30 Jobs People Actually Do That You Might Not Have Thought Of, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group
The rise of automation (don’t stress it, I’m not talking about Skynet!… not yet, at least) has allowed humans to get away from the more manual, menial tasks and specialize in ways that make work rather interesting.
So, it should come as no surprise that if there is something that is very specific that needs to be done and someone is paying good money for it, it will certainly become an actual job.
Well, turns out, there are still loads of jobs that are so niche, odd or just plain bizarre that nobody would probably ever think of them actually being a thing. And Redditors have been sharing such jobs that many of them were actually doing at some points in their lives.
Scroll down to read some of the most interesting jobs and experiences people have shared on Reddit here, here, and here, and while you’re out there, leave a comment, or smack that upvote button cause we appreciate it.
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I'm a prop shopper for a popular tv show. Basically I show up to work, the designer will tell me that the show needs a specific prop for the taping and it's my job to go buy or rent it. It's a fun job because they ask you to get ridiculous stuff sometimes and it's a challenge to find it.
This sounds fun!! until they demand a human foot or something like that ^^
I think that if you need a realistic human foot, you ask the special effects department, not props, and I'd love to see the order for for that. "Male or female? Fresh or decayed? Clean end, or ripped up?"
Load More Replies...This job sounds like being paid to go on a perpetual scavenger hunt. Nice!
I thought there were just prop warehouses full of random things used in set decoration.
I'm guessing there are but I'm sure they aren't home to every prop ever needed
Load More Replies...I go up against this guy at vintage/antique clothing auctions. He works in the moving industry and usually doesn't have a budget. I hate him.
I love looking at props in the background of shows -- you just know that every single thing there was probably chosen for a reason.
Sounds fun!!! Bet u meet a lot of interesting folks while shopping!!
Once got paid for a month of 40-hour work weeks for sitting at a gate and watching to make sure no cows got out. I was a "Bovine Identification and Exit Prevention Specialist." Never saw a f@#$%g cow. Read some good books, though.
Did these cows have a pilot license what about a hot air balloon did you see anyone of them with a glider your looking down when you need to look up remember a cow once jumped over the moon
In Japan my wife got a job as "Designated Foreigner at Weddings". Apparently they like the idea of foreigners at their weddings as it makes the photos more interesting. She used to earn up to 20,000 yen a day. Also met a Canadian guy there who had a job as "Designated Foreigner at Bar". He used to get pissed and make conversation with salary-men.
Tell me more about the "designated foreigner at weddings" job! Does she have to have a huge wardrobe of wedding-appropriate clothes? Does she need to fake a backstory every time, to explain her presence? Is she required to have good dancing skills, or an inhuman bladder capacity?
Lol bit like that woman who offers to turn up at your funeral, all in black, holding an umbrella and looking mysterious.
Don't know why but i thought oh that's a great job but i would prefer the designated foreigner at a funeral instead...
Load More Replies...So... basically like the black guy in a San Francisco apartment brochure?
I know in China they have what are termed 'White monkey jobs' or 'face work'. Westerners are hired to be the face of companies to imply international scope and reach.
for reference 20,000 yen = about $175. Depending on how many events she did per day/week it could add up to a nice chunk of change
$175 US. You need to clarify what country you are changing the currency to. It's also $242 Au.
Load More Replies...this is right up my alley! How have I never heard of this before?!?! There really is a job for everyone.
A few years ago my job was to timestamp Netflix videos for the "Skip Intro" button.
It was the single best job ever until they stopped allowing remote work for what I was doing. I would wake up, login to a special page and have a list of videos/series, etc. to timestamp.
This sounds awesome! why did they stopped allowing remote work for such a perfect job to work from home?
Control issues, most likely. One thing inept management is known for is severe insecurity about people doing what they're told, because said inept management is itself terrible about doing what they're told.
Load More Replies...Click the grey username under this post, “TexasCplL” and that will take you to the actual Reddit post. There is an entire conversation thread. The original post is much longer. Too long for a BP digest.
Well, we all knew someone was doing that. At least, I think we all knew.
It's about time Netflix requests all their viewers go watch them in person too. Wait, what?
I used to build hiking trails. A lot of people assume they just are naturally formed or something, but that's the goal of a good trail builder.
This job is essential, as true 'naturally formed' trails are often a major source of erosion.
I always admire the craftmanship on these, and often wonder how the heck did they get all that stuff up here?
Great choice of photo, BP! Stairs are soooo natural! /s This is something that is done in our national parks and it takes a lot of work to keep the paths in good order - sometimes even having to fly materials up by helicopter for some of the more remote parts.
I am fairly sure those stairs are at The Big Obsidian Flow in Central Oregon. Those rocks are basically glass & stairs the only way at all to safely traverse.
Load More Replies...I've noticed these often thought how hard they would be to make. Thanks.
I did this as a voluntary job in San Francisco a few years ago. I am from Europe and this was a cheap way to spend a few weeks in America.
Load More Replies...''Oh, yes, those stairs over there were made by all the talking forest creatures in aprons... they also built the white house, pentagon, and coliseum!"😂
You know those fire evacuation maps that are entirely useless because no one's gonna stop and look at a map on their way out of a burning building?
Yeah, I design those.
If it makes you feel any better, I always look at those. I often find myself in buildings where the stairs are somewhat hidden while the elevators are front-and-center.
And that's the correct thing to do but i never do it! This is how you stay alive at a disaster!
Load More Replies...You're supposed to look at them when you first enter the room, not when you are trying to leave in an emergency!!!
That's one of the first things I do when I get into a room.
Load More Replies...I'm very afraid of fire and if I see one of these in a hotel or hospital I definitely study it so I don't get caught with no way out
Hey, I knew someone did it. Just like I know the guy who creates the safety brochures inside airplanes.
I used to make fake children's art for a TV show set in a kindergarten classroom. Every episode had new, themed art. Real kids aren't good enough artists. Sorry kids.
Depends. Kid‘s art is often not meticulous. Their hand-eye coordination isn’t fully developed; thus cut outs are often jagged beyond recognition, glue is sloppily administered and they have trouble arranging and layouting their spaces. This points to the fact that we’re not giving them enough time to do art and practice. By the time they’re over ten, they’re often so frustrated with their perceived lack of ability, and they’ll have no pleasure in crafting.
That's me. Sister was talented in the arts, I am a mathematician and I can't draw a sphere.
Load More Replies...LOL! I once made fake children's art for a fundraising calendar for the nonprofit I worked for. It's true; the kids' art was so bad we knew the calendar would never sell. So suddenly I got to be 8 years old again, play with crayons, and misspell things.
I work as a falconer, using birds of prey to keep other birds away from train tracks, airports, farms, you name it. it's like being a bird bounty hunter.
It so totally does! The first thing I thought of tho, was the time Peter Griffin had a falcon named Xerxes ( sounds like Zerksees) that would do anything he said.
Load More Replies...In Germany you need a degree from a special falconry school, which are often at idilic locations, like the Faconry School in Niedersachsen which is in a nice castle (https://m.jaegerlehrhof.de/startseite/). This is the link to the schools (in German) https://d-f-o.de/falknerausbildung.html
I'd it's not years to finish, I'm adding this to my post covid travel destination list
Load More Replies...I have a funny story about this! So I work in a 1 million square foot warehouse, and we hire a guy each year to bring a falcon and scare of the gulls that go up and lay their eggs on our roof and cause big issues. If you've ever seen these guys work, the sort of tuck the falcon under their arm, and kind of give the bird a gentle frisbee like toss to release them and get them going. Well one time if didn't start flying and we watched as he just chucked his falcon into the roof and it bounced up and took off like nothing happened
Riding in the car with my husband and he’s seriously concerned over what is making me laugh SO HARD lol Thank you Bob Rob!
Load More Replies...I saw one of these the other day at a recycling center!!! It was super cool. The worker had a falcon that day that actually hunts the crows and seagulls and then on other days she brings other birds. An eagle which is apparently HUGE and a blind hawk that makes the sounds and scares away the scavengers just by being there!
My son and I were watching an episode of Operation Ouch! (brilliant children's series about the human body on the BBC) where there was a falconer that kept pigeons etc off the roof of a hospital.
In a city in NC they encourage perignon falcon to live on hi rises cut down on pidgeons
This is definitely the wow job on the list!! I know people who rehab birds of prey that have been injured. Part of the recovery process is they bring them to our farm to hunt on our fields, and sometimes they show the birds to kids for education days. But I've never heard of using healthy trained birds for good work like that, very cool
Stimperonovitch answered:
A person who travels around checking that gas stations actually pump one gallon of gas when the pump shows that one gallon has been pumped.
plcwork responded:
Ah, the department of weights and measures. Unsung heroes of the consumer.
They also check scales of all descriptions to ensure that when you buy something by weight, you get precisely what you have paid for.
I've got a couple of stations in my area I wish they'd check. Like when I get 24 gallons in my 22 gallon tank and I wasn't completely empty.
I'm sure you can Google for a local one and put in a request.
Load More Replies...I was at a servo once, the guy doing the test walked up to the LPG pump with a measure bucket and wondered why he can't pump 1 litre of gas out to measure it, fail, must have been his first day on the job. lol..
aziraphale60 said:
I attempt to read addresses on mail that machines can't.
way_fairer responded:
So basically you take those CAPTCHA tests all day long and get paid for it?
Probably not, since you can make out at least three words in the first two lines. Maybe a med student or a current resident...
Load More Replies...It's in English, something about everything being totally awesome and the best. Goes on to say something about a visit. I'm usually really good at this but this one is ridiculous
I do not think that this was ever meant to be recognisable - if I were asked to leave a handwritten review somewhere I would make sure that they can at least decipher it. It's of not much use, otherwise...
Load More Replies...When certain, highly expensive pieces of jewelry are sold to buyers in different countries (say a $300,000 watch, for example), often times the company selling the watch will send someone to wear it on the plane over to said buyer country, since to import it would cost them a lot in taxes, but to pay for someone to wear it as their own watch costs significantly less.
so basically help super rich people and companies get out of paying their fair share of taxes.
Im an IT guy at a buddhist retreat center.
Dr. Strange: Well, what's this? My mantra? Mordo: The Wi-Fi password. We're not savages.
The Nine Billion Names of God: Short story by Arthur C. Clarke. IT guy for monks is exactly what this story is about.
I wouldn't say the story is about the IT guy. He the protagonist, but that is like saying a tale of two cities is about a lawyer.
Load More Replies...I saw several Buddhist monks at Angkor Wat carry mobile phones and wander around taking selfies
My mom is a horse braider, not a breeder but a braider. She braids horses manes and tails for horse shows, it’s quite lucrative as people who own horses know, everything to do with horses is expensive.
I know a couple of horse people, and they do their own braiding. Where does your mom live where people outsource this?
I am hopeless at braiding, and when I used to do a lot of shows my best friend did all the braiding for me. Seriously, if I could have afforded this service, and my friend wasn't available, I would have used it.
Load More Replies...Well, I just went down a 30 minute horse braiding rabbit hole thanks to reading that….
Anyone else think the horse looks sad? Maybe it wanted a different style of braid but noooo nobody asks the horses opinion
I sell private murder mystery events.
I learn about your event (birthday party, corporate event, holiday party, etc. ) and then I send out trained actors to perform an interactive murder mystery.
It's literally such a killer job.
It's all fun and games until the person who hired you actually uses your stories to commit a murder...
They will be caught coz somebody know how they do it
Load More Replies...That's far too obvious! my money is on the old lady to the right
Load More Replies...Lets hope it's NOT literally killer... figurative killer would be much more enjoyable
I work as a stand-in bridesmaid. Basically: If a bridesmaid decides not to arrive at a wedding you can hire a stand-in bridesmaid. Stand-in bridesmaids do everything a normal bridesmaid does except you pay them and they usually do it better since it’s their job. It’s a lot of fun going to a wedding as a stand-in bridesmaid, even if I don’t know anyone there. A wedding I attended had an open bar and the real bridesmaid bailed LAST SECOND because she apparently just realized she was worried things would get too crazy with the open bar. Her loss. The people there were really great, and the bride just told everyone that I was the one who encouraged her to start dating her (now) husband. Me and the bride ended up actually becoming great friends and we are still in contact to this day. They (the bride and groom from the wedding) are now happily married and have a beautiful daughter.
I have never heard of this, what country/state/provence does this job take place?
Who gets worried if one bridesmaid is missing? Why not move on with the rest?
Load More Replies...How do you gdt there, how do you get an outfit that matches and fits in that time?
Maybe there are a lot of stand in bridesmaids and you ring up and ask for a tall size ten with small feet or whatever 🤨
Load More Replies...I feel like there wouldn't be enough instances of people KNOWING this is a job, for this to be an actual normal gig. Most people would either go one short or find a random friend/relative to fill in. Like maybe this person did ONE event as a paid bridesmaid for a friend of a friend or something, not that this could be a regular job.
Man, I read your comment totally wrong, sorry about that.
Load More Replies...I walk up and down city streets inspecting trees planted and/or maintained by municipalities for damage, risk factors, condition, diseases, pests, and structural issues. I get to talk to a lot of homeowners, homeless people, a few cops, a few hookers, and generally every other order of mankind considering I walk about 4-6 miles each day from tree to tree spanning any neighborhood in whatever city I get assigned to for my company (usually 1-3 month travel assignments with one long weekend a month to fly/drive home that gets paid for). I can identify about 300 species of trees and woody shrubs, most of which are native to eastern North America.
Wallingford, CT. Keeps replanting the same damned ornamental Callery pear tree up and down the city streets. They're awful. Smell terrible. Ruin the sidewalks. And when they have to be replaced, they go with the same tree!
Apparently allergies are now more prevalent because planners planted all male trees because the females dropped seeds. So basically tree spluge.
Load More Replies...Ginko trees are the worst! Beautiful to look at, but they drop little balls of sticky goo on the sidewalk and smell like a combo of dog poop and vomit when "fruiting".
Maybe even be influential in planting or fruit trees in public areas
Service to drive people with a fear of bridges over the bridge in their own vehicles...
I assume this is the Mackinac Bridge? It's not a trivial bridge at all.
People who haven't crossed it can laugh all they want, but when you're driving across it in a small car and the bridge starts to sway, it's no joke.
Load More Replies...MD Rt 50. 4.3 miles across the Chesapeake Bay. There's been a driving service there for a loooong time. The bridge used to have only wire and post sides and no shoulders. You could look right down at the water.
Oooh, I hated that bridge. Still do, but it used to be so much worse.
Load More Replies...I've heard of people who have issues driving through tunnels (which is a problem in Norway - we have a lot of them) but never of someone who have issues with bridges. Can you really make a living at that? How many trips can there be in a day?
Oh I have a huge fear of bridges most likely stemming from the 89 earthquake in San Francisco when a bridge actually did collapse. Would I pay someone to drive me over one? No but it’s very problematic. Also can’t walk across bridges. I thought someone was going to call the police I was bawling so badly walking over a bridge in downtown chicago!
Load More Replies...I wonder if this is the guy who does it for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in VA?
I used to live in Norfolk and was paralyzed with fear every time we drove it. At the time, it was only one lane each way in the tunnel. It's probably still that way since how the heck do you widen an underwater tunnel?!
Load More Replies...For years I have had nightmares about driving over long, curving elevated bridges. Irl, I will drive miles out of my way to avoid these types of bridges. I was riding recently with my sister and came up on one without warning. I made it across this bridge safely, but I was scared and I was afraid I might have a panic attack. I guess you could say I faced my fear. Btw, I have no idea where this fear even came from.
It's from the same place my fear of falling asleep on a float at the beach...and waking up in the Atlantic Ocean does: Some extra boss-level in your subconscious.
Load More Replies...I wonder if this is for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in VA? I believe there's a guy who charges about $20 or so to drive you over/under the bridge/tunnels.
YO, for real???? I mean, I was hoping there would be a "wow" job in the list so thanks for the wow job!
Me too, because I need to close my eyes when I go over a high bridge or I freak out and if I were the driver, that would be an issue!
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Not any more, but when I was a kid, I had a job where I'd wander around llama pastures and scatter their s@#t out. They have a habit of pooping in communal piles, which, if you don't scatter them, get quite large and end up nitrogen burning the grass. Then the grass around them grows really well, but they won't eat it, because it smells strongly of their poop. So, instead, you go out with a snow shovel and scatter the poop and all the grass in the pasture grows really well and none of it smells too much like poop for the llamas to eat it.
TL;DR: I'm not too fond of llamas.
I've done this as one of the many tasks at a horse stable. There wasn't a communal pile, just several clumps scattered around a large pasture. My job was to drive around in a golf cart, locate the piles and drive over them with the section of chain link fence in tow. The mesh fence would break up and spread the piles very effectively.
I caption telephone calls In real time for the deaf and hard of hearing as my part time job.
To those who are worried my job is in jeopardy because of automation etc. this is my part time job not my career. I do this because as I learned more about the deaf community, I wanted to do everything I could to help them. They are a truly amazing community who do not get enough support from the government or the hearing community. I want you all to think of the last phone call you made. Now imagine you can’t hear the other person. How much more difficult would your life be? Thanks for all the comments!
i've spoken to deaf people this way a few times and it's hard! the interpreter is speaking to you as the deaf person, you are to answer back as though you are speaking directly, but you still end up accidentally saying "ask them to...."
The person relaying the call is supposed to type exactly what you say, but knowing it can be difficult most of them type it as if you’re talking to the person.
Load More Replies...Thank you for doing this. You're absolutely right that the deaf community doesn't get much support.
I’m a health professional and use all sorts of interpreters frequently, including including sign language interpreters, telephone interpreters and services like OP, here provides. Interpreters are AMAZING - they really do make such a difference to the health outcomes for our patients. Fantastic work, OP - thank you! I don’t think you guys will ever be completely usurped by machines - there’s far to much nuance and subtleties a live interpreter provides.
From someone who is hard off hearing thank u for everything u do to help people like me
My son did this for a while and got to be a really fast typist as a result.
I used to work for a retail sporting goods store that was located near a school for the deaf. We used to have a person who would regular call us and ask questions with the aid of an interpreter. Unfortunately, this person who would use the interpreter would start steering the conversation into a very personal subject, off the product line description, and into what was obviously become more like a dating phone call. I felt bad for the interpreter, as it made the situation pretty uncomfortable for both the salesperson on the line, as these conversations would dance around the rim of something sexual.
It wasn't that long ago that TTY & TTD didn't exist and every city had deaf clubs for people to stay in touch. The walls were huge bulletin boards where people would leave messages for each other. One of the reasons I took ASL is because I worked in one in San Francisco when it was a punk rock venue 1979-80. And, as technology has moved on, the TTY/TTD has been mostly replaced by Skype/WhatsApp, etc. as the medium of choice. s-l300-619...794cda.jpg
Watch Rose Ayling Ellis' dance from last week on Strictly Come Dancing, they did a silent part for the deaf community, absolute tear jerker!!
I compose music and design sound effects for slots. I live in Vegas, but still, few people outside of the slot industry know my job exists. Makes for a bit of interesting conversation.
oh, i assumed they are always taking the same 5-10 different jingles and sound effects
That's the secret to his job! Shhh don't reveal it!
Load More Replies...I always wanted to know about the the people who compose the music for generic on hold music - What do you do for a living ? Well, have you ever been on hold waiting to schedule a digital rectal exam ? That's all me, baby.
Or who picks out the elevator music...which I must say some need to be fired
Load More Replies...I work in iGaming and game designing isn't anything special in this industry.
Essentially I watch TV all day.
It's actually digital archiving of old video tape, but it's for major networks who have massive tape libraries of stuff like BETA, VHS, umatic, 1" and 2" tape and anything else in between. All the old magnetic tape is starting to expire so they ship pallets of tapes to the company I work for and we record them in real time then send back the files.
It takes years to completely digitize a tape library. Some of our older big clients have been sending us pallets every month consistently for the past 5 years, and there's still roughly another 5 years left.
Its pretty interesting, and I never knew about it before getting into the field, so if anyone has any questions I'll be happy to answer.
The question is HOW do I get this kind of job. Feel happy to answer in detail.😎
If it pays well: do you hire? I was sat in front of tv since I can watch 😂 I work in QA and have a good eye for detail. And I can watch a movie 30 times and not get bored :)
This is taken from an answer on Reddit 2 years ago. The person who wrote this probably has no idea it's been put on BP. You could try following the link back to the original answer and sending a message to them, maybe they are still active.
Load More Replies...Back in pre-computer days, TV station engineers had to watch every second of broadcast output and physically log the exact times of shows and commercials, in order to correctly bill the advertisers. Mind-numbing work, on local indie stations showing tedious crap!
I captured and transcoded videos for a top-ten film school. All of their student films.
You have the gear to do so? There arr a lot of people who still have precious moments in betamac and vhs and can't digitalize them, you should try it!
Load More Replies...Are you living in the show Archive 81? Have you come across any tapes about a cult centered in the Visser Building?
I program simple video games for monkeys, complete with a joystick and pellet dispenser.
Cool! I work at primate facility where we use these on some cognitive projects! 🐵
Do the monkeys own the games or does the company retain the rights?
Animal experimentation is not a funny joke. There are restrained animals with electrodea atrached to their brain while they are forced to complete cognitive tasks for food then get put back in a barren metal cage, to eventually later be killed so their brain can be disected. Animal experimentation needs to stop.
If you’re white and happen to be in China, you can do "white monkey gigs". That’s the term used to describe jobs in which white people are hired by Chinese companies to do random jobs to enhance its image. Foreigners = international = connection = money. These jobs include: - Pretending to play instruments in a fake band at gigs. - Being a fake emissary of Barack Obama. - Pretending to live at a luxury apartment complex. - Posing as the company director at a ribbon cutting ceremony. - Nodding and smiling at business meetings.
As a white person I can agree.. without the sarcasm. Some of us understand cultural differences does not always equate to racism. Then again, I also don't live my life getting offended for other people.
Load More Replies...I lived in China for a few years and dated a Chinese guy for about 2.5 years. One cab driver, assuming I couldn't speak Chinese, was thoroughly impressed that my ex could "afford a white girlfriend." I was more disgusted with my ex, who laughed it off, than I was with the cabby.
Lived in China 6 years... The name is what it is, and I believe non-Chinese actually came up with it BTW - as in, we gave ourselves that name. Besides that, you don't always have to be white. I'm Coloured (South African term - in the US I'd be black) and I did tons of these because they often pay ridiculously well. Some roles I had - Blockchain expert, doctor, lawyer, generic African, generic American, foreign friend at wedding, CEO, foreign investor etc. Lowest I was paid for this was $45/h. I was an English teacher at the time.
good thing this racism is against white people, or else the boredpanda tards would be all over it.
I program the moving/vibrating seats in 4d movie theaters. My official job title is "motion designer."
And the guy that does the special effects in horror movies title is "bowel motion designer". (I'll see myself out).
Hey please clean the mess you created before you go! I laughed very hard almost peed on me😅😅😅😅
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I’m a commercial diver, I do underwater construction/ salvage /inspection. People don’t think about it, but pretty much any job that requires something be done underwater we get a call. It’s loads of fun and the pay is great!!
Yeah, I looked into it when I was SCUBA diving recreationally and I hated my day job. Commercial divers have to dive in nasty filthy opaque harbor water or in dangerous currents, and they need to be able to do things like weld or fix machinery underwater. I did not become a commercial diver.
Load More Replies...My dad used to be a underwater welder, repairing dams and s**t. He witnessed an associate die being sucked through a three ft hole. He quit after that.
Planetary Protection Officer. Sounds like a kinda awesome job title, even if it's only about making sure that we don't contaminate other planets with Earth microbes when landing or crashing spacecraft on them.
...That description still makes it sound like a pretty interesting job!
That sounds interesting. How do you do that? It would be hard to get spacecraft off the earth without being covered in bacteria. Are they sterilised in some way?
It's partly so that any samples taken in the search for life on other planets don't get contaminated with life from Earth. There may be other reasons too.
Load More Replies...I was talking to a dad in my scout troop a few years back who said that one summer while he was in college he got hired by the government to drive along freeways and verify that mile markers were accurate. They paid for his gas and lodging, so he basically just road tripped with with two of his friends for the whole summer and earned a profit.
I worked with a guy who quit his office job to do something similar. He and his wife worked for a new internet provider measuring the distance between utility poles and marking the distance of each driveway from the last pole on rural roads in our state. He'd walk a road with one of those measuring wheels spray painting numbers on the road. Red for distance between poles, blue for distance to last pole for a driveway. The next day the company would send out teams to install the lines and junction boxes. One of them would drop the other off at an intersection and drive either 10 miles or to the next intersection to start their own walk. They'd leapfrog each other for the day then head back to a hotel. First month he got paid more money than his old job to walk from the entrance of our local national park to the various campgrounds so they could get wifi.
This sounds like a tedious job to me if you would have to go slowly to check at each mile, especially if they were marked incorrectly, but maybe I am not understanding properly.
That's kind of what I thought too. Their friends probably wouldn't enjoy the road trip bc they would need to concentrate?
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I make virtual clothing and sell it for money on a dress up chat game.
I have a similar job, I design Roblox games and clothing and sell them :)
Seriously, how does one get this job??? I'm legit very interested I'm about to graduate high school lol
like how some ppls jobs are creating mods/texture packs/skins for mc (Minecraft)
Yes it was. I followed the link to the thread. Good guess
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Trucking companies employ people whose job it is to recover abandoned trucks and cargo. Apparently truckers will just be like "f@#k it" and leave their trucks and trailers on the side of a road. These companies pay pretty well and you are on call 24/7. But they fly you all over the country to retrieve their stuff and pay well. Sounds kinda neat really.
Friend of mine, an ambulance officer, also has a side gig doing overseas insurance retrieval jobs. You break your back in Peru, he flies home with you. Pays a fortune.
I saw a couple of Saudi ambulance planes at the Gulfstream facility in Wisconsin getting retrofitted. Cool service.
Load More Replies...Commercial driving is a very stressful job, the big carriers (Swift, Werner, etc) have turnover rates in the 125% area. The rules, regulations and scrutiny you are under 24/7 (in-cab driver facing cameras, E-Logs, DOT harassment, the driving and texting public at large) make peacetime military service look like a vacation. Any incident on the road, the big bad truck driver is guilty until proven innocent. Lots of folks get into it for the money, but an OTR (over the road) drivers life is 4-12 WEEKS away from home, earning one day off for every 7 days worked. Being away from friends and family for a month, home for a long weekend and back out for another month breaks a lot of people, vehicle abandonment is not uncommon at all.
There are better OTR jobs, I'm out a week, home for 2-3. Never more then 2 days out. And I'm frequently able to stop at home on my routes
Load More Replies...Had a retired friend who got a job driving RVs from the manufacturer to the buyer/dealer. . He loved it.
Funny, I worked in logistics forv24 years, NEVER had such a thing happen. Literally never.
Yes? I quit trucking in 2000 and never knew it not to happen. Always an in-company story about BubbaBoy leaving the truck in Jersey or some such.
Load More Replies...How do I find someone hiring for this? Had CDL for 6 yrs, clean record, almost retired
Check Reddit. This post was from Reddit user r/smitesfan ...his name is under the picture. You can click on it, go to the original post and ask there *or send them a message.
Load More Replies...Wish I could do it. Pay sounds great. Also sounds like a good job for retirement. Alas, I don't have a CDL.
Are they impossible to get? Can you not study and get one?
Load More Replies...In Australia professional drivers generally must have a 0.00% BAL or they are toast. I believe NSW allows them 0.02%. Many companies also do random cup tests (have worked doing that interesting job) either daily or weekly which tends to catch a lot out mid-week. The ridiculous pressured scheduling and micromanagement , the stupidity of others on the roads, on top of the loneliness and presumption that "the truck driver did it" by authorities is what makes many go yeah nah see ya
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I get paid to be a living mannequin. No, not a model that poses in pictures, gets her make up done, and gets put in magazines. I'm a completely different type of model. I work behind the scenes, in the warehouse- designers for huge chain stores will use my frame to show of their looks to the CEO of the company who approves or rejects the looks. Clothing on a mannequin looks totally different on a real person.
I saw one of these years ago at Tysons Corner. My first question was, why? My second question was how does one get that job?
Do you mean someone who stands perfectly still in a mall shop window? I haven't seen one in years! But the OP is describing a different job here.
Load More Replies...I assume you'd have a catwalk type body that accents the clothes without bringing attention to yourself.
When did the word "off" start to get spelled "of"? I've seen this in four posts just today.
I'm a sound effects librarian for films, TV, commercials, and games.
Basically, I maintain a high quality searchable database of every sound you could possibly imagine so that they can be used in whatever entertainment medium we're working on. We've got everything from military aircraft to superhero fight sounds, footsteps on almost any surface in almost any type of shoe, nearly every type of gun out there...whatever is needed for the work we do.
The fun part is that I get to run around recording custom stuff for many of the shows. Most recently were some really high end cars and a few surround sound ambiences from various places around the state that I live in. It's almost like taking a vacation for work every few weeks!
Have you read the Chuck Palaniuk novel about a foley artist who specializes in screams? He pays homage to the Wilhelm.
Load More Replies...I have always wanted to be a Foley artist. Not really the kind of gig they tell you how to get in school
Not the only thing I did at the job, but definitely the weirdest.
I worked at a Grocery Store last winter, right around Christmas time. I had to sprinkle dirt on the potatoes in the produce section to make them look freshly picked.
Then the customers would get home and erase all my hard work.
I know someone who is an agent for pets. When you see a pet on tv they have an agent, and she does that.
Underwater lumberjacks, harvest old growth trees that have been covered over by diverted/dammed waterways.
actually not a rare job and can be very lucrative in the right areas
That's a lot of military jobs that most people wouldn't realize exist. For example, in the Marine Corps, there's a civilian employee called a Family Readiness Officer (FRO). They do a lot of different things in support of the families of servicemembers, but are most known for handing the family readiness plans, which all Marines are required to have. They're basically an official contingency plan in the event that they are deployed, which are very important for families where both parents are military, so the continued care and education of their children is laid out in advance. It makes one less thing to worry about or plan last minute when orders to deploy come down.
I work at a company which will remain nameless that gets rid of commercials in sports bars and now in the home, replacing it with endless amounts of media customizable by the consumer. My job as quality control is to push a button on an iPad when espn for example switches to commercial from the program. which triggers the change in all restaurants/bars using the service. (btw every Dave and Busters in the nation uses our program).
Not necessarily. Sport bars may have direct contracts with ESPN. Also would be akward and/or illegal to show commercials for one brand, when you have exclusive contract with another
Load More Replies...Underwear cockroach inspector. Guy or gal in a factory, inspecting garments for insects before they get shipped out to the retailers. It's a thing.
This is why I wash all clothing items after I buy them. Idk who/what has touched them
It's also important to wash them because the dye can rub off before the first wash.
Load More Replies...When companies have paperwork that they want to make digital, the documents need to be scanned. Before this can happen someone needs to go through all of the documents and remove EVERY. SINGLE. STAPLE. And that's how I spent my summers while I was in college. I actually liked it quite a bit though.
The OP didn't mention payment - a lot of my unpaid internships were similar.
Load More Replies...Did this on a temp job - felt like an old person with arthritis after 4 days. They wanted you to clear 3 banker's boxes' worth of paper every day.
I did some of that at a library. It's how I built up my collection of unique paperclips.
I used to work at one of those places, going through old documents that have been scanned and comparing them to their digital copy, verifying that the OCR scan worked properly. Correcting typos or wingdings where there aught to be an alpha-numeric character. Creating macros to handle some of the more obvious software blunders. Tedious af.
I seriously have the job of trying to contact people who place orders on a very, VERY popular website and then try to cancel their card before it actually gets charged.
See we don't charge until right before the item ships which is sometimes a day or two. Some people have figured out that occasionally... not even close to every time... but OCCASIONALLY one will slip out and ship before we've actually charged the card. There are literally thousands of people out there who go on our site, make a purchase, and then try to cancel or somehow block the charge going through and hope that the product will ship out. I call 25-40 people per day trying to get them to update their payment method.
Sometimes it's honestly innocent and you can always tell. Like their card expired or got lost during the interim. But most of them play stupid and hang up on you.
I had ordered something from an online store that have an app, Bonprix. Ordered many items before and never had an issue. The order I placed came up directly on the postage service app that they had received notification from Bonprix that my order had been received. Then it just sat there for 2 weeks and never got updated. I talked to Bonprix. Found out that the order had been misplaced by them and if I still wanted it they could arrange that. Yes I still wanted so they put in the order. Next day the money from the first order had been refunded to my bank account so had to call again. Yup needed to pay again so did that. 2nd order came without issues but just a few days later the first order had now arrived and was ready for pickup. Called again. I had to pick it up, open it, take out the return label and attach it to the parcel, seal it up and hand it back so it can be sent back. Crazy
I'm a demand planner. My job is to make sure when you walk into a store or order online we have that specific thing you want in stock. Most jobs I've worked required us to have 95%+ product in stock at all times. Usually when we have a stock out it's because some genius decided he needed 64 hammers or 500 gallons of milk at once screwing up the demand model.
And when that happens, we finally meet the people from the math problems!!
This comment made me laugh lots after a very tough day so thank you Softball 05 x
Load More Replies..."Why does Johnny have so many soaps?" "Mind your own business, DAVY!!"
Some people have one butt hole, but needed 80 rolls of toilet paper for it last year.
I once needed 50 specific wrenches in a hurry. Had to outfit 50 teams for some promotional stuff, and these wrenches were not delivered with the rest, soI had to buy them locally. This happens.
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Funeral homes need to run 24/7, 365, except that's unrealistic in today's society. Funeral directors and embalmers already suffer from massive burn out and piling weekends, night calls, and mandatory working on holidays just makes it more miserable.
So you basically open Uber for the dead. They are called "pickup companies" or "commercial embalming facilities" depending if they only do pickups and deliveries or also embalming. I worked at one while I was in school for embalming and it is brutal work. Funeral homes fax over the call sheet and you take the call instead of the funeral home staff. It's 100% legal and incredibly common.
You drive around in a van all day or all night depending on your shift with 2 cots and just pick up and drop off bodies. Sometimes you get to embalm if the embalmers are nice, and it's slow, otherwise it's mostly driving as a student, until you get your embalmers license.
I had a job where I fed folded up and wrinkled dollar bills into test machines. I was surround by thousands of dollar bills and was constantly watched by a guard in a locked room. It was boring and weird, the guard didn't ever talk to me except when it was time to leave the vault for break or lunch.
Modern version: Testing payment terminal endurance: a real terminal, a real fake bank account with $5000 dollars, a real fake payment card (white). I asked my intern to continuously swipe the payment card for 10 cents transaction during the whole day. Every day at midnight, the bank account was automatically top-up to $5000. He did that during 3 weeks from 9am to 6pm.
Worked in a warehouse that distributed soda. (Fill in the company name as you will). There was a guy on hire whose only job 8 hours per day was to dump expired soda down the drain. Apparently they can't legally sell it or give it away.
It sounds like what that warehouse actually needed was better inventory control.
Definitely! Doesn't soda usually have a shelf-life of over a year?
Load More Replies...This job sounds psychologically difficult. Everyone around you is making something and you destroy it.
Dumping soda is in fact saving a lot of poeple. Soda is not healthy
Load More Replies...Car sitter. Finding a park is hard and parking lots are expensive. So you hire guys to sit in your illegally parked car and drive away when the cops/merermaids come around.
Not any more but, for a while I was an ocular procurement technician. I would harvest corneas or entire globes from recently deceased people for transplant or research.
As well as working in healthcare, I also do Braille transcription. I convert text documents into Braille documents. It can be anything from a bus timetable or restaurant menu, to a novel or educational textbook. One of the most fun things is creating the tactile pictures in the Braille document, I basically make a 3d model of the picture you see in the text book.
Are braille printers any quieter these days? Used to work in a room that had one and, wow, LOUD!
Load More Replies...In 1971, before the internet, I had a job as a document courier. Every Friday afternoon I would take a briefcase of documents from Mpls to NYC & take another one back with me Monday morning. I could have done both trips on the same day but my company let me do it that way because I wanted to spend weekends in NY with friends. Pretty sweet deal while it lasted.
One year as a temp I proofread the entire Denver phonebook, back when those were needed. I was a waffle cone cook, a dog washer, and a file clerk for a patent attorney. Spent my days reading the books from USPTO, and once was asked to compile a checklist of all known Beanie Babies. I was an art model, sitting nekkid under a heat lamp holding poses. That was physically demanding. I was a cashier at a gun store. I worked in property management when the 94 earthquake hit, that was a learning experience. I was a helicopter avionics mech in the Marine Corps. Now I'm a certified antiques appraiser and music librarian for a famous community chorale.
Always have a backup plan, aye. Stenographer, typist, mechanic, roughing in electrician, stagehand, USN ASW avionics instructor, 2M instructor, children's advocate and social worker. Also: Thank you for your service, Marine. Be safe.
Load More Replies...I tested power tools until they broke (in a controlled environment - i.e. a boat load of safety gear...) Anything with a motor that made a "neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyaaaaawwwwwwwwwww" type noise for sale between 2002-04 was tested by me.
Ha! That's the best job description to ever fit on a resume.
Load More Replies...i recorded the counted and sized melons. also, it was the graveyard shift as this grower shipped all over the world so i also had to get the faxes for order.
My friend told me his first job was to sit in a computer, take a pile of 3.5 diskettes, and write their contents on a list and label them. All day long. It was for the archives of a big bank in my country.
I once got a government job counting passing cars. After every hour of counting we had 2 hours (fully paid) rest because it was supposed to be very mentally tiring work. Best job I ever had.
Oh and I also spent 3 months putting stickers on medication for cow mastitis (udder infection).
Load More Replies...As well as working in healthcare, I also do Braille transcription. I convert text documents into Braille documents. It can be anything from a bus timetable or restaurant menu, to a novel or educational textbook. One of the most fun things is creating the tactile pictures in the Braille document, I basically make a 3d model of the picture you see in the text book.
Are braille printers any quieter these days? Used to work in a room that had one and, wow, LOUD!
Load More Replies...In 1971, before the internet, I had a job as a document courier. Every Friday afternoon I would take a briefcase of documents from Mpls to NYC & take another one back with me Monday morning. I could have done both trips on the same day but my company let me do it that way because I wanted to spend weekends in NY with friends. Pretty sweet deal while it lasted.
One year as a temp I proofread the entire Denver phonebook, back when those were needed. I was a waffle cone cook, a dog washer, and a file clerk for a patent attorney. Spent my days reading the books from USPTO, and once was asked to compile a checklist of all known Beanie Babies. I was an art model, sitting nekkid under a heat lamp holding poses. That was physically demanding. I was a cashier at a gun store. I worked in property management when the 94 earthquake hit, that was a learning experience. I was a helicopter avionics mech in the Marine Corps. Now I'm a certified antiques appraiser and music librarian for a famous community chorale.
Always have a backup plan, aye. Stenographer, typist, mechanic, roughing in electrician, stagehand, USN ASW avionics instructor, 2M instructor, children's advocate and social worker. Also: Thank you for your service, Marine. Be safe.
Load More Replies...I tested power tools until they broke (in a controlled environment - i.e. a boat load of safety gear...) Anything with a motor that made a "neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyaaaaawwwwwwwwwww" type noise for sale between 2002-04 was tested by me.
Ha! That's the best job description to ever fit on a resume.
Load More Replies...i recorded the counted and sized melons. also, it was the graveyard shift as this grower shipped all over the world so i also had to get the faxes for order.
My friend told me his first job was to sit in a computer, take a pile of 3.5 diskettes, and write their contents on a list and label them. All day long. It was for the archives of a big bank in my country.
I once got a government job counting passing cars. After every hour of counting we had 2 hours (fully paid) rest because it was supposed to be very mentally tiring work. Best job I ever had.
Oh and I also spent 3 months putting stickers on medication for cow mastitis (udder infection).
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