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I am interested in find if members have held down a job at an external to the home work place, if more than 500 or 600 lbs. What job industry full or part time, what was your max weight in that job, any particular restrictions or methods to make it work?

I used to work in a call center with a 500 lbs lady. Lovely woman.

As far as I am aware, her only accommodation was getting a special chair. She could still get around on her own - albeit very slowly.

On "My 600lb Life," there were quite a few.

One of the featured patients had his own tow truck business despite being a little over 700 lbs.

Aside from the tow truck, which of course had a front bench seat and a column shifted automatic transmission, his regular daily driver car was a Lincoln Towncar, which also had a front bench seat and a column shifter.

Another patient was an accountant that, despite weighing nearly 750 lbs, showed up to the office every day. They either had a business casual dress policy, or due to size, simply didn't mind he wore a polo shirt with no tie to work each day. He had an L-shaped desk carefully arranged around a special chair.

I haven't seen every episode but there's likely a few more, so yeah there's quite a few such jobs and probably almost any desk job or indoor office job would work.

The tow truck driver was probably the most active from what I recall, though.

While not as big, there's definitely quite a few construction workers and tradesmen who exceed 300 or 350. This is anecdotal but I've seen it. On the other hand, I don't know if I've seen any extension ladders with a weight capacity that exceeds 400, and exceeding that would be very dangerous as I don't know how much "buffer" was built-in to that.