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I worked for the Bargain Finder (craigslist in newspaper/book form!) I folded all the sections together and strapped them to a skid.

My friends and I would drink beer and go to work. Sometimes we would drink beers on the lawn in front of the printing press building.

A few of the gems who worked there:

A woman who drank cough medicine on a regular basis (right out of the bottle!)

A dirty old man who once sat between me and my friend and said "I love sitting between two thongs".

I worked for the county property tax assessors office in college. The weird part was that my whole job was just taking a quick photo of the outside of each house, to add to the online database. I just kept my window down and snapped a quick digital photo of every house in a particular neighborhood. Like a human version of the Google maps car.

Best part time college job ever.

Other than that--I worked as in the chemistry department's chemical storage room for a semester. Labeling chemicals I'd never heard of and couldn't spell, typing things on triplicate form (had never used a real life typewriter before), etc.

Worked at Olive Garden (not weird, just awful), Outback, and Jeckyll & Hyde club, which I guess is sort of weird.

And I stocked textbooks in the campus book store.

I worked for the world premiere beanie baby jeweller in high school. They literally made jewellery for beanie babies to wear.

Working in a food booth, in a costume, at a renaissance fair and cleaning horse stalls at a terribly snooty riding stable.

I worked for a dermatologist and my job was to outline cancerous moles with software. It was borrrring.

My first job in college was a garnishment law clerk. I cataloged things that we repoed (like alligator boots!).

My first "adult" job was working in the trucking industry - I rented semis to truckers. It was so much fun, and I was there 3 years.

DH's first job out of law school was asking old ladies about their vaginas (he worked for a law firm suing for transvaginal mesh)

I was a bug picker in college for a summer. Basically sat at a microscope and scanned through samples from various streams in the area picking out and counting the different type of bug larvae I found. It was pretty interesting actually!

Costume Character for Six Flags New England. Was Taz and Sylvester the cat.

I was also a sample server at Costco. I can't tell you have many weird things happen there!!

In college I worked for a call center, but my specific department took medical questionaires for people wanting to do smoking studies for a Philip Morris lab. there were people who had cancer calling in to participate, I was the queen of explaining "I'm sorry you are disqualified due to....." We had all these stipulations and we got some wacky people calling in

The weirdest one-off "job" I had was being the "after" in a diet pill commercial. It was just from the waist down, jumping into my jeans, pretending like I had lost a crapload of weight from the diet pills.

Sorry, I should have put SPOILER ALERT before that, in case anyone was under the impression those "before" and "after" shots are always real!

None of my other jobs have been really weird; I was a sample giver-outer at Sam's Club a few times through a temp agency, and also gathered signatures for petitions but other than that, normal stuff.

Not really "weird" but my first "real" job was an intake coordinator at a drug rehab facility. Lots of weird stories came from that!

@Boheme: what!? Is that a real thing for jelly fish stings?!

I once worked for a few months for a crazy lady who made cashmere thongs.

@.twist.: Haha, we have a paper like that here too! It's called the Thrifty Nickel

In college I worked as a telemarketer, cold calling about mortgage refinancing. Not weird, just shitty. It's a soul-sucking job and I didnt last long.

Legit weirdest would probably be haunted house makeup artist! I worked 2 seasons at a huge haunted house here, doing makeup and as an actor (I was a zombie "cathouse" madam the first year and a vampire the second). It was fun as hell.

@lamariniere: Really?! People buy those?

I worked in the mall at a makeup stall. We had this 'amazing 5 in one make up' that was basically bronzer and we had to convince people to come and have a makeover and tell them all about this miracle makeup that was nail varnish, lipstick, eye shadow, bronzer and fake tan all in one! I had no training and was about 17 at the time giving all these makeovers. Everyone left looking orange! I was awful at it but the money was great until they put me on commission only! Lol

I worked at a concert venue in the food vendor aection one summer. I ended up meeting a lot of bands and it was actually pretty fun. Hot, though.

The summer before college, I worked as a body wrap technician at a weight loss clinic. I had to wrap nearly naked women with ace bandages soaked in a solution. Then they worked out for an hour in them until I unwrapped them. Oh, and I had to take body measurements before and after as well, which required so awkward positioning at times.

I worked concession stands for baseball games in middle school! I actually didn't mind it and it helped a lot with my math.

I also worked a pronto pup stand at the state fair. Before the fair started we're spear hotdogs to get them ready.

My very first mortgage job was telemarketing to nudge homeowners to refinance their mortgage. However, the marketing team wanted us to use scare tactics in our most worrisome voice when leaving messages (like there was some pending issue with their current payment plan). "Please call me back regarding a very serious matter about your most recent mortgage payment."

I would always have my calls returned but I hated doing that to people so I quit about 6 weeks into the job.

My first job, I was right out of high school and I was a lei greeter model. Gave out leis to tourists at the airport and got my pic snapped with them. Later they would give out the pics to the people who preordered the pic package. If they didn't pick them up, we would all go through the pics and take home pics of us and the unknown tourists. Our highlight was when there were groups of 30 or more. We literally did nothing but follow around the photographer (the brains) all day and wait for him to point out the VIPs.