Weird jobs that actually pay!

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By Michael Shane

Where extra jobs are....

How many of us are just barely making in it with the slow economy right now? Well, listed below are some suggestions for you to tap in the weird job industry and make a few extra bucks. Some of these jobs, you probably didn't even knew exist. till now!!

The list of weird jobs:

  1. Whiskey Ambassador - That's why I went with the picture above.... If you just turned 21 years of age or your an alcoholic, this is the job for you. Your job would be choosing the finest whiskeys and educating others in determining the attributes and different ways to admire the delicious taste of liquor.
  2. Fantasy Broker- Your job is to make sure your client gets whatever they want at the time. Its kind of like being a butler for the rich.
  3. Golf Ball Diver- You guessed it! Diving in the waters on the golf courses. Clean the balls up and re-sale to the golfers. You know, I actually did this when I was a kid. I lived near a golf course but I actually just looked for balls in the woods and sold them to the golfers.
  4. Dog Food Tester- They actually need people to taste the dog food. Don't forget to bring your crackers and wine....
  5. Gum Buster- Yep!, head to the ballparks to remove gum from all the benches. I would advise not to chew any of it.....
  6. Ski Slope Illustrator- Well, somebody has to draw the trail maps! There was an actual ad about this in Fortune Magazine.
  7. Neck Skewer- Have you ever wondered where the Gyro meat comes from? Your job is to take a steel rod and skew the neck of beef halves after they have removed the head from the cow. This is where you get the Shish Kabob...
  8. Braille Translator- your job is converting and modifying all kinds of text into braille for the blind. You will convert evrything from novels, textbooks, brochures, to music. This is actually for a good cause.....
  9. Adult Store Attendant - This job isn't for just anyone. Your job is to clean up the booths were customers watch the pornographic material. Talk about gross!!!!
  10. Cartoon Mascots- People are always looking for other people to wear their mascots. Places like Disney and other local businesses in your town.
  11. Furniture Tester- Do you know any couch potatoes? Well, now, they can find their dream job. Companies like La-Z-Boy and others actually pay people to sit and test on the comfort of different furniture.
  12. Odor Tester- Chemist working for companies actually need people to smell armpits of others, so they can tell if the deodarants and anti-perspirants are actually working properly. Talk about a funky job!
  13. . Citrus Fruit Dyer- You guessed it! Commercial farmers need people to dye citrus fruit so, it will look appealing at the supermarkets. I'm sure the dye is filled with good vitamins as well....
  14. Fortune Cookie Writer- Talk about an awesome job! Hey, I thought some mystical pyschic Asian dude wrote these....
  15. Crocodile Wrangler- This is one of my favorites! There are jobs out there waiting to be filled for this position as we speak........
  16. IMAX Screen Cleaner- These screens are huge! Somebody, has to keep them clean.
  17. Pet Detective- Some people just can't accept Benji isn't coming back home. Why not?, take advantage of playing Ace Ventura for your community.
  18. Chimney Sweeper- Talk about a dirty job and sinus/allergy problems. Did you know in the old days they used children for this job because they were small enough to get in there and clean out the chimney.....
  19. Snake Milker- Are you scared of snakes? Imagine having to milk one of these creatures. These people actually get the venom out for the anti-venom.
  20. Rodeo Clowns- Yes, if you have ever been to a rodeo then you have seen how dangerous this could be.... I actually, thought about this when I was involved in the rodeo when I was much younger. I highly recommend taking your family or significant other to at least one rodeo in your lifetime. This is one of the oldest American sports.

Unfortunately, the madness has to come to an end. There are still many other weird jobs out there, such as;

  • Wrinkle Chasers
  • Fountain Pen Repairer
  • Cheese Sprayer
  • Chicken Sexer
  • Ostrich Babysitter

There is still other weird jobs available out there, these jobs can earn you extra money. You just have to do a little research and keep an open eye! The way the economy is right now with economic hardship, people will seek out all sorts of ways to get the cash flowing! Good Luck on any of your weird ideas or adventures!

Quick Fact: Did you know Astronauts become taller when they are in space! I thought I would throw something else weird in with the mix. I hope you enjoyed the article...

Michael Gladden

Comments

prasetio30 profile image

prasetio30 Level 8 Commenter 2 years ago

I never knew about those job before. I think it difficult to find those job in my country. Your list become another option for us to find the other job. Very interesting. Thanks.

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Michael Shane Hub Author 2 years ago

Thanks prasetio30! The list still goes on for weird jobs. Is there any kind of weird jobs that you can think of in your area? Let me know......

habee profile image

habee Level 7 Commenter 2 years ago

These are great! Never heard of most of them. Thumbs up on a really fun hub!

lovelypaper profile image

lovelypaper Level 2 Commenter 2 years ago

Ok...that was very interesting.

yenajeon profile image

yenajeon 2 years ago

Very interesting! Cant say I'd be able to do some of those jobs though =)

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Michael Shane Hub Author 2 years ago

Thanks habee, lovelypaper, & yenajeon for your comments. I know they are weird jobs but they do pay....LOL...

robbyism profile image

robbyism 2 years ago

hey, I found your hub very enjoyable to read, it was very interesting!

afunguy24 profile image

afunguy24 2 years ago

Thanks for this post. I think giving your semen has to be the strangest job. The guy must have several bastard children right now with giving semen as job.

Michael Shane profile image

Michael Shane Hub Author 2 years ago

Thanks for the comment but the job was actually cleaning it up & not donating it to a clinic....

Cheri Schultz profile image

Cheri Schultz 2 years ago

Too funny... Thanks for sharing.

wordscribe41 2 years ago

Great hub. A few of these actually pull me in, I'm embarrassed to say. I could so be a pet detective. Thanks for the entertainment.

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Trademelove 2 years ago

Whiskey Ambassador - This one is for me!

Michael Shane profile image

Michael Shane Hub Author 2 years ago

Thanks Cheri Schultz for the comment!

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Michael Shane Hub Author 2 years ago

Trademelove, this job could cause drowsiness...Thanks for the comment!

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Michael Shane Hub Author 2 years ago

Thanks wordscribe41! Do you actually do this job or have you just thought about being a pet detective? Thanks for commenting on this hub!

scheng1 2 years ago

That dog food tester sounds interesting. I think if I get fat due to all the eating, nobody dares to buy those dog food.

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Michael Shane Hub Author 2 years ago

So, you have tried that horse meat out? I guess, if I got hungry enough!, I would probably eat it!. Thanks scheng1!

Rascal Russ Miles profile image

Rascal Russ Miles 2 years ago

Thanks, Michael, for making me appreciate being to broken to work... Great Hub...

At least I can still write songs about when i did...

http://hubpages.com/hub/Eary-Morning-Lovers-Song-F

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Rascal Russ Miles 2 years ago

Thanks, Good Buddy Michael, for making me appreciate that I no longer work... Well, I can still write songs about when I did...

http://hubpages.com/hub/Eary-Morning-Lovers-Song-F

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Michael Shane Hub Author 2 years ago

Sorry Rascal! I am out of work too! I like your style of writing....We should get together & write a top-selling country song about it...Thanks for following!

Obscurely Diverse profile image

Obscurely Diverse 2 years ago

This was an interesting & humorous hub! Some of those jobs were just plain funky... Although, I must admit, I'd be most qualified for the "Whiskey Ambassador" job. Ha-ha! Thanks for sharing... :)

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Jacob Darkley 2 years ago

Sign me up for #1!

Mentalist acer profile image

Mentalist acer Level 6 Commenter 2 years ago

I used to pick spots off of bails of rubber knowing there

were many on the inside so it would look pretty I guess,I

was called a Spot Picker.

Michael Shane profile image

Michael Shane Hub Author 2 years ago

So far, Obscurely Diverse, Jacob, & few others like the Whisky Ambasador job...

I'm left speechless Mentalist Acer with the Spot Picking..

Thanks to all for comments!

afunda profile image

afunda 2 years ago

wow - amazed! never though that some of them even existed!

Do you know where I can apply for Whiskey Ambassador or Fantasy Broker? Those seem like perfect jobs for me

Michael Shane profile image

Michael Shane Hub Author 2 years ago

Thanks afunda! You can check these links out for more info;

http://www.scotlandwhisky.com/ambassador/

http://www.trivia-library.com/a/business-in-the-us

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Property-Invest 2 years ago

I tried to be an ostrich babysitter in Outshoorn; South Africa, but they were so agressive and huge. I think it's only for the brave!

Great hub.

Michael Shane profile image

Michael Shane Hub Author 2 years ago

Yep! those are some mean critters! Lama's & Emu's is much easier to babysit! Thanks for stopping by.......

Playathome2 profile image

Playathome2 2 years ago

This was kinda cute. Hey my 1yr old son likes dog food. Do you think he could get a job? : )

Michael Shane profile image

Michael Shane Hub Author 2 years ago

I think he has to be legal age...I remember eating some as a dare when I was a kid! Thanks for stopping by....

Putz Ballard profile image

Putz Ballard 2 years ago

Very good Mike

Michael Shane profile image

Michael Shane Hub Author 2 years ago

Thanks for stopping by Putz!

KenWu profile image

KenWu 2 years ago

A good list of 20 weird jobs. Milking from snake is scary! But I think some of the jobs mentioned above do require certain skills.

Michael Shane profile image

Michael Shane Hub Author 2 years ago

Yep!, you want catch me milking a snake & some may require some skills. Thanks for stopping by KenWu...

mcayon profile image

mcayon 2 years ago

Adult store attendant made me crack up. That must get messy! very entertaining hub :)

Michael Shane profile image

Michael Shane Hub Author 2 years ago

Yep!, pretty nasty job! Thanks for stopping by mcayon.....

coletta7 profile image

coletta7 2 years ago

Oh" my! You just schooled me a little bit there. Who would have thought! Hilarious.

Michael Shane profile image

Michael Shane Hub Author 2 years ago

Thank ya coletta7 for stopping by....

Silver Poet profile image

Silver Poet Level 3 Commenter 2 years ago

What an odd assortment!

Michael Shane profile image

Michael Shane Hub Author 2 years ago

Tell me about it Silver Poet! Thanks for stopping by.....

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teenmusicscene 2 years ago

Those are some interesting jobs, be cool to try. great hub.

Michael Shane profile image

Michael Shane Hub Author 2 years ago

Thanks for stopping by TMS!

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callmefoxxy Level 1 Commenter 2 years ago

Hahaha, funny, yucky, but oh so true... How come our schools and parents never told us to study for these "interesting" jobs? Imagine, I could have been a gum buster! NOT!, lol. Great hub. Thanks.

callmefoxxy, my pen is a mighty sword!

Michael Shane profile image

Michael Shane Hub Author 2 years ago

Thanks for sharing some thoughts on this Foxxy!

Mamelody profile image

Mamelody 2 years ago

Bloody hell!! if I knew i'd get paid for these jobs I would sign up!! hell forget the gowseness as long as my Benjamin is flowing through my door hahahahaha funny hub man xx

Michael Shane profile image

Michael Shane Hub Author 2 years ago

I guess a bloody hell is better than a bloody shit! LOL! Thanks for stopping by....

nick247 profile image

nick247 2 years ago

I want to be whiskey ambassador, dearly. Now that you've informed me this exists - can you tell me how to become one??

Austinstar profile image

Austinstar Level 7 Commenter 2 years ago

You can donate plasma for money, but not blood (that has to come from a volunteer).

I was once a "smash hand" - This is someone who repairs the pattern in a weaving loom when the shuttle doesn't make it to the end of the cloth and it "smashes" all the threads out! That was too much fun.

Now I am a blood banker and I get paid really good money for giving blood to old sick people. Most of my friends think that's pretty weird. Or maybe they just think I'm weird. I can't tell.

Michael Shane profile image

Michael Shane Hub Author 2 years ago

The smash hand job sounded fun Austinstar....I don't think there's nothing weird about being a blood banker, heck, your helping lives....Thanks for sharing!

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Chris Eddy111 2 years ago

That's a cool list........Don't think I ever heard of these jobs before either. Good for you!!

Micky Dee profile image

Micky Dee Level 4 Commenter 2 years ago

GReat job Michael. I didn't get a feed on this- I got the "feed" from Callmefoxxy's favorite hubs! Thank you Sir! Great hub!

manthy profile image

manthy Level 4 Commenter 2 years ago

I had a weird job once in your town I worked for LICOA

as an agent ;0) and played music at the fuzzy duck yrs ago

Nice Hub

Csjun89 profile image

Csjun89 2 years ago

Whiskey Ambassador is the best one out there!

ericsomething profile image

ericsomething Level 1 Commenter 2 years ago

Michael, that's a fun Hub. I'll bet you enjoyed writing it, and especially researching it.

A friend of mine swears she once had a job as a coffee taster. Shoot, I want a job like that. Much as I love coffee and them paying me?

wordscribe41 2 years ago

Fortune cookie writer, shoot, that's perfect for me. He he he. Great hub, very interesting. I'd never thought about having to clean the IMAX screens. Well done!

ericsomething profile image

ericsomething Level 1 Commenter 2 years ago

Oh, I'd be a disaster as a fortune cookie writer:

"That Wasn't Chicken."

But I did write horoscopes for a few days when my old newspaper was switching syndication services. Now, *that's* power!

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CJ Williams 2 years ago

Interesting. Reminds me of the show "Dirty Jobs" with Mike Rowe. I can see him doing some of these jobs, but hey, if it pays the bills....

Thanks for an amusing hub!

Norma Duenas 22 months ago

These are some pretty funky jobs to have. I definitely could not handle some of these jobs. Others actually sound quite interesting. Thanks for the great article. I had no idea people could actually get paid for some of the jobs listed.

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Etherealenigma Level 3 Commenter 16 months ago

Ok, your list topped all that I've seen thus far.

PaperNotes profile image

PaperNotes 15 months ago

I have heard about the odor testers and seen photos of them from one site. All the other jobs are indeed and totally weird. Thought they are just for pranks.

RG2 15 months ago

lol!! i have to do a speach about this for school and i love it realy interestng lol haha!! the stuff people will do for money!

222 13 months ago

these ppl are so stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!lol i'm tellin my friends about this!!!!

kasey 13 months ago

now i know what im gonna be when i grow up..lol a whiskey ambassador...lol ill get to get drunk and paid for it

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thesingernurse Level 6 Commenter 4 months ago

I totally enjoyed reading. Weirdly educating. Lol. :) Great hub so I voted up! :D

someone 2 months ago

does anyone know how much a ball tester gets paid

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