Interesting Jobs - past or present!

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Haha - pretty much.

[Florence Fennel]

I used to sell glass back walls for squash courts.
Ooh and I've been a jig-saw checker for Oxfam.

[Sprocket*]

I was a trolley dolly for the National Express buses - so glamerous not!!! Never want to see another traffic jam on the M1 with no air conditioning and 45 winging customers.....

[matthew2riches]

Ooh and I've been a jig-saw checker for Oxfam.

How much do they pay per completed jigsaw

[bubblewrap]

How much do they pay per completed jigsaw

On piece work rate I hope!

[rustylady]

I've been a secretary or administrator for most of my working life, but have also worked in pubs (barmaid to deputy manager), done home sewing for Berketex when the kids were small. My admin/secretarial jobs were for varied companies though - building society, patent agent, JobClub, company training North Sea Support Vessel Crews, company running care homes for the elderly.

[Hilary B]

Currently assistant (including proofreader of reports) to Chartered Surveyor.
Previously, self-employed small scale sheep-and-beef farmer
Mum (at same time as farming)
Computer programmer (COBOL)

[taff]

hmmm....nope....
currently I literally make drugs but it's really really uninteresting.

[SarzWix]

My first job was looking after beach ponies in the summer holidays
Muck out/feed/groom/canter to beach/lead snotty whingeing kids up and down the sands/walk home/feed etc. They were incredibly long days, but the ponies were a triple bonus and it was surprisingly good pay.

[bobleponge]

For 2 months as a younger man I was a fudge packer!!

[tiachica]

giving campus tours to prospective students at my university.

[elsie-scot]

As mentioned on the other similar thread, the most unusual job I did was when I was a student, I spent a summer and then christmas holidays colouring in geological maps for an oil company - got paid a lot of money for that and managed to get my brother the same job.

[Headfry]

Drawing office - fab
petrol station - seeing in tankers - ordering fuel etc - ok (not one cross over!)
hotel receptionist - posh, small, very old lovely hotel - stress almost killed me though
receptionist - fantastic dynamic company love every day, even miss it when on my hols.

[piskieinboots]

For 2 months as a younger man I was a fudge packer!!

As should all young men

- Admin assistant (Cornwall)
- Leather book-binder (Cornwall)
- Local (Cornish Guardian) newspaper rep (Cornwall)
- Print Trade production controller (Cornwall)
- Weight training/Power lighting instructor (Cornwall)
- Striping aircraft of carpets, driving big cleaning machine things (Wales)
- Upholsterer (Wales)
- Hotel reception (Wales)
- Getting food onto planes (Edinburgh)
- Fish factory (lasted 2½ days!) (Peterhead)
- PA for Aircraft repair company (Hampshire)
- Self-employed home-based worker since 2000 and ongoing (wherever I'm living at the time)

[enrich100]

For 2 months as a younger man I was a fudge packer!!

More of a lifestyle than a career for some

Being in IT I never had any really interesting jobs until I started working for the Church of England, I can now tell my grandchildren I taught 3 Bishops how to use Power Point and Microsoft Word.