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Can you think of any cool unheard of jobs (eg a winmaker.. or perhaps a club promoter?)

BeachHouseGuyBeachHouseGuy
edited November 2011 in General Banter
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  • GuiGui Veteran
    mannequin nipple gluer onner
  • BeachHouseGuyBeachHouseGuy
    BAHAA
  • ToshTosh Veteran
    Cool unheard of jobs?

    Eskimo clothing dry cleaner
    Arctic Road Sweeper
    Ice cube polisher
    Fridge Freezer something something
    Siberian railway line straightener

    Hope that helped!
    :p
  • MindGateMindGate United States Veteran
    mannequin nipple gluer onner
    And I have now found my true calling.
  • DandelionDandelion London Veteran
    origami scarf maker.
  • DandelionDandelion London Veteran
    (although I don't think anything is going to beat the mannequin nipple gluer onner)
    :D
  • DandelionDandelion London Veteran
    Cool unheard of jobs?

    Eskimo clothing dry cleaner
    Arctic Road Sweeper
    Ice cube polisher
    Fridge Freezer something something
    Siberian railway line straightener

    Hope that helped!
    :p
    I want to be the ice cube polisher. It sounds refreshing!

  • DakiniDakini Veteran
    edited November 2011
    Sam Guy, an uncle of mine was a vintner. It requires serious study, a college degree in viniculture, a degree in marketing or business would help.

    Often, cool jobs are the ones you think up yourself, and start your own business. That takes a lot of work though, running your own business. Nothing is as easy as it seems.
    I want to be the ice cube polisher. It sounds refreshing!
    If you're an artist, and a wood- or ivory-carver, you can be an ice carver. There are ice carving competitions held around the world in Winter (check out Alaska and Japan).

  • ToshTosh Veteran
    I once had a boss who was an army Major who diffused IEDs (terrorist bomb disposal). That was a pretty cool job, and he was a pretty cool guy.

    He was always 'tinkering' with electrical and mechanical items; it really was his passion. On his office wall, he had a photo taken of him, all suited up in those bomb disposal suits they wear, walking towards a car bomb in Northern Ireland.

    The car was parked by the gable end of a house which had daubed on it's walls "The End is Nigh".

    He also did covert IED disposal, which was also risky; diffusing bombs that terrorist had planted, secretly, so not to compromise the 'agent' who passed on the information on the IEDs location. SAS soldiers would be deployed to protect him while he did his work. He'd just make the IED safe in some way, so to make the terrorists think it was just 'duff'.

    Cool job, dangerous though!
  • DandelionDandelion London Veteran
    Sam Guy, an uncle of mine was a vintner. It requires serious study, a college degree in viniculture, a degree in marketing or business would help.

    Often, cool jobs are the ones you think up yourself, and start your own business. That takes a lot of work though, running your own business. Nothing is as easy as it seems.
    I want to be the ice cube polisher. It sounds refreshing!
    If you're an artist, and a wood- or ivory-carver, you can be an ice carver. There are ice carving competitions held around the world in Winter (check out Alaska and Japan).

    I'd LOVE to go and see an ice carving competition take place! Don't know that I'd be any good at it myself, I have never done any carving.
    @Tosh Thank all the goodness in the world that there are people like your ex boss existing. I guess it's much more of a male thing (generally, not exclusively) to be drawn to that type of job. Not something I could do. That would be adrenalin overload for me and I think I might end up having a heart attack.
  • ToshTosh Veteran
    @Dandelion; no, there are female bomb disposal experts in the British army.

    I guess the qualities that are required, a level head, calm disposition, ability to think under pressure, technical flair and ability (etc) are not exclusively male by any standards.

    That kit they wear is darn heavy though, so some strength is required.
  • DandelionDandelion London Veteran
    Hi @Tosh, no those qualitites are not exclusively male at all, I quite agree, especially as I'm female!! I think it takes more than particular skills though, and is as much about personality; what I meant was that I think males (more so than women) are drawn to that type of job perhaps because of the 'danger' involved in such a career. You have to enjoy that adrenalin buzz I would have thought, and like I said, thank goodness there are people like that willing to do this sort of job. Hats off 'n all that :)
  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    Plebotomist. Find people's veins and withdraw their blood. Label it for instrumental tests to see what is in the blood.
  • dorjedorje
    I'm a backpacker's hostel manager.
  • bodhipunkbodhipunk
    Apparently, renaming your job title as something outrageous has become quite trendy. I'm a Majordomo Culinarian Ninja.
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