Most Bizarre Student Jobs

coureur
Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:59:29 +0000

I had summer job in college working in a cannery - standing at the end of the canning line pushing newly-canned green beans off a table and into large carriers to be taken away and cooked in large walk-in steam ovens, for eight hours a day.

After a few weeks my talent was apparently noticed because I got promoted from beans to beets. The beet people were special and the work required special akills because the beets were in (breakable) bottles instead of cans. Only the elite got to work on the beet line. The money was the same (minimum wage) but there was a definite prestige associated being a beet person.