strangest occupations

Frank Fusco

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This subject is on Yahoo news today. Gave me this completely worthless idea.
Post the strangest occupation of someone you personally know. I'll start.
Have a friend who is a horse dentist. Yeppers, does fillings and stuff on horses. I think that's kinda strange.
 
This subject is on Yahoo news today. Gave me this completely worthless idea.
Post the strangest occupation of someone you personally know. I'll start.
Have a friend who is a horse dentist. Yeppers, does fillings and stuff on horses. I think that's kinda strange.

Well... taking into account that I know a horse physiotherapist that gets quite a lot of money giving massages to horses that doesn't sound so strange to me, horses do deserve to eat and chew properly don't they?
 
I have a friend who selects colors for women's cosmetics whilst another designs the packaging for women's cosmetics.
 
When I was farming with my dad and brother, I took a course at college to artificially breed cows.....when I returned to the family farm, I took the place of a couple of people dad paid to do the "service". Not only did I artificailly breed our 300 head cross-bred cow herd.....I got paid to do the same service for other farmers cows in the area.

When Michigan State University did testing on our cow herd and fertility expieriments (Lutalyse and Synchro-mate B) I was pretty impotent...err I mean important to their testing.
 
I used to make toilets for a living American Standard ones:D You should see & hear the sound of 400 toilets hitting a concrete floor they weren't any good after that. :rofl:
 
Not sure this counts but I used to design and sell sophisticated people counting systems for applications like shopping malls, casinos and railway stations. Everyone wants to know how many ?
 
When I was farming with my dad and brother, I took a course at college to artificially breed cows.....when I returned to the family farm, I took the place of a couple of people dad paid to do the "service". Not only did I artificailly breed our 300 head cross-bred cow herd.....I got paid to do the same service for other farmers cows in the area.

When Michigan State University did testing on our cow herd and fertility expieriments (Lutalyse and Synchro-mate B) I was pretty impotent...err I mean important to their testing.

Dang Steve I was gona say that, I used to do all of or 650 Holsteins :doh:
Jay
 
When I was farming with my dad and brother, I took a course at college to artificially breed cows...

... friend of mine spent 25 years (or so) doing artificial insemination of turkeys. Yeah, he told me that one usually killed the conversation pretty quickly.

... back when I was a university student (late 80s) I saw a lady with an odd job. Usually you see maintenance people assigned to look after a certain building (or buildings). They would do all the maintenance cleaning and so on. Not at this place. They were into specialization I guess. This lady's job took her all over campus. She had an enormous key ring and a cart that she pushed around. Her job? Changing lightbulbs. That's all. I'm not making this up. I saw her in all kinds of buildings -- she'd walk into every room, look up, and check out all the fluorescent bulbs, and then leave and go to the next room.



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In addition to being a regular dentist, my brother-in-law serves as the forensic dentist for his county. He received special training for this at the FBI compound in Quantico (sp?) Virginia. Upon return, his advice to everyone was to make sure you're not trapped in a room with a cat when you die.:eek:
 
It wasn't really to make a living, but I did work (and got paid) as a crew chief on a 7-story tennis shoe for a week:

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I've worked several jobs where I washed dirt and made little worms and patties out of mud. (Materials testing labs...soil gradation and plasticity index tests.) I also blew up cylinders of concrete and washed all the oil out of asphalt with nasty chemicals.

I had a three buddies in high school who spent one or two summers working for Sears in Albuquerque wearing Disney-sanctioned Eyore, Tigger, and Winnie the Pooh costumes at store and school events.

I used to be casual beer-drinking buddies with a carpenter here in LA who built all sorts of TV and movie sets. Remember the car commercial with the champaign glasses on the hood of the car? He built that one. He was also involved in some of the Academy Awards sets.

I also was friends with a guy who worked as a "property master" for films and TV. He was in charge of making sure all the props were correct for the scene. He was very proud of his cigarette smoking machine. When shooting a scene where an actor is smoking a cigarette, they needed a way to be able to re-shoot the scene numerous times, but have the actor's cigarette remain at the same length. He had a box that he could plug a cigarette into, and within a few seconds it'd smoke it down however far he needed for the scene. They would use one cig for each take.

The husband of my pool team's captain is a color timer for Technicolor. Still not sure what the job really involves, but he's in high demand (travels all over the world to fix things gone bad on films). He also won a Oscar for technical achievement as the result of some new device he pioneered that allows directors to see the day's shooting much more rapidly.
 
I know a guy in St. Augustine that repo's invalids and old folks' wheelchairs, walkers, oxygen tanks, or whatever they couldn't pay for. He has a parking spot in hell with his name on it, I'm sure.
 
My Dad is a retired Solid State Physicist. He spent 20+ years at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill NJ doing analysis on the electrical properties of semiconductors.

Not a lot of cocktail party conversation starters there . . .

Jim
 
I have two or three classmates who worked summers pollinating corn--only they didn't use that long phrase to describe their jobs!!! I had another who taught basketball in China---without speaking a word of Chinese. And yet another one was a traveling salesman in Oklahoma selling rat poison--which he had to taste as part of his sales spiel.
 
My wife's Aunt is a retired Nuclear physicist for the GE Nuclear Propulsion team in Senecaty New York. The team was made up of primarily women back in the 1950, 60, 70's when that in itself was cutting edge. She helped design the nuclear reactors for some of the great warships afloat (Subs and aircraft carriers.)

She is an interesting and wonderful woman and very, very smart.
 
I know a guy in St. Augustine that repo's invalids and old folks' wheelchairs, walkers, oxygen tanks, or whatever they couldn't pay for. He has a parking spot in hell with his name on it, I'm sure.

I have been a debt collector and home foreclosure specialist and even repoed a few cars. I was pretty cold about my duties. But, what your friend did, I could never do. That is beyond cold.
 
I posted here before and I forgot to mention that I was an international YO-YO and Ban Ban ball champion.

I spent 3 months in Japan when I was 19 being paid only to perfom Ban Ban Ball tricks in front of kids.
 
Toni, you always had the look of a yo-yo pro. :p What is ban ban ball?

Another odd job...former member Ad de Crom once mentioned that he developed the machine that puts the "M" on M&M candies.
 
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