Obscure jobs you'd never thought about ...

[presta]

Saggar maker's bottom knocker.

 

[gbb]

Salvasens?

23 years, not a great payer but those were the days when you genuinely enjoyed going to work, the teams were brilliant, work ethic was spot on, never once got up and thought...ughhh, work

 

[Moon bunny]

Not a complete job, but spare a thought for the poor souls who wind the clocks in museums.

 

[DRM]

Sheep skin processors, I was on site servicing the fork truck when a smart looking black Range Rover pulls up, I asked the member of staff I'd been chatting with is that the gaffer, no he says, it's the vet, in a rare moment of wit I said it's a bit late for him isn't it!, this fella just looked then cracked up laughing.

 

[annedonnelly]

Not a complete job, but spare a thought for the poor souls who wind the clocks in museums.

My brother was the only person who was able to wind the clock in the museum he worked in. Other people weren't tall enough or couldn't climb the ladder. He couldn't be away more than eight days because if it stopped the clock engineer had to be called in.

Wouldn't be surprised if it's not running now that he's not working there.

 

[bagpuss]

Not a complete job, but spare a thought for the poor souls who wind the clocks in museums.

That would be someone with plenty of time in {on} their hands .

 

[MichaelW2]

I thought they were dispatched, frozen & sold as food for birds of prey owned by falconers (frozen day old chicks) there is also the job of dipping heads, legs & spines in blue dye, then chucking them in the unfit for human consumption skip at the abattoir.

I worked as a chicken sexer a couple of times. All of the owl-keepers I know feed their birds on frozen chicks, presumably male ones. Not sure if this is a major part of the chicken industry supply chain.

 

[bitsandbobs]

I worked as a chicken sexer a couple of times. All of the owl-keepers I know feed their birds on frozen chicks, presumably male ones. Not sure if this is a major part of the chicken industry supply chain.

Should hopefully become redundant as there is now mass spec based technology to screen eggs.

 

[bagpuss]

That sounds like a foul job .

 

[Ming the Merciless]

That sounds like a foul job .

That many would chicken out of.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

That sounds like a foul job .

It’s not one I’d cross the road for.

 

[bruce1530]

A colleague of mine once applied for a job in medical research. Well, maybe he didn't apply, but he certainly showed us the job ad.
Working as a researcher, on the development of a prosthetic anal sphincter.

Imagine the conversation with your boss: "How are you getting on today?" "Oh, I've made a right arse of this one...."

 

[PeteXXX]

Different jobs I've done in the past (apart from the 'mainstream' ones)

Making fake antique Greek statuettes and chess pieces.

Working on avocado plantations and up Date palms in the Jordan Valley.

Sorting Duty Free and Custom & Excise goodies on SRN4 Hovercraft twixt Ramsgate and Calais.

Scientific glass blowing.

 

[slowmotion]

After leaving school, and needing some cash to go travelling, I signed up as a temp with Manpower, the employment agency. I was sent to a factory which was a subcontractor for Lansing Bagnall fork trucks, thinking I was going to be pushing paper in an office. They handed me a spray gun and told me to paint a pile of cast iron axles. It took a couple of days for them to realise that I wasn't the fully experienced spray painter that Manpower had cracked me up to be.

 

[PaulB]

Fluffers

Viagra takes care of that one now.