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"I maintain hiking trails in our national forests. I camp out for 8 days at a time, with 6 day weekends. While out camping, I clear downed trees from the trails with chainsaws, crosscut saws, build bridges, retaining walls, drain water off the trail, fix rock/land slides, cut down large trees, etc. I hike most everywhere with my crew, although we use horses and mules to carry out camping equipment. Some places require us to ride ATVs and dirtbikes, while other places are only accessible by jetboat or airplane.

I love my job, I get paid 16.50 an hour, I get to live in nature damn near all year long, and I don't really have much time to spend my money. I work for the USFS, my job title is Wilderness Technician of Trails, and you can apply for jobs like mine, all over the country on USAjobs.gov. Search for wilderness tech, recreation tech, or trails tech."

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Dream job except for the pay. That deserves much higher!

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"I'm an orthoepist! I work at an audiobook publisher, where I research the correct pronunciation of people, places, things, and foreign languages, so that the actors reading the books sound like they know what they're talking about. As far as I know, there are only two of us in the country."

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I'm glad OP's company has enough commitment to quality to keep them on staff. It drives me crazy how often the actors who read audio books mispronounce even common words.

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"I am a Travel Trainer! I teach people with learning disabilities how to use public transport independently.

It's an AWESOME job."

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Cousins travel trainer was great and the reason he can take the bus to work and even knows who and how to ask when theses a disruption (like bus is cancelled, snowstorm, etc.) Thank you for your help!

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zzzimcal said:
"I cut eyes out of dead people. I am an eye bank technician; I surgically remove corneas and whole eyes from donors for cornea transplants and research. I think most people don't WANT to know about my job."

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The 7th Sense: "I cut eyes out of dead people"

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"For work I get to break into hospitals and steal things. It's referred to as a "Physical Penetration Test." It's an integral part of a risk assessment, which is required under 164.308 of HIPAA.

I routinely pick locks, steal access badges, impersonate medical personnel, harvest data and credentials, crack passwords, and utilize various social engineering tactics.

My official title is "Information Security Consultant." I have a degree in Information Systems Management, as well as; CCNA, Sec+, and CISA certifications."

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I once met a person who did this at nuclear power plants. You don't want to hear how many times he was successful at breaking in... There is a safe word, so the plant security knows someone will be breaking in at some point this week and they will say that word of you challenge them. Because otherwise he might get shot by a guard that prefers to ask questions later. I'm in infosec, but red team is a much different job than what the rest of us do. You have to be a con man, an extrovert, and great at getting people to think you know less or more than you do, depending on the situation.

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giottoismyhomie said:
"I manage an adult literacy program. Most people think it is some sort of elaborate book club or that I am mistaken and meant to say that I teach children to read and write. Sadly my job exists because 1 in 6 adults are functionally illiterate (where I live)."

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I had an uncle who was functionally illiterate. He died during a hospital procedure from a reaction to the contrast material. Not only could he not read the consent form, but his family couldn't bring suit against the hospital because, you know, he signed it.

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"I didn't get it but I once applied for a job as a Heritage Officer. Sounded normal enough, but it involved basically going around cemeteries photographing graves and keeping a log of them. It was so unusual I was desperate for it, not to mention working alone and out in the fresh air.

'So what do you?'

'Oh, you know, look at graves.'"

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"I'm a professional prosthesis bra fitter. I fit women who have had a mastectomy. Usually, women who have/had breast cancer"

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This is a very important job. Used to work in the lingerie department of a high-end department store, and we had a professional prosthesis fitter in our department too. She was so professional and empathetic and great at her job.

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"I am responsible for breaking toys and write reports about them how they break.

A totally different job from my previous job, using promotions from online casino's to earn a living and travel the world."

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"Dear Diary: Today I choked on a toy hat."

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OP also wrote, "Another 'incident': I actually shot my boss. I received a toy which could launch some foam darts. Normally not a real problem, but the safety standard these devices states it should only be able to launch the projectiles that are provided. In the end I found out it was possible to launch pens from it and my boss found out it hurts quite a bit being hit by a fast flying pen."

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"I test toilet paper. I work for a contracted company in a paper mill and test toilet paper, paper towels, and facial tissue using specialized machinery. In other words, I keep your butt happy."

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dannyancient said:
"I put music in movie trailers. Pretty random and pretty awesome."

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"My field is medical illustration. I specifically do medical legal work (so for courtroom purposes). When I travel by airplane, I just claim to be a bartender again as it gets a little dull explaining over and over.

On the plus side, I know what you look like... on the inside."

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RodriguezLob said:
"Physical hydrogeologist, I image the ground using water flows."

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"I relay phone calls for deaf people. I don't know if that qualifies as a job the average person doesn't know exists but on a good proportion of the calls I handle per day people hang up on me thinking it's a wind up."

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"I was wondering about this yesterday. Are you the person who relays the entire conversation? I always get really nervous when calling my sister who is deaf because these people are listening to us..."

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"Yes I relay the entire conversation, unless the deaf person can speak themselves and not have to type, but we can still hear them. Please don't be nervous using us, there is absolutely nothing you can say that we haven't heard before, and we're not the slightest bit interested anyway, yours is just another call, we'll forget all about you when you've hung up. I mean that in the nicest possible way of course. It's like any call center, we deal with that call as best we can then it's gone and in comes the next."

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I used to have a customer who used this service to call in when I worked tech support. It was a bit strange at first, but after the first call it seemed normal. I just had to get over the shock of not knowing that this service existed.

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"I make pig feed, they aren't just fed corn. A lot of science involved. Their diets change almost monthly with the weather so we are constantly changing the nutrients we give them.

Also a little nugget that blows my mind. Pigs naturally will bite each others tails off as a dominance thing. (Like squirrels do). However simply increasing their magnesium in the diet will make them not bite each other, for some reason it has a calming effect on them."

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"I put handles on coffins. That's it, most people know someone makes coffins, they don't know that you can have the job to just put the handels on."

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"I have a job most people don't know STILL exists - 35mm projectionist."

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"I'm a juggler. Many times, I get the response, 'oh, you can make money doing that? Like, enough money?' Yes I can, and many times, I make a lot more than them."

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"I'm a sign artist at a well known 'neighborhood' grocery chain. EVERYTHING in the store is drawn/written by hand, even down to the price tags on the shelves. I'm the one that wakes up at the crack of dawn to do this. Cute illustrations on the displays? Me. Awesome window paintings outside? Me. Hilarious cartoons and wall murals? ALL ME. When I mention it to people, they have never noticed."

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"That's what most people assume. The worst is when I've spent hours of my morning working on a chalk pastel display, only to have a customer walk by and wonder if it's printed, so they run their fingers along the entire drawing, effectively ruining it."

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"I work for a company that takes people on expeditions to Peru and Chile to use the extremely hallucinogenic Ayahuasca tea in ceremony with the indigenous Q'ero Shamanic peoples of the Andes Mountain Range. You also get to see Machu Picchu and the Sacred Valley but it mostly revolves around the Shamanic work. And I'm in marketing, this is what I sell and analyze."

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"Extremely hallucinogenic " is a questionable expression. People normally use the word "entheogenic" and the reason is worth searching :)

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Thrasymachus said:
"I'm an anthropologist.

Yeah... I'm not even sure what I do, but apparently it matters to someone."

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"Oh hey. I'm a paleontologist and everyone thinks that what I do is what you do."

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"I sell Lego pieces. I buy bulk Lego sets (normally from Amazon or whoever else online has the best deals), part out the pieces, and list them individually on my online store. My customers are generally one of two people:

-Adults who want 1,000 of something, but don't want to buy 100 of a set to get it (such as a red 2x4 brick to build an enormous structure).

-Parents whose kid wants a specific minifigure that happens to only come in a set that costs a lot of money. The kid doesn't want "super duper playset number 12," he wants "The gold ninja!" - so instead of spending $130 for the big set, they can spend $15 on just the figure, and it works out well for both of us.

Generally I can part out a set for around 200-250% of its purchase price--more if I find it on clearance or in a really good sale. My wife and I also make monthly trips to our nearest Lego store one state over to buy hundreds of dollars of "Pick a Brick" pieces to put into our inventory.

Our store is still pretty small, but there are many people who have become wealthy doing it after a LOT of hard work. It requires some initial investment, willingness to run to the post office to occasionally ship a three-cent part, and excellent customer service skills.

The largest hazard of the job? Your chances of stepping on a Lego in the middle of the night go up substantially when you have over 100,000 pieces in the house."

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"I bounce on a pogo stick in a clown outfit.

I was a professional pogoer BEFORE I got this job. I have been doing it for 8 years, and my current boss found my video on Youtube and offered me a job. Luckily I was located only about an hour and a half away and had no job at the time he contacted me."

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Somehow I read this as professional poo goer It's been a long week

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"ATM Technician, no one seems to understand that the money box sometimes doesn't want to give out money."

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Night manager at my grocery store was coming over to a customer complaint and her body language was screaming. Check out clerk said the lottery machine was stealing money all day and she wanted to body block it.

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hoboscout02 said:
"I start on Friday as a Standardized Patient. Essentially, med students practice their bedside manner on me."

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"They practice a lot more than bedside manner on some standardized patients. We have one guy locally who is the go-to for DREs. He gets paid to have a class of med students locate his prostate."

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I worked for a company that made software that manages these programs; 120+ medical schools worldwide. Some schools have amazing training and are so proud of their patients. The weirdest are the schools that brag about having a gynecological standardized patient program. Like going for a pelvic exam? How about having 15 of them in one day with 15 different doctors. Plus it's probably each doctor's (student) first time ever doing the procedure. All while being recorded from multiple angles. Crazy experience sitting in the control room wa with multiple people watching live. It's surreal sitting in the control room watching 40 video screens showing multiple angles of the same 20 women getting examined by very nervous students for hours. The patients were paid extremely well.

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"There are things in the world that could happen and cause civilizations to flip upside down. I write those plans for people to follow to prevent things from going tits up. Emergency Management woo."

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"I'm a Channel Manager at a YouTube Network. I basically get paid to watch and maintain YouTube channels all day. My job didn't exist when I was in college."

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"Wildfire Firefighter. I fight forest fires, and although most people in the province that I live in are very aware that these people exist I have met lots of people that thought that regular structural fire fighters did all that.

Also lots of people really don't understand how MANY fires there are every year. From the statistics we get its still about 50/50 Human/natural starts. People need to learn how to figure their sh*t out in the forest."

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Sonoma native here. I guarantee you most Californians in fire prone areas know the difference. Heroes. Also that prisoners make up a portion of of the fire crews. Also heroes.

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"For a while I repaired books at a library. I think most people assume that when books get old they are thrown away and bought new unless they are collectible. Well the composition of books in a research universities library is very different from a local branch library, and almost everything we had was collectible in some way. Not necessarily monetarily valuable, but often rare. Many early 1900s books about local economic policies, and proceedings from city council meetings, and a whole lot of grad thesis that had not been checked out once since their publication.

Tl;dr: I once spent 4 hours gluing pictures of sad clowns into a book."

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This one used book store owner I worked for fixed books. I asked if I could try but she said it takes a lot of practice. Still kinda bummed she didn't want to teach me.

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Commenter said:
"Equine sports massage therapist. Not quite my job yet, but finishing certification in May."

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"Okay you are in the top 2 of jobs I didn't know existed so far."

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This is a very important job for the health of middle aged and elderly horses. My mom does this on her own but also brings in a massage therapist now and then for her old boy. Poor horse has arthritis.

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"I'm a board certified music therapist! Music therapists are highly trained musicians who use music to address the physical, mental, and emotional needs of various populations. To become board certified, MTs need to have a bachelors degree in music therapy, complete a 6 month internship, and pass the national board certification exam. This certification requires continuing professional education, much like social workers/nurses/etc.

I LOVE what I do. In my practice, I have used music to address issues like pain management, respiratory distress, socialization, cognitive stimulation, sensory stimulation, and emotional/creative expression with populations like adult/pediatric hospice and addiction recovery."

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I can't imagine a life without music.

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"I spent a summer balancing beer trucks.

The object of job is to make sure that the beer truck is as full as possible at all times, ideally picking up on skid of empties when delivering one skid of beer.

Beer Truck Tetris, it's a thing."

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Beer Truck Tetris, I'll drink to that!

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"When you miss your lecture and decide to listen to the online recording instead - I'm the guy who the university sends the online recording to, so I can make it sound nice, add compression, equalize it properly, make sure it's mono, remove pops/crackles and so on."

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"I work at a manufacturing plant called Industries for the Blind where around half the employees are totally blind and most of the people that work there (including me) have some sort of vision problem."

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"I work in nuclear power plants around the country when they shut down every 18 months or so. I go inside reactors and refurbish and test motor actuators on valves to ensure safe operating conditions. A few quick things in case anyone is curious. NO its nothing like The Simpsons. Yes, I am exposed to radiation and, no, I don't glow at night. this exposure is constantly monitored and relatively safe. It is a very well paid job but somewhat dangerous due to safety concerns and high levels of quality we must adhere to. I've considered the idea of doing an AMA if anyone would be curious."

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Oh, I have questions about the safety gear for any potential ama, like after seeing the 'egg baskets' in Chernobyl (the tv series) I, like Donkey boi want to know about potential areas with extra safety. (I'd guess thyroid, brain and the baby makers are the ones)

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"I make all of McDonald's infrastructure signs. We ship to every McDonald's in the US. No shirt, no shoes, no service? That's me!"

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eastcoast709 said:
"I make people do a shot of screech, kiss a cod fish and say funny thing, my official job title is "screecher-inner". Its a tourism job for the province of Newfoundland and I do it everyday over the summer, twice a day. Its a tradition here for welcoming people to the island and is basically the best job ever."

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"I'm a commercial photographer... It's become apparent to me that everyone thinks a photographer is a photographer is a photographer, which is why I've turned down about $25,000 of weddings in the past year alone."

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I love when people find out I'm a web developer and ask if I'll build them a site for $5k or whatever. There are plenty of good developers that will do a great job at that. I would do a horrible job, but make $500k a year building complex internal corporate"sites" (applications really). Very different.

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Happened to catch one where guy with manicured hands tried to sell tools. He didn't know the difference between sockets and ratchets, metric or SAE, standard or Philips or hex. His most emphasized point was how *shiny the ratchets (no... they're sockets!!) looked under the display lights. I laughed until I fell off the bed and my kids came running in to see what happened. They laughed at him, too. We almost needed paramedics by his 15th utterance of 'look how they sparkle!' (Dang it... maybe I'm doing it wrong? I have maybe 6 rolling toolboxes of SnapOn and nothing sparkles...)

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"Met a guy last week who buys the used metal dentists use for fillings and crowns, etc. Apparently dentists use a lot of precious metal...."

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My dad was a dentist and did some of my root canals and crowns and always gave me gold ones because he could. He also did some jewelry work using dental gold and we all have beautiful rings with our names on them. A true Renaissance Man!

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5howtime said:
"I write instruction manuals for installing various equipment. Even the people I work with do not know what I do."

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The job is obscure for sure."

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I had a job making computer manuals for older ( Silent Generation ) workers. This was in the late '90s. The level of detail had to be meticulous. Nothing could be assumed, and every step, no matter how insignificant, needed to be explained. The manuals were for specific software they would use for work. I would also take calls when someone needed help with the software. That is how I learned to be so precise.

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"I work in audio post. When you watch a movie/tv show, almost all the sounds you hear were not captured by the mics on set. Also, about half the dialogue you hear was added months later during sessions called ADR sessions. When you see booms on set, they are typically only used as a reference. We'll try to use as much production audio as possible, but it's not always possible. Well spend hours just working with a scene where two people are sitting at a table adding the tiniest details.

Last but not least, all the sounds you hear in cops (engine noise, heli blades, gun shots, sirens, maneuvers) are all fake typically. Sorry."

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Then fix the balance between background and dialogue. I shouldn't have to turn up the volume to hear dialogue only to be deafened by a gunshot in the next scene

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"I am a Range Safety Officer.

I walk endless miles up and down a firing line full of grown children with loaded guns and correct them when they do stupid sh*t. Having a loaded gun pointed at me doesn't phase me anymore, partly because I'm desensitized, partly because I hate my job and the sweet release of death would be the next best thing to just punching my manager and quitting.

I love this stuff, really. I am teaching someone to take their own safety into their hands and become technically proficient in something not a lot of people fully understand. The downside is a shooting range with rentals is tantamount to working at a mini-golf course."

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"...tantamount to working at a mini-golf course." Yikes! I'd just go ahead and cut both shoelaces to facilitate my escape.

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"I'm an ejection seat mechanic."

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I read that wrong

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"I edit sky diving videos, not sure how known that is..."

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Have you ever been asked to splice a successful landing onto an unsuccessful dive?

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we_got_caught said:
"I write manuals for tanks. How to operate them, how to repair them, etc."

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"Fish tanks, pressure tanks, or M1-A2SEP tanks..."

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My brother has a dog named Tank...

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"[Insert type of job here] Manager.

ex: I manage a group of incredibly smart people. I'm not super smart or anything myself, but those who are are generally just hopeless at interacting with others in a normal way, getting work done on time, or generally following directions. They always need one "normal" person to keep them on track. I'm not personally changing the world, but they would never manage it without me.

Managers get a bad rap a lot because the term gets used for anyone who is in charge of a team - when in fact that person is generally there because the company doesn't trust the other people. That's not managing, that's supervising - and a good manager is often a terrible supervisor (Managers are in it for their team, supervisors for the company). Actual management is extremely difficult but very rewarding in the end - and it's not a degree you need, just a skill set you can pick up almost anywhere."

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Yes! I manage talent, projects and calendars. I'm not as smart or as gifted as the people I manage, but I can do what they can't. I can see a year in advance, estimate R & D costs and keep everyone on track to meet deadlines and launch times. I also keep tract of certificates, licenses, and contracts. Most of all, I managed expectations and department relations so that the whole team looks good and everyone gets the recognition they deserve. I like being the manager without being the supervisor. I'm your professional colleague that helps you look good but I'm not your boss, your mom or HR.

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"I'm an industrial hygienist. It's a type of health and safety consultant. I'm a woman in my twenties and before clients meet me (like only discuss quotes or need consultation via email), they refer to me as "the mold guy," "the asbestos guy," "the insect guy" etc. I'm the person your insurance company hires to investigate losses, you call when you have mold and don't know what to do. or when your factory may be violating a health and safety code I come out - I'm not from OSHA! I'm a consultant! I don't care what you do on the job, but best believe I will make a recommendation in my report based on your unsafe practices! But seriously. that's all i can do - make recommendations."

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This would require a multitude of skills!

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"Permit Expeditor; I get plans from architects and sign contractors and apply for permits to the city or county planning departments.

We're a nationwide company but it's literally just me and my brother running it (him mostly)."

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"I am a Dairy Nutrition Consultant, I balance and formulate rations for dairy cows. I also formulate mineral packages for dairy cows. You like extra creamy milk? I can make that happen."

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chicitygirl46 said:
"I am an analyst at an engineering company. I run to the store get cookies and lime diet coke every day for my boss."

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"As an engineer, wouldn't it be more efficient to just stock cookies and lime diet coke at the workplace than going to get them every day?"

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What kind of idiot would design his way out of getting to leave the office every day?

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Commenter replied:
"I string tennis racquets. My only clients are the 1%s in town."

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"As a stringer at a mass market sporting goods store, the fuction itself is not mentally difficult but time consuming and lots of little movements with your fingers and setting things to manufacturer defaults for the string "tightness".

I assume for a dedicated stringer like GreekWannabe it is probably more of a custom job because people who play tennis a lot get particular about their strings."

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"I work for a company that conducts online investigations using Social Media. So when a person who claims they're hurt and cannot work - we try to catch them in a lie by monitoring their online activity."

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If you were monitoring my online activity you would think i was dead!

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"I work for a super store and they send me to a competitor across the street in plain clothes. I take a device, pda, that holds a list of items on it. I locate the items and record the price. Every week. I'm a competitive shopper."

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Industrial espionage.

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Tugboat_Lady said:
"I drive tugboats. It's fun."

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I'm trying to decide if you can call student a job. I mean, you pay them to do it. When I was a grad student I had 3 volunteer jobs at the same time, and I called those my job and being a student my reason for not being forced by my parents to find a real job yet!

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"I install fake vaults in people's homes."

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"I'm a study start-up specialist. Drug companies pay me to start up a drug trial. I do all the legal ethics and regulatory submissions and find doctors to run the studies. Everything up until the patient gets the drug."

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"I graduated with a degree in Political Science and minored in Economics. I ended up becoming a compliance advisor for a registered financial firm (the good kind). I deal with securities regulation all day and make sure we don't screw over our clients. It is a job that I really enjoy doing, has great growth opportunities, and is kind of easy to get into (since not many people know about it and are interested in it). My career has really taken off with all the regulation coming out (Dodd Frank) and scandals (Madoff). I make six figures."

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"I put achievements in Flash games for Kongregate."

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Now there's a name I haven't heard in years.

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