Children are very unimaginative when asked what they want to be when they grow up. They will surely name ‘boring’ professions as an astronaut, First footballer or successful singer, who does not give more than fame and money but does not guarantee happiness. They completely forget those other tasks that are really the most fun in the world, and that from time to time show their heads in the press of the entire planet, putting long teeth at millions of office workers.
Many of these tasks are related to leisure, which also needs its professionals. Some people make living playing video games, tasting food or watching movies (well, maybe these are less and less). Not only are they very entertaining professions, and with which it costs a little less to take their work home, they also tend to be well paid, although, for that reason, the proportion of candidates for each position is exaggeratedly high.
Here are some of those eccentric works that can make us happy or, at least, dream that one day we will access them.
Escort taster
There are many more testers or tasters than we might think. Of sweets, mobile phones, video games, wines, luxury beds … And prostitutes. That was the job with which the Chilean Jamie Rascone, a former DJ, earned a living, as explained by a cited article published in the magazine Don Juan de Colombia. Her role was to interview the girls who aspired to be part of the Vivanco escort agency, as well as to test them sexually to see if they were up to the job. It should not be a very stressful job (and not only because of the relaxing work), but because every year about 75 women passed through their hands (and other parts), that is, one every five days.
Luxury Products Tester
The one who does not like sex can also devote himself to luxury products in general, as we already published in a past article. This job offer was published by the website specialized in high-end services VeryFirstTo, which called for high knowledge in gastronomy and the latest technological trends, as well as “experience in the luxury market”. For example? Being able to distinguish a roar from a Bentley from that of a Lexus.
Desert Islands Guardian
Surely the security guards who spend their nights walking through empty streets while in the buildings they care for, wealthy families get hot at the fire of the home, they are tempted by this offer. This is what happened with the 35,000 people who chose to take care of Hamilton Island, located in the Great Barrier Reef, northeast of Australia. There was only one left, and that was Ben Southall, 24, who for six months could explore the island in exchange for $ 111,000 (about 81,000 euros).
Traveler all over the world
Maybe Southall got bored of spending so much time on a desert island paradise. Perhaps he would have preferred to put himself in the shoes of Tyson Mayr, this year’s winner of the prize awarded by the Jauntaroo travel company to whom he is willing to travel around the globe and write about it in a blog, in exchange for $ 100,000 ( a slightly lower amount than Southall received). Mayr will visit 50 countries, including Germany, Jamaica, the Maldives or the Bahamas. What does it take to apply for the position? The generosity of spirit, feeling comfortable traveling to exotic destinations, always being ready to tweet and the ability to locate content that can arouse a smile in readers. Very hard
Lego Sculptor
It is not a good time for architects, but we do not know if the crisis will also have affected those who are responsible for designing the bricks of the popular toy. Lego has a small number of professionals destined to devise new products and models, and estimates of the actual number of these workers in the world range from 9 to 30. Also, the competitions in which these are chosen experts are an interesting promotional tool, as the previous video demonstrates, which attests to the contest that took place in Toronto at the end of 2012.
Senior food scientist
Here you can read the job offer in which a worker is required to devote himself to the “development or reformulation of products to improve the characteristics of quality, the efficiency of processing and cost of ingredients”. In short, get between test tubes and saucepans to design the best food in the world, and for this, we will have to be the guinea pigs. Although careful: it requires more than ten years of experience (designing, it is understood, not eating).
Professional sleeper
For 99.9% of the population, the day is to wake up startled, jump out of bed and head down to work. For this 0.00001%, your day-to-day life consists of getting crestfallen to work, getting into bed and sleeping deeply. The goal of these professionals is to be guinea pigs in university experiments, although in some cases, these are due to the mattress companies and simply have to check if the new mattresses are comfortable enough. Be careful, do not fall asleep on the laurels: likely, the labor market does not offer a great offer for these positions.