I want to hear about it… the odder the better!
I’ll start you off…
Most odd jobs are summer holiday jobs. Students with a chocolate addiction, like me, had to make enough money to feed their habit with Cadbury’s Buttons, Mars Bars and Double-Deckers. They are generally not fussy about what they do because it’s only for six weeks, after all.
Funnily enough, I often get a bit nostalgic about my summer jobs simply because a few of them were so very odd, and odd things don’t happen quite as much any more.
Here are a couple of my oddest jobs:
One of my favourites was the Sock Factory. Four weeks of turning socks inside-out by hand, and two weeks turning socks inside-out on a sucking machine (I got promoted!). For a dedicated daydreamer, this was like GETTING PAID TO DAYDREAM! I got so much done in my head that summer holiday.
My ultimate favourite was looking after Squirrel Monkeys at the Safari Park. They were utterly adorable, even if they were also incorrigible pickpockets who wee-ed on their hands and feet to mark their territory. So for an animal lover, this was like GETTING PAID TO CUDDLE CUTE CREATURES! Even now, I miss their cheeky faces.
But, having a look at the Top 25 Weird Jobs, including ‘Professional Apologiser’ and ‘Duck Master’, I don’t think mine would rank at all.
Would yours?
Now where did I put that Mars Bar? 🙂
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Jo Danilo | Writer 
Best job I ever had was dressed up as Gromit the dog getting people to taste Wensleydale cheese. I put on half a stone that summer :-0
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Mmmm. Cheese, Gromit? Sounds great 😀 Hope you weren’t too hot in there or it might have become a fondue!
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Not sure I’ve ever had an odd job…I did Betterware for a bit (remember that door to door catalogue?)…I am friends with a guy who actually packed fudge for a summer job…I will let you decipher the warped humour in that…but it is true.
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😀 Aah yes, Betterware! That was like Avon, but more interesting. Did you have much success? And more importantly, did you get a discount? I don’t remember getting any money off socks 😣
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I seem to think I got a staff discount…but when you still live with your Mum it isn’t much use really (to me anyhow). I did ok out of it. Brought me out of my shell too.
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That’s what it’s all about, I guess. Life experience and finding out what you’re capable of when put into certain situations ☺
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Very true. I was saying just the other day how I learn how much I dislike having visitors for more than a few days because I find I can’t relax…never had that until we moved overseas. 😄
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I got a fortune cookie once that said ‘Fish and Guests start to smell after 3 days’. As you get older it reduces to 3 hours, I reckon! 😀
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