Jonathan Krieger | Writer, Podcaster, Trivia Host, Actor, Odd Jobber

I want to welcome back guest writer Peter Papachronopoulos who penned this week’s installment of Odd Jobs. He’s a funny guy and if you like his stuff here, feel free to check out his website: http://theloweststair.wordpress.com/. But enough of that, let’s get onto the column.   Odd job: Holiday puppet show Pay: $60 A fateful[...]

Odd Job: Selling my old DVDs Pay: $35 I had just finished telling the children at the after-school program where I work about the toy I spent two years saving up to buy as a kid. A toy I absolutely adored and used to play with all the time. And now Doug, a scruffy-haired second[...]

Odd Job: Giving Blood Pay: $100 Both sides take a leap of faith when you reply to a Craigslist job offer. The job posters are trusting that you will show up and do the work, while you are trusting that, when you arrive, whoever posted the ad won’t tie you up and sacrifice you to[...]

Odd Job: Serving on a “jury” Pay: $150 This is a trial. It’s not Jack Nicholson hollering at Tom Cruise that he can’t handle the truth. It’s not Joe Pesci asking about two utes. It is boring lawyers and uncomfortable chairs and court-provided free lunches that taste like legal pads. “You have been brought in[...]

One day, I was doing what all writers do when they sit down to write: scrolling through my news feed on Facebook. My friend, Daniel Ferris, had posted something like, “I am bored and feel like it’s time to do what any self-indulgent liberal arts major with too much free time on his hands does:[...]

  Between the cartoonish pictures, the bizarre alignment job on the title and the phrase “There is some opportunities,” it felt less like a call to civic duty and more like something a nine-year-old would design. But poor job posting or not, I still found myself at a polling station on election day, my eyes[...]

I am very excited to announce that today’s column is penned by Peter Papachronopoulos (whose last name nearly detonated my spell check). He is a funny person and talented writer so I had been hoping to nab him as a guest columnist for quite some time. When he agreed to write the piece and then[...]

Odd Job: Writing a letter of recommendation for someone I had never met Pay: $7 “I was recently laid off.” Peter Randall’s job posting explained. “A neuropsychiatrist I worked for says he has ‘super high praise’ for me and would like to write an amazing letter of recommendation… but he wants me to write it.”[...]

Odd Job: Playing poker over the summer Pay: $3500 in profit   There is perhaps no time when I am less fun to talk to than after losing at poker. I only half-listen to my friends as they talk, and I speak with an anger that has nothing to do with our conversation, and everything[...]

Odd Job: Participating in a research study on reaction times Pay: $20   Just past Harvard Square, Massachusetts Avenue forks twice in the span of ten seconds. I have driven this stretch a thousand times. I know these forks confound my GPS. And yet, just like always, I make the wrong turn, sending me away[...]

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Well said Jonathan.

Thank you for sharing this. I am glad you are OK.

Well said Jonathan. I am glad you're ok. I miss you. <3

Very nicely put, Jonathan. And I am glad you are ok.

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