Here's a random list of things that I've been paid to do. Most are jobs but a few aren't technically jobs. And most are in order.
- Kissed an Aunt
- Picked up apples for Nana
- Paperboy (was pecked at by chickens and bitten on the ass by a dog)
- Babysitter
- Pamphlet hander outer (in doors)
- Sold flowers on the corner (fucking dangerous at times)
- Customized calendars for plumbing company with calligraphy
- Helped kids learn how to do archery
- Busboy
- Dishwasher (was forced to pluck a chicken one time outside in heatwave)
- Food prep guy
- Telemarketer (used to make prank phone calls when manager left room)
- Sales clerk at audio store at a Farmers Market
- Drove sports cars to New Jersey to be sold at auction
- Participant in a medical "cold study" (drank the whole weekend)
- Factory worker
- Loaded 18 wheeler trucks with boxes
- Sold illegal things
- Business cleaner
- Standup comic
- Product Development Manager and Director for a giftware companies
- Business owner
- Sold things on Ebay and Half.com
- Sales/Marketing
And I'm sure I'm going to think of more. I'll ad them to the comments.
So what did you slackers do?
Man-ho. Money sucked but good bennies.
ReplyDeleteBud Girl.
ReplyDelete...and I sense a trend with you and chickens.
Frogcheeks - I was also an "escort" but with ladies.
ReplyDeleteWell, at least they were dressed like ladies.
JenJen - You mean a girl that hands out flower buds in a bar or a budweiser girl?
You got paid to drive a sports car to an auction? How great was that job?
ReplyDeleteBudweiser girl.
ReplyDeleteand St. Pauli Girl
and...ah well. you get the point.
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ReplyDeleteAwesome.
ReplyDeleteI always heard people selling flowers roadside were moonies (you know, working for Reverend Moon).
Everything I thought I knew about you is all lies.
C Camel - it was great. I was in college and we used to drive the hell out of them on the way there. Favorite one was a corvette.
ReplyDeleteJenJen - If you don't produce a picture you're lying.
Kristen - I sold them on street corners. I'll right a post about it. It was very odd.
Why do I think I’ve talked about this before…
ReplyDeleteWhile in college, I helped out with my professor’s eBay business. He sold antique dolls, which required you to take pictures of them both clothed and nude to show any problems with the porcelain body.
So essentially, I spent my summer taking pictures of naked dolls in my professor’s basement.
That’s not creepy at all.
I did the telemarketing thing. Sold Playboy subscriptions. Easiest. Job. EVER.
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I did the medical testing for about 4 days just after college. Great fun peeing every 30 minutes and tracking the production. And they didn't even have skinemax!
ReplyDeleteStacey- that is creepy.
ReplyDeleteKendall - but that's an easy sell coming from a girl I would think.
The mad woman - I actually faked my cold and got into the study.
Funny thing, that. It was mostly women who were renewing it for their husbands. Nothing says "I love you, now leave me alone and spank it" like renewing your hubby's Playboy for him.
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Zibbsy I think my husband stole the pictures. I'm sure there's a polaroid around.
ReplyDeleteI'm also quite certain there are hard copies around since I had my picture taken a lot.
Held baby pigs while an old man with a knife cut their balls off.
ReplyDelete(Actually, more of a "hobby" than a "job" since I didn't get paid.)
(Oh, and since you're wondering, we hed the balls to the dogs.)
Scope- haha. Now that's bad job.
ReplyDeleteLone female fiddle player in an all guy band.
ReplyDeleteUndercover DEA agent in Miami.
Ben and Jerry's ice cream flavor inventor.
Crossword Puzzle Champion of the Universe.
Model for Hello Kitty! backpacks. But only on Japanese billboards.
I've tried the escort thing too : but instead of gettin' paid - I was the one ending up paying ...
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model for lingerie ... http://thatblueyak.blogspot.com/2010/04/travel-tip-that-i-really-didnt-want.html
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hand model
foot model
1 brow model
Well Read H - impressive!
ReplyDeleteDominica - Brow model? Cool.
hmm... I don't know if mine are very interesting. Well one is kind of weird (meaning embarrassing). I was in this pretty bad goth music video, it's on Youtube, I might share the link...(totally cringing right now).
ReplyDeleteGage - You HAVE TO GIVE ME THE LINK! I won't share it if you don't want me to. DM me on Twitter.
ReplyDeleteI've linked you in my post today, thought I should let you know!
ReplyDeleteThough I suspect you won't see any "bump"
Thanks for giving me something to write about!
http://adiaryofamadwoman.blogspot.com/2010/04/day-20-i-feel-theme-coming-on.html
The Mad Woman - Thanks!
ReplyDeleteHa ha, OK Zibbs! Commenting on your site -- want to be uber cool, too.
ReplyDeleteAs for crazy jobs, I worked at a salmon processing plant for a summer in Kenai, Alaska. Lived in a tent for three months and played with fish guts!
I worked in a rectory. I know, it's hard to imagine me anywhere near a church.
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You have so many fans, I'm surprised you noticed lil ol me wasn't commenting! Doesn't mean I'm not reading :)
ReplyDeleteNice jobs.
I work the water massage table at the mall.
ReplyDeleteThanks Kimmie. You know I'm a comment whore.
ReplyDeleteMrs Hall - Gross. Do you have to touch people? I hope not.
"Pamphlet hander outer"
ReplyDeleteI hate you f***ing Jehovah Witnesses. I don't come to your church and drink beer, keep your church off my lawn!
Chris - They were pamphlets to run Jehovah Witnesses out of the neighborhood..
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