No, this isn’t a joke. Someone actually earns a living watching paint dry. A man in the UK currently has the job and he spends his days painting sheets of cardboard to test how long new paint mixes take to dry and watching for changes in color and texture.
Imagine being paid to watch TV all day! Well for one lucky employee this dream has become reality. Netflix has hired someone to watch all of their content before it is available to the public and their role is to review and assign each program its correct tag, which helps us viewers find exactly what we’re after, whether it’s a romantic crime movie based on classic literature or witty talking-animal TV show.
If you think the London Underground is bad, you should see the trains in Japan. ‘Oshiyas’ are hired to help cram as many people onto a train as possible by pushing them from the outside until the doors will close.如果你认为伦敦地铁不好,那你应该看看日本的火车。日本雇佣“Oshiyas”来帮助尽可能多的人挤上火车,方法就是在车门关上之前从外面把他们推到车上。
It is a tradition in South East Asia that a loud funeral will assist the dead as they travel to the afterlife, so professional mourners are hired to cry and weep loudly throughout the service.
The dog food tester’s job is to taste new dog food products, including bones, tinned meat, and biscuits. They do this to test for flavor and texture in comparison to rival dog food brands and human food. 狗粮品尝师的工作是品尝新的狗粮产品,包括骨头、罐头肉和饼干。他们这样做是为了与狗粮的竞争品牌及人类食品进行比较,以检测其风味和质地。
in comparison to是一个固定搭配,意思是“与...相比”,能表达相近含义的还有beside、at the side of。
In order to test the effectiveness of new products, ‘odor judges’ are hired to smell volunteers’ breath, feet and armpits. They make sure their judgment is accurate, the members of staff have their sense of smell tested monthly. Let’s hope those products are doing the trick, for the judges’ sake!为了测试新产品的有效性,“闻臭员”被聘请闻志愿者的口气、脚和腋窝。他们要确保自己的判断是准确的,工作人员每月都会进行嗅觉测试。看在评委们的份上,让我们希望这些产品起到了作用!
#7 Professional sleeper
专业试睡师
这年头,吃狗粮、看电视都能成为正经职业赚钱了,睡觉当然也可以!
试睡员应该也是所有宅男宅女,以及各种赖床爱好者的梦想职业了。
A hotel in Finland hired a member of staff as a ‘professional sleeper’ to test the comfort of their beds. The individual sleeps in a different one of the hotel beds each night and writes a review about her satisfaction with each one.
If the fact that there’s an underwater hotel in Florida isn’t bizarre enough, to add on to that, they have a scuba diving pizza delivery man who supplies them with pizza by carrying them through the sea in a watertight case. What service.如果佛罗里达州有一家水下酒店还不够奇怪,那除此之外,他们还有一名潜水披萨送货员,他用防水的箱子带着披萨穿过大海,为顾客送去披萨。这是什么服务?