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My weirdest and most boring job ever was cutting the heads off nails.



I took a nail from one bucket, put it in a guillotine, shouted *Off with his head!* and put it in another bucket.



They were for guitar capos. The manufacturer (Hello Terry!) had discovered that galvanized nails were cheaper than galvanized wire of the same gauge, and by paying me 1p a nail he could save a few pennies!



This was back in about 1984 and I was making about ?2 an hour, which was more than my Mum at the time! I was quick <!--emo&:ph43r:--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/ninja.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ninja.gif' /><!--endemo-->



Another job for the same outfit involved super-gluing parts together. This was done as outwork for health and safety reasons - ie there wasn't any! That stuff really gets to you after a couple of weeks...



Best job was software development for a company in Buckingham. I was coding in BBC Basic <!--emo&:lol:--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /><!--endemo--> but sadly they went bust about 3 months after I joined, and no it wasn't my fault! The parent company still exists; they're called Vidicode.nl




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Post by belchingmatt »

List of jobs in chronological order:



Paper round

Tescos shelf stacker

Petrol station cashier

Chemical analyst tobacco

Chemical analyst insecticides

Chemical analyst pharmaceuticals

Chemical analyst tobacco

Data entry government

Laboratory manager nuclear research facility

IT administrator oil



It's a shame I never managed to get that job with the brewery, as then I would have a grand slam. <!--emo&:lol:--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /><!--endemo-->




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I've had so many jobs over the years, I'm starting to forget them! <!--emo&:huh:--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/huh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='huh.gif' /><!--endemo-->



But I'll have a go:



Paper round

Milk round

Building site labourer

Shelf stacker <--Worst job <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Car parts assistant (then asst manager)

Car Valeter/Driver <-- Coolest job <!--emo&B)--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/cool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='cool.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Window fitter

Hotel Conference porter <-- 2nd coolest job <!--emo&B)--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/cool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='cool.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Hotel night porter

IT Field engineer

Another IT Field engineer

Hotel asst night manager

Bottle shop sales assistant

Hotel night manager

Another hotel night manager

Accounts assistant

Finance Manager <-- Best job <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->



The shelf stacking thing was just crap, the boss was an baka, the assistant boss was a bitch, I hated every minute of it. I lasted 4 months.



The car valeting job was cool, basically because it meant that, at the age of 18, I was spending a lot of time driving around town in Saab convertables, Mercs, Range Rovers, all sorts! The pay wasn't bad either...



The conference porter job was a bit rubbish, but I lived in at the time, so it was a non-stop party out of work. The sort of job where you stay up drinking till 6AM, then go to work at 7. There were also many cute foreign girls working there at the time. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->



My current job is the best, I get paid a pretty decent wage to basically sit there and tell people they can't spend any money!



:EDIT:



Why is 'i d i o t' censored, but bitch isn't? <!--emo&:unsure:--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/unsure.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='unsure.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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RedeyesUK wrote::EDIT:



Why is 'i d i o t' censored, but bitch isn't? <!--emo&:unsure:--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/unsure.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='unsure.gif' /><!--endemo-->
LOL



Baka is Japanese for stupid / id10t, I guess I thought it was funny whenever it was that I set the filters <!--emo&:lol:--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /><!--endemo-->




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sigh* what a baka... <!--emo&:Nigra:--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/4013/140/emo/Nigra.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='Nigra.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:Nigra:--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/4013/140/emo/Nigra.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='Nigra.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:Nigra:--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/4013/140/emo/Nigra.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='Nigra.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:Nigra:--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/4013/140/emo/Nigra.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='Nigra.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:Nigra:--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/4013/140/emo/Nigra.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='Nigra.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:Nigra:--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/4013/140/emo/Nigra.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='Nigra.gif' /><!--endemo-->




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Post by belchingmatt »

By the sound of it I thought it would have been a r s e h o l e .




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belchingmatt wrote:By the sound of it I thought it would have been a r s e h o l e .
Yep, that works too! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://i2.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->

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