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Thursday, September 16, 2010

My Really Odd jobs

"Iraqi Army": pretty close 
now we've all heard the phrase odd jobs, folks hat have switched careers, actors with weird jobs etc. don't know if anyone can compare to me though

  • mentioned before: Men's room attendant, strip joints. mentioned before. as said, no jerking off in the stalls that i ever knew of, but  lots of coke (probably strippers, definitely  patrons)
  • phone psychic. don't know if i worked for Miss Cleo or whatever. didn't last long, i really felt bad about just reading out of  a book fortunes. 
  • Mr Wizard, actually called  his "assistant', 1 man show to schools. did his show around the nation, mainly Cal, and the northeast.  awful job: everything solo (set up, sound, performance, trans, paperwork, more), company didn't care if you literally had to drive all night to a school, directions were very tough (pre gps, how were we to know how to get to a school? and we weren't allowed to rely on directions from the school!)
  • as mentioned before:  NYC  tour guide. again awful: horrible buses, drivers that you literally can't communicate with, a bus full of tourists that don't speak much English driving in pouring rain through Manhattan. nightmare. 
  • role player with the Marines.  . the Marines needed to train in the desert for Iraq. 29 Palms Marine base is biggest in world i think, middle of Mojave desert. they needed to train for community interaction, so they built a fake town, with fake townspersons, including me. learned some Arabic, how to shoot an AK 47, played "Iraqi army', insurgent, etc. good job, horrible conditions. 
none of this is bullshit or exaggeration. this is just a partial listing i can probably come up with more, at least unique temp (couple day, 1 day) jobs. 

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