What Is The Strangest Thing You've Ever Done To Make A Buck? (Page 1/2)
Boondawg DEC 06, 02:55 PM
My Father and I regularly & illegally gathered, gunny-sacked, and silently removed pickup-truck loads of various forms of (mostly) spent brass munition cartridges and large aluminum projectiles (impregnated with steel ball-bearings) by moonlight on a highly restricted & regularly M.P. patrolled target/bombing range in the Mojave desert.

Pretty dangerous workplace for a child.
I always thought all the phosphorous laying around was some dud bomb about to go off.
Or every time the brass made a sound in the sack I was going to get shot.
Pretty high-stress job for a kid.

For something like 11 cents-a-pound...
williegoat DEC 06, 03:49 PM
When I was about 15, I worked with a group called "The Flower Children" selling flowers on the street corner.
I worked in the "adult" industry for a few months.
I have been a paid hacker.
The strangest, though, I will not tell.
maryjane DEC 06, 05:23 PM
Nothing really odd or out of the ordinary I guess.
I did haul thousands of bales of hay for anywhere from $.05 - $.07 cents a bale tho and thought it was pretty good $$ at the time.
(By 'haul' I mean physically by hand pick the bales up in the field, load them on to trucks and trailers, and deliver them to the customers and then unload and stack the bales in customer's barns and abandoned houses)
maryjane DEC 06, 05:25 PM

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Originally posted by williegoat:

When I was about 15, I worked with a group called "The Flower Children" selling flowers on the street corner.
I worked in the "adult" industry for a few months.
I have been a paid hacker.
The strangest, though, I will not tell.


Did you happen to work with that other famous adult industry star MidEngineManiac?


James Bond 007 DEC 06, 07:32 PM

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Originally posted by Boondawg:

My Father and I regularly & illegally gathered, gunny-sacked, and silently removed pickup-truck loads of various forms of (mostly) spent brass munition cartridges and large aluminum projectiles (impregnated with steel ball-bearings) by moonlight on a highly restricted & regularly M.P. patrolled target/bombing range in the Mojave desert.

Pretty dangerous workplace for a child.
I always thought all the phosphorous laying around was some dud bomb about to go off.
Or every time the brass made a sound in the sack I was going to get shot.
Pretty high-stress job for a kid.

For something like 11 cents-a-pound...



You must have some brass balls too, for doing that kinda work....Ha!!!

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blackrams DEC 07, 12:18 AM

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Originally posted by maryjane:

Nothing really odd or out of the ordinary I guess.
I did haul thousands of bales of hay for anywhere from $.05 - $.07 cents a bale tho and thought it was pretty good $$ at the time.
(By 'haul' I mean physically by hand pick the bales up in the field, load them on to trucks and trailers, and deliver them to the customers and then unload and stack the bales in customer's barns and abandoned houses)



Whoa! That would have been high pay compared to what we got paid. $.03 was doing good in KS. That was for the labor, it did not include the truck, fuel, pop up loader or bale elevator. I have hauled hay without that pop up loader and elevator for less money and more effort but won’t say I enjoyed it. Had to furnish your own hay hooks, gloves and chaps. That was back when I was in the best shape of my life. Body fat was something other people had.
I ran two Green Monsters for a couple of summers. Hauled hay from dawn to well after dusk (especially if the forecast called for rain), never left the barns. Can't even begin to say how many semi's I loaded out headed to parts unknown.

Of course, farmers producing their own hay always packed the hay bales as tightly as the wire ties would take it. Wasn't unusual to be tossing around 120 lb. alfalfa bales. That got old quick.

Rams

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Jake_Dragon DEC 07, 01:37 AM
Look out, I can still see my mother talking to the cop trying to not go to jail.
Lets just say it made an impression.

All of that so her kids would have clothes to wear.
steve308 DEC 07, 10:03 AM

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Originally posted by williegoat:

When I was about 15, I worked with a group called "The Flower Children" selling flowers on the street corner.
I worked in the "adult" industry for a few months.
I have been a paid hacker.
The strangest, though, I will not tell.



Fluffer?
TheDigitalAlchemist DEC 07, 11:37 AM
One of my most interesting gigs involved a daily run to the local hospital, where I collected foreskins from the previous day's "harvest", separated the dermis and epidermis, and then used the resulting tissues to grew small sheets of skin for use in research.
82-T/A [At Work] DEC 07, 02:14 PM
Outside of getting paid through my normal career... I can't think of anything too outlandish.

If it was weird and / or strange, I usually just offered to do it for free rather than get paid for it if I was helping someone out (no, nothing of a sexual nature).


I've had really interesting jobs, so maybe that counts. But other than that... I don't know... only thing I do outside of a career as an adult is restore Swiss watches. Before that... I was a kid (under the age of 15)... and I'd walk around the neighborhood looking for odd jobs to do. Polish a brass hand rail... mow lawns, etc...