Me and JD were talking about this last week.

I think mine was making CD racks for my friends design company..

or skating on grease..

I've had a fair few! I worked in a glass factory when I was 16 and they put me on a night shift. My job was to pull glass out of a furnace. Once I nearly broke my pelvic bone when a crate of glass was pushed into me. One night, I was idly chatting with the foreman and I told him my age. He sent me home at 2am in the morning and I had to walk 5 miles to get home.

JDInteractive said:

Aww.. how sad...

Thats pretty bad to have to make your own way home at that age at that time..

Didnt you participate in a bit of glass blowing when you were there?

REDFEATHERS said:

It wasnt that kind of factory but Id love to do that. I won a glass bowl for some artwork once.

REDFEATHERS said:

What???

I worked one summer in the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant. It was like working with Gordon Ramsey with the only difference being I didn't get a word he was saying

I lived in a small town in Wyoming and when I was 17 I worked at the local butchers business during deer hunting season.Well I was paid $2 a deer to dress em out and cut em up.Needless to say I only made $6 dollars before I said screw this and quit.

Another bad one was Taco Smell when I was 15,that place was nasty and there were roaches everywhere.I no longer eat at Taco Bell for that reason ! Another job: !

1. Working in an underground bunker that surveyed the skies over Europe.

2. Working in an adult sex shop.

Imago said:

I would hate to think you working in a kids sex shop!

I used to sell perfume..

Worked in a theatre

i was a 911 operator for the city of minneapolis

it was the worse job EVER.

I would not call it a worst job,but I also worked in an adult sex shop! Now that was fun got 2 see all the new videos and check out all the new toys.Plus the fact that I meet a few freaks that shopped there and hooked up with em 4 a booty call. The worst part was cleaning up the Peep Show Booths.So I gave this homeless guy $20 a week 2 clean up all the spilled sperm on the floor and video monitors.

IrrisistableRich said:

Thankfully, we didn't have a theatre or booths. They tend to be gay trade/troll hookup locations anyways, , so plenty of sperm to be spilled there
Ours was more like a Spencer's gift shop, but with xxx merchandise. I've met some REALLY intersting folks from that gig. But, I wouldn't ever dream of working in one of those nowadays. I just don't want to know that much about folks. I really dont.

I was once a nanny for Jane Seymour's first two kids. Glad it's over and no thanks!!

PaisleyPark5083 said:

For real? You didn't enjoy that?

MoniGram said:

For real, about 15 years ago when she lived here in Santa Barbara. She was not a nice person at all, she was very rude and demeaning, and it trickled on to her kids as well. Someone I had known for years had recommended me to her, she was in a fix because her children's nanny was stuck in england without a visa. My job lasted about a year, I only stayed because the money was excellent.

PaisleyPark5083 said:

Don't you just hate when people act like that?

I was a prop for a medical class at some college when I was 14.
I had to lay on a bed and keep my eyes close like I was dead. I had fake blood and fake cuts on me and grass and dirt and shit. And the students had to figure out what happened to me.

DanceWme said:

Weird...very, very weird!

When I was preggo with my last son I worked at the Chicago Hilton and Towers. I stayed till I was 8 months. they wanted us to scrub the toilets by hand . most of us including me, bought toilet brushes from the dollar store to use instead. It was really hard work cleaning 14-15 rooms in 8 hours. sometimes they would go easy on me and reduce my number, but it was still rough. I couldn't even look at my apartment when I got home

The most unusual is working at a mortuary

I've also worked doing mannequin modeling

I worked at a drywall yard. Imagine the fairy princess of gay land selling powertools and recommending metal studs and shit to lumberjacks It would have been better as a porn but not real life
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Detasseling corn.

Basically for hybrid corn you don't want it to pollinate on its own so seed corn companies pay a bunch of junior high and high school kids to get up at the crack of dawn (seriously 4 or 5am) and walk through acres and acres of field corn row by row to pull the tassles off each individual corn stalk so it doesn't pollinate itself.

It sucked--it was wet (because we started before the sun came up and dried the dew, because it was cooler), it was hot (because it's July), there were all sorts of nasty bugs, there were only portable toilets, which you used at the risk of having the high school guys tip over while you were inside. I had cuts all up and down the insides of my arms from the corn leaves.

But as a 13 or 14 year old with no other job options, it paid really well. And as the article says, it really is a rite of passage. I only did it one year to prove I could, then I got a 'posh' job lifeguarding at the pool.

In my first career, I was a TV weather person.

the worst isn't worth mentioning. it was just boring and gross.

the most unusual was when i spent a summer teaching drama to girls in a reform school. that was actually a very uplifting job, as unusual as it was.

Worked at an auto shop, was very dirty, I sold people whatever work needed to be done on their car. I still don't know how I was able to lift those huge truck tires a good learning experience though, I know a lot more about cars now

veronikka said:

sounds like fun.

REDFEATHERS said:

My worst job?

Doing dishes in a restarant for 2$ per hour.

Thought me a lot about the value of money.

not unusual but the worst job ive had was being a bookings clerk....man i hate answering phones all day and saying the same shit over and over and over....it turned me partially into a robot! That and being a check-out dude...man that shit is boring, luckily i got moved into the fresh produce part which was cruisy as

DevotedPuppy said:

My sister detasseled corn for approximately...an hour.