What would you like to be in the future? Here's a list of 10 crazy jobs across the globe that you will not believe exist.
1, PROFESSIONAL PUSHER
If you think the underground in Spain is bad, especially in Valencia during Fallas, you should see the trains in Japan. ‘Oshiyas’ try to put as many people onto a train as possible by pushing them from the outside until the doors will close.
2. PROFESSIONAL SLEEPER
A hotel in Finland hired a member of staff as a ‘professional sleeper’ to test the comfort of their beds. The person sleeps in a different one of the hotel beds each night and writes a review about her satisfaction with each one. My first reaction when I came across this job was... Wow! You actually get paid to... Sleep! This has to be undoubtedly the most comfortable job on the planet.
3. WEDDING GUEST
This is a part-time job in Japan where people work as wedding guests. Don't believe me? Here's an ad. Ask a Japanese friend to translate and you'll know. Apart from the money, they also get free food. Isn't it fun?
4. DEODORANT TESTERS
These people get paid in America to smell other people's armpits. They do so to test the odour-fighting powers of deodorants and to see the effectiveness of new products.
5. PET FOOD TASTER
The pet food tester’s job is to taste new pet food products, including bones, tinned meat, and biscuits. They do this to test for flavor and texture in comparison to rival pet food brands and human food. Whoever came up with this job must be a true-blue animal lover or someone who likes to chew weird-tasting food.
6. BICYCLE FISHERS
Amsterdam is the most bicycle friendly capital city of the world. It's no surprise that a lot of them end up in one of the canals employing bicycle fishers. Each year Amsterdam finds out around 14,000 bikes from its waterways.
7. CUIDACARRO
You'll meet a cuidacarro when you park your car in Costa Rica. His job isn't as complicated as it sounds. What a cuidacarro does is watch your car when you are gone so that nobody steals it. I'm sure we have something similar in Spain, haven't we?
8. DRYING PAINT WATCHER
No, this isn’t a joke. Someone actually earns a living watching paint dry. A man in the UK currently has the job and he spends his days painting sheets of cardboard to test how long new paint mixes take to dry and watching for changes in color and texture.
9. PROFESSIONAL MOUNER
It is a tradition in South East Asia that a big funeral will be good for you when you die, so professional mourners are hired to cry and weep loudly throughout the service.
10. SCUBA DIVING PIZZA DELIVERY MAN
In Florida there's an underwater hotel, believe it or not, and they have a scab diving pizza delivery man who carries pizza through the sea in a watertight case.
