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vickster
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Location: Australia
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 Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 3:18 am Post subject: Weirdest job you've had |
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My weirdest job was as an "Olfactometry panellist". What is that? It was for a company who had to test air pollution, so they had a group of 10 people, we'd sit in a room, weren't allowed to wear perfume or eat anything spicy, to not have any smells on us.
One by one, we get called into another room to sniff 2 samples of air and tell the technician which one smells different, unusual. Then we go back to the 1st room, next person gets called in, and so on.
It was a strange job, but the best in terms of lazing around and nothing nothing half the time! (while waiting to be called in again) |
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ken
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Location: Seattle, WA
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| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:38 am Post subject: |
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| "Olfactometry panellist"! I love that title. One of the best job euphemisms I've heard! |
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chandu
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Location: India
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| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Olfactometry panellist". haha funny name and funny job indeed. Paying for sitting and doing nothing....haha....lol |
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kamesh
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| I didnt do any job till yet which i find as wierd.....I am always interested only in wat i like to do and that suits my attitude |
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vickster
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It is a strang name for it, indeed! Lol
When I first read about it in the paper, I thought "What in the world is this?!" But it was pretty good to be paid to do not much at all... crosswords, etc, lol. |
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nangel78
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Joined: 03 Nov 2005
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Location: Austin, TX
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| Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 5:40 am Post subject: |
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| That job sounds interesting. I have never heard of that name before. |
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cwells
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Location: Skiatook, OK
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| The Weirdest job I'd ever had was I worked at a White Cloud ( toilet paper brand) facility and I and some other people had to go into a room and feel ( I called it "pet") the toliet paper!! |
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macy77
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| Probably working at a jewelry store...I mean, it wasn't really strange, it was just completely different than what I'm actually interested in. I always told people and they're always so shocked to find out how much I know about diamonds after working there! |
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melanie14
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I once worked on a horse farm shoveling manure for $50/day......too bad I didn't realize that I was working from 5am-7pm.....definitely not worth the wage!
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