Interesting Jobs - past or present!

[OverWyreGrower]

Another thread got me thinking....

Has anyone ever done anything interesting or unusual for work, either in the past or currently??

I'll start....

Around my more mundane office type jobs, I've also worked:
For a cosmetics company - testing fragrances for bath and hair products
As a SOCO fingerprint officer
For a large financial firm, working on top secret financial mergers and aquisitions

[vicky]

The Reptile House at London Zoo
Sea Turtle Conservation Project - Barbados

[pjh75]

No, unfortunately not: shop assistant... IT for financial institutions... local government - all rather regular.

[janeyo]

I once had a job issuing passports to cows

[kernowyon]

I have worked as a..
Handmade Sausage Maker
A Potter
Wheelchair repair person
Suspended Ceiling Fitter
and now as a Haematologist

[Jeanied]

Cleaner, tomato picker, waitress, potter - and now teacher and trainer. I don't know what I'm going to do when I grow up.

Sorry folks - I just realised how boring all these are in reality! Except maybe the pots.

[jackie j]

Nope, shop assistant, waitress, cleaner, party planner, but best job of all MUM.

[Bigmallly]

8 years in men's tailoring followed by 28 years in NHS........how boring.

[SlugLobber]

Most interesting job is the present one, I think. I'm a Research Scientist (mucositis - the damage to the gut caused by chemo/radiotherapy). I get to see bits of human intestine and it looks like the bone part of an ox-tail when in 2cm sections. It's a right b1tch to keep still when you're trying to cut it, too, lol!

[bubblewrap]

Bouncer for Mothercare
Thistle cutter at a nudist colony.
Wringer out for a one armed window cleaner.
Boiled egg sheller.

[matthew2riches]

Creative director, does.........

Blow things up
Make things
Destroy things
Design & layout media
Theatre design
+ other stuff

[binley100]

I suppose in some ways mine's pretty interesting to some people (especially the autograph hunters ) cos I do get to meet the actors daaarlink.

[sewer rat]

Among my many and varied jobs are the following;
Worked on various farms - pigs, cattle, dairy, arable
Shepherd (6 years)
Lambing Shepherd (more years than I care to remember)
Insurance Salesman (hated it, didn't last long)
Customs Officer (13 years)
Ganger on refurb of 17th Century castle
Drainage Technician - field drains, septic tanks etc
Market Gardener (still doing this but not full time and on a smaller scale)
Gardener to the great and good of the area (mainly horsey folk!)

[organic]

I could well have the most out-there one yet.

When I first moved to France I was running out of money so took the only job I could find at the time...
...standing in the street handing out flyers and getting people to go into a strip club.

It was an absolute pit of a place, full of letching men (and the odd strange girl who went in for some odd reason) - so bad in fact that on a few occasions I was threatened with violence for telling people to go in there.

I quit that job the instant I had enough money to get by for a bit longer.

I think the worst moment (the point where I accidentally saw part of a show when I went in to get a beer [puke!] doesn't count as I was on a break) was standing outside at -24°C trying to fill a club I hated everything about when anyone insane enough to have left their house/flat/hotel was in a pub sitting by a fire. Nobody was out and I was working until 3am.

Grim.

The snowboarding was great though!

[Jeanied]

Sort of a reverse bouncer then Organic?