Category Archives: Humor

This week’s lineup of oddball jobs includes a literal odd-ball job:  Diving for lost golf balls.  That might seem like a perfect job for someone who loves the outdoors and diving – that is, until you face alligators in Florida (and yes, the video footage is real).  I think it would be a cushier job (pun intended) to be a furniture tester.  Being a greeting card writer might be fun for awhile, but I think it would be difficult to stay fresh year in, year out, unless you could switch “genres” – if that term doesn’t exist in the greeting card industry, I think it should:  Birthday & anniversary genre; condolence genre; or flippant, schmaltz, generic, and even hate-mail genres.  Can you think of others?

• Fragrance Chemist
• Funeral Service Manager
• Furniture Tester
• Genetic Counselor
• Gold Reclaimer: Scour old teeth for fillings, melting the gold from them with broken gold jewellery into tiny gold pellets, which is then re-sold to jewellers.
• Golf Ball Diver
• Google cyclist: Gathers images for Google Earth’s street views in traffic-congested cities.
• Greeting Card Writer
• Gross Stunt Testers: The film and television industry employs gross stunt testers. These people make $800 per day to test disgusting items such as bugs and fluids to make sure it is safe for others to consume on camera.
• Gum Buster: Through special steaming tools, they remove the gum stuck to sidewalks, street benches, cinemas and restaurants.
• Gumologist