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".

I went on a date once with a medical engineering student so he was studying to engineer medical equipment. I know that might not sound so weird but you never really stop and think about people doing jobs like that.

I once met a man who had been in a command-level position at Guantanamo Bay at a wedding.

@JudgeJ your Mother was ATA I assume? An amazing woman doing that job!

I met someone at work who was part of a team who repossess things like yachts, helicopters, private jets etc.

@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.

Oooh I could do this for Band Aids!

I worked temporarily as location assistant for a location company in LA
As part of my job we photographed the locations we hired out prior to the shoots/filming, in minuscule detail to make sure everything went back in the same place .... that included plants, one shoot they moved two palm trees so we could get a gold Rolls Royce in the middle of the lawn.

I use the other end of catastrophe models to write documentation concerning them.

@SartresSoul

I went on a date once with a medical engineering student so he was studying to engineer medical equipment. I know that might not sound so weird but you never really stop and think about people doing jobs like that.

I went on a date who 3d printed bits of body for things like hip replacements! That was intriguing.

@BowerOfBramble

That reminds me, my daughter's robotics tutor was a uni student with a holiday job of designing a computer program to read scans more like a human than a machine 😂

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

Not someone I know personally but I have come across them doing the job for other people - horse "bean" remover.

Is that a euphemism for 'makes stallions into geldings'?!

No, horses get crusty willys. This builds up and is called a bean.