The 13 Weirdest Jobs You Can Get On Craiglist

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"It took some getting used to, because I was not expecting how a forklift moved around, but I still did it. When I loaded, I didn't know the forks were a little off the ground, so I started to move them into this box. They went pretty far in and broke the box, but I corrected it and immediately flipped it off the pallet. They didn't mind ..."

It sounds like property destruction, reckless endangerment, and a violation of OSHA requirements, but this is the Wild West of Craiglist work, baby! Anything goes!

"Many jobs I do are often put in by companies who need a worker for a day or two under the table ... I was helping a contractor for a few days, and they didn't have a hard hat for me. He dug out one of his son's little league helmets and said it was 'good enough.' There was also some brief welding, and since he didn't want his welder to come out, I helped do it. I had no idea what I was doing, but he told me the basics and I think I got it right ..."

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Equally Unqualified Caregiver

People like nurses and caregivers are trusted because they have degrees, have studied for years, and get background checks that confirm they're not known to the FBI as "the St. Paul Strangler." But you can save so much money by getting some rando off of Craigslist! Just ask Bryon.

"All I had to do was keep someone's elderly father company all day and help around when he needed it. He had promised never to send his dad to a nursing home, so he stayed at home with him. He also couldn't afford a full-time caregiver, and the VA only sent a nurse out three times a week." Oh. So that's actually really sad, and sounds like it might quietly be a national crisis?

"The guy who hired me still checked with a few of my references I gave to reassure him, but otherwise, that was it. And I liked it. He wasn't the friendliest guy on Earth, but I watched Fox News with him, made him lunch, followed the instructions on his pill schedule, and that was it. If something like a stroke happened, then a nurse would have been a good idea, but for that day, it was fine. His son told me he knew of others, just in the city, who were caring for their parents this way."

We're not experts on healthcare (or really anything else), but we don't think a care provider of choice should be the same website where people go to find half-burnt couches and semi-anonymous sex.

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"It was Palm Sunday," says Bryon. "A really big church had a bunch of palm fronds, and we were instructed to wave the fronds and give one to everyone we saw. Me and this woman were assigned an intersection, and since it was warm, all the windows were down, so we could talk with them. But they rolled up the windows. So when a church supervisor came around to see how we were doing and saw how few we were giving, he said, 'Just throw them in. Don't say anything. Just toss them in. And say 'Hosanna!' when you do.' We did that for about an hour before so many people complained to the church that they told us to stop."