# What's the most unique job you've ever had?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 16, 2015, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-unique-job-youve-ever-had/734805 "2015-10-16T11:49:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McDeath_the_Mad)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-unique-job-youve-ever-had/734805/101 "2016-01-16T01:08:57Z")

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I had a few of unique jobs.

In Junior High I got a job building free standing rock walls at a guys cottage beside a lake. His water front was all shale rock, so he hired someone to dynamite his water front and I moved all the rock. If a piece of rock was large enough 2" x 6" 12"+ I would carry it via wheel barrel to a site on his property and build a wall. if it was extremely large, I would use a large sledge hammer to break it down to a manageable size. Very dirty work, but $12/hour cash in 1990 when you’re 15 years old was pretty good money.

In high school a few times a year I would be hired at the local chicken farm to carry the egg laying chickens to slaughter. So you’re carrying 3 chickens in each hand to a guy who puts the in a truck to take away.

And finally in the summer between grade 11 and grade 12 my uncle hired me as a deckhand on his Ocean Fish packing boat. I did that for 5 summers, it was one of the best experiences of my life! Lots of responsibility (sailing a 70’ vessel up and down the West Coast of British Columbia), long hours (once worked 36 hours straight with only a few 5-10 minute breaks every few hours) and having the unique experience of being waste deep in ice cold salmon! It was killer money, I made ~$225/day. My shortest season was about 28 days, my longest about 65.

MtM

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**Author:** ![Dereknocue67](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@Dereknocue67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dereknocue67)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-unique-job-youve-ever-had/734805/102 "2016-01-16T08:10:18Z")

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Air traffic controller in a VFR tower, GCA, RAPCON and RAPCC.

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