{"id":2646,"date":"2007-10-09T00:20:56","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T00:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/10\/crazy-jobs-ive-had.html"},"modified":"2007-10-09T00:20:56","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T00:20:56","slug":"crazy-jobs-ive-had","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/10\/crazy-jobs-ive-had.html","title":{"rendered":"Crazy jobs I&#8217;ve had"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kris and I were laughing the other day about jobs I&#8217;ve had &#8212; starting way back in high school. And in the hope some of you will cough up information, bad memories or not, here are some of the jobs I&#8217;ve had: <!--more|inline--><br \/>\nI turned out the lights and locked the doors at my local church in Freeport, IL.<br \/>\nPaper boy.<br \/>\nPainted street lines, including a few water hydrants with bug-like figures.<br \/>\nBaled hay.<br \/>\nLife guard.<br \/>\nYouth pastor.<br \/>\nChurch janitor.<br \/>\nRan an extruder machine, which I nearly ruined, during seminary days.<br \/>\nUPS.<br \/>\nGrad assistant for Grant Osborne.<br \/>\nPainted houses one summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kris and I were laughing the other day about jobs I&#8217;ve had &#8212; starting way back in high school. 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