Examples of "niche" jobs

[Poptart4]

Everyone on MN seems to work in a very niche job that very few people could actually do. Earning lots of money of course. But they can never say what this job is as that would be very outing

So out of curiosity, can someone please list a few of these niche jobs?

Before we met DH was offered a job as a condom tester, but didnt take it as you had to work a week in hand

Similar to their DH's secret hobby which would be much too outing because obviously theirs is the only man in the country to own and ride a bike.

Having a niche job doesn’t mean you’re irreplaceable. It’s means you have a specific role that not many people do. It can make you in-demand but it can also make it hard to change jobs. It doesn’t mean irreplaceable. I’m sure my employer would replace me in a heartbeat if they needed to, albeit it would take a while to train someone up.

Someone I know through work calculates the delay related costs from railway incidents. No one else seems to properly understand how it works. If he's on holiday or off sick we have to wait for him to come back . Fuck knows what his employer will do when he leaves/ retires/pops his clogs.

I'm also aware of a surgeon who deals with a certain type of spinal injury and he's the only one in the uk whose surgery for that type of injury has been successful.

I'd say those examples are niche. Other stuff people can be trained to do. It might be unusual though that's not the same as "niche". I specialise in a certain area of law and there are only a limited number of lawyers who do it at my level (partner) though in theory any solicitor could choose to train in it and 20 years later they'd be a specialist too.

@FTEngineerM

Someone writes the code for a dash cam/mobile phone app to complete a task.

I come along and check it’s functioning as intended, if it fails I find the piece of code at the point of failure and then submit and they start again.

I’m also learning about how to automate the testing.

I’d say that was pretty niche?

Don't take this the wrong way but is software tester really a niche job?

My general job role isn’t niche, loads of people do it. However, my specialism within that is quite niche and there are only a handful of people in the country with the same level of knowledge and experience. I’m not totally irreplaceable and people could learn how to do my job though.

I think I can claim a niche job once. Basically I was managing two totally unrelated functions think paper clip sorting and molecular fusion development. For fun I googled my job title and found one other person who had the same.

It was well paid, and the two different roles by themselves were nothing special, but the combination made them unique.

I’m not niche...

But, I think farriers are fairly niche nowadays, people who work with thatched roofs, um...zookeepers? Not quite as rare but fairly niche, I’d think.

I know someone who buys English language tv programme rights and then helps dub them for a foreign tv station - I’m thinking that’s pretty niche.

I also know a seed analyst, I’d have thought that was pretty niche, but actually from how they talk about recruiting and stuff, I’m not sure it is. But uncommon I suppose.

Horse penis cleaner.

Don't laugh, it's a job!

@UhtredRagnarson

I often suspect these people are talking out of their bums

Well I suppose that would be considered a niche skill

Not really, loads of people can do it!

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I’m not sure if my job is niche 🤔😂
I earn well, I am good at my job and so I am cherry picked a lot !
I have no issue with saying what I do but even then people still think your wage is false on mumsnet. Know one believes you if you earn over 50k.

My friend’s father was a pathologist who specialised in a very particular type of injury/body part. IIRC there were only a few of them when he was practising as he was always being asked to be an expert witness in legal cases.

My job is niche. There is only me in North West England that does it. It’s an NHS role. It is well paid. I have spent 13 years of training to do it (plus extra general on the job experience) .

I work in museums and galleries. I work in audience development and participatory projects. It's niche in that there's just not many jobs and it's very competitive. However it's definitely not well paid!

@VeganVeal 🤣🤣

Someone I know through work calculates the delay related costs from railway incidents. No one else seems to properly understand how it works. If he's on holiday or off sick we have to wait for him to come back . Fuck knows what his employer will do when he leaves/ retires/pops his clogs.

@honeylulu so he's the reason why I get harangued by emails asking me to account for every bloody minute!

You can be low skilled and niche as well, e.g. working for a type of organisation there aren't many of.

I’m the dog warden for the District Council.
I’m the only one in the whole Council, and most Councils don’t have them anymore.

I am in a niche job. It carries out a statutory function on behalf of the government, within an arm’s-length public body. There are exactly 30 people in England doing my job, including me. We all know each other because we work as a national team. If I said here what it was, and one of those other 29 people saw it, then with only a couple of my other posts combined, they’d know immediately who I was. So no, I’m not going to tell you what it is!

There's a van I see around here advertising the driver as an ecclesiastical heating engineer. I imagine that's quite a niche occupation.

My job is relatively niche. It requires a Master's, which is not that popular, and then I work in a role for a large corporate law firm which generally only exists in the big city firms. I'll term it niche because it's mainly London centric and it's not that easy to find a job out of London (if it does exist it's dead man's shoes and no promotion prospects) and it's really hard to sell it as transferable skills.
It's ok paid.

Oh another one. At a party I met a silhouettist (spelling?). She told me that at that time there were only 4 female silhouettists in the UK.

I don’t think many people have exactly the same job as me.
I work in Sales (pretty common) but for a company providing a very niche area of Regulatory support for Pharma companies. I got the job due to quite a unique set of skills - I’m not Liam Neeson, but I imagine it’s pretty unusual to have worked in the diverse fields I have that combined to give me the skills I needed for this job.

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