This Week’s Weird Jobs

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Our current sad economic state has been dubbed a number of things.
The Great Recession. The he-cession. The credit crunch. One thing, however, it clear. It’s not the Porncession. Because that industry is doing just fine, thank you very much:

1. LA: Driver for the BUS (Driver for the BUS)

Adult Day Care needs a Driver BP class.
Monday to Friday. Pay – $ 45.00

• Location: Driver for the BUS

I know that driver for the BUS makes sense in other languages…but in English, it’s just plain funny.

2. LA: Dream job for the right person… could it be you?

Dream job for the right person… could it be you?

Description: Well established adult oriented website company looking for someone with a knack for choosing the best adult material. With the training we provide, you’ll be selecting pictures and videos for our sites on a daily basis. So yes, basically you get paid to look at porn, but there’s a lot more to it than you might think. You have to know EXACTLY what to look for. It takes a highly-trained and keen eye to select the proper images for our websites. The difference between picking the right and wrong pictures even one time can mean thousands in additional sales revenues for the company.

“Highly-trained,” in this context, means you have watched a lot of porn.

3. Canada: Taboo Sales Reps Needed

Looking For Sales Help For The Upcoming Taboo Naughty But Nice Sex Show.
Needs To Be Energetic, Outgoing and Great Customer Service. Duties Would Include Greeting and Helping Customers, Setup and Tear Down of Show.

Please note this is an adult oriented show and you must be 18 and over to apply.

Must be comfortable selling jelly-like protrusions intended to fit into outlandish places.

4. Canada: Installer for chimney wanted

Looking for a chimney “expert” to install wood burning stove chimney on a weekend. Not to be offensive but please do not apply if you are a weekend handiman or someone who read how to install a chimney. Must know code. Please send me your info and I will contact you. Thank you.

Note to weekend handymen: Just be really, really good at pretending you’re an expert. And don’t being an instruction manual like the last guy did.

5. Canada: Love piercings and tattoos???

Looking to hire ENERGETIC, OUTGOING, HARD WORKING, and MOTIVATED sales people!! Christmas is a busy season and we need good sellers!! do you love to work?

This is a free standing kiosk in a mall. You need to be comfortable with standing for long periods of time, and not having breaks (although you will be paid for them).

please write a little blurb about yourself when applying. What makes you stand out? what weird or cool hobbies do you have?? tell us something that makes you, YOU!

You love to work, you don’t get any breaks, you have to stand around in a mall, and you have weird/cool hobbies. Why don’t they just directly ask for teenagers in desperate need of money?

Happy Friday!

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