
What Odd Jobs Have You Gotten Into Had Experienced?


I've done practically everything haha. Then I was in highschool, my first job was at a Wendy's. My friends all got hired at the same time and I was the only one who stayed which made me feel like a square but I liked having money so I stayed till I found another job working at a tool consignment shop. So I was making sure drills and stuff worked. Posting stuff on ebay.
Only the owner was dumb as a rock. He was so dumb I started to believe I was dumb until I got a job doing IT work at my school after I helped the guy in charge of the department figure out how to live stream the graduation. So I was mapping out all the eathernet ports in the building.
I liked that because it was the first time someone was like "just fix the problem" didn't tell me how to do it I could just do it however made sense to me. So I made an excel spreadsheet and he showed me how to troubleshoot the connections.
I worked random jobs moving snow in the winter, I was security for a while and they'd put me at fairs and bars. This guy used to kinda steal people's pocket knives but I'd steal the cool ones from him because what do you mean "it might not be here when you come back" 😂 I figured it's not so bad to steal something that was already stolen.
I started working with an old Italian dude who flipped cars after I bought my first one from him. He liked how I kicked the tires and got the price down and before I knew it I was hooking cars onto the tow truck, coming home covered in grease and sitting in an office writing short stories and working on videos/pictures (and probably bullshitting on here) waiting for buyers.
I think that was around the time I was finding editing and filming gigs on Craigslist too. We did a show that I think got greenlit by Amazon but I was starting my business and I couldn't stay involved and the girl who ran everything just stopped talking to me after that. I know something went wrong somewhere I even tried to get her a job at A&E as a producer but she never answered so fuck that bitch right? 😂 hope she's OK though, I'm sure emotionally the whole thing was very rough on her.
I could easily double this but I think I made the point that you should just go wherever your little heart tells you to go because the experiences you have will be so much more worthwhile than you think.
Half that shit did not seem appealing in the moment but I just said fuck it and never looked back except to remember how much fun it all was.
When I was a kid I cleaned and repaired appliances for a friend of my dads he had a business where he resold used appliances and me, my dad and my grandfather all used to work for him. Doing that on the weekends for some extra cash.
Another set of odd jobs I did was I worked for my states police academy of which I did several odd jobs for them. I built and assembled computer desks for their class rooms and ran ethernet cables from their server room through the ceilings into each of the individual offices in their office area. Then I ran ethernet cables through the walls and ceilings of the actual school itself into all the different classrooms. There was a other few odd jobs I did for them but I can't remember what they were.
Not sure if I'd call it an odd job but after my grandfather ( on my mothers side ) died I would go and help out my grandmother by doing all of her gardening, planting and landscaping which she'd pay me to do because she didn't want me to do it for free.
I've done some other stuff but that's what comes to mind right now.
I worked two jobs in my late teens, and one was a bartender. The pay was awful, but the tips were sometimes spectacular.
I’ve had a couple of “odd jobs” along the way.
During grad school, I worked nights doing data entry for a small trucking company—definitely not glamorous, but it paid rent and taught me discipline and attention to detail.
Earlier in my 20s, I tutored in a prison education program. That one I chose. It was unconventional, but incredibly meaningful; it shaped how I think about second chances and adult learning.
Both experiences, one out of necessity and one by choice, ended up influencing how I coach people today.
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Ride Jock at some traveling carnivals putting together taking apart amusement rides hampton kiddy rides, super slide, ground mounted tilt-a-whirl+ a trailer mounted tilt, ground mounted octopus, roller coaster, yo-yo, marry-go-round, Ferris wheel, sizzler, zipper, spin out, gravitron, rolo plane, Klondike club, some other ones I maintained them If woulda stayed longer would done more operating them simple but it's the maintenance of them ground being uneven or not staked down not level use of bolts or pins r-keys to have however many else helping for tear down and set up usually takes all night through next day somewhat if I owned those rides or any other ones $1 for ticket ride four tickets ride cycle letting next set in last set out five to ten minutes hundred others can fit on that ride long lines that's $400+ less than ten minutes selling drugs or making drugs but I NOT really need to work made gold by accident ether😗no don't got a meth lab see here's some gold😬
My first full time job after high school I worked at a place that made trophies. did all kinds of odd jobs. I arranged the display cases and washed the glass, made deliveries, and really did anything that needed to be done. The owner moved in to a new house and I even helped him move. One time a bum puked in the freight elevator and I had to go out and clean it.
i have not had odd jobs...
I first started to work at age 22, but before that... I would make some money in few different ways, lol
one of them was poker...
I was a guard at a jail (drunk tank). I had to babysit intoxicated people all night while they yelled at me.
I’m a Topless Dancer 💃 but not my choice
All kinds of work all kinds of odd jobs
I dont understand the title
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