Most Unusual Industry You Have Worked In

[expat]

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To start us off, I give you:

original PM - the Funeral business

Tropical rubber plantation. IBM System/3 in the middle of the jungle. AC couldn't cope in rainy season so we just opened the emergency door of the machine room. Due to currency shortage at one point the government authorised us to pay plantation workers with "negotiable instruments" that we would print with the payslips. I am one of the few people I know who has written a program literally to print money.

[Board Game Geek]

I was asked to write a simple program (in BASIC !!!!) for a BBC micro by a friend of my dad's (I was 16 at the time)

Nothing unusual there you might think.

The program talked to the serial port which was connected to a door relay and also a gizmo to get atomic time.

The idea was to record when a door was opened and closed.

The "unit" went in to 8 foot square, 1 storey building, with no windows; just a door, located in some woods between Billericay and Ramsden Heath.

I never did find out what it was for.

[blacjac]

I can't believe there are no pron stars on the site

I can....................

[PRC1964]

hoping to get next gig in pron industry

best make sure they don't run side by side and I get confused

I had an interview with Northern & Shell (google them from home) but had to turn them down as I wanted to stay married.

Edit: it looks like they've sold their pron titles. They used to have all the Readers Wives type mags.

[Bumfluff]

Farming, my responsibilities were the cow sh*t heap, cleaning them out and feeding.

Soft Porn, I also worked for Paul Raymond for a couple of months as a favour to a friend who was the Marketing Manager at the time for Mayfair , crap money but a good time was had

[Gonzo]

I had an interview with Northern & Shell (google them from home) but had to turn them down as I wanted to stay married.

Edit: it looks like they've sold their pron titles. They used to have all the Readers Wives type mags.

They may have done but I think they have a load of "adult" TV channels now.

[MarillionFan]

I did a stint at Pittards, for those of you dont know, they make leather.

Which means boiling the flesh off carcusses.

Nice.

[Diver]

I had a normal job once!

Didn't last long

They all thought I was a bit strange and somewhat intimidating. The manager asked me if I thought that I might be better suited to a more active and adventurous occupation.

bloody Samaritans