The scariest job you ever had?

[Tweak155]

I crossed the line regarding Mayne shitting on vets and you're calling me worse?

Works for me..

Both really should be unacceptable.

 

[Mai72]

I miss Mayne.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I used to work for a car rental company and we sometimes had to repossess cars when people would stop paying for them. Some of those repossessions took place in areas like South Central Los Angeles, North Long Beach, Compton, and East Los Angeles. Never had any trouble but it was always... exhilarating.

If nothing else I know the Los Angeles area pretty well.

 

[shortylickens]

I miss Mayne.

 

[Papagayo]

Scary, but also exciting (8 years in service).

I was a loader, driver, and finally a gunner.

I got an arcom for having top gun..

 

[BoomerD]

Got a pic of this somewhere? I can't even imagine this.

Surprisingly, no...but I did find something similar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDiMmURFrPs

 

[alkemyst]

alkemyst ...

I hear that the recruiters are still talking about you. :\

What a load. Do you really think people believe this crap?

Do I care if they don't?

Sorry you were an underachiever.

I did find my letter of being placed into the gifted program and a letter from MIT waiting for the results of the interview that someone flew out to give me.

No ASVAB though, it could have been some of what was lost during a hurricane that flooded my garage in the 90's.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

Scariest:

#1 Tree service
#2 Solar panel installer
#3 mental health tech at psych ward
#4 sling loading vehicles to helicopters

 

[alkemyst]

#3 mental health tech at psych ward

psych wards are literally crazy. You will see almost no cords, even phone cords are only 6" or less. No toilet seats, plumbing is all special so things cant be broke off. Any glass is covered in plexiglass if not directly a plastic already.

Special chairs and the like.

Some doors allow you in, but not back out.

etc.

 

[vi edit]

In Jr High I used to work a couple hours on Sundays sitting in the little huts that launch clay pigeons for skeet shooting.

You'd cram yourself into this pit with a big mechanical arm that pivoted back and forth with another arm on it with a giant as spring that would launch the pigeons. Back outside behind the pit was the shooting line with a guy that had a remote trigger to launch the bird.

They'd fire off like 25 pigeons straight and you had around 5 seconds between birds to get it on this moving arm. If the pigeon shattered (and that happened at least a dozen times a day) it'd explode in a pile of pieces in the hut and you'd still have to reload the machine fast enough for them to fire off another one immediately. You'd hear the shot bouncing off the top of the hut, the plastic wad that kept the pellets in place would fly far enough to land on the hut and you'd hear that.

It was not fun at all. I only got bit by the machine once and left my hand swollen for a couple days. But if you weren't careful I'm sure it would break every bone in your hand if you were in the wrong spot at the wrong time.

All that for $50, a candy bar and a can of pop for 2 hours of insanity.

:/

 

[Uppsala9496]

Do I care if they don't?

Sorry you were an underachiever.

I did find my letter of being placed into the gifted program and a letter from MIT waiting for the results of the interview that someone flew out to give me.

No ASVAB though, it could have been some of what was lost during a hurricane that flooded my garage in the 90's.

Here's what I don't get; if you are so brilliant, why did you have to rack up $60K+ in credit card bills to pay for school? Shouldn't you have been given a free ride at pretty much any school of your choosing due to your superior intellect?
Half my tuition was paid for via academic scholarships and I'm not all that bright.

 

[alkemyst]

Here's what I don't get; if you are so brilliant, why did you have to rack up $60K+ in credit card bills to pay for school? Shouldn't you have been given a free ride at pretty much any school of your choosing due to your superior intellect?
Half my tuition was paid for via academic scholarships and I'm not all that bright.

As a white kid with wealthy parents I didn't qualify for many scholarships. Problem was both of my parents were dying in a hospital at the time and no one thought they'd work again. Financial aid looks at the previous year though, not the current. I did get a decent chunk of change my first couple years and if I went to Pharmacy school much of that would have been covered.

Also most of my college expenses happened as an adult when I went back to school. You are all over my posts lately and this stuff was already mentioned. Do you read or just flame?

Would it make you happier to see my admittance paper work to the Gifted program, or some of my letters that I was accepted to the executive internship in Engineering I wanted?

Yeah, I just make up stuff here.

Also that credit card was really a LoC at a fixed rate. Much like a school loan.

Lol

 

[Imp]

...

It was not fun at all. I only got bit by the machine once and left my hand swollen for a couple days. But if you weren't careful I'm sure it would break every bone in your hand if you were in the wrong spot at the wrong time.

All that for $50, a candy bar and a can of pop for 2 hours of insanity.

:/

Too bad they couldn't afford to put a second machine in or just tell people they'd have to shoot things at a slower rate.

 

[T9D]

Scariest:

#1 Tree service
#2 Solar panel installer
#3 mental health tech at psych ward
#4 sling loading vehicles to helicopters

It's not like you have a death wish or anything. Do you even want to live lol :biggrin:

 

[smackababy]

I could say I was rather frightened doing roofing in the Texas summers. Not so much because the job was "dangerous", just that it was around 100 degrees F and we were using hot tar. And, at one job our ladder wouldn't reach the house, so we put it in the bed of a truck, backed up close enough.

Didn't help I am not a fan of heights. It's never been enough to stop me from doing things, but I really don't like it.

 

[Perknose]

I
All that for $50, a candy bar and a can of pop for 2 hours of insanity.

:/

Brilliant closing line to a great real life story. :thumbsup:

 

[Ns1]

I could say I was rather frightened doing roofing in the Texas summers. Not so much because the job was "dangerous", just that it was around 100 degrees F and we were using hot tar. And, at one job our ladder wouldn't reach the house, so we put it in the bed of a truck, backed up close enough.

Didn't help I am not a fan of heights. It's never been enough to stop me from doing things, but I really don't like it.

some poster on this board got owned by hot tar, similar situation IIRC. concern warranted.

 

[MongGrel]

delete.

 

[MongGrel]

Here's what I don't get; if you are so brilliant, why did you have to rack up $60K+ in credit card bills to pay for school? Shouldn't you have been given a free ride at pretty much any school of your choosing due to your superior intellect?
Half my tuition was paid for via academic scholarships and I'm not all that bright.

As a white kid with wealthy parents I didn't qualify for many scholarships. Problem was both of my parents were dying in a hospital at the time and no one thought they'd work again. Financial aid looks at the previous year though, not the current. I did get a decent chunk of change my first couple years and if I went to Pharmacy school much of that would have been covered.

Also most of my college expenses happened as an adult when I went back to school. You are all over my posts lately and this stuff was already mentioned. Do you read or just flame?

Would it make you happier to see my admittance paper work to the Gifted program, or some of my letters that I was accepted to the executive internship in Engineering I wanted?

Yeah, I just make up stuff here.

Also that credit card was really a LoC at a fixed rate. Much like a school loan.

Lol

Personally, I wouldn't even bother trying going that route with this guy anymore.

He's a passive aggressive spoiled brat that talks a lot of BS.

That's even pretty ugly, considering his age.

 

[Ns1]

rule 813 bros.

 

[MongGrel]

KK, keep that rule 69 out of here

:biggrin:

 

[skyking]

I've had some moments both flying and operating.
It was a straight slide down the slope in the foreground, into this hole on the Stevens Canyon road on Mt' Rainier. The big excavator had the bucket on backwards to hand me down drain rock.
To get back out, I had to hook my bucket onto that one and get dragged back up. Slipping off that hold may have been problematic

Same job, different spot on the canyon. This is about 300' above Narada Falls. Not scary for me in the excavator, but very concerned about the guy down there by my bucket on that slope.

Perspective from the seat:

 

[JDawg1536]

Do I care if they don't?

Sorry you were an underachiever.

I did find my letter of being placed into the gifted program and a letter from MIT waiting for the results of the interview that someone flew out to give me.

No ASVAB though, it could have been some of what was lost during a hurricane that flooded my garage in the 90's.

Cool, gifted douche. When you find your special "behind the scenes" ASVAB score, be sure to let us know. Until then, stay the biggest tool in the country. What a nerd....

 

[pcgeek11]

Do I care if they don't?

Sorry you were an underachiever.

I did find my letter of being placed into the gifted program and a letter from MIT waiting for the results of the interview that someone flew out to give me.

No ASVAB though, it could have been some of what was lost during a hurricane that flooded my garage in the 90's.

It never stops does it?

 

[pcgeek11]

Yeah, I just make up stuff here.

OK. That I do believe.