Reply to: Most Unusual Industry You Have Worked In

[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

[MarillionFan]

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

Which means boiling the flesh off carcusses.

Nice.

[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.

[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

[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.

[blacjac]

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

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

[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.

[expat]

\unusual industry

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.

[Sockpuppet]

I worked in an Abattoir and was also a Battlefield Guide @ Bosworth for a while.

[Moscow Mule]

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

[NickFitz]

I could tell some tales of my years behind bars (not the prison ones but the licensed kind that you all love so much) but I generally spend my time trying to forget all that...

...although I wouldn't have minded one last fling hosting the CUK Christmas Do - wonderful bunch of people, and hardly any of them were sick anywhere (well, anywhere where it mattered )

[James Tiberius Kirk]

Radio telemetry in water (& waste water) treatment...

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew...

Submarines?

[Xenophon]

Make the most of it. One day you might sit in some vagrant's favourite spot down your local shopping mall, and before you know it your whole life is going down the khazi.

I'll be sure to avoid that happening.

[PAH]

Ah well, there is still time.

True. Probably need a ban when I eventually get some work, if I'm ever to do some work.

Unfortunately

Make the most of it. One day you might sit in some vagrant's favourite spot down your local shopping mall, and before you know it your whole life is going down the khazi.

[PAH]

If I had any teeth I might bite.

Ahh, get you. Calling me a troll eh. Almost too subtle, but got there in the end.