What is the most WTF random thing that someone you know does for a job? My uncle used to work in a

psych ward as a security guy. He did the overnight and his supervisor told him, you sleep,

your shift away and if something happens that wakes you up, you get me ASAP. He basically got

paid to sleep for eight hours.

I had a job at a soda company. My job was to monitor the defect bins. Cans came off the line,

dented, half full, and were automatically kicked into separate bins. My job was to open the cans,

pour the soda on the floor, and throw away the can. I was a soda

pourer. I'm friends with someone that's a personal assistant for the wife of a CEO of a company.

The company employs her, and she's the assistant to the wife who doesn't work for the company.

The lady doesn't work, but apparently needs someone to do minor, normal tasks

for her, and drive her around. She's on call for her 24-7, but has never received a call

after 9 p.m. in the last four years. She does maybe three hours of actual work each day and then

hangs out with the lady for the rest of the time. They let her use their Miami Beach condo for two weeks of a year for free as well.

I'm glad she knows how lucky this job is,

otherwise it would annoy me a whole lot more.

I worked at a local science centre playing a character called Indiana Bones.

I get paid to dress up, talk to kids about dinosaurs, and play make-believe in front of a pre-recorded video.

I know a guy who works for some branch of the Louisiana government. His job is literally to drive around the marshes in a boat and destroy an invasive species of cactus. He developed his own method of doing this, which entails him

seeing the cactus, using a compound bow to tag said cactus, and then torching it with a blowtorch.

He's tried a few times to convince his boss to buy him a flamethrower so he doesn't have to leave

the boat, but so far he's been unsuccessful in that. My brother-in-law is a professional

jouster. He works for a company that travels to Renaissance fairs, and he owns his own custom

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