Strange Jobs

"Frank Reid © 2010" wrote in message
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Okay, sitting here watching a Mythbusters Top 25 and thinking back on
some of the strange jobs I've had in my life. What are your top 2
strangest jobs that you've done in your life? Please, nothing that
hasn't reached the statute of limitations where the job was done.
2. Kill room of a turkey ranch. I occasionally did the killing, but
my primary job was the plucker. And, oh, by the way, cleaning out the
drain when it clogs and the combined blood and whatever start coming
over the top of your rubber boots really sucks.
1. Missile maintenance technician. Yes, believe it or not, I did,
for about 6 years, work with high explosives and rocket motors. Most
memorable moment was the white phosphorous warhead "leaking."
Granted, we're all fly fishermen in our spare time, but what are some
of the really weird jobs you've had?
Frank Reid

Not a job as such - just helping a pal on his farm.

I helped him thin out swede seedlings with a hoe. Dead easy for the first
twenty yards or so, the next 400 yards were back breaking!

Also, not a particularly back breaking job, but planting spuds - dropping a
spud down a tube every time the bell rung on the tractor towed planter. You
start to feel like an automaton after a while.

Bill

On Aug 22, 10:39*am, "Bill Grey" wrote:
"Frank Reid © 2010" wrote in ...

Okay, sitting here watching a Mythbusters Top 25 and thinking back on
some of the strange jobs I've had in my life. *What are your top 2
strangest jobs that you've done in your life? *Please, nothing that
hasn't reached the statute of limitations where the job was done.
2. *Kill room of a turkey ranch. *I occasionally did the killing, but
my primary job was the plucker. *And, oh, by the way, cleaning out the
drain when it clogs and the combined blood and whatever start coming
over the top of your rubber boots really sucks.
1. *Missile maintenance technician. *Yes, believe it or not, I did,
for about 6 years, work with high explosives and rocket motors. *Most
memorable moment was the white phosphorous warhead "leaking."
Granted, we're all fly fishermen in our spare time, but what are some
of the really weird jobs you've had?
Frank Reid

Not a job as such - just helping a pal on his farm.

I helped him thin out swede seedlings with a hoe. *Dead easy for the first
twenty yards or so, the next 400 yards were back breaking!

Also, not a particularly back breaking job, but planting spuds - dropping a
spud down a tube every time the bell rung on the tractor towed planter. *You
start to feel like an automaton after a while.

Bill

Picking spuds is worse. You have a belt with a 2"X4" hanging down
from it so the board goes across the middle of your thights. There
are two hooks on the board with a potato sack hanging from the hooks.
You walk the field of plowed potatoes, bent over, picking up the spuds
and throwing them in the sack. When the sack is full, you drag it to
the trailer and hoist it up. You're paid by the bag. Calves, low
back, shoulders and neck get a serious workout.
Frank Reid
(who knew then he wanted to get an education so he didn't have to do
that again)

On Aug 22, 12:39*pm, Frank Reid © 2010 wrote:
On Aug 22, 10:39*am, "Bill Grey" wrote:



"Frank Reid © 2010" wrote in ...

Okay, sitting here watching a Mythbusters Top 25 and thinking back on
some of the strange jobs I've had in my life. *What are your top 2
strangest jobs that you've done in your life? *Please, nothing that
hasn't reached the statute of limitations where the job was done.
2. *Kill room of a turkey ranch. *I occasionally did the killing, but
my primary job was the plucker. *And, oh, by the way, cleaning out the
drain when it clogs and the combined blood and whatever start coming
over the top of your rubber boots really sucks.
1. *Missile maintenance technician. *Yes, believe it or not, I did,
for about 6 years, work with high explosives and rocket motors. *Most
memorable moment was the white phosphorous warhead "leaking."
Granted, we're all fly fishermen in our spare time, but what are some
of the really weird jobs you've had?
Frank Reid

Not a job as such - just helping a pal on his farm.

I helped him thin out swede seedlings with a hoe. *Dead easy for the first
twenty yards or so, the next 400 yards were back breaking!

Also, not a particularly back breaking job, but planting spuds - dropping a
spud down a tube every time the bell rung on the tractor towed planter. *You
start to feel like an automaton after a while.

Bill

Picking spuds is worse. *You have a belt with a 2"X4" hanging down
from it so the board goes across the middle of your thights. *There
are two hooks on the board with a potato sack hanging from the hooks.
You walk the field of plowed potatoes, bent over, picking up the spuds
and throwing them in the sack. *When the sack is full, you drag it to
the trailer and hoist it up. *You're paid by the bag. *Calves, low
back, shoulders and neck get a serious workout.
Frank Reid
(who knew then he wanted to get an education so he didn't have to do
that again)

AGREED

There is nothing like WORK, to inspire one to do whatever is necessary
to avoid it in the future.

cheers

oz, who ONLY ONCE went on a de-tasseling crew...........time, served,
your honor

oz, who ONLY ONCE went on a de-tasseling crew...........time, served,
your honor- Hide quoted text -

Great pay, HORRIBLE JOB.
Frank Reid

"MajorOz" wrote in message
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On Aug 22, 12:39 pm, Frank Reid © 2010 wrote:
On Aug 22, 10:39 am, "Bill Grey" wrote:



"Frank Reid © 2010" wrote in
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Okay, sitting here watching a Mythbusters Top 25 and thinking back on
some of the strange jobs I've had in my life. What are your top 2
strangest jobs that you've done in your life? Please, nothing that
hasn't reached the statute of limitations where the job was done.
2. Kill room of a turkey ranch. I occasionally did the killing, but
my primary job was the plucker. And, oh, by the way, cleaning out the
drain when it clogs and the combined blood and whatever start coming
over the top of your rubber boots really sucks.
1. Missile maintenance technician. Yes, believe it or not, I did,
for about 6 years, work with high explosives and rocket motors. Most
memorable moment was the white phosphorous warhead "leaking."
Granted, we're all fly fishermen in our spare time, but what are some
of the really weird jobs you've had?
Frank Reid

Not a job as such - just helping a pal on his farm.

I helped him thin out swede seedlings with a hoe. Dead easy for the
first
twenty yards or so, the next 400 yards were back breaking!

Also, not a particularly back breaking job, but planting spuds -
dropping a
spud down a tube every time the bell rung on the tractor towed planter.
You
start to feel like an automaton after a while.

Bill

Picking spuds is worse. You have a belt with a 2"X4" hanging down
from it so the board goes across the middle of your thights. There
are two hooks on the board with a potato sack hanging from the hooks.
You walk the field of plowed potatoes, bent over, picking up the spuds
and throwing them in the sack. When the sack is full, you drag it to
the trailer and hoist it up. You're paid by the bag. Calves, low
back, shoulders and neck get a serious workout.
Frank Reid
(who knew then he wanted to get an education so he didn't have to do
that again)

AGREED

There is nothing like WORK, to inspire one to do whatever is necessary
to avoid it in the future.

Best philosophcal statement ever :-)

Bill

cheers

oz, who ONLY ONCE went on a de-tasseling crew...........time, served,
your honor

On Aug 22, 2:02*pm, MajorOz wrote:


There is nothing like WORK, to inspire one to do whatever is necessary
to avoid it in the future.

Hm.....

I've never minded work, myself.

And just so there's no misunderstanding, I've loaded a hopper with 700
lb. wheelbarrows (yes, 700 pounds) of scrap iron in a sand casting
iron and steel foundry, as well as being a molder in the same; I've
dug thousands of post holes with a clamshell digger; I've installed
(and removed) piers.....under water; climbed, limbed and felled trees;
layed brick, block and stone; prepared and served upwards of 200
pizzas in a night (for many nights on end); spent a couple of years in
steel fabricating (welding, shear, punch press, brake press, etc.);
built houses, garages, gazebos, pergolas, cupolas, saunas, etc.; dug
and moved many hundreds of yards of soil, sand, gravel, rock, roots,
etc., in preparation for pouring, floating and finishing concrete;
transported, poured floated and finished thousands of yards of
concrete, demolished houses, garages, barns, gazebos, pergolas,
cupolas, saunas, fences and various other structures; built
greenhouses; hauled and installed humdreds of railroad ties and other
landscape timbers; cut, transported and laid tens of thousands of
square feet of sod;......well, one could go on for days.

I've known many people who have done much more......enough more to
humble one.

Work ain't as bad as its reputation.

g.
who, as luck would have it, has also had some dirty jobs.

On Aug 22, 4:31*pm, "Bill Grey" wrote:
"MajorOz" wrote in message

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On Aug 22, 12:39 pm, Frank Reid © 2010 wrote:





On Aug 22, 10:39 am, "Bill Grey" wrote:

"Frank Reid © 2010" wrote in
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Okay, sitting here watching a Mythbusters Top 25 and thinking back on
some of the strange jobs I've had in my life. What are your top 2
strangest jobs that you've done in your life? Please, nothing that
hasn't reached the statute of limitations where the job was done.
2. Kill room of a turkey ranch. I occasionally did the killing, but
my primary job was the plucker. And, oh, by the way, cleaning out the
drain when it clogs and the combined blood and whatever start coming
over the top of your rubber boots really sucks.
1. Missile maintenance technician. Yes, believe it or not, I did,
for about 6 years, work with high explosives and rocket motors. Most
memorable moment was the white phosphorous warhead "leaking."
Granted, we're all fly fishermen in our spare time, but what are some
of the really weird jobs you've had?
Frank Reid

Not a job as such - just helping a pal on his farm.

I helped him thin out swede seedlings with a hoe. Dead easy for the
first
twenty yards or so, the next 400 yards were back breaking!

Also, not a particularly back breaking job, but planting spuds -
dropping a
spud down a tube every time the bell rung on the tractor towed planter.

On Aug 22, 4:31*pm, "Bill Grey" wrote:
"MajorOz" wrote in message

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On Aug 22, 12:39 pm, Frank Reid © 2010 wrote:





On Aug 22, 10:39 am, "Bill Grey" wrote:

"Frank Reid © 2010" wrote in
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Okay, sitting here watching a Mythbusters Top 25 and thinking back on
some of the strange jobs I've had in my life. What are your top 2
strangest jobs that you've done in your life? Please, nothing that
hasn't reached the statute of limitations where the job was done.
2. Kill room of a turkey ranch. I occasionally did the killing, but
my primary job was the plucker. And, oh, by the way, cleaning out the
drain when it clogs and the combined blood and whatever start coming
over the top of your rubber boots really sucks.
1. Missile maintenance technician. Yes, believe it or not, I did,
for about 6 years, work with high explosives and rocket motors. Most
memorable moment was the white phosphorous warhead "leaking."
Granted, we're all fly fishermen in our spare time, but what are some
of the really weird jobs you've had?
Frank Reid

Not a job as such - just helping a pal on his farm.

I helped him thin out swede seedlings with a hoe. Dead easy for the
first
twenty yards or so, the next 400 yards were back breaking!

Also, not a particularly back breaking job, but planting spuds -
dropping a
spud down a tube every time the bell rung on the tractor towed planter.

"Giles" wrote in message
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On Aug 22, 2:02 pm, MajorOz wrote:


There is nothing like WORK, to inspire one to do whatever is necessary
to avoid it in the future.

Hm.....

I've never minded work, myself.

And just so there's no misunderstanding, I've loaded a hopper with 700
lb. wheelbarrows (yes, 700 pounds) of scrap iron in a sand casting
iron and steel foundry, as well as being a molder in the same; I've
dug thousands of post holes with a clamshell digger; I've installed
(and removed) piers.....under water; climbed, limbed and felled trees;
layed brick, block and stone; prepared and served upwards of 200
pizzas in a night (for many nights on end); spent a couple of years in
steel fabricating (welding, shear, punch press, brake press, etc.);
built houses, garages, gazebos, pergolas, cupolas, saunas, etc.; dug
and moved many hundreds of yards of soil, sand, gravel, rock, roots,
etc., in preparation for pouring, floating and finishing concrete;
transported, poured floated and finished thousands of yards of
concrete, demolished houses, garages, barns, gazebos, pergolas,
cupolas, saunas, fences and various other structures; built
greenhouses; hauled and installed humdreds of railroad ties and other
landscape timbers; cut, transported and laid tens of thousands of
square feet of sod;......well, one could go on for days.

I've known many people who have done much more......enough more to
humble one.

Work ain't as bad as its reputation.

A long as the pay is good.

g.
who, as luck would have it, has also had some dirty jobs.

"Giles" wrote in message
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And just so there's no misunderstanding, I've loaded a hopper with 700
lb. wheelbarrows (yes, 700 pounds) of scrap iron in a sand casting
iron and steel foundry, as well as being a molder in the same; I've
dug thousands of post holes with a clamshell digger; I've installed
(and removed) piers.....under water; climbed, limbed and felled trees;
layed brick, block and stone; prepared and served upwards of 200
pizzas in a night (for many nights on end); spent a couple of years in
steel fabricating (welding, shear, punch press, brake press, etc.);
built houses, garages, gazebos, pergolas, cupolas, saunas, etc.; dug
and moved many hundreds of yards of soil, sand, gravel, rock, roots,
etc., in preparation for pouring, floating and finishing concrete;
transported, poured floated and finished thousands of yards of
concrete, demolished houses, garages, barns, gazebos, pergolas,
cupolas, saunas, fences and various other structures; built
greenhouses; hauled and installed humdreds of railroad ties and other
landscape timbers; cut, transported and laid tens of thousands of
square feet of sod;.....

Hell, that was exhausting just to read......I think a nap is in order.

.well, one could go on for days.

one generally does, in my experience.


Tom
.....who has essentially had a variation(or upward progression) of one type
of work for 28 years. Then again, it was what I went to Graduate School to
prepare to do, so seems to make sense to me. Thus far, no one
has expressed any sentiment about doing a job well.....