Twitter users share the odd things they’ve learned from past and present jobs

A viral tweet from this past weekend shows that the concept of work doesn’t always boil down to your typical, corporate office job. In fact, people know about a bunch of subjects from having toiled away in all kinds of positions.

what absolutely embarrassing dumb crap lives inside your head because of your current or old day job(s)? mine include recipes for toffee, weird serial codes for air conditioners, how to break down a shooting script, and the basic principles of how to make dialysis water

— L L has never been invited to a halloween party W (@LLW90210) August 26, 2018

Here’s how Twitter chimed in

The types of responses to this tweet ranged far and wide:

It's been twenty years since I was a pool lifeguard but I can still instantly distinguish distant thunder from any number of other faint low pitched rumbles.

— John Limouze (@johnlimouze) August 26, 2018

how to make buttercream roses

the entire Positive Discipline discipline model, and how best to enforce it

i also know the complete history of the rise of publix supermarkets

— hentai hayley ✨ (@witches_house) August 26, 2018

How to make everything at Dairy Queen, except blizzards because they showed up later, what order to call drinks at a bar.

— Stephanie Stradley (@StephStradley) August 27, 2018

I know all kinds of things about major consumer kitchen appliances and how to develop old school dental x-rays by hand

— Amanda Mull (@amandamull) August 26, 2018

how to blow up balloons and tie them quickly, what type of haircuts different dogs get and the best fancy organize food for them, all the hospital codes for plastic surgery

— colleen (fuck amazon) (@colleentie) August 26, 2018

Things I’ve learned at Starbucks:

19 different ways to calm people down when they hear we might get rid of straws

How to throw a milk carton across an entire store and still make it in the trash

— Kain 🤘🏼 (@kainswenson) August 27, 2018

i worked as a book reshelver at a library during high school and without trying to I figured out the gaping hole in the library's security

and now i, apparently permanently, carry around the knowledge of how to burgle books from this library

— sean maciel (@seanmaciel) August 26, 2018

every single time I walk into a house I am forced to think about how I would get a couch into the living room

— baseball jhanez (@esjhanez) August 26, 2018

Not something I ever think about, but anytime I take an item off the shelf at the store, I automatically pull forward to fill the hole I left + any others within reach

— Bernard Snowy (@wasntmebro) August 26, 2018

the name of like, every dog breed and all the different types of dog clubs in the US (used to film dog agility competitions)

— an eternal sea of gloom (@darthjader) August 26, 2018

I fold my clothes like it’s going on display at the GAP

— Mauricio Torres (@mttorress) August 27, 2018

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