I recently began a summer job at a llama farm. No, seriously.
In the past few days alone I’ve helped herd, train, feed, and otherwise assist the care and feeding of a bunch of llamas and a few alpacas. This has included wound care and breeding.
I never knew just how useful a cowboy hat was until now.
Surely I’m going to turn into a poster child for my college’s admissions office any day…
So what about the rest of you Dopers? Any of you have a job that makes people say “Wait, you do what?”
(I will also answer questions about llamas if you like. Yes, they spit.)
For the last two months - and for two-three more weeks - I’ve worked in a copy place. I know, doesn’t sound weird, especially compared to a llama farm. But it’s far weirder than I’d ever expected. For some reason people with mental disorders are attracted to copy shops.
In about 2 weeks, I’ll be working from Rankin Inlet Nunavut as a aviation operations manager for a small company.
My schedule will have me spending slightly more time there than at home.
Winters are pretty freaking brutal. Temperatures will be in the -40C range for about 7 months in a row. Frequent blizzards preventing aviation ops. No road or rail out. Milk about $15 per gallon. North of the tree line. Polar Bears.
I get paid to travel the ENTIRE state of Montana. Name a town in Montana and I’ve been there. I can tell you hotels, fishing access sites, hikes, restaurants, bars, etc.
I never get lost because I’ve been there before. How many people can say that about a geography of 150,000 square miles?
Damn the hamsters! They ate my post. Hopefully this won’t get posted twice.
I just got spit on by a llama about an hour ago! The lady I work for has a bunch as pets, and one was standing by the fence looking cute. Stupid me has to try and pet everything and I promptly got spit on. At least it was just on my hand.
My weird job was working at a cattle auction. It may not sound too weird to other people but I had never been around cows in my life. I grew up in a fairly small town but not many people around here farm. I had a blast working there! Unfortunately I had to quit because of my school schedule.
I make soap. No, I don’t work for a company that makes soap, I am the company. We (wife and I) make and sell bar soap, liquid soap, lotions, scrubs, and stuff like that and sell them from a little storefront in our hometown. It pays for itself, but we pay our bills by selling real estate, (mostly her) and contract programming (me).
I run an adult site, too. It’s not really a porn site, but it’s … really adult. The main deal is written erotica, which is different from the hard core stuff in the eyes of people who care about that sort of thing. I don’t, but I live in this idiot world I live in. I make most of my money from contract writing and website building, but the adult site is where I plan to eventually make most of my money.
The site’s in my user profile if anyone’s interested. Particularly if Eleusis has any hints about making the site more profitable. I know of a group or two of adult website owners, etc., but after reading their forums I wouldn’t trust any of them as far as I could throw them.
