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RE: What was the oddest job you had? - 8/7/2010 9:37:39 PM   
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I loved it. Best summer of my life!

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RE: What was the oddest job you had? - 8/7/2010 11:14:16 PM   
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RE: What was the oddest job you had? - 8/8/2010 5:40:10 AM   
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Yes, when I was younger.

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RE: What was the oddest job you had? - 8/8/2010 6:54:31 AM   
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RE: What was the oddest job you had? - 8/8/2010 7:34:07 AM   
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One summer I had a job where I had the ‘honor’ of wearing a Yogi Bear costume. Since the outfit was made for a guy of about 6’, and I stand at about 5’5, I made for one very saggy Yogi.

So there I was, standing on the boardwalk, in the hot summer sun, looking like Booboo had stolen Yogi’s head.

Talk about humiliation play.



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RE: What was the oddest job you had? - 8/8/2010 7:53:57 AM   
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I was a rescue victim, for my companies First Responder/Rescue Team. Loved that job. I was bound, dragged, dropped, lifted, carried, hung upside down - and all by strong, gorgeous men. Did I mention that I loved that job?

I wonder if they are currently taking applications?
While not odd, I held a position with the Us Government for quite a few years.
When people asked where I worked, I would say McDonalds

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RE: What was the oddest job you had? - 8/8/2010 8:34:11 AM   
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ORIGINAL: poise

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ORIGINAL: WinsomeDefiance
I was a rescue victim, for my companies First Responder/Rescue Team. Loved that job. I was bound, dragged, dropped, lifted, carried, hung upside down - and all by strong, gorgeous men. Did I mention that I loved that job?

I wonder if they are currently taking applications?
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That was 20 years ago. All my strong handsome contacts are retired now, or else I'd give them a call and hook you and Savage up with them.


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RE: What was the oddest job you had? - 8/8/2010 8:45:51 AM   
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Its not really a job as such, advising, supporting and critiquing the regional police ("independent" = we dont get paid!) but its worthwhile to have a few acquaintances in uniform from time to time (other than my cousin and two brothers) and there can be some great perks over and above that from time to time.

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RE: What was the oddest job you had? - 8/8/2010 10:33:20 AM   
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RE: What was the oddest job you had? - 8/8/2010 12:42:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		My "oddest job"..... easy the 18 months I spent in my late 20's (1985-86 time frame)  working at an "adult book" store in Stratford NJ.  The store featured "glory holes" and during clean up one night the night clerk (I was day clerk) found a piece of "dental work"  (partial plate) needless to say this was an ongoing source of laughs for quite a while.  That hilarity aside, I really learned to become disgusted at human sexuality,  you had all these "married" men running around getting what ever "gratification" they could from the glory hole action, and the AIDS epidemic running rampant.  As a result of that scene, when I left that job I had become a bit "homophobic" and intolerant,  I have since managed to wash my brain out with bleach, and returned to my former "live and let live" ways.

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RE: What was the oddest job you had? - 8/8/2010 1:10:39 PM   
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Greetings all....

I will add in a couple of the odder jobs I have done.

The first was a belt buckle buffer. I worked for a company that made belt buckles and buffed a few hundred of the plated or pewter ones every hour. Very repetitive but there were some interesting stock and custom ones we did. It was an old hippie place gone legit and they had an annual pot buckle. 1976 was home grown of course. And one of a derringer was modeled from the one one of the artists kept on him....at work.

The second odd job was opening mail, especially the junk male for the Columbia Record and tape club many years ago. This was all the shit (in one case, the question was dog or human) people sent back in the prepaid envelops thinking they would be costing the company money. I saw some of the daily prepaid mail charges. If the average daily bill was in the six figures, how much damage is one more envelope going to do to them? I found things from beer coasters, Adam & Eve catalogs, Chick Publications comics (lots of those), a few porn photos, people's payments for their utility bills, a neo-nazi newspaper (yes, the whole paper folded up small), but mostly the original mailer stuffed back into the pre-paid envelope. We had to check them because occasionally someone would also include a real application with the junk.


And now for one a deceased friend of mine did.....which had nothing to do with his death. He was a physicist who hit things until they blew up.

He worked for an Army ammunition facility which shipped a lot of explosives and they needed packing that would withstand transit without causing the contents to go boom. He built a device to deliver measured force in increasing amounts until the energetic material ignited.

This has been an amusing thread....so far. <grins>

Be well....

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RE: What was the oddest job you had? - 8/8/2010 1:33:55 PM   
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RE: What was the oddest job you had? - 8/8/2010 1:43:30 PM   
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ORIGINAL: MissAsylum

i currently do makeup for weddings. scary shit.


You must dye your hair, surely?

All I know is, I'd certainly be grey after a few weeks of that sort of thing!

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RE: What was the oddest job you had? - 8/8/2010 2:17:23 PM   
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But I'll bet you were" Smarter than the average bear!".


Well, smarter than a cartoon bear. ; ) If I remember correctly, I did not play Yoboo for long.

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just wondering did you have to talk... with deep voice?


No, I was a mute bear.

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RE: What was the oddest job you had? - 8/8/2010 2:23:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		I once worked as a giblet stuffer in a chicken factory.

If you've ever opened a bag of giblets and wondered why some chickens have three hearts, or only one lung, then that will be thanks to the giblet-stuffer. Most people imagine that the giblets in that plastic bag belong to that chicken. They'd be wrong. All the giblets are put in a big red heap, and then someone has to pull a handful out, seal it in a bag, and stuff it back into a chicken. You could be looking at the innards from a whole family group.

Gruesome, isn't it? 60,000 chickens a day, 5 days a week. I'm a vegetarian nowadays.

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RE: What was the oddest job you had? - 8/8/2010 2:38:02 PM   
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RE: What was the oddest job you had? - 8/8/2010 2:45:33 PM   
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