Tired of your boring job? If you want to go back and start a new career, you have some weirder options than you might realize.
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Video:
How Its Made Pickles - Achar Hindi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYgXK0aEsNk
Jurassic Park (3/10)
Movie CLIP -
The Sick Triceratops (
1993) HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JylK4HuKMvQ
Brontosaurus en la
Ciudad de EL MUNDO PERDIDO (THE
LOST WORLD, 1925, Cinetel)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGtpdDmxtmg
Dung beetles do battle over elephant droppings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1oH5_hi7cw
Professional Mourners of
Sardinia, from
Women of the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJUQxelrZX4
In
China, professional mourners spice up funerals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qle8mItqNvE
Gold Bars
Royal Canadian Mint .
9999 Gold Bullion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGyJiJj0lRQ
Inside Americas Money Vault A Trip into the NY
Feds Gold Vault
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRLEX4uxR0U
Removing The
Steel Toes From My
Work Boots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK500NQM9UM
People stuffed onto a train in
Tokyo, Japan (train stuffing
Tokyo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7kor5nHtZQ
Japanese train station during rush hour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0A9-oUoMug
Gumbusters!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNvFVz76sjc
GumBusters Tackle
Sticky Issue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taYUL9bal6s
You thought that summer job you had selling fried
Kool Aid pickles out the back of a van was weird. There are entire career paths that are even weirder.
Paleoscatologist
Paleoscatologists study ancient fecal matter, like fossilized mounds
of dinosaur poop
Fossilized fecal matter is called “coprolite,”
Greek for the words “dung” (“copro-”) and “stone” (“lithos”)
Paleoscatology is a small field, and there aren’t many specialists
Coprolite is not as common as it could be, because feces usually decompose or are eaten by insects like cockroaches before they have the chance to fossilize
Professional mourner
In China, professional funeral mourners have existed for more than 2,
000 years
They can perform services like “kusang,” which is a cross between singing and crying that is a feature of
Chinese funeral rituals
Other professional funeral performances in China include costumed dancing and an act in which the mourner crawls toward the coffin, crying for the dead person to return
In
England, there’s a company called “
Rent a Mourner” that supplies professional funeral attendees, in case you’re worried about low attendance
Gold
Stacker
The world’s largest depository of gold bars is an underground facility in
Manhattan: The gold vault of the
Federal Reserve Bank of
New York
The
FRBNY has so many gold bars coming in and out that it employs professional “gold stackers” who are paid to
... stack gold
Each gold bar weighs 27.4 pounds (12.4 kilograms)
FRBNY stackers have to wear protective footwear so they don’t crush their toes with gold, and they have to work in shifts so they don’t get worn out lifting these bars over and over
Subway Pusher
Have you ever wanted to shove human beings for a living?
Believe it or not, you can
The
Tokyo subway system is notoriously crowded, so they often have to pack as many humans as possible into each train car.
This means actually pushing them through the doors when the train is nearly full.
The white-gloved people-pushers are called “oshiya”
Oshiya have been used in the Tokyo subway system since the
1950s
Gum Remover
You’ve all seen what city sidewalks look like – with millions of spots of nasty ancient chewing gum stuck to the concrete
Will that gum be there forever, or is there someone with the courage and determination to remove it? How about a Gumbuster?
Gum Removers use machines that shoot out high-pressure steam with chemical additives to soften and remove gum spots
There’s a company in
Washington D.C. called Gumbusters
D.C., devoted to removing gum spots – supposedly it has pulled in more than $
100,000 per year removing gum spots
- published: 24 Mar 2015
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