What is the weirdest job you've ever had?

I currently sell Pokemon cards. Someone, please top that.

My current job, the job itself, is not weird at all, but the place I work seems absurd at times. The only way I can describe it without going into details that one should not go into about their current place of employment is to refer you to Joseph Heller's classic novel Catch 22. Take away the war and the Italian whores and you pretty much have my work place.

One summer in college I worked 3rd shift at a sheet metal factory riviting duct work. What can I say -- it worked with my schedule that summer!

I made a fair bit of change selling rare plastic model horses and a random assortment of books...The odd part was the amount of packing involved for the models...bubble wrap, toilet paper, newspapers, peanuts. Those model people are crrrrrrrazy. 250 for a piece of plastic? SOLD.

Oh, and 5,000 posts!!!

My job itself isnt weird, I work at a small animal hospital, but the people I deal with every day are NUTS.

The latest story involves a woman who came in last week, claiming we "murdered her cat" (it was in congenital renal failure and she elected to euthanize and remained present for the euthanasia, all of which took place over a month ago...) and threw her FIFTEEN prescription medication bottles on the counter in front of me, saying that is what she needed to take in order to live without her cat. She then proceeded to show me the scars on her arms where she tried committing suicide because she was so depressed....Said client also owed us over 1200 in boarding fees because she had dumped her remaining cat off with us for the past 3 months (probably while she was away in a white, padded room somewhere).

I was offered a job as a hand model once...

Weirdest JOB ever, or weirdest thing you've ever been paid for ever? My husband and I got really close to being prostitutes while I was living in Germany with him. Because he worked in the hospital, he got "insider information" about studies that needed participants. We participated in everything we could qualify for. Jan sold blood platelets (I would have, but I apparently don't have enough platelets). The weirdest study Jan ever did involved abstaining from eating any salted food for 2 weeks. He took two pills once a day that supposedly contained enough iodine to sustain his body, but otherwise couldn't eat anything with salt. He got paid like 500 euros for it, though. It was kind of like selling body parts on the black market, but a lot less lucrative.

I worked the Christmas season one year at Christmas Tree Shops. I did preprocessing out back and basically unwrapped as many glittery obnoxious xmas items you can imagine while Little Drummer Boy played endlessly in the background.

Then the following summer I got promoted to working in the Health & Beauty section, where my main concern was all the friggin' kids stealing the various vibrating rings, lube, and razor blades. Oh, and people using those little mini portable toothbrushes and then leaving them on the shelves...gross.

I assembled the casings of giant bullets for a metal plant that contracted with the Army. I think they were called elephant bullets, but it was because of their size, not their intended target.

I got paid eighty bucks for a 10 day study in which I played on a Wii for two hours a day. Ha I sign myself on for whatever paid studies I can find on campus.

I want to do that!!! We never have cool studies like that.

People still collect Pokemon cards??

dude. Saw two full grown college kids sitting at a table in starbucks PLAYING with pokemon cards. And one of the dude's moms called and he was all like, "yeah ok FINE mom, just let me finish this game. ok BYE." And he went back to playing. They got into a fight over psychic cards being better than water cards? Oh my god I wish I had had a video camera to film it. It was the scarriest, funniest experience I'd had in a while hahaha.

Do we work together?! Hahaha...
I also work at a small animal hospital...I have never had less faith in the human race. I thought horse people were crazy, but some of our clients put even the most wacky of horse people to shame. I can't even pick the best story to share here, there are FAR too many.

I currently work part time as a "special agent" for KGB.com. I answer texts from people about various topics. Basically whenever someone has an important question they can't wAit for an answer they text KGB and I look up the answer for them. I've answered such gems as "how do you get a girl to have sex with you?" "does marijuana. Lose potency after awhile?" and "I broke my arm what should I do?"

Sorry for any egregious format errors in this post. I'm replying from my phone and still getting the hang of it.

Do you ever want to berate people for being morons?

ALL the time! Especially since these people pay $0.99 to get answers for these questions.

How did you get that job? I wouldn't mind getting paid to google stuff, and laugh at the questions people ask.

Ditto. That sounds fun.

Go to www.kgb.com Down at the bottom click on "Become an Agent." You have to take a test and if you pass that, then there's a bit of training you need to complete. Once you're in there, it's a pretty sweet gig. The pay isn't great (I would only depend on it as a couple extra bucks here and there), but you can basically work whenever you want. I typically work while I'm sitting on the couch watching tv. I figure I might as well earn some money while I'm vegging on the couch.

Define "a couple of extra bucks," if you would be so kind :-)

What's the test like?

You're paid $0.10 per text answered, which works out to an hourly wage of about min. wage. It depends though on how quick you are at answering questions, and how many questions are being received by the server. There are definitely busier times of day to be working. kgb_ does offer special incentives every once in awhile. For example, if you agreed to field texts during the Super Bowl, they paid $0.50 per text answered. Again, I wouldn't rely on this to support myself financially. I use it to get some extra spending money every month. Even though I've answered some ridiculous questions, I do enjoy researching different items so that I can add my useless knowledge/trivia for that fateful day I'm on Jeopardy (or Who Wants to be a Millionaire).

PG: The test is pretty easy. They test you on multiple different topics. Basically they give you enough time to research the answer (if you're efficient at googling), so you don't have to know everything, just how to find an answer. It doesn't take long to do either. I think it took 15 min. when I took it.

Sounds up my alley. I had NO IDEA, CK, that you too aspired to be a professional game show contestant. Suh-weet.

What did you answer to the sex one?

Also, is this done from your phone or from the computer?

I passed the test and got an email that they currently have enough answerers and aren't doing any training sessions right now. They said they will alert me when they start doing new training sessions. Count me in as one of those who secretly desires to be on a game/trivia show. (actually, i really want to be on price is right... haha)

Oh, and to answer the original question, when I first started college in CO, I worked in a porn/adult store. I lasted 2 days and quit because it was just too strange for me! (Mostly the people who came in and the very strange questions they would ask... and the pervy guys.....)

They have a bunch of canned answers in their database that typically come in handy for questions like those. I think I chose one that was along the lines of "just be yourself..yada yada yada"

The people who ask the questions do so from their phone, I answer the questions from my computer.

I have never found being myself to be helpful.

Dang :( That would be a wonderful job while I'm in college.

Hmmm...I was always under the impression that the only quality women needed to get laid was breathing*.






*breathing optional