What's the weirdest job you've ever done?

[bif]

I was hired as a free-lance writer to write a catalog for embalming equipment. It was just too creepy and I told them I couldn't do it. You?

[China_cat]

1. Target for a knife thrower.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

2. Not especially weird

but I once worked on a farm factory, sorting plum tomatoes into 16 different categories.

(The gross thing was, all the tomatoes were picked green and artificially ripened via some weird gas room that nobody seemed to understand.)

I've led a remarkably unweird working life I guess.

[skygazer]

3. Probably greyhound trainer at a racetrack

Which I got into purely by accident when I was 17 - I was told by a boy I knew who worked as a leadout (the people who bring the dogs out for the post parade and put them in the starting box) that "a girl couldn't do it." I marched right over to the track, bullied them into hiring me and soon wound up in the kennels in charge of some 75 to 100 racing dogs.

[Horus45]

4. Piston Picker

I was a teenager in high school when I did this job.
It was at an automobile salvage yard.
They would dump a mountain of black and greasy engine parts in front of me and I would have to pick out the pistons and put them in a separate drum. I was told that Piston aluminum is the purest form of aluminum used and it was worth much more money than cast aluminum.
I would go home every night covered from head to toe with black grease, that would not wash off no matter how much scrubbing I did.

[Sequoia]

5. Daffy Duck

over Thanksgiving Holiday in front of Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The kids faces were delighted and they tugged on me. Too cute! Peter Fonda was there at night and helped me down the stairs of the stage 'cause my head was too f'ing big and I could only see straight ahead.