What is your wackiest job?

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Working in a purchasing dept. I get some very wacky jobs!!! One of my funniest was doing a toilet roll test. I had to fill a cup with water and see which toilet roll piece dissolved the quickest, due to getting blocked toilets.

Another funny time - when we have a machine broken down at work, we pay whatever to get the spare part needed to our factory. We needed a socket cap screw, just the 1, but it was a special size, I found one in Wales which is about 250miles from Norwich, so I got it taxi'd to us, the screw was 0.10p, the taxi was £280.
 
About the craziest job I've ever had (aside from being a stay-at-home-dad) was a cook in the canadian navy reserves. I once bartended, waitered and bounced at a country bar in northern Alberta (YEEHAW!)

I was young and needed the money ;)
 
I'm on my 18th job now in the last 7 years :O Been in this one well over a year.

Don't think i've had any wacky ones like some of these though! They sound like great fun!
 
Just a plain old conservative accountant by day, but used to be an EMT by night. Besides all the tragic stuff, we had plenty of the weird stuff as well.

Helping a deputy hold down a tiny drunk woman who had bit him and was trying to do it again - very very drunk.

Responding to a call of a woman in labor. They had 4 other kids, but no one to watch them so the Dad could go to the hospital. I knew the family a little bit, so I stayed and watched the kids at 3:00 am. Didn't think I was going to be rocking an 18 month old to sleep that night.

Driving the ambulance and having a guy step out on the street about a block ahead and go into a stance like he was pointing a gun at us. I didn't know if he had one or not and I had no place to go, so I hit the accelerator and he jumped out of the way. Found out later he had all sorts of mental issues.

The list goes on and on.
 
Gruesome job. Yes? Well, you do have to purchase plots for the "future". One day I made a call. I didn't know the woman had just lost her husband. She burst out in tears asking me how could I be so cruel. That was the day I quit. Many actors did this as a side job. I went on to waiting tables with other actors who had a weak stomach for the morbid....
 
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