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"Personalization and niche products have been on the rise for years.  A side effect is that jobs are becoming more specific.  This list of 10 really odd jobs proves that point. Before you apply for another ho-hum job as a paper-pusher or a server at Mickey D&amp;#8217;s, you might want to check out the perks of working as a whiskey ambassador, a furniture tester or, if they&amp;#8217;re part-time or odd jobs (no pun intended), you could do both.&amp;#160;  What could be cushier? Spend the afternoon teaching Dewar&amp;#8217;s clientele the proper way to taste and &amp;#8216;admire the attributes&amp;#8217; of their finest Scotch; then you can trundle over to your night job at Simmon&amp;#8217;s or Laz-E-Boy to sleep it off.  Not wacky enough to stave off boredom? Then check out the benefits of being a road kill scraper, septic tank pumper, oyster floater or adult store clerk (who not only tends shop but cleans up the &amp;#8216;merchandise testing booth&amp;#8217;). Ugh. Dirty jobs, but somebody has to do &amp;#8216;em.  If these foul professions aren&amp;#8217;t exactly what you had in mind, you can work as a chicken sexer for a really fowl job. Okay, I couldn&amp;#8217;t resist that, but &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Chicken Sexing&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; is one of my Top Ten. Flipping little yellow fluff-balls upside down all day can&amp;#8217;t be too difficult; girls for egg layers and boys for meat. Knowing which is which is another matter entirely.  One of the advantages of having a &amp;#8216;really odd job&amp;#8217; is the cool ice breaker at parties. Imagine the next time someone asks &amp;quot;What do you do?&amp;quot; and you answer &amp;quot;I&amp;#8217;m a snake milker&amp;quot;.&amp;#160;  Here are the other nine picks: 2. &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Corporate Bank Robber&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; - Security and surveillance manufacturers need to test the equipment. According to Fortune Mag, they hire people to break into banks. Honest! 3. &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Fountain Pen Repairer &amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;- Yes, at least one person actually does this for a living. In an era when you can buy disposable Bics for about 10 cents a piece, you might want to check this one out carefully before applying.  4. &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Gumologist &amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;- Why be just a plain old chemist when you can be a gumologist, testing the elasticity of Trident and Dubble Bubble?&amp;#160; Wrigley&amp;#8217;s is certain to have a good dental plan as well. 5. &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Imax Screen Cleaner&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; - Now, here&amp;#8217;s a job I&amp;#8217;ll bet you never thought of. These screens are HUGE, so make sure you have extensions for your Squeegee extender. It also helps to live in a city with more than one Imax.  6. &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Kiddie Ride Refurbisher&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; - Remember the bobbing &amp;#8216;25 cents a ride&amp;#8217; elephants at the supermarket and the boats you steered around a tiny moat at the local fair? They&amp;#8217;re now hot collector items and someone has to bring them up to spic. With carousel horses auctioning for thousands of dollars this is a self-made job that could prove quite lucrative. 7.&amp;lt;b&amp;gt; Ski Run Designer&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; - Artistic types often have trouble finding meaningful employment. A ski run map designer would be fulfilling on a large scale and make you a popular figure  at Apres Ski gatherings. 8. &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Rattlesnake Milker&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; - I wasn&amp;#8217;t kidding. Rattlesnakes and other venemous reptiles don&amp;#8217;t just donate their deadly liquids for the antivenom industry. Some brave souls have to milk them. It&amp;#8217;s a toss up, however, as to whether snake milkers or alligator wrestlers make more danger pay, so do check out both options.  9. &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Fortune Cookie Writer/Translator &amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;- This is the optimum job for unemployed journalists who create crazy Top Ten lists while procrastinating on that novel in the dresser drawer.&amp;#160; Oh, yeah, that would be me."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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