Man we are a diverse bunch!! Interesting how each industry has it's own humor yet somehow it all seems to work here just fine.
Me..I'm a Dragon Dentist. Yep I brush the teeth of Dragons. I have six different dragons to work on. Two have 24 teeth & four have 36 teeth & yes they all breathe fire.
It's nearly true. I'm a glass worker. I make glass bottles for a living. Mainly wine but we also do beer, cordial or whatever is needed. Great job in the middle of winter but the three months of summer is when we earn our keep. 40c outside 60 - 70c inside until you go near the machine. Then it gets hot.
Prior to that printer,tree lopper,worked cattle stations, bakeries, swimming pool manager, junk mail postie & even found time to complete a trade as fitter & turner. At one time I even dug graves.

 

Wow, bluebeard, looks like you've had your hands in just about everything!
As far as the heat, that sucks. I know what you mean (well maybe not exactly). I was subcontracted to do work for a rubber factory in the area that made pellets for tires and stuff. DAM, that was a hot summer... and I spent a good bit of time on top of a couple machines. Hot rubber fumes don't help the situation, either... lol..

 

Always knew yer was an expert with rubbers !

 

Not quite as hot but when I was paint spraying we had to wear a sealed suit boots,gloves and full face mask then go into an oven to spray the trucks, when the gun was empty you had to take your gloves off and change them before refilling the gun because they were full of sweat
my weight would go down by 24lb in the summer, thats a lot of sweat.

 

I knew someone would make a comment... and I figured it'd be you.. lol..
I am an expert, though. I know that under extreme pressure and friction, rubbers fail. That's why I don't use them if I can help it....

 

Wow, the CBR forum is like a box of chocolates ...

I'll play ... I'm a drug dealer, literally.

I'm officially designated as the QPIC* for the company I work for. My company is a pharmaceutical chain with retail locations almost all the way across Canada. I work in the wholesale division and I am in charge of all of the narcotics. The department I am in charge of (4 employees) ships narcs to over 100 pharmacies in 4 Provinces nightly, 6 days a week. I also buy all of the narcs and regular pharmaceuticals for another distribution center we run.

My job is definitely entertaining sometimes, but a lot of it is boring - jumping through the paper hoops the Feds make us jump through to be able to stock sell the products we do. It's strange in that neither my boss nor my boss's boss have access or are allowed in to the part of the building I am in charge of.

I've got a Biology undergrad and I worked as a pharmacy technician for a few years before this.

I've also worked cleaning, distributing and renting rental cars (at the airport Hawkwind! Some of them were so cranky I wanted to smack them). I've worked cleaning buses. I planted trees for a summer near Alaska. I spent one summer while going to school mowing 140 lawns a week. I spent a year in The Rockies working in the kitchen of a 4 star resort (dish washer, prep cook, dessert chef). I've learned valuable things from each job I've ever had; my lawn is always trim, my cars and dishes are always clean and I always pay extra for the insurance when renting a vehicle ... and I can make a mean crepe.

So yeah, I'm a drug dealer.

* Qualified Person In Charge - makes me sound much more important than I am.

 

Oh and KGT, my wife is an anaylist-2 in an environmental testing lab (Maxxam). She works in the inorganics section and tests groundwater and soil samples for various things. Sometimes she comes home smelling like chemicals. Sometimes she comes home with holes burnt through her clothes. She totally wears a lab coat, safety goggles and probably a pocket protector.

 

Ha ha.. Mike I've been there.... no pocket protector, but I've ruined a couple shirts with leaky inkpens.. lol..

Acid has a way of screwing up clothes, too. Like you said, holes in EVERYTHING!! I used to run around in the parking lot at work with an eyedropper and a bottle of nitric acid and burn the **** out of every insect I could find. I liked the nitric over the HCL and H2SO4 for some reason.. I think it fizzed more or something.
I also used to pour freon out on the counter and watch it roll off onto the floor and out into the hallway.. We used to buy the chit in 5gal pails to do extractions. (not quite so heavily regulated at the time.. lol)
Before I went to work in the metals lab (Flame AA), I happened to look in the door, and the girl working was just sitting there staring at the wall. I thought WTF? and went in and asked if she felt alright. She said "I feel GREAT!" and then she started giggling.
It was then that I noticed a hissing sound from behind the AA. Sure enough, there was a nitrous oxide leak, and she had been in a room full of it for god knows how long...lol...
High as a kite, she was...
Good times at the lab, for sure!

BTW, it sounds like you have a pretty neat job.
You've also got some cool experience in other fields. Good crepes are awesome, too...!

 

As far as heat goes We had a really hot summer a couple of years ago. It came over the radio that a [articular factory that that made corrugated iron was the hottest factory in the state. One of our boys had a thermometer & found that we were 2C less than that factory. Problem was our temp was done under an air-con outlet. It's too hot to get BO which is good but instead of rubber fumes it's smoke from our mop oil.

Not quite as hot but when I was paint spraying we had to wear a sealed suit boots,gloves and full face mask then go into an oven to spray the trucks, when the gun was empty you had to take your gloves off and change them before refilling the gun because they were full of sweat
my weight would go down by 24lb in the summer, thats a lot of sweat.

I know what you mean about sweat. In our factory we tend to put weight on. Probably due to the lack of activity because we conserve as much energy as possible as when something happens on the machines it's all go & it's so hot that you want it done as quickly as possible.
The blokes that work on furnace repair Are in full fire suits. They are allowed 10 minutes in & 20 minutes out unless its bu the molten glass. 5 minutes in 25 minutes out. Glad I don't do that.

 

Yep, that's crazy hot, bluebeard.

My buddy worked in a coal power plant and had to clean the coal chutes to the burners. Full suit, hotter than hell, climbing through a coal chute with a fire hose. Not my idea of a good time...