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I mean like the sort of job that takes you far away from a normal life. Working on a cargo ship. Working in the cafeteria on an arctic research station. That sort of thing.
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I moved to Sun Valley, Idaho for a summer for work, and I worked in Japan for about a year as an english teacher
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Oct 16, 2025 01:42
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I worked at Disney World straight out of school.
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Oct 16, 2025 01:44
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Does posting full-time from the library count?
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Oct 16, 2025 01:48
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I'm a marine biologist, so I get good glimpses of the life at sea a few times a year when I go out on surveys. Nothing like being hundreds of km offshore, without a speck of land in sight and surrounded by squawking albatross. Everyone usually feels like complete poo poo when working in those big offshore rollers for the first 36 hours, then your inner ear acclimates and you can do all the fun hallway leaning stuff without wanting to yack. To be honest, it's pretty great to have all your meals made for you by the kitchen, you really have very few responsibilities aside from getting your science poo poo done, which you don't really experience at any other point in life on land. We have internet and stuff though, so it doesn't feel quote as remote as it is. Szechwan fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Oct 16, 2025 |
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Oct 16, 2025 01:49
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I was in a forrest gump cult for a hot minute but the pay was ultimately ephemeral so no not really Oh buried alive for like 16 yeads
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Oct 16, 2025 02:45
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Yes I had several. Anything that would get me away from home really. Most of them were poo poo; sometimes literally.
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Oct 16, 2025 03:18
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I've picked up and moved very far away for jobs multiple times but I wasn't "away" in the sense that I was ever coming back
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Oct 16, 2025 03:35
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Worked a camp job in the oilsands for a few years. Sucks balls
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Oct 16, 2025 04:18
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The Fattest PI posted:Worked a camp job in the oilsands for a few years. Sucks balls I worked up in firebag for two weeks as a security consultant for scada systems. I had 5 connecting flights to get up there, it was insanely cold, and the arm rest of the chair in my room was coated in boogers They had a tim hortons in the lodge. Overall a 7/10 experience.
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Oct 16, 2025 04:45
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Locker room attendant at Mar a Lago
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Oct 16, 2025 05:49
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I used to travel between Canada and USA for film production. It kinda sucks
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Oct 16, 2025 06:04
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we all know how many astronauts post here, it's kinda frightening really
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Oct 16, 2025 06:15
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my dad used to do a month in/month out rotation as a gas plant supervisor in Libya, which is a really funny job for someone who's almost illiterate. he said it fuckin' kicked rear end. then he had a massive stroke, which sucked, but he had it like 6 months before the civil war so it's cool that my dad didn't end up in a mass grave or prison
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Oct 16, 2025 06:21
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Szechwan posted:I'm a marine biologist, so I get good glimpses of the life at sea a few times a year when I go out on surveys. Nothing like being hundreds of km offshore, without a speck of land in sight and surrounded by squawking albatross. Is it hosed up if I am extremely happy in life but at the same time this sounds like some kind of "if I was good at science midlife crisis" dream
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Oct 16, 2025 06:36
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Sucked a dick or three at the san diego zoo Cant you read my t shirt
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Oct 16, 2025 07:05
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Around 1993 I was a young poor euro dropout with no real plans or prospects. A friend at the university showed me some early demos and websites on NCSA Mosaic and I decided I wanted to be a part of whatever that represented. So I jumped on the first job offer I could land having to do with "internet stuff" and that happened to be in a different country. I just went for it and left everything behind. The pioneer days of the early commercial internet was a lot of fun. I spent the next 30 years jumping from job to job and from country to country. I never regretted the decision to bail on my "default template normal timeline" , but also I just never really found a way home even when I tried a few times. For the past decade I've lived very comfortably as an expat in SE Asia. But all that's coming to an end. Not safe to be a transient if we're heading towards a breakdown in international relations and trade and the fascist oligarchs everywhere are unmasking. Also AI has turned tech and creative work into dire poo poo and I'm completely disillusioned with corporate work. I'm retiring in the countryside to a small doomstead cottage that I bought on clean title with what little I had been able to save up in my life as a traveling tech hobo.
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The Loin King posted:Sucked a dick or three at the san diego zoo Says duck, Loim
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Oct 16, 2025 11:28
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I went to college. It’s kind of like a job but you pay them
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Oct 16, 2025 13:56
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I spent a year in Arizona upgrading cell towers to 3g. They paid me so much money that I couldn't even be bothered to take my paychecks to the bank for awhile
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Oct 16, 2025 14:51
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Million Ghosts posted:my dad used to do a month in/month out rotation as a gas plant supervisor in Libya, which is a really funny job for someone who's almost illiterate. he said it fuckin' kicked rear end. then he had a massive stroke, which sucked, but he had it like 6 months before the civil war so it's cool that my dad didn't end up in a mass grave or prison 
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Oct 16, 2025 15:42
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Closest i came was when i moved up here. Wasn't actually authorized to live where i was living, spent like a month going between sneaking into my girlfriend's rented room and spending her shifts walking around parks around her place of work and other stuff. When i finally got hired (i came up on the promise she could get me a job) i clung to that bitch for dear life because all i jad was broke and disabled family that probably couldn't muster a plane ticket home But it was dishwashing and poo poo lol it was normie poo poo circumstances aside I still flipped my life upside down in a gamble i feel worked out ultimately, and that's cool i guess
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Oct 16, 2025 16:06
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Riot Bimbo posted:Closest i came was when i moved up here. Wasn't actually authorized to live where i was living, spent like a month going between sneaking into my girlfriend's rented room and spending her shifts walking around parks around her place of work and other stuff. When i finally got hired (i came up on the promise she could get me a job) i clung to that bitch for dear life because all i jad was broke and disabled family that probably couldn't muster a plane ticket home thats rad as hell cool name also
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Oct 16, 2025 16:43
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Elburroman posted:thats rad as hell Yeah i got to express my transfemme self and live authentically for the first time in maybe ever. I was willing to endure a lot of horseshit for that, and i did. The name was given to me by somebody summarizing my vibe at the height of my experimentation with high-femme expression. I was skinny, bubbly, and sweet for a while but i always found time to be like "destroy capitalism, overthrow the state *giggles* Marx says,  ."Not really how i do or be anymore but the name stays
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Riot Bimbo posted:Yeah i got to express my transfemme self and live authentically for the first time in maybe ever. I was willing to endure a lot of horseshit for that, and i did. Awww hey fellow transfemme love this story even more now. Hope you are still fighting it in ways that feel right and safe <3
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Oct 16, 2025 17:01
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Summer camp counsellor is the perfect job for late teens/early-20s people looking for a break from the norm or frustrated with demeaning retail and service gigs. The pay was dogshit but it's almost entirely disposable since you're stranded relatively far from civilization (although we still managed to blow a lot of it on booze). It's a taste of some real responsibility - being entrusted with the care of children can be a lot and you'll learn a lot of leadership and as many outdoorsy skills as you want - but in a lot of ways you're still a camper who just 'graduated' to not having to pay to be there by virtue of being too old to officially be a camper. In fact that's exactly what happened to me and four other friends a year early, when they oversold the camp and just made us volunteer employees for the rest of the summer. Your brains aren't fully developed yet, everyone is around the same age, horny and mischievous, and there are senior staff around to offer guidance or step in when someone actually fucks up badly. There are some experiences I feel I missed out on by working there every summer in highschool and college, but on the other hand I don't regret it because I had an awesome time and loads of stories from it.
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Oct 16, 2025 17:23
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Katamari Democracy posted:I worked at Disney World straight out of school. Did this too! I was (and still am, kinda) struggling to make it through college; my parents wanted me to move back in with them in Texas for a bit and I loving hated that idea so I went and did the DCP for six months. Working at EPCOT was great, Magic Kingdom not so much, and I knew it was time for me to dip when I was walking through the utilidors and realized cramming papers was preferable to dealing with Disney adults at that point. But overall it was fun, I met a lot of really cool people, and the setup was actually pretty great- they provide housing close to the parks, and run buses at all hours for cast members to get to work. As someone who legally can’t drive, it was wonderful. Plus it feels like cool lore to drop randomly.
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Oct 16, 2025 22:46
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Teaching English in Japan was one of the best moves I ever made. Might still be there if i didn’t break my back. I hate America with all my soul, rear end and butt but can’t regret returning cuz I met my wife & the kids are loving miracles. Still want to leave tho. Considering busking in China.
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Oct 16, 2025 22:59
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kntfkr posted:hate America with all my soul, rear end and butt I liked this I guess you're olright after all kinfucket
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Oct 16, 2025 23:33
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I left Texas to go be a vibe manager at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York Times Square. I got to hang out at the host station and based on people’s vibes I would pick a good hard rock song to keep them pumped for ordering apps and entrees and checking out our memorabilia
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Oct 18, 2025 23:53
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Joined the Army at 17, bye mom and dad!
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Oct 18, 2025 23:56
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I wish. But now i have a dog and i refuse to leave this bitch
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yeah doing it right now. my employer moved my role to wichita, kansas and I went with sight unseen it because at least its not fuckin florida. everything is so cheap here feels like I moved to cambodia
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Oct 19, 2025 02:49
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Smugworth posted:I left Texas to go be a vibe manager at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York Times Square. I got to hang out at the host station and based on people’s vibes I would pick a good hard rock song to keep them pumped for ordering apps and entrees and checking out our memorabilia i find it hard to believe that you've ever been allowed near an establishment that serves food (nominally) for humans
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Oct 19, 2025 03:02
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I taught English in super rural Japan but it was with the JET Program so there was a huge safety net there so I'm not sure it really counts.
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Oct 19, 2025 03:05
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Buce posted:i find it hard to believe that you've ever been allowed near an establishment that serves food (nominally) for humans lol I was a line cook at various restaurants for about a decade I worked for a famous Hollywood starlet even for a spell There’s a lot more freaks and weirdos than just me cooking your food
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You may have seen her in a little movie called “Gravity” which came out during my tenure there
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I've been in mining exploration for 15 years. I spend about 8 months a year working in 5-24 person tent camps, 400 person mine camps, or 100 person hub/outposts. The rise of satellite internet means I no longer get fully disappeared for 8 weeks at a time. I'm still usually over a hundred miles from any permanent settlements most of the time though. It's not for most. The massive variation in what needs to get done, usually in an emergency, has led my autistic brain to experience the good feelings through high-stakes immersive learning. I do geology/geotechnical work, build/operate/maintain camps, basic trades, heavy equipment operation, logistics, safety, environmental stuff, spreadsheets...the list goes on. The two best descriptions of the job are 1) "poo poo, I guess we'll make due with what we got" 2) "What do you need? If I can't do it, I know someone who can"
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basic training and AIT, undergrad close to home (a mistake), to one coast for grad school (a mistake), to the other coast for a girl (a mistake), back to the first coast for career advancement (so far so good)
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No_talent posted:I've been in mining exploration for 15 years. what're some of the weirdest problems you've gotten to solve this sounds cool what's the most critical hardship youve endured in the name of this jop
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