Weird Jobs
What is the weirdest job you have had since you started working? When I graduated law School and passed the bar in 1982, the national unemployment rate was 10.8%, and among attorneys, 25.8%. The job offers I got were not what I wanted so I started taking a few cases on my own and also started working for Equifax, who according to a 60 minutes profile in the 1980s, had more information stored on Americans than every Governmental agency combined.In my interview they asked me how the car I bought in 1978 was running and had the problems been fixed under my extended warranty. This was in age without laptops, cellphones and the intenet.
After 6 months, I becamse a surveillance expert. I would literally follow people and try to film them working when they were out on disability. I'd sign up for seminars cheaters were teaching; I'd film them doing manual labor in their yards when they were supposed to be disabled from a back injury. Good money, no supervision and except for getting caught once in awhile and having to avoid being killed, it was a unique fun job. I loved my super 8 lol. What was your weird job. P.S. Only had 2 people pull guns on me and only one fired a shot.
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last commentHeavy construction equipment repossessions for a bank owned leasing company. I would get paid to retrieve expensive equipment from contractors that were behind on their payments to the lease or loan company. Never had a confrontation with a person usually would get the equipment just turned over, but we did have a few times where dogs were roaming the yards where equipment was being kept. One time I was chased by a few Rotweilers, but fortunately was able to stare them down. Money was excellent I bought my first new car three months after starting that job.
I also worked summers at Jones Beach as a lifeguard, money wasn’t the greatest but the job was great for a young guy, met lots of hot women there.
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This rick’s job prospect at birth was a to be the Lion King. But I decided to pursue my inner rick. After partying with my childhood bud - the coolest warthog and meerkat in the frickin’ world - I discovered a bottle of Jack. Okay…there was some rich hunter that had a bottle of Jack and we stole it from him for shits and giggles. Also stole his laptop, which is where I discovered TUSCL and began posting.
Anyhoo, one sip of that Jack changed my life and shift my career from future King of the Beasts to suave wearer of stylin’ suits and certified horndog (more accurately, a hornfelid). In other words, I became a frickin’ rick. That’s my job and that’s my life…ROAR!!!
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@skibum, you and I had similar experiences. I worked for a private investigation company. In addition to chasing insurance fraud people, we did product liability.
The worst was a scum bag that was dealing drugs and made multiple disability claims against construction companies, an extremely violent individual. Another was a police officer who claimed to be injured on the job, because he was so hard to keep up with and his buddies would curb kick us when he caught us watching him.
Product liability included a motorcycle cop who crashed his motorcycle. The radio pack had come loose and threw him off balance.
My worst job was a ditch digger in South Lake Tahoe on Kingsbury Grade. We cleared the sand off the roadway. I didn’t mind the heavy labor, but the boss was the definition of a complete a$$h0le.
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in high school a friend of mine's father was a private investigator. He hired us to stake out persons suspected of cheating on their wives. We some times had to follow them to see where they were going. We never got bothered by the police. If questioned by police all we had to do was tell them who we were working for.
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There's a common thread emerging about surveillsnce work and strip club voyeurism.
I moonlighted as a mystery shopper (drinker) at bars and clubs in Chicago. The company was owned by a CPD detective on disability. To avoid insurance fraud by running his own company while on CPD disability, he would ask to meet in different places. One time, he asked me if I could follow him while he drove around to see if he was being followed. His little sister, 6'1" and pushing 300# with tits as big as my head was his office admin, she would call me on her night shops and beg me to come with her. Eventually, I stopped getting assignments after I shot her down too many times. It was only a second job, just a part-time gig, but I miss getting paid to drink and flirt with bartenders.
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^how hot was the sister?
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I made popsicles for a day while going to college. In my first year of college, I had 8 or 9 jobs for a few days to a couple of months until I found the job I did for the rest of college.
At one job, the supervisor said I had to stay for a mandatory afterhours meeting. I told him I have too much homework and getting through school was more important than his job. He didn't fire me but I ended up leaving a few weeks later anyway. In that job, I was working in the yard at a home improvement center loading customer vehicles with their purchases.
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Inspecting animals, including their internal organs, for any signs of disease or infection. Definitely one of the toughest jobs I ever worked but it gave me an appreciation for safety of our food supply.
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Going to tenement buildings in some of the worst areas of Brooklyn (NYC) to determine whether certain signs posted in the building and basement were not removed or vandalized.
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