Pam's post "Bob's Ace in the Hole" got me thinkin........ what's the oddest, strangest, weirdest job you've ever had?

Mine was working at the DPW sweeping curbs, mowing the cemetery and digging graves while putting myself through college........

hmmmmm.  i think i was 16 ....  i worked at the calves barn.... down the road....   and cleaned milk buckets for the calves....   and showed the calves how to drink their milk out of the buckets.....    if you want more details... on how we do that....   let me know.... and i'll tell ya.....      it was different.  (to me it was)  lol

hmm i havent had many strange jobs....I guess that year I was the Easter Bunny for a mall was kinda weird! LOL

OMG!! I just about had pop come out of my nose when I read this!!  A couple of years ago- on my 40th birthday in fact, I decided to volunteer as the Easter Seals bunny for benefit  held downtown.  My kids had come to see me and some kid was dressed up like a cow (I don't know why) asked if he could take a picture with me - I said sure,.  My daughter took the photo, but caught him trying to pose as though he were copping a feel and humping the bunny.  I didn't know this till afterward-  but she yelled at him-   "hey- that't my mom!"  and he got really embarassed and ran away.  I'm sure he thought it was funny, but I felt violated adn that I'd some how tainted the Easter Seals bunny image even though I didn't do anything wrong.  It was really, really weird.

I also once dressed up as a clown and held one of those signs for a mattress company because my ex had run off with our car and paycheck and left me broke- so I did what I had to do to put food in my kid's mouths.  Not sure which of the 2 is the strangest- both rank right up there for me! LOL!

I worked at a food stand at Six Flags one summer (1976).  Got pretty used to people passing out from heat stroke there. 

I worked at Grandy's for a while.  I can tell the livers and gizzards apart. 

I decided a long time ago that I would consider myself successful as long as I had a job that didn't include cleaning public toilets as one of the job duties.

Kinda? I'd say stay at home Mom is the oddest job I've had. Believe me. Odd stuff happens here ALL day EVERY day.

Cleaning public toilets (as a courthouse custodian) is part of my job duties and it ain't so bad. Someone's gotta do it.

When I was a teen I had a job one summer that really didn't have a title. I was hired with a group of teenage girls by Garst & Thomas (big seed corn company) to walk down the rows of these HUGE 1000 acre cornfields and cut out the corn plants that were maturing before the rest of the crop. I never understood what exactly this was to prevent. Early pollination I suppose.  Anyway, the tool they gave us to do this herculean task were these dull bean hooks, which were made to be used to weed your garden, not cut down six foot tall corn plants with stalks as big around as your forearm! It was a hot, dirty, wet and buggy job, but it paid well.

oh my gosh, that reminds me.....    the cornfield! 

I used to work at Malfait.... in Woodburn, IN.... the smallest city in Indiana....   where we had to go thru rows of corn.... and pop the tassel off....   there are 5 rows that we had to take the tassel off... and then 2 rows that we leave alone... there would be 5 of us would detassel, and one person behind us following, to make sure we got all the tassels off the corn plant. something about male rows and female rows.... to keep from pollinating....  because they make seeds to plant corn for next year. 

yeah, it was hot , and dirty... and if we had shorts on and short sleeves.... we would get cuts from walking thru these corn plant.....  and we had to wear a hat....   and pack our lunches....  but back in 1989 - 1990.....  and 91 i think....   we got paid 7 something an hour....   it was nice to have the money to buy new clothes for school for ourselves. 

I wouldn't say this was a weird job but it was definitely the crappiest job I have ever held.  I sold Kirby vacume cleaners for all of TWO weeks...well, attempted to sell.  I didn't sell even one!  (For all of you that don't know, these are like $1500 cleaning systems.)  You had to lug this huge box to each appointment and clean one room of carpet for them as a demo.  Yeah...that was a crappy job which is why it only lasted two weeks!  :-)

I worked for a family owned construction company as their bookkeeper.   Nothing strange about that, but they also had cows and inbetween accounting duties, I learned many  cow keeping chores...milking, calf delivery and ....artificial insemination. 

I was Big Bird for an afternoon in Orlando way back when.  I co-worker were I had a part-time job during college was the local TV Big Bird Backup Man when the woman do did it was sick and he was busy.  Do you think I knew anything about Big Bird when I was 22 and had no children of my own?  Not hardly, so Big Bird had larengities that day.  One little girl came running up to me, arms raised, fists flailing, darned near broke Big Bird's eggs.

what a small world....  what part of Indiana u live in?

I used to be the Easter Bunny at a local community hospital in my early 20's (like Terri). Volunteer work though, no pay. I had a blast chasing the nurses around and trying to get them to sit on my lap! One summer as a kid, I worked for one afternoon making cotton candy at a local street fair. I was sick for two days after from eating more than I was selling!

I'd skip lunch to save $$$ for parts. I built one from scratch, starting with a rewind with wire about 3x the standard guage (whatever it was).  The house lights dimmed when I powered it (joking).  Then I crafted a magnesium side rail chassis, very, very light.  I sold it to someone who put it on the track.  It caught fire in the middle of a race!

Thanks for the memories Dan.

I worked in a pickle factory two summers during high school.  Ran 1800 pounds of potatoes through the peeling machine one day, had to go to the can and passout I was so worn out.  Got fired one summer for having too many car crashes.  The other summer I quit because my friends were going to Daytona for the Firecracker 400..race weekend or work...tough decision.

Guess I have had a pretty boring emplyment.  Cant think of anything really werd.  Worked in a platic factory when I was first divorced from my first husband because the pay was good.  Work was word ovens were very hot.  Baked liguid vinyl plastic into stethescope tubing in my department other department made plastic covering onplayground equipment.  Anyway, bad part was, we had a rodent problem so we had a couple of "pet" factory cats.  On Friday's second shift the ovens were shut down and the doors were open== Sunday night the ovens were started up and the door automatic shut.  Now for the bad part--(expecially for me being a cat lover as well as a doglover( when we came to work Monday morning we were informed that we were one cat short.   They could not find the second cat.  I pray to this day that it got outside on Friday night but the ovens also were so hot one would never know.  The other cat went home with me that afternoon!!