Science Weird Friggin' Jobs (Read 1630 times)

  • Godzilla Says: Stop freak mutations, Spay and Neuter.
  • PipPip
  • Group: Member
  • Joined: Aug 12, 2006
  • Posts: 203
As one of the many folks stuck in Work Limbo... somewhere between some awesome career, and working odd jobs at restaurants and retail stores, I've been looking for new and exciting jobs to help break the monotony of the same old service industry crap. Granted this usually means getting a job at a store that sells something Unusual, or (gasp!) becoming a Manager for the place, but that doesn't really get me closer to where I want to be...

...which is why the email I got from my school councilor about some big job in a Biomedical Lab totally piqued my interest. I mean, I've got half a Biology degree under my belt- shouldn't that get me something more than scanning bar codes for minimum wage? Needless to say, I accepted the offer, and got in touch with the guys to find out just what the job was about. And when I heard it, it just about floored me.

Apparently, they needed someone for the midnight shift to harvest eyes from dead bodies. Dead human bodies.

...yeah.

Organ Donar Processing and Morgue Operations is pretty high up on my list of questionable work.... but its a change of pace, and at over $20 US hourly, it's looking really tempting. I'm still mulling over whether to take it (my ever-insightful roommate's only comment was "That job is so F-ing Metal"), but that offer got me thinking about just how many absolutely friggin' weird jobs must be out there.

And so I come to you, people of GamingWorld.... What's the weirdest job you've ever worked? And have you heard of anything further out there than working midnights picking the eyes out of corpses?


P.S. I'm baaaa-ack.
If no one went off on tangents, we'd keep going in circles.

  • I fear and I tremble
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Premium Member
  • Joined: Aug 21, 2005
  • Posts: 6165
That job is fucking aweosme that is like the best job ever and I am not being sarcastic.

I'm a sailor but it itsn't really that wierd I don't think
DEUCE: MEETING THE URINE UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL AND REALIZING IT'S JUST LIKE ME AND MY PREJUDICES  THIS WHOLE TIME WERE COMPLETELY FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF PTTTTHTHTHH GOD IT'S EVERYWHERE<br />DEUCE: FUCK THIS TASTES LIKE PISS<br />PANTS: WHERE IT SHOULD TASTE LIKE COTTON CANDY OR PICKLES<br />DEUCE: OR AT LEAST LIKE URINE NOT PISS
  • Avatar of cowardknower
  • The MONSTER that lives inside of your COUCH!
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Premium Member
  • Joined: Aug 7, 2002
  • Posts: 1807
duuuude holy fucking dead morgue people without eyes!  Man you have to take that job.  You have to do it.

<edit> I composed music for my teacher's bullshit homework motivator self help product or something (he quit being a teacher because he is a millionaire or something now).
this guy http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&suggon=0&safe=off&q=Noble+Learning+Systems&btnG=Search .

That is moderately weird I guess.  Nothing really quite as weird as your shit though man, yours is fucking weird.
Last Edit: August 03, 2008, 07:56:17 am by conchfeld
  • Avatar of #1 Vodka fan
  • orly?
  • PipPipPip
  • Group: Premium Member
  • Joined: Nov 16, 2006
  • Posts: 344
I was selling sex toys via phone calls for 2 months.
  • Avatar of TFT
  • Artist and Emo loser
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Premium Member
  • Joined: Apr 27, 2004
  • Posts: 1262
I had an ex girlfriend who worked in the morgue area before. It's creepy, for reals. Like, she would smell really really weird. She loved it. Some people can do that, while other people can't. I think whatever you do, no matter how gross or creepy, you'll eventually get used to it and treat it like a job(If that's good or bad idk).

I personally wouldn't. She would start treating people like, they weren't people anymore.

Anywho, I think the weirdest place I've ever worked is being a road worker. It's weird because I'm just not phsyically built(very small) to pave roads and stuff.
  • Avatar of DoctorEars
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Member
  • Joined: Jan 10, 2005
  • Posts: 1070
Man take the fucking job. Picking eyes out from dead dudes. That's awesome.

It sounds like it pays well. Kinda hilarious.
  • Avatar of esp
  • 8-)
  • PipPipPipPip
  • Group: Premium Member
  • Joined: Mar 7, 2002
  • Posts: 575
that sounds fucked up. but if you're hurtin' for money go for it!!!

anyway, i work
its like 55 miles off the coast of where i live.
Last Edit: August 03, 2008, 12:25:47 pm by esp
  • Avatar of Yeaster
  • Boy Next Door
  • PipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Member
  • Joined: Oct 19, 2002
  • Posts: 842
20 an hour? Take it!!!

Complete Chaos [Full Game available!][/url] (No RTP required)
Also try out my demo: A Nightmare in Sunnydale, California
http://gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=81758.0
---
MMZ [Short Demo Available][/url]
VANITY[demo version][/url]
  • Genericism is the phoenix of originality.
  • Pip
  • Group: Member
  • Joined: Apr 18, 2008
  • Posts: 190
What do they want with dead peoples' eyes, anyway?

Seems like a disgusting job to me...
Upon arriving the attending doctor could find no abnormal physical symptoms other than extremely dilated pupils. After spending several hours terrified that his body had been possessed by a demon, that his next door neighbor was a witch, and that his furniture was threatening him, Dr. Hofmann feared he had become completely insane.
  • Avatar of Wash Cycle
  • The sun sets forever over Blackwater park
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Premium Member
  • Joined: Feb 24, 2003
  • Posts: 1624
heh I have a friend who translates street names into the International Phonetic Language for shit like Garmin and various other in-car navigational systems lol. Its a pretty baked ass linguistics job that he just does on his laptop at his own pace and they pay like a quarter a word so he can make 20 dollars an hour sometimes.

I dont have a particularly weird job though. I'd like to work at a record store if I have to get a job while at school next year... though that seems like a hard job to get cause probably everyone and their mother would like to work at a record store.
  • Avatar of PTizzle
  • rap singing
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Premium Member
  • Joined: Nov 15, 2006
  • Posts: 1125
duuuude holy fucking dead morgue people without eyes!  Man you have to take that job.  You have to do it.

<edit> I composed music for my teacher's bullshit homework motivator self help product or something (he quit being a teacher because he is a millionaire or something now).
this guy http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&suggon=0&safe=off&q=Noble+Learning+Systems&btnG=Search .

That is moderately weird I guess.  Nothing really quite as weird as your shit though man, yours is fucking weird.

Ordered this at the beginning of January, have contacted numberous times to inquire about when the DVDs are supposed to be shipped. They have sent e-mails 3x saying the order has been shipped. As of April 2nd still no shipment. Have taken 3 withdraws out of my account for a total of almost $200.00. I called and asked for a refund, was told it would be up to 4 days. Still no refund on day 6. They sent me a link to my e-mail to a site to ask for my refund, link does not work. BUYERS BEWARE.

Theresa
South Webster, Ohio
U.S.A.


shit couch he's a con artist



That looks awesome Esh. What exactly do you do on there?
  • Firbolg Warrior
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Premium Member
  • Joined: Dec 9, 2002
  • Posts: 1201
What do they want with dead peoples' eyes, anyway?

I take it you've never heard of eye transplants before? 
Gaming World Mini City: Population, Industry, Transportation, Security Current rank 3950.
Click a different link each day.
  • Godzilla Says: Stop freak mutations, Spay and Neuter.
  • PipPip
  • Group: Member
  • Joined: Aug 12, 2006
  • Posts: 203
Actually, a lot of the jobs you don't consider "wierd" are pretty different, and rank high on cool. It's neat to hear about jobs that aren't those run-of-the-mill jobs you pick as kids, like Fireman or Astronaut, or Accounts Payable Representative.

As for what the eyes are for, they're coming from recently deceased organ donars... basically they someone to assess the health of eyes (make sure they're not diseased or messed up) and such, remove them, and preserve them for transplants, experiments on eyes and eye tissues, etc.

And yeah, TFT, having to dehumanize the corpses in order to do the job is something that's holding me back... I mean, I've done dissections before, but never on a human body, and I can look at corpses clinically, but I'm afraid that doing that for too long could make me start to dehumanize living people too. Your old girlfriend liked it though? Was she some kind of übergoth, or was there something actually cool? (I'm anticipating a lot of "Give me a hand here" and "Keep an eye on this for me, would ya?" morgue humor).

Also Esp, I am hurting for money badly, hence why I'm considering it. It's enough to pay off all my debts in a matter of a few months, and would help me get out of the tiny 1 room efficiency I'm living in right now. (BTW, is that an oil rig? That is seriously cool! What do you do? It's got to get a bit lonely out there, but I assume they've got stores and stuff... and of course, the Internets.)

So yeah, basically what this is looking like is that I'm be selling me soul for money. Awesome!
If no one went off on tangents, we'd keep going in circles.

  • Abominationist
  • PipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Member
  • Joined: Jun 28, 2008
  • Posts: 772
Thats not selling your soul, a corpse is a corpse. You can't dehumanize a corpse because it has NO emotions, it doesn't give 2 shits about anything it IS at that point just an object like a rock. You can only humanise a corpse, and by doing that you effectively screw yourself over with how you view the living aswell (because it was previously human). It all depends on your mindset, if you want any tips I suggest nurses they have to deal with the dead AND dieing all the time, they are pretty tough about this so get some advice from them on how to cope with this.

I once had to work cleaning up peoples garbage in ghetto areas, it's pretty wierd being known by everyone as a garbage man for their own crap.
A tool is a tool regardless. I mean if you suck, you suck, and not even the most perfect tool could save you. And if your damn good then even with the worst tool ever conceived you could chug out some high quality shit.
  • Developer of "Eternal Conflict" Series
  • PipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Premium Member
  • Joined: Sep 19, 2006
  • Posts: 784
As long as you realize there is a difference between a living creature and a corpse, I say grab a spoon, and start shoveling those eyes.
  • Avatar of datamanc3r
  • The Irrepressible
  • PipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Member
  • Joined: Nov 24, 2004
  • Posts: 938
My dad used to work in a mortuary. Yeah, it was a two-story mortuary, and he was to look after it for his boss. So he lived on the top story. (Great commute). He'd do stuff ranging from AWESOME to weird, like driving the limo that carries the caskets, or preparing the bodies for embalming/cremation. Heh, once he 'borrowed' a casket and a limo for Halloween, dressing up as Count Dracula. Drove right up to a party and picked up some chicks (I think one of them broke the top of the casket).

Weirdest thing though -- people would STEAL THE BODIES. He would wake up and find them missing. Yeah, not a pleasant feeling. Just imagine what sort of people would steal them (And for what!). Then imagine being asleep while one of them was IN YOUR HOUSE.

As long as you realize there is a difference between a living creature and a corpse, I say grab a spoon, and start shoveling those eyes.
Mm mm mm.
Last Edit: August 04, 2008, 06:31:46 am by Juris
"I would be totally embarassed to write this, even as a fakepost. it's not funny except in how you seem to think it's good. look at all the redundancies, for fuck's sake. "insipid semantics, despicable mediocrity" ugh gross gross. I want to take a shower every time I read your prose." -Steel
  • aye ess dee eff el cay jay ache
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Premium Member
  • Joined: Jun 24, 2005
  • Posts: 5149
i used to model for british american tobacco, sort of. from 3.05 to 4.30 every weekday i had to lean against a motorcycle and look cool while smoking. it sounds fairly easy but it's really not, though the pay reflected it ($100 a day and i had to sign a waiver that i couldn't sue them for smoking related damages). doing it for like 15 minutes would be hard enough but trying to keep a cool look, especially when everynow and then kids would come up and pester you was really difficult. i only did it for 2 months which was all you were allowed to do, otherwise you hit every main school enough that people recognise you too easy.

edit: ugh that never happened. i worked at a paintball arena and at an indoor go-karting place. not too unusual
Last Edit: August 04, 2008, 09:28:50 am by climbtree
I USE Q'S INSTEQD OF Q'S
  • Avatar of esp
  • 8-)
  • PipPipPipPip
  • Group: Premium Member
  • Joined: Mar 7, 2002
  • Posts: 575
what do i do...

i'm an instrument technician, so basically i'm involved in the maintenance of the rig.

instruments are measuring/indicating/controlling devices that show the pressure, level, temperature or flow of the oil or gas in the pipeline. there are other sides do it (like from time to time i have to make up small piping skids for hydraulic oil systems etc) but thats what i mainly deal with on  a day to day basis.


thats a temperature transmitter which gives a reading of the temperature both remotely (on the instrument) and sends a signal back to the control room so they can see if it's reading correctly (and if not i go out and calibrate it).

as for getting lonely, it can be, mainly being away from your family and friends for 2 weeks at a time (i do 2 weeks out there, then come back for 2 weeks) but there's good banter on board, everyone's in the same boat, there's a crew of about 60 people. you get everything paid for, full board for food, you get your laundry done, there's a gym and TV suite and a tax-free shop on board. and yeah, they got the internet. it isn't so bad out there, the scariest part is the helicopter flight out 'cause if it ditches you are dead, no question about it. the north sea is like 6 degrees celsius all year round, so you can't stay in it long. you have to wear like a full set of overalls, ear muffs, safety boots/glasses, hard hat, the full works while you're out on the job. believe me, that's uncomfortable when you're working on hot machines on a hot day :P

anyway, i'd rather do this than spoon out the eyeballs of dead people. that shit would creep me out. i hope you've got a strong stomach, cause i don't think i could cope with messing around with dead folks. not to mention they're EYES. i'd go paranoid with DEAD PEOPLE EYES staring at me all day D:
  • Avatar of Serenity
  • KABOOM!!
  • PipPipPipPip
  • Group: Premium Member
  • Joined: Dec 17, 2004
  • Posts: 457
Rofl, i can just imagine it..

*casual conversation on a date*

"so, what do you do for a living ^_^?"

"I gouge out eyes from dead people all day!"

"lol you're silly.. what do you really do? : D?"

"i'm serious...."

".... *explode*"
?_? •????
  • Avatar of UPRC
  • No, it doesn't stand for anything.
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Premium Member
  • Joined: May 25, 2002
  • Posts: 2974
Rofl, i can just imagine it..

*casual conversation on a date*

"so, what do you do for a living ^_^?"

"I gouge out eyes from dead people all day!"

"lol you're silly.. what do you really do? : D?"

"i'm serious...."

".... *explode*"

It would be even better if he's not referring to his job.