What is the weirdest way you’ve ever earned money?
Wow, whoever wrote these fucking prompts needs to be fired. Oh, wait, still me…
Here’s what’s likely to be the really weird thing about me – just how few jobs I’ve actually had. I started working when I turned 16 and have worked continuously since then. (I’m not counting the babysitting I did as a kid) Let’s see…
- Burger King – did damn near everything you could do there as a regular employee
- Sears Motor Club registration confirmation – telemarketing
- Subway – the sandwich shop
- Sprint – some other kind of telemarketing
- student worker – office gig on campus while I was an undergrad
- video rental store – that lasted less than 6 months, also while an undergrad
- computer lab consultant (read: babysitter) – also an undergrad student worker gig
- web site designer – before you get excited, this was in the late 90s when all that shit could still be done with Note Pad and an FTP client, and it was also a student worker gig
- standardized test proctor
- inbound order person for a very large cheap novelty crap company – I was seasonal help and that lasted about 4 months, also while I was an undergrad
- phone based tech support for a company that made rating comparison software for insurance agents – my first “big kid” gig out of college
- help desk gig at the university – I think my official title was Technical Support Specialist; did that for 7 years
- instructional designer at the university – been at this for 6 years now
Thirteen jobs over 22 years – 13 of those years at the same fucking place, and none of them terribly weird. I know people my age, or younger, who have had way more jobs. In that respect I take after people in my parents’ generation – they would find a company they liked working for, and then stay.
Why not check out what these weirds will do for a quick buck?
- Farmer Farthing
- Knocked Over by a Feather
- Alice at Wonderland
- RosieSmrtiePants
- WeeGee
- Not a Punk Rocker
- Rose B. Fischer: Herding Muses
- Green Embers
- The Indecisive Eejit
- Marbles, Dandelions, String
- Fish of Gold
- Wanna Be Uncool
- Adventures of a Girl Gamer
- Easy
- Piglove
If I’ve missed anyone I apologize, just make sure to add your name to the list.
Mental in the Midwest 
I reckon some weirdness must’ve happened in at least one of these jobs. I worked at a video store rental place for a year or so and all sorts of mischief went down 😉 xx
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Oh yes, much weirdness at the jobs, just not so much with the jobs themselves. I remember when I was a lab attendant in the computer lab I had to sit with the Dean of the college while he reviewed a student’s internet viewing history – which included a fair bit of homosexual porn. That was delightful.
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what kind of jobs you liked more? the jobs at the restaurants where you had to work with your hands or the jobs with mental work?
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My favorite job ever is the one I do now. No two days tend to be the same, I get to work all kinds of folks, there are some creative bits, my schedule is a little flexible, and what I do ends up helping the students.
However, I’m really glad I did work at the restaurants when I was younger because it gave me the incentive to stay in school and not have to obtain my main source of income from a place where I had to wear a polyester uniform and come home smelling of french fries every night.
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WOW! It’s so very interesting to read what people have done over the years to earn money… I’m sure there are some that we can’t mention. Piggy lips sealed here with my humans – snorts. XOXO – Bacon
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My income earnings have always been above board. 😉
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Snorts. Never doubted it my friend. XOXO – Bacon
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I’m just too damn paranoid to do anything else, if you want the truth. And I never had anything illicit worth selling. And the real “goods” I was always more than happy to give away for free. I’m just boring. 😀
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You are not boring my friend – you are very interesting. You intrigue this little oinker! XOXO – Bacon
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I am so very, very boring compared to you, lol. Working at the same place for 10+ years, lol.
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Boring is often just another way to say “stable.” 😉
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You’re right, your list in itself isn’t weird, but I do bet you have some stories to tell. 🙂
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Oh honey, do I EVER! When I was doing the tech support for the insurance agents I once spent a half hour on the phone with a gal trying to get her printer setup, only to find out that the fucking thing was still in the box. I shit you not.
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