Oddest or Unique thing you've done for $$$?

Over the years, I've become boring in terms of income....
but not that long ago or farther back, I could be found doing some nutty or dicey or maybe even clever type work, depending on your perspective - lol....

You as well?

I was just remembering the time that one of the points apps was paying people $200 bucks to sign up with DoorDash and do at least one delivery.
So I did. I signed up and within a couple hours, I picked up some food from a restaurant near me and took it to a guy who lived about 6 blocks away. He was standing there waiting at the end of his driveway. I handed it to him from my car window and went home. They paid me $200 plus the fee for doing the delivery and that was it, I never delivered again lol.

Years ago I worked for a private investigative company....my job was to meet targeted people at bars or restaurants, engage them in conversation, then report my findings. I was paid a good fee and the meals and drinks of course were paid by either the target or the employer.

The craziest job I ever had was working as a flight attendant. Crazy but worth it for the stories alone!
I always wanted to get a job in Las Vegas for the stories alone! never did lol.

Life was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on


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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/24/2026 07:47PM by Minime.
You forgot the ‘wild thing.’ ($50)
(At least I’m entertained)

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Sold snails on eBay... Got into it entirely by accident but it paid well while it lasted. Arbitrary rules for "humane treatment of animals" that were not based on science plus a fee structure that is punitive for sellers who have high shipping costs relative to the price of the product made it no longer worth doing.
snails? fresh water aquarium snails? like the apple snails? I loved having giant snails in my aquariums, the fish mostly left them alone, and I never had to clean the inside glass.. it was great. And then I got a wolf fish.. BIG mistake. The snails were illegal to have (not sure if it was just CA or the whole country), but they were awesome.
@Morledzep wrote:

snails? fresh water aquarium snails? like the apple snails? I loved having giant snails in my aquariums, the fish mostly left them alone, and I never had to clean the inside glass.. it was great. And then I got a wolf fish.. BIG mistake. The snails were illegal to have (not sure if it was just CA or the whole country), but they were awesome.
I had Pomacea diffusa, legal to ship and legal to possess. They won't eat your aquarium plants but they will eat some algae. Mostly, they are interesting to watch. These are not the same as Pomacea maculata which is considered an agricultural threat.
This may not be that unique overall. It seemed like a unique request from a mystery shopping company.

I stood at an intersection and counted the number of cars and the number people not wearing seat belts. They sent me a vest and a clicker to count.

One time the intersection was two country roads and maybe 2 cars came through. It seemed like a mistake ¯\(ツ)/¯

It's variety like this that kept me enjoying mystery shopping for several years.

When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.
Alexander Den Heijer
At school, various creatures get sent by mail or other delivery. Examples -Butterfly eggs, mealworm eggs.

When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.
Alexander Den Heijer
In college I participated in a paid study at the psychology department. They were studying group dynamics, I thnk. It was things like in one session, a new member joined the group. We had to agree on answers, including how many ounzes in a pint. We all said 16, but the new member insisted it was 18 or something, saying they were a chemistry student and they absolutely knew that was the correct answer because they dealt with measurements every day, etc. We all went along, lol. I guess the finding was that people will go along with a lie if it is told assertively from a position of authority,
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