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Feb 16^th, 2007 at 5:10pm

LaDiosa had admitted to us in her journal that she has worked some very interesing jobs. I'm curious, what is everyone's most interesting/weird/crazy job?

Mine would be plucking peanuts from a conveyor belt after they have come out of the peanut roaster (for Skippy Peanutbutter). I was to look for burnt or green peanuts and remove them. The nuts were very hot, so we would "flick" the nuts off the belt, causing them to fly across the belt and land on the floor. It was a very messy, hot, noisy job. Most people only lasted a few months on the job. It probably would not be allowed for "kids" anymore, yet it was a job I did as a 15 year old.

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rodent Emerald Offline Greetings! Posts: 344 Missouri Gender:	Re: Interesting jobs Reply #1 - Feb 17^th, 2007 at 4:16am I've never had a real different job. Engineers are a boring lot. Now the most weird (interesting) co workers were meteorogligists. Now these guys just love bad weather. When a tornado went through our parking lot, they CHASED it while the other non-meteorology types went to an interior room under tables like normal folk.
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Godyssey Stardust Offline Posts: 2375 Georgia Gender:	Re: Interesting jobs Reply #2 - Feb 17^th, 2007 at 5:35am Bikerbraid: Was that dangerous? I'm mean did you actually ever burn youreself, or did the "flicking" eliminate the possibility? Rodent: About how often would you say that tornados occur where you are?
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Reply #3 - Feb 17^th, 2007 at 12:03pm

May moons ago I was a radio dispatcher for a trucking company. I would work my regular job from 8:00 to 4:00 then dispatch from 6:00 to when ever they call came in which was around 8 or 9ish. Thing was the dispatch room was in a little hut on the roof of the warehouse, they called it the crows nest. But when I was in it they called it the Hen house! The truckers were quite happy to have a female voice on the radio and flirted like mad Roll Eyes

To get to my "Hen house" I had to tread a 20 foot ladder in all weather conditons. The house was just big enough for a table and stool, no heat no AC and no bathroom!! The day time dispatcher would pee on the roof eeeewww! So managment got me a bucket and roll of TP. The things you do when your 22!!!

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Reply #4 - Feb 17^th, 2007 at 2:42pm

La Diosa: I never burned myself, but others had. You certainly did not want to pick up any of the nuts with your fingers, or you would burn them. The flicking worked well for removing the bad nuts without burning yourself.

Sir Rat: I too worked with a meterologist for a while. However, this one would hide from the bad weather while the rest of us went out to watch it! I remember a particularly bad summer storm. Our offices are on the 6th floor of the building. We could see the storm coming in and at one point, it was so dark that the parking lot and street lights came on (it was mid day). The skies were that dark green that tells you the weather is going to be bad. Then the hail started. We could see rivers of hail flowing thru the parking lot. At this point, the meterologist had moved to the interior hallway of the building. The rest of us are facinated with the rain and hail coming down. When it finally let enough, we went out to survey the damage. I had over $2000 of hail damage to my car, several co-workers lost the back and/or side windows to their cars. We had 4 inches of hail on the ground! Probably the "coolest" storm I've ever witnessed. Tornadoes are neat too, but I stay away from them!

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Reply #5 - Feb 17^th, 2007 at 6:08pm

Lisabelle wrote on Feb 17^th, 2007 at 12:03pm:

But when I was in it they called it the Hen house! The truckers were quite happy to have a female voice on the radio and flirted like mad Roll Eyes

To get to my "Hen house"

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Lisabelle wrote on Feb 17^th, 2007 at 12:03pm:

I had to tread a 20 foot ladder in all weather conditons. The house was just big enough for a table and stool, no heat no AC and no bathroom!! The day time dispatcher would pee on the roof eeeewww! So managment got me a bucket and roll of TP. The things you do when your 22!!!

Wow!

Bikerbraid: $2000 worth of damage to see the coolest storm ever. Would you say you got your money's worth!?! Wink

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Reply #6 - Feb 17^th, 2007 at 9:05pm

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Bikerbraid: $2000 worth of damage to see the coolest storm ever. Would you say you got your money's worth!?! Wink

It was a very cool storm - and I was very glad to have insurance to cover the hail damage. As a side note - I owned a Saturn then. I had NO damage on the side of the car, unlike most of the other cars in the lot. All my damage was on the roof, hood and trunk. The sides really are indestructable!

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Reply #7 - Feb 18^th, 2007 at 9:28am

Let's see.. I've been a school teacher, a Real Estate Title Company manager, a computer salesperson, a fence salesperson, a Real Estate Salesperson, a hostess for a restaurant in Las Vegas, manager of a toy store, lingerie salesperson, but my most interesting job was lingerie buyer for a major department store. I was in my early twenties, in the junior executive training program, and thought I knew everything. I wanted to be buyer for the junior department, but should have been glad for the opportunity to be buyer for anything! The hardest job I ever had was teaching special education in junior high school. I loved it!

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flaming bunny Emerald Offline Gothic Beauty Posts: 374 magical forest in England Gender:	Re: Interesting jobs Reply #9 - Feb 18^th, 2007 at 2:27pm Wow! Being a medium must be sooooo cool! I suppose the weirdest job i had was when I worked in a Christmas shop a few years ago....doesn't sound all that strange but i sneezed up glitter for weeks!
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bikerbraid Shooting Star Offline Life is short, Break the rules Posts: 6569 Bike Paths of the Midwest Gender:	Re: Interesting jobs Reply #10 - Feb 18^th, 2007 at 7:32pm fata morgana wrote on Feb 18^th, 2007 at 1:01pm: I guess my job is curious...I´m a psychic medium. (I had a lawfirm but that was boring...) So, just what does a psychic medium do?
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Reply #11 - Feb 18^th, 2007 at 11:07pm

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About how often would you say that tornados occur where you are?

La Diosa, I'd say several a year. It's not as bad as Kansas but the spring and late summer can be found with the emergency broadcast system getting a workout. On occaision, we see one in January if it gets too warm.

Lucky, the tornado that went through our parking lot was about a half hour after I left. All the cars in the lot had the windows blown out and a window in the building blew in. Had I been there, just the damage to the windows alone would have totaled my vehicle. Shocked

Robin, I remember such a storm when I was a senior in high school in my computer programming class. We watched this thing in the window (schools weren't air conditioned then) as it got darker and darker. The lights came on in the lot. It came in April of '74 and I still remember this thing. It wasn't a tornado by us but hail, it rained, and with fury. It was black as night.

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Reply #12 - Feb 18^th, 2007 at 11:26pm

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La Diosa, I'd say several a year. It's not as bad as Kansas but the spring and late summer can be found with the emergency broadcast system getting a workout. On occaision, we see one in January if it gets too warm.

I was afraid you'd say something like that. I just moved to Kansas about a year and a half ago and I'm petrified that we'll get struck by a tornado Shocked

I even have nighmares about them! The broadcast systmem goes crazy here during tornado season, but the locals say that it's just hype and that the tornados typically only hit in the more rural areas. I sure hope they're right. Undecided

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bikerbraid Shooting Star Offline Life is short, Break the rules Posts: 6569 Bike Paths of the Midwest Gender:	Re: Interesting jobs Reply #14 - Feb 19^th, 2007 at 8:19pm Trisha wrote on Feb 19^th, 2007 at 11:25am: Okay, that settles it...I've had nothing but boring jobs (including my current one). sigh I need a change. So..... what would your most boring job have been??
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