Who's got, or has had, the most interesting or unusual job (or dullest job) to tell us about? Add a picture to represent it if one is available. We've seen a few here over the times, from pilot to navy Seal.

Timberbeast, we saw you there, we'll add yours first as a US based forester. Shades of 'I'm a lumberjack and I'm alright' from Monty Python come to mind. And we note also your writing credit from a symposium on giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum). What's all that about then?

Can you match being a lumberjack, or is your job best represented by a picture which is at the other end of interesting and exotic occupations?

In my youth I took a job attempting to sell bacon door-to-door. Given that I lived at the time in the area with the highest proportion of Jewish residents in the entire city, that one didn't go too well. Will You Love me Tomorrow is now available on Amazon. Click to find out more.

I also 'love' Birmingham City Council benkelly, well done on moving far beyond their reach!

Anyway, here's my bid for most unusual job - I'm a flood forecaster on the River Severn and the River Trent. No, there aren't that many of us, and yes, it does keep me busy! When it's flooding the job is stressful and demanding, if it's too dry I get involved in other river management activities. So I don't get to stay in bed if it's not raining. If I have to try to compete with TimberBeast on publications I am the author of the 'River Severn Regulation Factsheets' you can find on the Environment Agency's website, have written conference reports for scientific journals and have co-written a paper to be presented at the Britsh Hyrdological Society's symposium at Exeter University in September - see you all there?!

Oh, and I write fiction.
K

thought I felt a little prick!
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.— Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)

At one time I earned a living as an archer using a traditional, medieval-style longbow I appeared on Blue Peter on several occasions, one being with the late Caron Keating, a delightful woman; I never got my badge though. I was featured in the Daily Telegraph, various other TV productions, sometimes performed in front of thousands and in short got paid for something I loved doing. That was over twenty years ago.

During one of my Uni summer holidays,I worked in a chicken factory. My friend and I wre picked up at 5am by two Welsh youths whi would stop in a layby on the way there to smoke something to help their day go by in a much nice haze.
My job would be based on what section of the line I was stood at. At the top I had to rip the skin off the thigh and hang it on hooks. At the bootom of the line, you just had to cut the knuckle out.
Our outfit was a white overall on top of several jumpers (as we were in what effectively was a fridge). This was invariably adorned with disgusting matter from the work we were under taking. We wore an orange helmet and never failed to get wolf whistled when we entered as we were the only women there!

I quite understand. Why if 'Return period assessment of the Summer 2007 floods in central England' were to be leaked to the general public, there could be horrendous hydrological consequences. The price of Guinness could plummet, skyrocket, or most likely, stay the same. There could be water balloon fights in the streets of [insert English city or town here] or Swindon and riots from [insert some other English city or town here] or Swindon to [insert some other English city or town here] or Swindon.

I think the British Hydrological Society has made the hydrologically prudent decision. Best,
Norm
"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others." - Julius (Groucho) Marx

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