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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!

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.

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.

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.

@MrsHansen82: whoa. Yes, very weird.

@Mrs. Oatmeal: I bet that tasted nasty by the time you were done!

@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!

@tillma: are those all separate jobs, or different parts of the same job?

@espion: Good stories now, but holy cow!

@amandab8: those are some doozies!

@nskillet: I bet you saw weird things at Costco!

@yoursilverlining: DAMN, you mean they don't?!

@lamariniere: that sounds really itchy.

@icebergmom: how did you get the gig for the marine biologist? Sounds cool!

@sunshineandsushi: that sounds extremely awkward for all involved.

@lovehoneybee: wow!

@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?!

@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!

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.

I worked at Chic-Fil-a and got to wear the cow costume and dance around in the food court. Those costumes are HOT.