https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 15 May 2026 18:50:51 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had/page/2#post-1862721 Mon, 15 Sep 2014 09:36:52 +0000 MrsTiz 1862721@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I worked at Chic-Fil-a and got to wear the cow costume and dance around in the food court. Those costumes are HOT. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had/page/2#post-1862671 Mon, 15 Sep 2014 09:12:22 +0000 808love 1862671@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@78h2o: that clown entrepreneurship is awesome! You have got some skillz! I was a college radio DJ too. Like you, I am pretty sure I was painful to listen to as well even though I spoke in English!! :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had/page/2#post-1862662 Mon, 15 Sep 2014 09:07:28 +0000 teawithpaloma 1862662@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have two normal jobs that were sort of weird because of the location. I was a waitress at Johnny Rocket's which included choreographed dancing and I was a waitress at a assisted living home. The older adults were so great though but there were lots of ups and downs with people getting sick or being difficult due to illness or feeling alone. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had/page/2#post-1862357 Sun, 14 Sep 2014 20:39:34 +0000 78h2o 1862357@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When I was 12, my friend and I had our own clown business called "Clowning Around". No joke. We did face painting and balloon animals at little kid parties for like $50. It was a good gig except for the costume.</p> <p>When I studied abroad in Madrid, I was assigned a radio talk show (in Spanish) as my school internship. I'm sure it was painful for anyone who kept the station on to listen to my marginal Spanish for 30 min straight! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had/page/2#post-1862267 Sun, 14 Sep 2014 19:08:39 +0000 Nskillet 1862267@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LovelyPlum: YES! I once said John Voight, and someone take a crap on the ground and run it over with a cart all at the same store within hours or each other. I can't get over how many people feed themselves and their children with samples and treat you rudely. Was hysterical! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had/page/2#post-1862221 Sun, 14 Sep 2014 18:26:45 +0000 SugarplumsMom 1862221@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was once a brand rep for Jose Cuervo and XBox's FIFA soccer game. I just sat and smiled, sometimes took pictures with people. Definitely not something I'd normally do. It's actually very far from my personality, but I was about to leave the country and needed some part-time jobs in the meanwhile. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had/page/2#post-1862158 Sun, 14 Sep 2014 17:07:48 +0000 LovelyPlum 1862158@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsHansen82: whoa. Yes, very weird.</p> <p>@Mrs. Oatmeal: I bet that tasted nasty by the time you were done!</p> <p>@snowjewelz: I did some volunteer work at an OR in high school, and our job was to take clean supplies to the ORs. I wasn't allowed to touch the dirty stuff, but I worked with someone whose job it was to transport dirty scalpels to an elevator, where they would go off to be cleaned. I imagine they worked with the people who had to transport the tissue!</p> <p>@tillma: are those all separate jobs, or different parts of the same job?</p> <p>@espion: :shocked: Good stories now, but holy cow!</p> <p>@amandab8: those are some doozies!</p> <p>@nskillet: I bet you saw weird things at Costco!</p> <p>@yoursilverlining: DAMN, you mean they don't?!</p> <p>@lamariniere: that sounds really itchy.</p> <p>@icebergmom: how did you get the gig for the marine biologist? Sounds cool!</p> <p>@sunshineandsushi: that sounds extremely awkward for all involved.</p> <p>@lovehoneybee: wow!</p> <p>@lilyofthewest: I've had a bunch of temp jobs at banks, and I usually come out of them feeling that way, like how does anyone do this all day, every day?! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had/page/2#post-1862157 Sun, 14 Sep 2014 17:07:30 +0000 LovelyPlum 1862157@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I opened mail for the foreclosure department of a major bank in 2008, and sadly, they were very, very busy. Not terribly weird, but definitely boring and totally depressing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had/page/2#post-1862127 Sun, 14 Sep 2014 16:15:49 +0000 woodentulip 1862127@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>One summer in university I packed houses. It isn't that weird of a job, except I got to see some weeeeeird stuff. There were many things I packed that people really should not have been seen by strangers. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had/page/2#post-1862101 Sun, 14 Sep 2014 15:12:50 +0000 turquoisemama 1862101@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I worked at a gastroenterology office and filed photos of the inside of people's colons. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had/page/2#post-1862092 Sun, 14 Sep 2014 15:03:46 +0000 Mae 1862092@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My first (volunteer) job was working in the education department at a zoo. We'd put on plays for kids to teach them about animals, take live animals out into the zoo to let people pet them (my fav was the children's python, it made me laugh when grown ass men were so scared of an itty bitty snake being held by a teenage girl), and work the petting zoo. Then I worked in the gift shop at the zoo which I guess was not all that weird, but really sort of awesome. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had/page/2#post-1862088 Sun, 14 Sep 2014 15:00:38 +0000 lilyofthewest 1862088@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I temped for a bank that was about to merge out of existence. For 8 weeks I sorted deposit slips from teller window deposits. I had to make sure they were in correct branch, window, teller ID #, and time order in preparation for scanning. It was brutally boring. I listened to a lot of books on tape. I can't believe that was someone's real, permanent position until they left and I took it on as a temp. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had/page/2#post-1862034 Sun, 14 Sep 2014 13:46:30 +0000 californiadreams 1862034@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i got paid to hang out with a boy who had a traumatic brain injury. It was kind of weird because I was basically paid to be his friend, we went to the movies, out to restaurants and other fun activities. He was close to my age, so maybe that's why it felt weird. Looking back, I wish I had been better at keeping touch so i could have been his friend without getting paid for it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had/page/2#post-1861949 Sun, 14 Sep 2014 10:26:20 +0000 BSB 1861949@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Weirdest job? Probably when I was a Cutco sales rep. I'm not a good sales women and I hated cold calling people. Best part of it was the demo knives I paid for and got. I tried it out for 3 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had/page/2#post-1861931 Sun, 14 Sep 2014 09:49:55 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 1861931@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I worked stuffing envelopes for a company that was in some lady's basement. I sat by myself for four hours after school and licked envelopes closed. I made $6 an hour- thought I was loaded! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had/page/2#post-1861844 Sun, 14 Sep 2014 02:25:59 +0000 Kimberlybee 1861844@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lovehoneybee: omg that sounds like it would make a great movie! LOL </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had#post-1861843 Sun, 14 Sep 2014 02:23:37 +0000 808love 1861843@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had#post-1861221 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 09:31:12 +0000 lovehoneybee 1861221@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I worked in a strip club for a year. Not dancing, but everything else (front door, fill-in bartender, cocktail waitress). My favorite position there was called Beaver Bucks Girl (Beaver Bucks was like Monopoly money that you could buy with your credit card and spend like cash in the club. </p> <p>I sat in a tiny, keypad-locked room with a barred window and about 4 cameras on me at all times. I handled customers buying lap dances and time in the Champagne rooms, and did some very large transactions, both cash and credit. </p> <p>One night a guy came in with his Black Amex and spent something like $60,000. Everyone working there that night made great tips--I walked out that morning with over a grand in cash tips, mostly from him (I was basically told to be his personal concierge for the night). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had#post-1861211 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 09:18:16 +0000 Kimberlybee 1861211@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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." </p> <p>I would always have my calls returned but I hated doing that to people so I quit about 6 weeks into the job. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had#post-1861206 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 09:10:39 +0000 lemondrop 1861206@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Most of the stuff I've done in the animal field is strange to those not in it. I've trained monkeys, worked as a wrangler, led tourist trail rides, collected scat (poop) for a wildlife study, submitted heads for rabies testing, applied oil to goose eggs so they don't hatch, and more, much more. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had#post-1861194 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 08:54:53 +0000 Mrs. Pen 1861194@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I worked concession stands for baseball games in middle school! I actually didn't mind it and it helped a lot with my math. </p> <p>I also worked a pronto pup stand at the state fair. Before the fair started we're spear hotdogs to get them ready. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had#post-1861188 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 08:37:15 +0000 Lindsay05 1861188@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I worked at a burger packing plant one summer. Working on an assembly line and stuffing them into boxes. It was a cold repetitive job. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had#post-1861132 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 06:44:53 +0000 sunshineandsushi 1861132@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had#post-1861111 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 05:46:38 +0000 Anutka 1861111@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I surveyed the US/Canada border one summer. (Like mapping out the border monuments) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had#post-1861108 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 05:28:13 +0000 Dandelion 1861108@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had#post-1861106 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 05:23:06 +0000 spaniellove 1861106@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I worked in my college's admissions office. Our job was to apply a formula to everyone's application and break down their whole high school career into one little number. For fun we'd try to guess who'd get in and who'd actually show up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had#post-1861103 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 05:11:43 +0000 Mrs.Lilac 1861103@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had#post-1861101 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 04:56:10 +0000 lamariniere 1861101@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Ra: I'm not so sure...I think she went out of business. :wink: but I must say they were really lovely, even if I never got to try them out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had#post-1861096 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 04:35:53 +0000 Ra 1861096@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lamariniere: Really?! People buy those? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-the-weirdest-jobs-youve-had#post-1861088 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 02:53:35 +0000 IcebergMom 1861088@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Planted trees, helped to dock boats in a boat hotel, and measured the length of mussels from the ocean for a marine biologist </p>