<p>When we were growing up and people asked us to imagine what we wanted to be when we grew up, textbook job titles popped into our minds. We would see ourselves as a teacher, firefighter, artist, doctor and so on. But as you grow up, you realize that there are endless possibilities out there, some beyond even a child&#8217;s imagination. </p>

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<p>These days, it seems people are getting paid to do literally anything. Don&#8217;t believe us? Then you need to take a look at this list of niche jobs you never knew existed. After you look through this collection of incredible and completely legitimate career paths, you might just peak your little head out of that office cubicle and into the world of possibilities. </p>

<p>Let&#8217;s face it; some girls are just not a “girl&#8217;s girl.” They hang with the guys, and that&#8217;s totally fine. But when there’s no one to fill the traditional spot of the bride’s maid it could be a tad embarrassing, especially knowing the groom’s family is watching. </p>

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<p>Professional bridesmaids stand by a lady on her special day to provide her with emotional support as well as the appearance of capable of having friends. Free party, free food, that ain’t bad at all!</p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Staring at the TV for pay? Where do you sign up? Professional TV watchers scan through different shows and news broadcasts to find the best clips and snippets to be used on television programs.</span></p>

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Apparently, Jimmy Kimmel searched for a TV watcher back in 2005. He offered to pay anywhere from 500 to 600 bucks a week… Sounds like a pretty sweet gig to us!  </span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Diving in the ocean is definitely an amazing job, but it turns out that diving is not exclusively for exploring the unknowns of the deepest seas. There are also shallow waters that need to be searched. </span></p>

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Ever play a game of golf only to lose your ball to the nearest body of water? Golf ball divers are the solution you&#8217;ve been looking for. These professional divers are paid to swim into the lakes of golf courses and collect the balls that fell into them.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Odor judges are hired to test and rate the effectiveness of hygiene products like deodorant and body wash. If this sounds like an odd job to you, well you don&#8217;t know the half of it. </span></p>

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Bein an armpit sniffer means smelling loads of armpits and feet. Although this job is weird on multiple levels, the world would be a lot stinkier without it.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Ever want to impress your international business partner but don&#8217;t have the man power to do so? We have the solution for you. Apparently, It has become a common practice for Chinese companies to pay fancy &#8220;foreign men&#8221; to attend business meetings in order to make them look important. </span></p>

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Real Estate companies also hire foreign-looking men to come to look at properties while other prospective buyers are around. These fake potential buyers pretend to be celebrities from abroad in order to make the property more attractive. </span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400">This is probably the cutest job on the list. The Giant Panda Protection Center set out on a mission to find loving caretakers for baby pandas. Applicants had to pass through several rounds of interviews before being accepted.</span></p>

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">These panda nannies have one job, to care for baby pandas 365 days a year. This includes feeding the pandas, cleaning up after them and assisting researches to gather behavioral data. </span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Snake venom is deadly, but can also save lives. Venom is the key ingredient for making an “antivenom” against snake bites. This stuff ain’t cheap and is in high demand.</span></p>

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">That’s why there are people who capture snakes and milk them of their venom. This dangerous job might sound like too big of a risk but on the plus side, the brave few willing to take on the task do get to bring home a decent paycheck. </span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400">It’s exactly what it sounds like it is. You can pay a person to come to cry with you at the funeral of a loved one. An English company rents out professional mourners for two hours at a time with a rate of $70.</span></p>

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<p>No one liked your crabby uncle Joe before he passed away? <span style="font-weight: 400">No problem, hire a professional mourner to avoid that awkward moment when no one cries at his funeral. </span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Man’s four-legged best friend can officially ride the waves! Dog surfing trainers teach your pup how to live a gnarly life-style… in a good way!</span> <br>These professional trainers are specialized in keeping dogs calm in the waters. </p>

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<p> So if you want to enjoy a day on the beach but need a new way to keep your pup entertained, seems like we&#8217;ve got a viable solution for you. The days of dog walkers are over and its time to make room for dog surfers! Sun, dogs, waves, what could be better than that?</p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400">The list just keeps getting stranger and stranger. Face feelers work for cosmetic companies that make face masks and creams. They are hired to test the effectiveness of the products by feeling the faces of those wearing them before and after application. </span></p>

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">That&#8217;s right! Face feelers get paid check to see if any improvements occurred since a person tried the creams. It’s weird, but you gotta admit it’s a lot better than being an odor sniffer. </span></p>

<p>For those who love snuggling but can&#8217;t find anyone to snuggle with them, we have good news. There are professional snugglers. That means you can pay for a professional snuggling experience — what a time to be alive. </p>

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Now you can leave those days of lonely evenings on the couch behind you. Anytime you need some extra tender love and care, just call up your closest snuggler and prepare to be comforted. </span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Dog tasters make sure our pups are getting the right foods. They’re hired by dog food companies to rank the food according to its nutritional value and taste. </span></p>

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Once they’ve tried the food, they spit it right out and write a report about the experience. We can&#8217;t imagine what these individuals choose to have for dinner after a hard days work. </span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Someone’s gotta write the insightful sayings found in fortune cookies. After all, they&#8217;re the best part of the whole meal.&nbsp;</span></p>

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Whether or not a person has a good day, a bad day or even a winning lotto ticket is all in their hands. It’s a powerful position.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Mermaids might not be real, but we can still pretend. What if we told you that people get paid to pretend they&#8217;re a mythical deep-sea creature? I know right? Sounds too good to be true! </span></p>

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Professional mermaids are hired to come to parties, dress the part, and teach guests how to swim like the mythical deep-sea creature.  Sounds like some of our biggest childhood dreams really can come true. </span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400">A prosthetic eye is no joke. Artists specialize in making fake, glass eyeballs as real as possible. It can take several hours or days to get each detail in. </span></p>

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">This job is for those who have a steady hand and great art skills. It&#8217;s also for people who want to help. An eyeball-artists change lives and helps people feel whole and confident again. </span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400">What better way for a mattress company to know if their product is comfortable than having people test out the magic themselves. If you ever thought about taking a nap during work, we might have a job for you. </span></p>

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">These lucky people lay down on multiple mattresses to give their expert opinions. It&#8217;s the only occupation where it’s a good thing if you fall asleep on the job.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400">A tissue’s smell is super important. Tissues go right on the nose, so it&#8217;s important that they smell good or don’t have a smell at all. Think about it; nothing would be worse than going in for a sneeze only to breath in a bad-smelling tissue. </span></p>

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Thanks to professional tissue sniffers, we no longer have to worry about this ever happening again. Tissue sniffers are paid to smell tissues and give their expert feedback to companies developing their own tissue brand. </span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Thrill-seekers, we have the perfect job for you. Before a waterslide opens in a park, they need to be tested.</span></p>

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">These professionals go down the slide several times to let parks know how much water it needs, how fast they reach the bottom, and how safe the slide is. </span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400">When you&#8217;re wearing nail polish, you&#8217;re not just sporting red or black shiny paint. You’re wearing “Big Apple Red,” or “Licorice.” </span></p>

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Nail polish companies have so many shades of polish that they need to get really creative with naming them all. There’s a job for that! Nail polish namers pick the creative names for each shade the company releases.</span></p>

<p>The ultimate movie experience involves a ginormous screen. In order to provide the best quality for users, these screens need to be squeaky clean. Imax screen cleaners working hours go from 6 pm to around 3 am.</p>

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<p>They get paid an average of 45,000 dollars a year which is great considering the pay of bartenders who work the same hours.</p>

<p>Every kid&#8217;s dream can come true. Ice cream experts get a paycheck of 56,000 a year for tasting and testing the quality of ice cream. This woman in the picture studies the science of ice cream.</p>

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<p>This type of expertise puts all of our mundane office jobs to shame. We salute you ice cream girl!</p>

<p>Some cities in the world deal with high volumes of traffic. Everyone&#8217;s in a rush to get to work on the same trains.</p>

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<p>Train pushers are hired to push people into trains to allow maximize the number of people who can fit in a cart while letting the doors shut ASAP.</p>

<p>Ever wonder why your food never looks like pictures in the magazines?</p>

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<p>That&#8217;s because food stylists paint, shine and airbrush those yummy looking pics to perfection. These stylists are like makeup artists for models. They clear every imperfection and enhance looks.</p>

<p>Police officers don&#8217;t just simply hire a cleaning service to rid an area of last nights crime scene. Crime scene cleaners are professional at cleaning up a gory mess. This job involves a lot of freaky sights you can&#8217;t just unsee.</p>

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<p>The difficult things these cleaners have to deal with earn them a $60,000 salary. However, many wouldn&#8217;t do this job for a Million dollars.</p>

<p>This may be one of the stranger jobs on the list. Many people keep their deceased loved ones close to them by keeping their ashes. Ash artists are paid to take the ashes and turn them into art. It&#8217;s a lot more beautiful than a simple jar.</p>

<p>They take the ashes and place them into glass necklaces.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a creepy job but, hey, someones gotta do it.</p>

<p>People spend years in culinary school trying to master the art of food. Some go on to be food experts that test the taste, quality, texter, and presentation of special dishes.</p>

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<p>However, there&#8217;s a specific type of food expert we&#8217;d all love to be; a bacon expert. That&#8217;s right, going to school to learn how to be a bacon professional is a real thing.</p>

<p>Famous rap and hip-hop artists Wiz Kalifah and Snoop Dog are known for their deep love of a specific herb. When it comes to their joint, these guys don&#8217;t mess around.</p>

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<p>They each hired excellent &#8220;rollers&#8221; to hang around their entourage. Snoop Dog even offered his roller 100,000 dollars per year to get the job done right.</p>

<p>Everyone’s got their problems, even dogs. Dog acupuncturists destress dogs, as well as help, relieve them of any chronic pain.</p>

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<p>Smaller dogs with little legs often have joint pain. With one trip to their acupuncturist, they&#8217;re feeling like a whole new canine.</p>

<p>Let’s face it; it takes a lot of guts to go up to a person and ask for their number. Not to mention, most pickup lines are overdone and unsuccessful.</p>

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<p>Pick-up artists&nbsp;offer to coach to those who need to brush up on their pick-up skills.</p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Gum companies want to make sure you smell fresh after you use their products. Aside from the fact that people simply like the taste of gum, they also use it to wipe out any bath breath.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">That&#8217;s why gum companies hire people to smell a person’s breath after they chewed the gum. It’s an important job for us all.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Circuses need to make sure their elephants strut their stuff in style, so that&#8217;s why they hire fashionable people to dress the elephants.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Professional elephant stylists, pick out and dress elephants before their big shows.</span></p>

<p>In Mexico City, there are people who you can pay to administer shocks in you. Why would anyone want to be shocked?</p>

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<p>Apparently, low-grade shocks sober people up. You&#8217;ll find these guys walking around at carnivals, fairs, and concerts.</p>

<p>Reality TV shows that have participants perform daring stunts need to make sure these stunts are safe. They do this by hiring a person to test out each stunt.</p>

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<p>Yes, for those of you wondering, that includes eating insects and walking on a tightrope hundreds of feet above the ground. Judge all you like, but high risk comes with high pay.</p>

<p>Bingo managers work long hard hours. However, They get to present winners with fat checks.</p>

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<p>The hard work bingo managers deal with pays off. 50% of bingo managers make around 60,000 dollars a year.</p>

<p>Paint scientists try to create the best formula for paints. One of the most important aspects of paint is the amount of time it takes to dry. Paint dryers watch paint samples and measure the amount of time it takes to dry.</p>

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<p>It&#8217;s hard to imagine why someone would choose to watch paint dry, but for whatever reason, there are people who do it.</p>

<p>Ever wonder why satin heels look perfectly pressed when we buy them and wrinkly after we wear them?</p>

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<p>Wrinkle chasers work in shoe factories at the end of the production line. They check each shoe and chase the wrinkles away with a special steamer.</p>

<p>Let&#8217;s face it, saying sorry is one of the hardest things to do. But luckily, there are people out there who are willing to do it for you!</p>

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Professional apologizers spare us the most awkward and embarrassing moments by apologizing on behalf of other people.</span></p>

<p>What better way to make your company’s firewall unhackable than to hire a pro hacker to hack your systems.</p>

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<p>Once they figure out how to break in, they let a company know just how to secure all the loose ends.</p>

<p>Worms make the perfect bait for a fishing trip. But ever wonder how all the worms got together in that bucket.</p>

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<p>The answer is that a person is hired to sift through soil and pick out all the worms for bait.</p>

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