There are a lot of jobs in the world that most people are unaware of. An internet survey recently asked, “What are some jobs most people don’t know exist?” Here are the top 21 answers.
Captioning Telephone Calls In Real Time for the Deaf
“I used your service when I was doing customer service. It’s bizarre talking like the captioner isn’t actually there.”
“I used to phone up my deaf friends, and when the person came on, who would type what I would say and send it to my friends. I loved telling dirty jokes. And my friends would swear back to me, so the person would read it back. We had fun on the phone with that.”
Building Hiking Trails
“Many people assume they just are naturally formed or something, but that’s the goal of a good trail builder.”
“I worked in a national park and was told that building a trail can cost up to 10k per kilometer. I also heard that in other national parks, the price for one kilometer can go up to 40k and even higher. Trails are a huge investment for something made out of dirt.”
Falconer
“Using birds of prey to keep other birds away from train tracks, airports, farms, you name it. It’s like being a bird bounty hunter.”
“And when it comes to getting repeat contacts, it’s pretty easy. People notice when we’re around, the birds are gone, and when we leave, they return later. Nature really does that part of the work for me. Plus, it’s a lot easier and cheaper to hire someone like me than to replace a jet engine and cause a flight to be canceled and all the other issues that come along with that.”
Commercial Diver
“I do underwater construction, salvage, and inspection. People don’t think about it, but we get a call for any job that requires something to be done underwater. It’s loads of fun, and the pay is great!!”
“My stepdad is a commercial diver with an underwater welding ticket. He recently just got back from Dubai. His pay for 3 weeks in Dubai: £18,000.”
Answering Calls From People Stuck in an Elevator All Over the US
“You would push the button thinking you were calling someone in the building. Nope, you were getting some person in a Texas call center.”
“I accidentally pressed that button once at a previous job and was surprised someone answered!”
Flavorist
“We basically create or duplicate flavors using chemicals, extracts, oils, etc. Food processing destroys a lot of natural flavors, so it’s our job to make sure the food tastes the way it should (i.e., Products that say “made with real cheese” taste so good because of cheese flavoring not because there’s a small amount of cheese in there). You think you know how something tastes until someone asks you to duplicate it for them.”
“Every food/beverage company is always looking for the next big trend. I recently made a Mexicali Tequila flavor with hints of chocolate, caramel, cinnamon, and cream!”
Horse Braider
“She braids horses’ manes and tails for horse shows. It’s quite lucrative, as people who own horses know. Everything to do with horses is expensive.”
“As someone who rides professionally, the world is extremely grateful for braiders. I hate braiding. Braiding is the worst.”
Corporate Scenery Painter
“Corporate scenery is EVERYWHERE, but it’s designed to be unobtrusive. Whenever there’s a stage at a conference, trade show, product release, or ad shoot, they hire a scene shop to build and paint their specific design.”
“Pretty much anyone can slap a coat of paint on a wall. My skill is mixing exact brand color matches and painting logos onto things. When the work is seen right up close, I can do really high finish work to make it totally clean and perfect and give them the same sheen/surface quality the designer specifies.”
Making Virtual Clothing and Selling It for Money on a Dress-Up Chat Game
“Knew a girl a few years ago that still was making bank creating models and stuff for Second Life. Her husband would DJ in it too.”
“People that play the game buy in-game currency and buy my things with that. Then it gets converted to cash for me. Have you spent money on a mobile game or something like skins for a game? It is like that.”
The Person Who Argues With Your Insurance Company That You Need the Procedure Your Doctor Ordered
“So, when your doctor or nurse says “we’re getting that approved” unless it’s a tiny, tiny clinic, it’s someone like me trying to make it happen. And no, I don’t always win, but I always fight for it.”
“Someone like this gave the okay for my hysterectomy, and I appreciate it.”
Digital Archiving of Old Video Tapes
“It’s for major networks with massive tape libraries like BETA, VHS, automatic, 1″ and 2″ tape, and anything else. All the old magnetic tape is starting to expire, so they ship pallets of videos to the company I work for, and we record them in real-time and then send back the files.”
“My favorite project was for PBS. Doing all their old documentaries from the 70s was really interesting. Another was for a small local California TV station with a random assortment of content from weird segments like one of George HW Bush skydiving to those super low-budget commercials akin to Tim and Eric.”
Timestamp Netflix Videos for the “Skip Intro” Button
“It was the single best job ever until they stopped allowing remote work for my work. I would wake up, log in to a special page and have a list of videos/series, etc., to timestamp. I was paid for 8 hours of work a day when most days I could breeze through my daily workload in 2-3 hours.”
“I’ve frequently wondered how they know where to put the skip button, so thank you for answering that. I always assumed some bot detected the end of theme songs.”
Butler
“I work for a marquis in the West Midlands of England in a large estate. I’m always surprised, but many people didn’t know it was a real job (especially Americans). I’m also fairly young and break the stereotypes that Alfred Pennyworth has set about how a butler should be.”
“I was a butler for four years in the home of a wealthy businessman. He hated most men. I was his first male butler because I looked like his son, who had died years ago. He had developed dementia, so things got interesting for a while. Exciting job, but I would never do it again.”
Demand Planner
“My job is to make sure when you walk into a store or order online, we have that specific thing you want in stock. Most jobs I’ve worked required us to always have 95%+ products in stock. Usually, when we have a stock out, some genius decided he needed 64 hammers or 500 gallons of milk simultaneously, messing up the demand model.”
Training People in How To Survive in the Event of Being Taken, Hostage
“The courses are designed for people who work in hostile environments.”
“It does follow a theory, but I got involved after being held hostage in Iraq for over 2.5 years. I was the only survivor out of 5 Britons abducted in 2007.”
Disability Support
“I’m paid to be my client’s best friend. His disability makes him the coolest person ever if he likes you or the most difficult person if he doesn’t. So keeping him in a good mood requires me to be a constant hype man and get him pumped for the next little part of every day. And his thing is he can sniff out insincerity a mile away, which is why none of the past caregivers have worked out, so you have to genuinely enjoy hanging out with him.”
Distribution Fraud Investigator
“Do you wanna know how a tech company sells and ships 100,000 laptops into a random developing country with limited infrastructure? They hire a local distributor, and I investigate if they adhere to our standards.”
“My dad did this for years. He hated the job because it was so stressful, but at least he got to go home. The people he investigates often don’t get to go home. Don’t do tax fraud in certain countries.”
Ocular Procurement Technician
“I would harvest corneas or entire globes from recently deceased people for transplant or research.”
“My friend does this! I swear when she makes eye contact with me, she’s sizing up my peepers for future profit.”
Sports Stats Keeper
“My high school English teacher did this for the NFL. I wonder if he got paid, but he liked the job. He did say you don’t really get to watch the game, especially if you are doing stats for offensive linemen.”
“Most sports fans know about this job. It’s one of those jobs that sounds fun on paper but is not fun. Sports are best as a hobby rather than as a job.”
COBOL Programmer
“Most people don’t know what COBOL is, but the ones that do probably believe it has been dead for 20+ years. Several large-scale systems built on COBOL are still insanely expensive to replace. Utility customer information systems are one such area (your meter readings, customer info, rates, and billing information). Millions of customers processing 24/7 took a huge amount of processing power back in the day.”
“I think the DoD is staying in their payment system in the next five years, and I’m sure they’ll be looking for more COBOL programmers. Last I heard (several years ago), they spent nearly a billion dollars to replace their COBOL system, and the project never got implemented.”
Chief Engineer on a Large Yacht
“I was once offered a marine engineering job on a Caribbean yacht as a fresh graduate. The employer wanted me to fly to Malta for a job interview. It turned out to be an engineer/sound guy/butler, and the salary would be $1000 a month (before taxes and no benefits). In my home country, engineer jobs start at $6000 a month PLUS benefits for 37h/week.”
“You have to know everything from carpentry to electronics and everything in between. It’s…not an easy job. Jack of all trades and a master of a few.”
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