Strange Jobs, Stranger Money

Strange jobs – We are familiar with jobs of doctors, lawyers, engineers and architects.

But what if you’re paid, as much for something you love doing?

Breaking the boundaries of a nine to five job and doing something really cool to earn, sounds amazing, does it not? We tell you about a few jobs that couldn’t be more interesting.

Strange jobs –

Professional Taster/Food scientist

Just like you need appropriate skills to make a career in any normally wanted job, only one of your skills count when you’re a professional taster. The job involves tasting food or a drink before its ready to scrumptiously enjoyed by the potential customer. The food taster is required to validate the quality of the food, as in the overall taste of the delicacy prepared using varied and essential ingredients. All you need to have is a passion for eating, culinary knowledge and an average cooking skill. Once you gain a little experience as a food sommelier, you can work as a food consultant in restaurants and hotels. As a food taster you also get to decide which food tasting category do you want to specialize in. Wine tasters put the restaurant’s best wine list on the menu.

Pay package: 15,000 INR to 80,000 INR, depending on your experience and methodology

Adventure trainer

If you have a knack for adventure, this is the perfect job for you. Satiating your adrenaline rush are your favourite sports. These adventure activities are an awesome and lucrative job option because you get to work as per your wish, the amount you get paid is good enough and you get to do what you love doing. Adventure specialists can freelance as consultants or get employed by a sports and activity academy. You need to be professionally trained before you take it up as a job.

Pay package: 10,000 INR to 70,000 INR depending on your profile and experience.

Dog walker

If you’ve loved dogs right since you can remember, and being around then gives you a special feeling, then dog walking is the thing for you. Dog walking and training is a good option when it comes to pursuing your hobby as a career option. Spending time with your furry buddies sounds great fun and gets your cash flow registered too. Getting certified from an academy or course with dog training can make you earn better bucks.

Pay Package: If you’re a certified trainer you could get as much as 30,000 INR to 50,000 INR per month, depending on the number of days you’ve worked.

Film critic

You know you’re getting a lot of value when somebody calls you to review and give your consent about his work. Watching movies for free sounds interesting. Watching a movie before the media lays hands on it, publishing and presenting it on television sounds like a really cool thing to do, does it not? Of course you need to be a movie buff for that. What’s more that the audience who have been waiting for the movie to release, watches the film based on your review. Movie critics can freelance as consultants with varied newspapers, magazines and news channels.

Pay package: 30,000 INR at the beginning of your career. Your experience counts for your payment in this field.

These are Strange jobs – Getting paid for pursuing your hobby is the best thing that can happen to anyone. Apart from mainstream jobs, you could earn some extra bucks pursuing your hobby.

However, if you want to be a pro, you need to gain quite a lot of experience for any of these jobs.