Most Bizarre Student Jobs

spectastic
Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:44:42 +0000

When the wife was teaching, she had to hire a guy to get 23 prostate exams from her nursing students. I did not volunteer.

the guy must be pretty desperate to be willing to take it up the rear…

I’ve heard of an undergraduate research assistant spending hours doing this thing (forgot what it was called) where he would sit for hours in front of a powerful microscope, in the cold, using some special tweasers to take samples of a polymer strand that’s less than a micrometer long, and putting it into a sampler for xray scattering or something. Normally, a job like that costs hundreds per sample. Instead, this kid was paid minimum wage. so sad :(



Her actual job was to count how many times cows chewed when they ate certain types of plants

LOL
on her CV: investigate grazing behavoir of cows in various natural habats.
reason for leaving: difficulty locating suitable specimen