What's the weirdest job someone you know does?

[BowerOfBramble]

I mean the ones that you'd never heard of until someone you met/a friend of a friend said "oh yes I run a bat sanctuary/teach maths to prisoners/paint portraits of dead hamsters".

Mice and rat breeder for animal food.

One of my brother's friends grows coral for medical use. It can be used as a bone graft substitute.

One of my good friends, his dad wrote articles for porno mags and lad mags back in the day.

Someone I went to school with is a professional hacker.

One of my brothers was a professional rock climber.

Not anymore but I used to grow E. coli and other pathogens) on purpose 🤣🤣

@BlackAmericanoNoSugar

One of my brother's friends grows coral for medical use. It can be used as a bone graft substitute.

I’m picturing him in a giant coral garden?

Just big fish tanks I think BowerofBramble. I haven't actually seen it.

@anothernamedoesntsmellsosweet

I answered the phone last week at work and someone asked me if they could talk to a colleague about dormouse licenses. We work in planning so full but that was a weird phone call

😂

@qualitygirl

Not anymore but I used to grow E. coli and other pathogens) on purpose 🤣🤣

I was going to say that DP was a student in a shared house, too.

But then you carried on your sentence and ruined it.

@Simonjt

Tea tester, he works for a tea company and works out the blend needed from each batch to produce tea that tastes the same. If his annual leave coincides with a new batch he has some delivered to wherever he is staying along with ‘local’ water.

My dream job

Oh and not word but very interesting.

My FIL used to propellor blades for Rolls Royce plane engines including Concorde!

[quote Hellocatshome]@perimenofertility believe me I've tried that one apparently they have no problem recruiting turtle counters so don't need anymore, I wonder why [/quote]

My husband did that on a remote island on the Great Barrier Reef in his twenties.

Most of such islands have no fresh water so after 3-4 weeks, you smell.

Oh, and I don’t know anyone who teaches maths to prisoners, but I do know a prison chaplain if that counts?

Maker of scientifically accurate Neanderthal sculptures for museum displays

@lopdedop

I have a friend who is a super recognizer!

@lopdedop sounds fascinating, who do they work for, my daughter could so do this!

@TwentyFirstCenturyTricoteuse

Maker of scientifically accurate Neanderthal sculptures for museum displays

Really? Do they hew them out of wood?

Way back in the 80's I was recruited by Ferroro to test/taste chocolates.

No, she does thse for museums www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/magazine/neanderthals-were-people-too.html . She does scientifically accurate dinosaurs too.

@HazelBite

Way back in the 80's I was recruited by Ferroro to test/taste chocolates.

Please, please tell me that before each taste you drawled "Ambassador, you are spoiling us!"

You’ve reminded me, when I was a student I used to do the odd shift as a cereal taster. £10 an hour, which was good money at the time and paid for quite a few pissups.

It put me off museli for life.

@sweetbellyhigh

My sister is a professional whistle blower. She gets contracted by organisations that are in a mess to drill down and weed out the poison. She has kickstarted two royal commissions of inquiry. She is very unpopular in her workplaces!!

@sweetbellyhigh Has she ever had to be careful of her personal safety?

I've just been reliably informed that very high level IT security people sometimes have been targetted in a soft way (non-coincidental traffic jams, for heavens sake!) on days when a big state-originated malware attack is launched

@anothernamedoesntsmellsosweet Just stopped in to say that I read Dormouse licenses as Dormouse limousines, and didn't realise my error until someone further down the thread had quoted it.

Brand new levels of bafflement

@Ijsbear

No, it has been much more blatant than that, workplace people trying to sabotage her investigations etc

But someone else I know who made a formal complaint about a government agency and thereby triggered an inquiry, did become fearful for her life. One of her colleagues was murdered and no one will speak openly with police for fear of reprisal.

I can well believe your IT story.

@sweetbellyhigh that's terrible. I heard a long time ago (from an entirely different person) that the death rates of ex-GCHQ IT architects were oddly high, but assumed there was a degree of paranoia. The one that I find most sinister of all is the disappearance of Geoffrey Dicken's dossier, a long time ago now but it still shocks.

My Companion used to be a high wire artist too =) he still has reflexes like a flipping lynx.

I used to test 36DD bras for company that supplied for M&S. I had to wear for 11days (hand wash at least 3 times), fill in a questionnaire. I’d send the bra back, they’d examine it and then I had it to keep.

@Siri1

I used to test 36DD bras for company that supplied for M&S. I had to wear for 11days (hand wash at least 3 times), fill in a questionnaire. I’d send the bra back, they’d examine it and then I had it to keep.

Before I read your second sentence, I had visions of you being required to subject the bras to zero gravity, radiation, extreme conditions etc.