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Ultimate job for a grumpy bastard

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    #32
    chrysagon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭chrysagon


    YouTookMyName wrote: »
    Ryanair Steward.


    ryanair steward working at Christmas!!!!


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    #33
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    TSA agent, henchman #1.


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    #34
    efb
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    Slideways wrote: »
    People are arseholes. I can't stand working with people,

    Apart from a lighthouse keeper I'm looking for a job that could keep me away from people.

    I'm an angry little man so no jobs where being tall is a necessity..

    Traffic warden


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    #35
    chrysagon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭chrysagon


    ok any airport worker having to work Xmas!!!


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    #36
    [Deleted User]
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    I know a nice girl who wants to marry a lighthouse keeper. So I do.


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    #37
    InTheTrees
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    You could get into politics?


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    #38
    Annasopra
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I know a nice girl who wants to marry a lighthouse keeper. So I do.

    Its you isn't it?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #39
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    Its you isn't it?

    Nope!

    Close though :D


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    #40
    smcgiff
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I know a nice girl who wants to marry a lighthouse keeper. So I do.

    Does that profession even exist anymore?


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    #41
    weisses
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    umpa Lumpa


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    #42
    MRnotlob606
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    Department of Social Protection or Bus Eireann ?


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    #43
    mcko
    Registered Users Posts: 751 ✭✭✭mcko


    HR I find would suit you, at least where I work.


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    #44
    mikemac1
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    mcko wrote: »
    HR I find would suit you, at least where I work.

    The OP said grumpy, not back stabbing :P


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    #45
    nullzero
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    ****


    Easy... Hermit.

    Glazers Out!



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    #46
    [Deleted User]
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    smcgiff wrote: »
    Does that profession even exist anymore?

    Indeed it does :)

    The Commissioner of Irish lights employs them!


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    #47
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users Posts: 14,715 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    If you're a grumpy bastard I imagine a handjob should sort you out.


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    #48
    William F
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭William F


    An enforcer


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    #49
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 14,545 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    I believe Mona Island may be looking for "a keeper" a position I was interested in a while back but I opted for grasses analyst on the Canadian Prairies,


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    #50
    Egginacup
    Site Banned Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭Egginacup


    Slideways wrote: »
    People are arseholes. I can't stand working with people,

    Apart from a lighthouse keeper I'm looking for a job that could keep me away from people.

    I'm an angry little man so no jobs where being tall is a necessity..

    My friend Frank, after graduating from University in New Jersey wanted to just work for a little while in some ... any...job. He went into a huge "Home Depot" in Paramus (or was it Lodi..can't remember) and said: "Hi, I'm Frank. I'd like a job for a while and I don't like people." Guy who he addressed looked at him and half laughed and then shouted to some bloke in the loading area "Guys, we have Frank here, he wants a job and he don't like people."

    Frank started an hour later operating a mini-forklift carrying pallets of bleach and listening to crap on the radio pumped into the warehouse. Happy as hell for months. Then I met him in an office job...that's how I learned of the job.


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    #51
    Shrap
    Registered Users Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    Docklands guard dog. You could be a highly trained ankle biter.


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    #52
    _Whimsical_
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    I know someone who has done research into light house keepers mental health and he was telling me that in Ireland throughout the many years there have been lighthouses not one person has quit the job. Despite the isolation, particilarly years ago, people have only left the job due to injury or illness, retired or died there, but no one has said "I quit! Im off to find something different".

    I wonder how many jobs have such a record? Must be an ok number!


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    #53
    Egginacup
    Site Banned Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭Egginacup


    _Whimsical_ wrote: »
    I know someone who has done research into light house keepers mental health and he was telling me that in Ireland throughout the many years there have been lighthouses not one person has quit the job. Despite the isolation, particilarly years ago, people have only left the job due to injury or illness, retired or died there, but no one has said "I quit! Im off to find something different".

    I wonder how many jobs have such a record? Must be an ok number!


    How many lighthouses are there in Ireland?
    Sh1t job. You actually have to work like painting the fecker during the summer when the waves aren't battering you and you're nice and snug with the bottle of Scotch and your heavy jumper.....actually scratch that.....you're working so NO alcohol.

    What will you do to pass the time? Polish the bulb and then....listen to the radio because you hate people but still need to hear about them. BOLLOX

    Best job if you despise people is VERY simple. GARDENER. You sniff around lovely shrubs and plants, prune some hedges mow and hew and all the while (if you are in acceptable physical condition) you will be invited indoors and perhaps upstairs by the lady of the house.


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    #54
    braddun
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    meter maid-parking tickets


    slurry spreader



    lumberjack

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL7n5mEmXJo


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    #55
    winnie the schtink
    Registered Users Posts: 287 ✭✭winnie the schtink


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Indeed it does :)

    The Commissioner of Irish lights employs them!

    the last manned lighthouse in ireland was the bailey which was automated in 1997


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    #56
    _Whimsical_
    Registered Users Posts: 7,955 ✭✭✭_Whimsical_


    Egginacup wrote: »
    How many lighthouses are there in Ireland?
    Sh1t job.

    I'd trust several generations of people and research into them over you my anonymous poster friend!
    I hope you're not offended :)


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    #57
    Lyaiera
    Registered Users Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭Lyaiera


    Primary school teacher teaching the first communion class.


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    #58
    mickdw
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    winnie the schtink wrote: »
    the last manned lighthouse in ireland was the bailey which was automated in 1997
    Fair enough but they still have a huge staff.
    I know a chap that used to spend months on a rock in a manned lighthouse before it was automated. He is still employed by them though and he still regularly makes trips to the lighthouse on the rock for a few days at a time for maintenence purposes.


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    #59
    pragmatic1
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    Hitman. The money would be good and you get to kill people.


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    #60
    [Deleted User]
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    winnie the schtink wrote: »
    the last manned lighthouse in ireland was the bailey which was automated in 1997

    They still have to be maintained.


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    #61
    TOEJOE
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    A Bomb disposal expert :
    A medical lab tech ,Scientist.


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