Most unusual job you ever had

[irunthev]

I once had the job of counting the white lines, cat's eyes, drains and lamp posts along stretches of the M4 and A40 outside of London. Apparently the Roads Agency do a inventory of the road every five or six years, so I spent my days walking along the grass verge entering information into a hand held computer. The guy I was working with had been doing this for 25 years and his other role was tightening bolts on the central reservation barriers on motorways when they were closed for maintenance. I lasted a week before the boredom got the better of me.

[Aerlik]

I used to do a bit of work for the uncle of a certain very well known up and coming Derry senior footballer.  When I was 18 he had me and a mate go out with him to bag round bales of silage.  It was the worst weather and the shittiest job.  I got drenched and covered in clabber.  When I came home my mum was furious.  My sister piped in that it was character building.   

[cavan4ever]

Say this on another forum, though it was quite funny.

[SLIGONIAN]

Say this on another forum, though it was quite funny.

explains alot...

Picking Mushrooms as 14/15 yr old for pocket money.

[redhugh]

Dungin' out stables in Florida in 100 degrees heat...............only lasted 2 weeks.

[na cleirigh]

When at school I worked in a meat company on a Saturday and Sunday. Had to get up at 5.30. Was packing meat then moved onto being a trimmer. Done it for three years would doubt if I would last three days at it now.

[Eastern_Pride]

Say this on another forum, though it was quite funny.

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[Shamrock Shore]

Labor Day in USA in 1987 I donned a shovel to help in the construction of a car wash in some God forsaen place called Tannersville in upstate NY. I think I got 50 dollars for my efforts. Stiff for a week after 

My one and only time on construction!

[ONeill]

I was a stripper in Belfast in 1993.

[RMDrive]

I spend a day working at the masons lodge in Sydney and one of my memorable jobs was to clean the birdsh1t off a section of the walls at the front if the building.
[BTW, a bucket of hot water and a yard brush are not effective tools for removing said excrement. It was more a relocation excerise than a removal one.]

[full back]

I was a stripper in Belfast in 1993.

Paint Stripper?

[ONeill]

I was a stripper in Belfast in 1993.

Paint Stripper?

Yep. For 3 men.

[Over the Bar]

Chicken catching team in Moy Park summer 1983.  Possibly the hottest, most gruelling and initially stomach-curdling work you could imagine.   You had to catch & carry 10 chickens at a time in the worst imaginable conditons on a 12 hour shift in chicken-houses toppoing 130 degrees in the sweltering summer heat.   Made a man of me fore sure

[ziggysego]

I was a Libyan gun smuggler

[Eastern_Pride]

I was a Libyan gun smuggler

I was a Libyan gun dealer.