re: Name the craziest job you've ever had......

Built above ground pools in the Ozarks of Arkansas for a summer. Problem with above ground pools is that you still have to level a spot and dig down, but you're not digging far enough down to make use of a back hoe always. If you know anything about the soil/rocks in the Ozarks, you can probably see the problem with this scenario. They paid really well, and lots of the jobs were rural, and we got paid for drivetime as well.

My "craziest" was probably detassling corn in Iowa. It was piece meal work over about a 3 week span, and you got paid per "panel" of corn that you detassled. The way to make the most money was to work a longer day than anyone else, and we were all pretty competitive. We worked on average of 10-14 hour days in the Iowa summertime. I would have loved to have had a pedometer to track my mileage each day. Brutal. Plus, our whole crew was camping out at a State Park, so we'd get done working and return to sleep in a tent at night. Made about 3 grand in 3 weeks, though, which was insane money for me at the time. Then we went and traveled around the Pacific Northwest and up into British Columbia with our spoils.