60 Weird Jobs Nobody Knows About, As Shared By People In This Online Thread

Dream job except for the pay. That deserves much higher!

If you love your job all the power to you. That sounds awesome.

You are living my dream,what an amazing job

I'm glad OP's company has enough commitment to quality to keep them on staff. It drives me crazy how often the actors who read audio books mispronounce even common words.

There really should be more of you. One of my audiobooks included an Italian family living in New York. Among other things the American narrator constantly mispronounced the sharp Italian "Z" (understandable, but annoying - Italian is not that alien), so every "grazie" the author put in for flavor was a blunt saw on my ears. (Narrator pronounced it graa-zee)

That is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

I'm a long time photo "story-teller", see photos for a couple of books. I'm thinking a about a new photo story book on people who have "unique" (different, odd, maybe even wierd) jobs. So it would be short photo "vignette's" about these folks. It'll certainly be photos, but maybe short video's as well. dave1photo@aol.com

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They're called 'scripts'*.

Cousins travel trainer was great and the reason he can take the bus to work and even knows who and how to ask when theses a disruption (like bus is cancelled, snowstorm, etc.) Thank you for your help!

Thank you for all that you do!

Hmmm.....

The 7th Sense: "I cut eyes out of dead people"

Hopefully you and your colleagues can spot the fact that my right cornea probably isn't fit for transplant. Might make a nice case study on early onset cataract's. Otherwise the left one should be ok

My sister took and packaged skin donations from the deceased. Didn't even know that was a thing until then. I'd have nightmares...

Good GAWD NO!

I once met a person who did this at nuclear power plants. You don't want to hear how many times he was successful at breaking in... There is a safe word, so the plant security knows someone will be breaking in at some point this week and they will say that word of you challenge them. Because otherwise he might get shot by a guard that prefers to ask questions later. I'm in infosec, but red team is a much different job than what the rest of us do. You have to be a con man, an extrovert, and great at getting people to think you know less or more than you do, depending on the situation.

I have done this. I can’t be very specific, but once place a post-it note in a cockpit that said “bomb” very easily.

News someone who got paid to do this when he was in college. He works information security for a huge Tech company has lived all over the world.

I would be amazing at this, no one questions the random Asian/white chick

I'm a long time photo "story-teller", see photos for a couple of books. I'm thinking a about a new photo story book on people who have "unique" (different, odd, maybe even wierd) jobs. So it would be short photo "vignette's" about these folks. It'll certainly be photos, but maybe short video's as well. dave @ dave1photo@aol.com

I had an uncle who was functionally illiterate. He died during a hospital procedure from a reaction to the contrast material. Not only could he not read the consent form, but his family couldn't bring suit against the hospital because, you know, he signed it.

Thank you for helping adults to read; you're truly enriching their

This is awesome, it's never to late to learn and your entire world will open up once you learn to read

"I see dead people"

That is my avocation: headstone hunter. I locate, survey, document, publish, restore old burial grounds. Also: take pictures for descendants by request. You can find a lot of us and make your own requests on FindAGrave.

I would love this job if it weren't for the cold in the winter, gross canker worms in the early summer, skeeters all summer and wasps in August.

This is a very important job. Used to work in the lingerie department of a high-end department store, and we had a professional prosthesis fitter in our department too. She was so professional and empathetic and great at her job.

Oh heck it must be uncomfortable if you don't get the prosthetic and the bra fitted right. As someone who has worn sports bras, binders and even the dreaded underwire before. I can't even imagine how they would have been with uneven weight. Hella important work thank you for being there for the survivors who need it

OP also wrote, "Another 'incident': I actually shot my boss. I received a toy which could launch some foam darts. Normally not a real problem, but the safety standard these devices states it should only be able to launch the projectiles that are provided. In the end I found out it was possible to launch pens from it and my boss found out it hurts quite a bit being hit by a fast flying pen."

Wow I would never have guessed this was a job

I'm a long time photo "story-teller", see photos for a couple of books. I'm thinking a about a new photo story book on people who have "unique" (different, odd, maybe even wierd) jobs. So it would be short photo "vignette's" about these folks. It'll certainly be photos, but maybe short video's as well. dave@ dave1photo@aol.com

Is "specialised machinery" a euphemism for your a*s?

The cheap toilet paper we just bought must not have gone through testing.

How many times a day do they go to the bathroom to test toilet paper,?

Regular with for people or work for regular people?

Next time they do a Star Wars movie, slip in some "Bushes of love" or "Hostiles on the hill" in the mix!

NEVER!

Uhm… That last part is creepy 😅

There's a Masters programme for this in the country I live in, I really wanna do it but it'd require me to move cities and it costs 10k a year :')

I used to have a customer who used this service to call in when I worked tech support. It was a bit strange at first, but after the first call it seemed normal. I just had to get over the shock of not knowing that this service existed.

Phone sex might be a bit awkward, but still glad people have access to it

I used to train 911 dispatchers to recognize you calling 😊

My therapist recommended increasing some of my supplements and magnesium was among them. Maybe it works on people too?