O/T Strange Jobs that you?ve done in the past?

[Jocksgloves1]

Ronnle Corbett claimed to be a former hod carrier for Lego.

[ragingpup]

As a student I genuinely had a summer job polishing slight ink traces off corporate brochures! For 10 hours a ****ing day! Not sure it's possible to get lower skilled than that. It was all downhill from there...

[sota]

Professional mingler
Mrs Sota once had a business that involved selling memberships at the Ritz Carlton Beach Club in Sarasota. My job at get togethers was to mingle with rich ladies and get them pissed and sign up for a membership at 100k a pop. Worked well. Pulled one glamorous dear who was moaning all night about her 3 million dollar tax bill but she signed up anyway lol. Those that know me on here will know this is true 😊

[CTMilller]

My son works in business risk evaluation. Mostly it?s fairly routine intelligence gathering though he is occasionally called into more exciting stuff like being part of a hostage negotiation team. One of the oddest projects when he first started was to try to find a valuable painting that had gone missing on a shipment from the Middle East to Singapore. The gallery that had made the shipment had failed to set up any insurance to save some money and were desperate for help. The painting was packed in a wooden frame that looked like a pallet. My son?s job was to go to some kind of pallet warehouse in Singapore to see if by chance the painting had been accidentally sent there. He spent three days in the tropical heat turning hundreds of pallets over looking for it - never found it!

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

One job I had part time between terms at Uni was working at Jackson?s bakery in Rotherham.

One day they had me breaking up tea cakes and counting the currants in them.

They had complaints about lack of fruit

[Spuddy Speight]

Coal fired boiler maintenance below the streets of a large city. The boilers eventually became both obsolete and illegal under the Clean Air Act 1956.
Yes, folks I'm that young. Lol.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Coal fired boiler maintenance below the streets of a large city. The boilers eventually became both obsolete and illegal under the Clean Air Act 1956.
Yes, folks I'm that young. Lol.

And asbestos problems I would have thought

[John2]

Around uni age, I used to work at a summer camp in the US that was well known for immersive/big themed games. As a tech-skilled person, I ended up in charge of the camps' computers/video editing/camera equipment etc.

One summer Lucasfilm wanted to encourage US camps to run Star Wars themed activities to promote a new kids-focused franchise - and partnered with my camp which designed some big games/activities. We then held a Star Wars themed week and Lucasfilm sent a representative to be there. I filmed the week and packaged it into a highlight video for my boss, who then apparently forwarded it to the rep.

I guess she had to report on how the week had gone - and word came back to me via my boss that George [Lucas] had 'loved' my video. It was quite surreal the idea that George Lucas would have spent his time watching my Star Wars-based movie... especially as at the time I hadn't seen any of his.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Around uni age, I used to work at a summer camp in the US that was well known for immersive/big themed games. As a tech-skilled person, I ended up in charge of the camps' computers/video editing/camera equipment etc.

One summer Lucasfilm wanted to encourage US camps to run Star Wars themed activities to promote a new kids-focused franchise - and partnered with my camp which designed some big games/activities. We then held a Star Wars themed week and Lucasfilm sent a representative to be there. I filmed the week and packaged it into a highlight video for my boss, who then apparently forwarded it to the rep.

I guess she had to report on how the week had gone - and word came back to me via my boss that George [Lucas] had 'loved' my video. It was quite surreal the idea that George Lucas would have spent his time watching my Star Wars-based movie... especially as at the time I hadn't seen any of his.

In a galaxy far far away

[Spuddy Speight]

And asbestos problems I would have thought

Yep, those boilers were insulated by asbestos.