Obscure jobs you'd never thought about ...

[Milkfloat]

I used to pick up golf balls at a driving range, by hand with a bucket. I lost my job because the owner bought a mini and fixed a trailer to the back with brushes that picked up the balls. A tough lesson on mechanism at the age of 14.

 

[Elysian_Roads]

A job when you've retired?

If I need a top up on the pension, or wanted to break up the non-working week, I would consider it. Sadly a few years off that choice yet...

 

[Old jon]

A friend, ( honest! ) had to check and adjust lollypop sticks to the vertical. He had a colleague at the opposite side of the conveyor.

 

[TVC]

Opening crisp packets.

As a student I worked the summers at Walkers. When the bags are filled they are weighed and any that are underweight or have not sealed properly are rejected and taken to the waste table where they are opened by hand and the crisps returned to the conveyor.

 

[stephec]

If I need a top up on the pension, or wanted to break up the non-working week, I would consider it. Sadly a few years off that choice yet...

Same here unfortunately.

 

[Mugshot]

A fair few years ago I had a job as a rubber loader.

 

[Mrs M]

S**t Stirrer, stirring the tanks as they were emptied into the spreader. Keeping blockages to a minimum.

There’s a few of them where I work

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Semen collection from animals for the purpose of artificial insemination.

Seasonal and not well paid. Very much a hand-to-mouth existence

 

[classic33]

There’s a few of them where I work

Blockages?

 

[srw]

S**t Stirrer

Once a shoot stirrer, always a shoot stirrer...

 

[MontyVeda]

Counting sheep.

my friend's aunt worked for DEFRA and one her roles was counting sheep. Farmers would declare how many sheep they had on their land but in order to get increased subsidies, they'd borrow sheep from other farmers to make their flock look bigger than it was... she'd go round and count the sheep in various fields to check if her tally match the declared number. Livestock loaning is apparently quite common in the world of subsidised farming.

 

[Biff600]

I used to shout at stroppy teenagers and get paid handsomely for the pleasure


However, the first job I had when I left school was putting the rubber ends on walking sticks

 

[Mugshot]

skiving

Well, well.

 

[Dirk]

A few years ago, Roly's Fudge shop in Ilfracombe had a notice in their window - 'Part time Fudge Packer wanted'.
It was changed when someone pointed it out.......

 

[Julia9054]

In the days before bar codes, I worked for Edenvale pricing up yoghurts with a price gun. Arrive at supermarket early doors, unpack yogurts, put in fridge cabinet, price gun. That's it.
Except that your fingers got so freezing you couldn't feel them so you used to get little cuts from the metal lids without noticing so lots of yoghurts got sold with little bits of blood on them! Ewwww!