What was your most Unusual Job?

[Peacemaker]

Driver, for Prostitutes, in Seattle, WA

"Independent contractor", Great Hourly Cash, Evening Hours, "Exciting" (what the h have I got myself into? ahh ...Danger?)

..well, I didn't last a week.

[dalebert]

PA for a documentary about men in the sex industry. Though it was to help a friend filmmaker and I didn't get paid so does it count?

[K. Darien Freeheart]

I used to clean cola syrup out of air ducts.

[Brandon]

As a telemarketer I sold undercoating for cars. During lunch, I left and never came back.

[MTPorcupine3]

I've had many temp jobs all my adult life. The longest full time job I ever had was three years in the Marines. The second longest was two years as an English teacher in Japan. Other than that it's been nothing but temp jobs, part time jobs, and private tutoring (English as a second language).

Since late 2003 I've I've been working off and on as a WWOOFer (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms, www.woofusa.org). Since the day after Easter I've been doing it full time. No two farms are alike, so everything is unusual. I'm on farm four this year. It's a horse and dog ranch in central North Carolina. I came to the Raleigh area for a wedding and worked it so I'd stay south for winter. Someday I'll write a book about my adventures. I've got the title already picked out: "The Lone WWOOFer".

In 1999 in Missoula, Montana, I went to the VA to see if they had work connections. While I was talking to the job placer he got a call from a TV studio technician wanting an aid for one day to accompany him to the top of the mountain where the relayer was. That involved a truck ride halfway up the mountain (unpaved), then my first snowmobile ride. Then when we got there, the technician discovered that he didn't have the right tools, or something like that. I got to walk about in the snow in the woods and take in the view while he figured stuff out. Then after it was all over and I got paid. Not much, but it's things like this that make the life of Rich Angell so interesting.

[Friday]

eBay smut peddler 

[Pat K]

Phone cleaner.

[Peacemaker]

As a telemarketer I sold undercoating for cars. During lunch, I left and never came back.

[Peacemaker]

PA for a documentary about men in the sex industry. Though it was to help a friend filmmaker and I didn't get paid so does it count?

Yes, that counts, sir.

[Lloyd Danforth]

eBay smut peddler 

I thought everybody had done that!

[Raineyrocks]

Taking care of exotic parrots for a very strange woman.

I would take a kid with me every "bird cage cleaning" day and yeah, I paid them.   I lasted about 4 weeks I think which was pretty good for me.

[AntonLee]

I got paid once to be the headless person you see when Channel 7 or something does a story about fat people , where they show a fat person walking but no head.  One of them was me. . when I was 20.  I got $40 or something.  I saw it a few times, but not since a few years ago.  I always knew I was destined to be file footage.

thankfully, I'm not THAT fat anymore. . .still a walking lard collection. . .but I'm still working on it.

[Moebius Tripp]

I got to play a specialty-extra in "Army of Darkness: Evil Dead 3".  I've never been an actor, and wasn't seeking any "extra" work.  It was quite a bit of fun, though.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Walking all day under Powerlines with a 75 pound tank on my back spraying what was probably Agent Orange and Kerosene on the vegetation.  When we encountered woody plants we had to stomp them and spray where they broke.

[ancapagency]

I spent 10 years being paid by the Feral Gooferment to: kill people and break things, train to kill people and break things, and gather and analyze intelligence in order to more effectively kill people and break things.

I spent a bit less than a year killing people and breaking things (and training others to kill people and break things) for a different employer.

I spent about 6 months as an international courier and odd jobs man for the Feral Gooferment.

I did counter-surveillance for a congressional campaign, covered as a campaign volunteer.  The opposition bugged the campaign office, and engaged in widespread vote fraud, with the cooperation of local and state law enforcement.  Despite all the evidence (including two waist-high stacks of binders full of affadavits recounting eye-witness accounts of vote fraud), the recommendation of the FBI was "Do nothing."  And "Nothing" was exactly what was done.

There are probably a few other jobs I've done that would be considered "unusual."