With new industries coming up, new roles taking shape, many jobs have become obsolete, but some of the new professions can be labelled as unique, atypical, even quirky and weird. I am talking about professions like mermaiding.
Have you heard of that?
Or even being a professional sleeper or becoming a rental boyfriend?
These jobs actually exist. Let’s just tell you about the world’s weirdest jobs.
Talking first about a teacher who left her job to become a mermaid. You heard that right. In Italy, 33-year-old Moss Green quit her teaching career to be a professional mermaid.
What inspired her to become a mermaid?
It was actually because of a magical mermaid. This might sound absurd, but it’s real. Green saw a man dressed as a merman on a local beach, and this incident pushed her to become a mermaid.
So what’s it like being a mermaid?
She says the experience is exhilarating and also exciting. Wearing a tail in water makes her feel more in contact with nature and the sea. Green earlier saw mermaiding as a hobby, but everything changed when she got a job offer.
So, what is it like to be a professional mermaid?
She says when I’m quoting, I needed to be able to hold my breaths, dive down a certain distance, spin around, swim facing the sky and name different fish. Let’s just remind you, mermaiding does not earn you much money, but putting money aside, Green says that she has no regrets, and that it makes her happier than ever. In fact, she says when I’m quoting, it’s enough to live on and I am doing something I love at the end of the day.
That’s all that matters at the moment.
Who knows what could happen in the future?
But mermaiding is just the tip of the iceberg.
Let’s tell you about a professional known as, profession known as legal bank robbing. Imagine robbing a bank without the threat of punishment.
This job is exactly like that. A licensed bank robber evaluates the security measures in a bank. Although they are fictitious robbers, the job has grown into multiple sectors like identity theft and computer hacking.
The next profession is of a professional sleeper. This person evaluates the comfort of hotel beds. Each night the professional sleeps in a different bed and reviews them all in order to determine which one stands out, which one is the best one.
Have you heard of an iceberg mover?
It’s not a type of equipment, it’s actually a profession.
The expert keeps a track of the location of icebergs and suggests safe detours around them. The concept comes from the Titanic disaster.
Reports say the practice has prevented several additional tragedies.
You see an average iceberg mover earns nearly $20,000 annually.
There are millions of profiles on online dating applications, but not everyone can successfully sell themselves.
Here an online dating ghost writer comes to the rescue. A user can hire the specialist to create an online dating profile for them. And this helps the user’s account look better, also attractive. If you are good with saying, I’m sorry, then this job is for you, a professional apologizer. You heard that right.
A professional apologizer says sorry on the behalf of a customer, they will keep offering their condolences until the other person is convinced.
This job also actually exists. So at any point in time, if you feel like there is no profession out there for you, that no job seems to be right for you, please think again. There are multiple opportunities out there, unique roles that also pay well. You don’t need to think big, you just need to think about what you are good at, even if it’s something like sleeping.