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Weird Jobs to Contemplate

How many of the following jobs strike your fancy?

Professional bowling ball drillers
Onion graders
Anchor manufacturers
Snake wranglers
Colonic irrigationists
Accordion teacher
Firework lighter
Pet photographer
Typewriter repair and salesman
Worm farmers
Bazooka rocket makers

By Hsien-Hsien Lei on April 30, 2006 | 6 comments | Read more »

Pubic Hair Tester

Chris Bell of the sample collection division of TrichoTech tests pubic hair for a living.
What’s he looking for? Drugs.
And why is he looking for it? To get you fired or exonerated.
And does he HAVE to use pubic hair? Erm, no. But it’s more fun that [...]

By Hsien-Hsien Lei on April 23, 2006 | 2 comments | Read more »

Tools of the trade: a vacuum cleaner, some jars, and a ‘wasp collecting suit’.

Guessed the job yet? Kiwi John Eason guessed it a while ago, and now he’s making a decent living as a Wasp Collector. In fact, he believes he is one of only two people in New Zealand who collects live german wasps to send to the United States for use in manufacturing wasp sting de-sensitising [...]

By Barry Bell on March 19, 2006 | 7 comments | Read more »

Onion Grader

How well do you know your onions? To be an onion grader, you need to be able to determine the ideal:

Size
Shape
Ripeness
Colour

And, you need to know which onions are good for:

Pickling
Flavouring
Relishes

Last, but not least, you’ve got to clean the onions up.
Salaries for onion grading probably have to be pretty darn good to make [...]

By Hsien-Hsien Lei on March 18, 2006 | 0 comments yet | Read more »

Sleep Director

Wayne Munnelly may have some people’s dream job, but I’m guessing it’s also some others’ nightmare job. Munnelly is Travelodge hotel chain’s sleep director and gets paid £60,000 a year to test the sleep-inducing qualities of Travelodge rooms.
Weird job description:

Examine tension in mattresses
Check springiness of pillows
Adjust intensity of room lighting
Optimize soundproofing between rooms
Consult with [...]

By Hsien-Hsien Lei on March 7, 2006 | 6 comments | Read more »

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