Weird Job Offers You've Received?

While playing WoW I got a legitimate offer to work in Australia at a mine.(Not mining to be clear.) Offer was from a guildie I pvp'd with a bunch. We worked well together and he was one of the best guardian druids I've played with. He was upper-middle management, did a tonne of contract work, made out like a bandit. I've tried mineral-surveying around a diamond mine in northern Canada which is how we got chatting about that during queues but still, random stuff. (Also the reason for this post, got reminded of it then got curious for more.)

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In my ooooold job doing contract inventory our old workhorse of a manager, whom I had a lot of respect for, retired. We were polar-opposite in almost everything but somehow had a great working-relationship. Well, we got in a new guy from Vancouver. He was... a bit fresh. And I knew what he was getting into. She'd had to spend a few nights in the office using the paper towels as pillows during peak season. He was under-prepared but made the best of it. We had some SNAFUs the old manager wouldn't have had so he wasn't the most, widely well regarded manager by the crew. But I liked him. Worked my ass off, worked the longest "day" I've ever worked. 31 hrs with a couple 2hr breaks between, and many many coffee breaks. But we did it. He shortly quit thereafter and I couldn't blame him. So here's the thing...

When he left he said wherever he wound up managing next he'd offer me a (better) job. I thought that was nice but never expected to hear from him again.

Several months later out of the blue I get an email from him offering me a pretty damn nice government job traveling around the province. I didn't take it, had other stuff on the plate, but it surprised the hell out of me.

(You know it took me a couple years to find out why she always had tonnes of stacks of paper towels in the office.  )