Actor/janitor for two summers at the Haunted Fun House at 25th and Atlantic at the resort strip in Virginia Beach. I would jump out of the dark and scream at people for a living. It was designed so I could work multiple stations as multiple characters and be the only actor back there on the day shift.
But since I worked days and our bread and butter was nights, say if it was a rainy or otherwise slow day, I would always get to wash the windows or clean the toilets or clean out behind the video game machines in the game room.
Overall, it was nice. I'd work noon to 6 PM, then go hang with my friends all night every night and sleep in every morning.
One thing that was cool was the history of the building. It started off as a movie theater in the 1950s, an old school giant theater with a balcony. There was a snack bar that we couldn't sell anything from because the owner didn't want to pay the fees for a food license. Above where the popcorn machine was, was this air intake. The building was designed so the climate control would intake the popcorn scented air from above machine and blow it out to the lobby so people would get hungry while waiting to buy tickets.
Later it was converted into a place that had punk rock shows in the 1980s every weekend, all ages shows. Some big names played there, Fugazi and Gwar for example. My brother used to go see five bands for five bucks every Friday, but I was too young for my parents to let me go. The city didn't like the punk rock element being so close to their lucrative tourist trap area, and it didn't help that the corrupt cops kept beating up punks for no reason after shows. So they passed all these laws requiring live music venues to have all these things specifically that the club didn't have, like a dedicated parking lot (virtually impossible in a tourist area like that) so the club shut down. After that it became the Haunted Fun House for 10 or 12 years.
The building was since condemned and half demolished, turned into some national chain tourist beach merchandise shop. Where't the culture? Where are all the good stories with something like that?
Oh, name drop alert! Zach Knighton who is the lead male actor on the ABC sitcom Happy Endings opposite Elisha Cuthbert (yum!) was also an actor there during my tenure.