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Posted: 7/1/2021 5:39:13 PM EDT
Considering career change options
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 5:40:16 PM EDT
[#1]
Room and board.
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 5:40:30 PM EDT
[#2]
Felons only can apply. Bonus if there is an outstanding warrant for you.
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 5:40:39 PM EDT
[#3]
Cross Canadian Ragweed
Carney Man
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 5:43:22 PM EDT
[#4]
What is your current “career”?

Link Posted: 7/1/2021 5:47:58 PM EDT
[#5]
How much shit are they slinging on the side?
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 5:48:08 PM EDT
[#6]
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 5:49:14 PM EDT
[#7]
Depends. Some of the food service guys make BANK at Fairs.
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 5:49:43 PM EDT
[#8]
Hey Rube!
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 5:49:49 PM EDT
[#9]
Depends if they're a user or dealer of meth.
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 5:50:26 PM EDT
[#10]
Smell like cabbage…. Very small hands.
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 5:50:35 PM EDT
[#11]
I didn’t travel but I did the guess your age,  height/weight, birth month for 2 years in the summer at local fairs in my area when I was in high school. I got paid a dollar over minimum wage at the time. The game is stacked against you. There is a red and white striped pole with 1 ft alternating stripes behind you. Everything else is within a range that is advantageous to the trained carnie. Remember though you are buying your own crappy prize you don’t get your money back. They stuffed animal you “won” costs the fair .50 and you just paid $5.00
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 5:50:55 PM EDT
[#12]
It ain't about the money man!
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 5:51:10 PM EDT
[#13]
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Link Posted: 7/1/2021 5:51:44 PM EDT
[#14]
It's not about the pay.

It's about the lifestyle!
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 5:52:04 PM EDT
[#15]
A gram of heroin, a place to sleep, and all the 350+ lb pussy you can eat.
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 5:52:45 PM EDT
[#16]
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 5:53:50 PM EDT
[#17]
They probably make the most from stealing shit out of people's unlocked cars at night.
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 5:54:26 PM EDT
[#18]
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 5:54:59 PM EDT
[#19]
Maybe you could be a voice-over actor instead.
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 5:56:17 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 7/1/2021 5:56:37 PM EDT
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Not much from the sample of 1 I know.   She makes decent money when things are going, but almost nothing when things are down but has room and board such as it is w/ long low paid hours.
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 5:56:57 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 7/1/2021 5:57:11 PM EDT
[#23]
I remember being a 7 year old child getting on a Ferris wheel at the Del Mar Fair and gazing into the eyes and toothless maw of the carnie “operator”.  I remember suddenly questioning the safety of the ride and that some people make bad choices to get to where they are. Carnies are a good life lesson for kids.
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 5:57:16 PM EDT
[#24]
At least you get to spend the winters in Fla’s Gulf Coast.
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 5:57:57 PM EDT
[#25]
All the fried dough I can eat...and enough more that I'll soon be able to afford that footprint gas pedal.  
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 5:59:10 PM EDT
[#26]
87 corn dogs per year.
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 5:59:42 PM EDT
[#27]
I think ideally you would own a food truck or portable rides and could potentially do pretty well. Most of the teenagers working the games and rides and food carts and shit don't last long.

I worked for a catering company that did carnival games in vegas for 1 day. Fuck that.
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 6:01:04 PM EDT
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Depends... can you speak fluid Carni?

Seriously.
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You live too close to Gibsonton.

@Osprey21
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 6:01:34 PM EDT
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Depends... can you speak fluid Carni?

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“Fluent”

You should try it for English sometime.
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 6:02:21 PM EDT
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....and you have spent too many winters in Gibsonton.
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 6:02:23 PM EDT
[#31]
5 grams of meth per day, plus room and board.
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 6:02:51 PM EDT
[#32]
2 meth rocks and a roof 2 times a week.
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 6:05:30 PM EDT
[#33]
I think they pay by the tooth. $1/hr per tooth
No one makes more than $12/hr
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 6:05:46 PM EDT
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I have two words for you: Horizontal Directional Drilling.

Carnie world.
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 6:08:30 PM EDT
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All the fried dough I can eat...and enough more that I'll soon be able to afford that footprint gas pedal.  
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Gotta get the eight ball shifter and fuzzy dice first.
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 6:09:13 PM EDT
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A gram of heroin, a place to sleep, and all the 350+ lb pussy you can eat.
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fuck it.

i'm in.
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 6:10:31 PM EDT
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welp, i know what i'll be doing tomorrow night.
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 6:10:37 PM EDT
[#39]
Probably not much.

There is a town in Florida where quite a few of them end up living during retirement, if there is such a thing.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/26/welcome-to-gibtown-the-last-freakshow-town-in-america
https://www.vice.com/en/article/9bnpyp/gibsonton-florida
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 6:11:20 PM EDT
[#40]
A dime bag.
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 6:13:48 PM EDT
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Gotta get the eight ball shifter and fuzzy dice first.
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This man knows. Those are much more visible.
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 6:16:25 PM EDT
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Yep.   Gibsonton is such a treat.

ETA-Beat like a rube playing “Football Cards.”

I did use to get the best Bahama Momma sausage dogs and spicy boiled peanuts from the convenience store on the east side of 41 when I’d go through.
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 6:16:39 PM EDT
[#43]
I did that shit for a week at the state fair when in the summer after high school. I got minimum wage and a cut of the money I pulled in.

Hit a pair, win a bear.

Lost my voice by day 5 and learned higher learning was a better calling than carny work.
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 6:19:00 PM EDT
[#44]
I had a cousin that was a carnie. I don’t know what he made, but when he passed away (RIP Bobby Joe) we found out he has about 20 kids scattered around the country.
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 6:22:01 PM EDT
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why the fuck would a person piss away $ to read that?
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 6:23:11 PM EDT
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why the fuck would a person piss away $ to read that?
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*denzel voice* Its 90% bullshit, but it's entertaining. That's why I read it because it entertains me. YOU won't let me read it, so you entertain me with your bullshit.
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 6:26:13 PM EDT
[#47]
Arf always costs me money
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 6:27:54 PM EDT
[#48]
All the meth you want
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 6:30:01 PM EDT
[#49]
So, are we including additional underworld related revenues and.... discounts, in that?
Link Posted: 7/1/2021 6:31:03 PM EDT
[#50]
My high-school football team tasked us players to clean the local fairgrounds before our 2 a days summer conditioning/practices to raise money for the program.

I will never step foot on a Carny assembled ride, nor let my wife or daughter.  The stuff we found in the early mornings while the Carny degenerates were sleeping off their meth was disturbing.  Nuts, bolts, washers, etc that fell off of rides every damn morning.  Not to mention hydraulic leaks, busted hydraulic lines replaced by duct taped hydraulic lines, etc.  

Used Needles etc were also everyday finds.  

Enjoy your required drug habit and STD if you go to work with them OP.

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