What's the weirdest job someone you know does?

[BowerOfBramble]

I mean the ones that you'd never heard of until someone you met/a friend of a friend said "oh yes I run a bat sanctuary/teach maths to prisoners/paint portraits of dead hamsters".

Inspired by actually meeting someone who runs a bat sanctuary. They nurse the bats back to health if they get hurt!

UN observer

Straw man

Bull inseminator.

Or rather, cow inseminator and bull sperm extractor.

Bats, actually. Tracks them, monitors them, counts them, catches them... I dunno, bat stuff!

I know a blacksmith, she gets real joy of making people guess her job. They never get it

Pirate hunter (marine security consultant)

Someone I used to work with used to be a horse dentist before doing the job he does now.

Writing the guides/manuals for appliances. The person used to go to Cyprus to stay at his family's house and work from there. This was in the 90s when remote working/WFH was not a thing.

Snow man

(He does fake snow for films/tv shows)

Cashing line machine cleaner

Remove graffiti, stickers , and worse

oh and I recently met someone who runs a company that installs mussel farms

teaches the police how to ‘do’ high speed chases.

Writes the little summary paragraphs for TV guides

I know someone who does voiceover and character voice work. She records safety announcements for theme park rides, training videos for forklift truck drivers and she was the voice of an 18th century Duchess in a stately home reenactment video.

Dendrochronologist. Works out how old eg a wooden beam in a cathedral is by studying the tree rings.

Professional theorbo player. Look them up, such a cool instrument.

@Kendodd

Pirate hunter (marine security consultant)

I now want a new job!!!

A mum acquaintance of mine once told me her dh was a condom tester for durex. I was too embarrassed to enquire further at the time!

I used to know someone who was a tutu-maker at the ROH. Someone I was at university with is a fresco restorer. Food stylist. Underwater archaeologist. And forensic archaeologist — her job is very interesting but challenging. Animal trainer for films, including the owls in some of the Harry Potter films.

I have a friend who does Newt surveys

Toilet tester!

Two chicken farmers. One raised them for dinner, the other for eggs.

@Valkyrie40

A mum acquaintance of mine once told me her dh was a condom tester for durex. I was too embarrassed to enquire further at the time!

They were teasing you. Very popular gag some years back

My sister in law is the world's leading authority on geisha.