07-01-2004, 09:30 AM
Hail Munkay,
well, let me start with the least interesting job; Sorry in advance as I don't know a lot of the vocabulary that would probably be needed to explain this correctly.
Anyway, I was working in a large "plant" where they print news magazines and the like. As you may know (I didn't but who cares*g*), news mags consist of different parts that are then tucked above each other and added together. It's the same with newspapers (The Arts, Sports, and so on), only that in this case the parts aren't added together by the way of those small metal thingies I also don't know the name of.
The job then was to put those parts into a holder, where a machine would grab them, put on an assembly line and add the other parts to it one after another. So, the job was pretty much like constantly putting paper into a printer that runs in hyperdrive. Very nice thing to do for 8 mind-numbing hours at a stretch. And yes, no Walk- or diskmen allowed... Not something I would like to do for a living, but good money.
The most silly job was selling *grabs the dictionary* fertilizers for room plants on a fair. If you let me get near to a plant, it's bound to die, and there were people asking me how to treat their orchids because I was the one selling the fertilizer and had some orchids standing next to me. Who man orchids that made go to the places where orchids go when mistreated? No telling...
Nice jobs I had so far were renovating houses (a nice work, since not repetetive and you also get to use your brain a bit), working as a roadie (long live Rock'n'Roll!) and working as a diveguide in South Korea last year. Problem is, the last one doesn't yield a lot of money, so I can only do it once every two years... looking to go to Egypt next summer.
Take care,
Lord_Olf
well, let me start with the least interesting job; Sorry in advance as I don't know a lot of the vocabulary that would probably be needed to explain this correctly.
Anyway, I was working in a large "plant" where they print news magazines and the like. As you may know (I didn't but who cares*g*), news mags consist of different parts that are then tucked above each other and added together. It's the same with newspapers (The Arts, Sports, and so on), only that in this case the parts aren't added together by the way of those small metal thingies I also don't know the name of.
The job then was to put those parts into a holder, where a machine would grab them, put on an assembly line and add the other parts to it one after another. So, the job was pretty much like constantly putting paper into a printer that runs in hyperdrive. Very nice thing to do for 8 mind-numbing hours at a stretch. And yes, no Walk- or diskmen allowed... Not something I would like to do for a living, but good money.
The most silly job was selling *grabs the dictionary* fertilizers for room plants on a fair. If you let me get near to a plant, it's bound to die, and there were people asking me how to treat their orchids because I was the one selling the fertilizer and had some orchids standing next to me. Who man orchids that made go to the places where orchids go when mistreated? No telling...
Nice jobs I had so far were renovating houses (a nice work, since not repetetive and you also get to use your brain a bit), working as a roadie (long live Rock'n'Roll!) and working as a diveguide in South Korea last year. Problem is, the last one doesn't yield a lot of money, so I can only do it once every two years... looking to go to Egypt next summer.
Take care,
Lord_Olf
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