I am not normally one to post off-topic threads but was highly amused by this BBC article. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36902572 Particularly liked the guy who found out he had been employed because the other 3 employees wanted someone to talk to - nice work if you can get it. Been lucky that during my working life I have always found my work interesting (probably helps being a moron) although I did have a summer job while at university in a Chicken Hatchery. This included such mundane tasks as packing eggs in trays to go in the huge incubators, cleaning out the incubators after use and killing off the male or female chickens after they had hatched to send to a zoo to feed the animals. We used to get a tray of eggs per week as a bonus but I used to refuse mine as i couldn't face seeing another one. Anyone else had any boring or unusual jobs?
wouldnt mind this one. i once got a job as a glass cutter. I lasted till lunchtime then never returned.
In a summer holiday from university I once had a job in a meat factory, peeling the skin off boiled cow tongues. It weren't fun....but not as bad as the poor ****er who has to cut the tongues out of the cows in the first place.
A mate of mine from Yorkshire is a pig farmer and he pays a guy to basically **** off rare pigs. urgh.
I worked on the maintenance crews for the Tyne Tunnel back in the early 80's, jobs included working under the road deck in the tunnel, grass cutting, painting and many other jobs including cleaning the massive fans that blow the air through the tunnel.
I had forgotten about a Christmas job with my brother killing and plucking 500 Turkeys. Couldn't understand why the other people he had helping looked at me strangely until he told me afterwards that he had told them that I normally worked as the AI man for bulls in the area. Remember one night I had plucked so many I was even dreaming of plucking Turkeys and woke up and found I had pulled my pillow to pieces.
I one did a job in which I had to put a spatula in box on a conveyor belt which was timed so that you had to really concentrate The guy after me had to check that each box had a spatula in and if not press a red button to highlight I'd missed one It actually had a siren and the **** loved it Nightmare
I once spent a summer putting French language labels over all of the English writing on running shoes bound for Quebec. Never realised there was so much writing on a shoe: rwo on the heel, one on the side and two more under the tongue. At the end of each week I had to sweep out the warehouse. It seemed like a treat in comparison.
One summer job I had many years ago now was to tidy up and weed in a cemetery. I was working in the Council's Park's Dept and was based at Nun's Moor and part of the tasks was to keep the cemetery behind the General Hospital neat and tidy.
I once a had a job sandblasting plastic models of bones. When operating the machine you had to wear an anti static wrist strap because of the amount on static electricity this machine built up. Because my strap was a bit loose every now and then I get an electric shock to my forehead. I think this was the only thing that kept me awake on the job.
Wasn't unusual but whilst at college I put all the supplements into magazines.... Mind numbing to say the least. Saw older people doing it and thought "I don't want to be doing this when I'm older". As it happens, I'm now of the opinion that these people are far from losers, if you're working and providing then you're doing something right. I've got a supposedly exciting job now but can go ages without seeing any action and it's almost perverse "wanting" someone to have an emergency!
Had a summer job beside massive fields of roses. Had to stand in a warehouse and pick off thorns off the stems of roses that then had to be rebudded. Extremely boring and every day your hands were covered in wee cuts.
I've worked around the UK on a fair few Road and Bridge projects. Two of the most boring were close to home, a year or so on the High Level Bridge. The highlight of which was being strung out over the side of the bridge on a lanyard. Then there's the Tyne Bridge, being stood on top of the beauty when it was last painted. I also had the pleasure of spending a fair bit time, working beneath the footways in the walkways that run the full length of the bridge. Full of the pigeon **** and god knows what else at the time. The interesting part of the walkways was seeing the river down below, through the holes in the floor. One unusual thing I have from the Tyne Bridge is a Prototype of the Lanterns on the Bridge Balustrade , which I have in my garden. .
