My brother recently started a job doing something that, from my perspective is pretty obscure.

He scans in documents and turns them into PDF files. A laughed and said, gee that'd be an easy job! N said that one project alone was 48 archive files full of paper! A changed his mind after that.

What obscure jobs do you know about?

Perhaps not obscure...but my BF is a high class escort and earns $5000-$6000 a week.

My ex had a job catching chickens for Inghams about 11 years ago

One of my friends classifies flies by examining their genetalia. Another used to collect sperm from bulls for AI.

Wow, not quite as obscure as some of those, but we know a chap who is an actor who works with the police force. He is part of their training where he might pretend to hold up a petrol station, and they have to deal with the situation etc. He loves it as it gives him a chance to abuse, swear at, get any frustration out of his system at, the training policemen/women (which some people might want to do!!) but not 'for real', so he won't get into trouble for it.

Really??? And this is OK with you?? Not having a go, just curious?

ET: to fix my quote....

Well I study microfungi that grow on wood in aquatic systems. Is that obscure?

I think BF might be best friend...

I always get confused, whether it be best friend, boy briend or breast feeding!!

eg My BF was BF'ing the other day and by BF saw!! lol

When my DH was 13, he had a summer job shredding documents at Liberal Party Headquarters

A girl I once worked with had a casual job pulling the wool off the corpses of dead sheep during shearing season, so the farmer could still sell the wool. Obscure, maybe ... revolting, definitely.

I have been desperate for wool, and yes, we have shorn a sheep that has died, but to employ someone to do it... Given the sheep has to have died VERY recently.

I design wastewater treatment plants, so spend a good deal of my time walking around sewage!

I use to drive Monorails. Is that obscure?

I dated a pipe organ builder. You know the ones in churches, he could navigate his way through sydney by churches.

My Mil was a chicken plucker at one time in her life - pulling the feathers out of dead chickens.

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Just curious, what does an escort do?

I think escort = prostitute.

I used to work for a toy inventing company. Played all day and got paid for it.

Not necessarily. Often they are there just for the dinner party, etc etc. If you are a footballer going to the brownlow and need a pretty girl on your arm etc

Nicole, Best wishes for you and your little girl tomorrow.

I don't know anyone who has an obscure professions that I can think of yet.

Candida, I used to do that among other things as part of a job in a former life. It's not much fun really. A lot of thinking time. Hopefully that's not all he does - just one piece of software, over and over and over...

Hope it goes well for him though!

Cheers,

Leah

OK...yes, am confused by the BF....I took it as boyfriend.

I always find it curious if people are in a permanent relationship with someone that is in the escort profession.

If it's your best friend...please disregard.

$5000 - $6000 a week is a lot of functions!

I used to wash and blow dry the guinea pigs from the local pet store...I was only 17 and it gave me some extra dosh, but it was pretty odd

I think I must come from a line of obscure professions....

DH is an Anglican Priest

MIL Used to pack Weetbix

SIL packs pet foods

My Father used to be an undertaker

In my younger days I used to measure feet in a shoe shop

One of my friends used to be a taste tester for Whiskers (before they stopped it)


There are more but I will keep those

This would want to have paid well!

Taste Tester for Whiskers - Ewwwwwwwwww!!!!

That is one job I would turn into a "job snob" over, as a PP said I hope it paid well. Seriously, I respect the person who did it for having the courage/integrity to do the job, but no way would I eat cat food.

Genuine question Luisa - why on earth does it matter what cat food tastes like to a human?? Unless your friend is a cat?

My dad did autopsies, which isn't a common thing I guess (my primary school teacher seemed shocked when I told her not one of his patients had survived! ). And of course this was well before all the crime shows with forensic pathologists, so Quincy was the closest we had to compare it to!

My mum worked in the sexual assault referral centre and family planning too....

So you can imagine the dinner conversations of my childhood

But I think the taste tester for whiskers has it for me... YUK (unless friend was a cat as PP suggested!).

JennyH

My friend's dad owns a company that makes all sorts of things (whatever a client asks for basically). When she was younger she'd work there part-time for some extra cash. I remember there was a period of about 3 months where all she did was assemble syringes.

I have done this job too... for about 8 weeks Thats how boring it was.

Aparently, if humans like it cats will like it, Something I really dont understand *insert vomit face here*

I have been reading and thinking what is wrong with being taste tester for whiskies. I would love it... oops

I want to be a fairy counter. You know, someone who counts fairies in the garden?

Me too thinks that escort = companion to functions.

Oh, I plucked and pulled heads of chickens once... lasted 1 day and a half, I started throwing up and left. I was desparate for work and thought I'd be packing meat. Didn't eat chicken for years.

I work in an STD clinic (Sexually Trasmitted Diseases). My Step Dad is also an undertaker!

I used to work in the mortuary of a hospital in the U.K. Mainly typing autopsy reports, but occasional on "reception". Got to say those mortuary technicians know how to party!!!

My mum used to take people for tours through the chocolate factory she worked in.

ROFL actually cat food sold in supermarkets is marketed toward what a human would like to eat, not a cat. If you opened a can of Whiskas and found it stunk like fresh mice and had tails in it you wouldn't want to feed it to your cat
I didn't realise Uncle Bens had stopped the taste testing? I think I would prefer to taste test the cat varieties rather than the dog ones...do you know that the tuna in Dine brand cat food is actually a higher grade of fish than the tuna in home brand cans?? Just useless trivia

2 of my friends (2 big burly blokes) spent one lot of uni holidays packing the mail orders for a company that sold vibrators and other adult products. They giggled all the way through their first couple of days but by the end of the holidays they would say (very loudly in public places!) "if I see one more vibrator today...." That's boys for you!

It is a bit off topic but in relation to taste testing Whiskers - did you know that in the not so distant past nurses used to have to taste patients urine to assess for glucose (and therefore diabetes).... ewwwwwwww.

I, too, think an escort goes with you to events. But I also think the expensive ones will have a sleepover too.

Escorts paying men to functions and has "sleepovers"...as below quote.


LOL...at $1000 a pop...that's not "too" many.

Oh and it's bestfriend...not boyfriend.