Leaving out my so-called "professional" worklife, here is a list of jobs I've had. I've also included some positives and negatives of each.
Caddy
Woodcutter
Newspaper delivery boy
McDonald's - Quarter Pounder grill
Coat check at Royal York Hotel
Security Guard
Private Investigator
Retail sampler
Pizza delivery
Landscaping
What were yours?
Caddy
- + Free hot dog and coke at 9th hole
- - Lining up along a wall at 6am to get selected by old white guys...you know..like a slave auction
Woodcutter
- + Little kid allowed to swing axe at stuff - what's not to like?
- - The pay was an ice cream cone
Newspaper delivery boy
- + Independence
- - 5am wake up to start prepping papers / collecting - some pricks would dodge paying by saying they didn't receive their paper
McDonald's - Quarter Pounder grill
- + Made my own (free) big macs with 4 or 5 patties and a hundred pickles on it
- - You are coated by grease and smell like meat... all the time.
- Bonus fact! I once had to dress up as The Professor character and along with others like Grimace and Mayor McCheese, I was sent outside to greet kids, none of whom had ever heard of The Professor character
Coat check at Royal York Hotel
- + Easiest fucking money ever
- - 8am Saturday morning shifts after Friday night fraternity parties
- Bonus fact! One older guy who worked there wanted me to "date" his wife
Security Guard
- + Look tough in uniform
- - Was told once to go look for a crazy hobo who was somewhere on the 10th floor of a darkened office building...who was armed with an 8 inch screwdriver
Private Investigator
- +Lived at a hotel in Ottawa for a summer, fantastic dough, killed many
- - If people knew who I really was, could have been killed...by many
Retail sampler
- +Met lots of chicks
- - Standing all the time, pretending to give a shit about the product
Pizza delivery
- +Free pies
- -Giant risk of being shanked delivering to rathole apartment buildings
Landscaping
- +Working outside in the summer
- - Hard bloody work...outside..in the summer
What were yours?
You left out "banana wrangler" on a film set.
ReplyDeleteOn that note, my easiest gig was spraying water from a garden hose onto a pretty blonde girl in a bikini for a TV commercial shoot. I like to think there wasn't even any film in the camera; it was all for my own enjoyment and nothing else.
Blin you are correct!
ReplyDeleteHow could I forget that special day down in Toronto's distillery district where some jackal of a woman barked orders at me when I placed the bananas in the wrong spot on the craft services table. I also had to scour the cobblestone ground for tiny bits of debris to allow the DOP to get a clean shot of some stupid car in the commercial.
As to your gig - simply wonderful. You clearly reached the high point of your working-life. You should have just retired at that point.
I once worked at Zellers as a young lad. I spent an entire precious Saturday dressed as a clown handing out small "Zeddy Bears" to children and children-like adults. I got paid a whole 20 dollars which i proceeded to spend on Zellers food. This was not fun in case you weren't sure.
ReplyDeletere: Zellers gig. What's creepy is that the job description didn't even require Clefto to dress up as a clown.
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