Strange things you've been paid to doI once spent two years being paid by the UK government to play Quake.
What's the strangest thing you've been paid to do?
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chthonic, Thu 30 Sep 2004, 10:13)
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Car counting...I spent all of November last year counting cars. You simply stood by the side of the road with a mechanical counter in each hand, trying not to freeze to death.
We worked in groups of three - One would handle cars and small lorries, the second would handle buses and large lorries, and the third person would be on a break. We switched once per hour or so, which was the one upside to the job - a third of the time you were on paid breaks.
The downside was that November in Sweden is hardly a good time to be standing by the side of the highway from 6 am to 1 pm.
It paid remarkably well though.
(, Wed 6 Oct 2004, 20:18, Reply)
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