Question of the Day #20

What's the most embarrassing job you ever had?

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Everyone falls in hard times and in those times, we'll take what we can get! Tree in the school play, zoo pooper-scooper, human traffic cone. Sometimes you need a little extra cash. What's an embarassing job that you have taken?

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Serving my banana-brain classmates.

Sadie K · Strattford, NH

“For a period of time in college, I had to work for the dining hall, which doesn't sound that embarrassing, but the t-shirt I had to wear was the the color of a banana, and everyone I went to classes…”

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Clearing table not too bad, but a salsa bath

Parker H · Atlanta, GA

“Super lucky that I had never worked an embarrassing job, but I used to work as a busser in a Mexican restaurant in high school, and we had these disgusting tubs full of water that we put all the…”

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A struggle for bare backs (and bare sandwiches).

jaygish · Chicago

“I once had a a summer job where, uh, we worked for the county digging thistles, which, for anyone who doesn't know, is a a noxious weed that's spiny and it hurts when it falls on your bare back,…”

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I was a polar bear!

Alexis B · Colfax, NC

“Hands down, the most embarrassing job I ever had was as a birthday hostess at, like, a little kids' play area that was attached to an ice rink. And inherently that is not embarrassing, but when the…”

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Chaos in the changing rooms.

Tracy M · New York, NY

“The most embarrassing job I had was running the changing rooms in Macy's Herald Square. It was just chaotic, and the demands I got from people was pretty ridiculous.”

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Highway cleanup, but it's not what you think.

Mady S · Westfield, NJ

“The most embarrassing job that I've ever had is just picking up trash along the highway. And yes, it was a job. No, I wasn't in trouble.”

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Picking up golf balls at the driving range. By hand.

Evan J · Indianapolis, In

“I would say, uh, I, uh, worked at a golf course picking, uh, range balls off the, uh, range, and the first day that I did it, I broke the, uh, the, uh, range picker, um, and then I had to pick the…”

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Posing for prom pics.

Nathan F · Meridian, ID

“The most embarrassing job I ever had was probably during college. I responded to an ad on Craigslist looking for, like, models for, like, a prom supply company. So I had to go and pose and take…”

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