Interesting and Unusual Careers (Page 2)

I am also certified in AI for livestock.  Namely Cattle and Pigs.  I also am Certified to Audit the handling of livestock prior to harvest in Meat Facilities.  It has taken me to Meat Plants all across the Country and I have worked with Temple Grandin.  I think its interesting atleast!!

My girlfriends cousin moved from the US to Thailand to make a living off of online poker.

He said it was either come up to Canada or go to Thailand, and has never been to Thailand so chose that.

Once I get my degree I hope to be working in some kind of Renewable Energy. Would be cool to work in wind energy.

I look for gold. Literally. 

That has taken me from the Sahel, Africa, to the Amazon, to the Artic to Nevada.  The scenary changes alot.

Management wants you to KEEP TWO HANDS ON THE KEYBOARD AT ALL TIMES!

Friend of mine from High School and college  translates the black boxes on airplanes that have crashed.

One of my old bosses has had several interesting jobs: he started up a delivery laundry and dry cleaning service which he sold, then started a radio station in Nashville which he sold, then went on the amazing race and afterwards started a Reality TV channel (with the help of contacts he met on there) which he later sold and then worked for an offshore gambling website as a  PR guy, which he quit.  Last I heard he started up Tom's shoes and is doing alright with it.  That might be someone else's "Huh?" but I always thought he made some pretty interesting career moves.

My old College room mate does/did the Career Builder monkey commercials

This is another "Huh?" but since I do logistics it's pretty cool to me.  A family friend of ours owns a company that fixes oil platforms in the gulf (or where ever). His boats go out to a platform and then lift out of the water up to the level of the platform in order to work on them.

Day-to-day pretty boring compared to this thread. But every now and then I get to step on some pretty cool airplanes...

Like this one

And this one

And I'll be one of the first people in the world to step on board a Boeing 787 in a few weeks

They did let a guy go for taking to many bathroom breaks.

Ah yes, the DreamLifter. I dealt with this guy once every couple of weeks in Anchorage. Been on it a couple times.

I wouldn't call my job unique, but I'm an Air Traffic Controller...

Nope, I work for county/city government.

Ok good, I currently work as a tech support to mechanics for an automotive manufacture and we use mapnsoft and it SUCKS! lol

Well the Boeing defense plant in my city just announced it is closing and putting 2100 people out of a job  

But I work for their largest supplier on the commercial side and depending on your expertise, yes we are hiring.

Only downside is you have to live in Kansas
  

I used to pull the trigger on this:

Other than bartending in a strip club, all of my jobs since have been quite boring and IT-geekish.

You too, eh?

And I do like a man with a big gun.

No. 

Although, part of me wants to ride a catapault shot just once.

Yes, with respect to traps, and especially night traps, I have the same feeling as the guys who make up the band "Dos Gringos":  F*** that.

Then again, landing my huge, snarling, rotating, gray beast on a single-spotter during a nasty storm at night doesn't rise to the level of fun, either.

120mm is over 4 inches in diameter BAYBEEEEE! 

Now this sounds like an interesting job...

I was a Boner..

Well, technically a de-boner.  I worked in a Chicken factory that cooked whole chickens, then we pulled them apart and separated the skin/meat/bones into different piles.  It was awful work.  There was a prison near-by, so each and every night I was standing next to someone who "Just got out"..  I can never again eat a chicken pot pie..