Weird Summer Jobs

[iann666]

Anyone have any weird summer or fill in jobs

 

[MissVictoria]

I've had a few weird summer jobs. Some old lady paid me to come to her house and move the furniture in her living room around every day. I've also been paid to go out and dig up clay.

 

[sarahuk4]

Must be every mans dream summer job , ehhhh , Ian ?......lol.lol............

 

[Bob Peale]

I have a friend who once had a job counting furniture for the Department of Justice.

 

[estevie]

I had a summer job once working on a horse farm. It didn't last very long cause the OLD man I worked for, tried to seduce me with cheap champagne in the back of the barn. I tell ya, it was one of the scariest experiences of my life.

 

[ksmybuttons]

Ah, to have a Summer Job

It's been sooooo long since all I needed was a summer or fill in job....
If I dust off my memory chips, I had some fun ones.
I carried a sandwich sign.
I painted pictures on the windows of a local store.
I tallied commercials on the competitors' radio stations to see who was advertising.

 

[iann666]

There must be more

One of the strangest I had was cleaning the roofs of double decker buses before the giant carwashes were around

 

[Desert Amazon]

 

[mig]

I was once a leading stoker

in the Womens Royal Naval Service.

 

[Texan]

Back in the summer of 1971, Gerber opened a new factory in Venezuela to produce "tropical fruit" baby foods. The first "ship-load" was sent to the distribution center in San Juan, Puerto Rico where my friend's dad was the manager. The U.S. FDA (Food & Drug Administration) inspected the shipment and decided it could not be sold because the net weight (4 3/4 oz.) was not printed on the lower 1/3 of the label. The fact that the weight was printed on the upper 1/3 of the label and on the top of the jar did not matter. This is how I got a job sitting in a warehouse with a rubber stamp and ink pad, stamping 4 3/4 oz. on jars of baby food for three months at $1.65 per hour. There was so much of that stuff that I figure there are probably still high school kids spending their summers stamping those jars.

I guess that's how I developed such strong opinions against silly government regulations.

 

[Wiggles]

LOL that's cute Iann

To answer your question, I'm still working at my weird summer job. It's also a weird Winter, Spring, and Fall job.

Desert Amazon- Did you turn it down????

 

[Gingersnap]

A candy maker, it was my job to put little almonds on the chocolate mice

 

[cymbidia]

I did "timber thinning" for the U.S. Department of Forestry for three summers while i was in college. What that means is that i was part of a chainsaw crew; we thinned (= cut down) the carpet of little baby trees that were crowding out the stronger, central trees. I worked in the Modoc National Forest all three years.

Besides learning valuable chainsaw skills, i worked way the hell out in a national forest - gorgeous scenery, mostly male co-workers, no place to spend the money but for a few very memorable weekend trips to places like Crater Lake and Reno, food/housing provided at gov't expense, and good pay.

It was a **great** summer job for a college student.