Showing posts with label Cool Jobs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cool Jobs. Show all posts

Friday, August 30, 2013

Be a professional couch potato

Watching TV whole day was never so useful before. This new Generation can actually be couch potato professionally and yes can earn too.

Watching TV and giving viewer ratings is not only an entertaining job, but it also pays. Sitting and watching TV all day could be the easiest job ever.

Yes, this is a job where you get paid to watch television. Television shows like "The Daily Show" and "Jimmy Kimmel Live" have these positions where people get entertaining or important TV clips to be used throughout the show.

What exactly you make while watching TV? You could be paid up to $12 an hour to do so. This "too good to be true" job is required by certain television productions including late night talk show, news satire programs and other productions that focus on using clips and quotes from the world of television for comedic purposes. Even companies that keep track of the rating for every single television show hire professional couch potatoes to ruin their eyes for money.







The average salary for professional TV watcher jobs is $53,000. Average professional TV watcher salaries can vary greatly due to company, locations, industry, experience and benefits.




Okay so sounds like you just have to sit around whole day that means you don't any specific qualifications to become a TV watcher. Of course! All this job needs a television-obsessed intern to sit around and watch TV to find newsworthy clips for social commentary. The jobs require a good eye and the ability to sit. The schedule is flexible but requires a minimum of 15 hours a week. However, there's a lot more work involved than just passively watching your favorite show. Pro TV watchers usually scan through different shows and news clips, and find the right clips that can be used on a television show or news program. "Close attention to details" is one of the necessary skills, along with being familiar with the technology of TIVO and DVD players.

Some of the qualities are required in a person though. Along with being detail oriented, he/she should be able to sit long time and have patience to watch many shows at one stretch. He/She must love watching TV and should be able to rate the programs.

What do you think of it? Many of us must be jumping off their couch to read this because the best time pass activity will just pay them off if they join. Besides no one will have complaints in home regarding to many hours of TV watching. So you could be a couch potato officially and respectfully.

It is definitely not a job where you could expect a lot or a big pay back, but it is something which you could do when you are in phase of just doing nothing and waiting for your career to pick up or maybe you are not finding the right job and you are taking a break. It is a best bet to students and women. You can meet many out there who incorporated TV show in their life so much that it's difficult to find out they are discussing is real or reel situation.



Monday, August 26, 2013

Trim Cow Hooves for a Living?

Just like horse shoes, cows need some hoof maintenance too. These fine animals can have poor milk production, lameness, and decreased fertility if not properly groomed. Try to imagine giving a cow a pedicure.

The quality of floors, in terms of shape, hardness, friction and hygiene is of great importance for the health of cow feet and legs which in turn affects the milk production. So no matter how weird it may sound to you, someone has to trim cows hooves and there are people who are actually willing to do that. Generally people who have a farm house or a dairy need to take good care of their cows. And trimming cow hooves is not all that easy. It’s a serious job.







All of the animal's weight is carried by four hooves. So, their very life and happiness depends on hoof care.

Caleb Spencer, 23, who trims cow’s hooves for living, enjoys doing what he does. He comes home with cow dung and dirt all over his cloths and some- times gets a kick or two in his ribs while doing the job but he still think it’s an important job to do.

I love cows, and I'm really surprised at the number of the people who raise cattle who don't know what trimmers should and shouldn't do. -Caleb Spencer.

He began his career at 19 by creating his own yearlong apprentice program with the Hoof Trimmers Association and working with the professionals. He left his Franklin, Ind., home for a travel trailer that took him around the country, including Utah, where he and a six-man crew trimmed 1,600 cows in nine days. Depending on the breeding, some dairy cattle have a better hoof than others, so some need trimming more than others. Another consideration is the type of feed that the animal receives. Some feeds promote faster growth than others. Some feeds promote firmer hooves than others. There is a big difference! Even horses and dogs get their hooves trimmed for the same reason.

So what a cow hooves’ trimmer need to know before getting into this job? Just like any other job near animals, he or she should have knowledge of animal behaviors’ especially cattle’s. Any degree or certificate would be a plus. Hoof trimming should be supervised or taught by a veterinarian or professional hoof trimmer until you become accomplished at the skill. What the trimmers earn in general depends on the herd, i.e. size, location, what condition the cows are in etc. could be anything between $10 to $70 per cow. There are even companies with cow hooves trimmers who provide this service to farm house owners. This job could sound like a layman’s work for some while people who are doing it can only tell how difficult hooves trimming could get. It’s definitely a personal choice though.





The Body as BILLBOARD

Painting logos or etching tattoos on face or skin are the best ways to become live ads for companies. Some even go extremes and get permanent tattoos.


A human billboard is someone who applies and advertisement on his her body. Most commonly, this means holding or wearing a sign of some sort, but also may include wearing advertising as clothing or in some cases, having advertising tattooed on the body.
 
 
 
 
 
I had seen champion boxer Bernard Hopkins enter the ring with a temporary tattoo ad for GoldenPalace.com and thought, ‘If he could do that, then maybe I could do the real thing, Since I wasn’t a champion boxer like he was, I would have to make it a real tattoo ad.
-Billy, Boxer and Body Advertiser


You could earn anywhere from $100 to $5000 based on the size and importance of the tattoo. Billy ht Human Billboard­ – an amateur boxer out of Alaska who is having his dream of being fighter, pays the bills by selling spots on his body for permanent tattoos featuring the logos of corporate sponsors. This new advertising trend is taking Japan by storm. ‘Body advertising’ involves attaching an advert in the form of a sticker or transfer onto different parts of the body to attract attention to the product. Wearers are paid to wearing the adverts, with companies realizing that for those who use social networking sites, the novelty value of drawing attention to yourself or parts of your body through stickers is highly attractive. With adverts on faces or thighs, body advertising has become a talking point in Japan. Ms. Gardner, 50, had shaved her head for an advertising campaign by air New Zealand, which had hired her to display a temporary tattoo with a message “Need A Change? Head down to New Zealand. www.airnewzealand.com.” Ms. Gardner was among 30 of what the airline calls “cranial billboards.” For shaving their heads and displaying the ad copy for two weeks, they either receive a round-trip ticket to New Zealand (worth about $1,200) or $777 in cash. Not a bad deal. Tattoo-related advertising stunts go back to at least 2001, when Golden Palace, an online gambling site, paid the middle-weight boxer Bernard Hopkins to wear a temporary tattoo with its Web Address during a televised bout. Now because of social networking this method of advertising has become more effective than ever before.



FeelUnique.com pay to apply tattoos with the company’s Web address on eyelids and then wink at strangers.

One of the Women registered at Wit has 4,900 friends on Facebook, and on average each member has 330 friends. There’s even one women registered who has 8,000 followers on Twitter. Ads can easily become viral if their friends share those photos. Actually, 20 members put an ad of a futsal stadium for a day, which lead 20 new customers to the stadium. Still it might not be the idea of earning money for everyone but there will be some of you who would say it’s not a big deal if they are getting good money for it. So would you shave your head or get a tattoo on your forehead for that extra cash?




Saturday, August 24, 2013

Whistling can pay off YOUR BILLS!

The job of professional whistler is actually a very common job in the music industry. There is someone doing the whistling on movie soundtracks or the music singles we buy because it’s not always necessary that the singer knows whistling too, or even if he knows, he might not be a professional whistler. Someone had to be really good at it to make it a profession.

But still whistlers are not as famous as singers or any other instrument player. Steve harvest-a New Yorker and three-time International Whistling Entertainer of the Year-says, “We whistlers have an uphill battle to gain recognition for what we do, and to have whistling accepted as a legitimate musical art form.”

For the moment, though, most people still regard whistling as little more than a nuisance. “There are some people who are even irritated by my whistling,” admits Herbst. “I  had a women stop me on the street one time and she said if she’d had a two-hundred pound man with her she’d have punched me in the nose.”

Most people are not aware of it. That’s the biggest problem. When people say to me, ‘what do you do?’ and I say, ‘ I’m a professional whistler, ‘ they said, ‘Yeah, okay, what do you really do?’ They think it’s a joke.
Steve Herbst, Professional Whistler





Whistling is against the law in a handful of U.S. municipalities, as it has been used as code by gangs.

If you watch TV, you are hearing more and more whistling in the commercial. Some whistling scenes are also developed in other countries as well like in India, China and Japan.

The residents of the island of La Gomera (in the Canary archipelago on the northern coast of Africa), whistle to communicate across the ravines and gullies on the island. In fact, the people there have developed an entire whistling language ( Silbo Gomera), as whistling sounds carry across long distances better than speech. Now that is something really different and might not have been heard. But what a great way to communicate. Lots of people can whistle since it’s very common for boys to just whistle when happy or ingrost in some work or simply looking at something they like. But becoming a professional whistler is little more than that. It takes a lot of detailing when you try to whistle some song like you have to know each and evry up and down of the tune to make is sound professional. You might have to keep your throat clear and running, free from anything that might affect your whistle. And of course a lot of practice.

It could be fun for the people who love to whistle. Whistle definitely is melodious to hear and makes any song better when used in background. But of course if you are looking for a great recognition like any singer then this job is not for you, but if you want to earn goof then it’s worth giving a try.