OK, so i just read the "last one to post..." thread and saw Tom's job testing vehicle durabilty, etc. I reckon that sounds pretty interesting (at least for a little while), so I thought I'd plonk down this thread.

The goal - If you have, or have had, a cool job that you think is pretty special, different, weird, etc, post it! It can be IT related, or non-IT related, I don't care.

Here's my contribution - While at uni, I was a fire spotter. This meant that I sat at the top of a big tall tower, at the top of the tallest mountain in the area, and looked for fires all summer. I had to look for smoke, radio through when thunderstorms were building, log lightning strikes, etc. Basically, this meant that most of the time I sat in a chair reading books and glancing around every once in a while! Becaue it was in the middle of nowhere (about 60k's from the nearest town of 200 ppl, 150k's to the nearest town of a reasonable size - i.e. with more than 1 pub ;)) I would generally camp up there at nights as well. It was pretty awesome. Sitting in a tower while winds of 100 knots were buffeting the tower is a pretty cool experience! so's watching the radio in front of you explode after the tower get's hit by lightning.

So, all my mates thought it was the coolest thing around when I told them about it, but surely someone out there has something better!