Easiest Job EverDazbrilliantwhites says he spent five years working at an airport where he spent his days "racing down multi-storey car parks in wheelchairs and then using the lift to go back to the top". Tell us about your best and easiest jobs. Students: Make something up.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 12:14)
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Sleep Research LaboratoryI worked in a sleep research laboratory in America for a year (and no I didn't get to sleep, quite the opposite!).
I got paid around $18 an hour to sit with research subjects and make sure they didn't fall asleep on our experiments, basically watching DVDs, reading books, or having conversations with the many amazing and interesting people we had as subjects :) I also got to glue electrodes to their scalps.
Unfortunately it wasn't always so easy and this did come around full circle. Keeping someone awake when you're both not sleepy is fairly easy. When it's 4am in the morning and you're both tired as hell sitting in a VERY dimly lit room with no windows it was sometimes tempting to gnaw ones' arm off just to stay awake. Sometimes, it was the volunteers who ended up keeping the staff awake!
(, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 10:57, 3 replies)
Oh man!Did you gnaw off your own arm?
Seriously, that sounds fantastic.
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Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:46,
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Luckily...it never came to that. Sometimes I had to improvise a smelling salts contraption from alcohol wipes, or failing that, ask to go outside and stare directly at the lights for a few moments!
(, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 21:28, closed)
4am in the morning?Oh you card! Most of my 4ams happen in the afternoon! :P
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