The most unusual jobs of 2013

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

While looking for a job, we go through dozens of job posting sites in the hope of finding something worthwhile. Most of us are representatives of fairly familiar professions: accountants, lawyers, journalists, construction workers, teachers, doctors, and the employer's cry to find a candidate for a vacant position, say, a beauty salon administrator, is not surprising to anyone. However, in the outgoing 2013, some companies offered job seekers such positions that an ordinary person cannot imagine.

Can you get paid to sleep? Or, for example, do you live in a posh place, enjoying the beauty of the surrounding nature? Never, you answer. And you will be wrong.

It turns out that not only hellishly exhausting work is capable of bringing in money - some get paid for having a rest and “spitting at the ceiling”.

In 2013, job sites were littered with unusual offers. We have collected the most interesting for you so that you can be convinced: the impossible is possible. It is important that all vacancies are not an invention of tired recruiters, but a very real search for candidates for newly opened or vacated positions.

Lazy dream

A Finnish hotel in Helsinki a year ago was looking for someone to take turns sleeping in each room, and then talk about his impressions on a blog. Surely the management of the hotel pursued the goal of providing excellent advertising for their establishment. Be that as it may, we are sure that the newly hired "tester" was lucky with the place of work - at least he got enough sleep.

Toilets guide

Agree, sometimes such a person is very necessary - sometimes he is able to save from shame.

The Japanese love convenience, which is probably why in 2013 in the Land of the Rising Sun they were looking for a civil servant who was supposed to show all passers-by a nearby public toilet for 4 cents. Agree, sometimes such a person is very necessary - sometimes he is able to save from shame.

Cow pedicure

There is nowhere else to give a pedicure to people, but it is already interesting to follow the hooves of cows. This unusual vacancy was opened at once on several elite farms in Europe and the United States. In general, elite cows are provided with an elite service.

Have fun for money

The Australian tourism authority Tourism Australia delights job seekers with another batch of unusual offers every year. In 2013, there were six of them. The funniest one is the paid party-goer. The employee's task is to attend various holidays, festivals, discos, and then share photos and text impressions on social networks.

Castle keeper

Who has not dreamed of living in an old castle and still getting paid for it?

Who has not dreamed of living in an old castle (of course, provided that there are no ghosts there) and still receive money for it? In the past year, this fantasy could become a reality for anyone, because anyone who has a guard dog had a chance to get a job as caretaker of the Bled castle in Slovenia, which is located in a picturesque place surrounded by mountain ranges and the stunning beauty of the lake.

Armpit lover

Or rather, the aroma that they exude. In fact, everything is quite simple (albeit unusual): an antiperspirant company was looking for a person who would apply an antiperspirant agent to the armpits of a group of subjects, and then "inhale the wonderful scent" during the day, noting how it changed over the course of the day. time.

All life is in queues

The essence of the work is that a special person will spend terribly exhausting time for you in queues.

Such services have long been unofficially existed in different countries of the world, but in 2013 the first registered company of “waiting lists” appeared in Britain. The essence of the work is that a special person will spend terribly exhausting time for you in queues. If necessary, he will even quarrel with the neighbors, but will keep your place for you. The cost of such a service is $ 40 per hour.

Yes, not every of the above-mentioned specialists is given money in jest, some have a hard time, and sometimes even unpleasant. However, demand creates supply, and only those vacancies appear on the labor market that job seekers can respond to and that consumers need. Therefore, one should not be surprised, because "if the stars are lit, it means that someone needs it."