Strangest Job You Have Had

[floridamcmarion1]

It seems to me that it's time for another thread to learn more about everyone and possibly get some interesting discussions going.

What is the strangest job you have ever had? That is, other than your current position as a SAHD. :D

I'll start things out. I was a hearse driver and pre-need funeral salesman at a funeral home in Miami. My duties included dressing deceased people and placing them in their caskets, as well as driving the hearse for every funeral. I have also done a few removals (picking up the deceased from their place of death and transporting them to the funeral home). As a salesman I would help people plan and pay for their funeral while they were still alive and well. I also worked in the front office for a while, where one of my duties was to prepare death certificates.

[jeffus]

Strangest thing that ever happened to me at work - My boss was riding his motorcycle in the rain. Got hit by a Jeep. Leg was crushed and had to be amputated.

Now, here's the wierd part- he brought the severed leg into the office! In a 5 gallon bucket of formaldehyde and proceeded to show it off to anyone willing to view it.

All of this while he's settling into the new artificial limb, changing dressings, oozing blood, and dealing with 'phantom feelings'.

Way f'ed-up, had to find a new job pronto!

[Don-Dad]

Dang Jeff, that is some f'ed up story, yuck! :shock:

Never really had any strange jobs, started working on "hot" roofs at 14 (hot asphalt roofing, not fun) worked at the local grocery store and did roofing, painting, lawns, etc... in my college days. Worked a mailroom a bit and was a librarian turned webmaster turned Stay at Home Dad. Sorry, a boring story, hehehe!

I'm sure Louis will have something to add, even if its not strange :P

[waldo]

Wow louis, nowhere near that exciting, but I had some pretty stressfull times working as a pharmacy tech at a large hospital. We would get calls for stat meds and have to "build" the iv bags in a sterile room. Knowing that the drugs I was pulling out and shooting into bags would be entering into a patients body within 60 seconds to possibly save their life was quite a rush. No room for error. Also, we would make chemotherapy treatments which were quite tedious. We would do it all under specially vented counters where only our hands could enter through slots at the bottom. Some of that stuff is like syrup and very hard to work with and dissolve.

Also, we would deliver schedualled meds throughout the hospital and so got to see some pretty crazy stuff, like people coding, naked old ladies, and people no longer with us, still in their beds getting ready to be cleaned up. We were also in charge of dealing with narcotics, including stuff like cocaine. I would have to make an eye-drop solition made with cocaine and it is pretty strange to be weighing it out on a scale like it was flour for baking, lol. :supz:

Waldo

[SAHF]

Strangest job.... :-k

I would have to say what I was 17, I worked for a company called Hydro Industries. You know the one, Managment Trainee! :wink:

After I went through the entire training, they decided to show us what we would be doing. To my surprise..it was Rainbow vaccums! :shock: :lol:

The best part was, after you give your presentation you had the people a box of steaks. Needless to say, after the first week of the actual selling, they were out of steaks ( :wink: ) and I did not sell a one!

Nice BBQ for all my friends! 8)

[tt3]

No compitition for mine either, I think the strangest job... well, two. Dog bather at a kennel. Ever see a small business owner with a bark collar at her neck barking at a mirror to see if it works? Absofreakin'lutely hilarious!
The other was being a male handyman at a womens shelter where men were forbidden. *knock knock* "Maintenence"
hmmm
yeah, nothing like using diaper gel for liquid nuclear waste, eh Louis? :lol:

[Jackson's Dad]

I think my strangest job was when I was hired to be a cover story for an interoffice affair. At least, that's my impression!

I got a part-time job at a electronics parts company, doing layout for their catalog. I'd show up in the evening, after hours, and work with my boss for a couple hours. After a couple weeks, we were joined by this rather cute woman, who was "needed" (for some reason). After another week, my boss and this woman would excuse themselves to an empty conference room to "go over the next project" for an hour or so. Right. A few more days later, I'd show up and be handed my assignment, and never see them again until it was time to leave. Ah, aint inter-office romance a beautiful thing! :wink: