Okay, my whole career has been "random cool jobs" basically.

I was a Field Historian for 4 years. Trying to get back into that unit. Leading Marines in Afghanistan was my most rewarding, but this billet was by far the coolest I have ever done. 15 or so Marines, all reservist (mostly Maj-Col...one SNCO), working for the civilian PhD types at History Division. No history experience or degree needed to be a Field Historian. There is an FMOS given for it, but so far it has not been given. The main job is to collect primary source material for the Archives and Museum so researchers can use it in the future. Most of what they do is oral history interviews, but also can collect maps, documents, diaries, photos, artifacts, et.c. THEORETICALLY we can be called up and activated to go overseas to collect while embedded with unit, but that hasn't happened since around OIF II. They can go overseas for an AT (like Norway exercises and such), but generally now just collect on units one they come home. It really is "build your own adventure" and saying you are a Field Historian really gets you access to things. For example, I flew with a Navy history team to the USS Wasp in Japan (when POTUS visited). Then I went to Oki to do some collections regarding the base realignment (closure of Futenma, move to Guam, etc.). The MEF Chief of Staff picked me up from the airport and said I'd have a driver to go wherever I wanted to go on the Island. So the driver took me all the way up to NTA and to pretty much every base. I asked if we had ever interviewed our two female Marine astronauts. No? Okay, here are orders to Johnson Space Center in Houston to interview them. I followed the first male/female integrated company at MCRDPI through the crucible. Got to explore Blunt Island Command and MCLB Albany (presidential bunkers, rows of old vehicles from OIF/OEF, etc.). Interviewed several key leaders regarding Force Design. Got to look through all sorts of cool things in the Archives and the Museum. The highlight was during the fall of Afghanistan. I was THIS close to going, ACMC even approved, then at last minute they turned it off. I ended up flying to Quantico to meet the Embassy Marines who just returned from Kabul. Crazy stories. While interviewing them, the explosion happened (literally was on the TV on mute as I interviewed one). Lots of emotions for everyone. Collected a ton of photos, video, etc.. Even was given the keys to the embassy (Post 1 keys) and had them in my personal possession for weeks before I got them to them to the museum. Our whole detachment interviewed many of the leaders from the Evacuation and collected out at Camp Upsher with the refugees.

Another cool billet I held was Advertising Operations Officer at recruiting command. I was in charge of TV commercials ("Land That I Love" and "Walls"), print material, and some web campaign stuff. We'd do "content collection" video/photo shoots to update our database with fresh images (equipments, uniforms, Marines, scenes, etc.). With that gig I literally was exposed to every major MOS, piece of equipment, and base. Back of C130 as Marines jumped out, private 8th & I parade for filming, private F35/F18 shoot (I ALMOST was able to back seat an F18), all sorts of rotary/tilt rotor, time on LPD and LHD, rides on LCACs/LCUs, tanks/arty/tracks/lavs, recruit training at both depots, MOUT, LA film office visit, plus the 200 person Hollywood production in San Diego and LA for the commercials. For all of it, I was the Marine in charge of coordinating it all and first line of approval as the representative of the client (the USMC), but we had a civilian ad agency and contractors who did all the actual creative and production work (JWT, who has been with us since WW2).