what is the worst thing you have done for money?

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  • NRSPAM
    NRSPAM Posts: 961 Member
    I used to work in the box office at a theater - not a movie theater, but a playhouse. It was summer stock that grew into year round productions in a very organic way. I made almost nothing working there despite managing during performances and helping the concessionaires.

    One night at intermission an older man came to the window - I assumed he was a season ticket holder because most patrons over 50 were. He had lots of small knobby black skin tags, sort of like moles. The had a black cane with sort of a pistol grip at the top and chrome or silver trim. He offered me money to do things to him.

    I earned the money.

    OMG!!! Winner!!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: .....wait, you were kidding, right? Lolol.
  • 2bePhantasticallyfit
    2bePhantasticallyfit Posts: 491 Member
    In college, I worked for one of those companies that harassed people in the mall to sign up for a portrait session. I quit after a week.
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    I was hitchhiking. Must have been 1973. I was 19. I was in the Marines and had missed my ride from Camp Pendleton and had to hitchhike to OC. Older gal picked me up. About 40. Nice car, Had money. I was young and in good shape and she started asking me why I was hitchhiking. Told her Football practice was late and I missed my ride. Started telling me how sore she was and that when she was in college, her and her friends used to give each other massages after Tennis practice.

    She eventually got around to asking me if I would be interested in stiopping at her house to giver her a massage and then she would give me a ride all the way into Orange County. She would also give me $20. I said yes.

    Started getting a little nervous after we got to her house. I was a naive 19 year old. Asked if I could use her bathroom first. I went into the bathroom with the intention of climbing out the window and splitting. No window in the bathroom, When I came out, she was on the floor, on a sheet, unclothed. Turns out she wanted morre than a massage.

    When it was all over, she paid me, gave me a ridde the rest of the way. Then, as she let me out, she gave me her number and suggested that she had several girlfriends that might benefit from a "massage".

    I never called her back. Too naive. How come that stuff never happens now.
  • Beastmaster50
    Beastmaster50 Posts: 505 Member
    Made an elderly widow happy....
  • brazilnut05
    brazilnut05 Posts: 40 Member
    In college I was so desperate, I cleaned an entire frat house for $80. Don't ask...
  • delicious_cocktail
    delicious_cocktail Posts: 5,797 Member
    Every word of my story was true.











    Except taking him up on it. In reality I said no. But every other word was true.
  • brazilnut05
    brazilnut05 Posts: 40 Member
    ^^Hahaha. SO WRONG!
  • contingencyplan
    contingencyplan Posts: 3,639 Member
    I used to work at a Call Center that was doing outbound bill collections for a credit card company. Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, I was connected with the next of kin of a debt holder who died in the attacks. Apparently this person didn't take out that optional insurance policy on the account that prevented your next of kin from being held liable for your debts in the event that you die (which most people do since it's a pretty small fee). Both the mother and father died in the attacks and the "next of kin" who I had to harass to collect the debt was a barely 18 year old girl who had just started her senior year of high school.

    I started talking to her like I was supposed to, but as I was talking to her, I read through the account notes from previous calls and saw that we had been calling her multiple times a day, every day, for the past few weeks. I felt like I wanted to vomit on my own words and I couldn't finish the call.

    I was already being kept on a short leash, because my employer had recently instituted a minimum quota of dollars collected per hours worked which I couldn't meet because my speech problems led to longer phonecalls and a lot of hangups. This phonecall was the straw that broke the camel's back and got me fired from that job. I don't regret losing it. There were other similar incidents I had to deal with at that job, but that was the worst.

    The thing was, when I was initially hired, I was hired for a completely different department/job where my speech problems wouldn't be an issue. I was hired for the mail room. Then they instituted a policy where everyone was required to work overtime hours in the call center, and they didn't feel that my speech problems were reason enough to make me an exception.
  • 1989lukemyers
    1989lukemyers Posts: 158 Member
    Everyone and I mean everyone has there price... Everyone will do anything for money that's the sad truth
  • gabbygirl78
    gabbygirl78 Posts: 936 Member
    Ummm.... I'm a nurse ... I have worked in a hospital , nursing homes and a couple of prisons.... nuff said :wink:
  • davemunger
    davemunger Posts: 1,139 Member
    Phone sales -- selling carpet cleaning over the phone. Lasted about 4 hours. I did somewhat better at door-to-door sales, selling newspaper subscriptions. Lasted about 5 months in that job. Only lasted that long because my supervisor was hospitalized after a hang-glider crash the weekend before he was going to fire me.
  • gabbygirl78
    gabbygirl78 Posts: 936 Member
    In college I was so desperate, I cleaned an entire frat house for $80. Don't ask...

    Ok that tops mine.... Frat house... bless your heart ! You were desperate! :drinker:
  • Collier78
    Collier78 Posts: 811 Member
    Kitchen knives...I sold kitchen knives...and I loathed every minute of it...
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  • rungirl1973
    rungirl1973 Posts: 2,559 Member
    The summer that I was 19, I cleaned motel rooms at a truck stop. I was paid a flat rate for each room I cleaned, cash.

    Some days weren't so bad, some days were disgusting.

    I was 6-8 months pg during this time, so the bad days were even worse. Ugh.
  • gabbygirl78
    gabbygirl78 Posts: 936 Member
    I currently wipe butts for a living, and keep femoral arteries from bleeding out by holding pressure, which happens to be right in the groin area. :smile: Of course there's much more than that to my job, and I do love it...most of the time. :wink:

    You must be a Cardiac Care Nurse lol.... Gotta love it!! :drinker:
  • tzig00
    tzig00 Posts: 875 Member
    I had to "purchase" a 9 month pregnant lady's car to cover her repair bill for the vehicle because after she agreed to have the repairs done she got put on bed rest and had no income to pay for the repairs. That one will forever haunt me.
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  • CharleePear
    CharleePear Posts: 1,948 Member
    Sold meth, chased people with weapons and was a porn star for a while....
  • jodynolte
    jodynolte Posts: 243 Member
    In College, dressed as an apple for a furniture store's fall promotion... then an Elf for a perverted Santa, then the Easter Bunny. We do what we have to do...
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    Worked at McDonald's.
  • JoelleAnn78
    JoelleAnn78 Posts: 1,492 Member
    I got nothing.

    But, after reading this thread, I am ever so grateful for my normal, run of the mill, everyday, 9-5. :ohwell:
  • delicious_cocktail
    delicious_cocktail Posts: 5,797 Member
    The thing was, when I was initially hired, I was hired for a completely different department/job where my speech problems wouldn't be an issue. I was hired for the mail room. Then they instituted a policy where everyone was required to work overtime hours in the call center, and they didn't feel that my speech problems were reason enough to make me an exception.

    Too bad. You would have had a slam dunk case of wrongful termination according to the ADA.
  • JenToms80
    JenToms80 Posts: 373 Member
    Worked as a cleaner at our nearby Bultins holiday camp....after I found a poo in a teapot I quit!

    :sick:
  • pzacher68
    pzacher68 Posts: 38 Member
    snorted tequila
  • da1128
    da1128 Posts: 212 Member
    Removed a fecal impaction from a patient who hadn't pooped for a week. Oh wait, pushing an old woman's uterus back into place after it had literally fallen out. She'd had the problem for 20 years but refused to get a hysterectomy for fear she would be "less of a woman." (Her words.)

    And then there was the gent who had to have his temp taken rectally. No sooner had I inserted the thermometer, he ripped off a massive fart and blew the thermometer clear across the room. Naturally it broke and that pretty little mercury was skittering across the floor. I have to admit, that one brought on a fit of laughter.

    Now, if you're talking about 'illegally,' nothing to confess.
  • Mia_RagazzaTosta
    Mia_RagazzaTosta Posts: 4,885 Member
    Removed a fecal impaction from a patient who hadn't pooped for a week. Oh wait, pushing an old woman's uterus back into place after it had literally fallen out. She'd had the problem for 20 years but refused to get a hysterectomy for fear she would be "less of a woman." (Her words.)

    I wish someone would remove my uterus.
  • jbwilliams888
    jbwilliams888 Posts: 96
    I worked at a department store, in the toy section and my job was to make sure all of the toys were stocked and facing forward on the shelves. I swear, as soon as I would face a shelf and walk away, some kid would go right behind me and knock everything down. From the age of 16 to 21, I told myself I would never have kids for that very reason.
  • wolverine66
    wolverine66 Posts: 3,779 Member
    I was hitchhiking. Must have been 1973. I was 19. I was in the Marines and had missed my ride from Camp Pendleton and had to hitchhike to OC. Older gal picked me up. About 40. Nice car, Had money. I was young and in good shape and she started asking me why I was hitchhiking. Told her Football practice was late and I missed my ride. Started telling me how sore she was and that when she was in college, her and her friends used to give each other massages after Tennis practice.

    She eventually got around to asking me if I would be interested in stiopping at her house to giver her a massage and then she would give me a ride all the way into Orange County. She would also give me $20. I said yes.

    Started getting a little nervous after we got to her house. I was a naive 19 year old. Asked if I could use her bathroom first. I went into the bathroom with the intention of climbing out the window and splitting. No window in the bathroom, When I came out, she was on the floor, on a sheet, unclothed. Turns out she wanted morre than a massage.

    When it was all over, she paid me, gave me a ridde the rest of the way. Then, as she let me out, she gave me her number and suggested that she had several girlfriends that might benefit from a "massage".

    I never called her back. Too naive. How come that stuff never happens now.

    I think you misread. it says the worst thing, not the "right out of a porn movie" awesomest thing
  • vinniesooner
    vinniesooner Posts: 119 Member
    Gave a 92 year old woman an enema.

    /thread
    Game over - winner. Or loser.

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