10 Weird Jobs You Won't Believe Actually Exists

10 Weird Jobs You Won't Believe Actually Exists

Have you ever wondered whose job it is to clean the roadkill off the highway, or make sure your dog's food tastes good? If you're currently hunting for a job take heed: these jobs are some of the weirdest and most obscure around, but that's actually an advantage. We've already got more then enough doctors, lawyers and accountants - but definitely not enough vomit collectors!

1. Pet Food Taster

When pet food companies boast that they've come out with a wonderful new recipe, it's not only the animal's opinions they're taking into account. When you read the little label that says that your pet's food is "suitable for human consumption", it's not because some people prefer eating pet food - it's because some people already have, and they're mostly fine.

Yes, there are humans tasting your pet's food, and the job is every bit as unsavory as you can imagine. If you're a food connoisseur then accepting this job would probably be barking up the wrong tree. It's definitely something that could hound you for a very long time.

2. Fortune Cookie Writer

In the west, people expect to be treated with a fortune cookie at the end of the meal at a Chinese restaurant, although in China you'd find no such thing. The diners eagerly crack open the crescent half-moon cookie in anticipation of their fortune, and usually manage to somehow fit the message into their lives. The messages are often hopeful; they can consist of translated Chinese proverbs, inspirational quotes or, more often, made up by creative fortune cookie writers.

The job of the fortune cookie writer, then, is to inspire, educate, and fill with hope their readers in one short message. Although the job might sound interesting at first, it quickly becomes tiresome and repetitive. Creativity is the key, and perhaps a book of inspirational quotes as well.

3. Vomit Collector

Apparently puking your guts out after being whisked around in a nausea-inducing roller-coaster is considered fun for some people. What's not as much fun is cleaning up their vomit, and even the regular cleaners draw the line here. For this reason vomit collectors are hired at many of the more "thrilling" amusement parks, for example the Thorpe Park theme-park in the U.K., where the Saw ride is keeping them busy around the clock.

There are a few perks to the job, however, namely the ability to ride any roller-coaster they want for free, whenever they like. This way they can contribute to the vomit that needs to be cleaned up, thereby promoting their own job security.

4. Shark Tank Cleaner

While getting into a tank with a shark could be considered most people's worst nightmare, shark tank cleaners are tasked with the job on an almost daily basis. In addition to making sure the displays are spotlessly clean for the guests at the aquarium, their job is also to monitor water quality, prepare the marine animal's food, and pose for pictures from within the shark tanks. While most of the sharks are docile and not a danger to humans, the job is considered dangerous but, to those who love being around sharks, eels, and other animals of the sea, extremely rewarding and fun.

5. Road-Kill Cleaner

This is not a job for animal lovers. As a roadkill cleaner your job, should you choose to accept it, would be to drive around a certain predefined area, be it a state, county, or just a particular highway, and hunt for dead animals obstructing the road.

Not only will you get the soul-numbingly boring job or driving around back and forth, day in and day out, without any passengers to talk to (but probably lots of dead animal corpses in back), you'll have to stop and take note near roadkill that most people would rather shift their eyes away from and continue to drive by. You'll be given protective clothing, a large truck, and a system of ropes and pulleys in order to get the carcass off the road as quickly as possible.

Often the roadside eyesore you'll have to remove will be a deer or coyote, and that's not too bad at all. But sometimes, and we hope it won't be too often, you'll find a massive moose or burly bear struck in the middle of the road, and that's when the job becomes more of a stinky, rotting nightmare.

6. Dice Inspector

Casinos and dice manufacturers are very serious about making sure their dice are perfect - and for good reason. Any imperfections of their dice, from tiny scratches, lopsidedness to uneven surfaces, could lead to cheating or wrong outcomes, and these companies have been sued before when the stakes were high.

7. Chicken Sexer

Imagine being asked at a dinner party what your job is, and having to answer "chicken sexer". Awkward! No, this is not someones perverted idea of a joke - chicken sexers actually undergo special training in order to be able to identify and separate the male hatchlings from the females. The need for this separation is that the males and females undergo different feeding programs - females will eventually need to lay eggs, while males are either culled or kept and fattened for their meat.

8. Body Farm Caretaker

This job is so obscure that there are currently only 4 places in the world where it's needed, and all happen to be in the United States. The idea of a body farm was concocted in order to help forensic experts better understand the process of human body decomposition, helping them extract information from a crime scene such as exact time and cause of death. The body farms are similar to what you might imagine - instead of a farm growing tomatoes, carrots and lettuce, these farms are filled with decomposing human remains, each under differing condition of temperature, humidity, light, etc.

Now, in order for all this to be possible, the caretaker comes into the picture. His job is to not only foresee the whole decomposition process, but also to extract the dead bodies from their graves, remove the deadly maggots attached to their rotten flesh, and generally make sure everything is running smoothly.

9. Worm Picker

They say the early bird catches the worm, and that's true for worm pickers as well. Their job begins in the dead of night, just before the crack of dawn, when the world is still deep is slumber. Donned in protective gear, boots, hoods, and coffee cans tied to each leg (one to store their wriggling harvest, another for the sawdust they use to keep their fingers dry), these night crawlers work in the fields, first sprinking chlorinated water on the earth to get the worms to the surface, then ripping the biggest, juiciest worms out of the ground in order to be put in cans and ship out to the world at large. Why would anyone want to buy a can of worms, you ask? Well, to be used as fish bait, of course!

10. Professional Sleeper

Most people those without insomnia, gain experience in this job just from the fact that they're alive. Yes, a professional sleeper is paid to do just that - sleep - although there are some caveats. At one particular hotel in Helsinki a job has opened up where the worker need sleep in the hotel for 35 days, each night in a different bed, in order to blog about their experience. And that's not the only opportunity in this slumbery field. Some researchers need people to partake in their sleep studies, requiring sleepers to be fit with electrodes and other devices while they sleep, in order to learn more about the sleep process.