, duplicitous, dishonest, slimey, backstabbing wretches I've ever met. Spent 5 years travelling about 3 weeks every month. Now I'd rather endure a half hour long shovel beating than travel anywhwere for my holidays.

Now I work in a very obscure role in IT. Being in an advisory position, I'm in the interesting situation where I'm actually paid to give advice that is ignored. I love who I work for though, so that makes all the difference in the world.

[Drums4Him]

I worked in a bakery washing the cake pans and cleaning up the rotary oven, and all other cleaning that needed to be done. I worked for a guy who was born in Switzerland. He was short and stocky and bald and always wore a white t shirt and white pants with a white apron. The strange thing about all of it was that he had a heavy German accent, and would say und instead of and hated rock and roll music and long haired hippies. He was in his late 50's at that time and I was a teenager. The strange thing about this job is that when he got mad at the lady who decorated cakes he would yell at her in German and give her a nazi salute and tell her in German that she was the master race, especially when she would smoke cigarettes and decorcate cakes at the same time. He started his work in the evening and would work all night and would finish a case of beer by the time I came into work after school. I once found him sitting on a can of lard in the back room, with a beer bottle in his hand, sound asleep, but I thought he had passed away, and was freaked out and scared. But I found out later he would take a nap in the back room, nobody bothered to tell me.

[shepherdsword]

When I was in my 20's I worked for an "adult congregate living facility"
That's short for"nuthouse"
All of the people who lived there were on SS for mental disability.
I was the night manager. I would go around and dispense the medication at night. I wasn't walking with the Lord at the time so I would sample any abusable drug like the xanex,adavan and Valium.When morning came I would then cook breakfast for about forty loonies smashed outta my mind. It was kinda hard to for anyone to distinguish the difference me and them.Thank God I was delivered from that!

[Jolie76]

Strangest not really but worst job would be working at Arby's when I was in High School, Those grease machines you had to clean at the end of the shift was gross, and I always broke out from the heat and oils.

Yuck

[Lefty]

Summer job during college running hi-lo's in a big furniture warehouse. Nothing strange about it, but the funnest time was piling beanbag chairs up on the back dock, raising the hi-lo's up about 30 feet and having a diving competition. I'd love to do that again!

Strangest job is what I do now; freelance illustrator. I work through an agent via phone or email doing digital art for clients I rarely meet, send them files via ftp and wait for a check in the mail. Nice job but it gets lonely.

[Mo!]

I've had a few *odd* jobs, not really strange.

In college, I posed for a sketching class periodically.

I taught "stop, drop and roll" to kindergarteners as a side job for about a year after college.

Way back in HS, I would dress like "Wendy" for kids parties at "Wendy's". That was pretty fun, actually.

[TexasBeliever]

When I was in my 20's I worked for an "adult congregate living facility"
That's short for"nuthouse"
All of the people who lived there were on SS for mental disability.
I was the night manager. I would go around and dispense the medication at night. I wasn't walking with the Lord at the time so I would sample any abusable drug like the xanex,adavan and Valium.When morning came I would then cook breakfast for about forty loonies smashed outta my mind. It was kinda hard to for anyone to distinguish the difference me and them.Thank God I was delivered from that!

That is TOO funny----------I have this mental picture-----------can't stop laughing------------------ Oh the things we did before we found the Lord! Yours truly included.