Forsooth, what is an almshouse?

This Labor Day, as part of their campaign to promote their job-search services, the California EDD presents Uniquely Californian.

Getting a job and developing a career doesn't happen overnight. See how
these Californians-from ice sculpting to dog sitting-got involved in these unique careers!

Show this site to your kids. There are some very, er, unique jobs out there. I think my favorite profile - so far - is the arcade repairman who works at the Boardwalk.

While you're there, take the job match challenge. I only got three correct, darn it. I knew what a smudger was from growing up in the Central Valley. But I got haberdasher wrong. Imagine! That was Nigel's dream job and everything. How'd you do?

Comments

[Dan]

River pig, amalgamator -- no clue. Smudger -- might have gotten it if I thought about it for half an hour. The rest I think I'd heard before. (Utah Phillips used to tell a story about the origin of the term "Gandy dancer" -- said it derived from the name of a shovel manufacturer in Chicago.)

[molly]

Living in a very old city, I have looked over a bridge I was walking across to see a band of gandydancers chanting as they straitened the railroad tracks. And, my current supervisor is not only a banker, but a haberdasher, with his fine clothing for men's store across the street from our office.

[BB]

I got 6 right. I think it's because I had so much exposure to my great grands and grand parents.